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salverSyllabification: sal·ver
Pronunciation: /ˈsalvər /
Definition of salver in English:
A tray, typically one made of silver and used in formal circumstances.
Example sentences
- Included in the collection is a large engraved William IV silver oval tray and a pair of William IV sterling silver salvers, both dated 1831 and hallmarked 1833.
- We were waited on hand and foot, served from silver salvers with tasty canapés and our glasses were never empty,' said Mr Clarkson.
- No big 'art opening' is complete without a bottle of wine 'breathing' gently in the corner and petit slices of elegant cheese perched atop silver salvers.
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Prince William County News
Taxi robbers tied to six stickups
Police in Virginia are looking for two men believed to be responsible for a series of taxi driver robberies.
Ebert to seek death penalty in toddler's death
Prosecutors file death penalty charges against Manassas father in toddler's death
Typo throws off Prince William Co. budget
Typo throws off Prince William County budget by $5 million
Roof collapses at Manassas car dealership
The roof on a car dealership collapsed in Manassas Friday night.
Police: Man who exposed himself at Va. Noodles & Co. arrested
Police have arrested a man they say exposed himself to a group of women at a Woodbridge restaurant June 13.
Fans flock to Woodbridge to catch Harper in action
Fans of the Washington Nationals enjoyed watching their favorite hitter Bryce Harper take the field for the Potomac Nationals in Woodbridge, Va., Tuesday night.
Ex-teacher arrested for alleged sexual abuse of former student
A former teacher at a Christian school in Prince William County has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a student over 30 years ago.
Va. man arrested after hitting Prince William Co. police officer
A Woodbridge man was arrested after hitting a Prince William County police detective with his car.
Ohio air crash shows risks, thrill of wing walking
Ohio air crash that killed pilot, stuntwoman showcases risks, thrills of wing walking
World Trade Center beams to be displayed at local memorial
Four steel beams taken from what was left of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 attacks have been sitting idle for years. But this weekend, they are finally getting some attention.
Blind Manassas man is found safe
A missing Manassas man has been found and transported to the hospital for a medical evaluation. Lyle Foster was found along Wellington Road in Manassas, according to police.
Va. man pleads guilty to 2012 church fire
Police say Maurice Thompson Michaely of Haymarket pleaded guilty to all three charges related to the 2012 fire at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.
Van Metre to develop Woodbridge apartment community
Fairfax-based Van Metre Cos. has landed $55.7 million in construction financing to develop a 315-unit apartment complex in Woodbridge that will be aimed at D.C. commuters.
Major improvements possible for U.S. 1 in Fairfax, Prince William
One of America's oldest highways and a primary commuter route in Northern Virginia could get a major face-lift.
Pr. William Co. writes over 1,500 tickets in enforcement campaign
Prince William County police issued more than 1,500 tickets during the 2013 "Click It or Ticket" seatbelt enforcement campaign, which ran May 20 through June 2.
Prince William looks for right angle with new logo
Prince William County thinks it has the right angle to bolster its economic development and marketing efforts.
Dumfries pharmacy robbed for meds
Prince William County police are looking for a young man who robbed a pharmacy in Dumfries for pain medications Thursday.
Va. State Trooper injured in collision Friday morning
A Virginia State Trooper suffered serious injuries Friday morning after he was thrown off his motorcycle in a car crash.
Quantico woman to be sentenced in baby's murder
A Quantico woman will find out how much prison time she will receive for fatally shaking and fracturing the skull of a 9-month-old girl that had been left in her care.
Appeals court allows capital retrial of Wolfe
Appeals court allows capital murder retrial of accused drug kingpin; had been ordered freed
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today selected Martin O'Malley, a highly-respected auditor with deep international experience, as Inspector General.
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text: Scott Lambridis ● email@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck, by Scott Lambridis Commuting to office of ad agency. Fog blanketing everything. And wind. And wetness and cold. Hispanic woman giving away newspapers. Wearing bright purple academic robes and four-cornered hat. Headline highlighting budget cuts. A promotional maestra. Trolley full even before boarding. I giving crisp new bill to driver. Conductor. Engineer. Not sure what to call him. Cramming. With everyone else. Towards the back. Near an exit. Holding on to metal rail above. Carriage of wood and brass moving. Crunching. Grinding. Voice saying All aboard, there's room in the back. I thinking no fucking way. Maybe not enough oxygen. Asian girl in her twenties sitting. Crossing legs. Looking up at me with the interest of a child. Looking away. Looking up at me. Looking away. Coda. Mirroring me. Following my hands when moving. Old man beside her fumbling with a keychain. Thick hands. Greasy white hair tied in a manlytail. No respite in other views. Middle-aged asses. Painted toenails. Going to work. Going to spend money made from work. Maybe working even now. I feeling bored with people. Outside the window. Figure with thick layers of dirty clothing hiding any head or shoulders. Torso only. Garbage bags tied together. A real local of the pier. More people boarding. Unconscionable driver. Kids filling in like pebbles through stones. Backpacks pushing and jabbing. Asian girl still watching my hands. Her purse rubbing against my fly. I holding breath. Closing eyes. Imagining being patted and fondled. Old European lady forcing between girl and me. Almost knocking me down save other bodies holding me up. So many heads. A little tank of creatures. Or a single one. Many tentacles. Undulating with a thousand eyes through rough and tumbling seas. Wanting to see them burn and split and choke and die. Not knowing why. Recognizing mania. Feeling guilt. Shame. Trying to imagine purse 1 of 13 No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis against me again. But squelch of metal. Brakes ripping. Falling forward. Swearing I seeing a duck on the tracks. Power cutting. Tourists shouting in dark. Coffee spilling somewhere. Many- headed beast panicking. Claiming can't move. Screaming passengers. Old European lady pulled under feet. Asian girl lifted into window. Hair pressed against skin. Door splintering. I squeezing through into fog. Hearing glass break. Feeling glass break. Walking forward. Finding duck on tracks and scooping it up. Cradling it. Warm in my arms. Grey bill. One floppy grey foot crushed. Feathers white as heaven's starched shirts. Eyes red as bloody hell. Calling him D. Looking into its red eyes. D looking into mine. Staring. Seeing me. Really seeing me. Walking with D in cold. Stopping at restaurant in front of piers. Squat Mexican in suit shaking his head. –Sorry sir, no duck. –No duck? –No duck. –But it's an albino duck. –No albino duck. –No albino duck? –No albino duck. Pissed. Walking away. Down the block a restaurant more forgiving of ducks. Or more impressed by albinos. Seeing associate A there. A joining us for appetizers. Talking about budgets and timelines. D quacking. Tenderly waddling on the table. Knocking A's wine glass over. Pooping on A's $60 steak. Still talking about budgets and timelines. Milestones. Deliverables. Host asking us to leave. D leaving associate with check. One hand dialing while other holding D in warm armpit. Telephoning client. Postponing our weekly meeting. Describing D. Client saying ducks sleep with only one brain hemisphere at a time. One lobe always up waiting for predators. Client having pretty voice. Picturing her naked. But only her face. The pinch of the upper lip. The pink swell of the lower. Just lips only if beauty withered by multiplicity. Hanging up phone and wondering. Maybe one side of D seeing horrors only when inhibiting side sleeps. Maybe not one D. Maybe two Ds. Sitting on park bench with D. Trying to take it all in at once. Smelling the fish on the docks. Feeling the wind. Passing voices. Cars. Barking. Discerning each from the other. Trying 2 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● firstname.lastname@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis for absolute clarity of all senses at once. Not in succession. Fighting off each association as the next one arrives. Wanting the now. Purely now. Before creating meaning. No metaphors. No exalting experience. Too much for one mind. Hearing barking louder. Louder. Holding D close. Owner pulling on leash of a monster of a bear of a dog. I yelling That's right! and petting D on downy head. Watching my fellow man trip on the curb. I drawing a heart with a stick in the dirt. Writing D in center. D padding across my marks. Negating my message. Negating itself. D's little manifesto. I staring into fading sun until seeing only purple and pink. Napping with D. Dreaming I eating everything until nothing left to eat. Tasting nothing until forgot that things have taste. No longer human. A robot that has not been aptly completed. Pulling levers. Chemicals in cylinders pumping up and down. Being the trolley. Tracks below. Seeing people on board. Seeing Asian girl: maybe not hurt. Maybe no one hurt. Maybe no blood on glass at all. Morning on the dock with D in lap. Hispanic woman yelling Free Examiner. Dressed like conductor. Engineer. Forgetting the term. Cover photograph of trolley. Headline indicating an accident. I searching for D in photo. A foot or feather or bill. Seeing none. Trolley pulling up. I jogging behind the trolley and putting D on the curb. Just where he was. But safer. I boarding the trolley. Conductor pulling levers. Pressing buttons. Crunching. Grinding. D on the curb receding into past. But D's red eyes getting larger. Larger. Larger. Seeing me. Really seeing me. Enveloping me. Receding the wrong way. Leaving me behind on the curb. Looking into the trolley window as it rolls away. Seeing everyone inside. Frightened creatures. Wanting to save them. Wanting to save D. Wanting to save self. I flapping towards the crawling trolley. Feet feeling wide and webbed. Feet looking bleached and grey. Catching up with trolley. Overtaking trolley. Falling. On tracks in front of trolley. +++ 3 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● email@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis "There's no such thing as albino ducks," says Mary, that pain in the ass, stopping the game in its tracks. "Of course there is," says her new guy, before her divorce is even finalized. I like him already and grind on Juliet's hand which is working my balls below the table. I better enjoy it while I can because at any moment she's going to jump in and "Of course there isn't, Don. And you don't have to demean her like that," she says, pulling her hand out of my pants. Fuck, if Mary keeps me from my fellating tonight I swear this is the last time we're coming over. I roll up my sleeves and zip up my pants. "Actually hon, there is," I say. Juliet glares at me. She thinks I'm just antagonizing for the fuck of it, because it turns her on. But I'm not. "I'm sure there could be an albino anything," I say. If we won, I would be spreading her out over fresh sheets, helping her leave the wet and sticky marks of lust on the presumptuous life of her soon-to-be-ex-lover. If we lost, well, that just wasn't going to happen. "Well, maybe, but if no one's ever seen one, then we really can't assume, and it sure as shit won't come up in a game of Pictionary," says Mary. Mary turns to Don. "So you're still an idiot for guessing it." "Hey Mary, guess who's not getting any tonight?" We all laugh, except Mary, who frowns. "I've seen one, you know," I say, filling my glass with bourbon from Mary's decanter. "Oh, just drop it," says Juliet, massaging her knuckles, wanting me to sit down so she can get back to it. I'm like her magic squeezeball stress reliever, the only way she can deal with these 4 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● email@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis people. "It's my turn." "Now hold on a minute," says Don, signaling for me to pass the decanter. "You've seen one?" "Oh yeah," I say, and Mary leans back against the couch and frowns at Juliet. The game is on hold. Juliet rubs her eyes and scoots back in her chair, thinking I'm just going to pace, but I sit back down beside her. She smiles and slips her hand back in my lap beneath the table. "I've seen one. Once," I say, and I start to remember. There was fog blanketing everything, and wind, and wetness, and cold, and darkness. I swore I saw the duck even before I heard the wheels squelch and the passengers scream and the head go through the glass. White as heaven's starched shirts, with floppy pink feet and a pink bill, but eyes red as bloody hell. At work, I searched the web for some information. I wanted to know how he thinks, and discovered that ducks are capable of unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, meaning that their fear of predators was so strong they could sleep with one eye open, and half their brain hanging out in waiting. I found this interesting and followed hyperlink after hyperlink to other studies involving the hemispheres and found the results of split-brain surgeries done on epileptics to stop the most dangerous seizures. The side effect of splitting the brain via the corpus collosum was that the left visual field, located in the right hemisphere, could no longer communicate with the speech- control centers in the left hemisphere, such that the patients couldn't name what the right side of their brain was seeing, though they could pick it up and draw it with the left hand, since it's 5 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● firstname.lastname@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis controlled by the right side of the brain. Not only that, but the patients will confabulate an explanations for their odd behavior if the parts of the real story are being processed in the left side of the brain. In fact, they'll even show different personalities if they write versus speak responses to questions. I picked up the duck and he quacked in my arms and I wondered if he was awake or asleep, or both, and if during those times when he was both, if there were two ducks, not one. Perhaps the duck had seen some horrors that only come to his sleeping mind, or are only seen when the side of his brain that can cope with it is sleeping and no longer inhibiting it. Was I somehow doing the same? I knew that my introduction to the duck was predicated on a horror that I had survived, but I felt nothing. I am not so inhuman, or so incapable of self-analysis that I do not wonder why. So I am forced to imagine that, assuming my corpus callosum has not been snipped, and that I am not a duck, that I am something different – some sort of robot. I finished the burnt coffee and rubbed my eyes, needing a break from the backlit screen and the fluorescent lights. To seem busy, I sent an email memo with boilerplate project management tasks, instructing the team that I would check in. Though it should have been a normal weekday, something was off. Something implacable. My mind drifted and wandered. When I should have just been half-asleep riding the train into the city, I was instead pondering metaphysics and being amazed at the leaps of faith in time and space we all take but never consider when riding daily public transportation. You get on at one spot every day. The one spot you've figured out through trial and error that will spit you out, transfer included, at the specific spot by the stairwell below the coffee shop on the side by the proper exit to catch the streetcar on the right side of the road. But there's nothing stopping 6 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● firstname.lastname@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis that from going horribly different one day. Like you end up below a whorehouse in Amsterdam instead. Or a sewer entrance in Thailand. I have no idea. It's bullshit and doesn't make a lick of sense, but my mood at the time made my hairs prick up and my stomach go into knots. As I said, something was off. Of course, nothing happened. I ended up at the exact spot I needed to grab my coffee and still get to the streetcar stop a few minutes early. At the top of the stairwell, some Hispanic lady was yelling "Free Examiner," like she does every morning and although I usually just turn my head to avoid eye contact, I grabbed it. The cover photograph was of a trolley, just like the one I was about to board, and the headline indicated an accident. As I crossed the street to the trolley stop with the newspaper, a car pulled right up to me before stopping. I gave it the eye, you know, the evil eye, the narrow glare that says this is my fucking moment, or maybe its just another moment but it sure ain't your fucking moment so just back-the-fuck-up, even though you know they're giving you the same one back. The trolley arrived and it was already full, but we crammed in anyway. I knew everyone gave away the faded, soft, crinkled bills first, so I gave the driver a crisp new one. I stood towards the back, near an exit, and held onto the metal rail above me. The Pogues were playing in my headphones, which was odd since I don't own any, but I was too cramped to check the tracklist. Below me, a young Asian girl crossed her legs and looked up at me. As I shifted position, she followed me, again and again though I kept looking away and then back again. Though in her 20s, she was interested like a child is interested, keeping my eyes in hers, following my hands when I moved them, mirroring me. It was unnerving so I tried to do the same thing to the old man beside her with thick hands and slicked-back greasy white hair in a 7 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● firstname.lastname@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis ponytail who was fumbling with a little bottle on a keychain. I got bored though and looked out the window instead and saw a headless vagrant, thick with layers of dirty clothing, bags connected next to him, his head and shoulders hidden by thick clothing wrap. He looked like a new headless alien, and I felt like I had just discovered the true owners of the land. All those middle-aged asses, all those painted toenails. At the next stop, more people boarded and I wondered how the driver could in good conscience pack more people in. Kids filled in like pebbles through stones. An old lady who must have been eastern European forced her way through. Backpacks pushed and jabbed. Some Asian lady almost knocked me down sliding between me and the Asian girl who was still watching my hands. Her purse rubbed against my groin and if I closed my eyes I could imagine my balls were being patted and fondled. I looked above at all the heads, sitting and standing. What a little tank of creatures I was in. They were a many-tentacled Kraken, undulating with a thousand eyes in the rough and tumbling sea, and I don't know why, I mean its not like me, but I wanted to see them all burn and split and choke and die. When the buzzer rung, I recognized my mania and felt guilt. Then someone spilled coffee and the power outside disconnected causing darkness and panic amongst the tourists. Someone said they couldn't breath. Someone asked for a doctor. I managed my way outside and towards the duck on the tracks. It was white, with white eyes and grey feet that looked bleached, though one looked like it had been run over. I looked into its eyes and it looked into mine. In the duck's stare, I knew it saw me. I saw it and it saw, really saw, me. The duck in my arms, I walked the street in front of the piers towards the restaurant for 8 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● firstname.lastname@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis my business meeting. At the entrance, the host, a squat little Mexican in a suit stopped me. "No duck," he said. "No duck?" "No duck." "It's an albino duck." "No albino duck." "No albino duck?" "No albino duck." I should have been angry, but I didn't like this restaurant anyway. I called my associate and he agreed to meet me up the street at a restaurant more forgiving of ducks, or more impressed with albinos, I'm not sure which. We ordered wine, though it was well before happy hour, and some appetizers. While my associate yammered on about budgets and timelines, the duck quacked and waddled on the table. The duck knocked his wine glass over and then pooped on his $60 steak, but we both just stared at each other and kept talking. When I told him my hourly rate, he duck kicked over his second wineglass, splashing zinfandel on my associate's blue shirt. He'd been tolerable up until then, but when he called the duck, and all ducks pigeon-like vermin, I just laughed and laughed. My associate told me he did not want to conduct business with men such as me, but I was fine with that and left him with the check. On a bench nearby, I opened the newspaper I was still carrying. There we were on the cover: the we that is me and the frightened and fey faces on the trolly, but no albino duck. Oh, he was there, beyond some unmarked borders of the light, and I could swear his bleached foot stuck 9 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● email@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis out unobstructed, but it stood upon a double yellow line in the road, invisible. Behind me, I heard my name: "Hi John." I turned and saw a dark-skinned man, probably Filipino, in a chapeau, whom I had never met. I scanned the article and flipped its pages in the wind but found no mention of my name. When I looked back up he had crossed the street and looked back embarrassed. I continued reading the newspaper as the duck nestled into my armpit. I read about a flu epidemic that was suspected of traveling across the border into my territory. I closed my eyes and thought of what the faces of those with the sickness would look like. I held the duck's warm feathers and tried not to breath. I was trying to take it all in at once. The smell of the fish on the docks. The feel of the wind on my skin. The sounds of passing voices, barking, cars, discerning each one from the other. Really trying for absolute clarity of all senses, but at once, not in succession. Probably too much for one mind. Each one had an association that I had to fight to block off before my mind wandered. I wanted the now, pure. My mind tried to make it mean something, like in a dream or those crazies looking for bible code with mindsets of wanting and feeling lost and needing direction. But I wanted no metaphors, no exalted experience. I wanted now, now. I was holding onto the sound of barking which became louder and louder in my focus, until I realized it was actually getting close. Instinctively, I held the duck close. When I looked back a monster of a bear of a dog was being yanked away by its owner. "That's right!" I yelled. The duck felt warm, but inside me I felt even warmer holding it. It was soft and I could lose hours staring into its white eyes. I began to feel kinder towards the idea of the folly of my fellow humans. I laughed with pride seeing a man trip and fall over a pretzel, my fellow man. 10 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● email@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis My phone rang and my girl berated me for being late, but we were on the outs anyway. I went for a happy hour beer, but the waiter spilled my beer and almost got the duck wet. I gave him a big fat twenty dollar tip and left. I stopped in at work, but my boss threw a stack of files at me. I took the elevator back down, smiling and smiling and smiling, hoping he had a duck that he could touch to his face. Outside, I wondered where we could go together, the duck and I, and if I could buy it something to show my affection. I called my client up. We have that kind of relationship, but she didn't have much to offer. "Arc lights scare ducks," she said. "My boyfriend is a sculptor. That's all I remember." I pictured her naked, but only her face. The pinch of the upper, the pink swell of the lower, they were only just lips if beauty is withered by multiplicity. "Describe," she said. "Just get it out." That's really all you can do. I stopped at a park and put the duck down on the soft dirt. I drew a big heart with a stick and in the center wrote "albino duck," but the duck padded and limped its way across my marks, negating my message, negating itself. "No albino ducks, eh?" I said, and picked him back up. "You're the boss, it's your manifesto." By telling this story, I fear I am violating its rule and will have consequences that must be paid. I stared into the fading sun until I saw only purple and pink. I wondered if I was truly human. Other people see emotions and fears and sadness, but I could only see chemicals. Chemicals, in cylinders, pumping up and down. Perhaps I am a robot, but that doesn't explain the duck. Perhaps I am a robot that has not been aptly completed. On the bench, I dreamt of the girl outside the trolley. There was a list of things to do beside her in the street, partially checked off, splashed with blood. In my dream, I was thirty, and 11 of 13 Scott Lambridis ● email@example.com ● 510.735.5885 ● 2125 Woolsey St. Berkeley CA ● slambridis.com No Albino Duck by Scott Lambridis I was eighty, and in dream logic that was fine. I was eating everything until there was nothing left to eat. I tasted nothing until I forgot that things could be tasted. In my dream, the woman at the top of the stairs appeared. Today she is a graduate today in bright purple robes, giving away newspapers. Today, her daughter dies of cancer. For three days we slept on the docks together. On the fourth, I took the duck back to the trolley stop that I boarded four days before. The woman was outside giving away newspapers. The cover showed the graduating class at SFSU and mourned funding for our state schools. The woman was a promotional maestro, dressed in purple robes with her four-cornered hat. The trolley pulled up and I threw up a finger and asked the driver to wait and she stared at me unmoving. I jogged behind the trolley and put the duck down between the double yellow lines, then ran back up front and boarded, assured that the duck was safe. As we rolled away, I watched the duck recede into the past, but felt pulled towards it. The space opened up between us, it got larger instead of smaller until the whites of its eyes enveloped me and then receded, but the wrong way. I was left behind in the street, looking in the window of the trolley as it rolled and clunked away. I could still see everyone inside. Together, their heads and bodies were a many-headed worm and I felt hungry for them. 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This is the 2nd time I have been told about this mysterious music you won't share with me, and I find it to be quite frustrating because I don't like knowing about it but not getting to hear it, that being said I am going to take SFTS at his word on this one because him and I had a really cool patchouli and nag champa infused drum circle last night and good times were had by all. Ok, so I started using soundcloud in this thread, and I am going to try unhippie for a while, is that everything or do you have more grievances you would like to air?
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Injury Issues Today For VikingsPosted by on November 29, 2009 – 11:41 am
The Vikings have been fortunate this season to avoid major injury issues. That has changed a bit this week.
While CB Antoine Winfield is poised to return from a foot injury that has sidelined him since Week 6, several other Vikings starters will be game-time decisions today.
RB Adrian Peterson was listed on this week's injury report with both an ankle injury and an illness. He was limited on Wednesday and Thursday, and then was held out on Friday and was listed as questionable; he'll be a game time decision.
G Anthony Herrera (concussion) is doubtful for today's game after not practicing all week.
FB Fahu Tahi (ankle) was limited on Wednesday, held out on Thursday and then was limited again on Friday; he's listed as probable. Also listed as probable for today's game are WR Bernard Berrian (hamstring), LB E.J. Henderson (knee) and CB Benny Sapp (groin).
The players listed above as probable are "near certainties" to play today, although it wouldn't be surprising to see Sapp held out if Winfield plays. Given that he didn't practice at all this week, it wouldn't be surprising to see Herrera sit today. Although head coach Brad Childress would not confirm who would start in Herrera's place, Artis Hicks is the likely replacement in that spot.
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The last time we posted photos of the FWD 1 Series GT in testing, it was nearly a year before the debut of the BMW Concept Active Tourer [official info] at the recent 2012 Paris auto show.
Here, we see it with less camouflage than ever and although some fairly heavy and tricky camouflage remains, one can look to the concept model [photos below] for a very good idea of what the production model will look like. BMW has a strong track record of keeping production … CONTINUED
The F11 Touring LCI facelift has now been spotted. This particular prototype is equipped with the xenon headlight option which retains the circular angel eyes/corona rings. The LED headlight option (previously spotted on the gray F10 5 Series sedan prototype) will feature the new squared off angel eyes.
We have information which shows production for the F10 LCI as beginning in July 2013, with deliveries starting in August/September of 2013.
The prototype F10 LCI shows slightly sportier side mirrors, with integrated turn signals (still camouflaged). The grey … CONTINUED
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As we've seen before, the F80 M3 continues to exhibit a planted ride and suspension, flying around the track with little body roll.
For our latest M3/M4 details and coverage see: http://www.bimmerpost.com/m3/f30m3/
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The F30 B3 test mules (based on the F30 335i) we've seen so far provide a good preview of the external styling to expect on the F30 B3, with its Alpina front lip spoiler, aggressive trunk spoiler, quad exhaust, and of course Alpina wheels. It appears that Alpina has now changed the front lip spoiler design from its original preview render. The production version is likely to … CONTINUED
We've now posted better spy photos of the F10 5 Series LCI facelift update and an additional update has come to light – the prototype shows a new squared off angel eyes (coronal lights) shape, which has started to appear on BMWs beginning with the latest 3 Series, 6 Series, and 7 Series.
UPDATE 10/17: Better spy photos of the F10 LCI prototype now show a new squared off angel eyes (coronal lights) shape, which has started to appear on BMWs beginning with the latest 3 Series, 6 Series, and 7 Series. Also, the new front bumper will feature BMW's air curtain vents.
The first F10 5 Series Sedan and F07 5 Series GT LCI (facelift) update prototypes have now been spotted. This will facelift the entire 5 Series lineup, including the F10 sedan, F11 touring, F07 GT, and … CONTINUED
We've just spied the X3 LCI (Life Cycle Impulse, AKA "facelift) prototype for the first time. As seen on the mule, the X3 LCI will receive an update front and rear bumper, side mirrors, and headlights, as has been the pattern for recent BMW LCI models.
The headlight shape does not appear to be changing, but we may see updated lighting elements within the headlights, as we did with the recent 7 Series LCI. We do not anticipate that the headlights will be connected with the … CONTINUED
We bring you the first ever look at the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe prototype in live action – from a recent test session on the Nurburgring track.
This is the first we've seen of the prototype on the Ring, as well as being fitted with M Sport Brakes.
As always, don't worry about the headlights and tail lights of the prototypes at this stage of testing. They are merely fakes for testing purposes. Expect the 4GC to share the lights with the rest of the upcoming 4 … CONTINUED
Have a peek at the first completely uncovered 2014 M6 Gran Coupe, captured by a daring photographer in a BMW factory. It may only be a side view, but there's no doubt this is the M6 Gran Coupe.
Its blue M brakes (a new M signature going forward), sideskirts, and mirrors are all evidence this is the M6 Gran Coupe.
What is also seen for the first time on this car are the production wheels, a completely new BMW wheel design.
We've captured the next generation X5 M prototype on video for the first time and despite all its camouflage and cladding, still impresses with its furious sounds on the Nurbrugring test track. Have a look and listen inside.
The latest outing by the upcoming 2014 M6 Gran Coupe (M6GC) leaves little else to be revealed. Not that there were many surprises to be revealed in the first place, as the M6GC was expected to share bodywork and most everything else with the F13 Coupe and F12 Convertible variants, but this prototype shows the sculpted roof (carbon fiber underneath the camouflage, just like 6 Series Coupe) and a set of carbon ceramic brakes for the first time.
This is also the first M6GC prototype we have … CONTINUED
We haven't spotted the F82 M4 Coupe at the Nurburgring since July, when the F82 was spied for the very first time in public testing. Well, it's now back at the Ring during an onslaught of BMW prototype testing in the past week, including the F80 M3, F82 M4, F36 4 Series Gran Coupe, F15 X5 M, 3 Series GT, and the M6 Gran Coupe.
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Twilight has an experiment planned, and it centres on Rainbow Dash.
As anxious as she is, Dash really has no right to complain.
It was her idea after all.
This account is no longer in use. I'm leaving it up so people can read my stuff. If you need to contact me, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
I'm sure a great many of you are purveyors of the fine arts. Writing, drawing, painting, singing, making music, whatever your flavour, I want to talk to you. People are going to tell you to study things that will get you a decent job, even if those things aren't in the direction you want to go. People will tell you that having dreams is nice and all, but you need to take the path of least resistance and get a nine-to-five. People will tell you that in the real world, having passion for a craft is not enough, and that everyone needs to face reality and join the daily grind sooner or later.
Those people are wrong.
Notice that the most they give you to hope for is a comfortable life. The vast majority of people aren't wealthy, after all, so the best an average person can strive for is an average life. You can be one of the millions of average folk out there who work all day and watch TV in the evening before bed. Lucky you!
But personally, I would rather take my chances. I would rather study the things that interest me so that when I'm an old man I won't think "Well my accounting degree got me an okay job..." and instead think "Oh man, my days in uni studying lit and writing and meeting other writers and forming my own style and embracing the things I love most were amazing!"
I want to know, when I'm looking at a mirror as I lay on my deathbed, that the person looking back at me didn't waste their younger years doing things they hated and working at unsatisfying jobs. I want to see some old twat writer grinning like an idiot, ideas still churning behind crazy eyes, knowing not a single second was wasted.
So I'd like to ask you something. What kind of person do you want to be? Do you want to be an average person who lived an average life and left an average gravestone? Or do you want to be the artist with the crazy eyes, that weird kid who strayed from the path and found something beautiful?
It isn't about being remembered. It isn't about leaving a legacy. It's not even about the chance of becoming successful because of your art. It's about realising you only have one life and you don't have nearly enough time to waste living it 'normally'.
That's a lot of followers!
In celebration of this crazy occasion, I'd like to ask for your opinions on something. A lot of people come to me for writing advice, and while I don't claim to be the most skilful writer, I do know some useful bits of general knowledge. Would anyone be interested in occasional blog posts where I address the most common problems budding writers encounter?
Love, Dawn
I'm not dead, nor have I been incapacitated. Every time I set a schedule, life makes it abundantly clear that it disapproves.
My apologies for the lack of updates. I've been so frustrated with having no time or energy to write that I cut myself off from a few things, this site being one of them.
The chapter is coming, but I'm not going to be so foolish as to estimate when. I ask for your patience and understanding.
On that note, I'd like to make a note here about some rather mean PMs and comments I've received. I'm happy you're enjoying the story so much that the absence of new chapters really agitates you, but come on. I write this for fun, this is not my day job, nor is it a legally binding contract. I can't put this above the rest of my life. I know most of you are very cool about it, but the mean ones really get to me.
Anyway, love you all and hope to give you something soon <3
The poll results are in and out of the 2,000+ readers, almost 300 voted. It's cool, I ignore blog posts too.
Anyway, the decision has been made and the next chapter will cover the day before Octavia's birthday (AKA awkward snowy cuteness).
Now, I noticed something about those who voted for the other option. They seem to be under the impression that this will just be a fluffy, pointless chapter that is basically fan service. If it's my fault you think that, I apologise, for I have misled you. The chapter will develop Octavia and Vinyl's relationship in a very special way, one that I've been waiting to get to for some time. After some careful thinking, I believe the time is right. Here's hoping it gives them strength to stand against the mother, eh?
So, I'm at a bit of an impasse.
You see, I mentioned a while ago that I have an adorable Hearth's Warming Eve chapter planned. I originally intended to do Octavia's birthday (and consequently her mother's) arc before Christmas arrived in the real world. What I failed to anticipate was just how slowly the next chapters would come along. You all know the reasons, university etc. but that doesn't change the fact that I'm a little behind where I thought I would be.
And here lies our problem.
In the story, it is the middle of the year. Hearth's Warming, like Christmas, happens at the end of the year amongst the snow and merriment. Having a random Hearth's Warming chapter out of nowhere would be a little silly because nothing has been leading up to it.
Thankfully, I was about to introduce snow anyway, so at least we have that part covered. I also think Octavia's mother could be en-route during the next chapter, which means I have one chapter before the birthday and her arrival.
So my question to you is this: What would you prefer I do?
1. Do a lovely snowy chapter about the day before Octavia's birthday (basically a holiday special without explicitly saying it's a holiday special)
2. Skip straight to the birthday and ignore the holiday season entirely.
I like involving you guys because you've all been so good to me, so I leave it up to you. Option 1 will give you a cute chapter at the cost of delaying the birthday for a chapter, while option 2 will make the Hearth's Warming chapter happen when it reaches that stage in-universe at the cost of being completely unrelatable.
We've had a lot of conflict-free chapters lately, so I'll understand if you want me to get straight into the next arc.
Rainbow Dash, you are VERY BAD at expressing your sexuality.
And that's OK.
it seems out-of-character for Twilight to say no shit. And you could replace a few of the "Im not gay"s with something synonamous. Makes it seem less repetitive that way.
This story made me laugh. I think you characterized RD's constant nervousness/denial pretty well, and I though it was pretty cute.
Oh Twilight. You so silly.
It's 'No shit, Sherlock.'
Pretty good, though.
Edit: in before the feature box?
Fucking fantastic XD
Oh my gosh, I was laughing throughout the whole thing! That was hilarious, and Dash being dense makes a strange sort of sense. Nice job
I always wanted Twi to say something like that, but never could persuade her myself. Good show.
Oh, gods. I'm faving this so hard, just because of that punchline.
*sees its by Dawn Fade*
Read Later *click*
Well, this was surprisingly hilarious. Nice job.
Funny stuff! Personally I thought the "no shit" made for a hilarious punchline.
I'm not necessarily convinced that just because we don't see certain behaviors from characters on-screen, that it automatically excludes the possibility of their existence off-screen (so to speak).
Ha, pretty funny.
I liked it well enough, good job!
Absolutely hilarious. You portrayed RD better than anyone I've read from in my experience. The ending line was just too funny, and I actually laughed out loud at a couple parts. Excellent job!
Rivers in Egypt, Rainbow.
"A friendly experiment." you got me there. really cute and well written.
"No shit."
bestend ever!
This pleases me.
Could be miles worse. The cussing is kinda anomalous and doesn't really 'add' anything to the story.
Very entertaining. I like it.
And while yes, "No shit" is out-of-character for Twilight, it's also very fitting. So I don't care one way or the other.
Oh, and Fav.
Lol, facking hilarious and cute!
this is why i'm in a million groups.
So I can see stories before they get featured.
Twidash and Writer's Group.
Oh, and this thing it really good. I know this has already been said, but that no shit line was priceless.
I don't know who you are, but thanks to you, my brother just passed out from laughter.
Oh god, this was hilarious!
Dash's characterization was great! I think I love it too much. I'm going to have to favorite this.
No shit that was an amazing story. Oh how I love your writings. Oh gosh, still laughing at that last line. Here have a moustache.
This just goes ta show, when dawn writes somethin, you read it. Imediately, like, no shit, am I right
I hate shipping, yet for some reason clicked on this fic. Yet I love this fic! It just felt so in character and is hilarious! Good job! Best Ship fic ever My only complaint is Twilight last line. I agree she'd say something with a similiar meaning, but not that. oh well. Great job.
Oh and too the feature box! Seriously if this doesn't make it there then that thing is broken.
Lmao... oh yes. This is getting featured.
And that ending was perfect. No doubt it's possible Twilight lets slip a profanity or two under... extenuating circumstances?
He should change it to that. I could so see Twilight saying that!
I'm reading this again.
Gold star and thumbs up for you. RD is perfect here. It's the same dialogue I have her go through in my headcanon every time she's shipped.
one correction: probablyhave = missing a space
Also, brilliant segue: "She wasn't gay, so that couldn't be it. " ... "Rainbow Dash stood up straighter"
Dat ending.
>>13775561377556 It ain't broke.
TwiDash? By DawnFade? Oh hell yes!
Sweet Harmony that was brilliant. I know I'm echoing like half the other comments, but this is one of the most perfect written portrayals of Rainbow Dash I've ever seen. And the best part, of course, is that it's marked "incomplete".
This is THE best fic I've read in forever!
No shit? That was perfect.
I love this. MOAR
Even if Twilight breaks character a bit there at the end with the age old saying, it was still hilarious.
But I saw the "Incomplete" tag and the title of the chapter hints at continued...
that ending.
It was a good chuckle for me, which is saying something because I'm not very expressive.
-Y'know, maybe science can be fun after all.
Let's make out. For science.
You've somehow pulled off one of those silly fics that isn't meant to be taken quite seriously and yet have it feel believable. Commence slow clap!
This had me laughing all throughout. The way you wrote Rainbow's thoughts was very in-character, not to mention hilarious.
There's one thing I'd like to know, though; Where in the name of all Heaven and Hell did you get this idea from?
Edit: Ooh, feature box. Should've seen that coming. You know I'm quite jealous of you, right?
LOL MORE! I so hope there will be more!LOL
this was incurably cute and funny
Mmm, yes, your jealousy sustains me.
I have no idea where I got the idea, but I want to go there again and get some more.
well, that was um....well, awe hell this was hilarious! I mean like that ending was perfect!
For science!
I don't usually care for human swears in pony fics, but for the sake of humor, that line was great. Thumbed.
Okay.... So you managed to write a fairly common shipfic in a new way and made it hilarious. Is there anything you can't do?


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"They can prepay their entry fee at Triangle Sports if they wish to do that," Patterson said.
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MOUNTAIN HOME — The Mountain Home Lady Bombers whipped the Batesville Lady Pioneers 12-2 in a run-ruled 5-inning nonconference high school softball game here Monday.
Mountain Home pitcher Shelby Anderson limited the Lady Pioneers to five hits while striking out eight and walking one. She also led the home team's 15-hit attack, hitting two for three with a double and three runs.
Kandess Pfitzner and Rachel Shellenberger provided two hits a piece for Batesville.
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The Bulldogs won 5-0. The Lady Bulldogs won 4-0.
Southerners goalie Brandon Ritter was credited with 19 saves.
Adrianna Jeffery notched 13 saves for the Lady Southerners.
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After 18 holes, the Wildcats posted a 342. Par is 288. Allyson Agee of Cumberland carded the low first round score with a 9-over par 81.
The tournament is being played at the Pickwick Landing State Park Golf Course. The Tennessee Trails course is playing to a par of 72 over 5,814 yards. There are four teams and 22 golfers competing in the women's tournament.
Midland blanks Cotter in district contest
COTTER — Drew Fortson pitched a 2-hitter and Skylar Litaker provided three hits to lead the Midland Mustangs to a 10-0 victory in a 2A-2 District high school baseball game here Monday.
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A process for the presentation of data stored in an active implantable medical device to assist a practitioner in making a diagnosis. This process includes the steps of: a) reading the raw implant data in the stored memory of the device, b) processing the raw data to elaborate a synthesis of the data, preferably through the use of an expert system, c) indexing the elaborated data synthesis according to a plurality of headings, each heading having associated therewith a set of specific implant data having contributed to the development of the heading, d) displaying on a screen (40), at the destination of a user, the aforementioned headings, in the form of a plurality of distinct display fields (41, 42, 43, 44) grouped on the same summary page (40), e) putting at the disposal of the user a tool for the individual selection of each one of the plurality of fields, and f) when a field of the summary page is selected at the choice of the user, displaying on the summary page (40) the aforementioned specific implant data (60) having contributed to the development of the heading corresponding to this selected field (41).
1. A process for processing raw implant data stored in the memory of an active implantable medical device, in particular of a pacemaker, a defibrillator, a cardiovertor and/or a multisite device, comprising:
a) reading the raw implant data stored in the memory of the device;
b) processing the raw data to elaborate a data synthesis;
c) indexing the elaborated data synthesis according to a plurality of headings, each heading having associated therewith a set of specific implant data having contributed to the development of said heading;
d) displaying on a screen a plurality of headings in a corresponding plurality of distinct display fields grouped on a summary page;
e) selecting one of said plurality of fields; and
f) displaying, in response to a selected field, said specific implant data having contributed to the development of the heading corresponding to said selected field.
2. The process of
3. The process of
4. The process of
5. A programmer for an active implantable medial device having stored therein raw implant data, said programmer having a graphic display, a pointing device, a telemetering system for reading said stored implant data, and an expert system to process said implant data into an elaborated data synthesis that is indexed according to a plurality of headings, each said heading having a corresponding sub-set of processed implant data having contributed to the development of the heading, wherein the improvement comprises a graphic user interface for said programmer comprising:
a page screen for displaying said plurality of headings in a like plurality of fields, wherein each said field further comprises an active area, wherein each said active area is responsive to said pointing device selecting said active area to present said subset of processed implant data corresponding to said selected field on said page screen, wherein said subset of processed implant data is presented superimposed on said plurality of fields.
6. The programmer of
7. The programmer of
[0001] The present invention is directed to �active implantable medical devices� as such devices are defined by the Jun. 20, 1990 directive 90/385/CEE of the Council of the European Communities, and more particularly to the pacemaker, defibrillator, cardiovertor and/or multisite devices for the treatment of the disorders of the heartbeat. The invention more precisely relates to the processing of data stored in read-write memory (RAM) of the device, such as histograms, curves, electrograms, etc.
[0002] Data stored in an implant will be called hereafter �implant data�. The implant data can be read by means of a programmer remote to the device using telemetry techniques that are in themselves well-known in the art.
[0003] The programmer typically cooperates with the implant to transmit the implant data from the device to a remote computer that will process the implant data and present the data in a form suitable for display on a screen, or for printing, e.g., a list of data and/or a graphic display. The processed data thus is presented to help the practitioner to analyze the history of the clinical data of the patient, and the operation of the pacemaker, over a period of several days or several weeks. The interpretation of such implant data will enable the practitioner to make a diagnosis.
[0004] Various techniques to assist the practitioner in making a diagnosis, allowing for an elaboration of the synthesis data starting from the raw implant data read from the implant, are known. One technique is, for example, the AIDA software (�Aide � l'Interpretation et au Diagnostic Automatiques� (Assistance to the Interpretation and to the Automatic Diagnosis)) available from ELA Medical, the assignee hereof. The functionalities of this AIDA software are described in the article by Limousin et al., �Value of Automatic Processing and Reliability of Stored Data in an inplanted Pacemaker: Initial Results in 59 Patients�, PACE; 20[Pt.I]:2893-2898 (1997). It will be noted that the present invention is not directed to the way in which the synthesis data are elaborated, which techniques are known to persons of ordinary skill in the art, nor to the diagnosis itself, which is made by the practitioner using the data synthesis elaborated by the software. The known techniques for performing the elaboration of the implant data into synthesis data are typically performed by expert systems (not forming apart of the present invention) such as a percentage or counts of events.
[0005] The elaborated synthesis data, in practice, are presented to the practitioner in the form of a series of screen pages, as illustrated, for example, on FIG. 1. A first series 10 of screens includes a display screen 11 having various statistics in a list as well as the evolution over time of the heart rate, i.e., a graphic chart of the raw implant data recorded in the implant. A screen 12 makes it possible to display a certain number of text messages and graphs to assist the diagnosis, i.e., elaborated synthesis data, for example, provided by a software program or functionality such as the software AIDA referred to above.
[0006] A second series 20 of screens illustrated in FIG. 1 makes it possible to display information relating to more particular aspects, for example, a screen 21 for the episodes of atrial tachycardia, a screen 22 for the atrio-ventricular intervals, and a screen 23 for the episodes of ventricular tachycardia.
[0007] Lastly, a third series 30 of screens provides more detailed information on particular aspects, such as the atrial context, the atrial intervals, the ventricular context or the ventricular intervals (respectively screens 31 to 34).
[0008] This organization of the displayed data is certainly very complete, since it makes it possible for the practitioner to reach a large amount of information and permits a fine (detailed) analysis, but it also presents the disadvantage of obliging the practitioner to consult multiple specialized and complex screens, requiring a lot of back-and-forth between different screens, all of which are complex.
[0009] This inconvenience is even greater for those practitioners that are not very familiar with the use of the software, in particular, those who must work with several different software programs (and there exist as many software as pacemaker manufacturers), or the cardiologists, who are typically less specialized in the analysis of the implant data than the electrophysiologists, but who desire to be informed of certain recorded data to help them in a clinical diagnosis of the patient, to try, for example, to find certain revealing signs of a particular pathology.
[0010] One of the objects of the invention is, therefore, to propose a processing of implant data making it possible to organize and display the implant data in a more selective way, to facilitate the consultation of the implant data by the practitioner without making any concessions regarding the level of detail of the displayable data.
[0011] Broadly, the process is directed to gathering on the same summary display screen the most significant data in the form of a plurality of fields, and making it possible for the practitioner to choose and select a given field and see appear on this same screen (for example, in superposition) the specific data concerning the chosen field�and only that data concerning the chosen field.
[0012] More particularly, in a preferred embodiment, the process for the invention is a process for processing implant data, characterized by the stages (steps) including:
[0013] a) reading the raw implant data stored in the memory of the device;
[0014] b) elaborating the synthesis data starting from the raw stored implant data by means of an expert system;
[0015] c) indexing the data synthesis thus elaborated according to a plurality of headings with, associated with each heading, a set of specific implant data having contributed to the development of this heading,
[0016] d) displaying on a screen, at the destination of a user, the aforementioned headings, in the form of a plurality of distinct display fields gathered on a common summary page,
[0017] e) putting at the disposal of the user a means for individually selecting each one of the aforesaid fields, and
[0018] f) when a field of the summary page is selected at the choice of the user, displaying on the summary page the aforementioned specific implant data having contributed to the development of the heading corresponding to the selected field.
[0019] The specific implant data can in particular include marker chains (i.e., a sequence or chain of event markers), cardiac frequency or amplitude (depolarization and/or stimulation) histograms, electrograms, curves of cardiac events and/or time-stamped lists of events or graphically plotted data.
[0020] The display of the specific implant data at stage f) is advantageously a display of the specific implant data in superposition over the fields of the non selected headings.
[0021] The selection of stage e) can be a selection by a zone to be pointed or to be checked located inside the displayed field, or anywhere in the field.
[0022] Other features, characteristics, and advantages of the present invention will appear to a person of ordinary skill in the art in view of the following detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention, made with reference to the annexed drawings, in which the same numerical and word references indicate similar elements, and in which:
[0023]FIG. 1 illustrates the series of screens produced by the processes of the prior art;
[0024]FIG. 2 illustrates a summary screen produced by the process of a first preferred embodiment of the present invention, before displaying specific data;
[0025]FIG. 3 illustrates the screen of FIG. 2, with a display of the specific data following the selection of a particular display field;
[0026]FIG. 4 illustrates a summary screen in accordance with an alternate embodiment of the present invention, with display of the specific data relating to the selected one of the fields; and
[0027]FIG. 5 is homologous with FIG. 4 but for the display of the specific data relating to another selected field.
[0028] With reference to FIG. 2, a summary screen 40 produced by a preferred embodiment of the process of the invention is illustrated. This display screen 40 groups together elaborated data synthesis, for example, by a software such as the above mentioned software AIDA of ELA Medical. This software produces a certain number of messages to assist the practitioner in making a diagnosis, such as a first message �over-detection of ventricular far-field� (field 41), a second message �frequent passage in Wenckebach� (field 42), and a third message �dysfunction of the capture algorithm� (field 43), etc. More generally, the messages resulting from the analysis can include diagnoses on the existence of cardiac rate disorders, the programming of the apparatus, the effectiveness or the operation of the algorithms of the apparatus, etc. The text of these messages is displayed in distinct respective fields of display 41, 42, 43, 44 . . . , possibly also with short complementary indications, for example, the �parameter� concerned with the message, the actual current value of the parameter, and the proposed value suggested for a reprogramming of this parameter in order to cure the anomaly indicated by the message. It is noted that the development of the various indications of assistance to the diagnosis are in themselves known, and do not form part of the present invention, and the particular messages and fields are provided for illustration purposes.
[0029] Each field 41, 42 . . . comprises an individual means of selection by the practitioner, to the choice of this former, for example, by means of a respective boxes 51, 52, 53, 54, to which the practitioner will be able to point or check, e.g., placing on the box a cursor using a mouse, according to a well known technique of graphic use interface control. It also should be understood that selection of the field may be made by clicking, touching or pointing to any appropriate area in the field, and is not necessarily limited to a particular box appearing within the field; indeed, the entire field may be active such that a selection (mouseclick or the like) anywhere in the field can be effected by the practitioner.
[0030] It is also possible to envisage a selection by touching the screen or use of a light pen or voice recognition technique, or the like.
[0031]FIG. 3 illustrates the transformation of the display illustrated in FIG. 2 when the practitioner selects, for example, the field of display 41 by pointing on the associated box 51. This operation causes to reveal on the screen a block 60 comprising a certain number of specific data. Block 60, whose dimensions in the embodiment shown are smaller than those of page-screen 40, is preferably, displayed in superposition over the latter. Preferably, it is positioned to mask non-relevant information, i.e., information other than those of the selected display field 41, in the example described. The selection by the practitioner of one of the display fields, i.e., one of the presented messages that are of assistance to the diagnosis, will thus cause to be presented on the same screen at the same time the selected field, which remains visible, and a certain number of specific implant data grouped within a window of an appropriate size and preferably a smaller size than screen 40. The specific data presented in block 60 are the implant data which contributed to the development of the heading of the corresponding display field, e.g., field 41 in the illustrated example, where are showed the implant data whose analysis by the software produced a first message �Over-detection of ventricular far-field�.
[0032] The practitioner can thus, simply by selecting the field corresponding to this first message �Over-detection of ventricular far-field�, reveal the relevant implant data�and only that implant data�and thus refine the diagnosis by a finer analysis of these specific data.
[0033] Moreover, the visualization of the specific data or selection can make it possible for the practitioner to check the validity of the diagnoses proposed by the software.
[0034] It will be noted that the specific storage block is displayed without commutation of pagescreen 40, unlike the prior art technique where, as illustrated in FIG. 1, it was necessary for the practitioner to navigate through a tree structure of different page-screens to find the relevant data, and even then the relevant data could be dispersed over different several screens.
[0035] In addition, insofar as the messages respectively displayed in various fields 41, 42 . . . on a summary-page 40 correspond to symptoms which are often dependent between them, it can be interesting for the practitioner to quickly pass from one specific data block to the other, which can be done very quickly and easily simply by pointing/clicking on the corresponding box 51, 52 . . . , with the summary screen 40 always remaining displayed in the background. Thus, the present invention is unlike the prior art system which proceeded according to a substitution of screens, and not by a selective superposition of relevant information.
[0036] The specific data displayed in block 60 can have various forms. On FIG. 3, one thus illustrates a chain of event markers 61 presented in the form of a chronogram, and a time-stamped series of events presented in the form of a rolling (scrolling) list 62. Other types of specific data can of course be displayed, in various forms: curves, histograms, etc. In addition, the nature and the presentation of the specific data may vary according to the selected display field, because displayed in the block the 60 are only the specific data having contributed to the development of the corresponding heading of the selected field.
[0037]FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate another preferred embodiment of the process according to the present invention. In this embodiment, the summary page screen 40 is presented simply in the form of a series of literal messages appearing in corresponding fields.
[0038] For example, in the case of an atrial arrhythmia, the summary page 40 displays the following: a first message �There were 4 episodes of fall-back� (Field 41), a second message �the markers chains confirm the presence of an atrial arrhythmia� (Field 42), etc.
[0039] Each one of these messages corresponds to a field 41, 42 . . . 46 on the screen. The practitioner can select one of these fields, for example, by placing the cursor in an a specified (or unspecified) place within the field, or by means of a displacement key of a keyboard, by voice command, touch screen, etc.
[0040] The selection of a field starts the appearance of a specific storage block 60, in superposition on the other fields of the screen, to leave apparent the message of the selected field. Thus, on FIG. 4, selection of field 42 makes appear a window 60 partially masking fields 43, 44 and 45, while on FIG. 5 selection of field 45 makes appearing a window 60 masking fields 41, 42 and 43.
[0041] In the case of FIG. 4, the selection of field 42 corresponds to the second message of assistance to the diagnosis �the chains of markers confirm the presence of atrial arrlythmias� and produces the display of a specific data block 60 including a chronogram 61 of the marker chain, the time-stamped list 62 of the arrhythmias that were detected, with their moment of appearance and their duration, as well as a graph 63 showing the evolution of the cardiac intervals. Alternately, a time-stamped list of sensor data events also could be produced as a display.
[0042] On FIG. 5, the selection of field 45 corresponding to the fifth message of assistance to the diagnosis �the first atrial arrhythmia started between the 29/12 and the 31/12� produce the display of a block 60 including a series of chronograms 64 reflecting the evolution of the atrial rate, a table 65 presenting the statistical results of a number of parameters over the studied period (e.g. in this example Atrial Frequency, duration, fallback episodes, Salvos>S, Salvos<S and Atrial Extrasystoles (AES)), as well as an arrow 66 pointing to the chronogram at the moment of which has occurred of the first arrhythmia indicated in the fifth message of field 45. A �salvo� is a paroxystic atrial tachycardia, and the �S� is a corresponding threshold. Also, the fifth message of field 45 optionally can be displayed within block 60, as illustrated. Thus, it is possible that the superposition can mask the selected field. It also is preferred that the window 60 can be hidden or closed by a mouse click or keystroke (e.g., the �esc� key) so as to bring the full page screen 40 into view, so as to facilitate selection of another field without changing screen 40. Software suitable for presenting the active fields and opening and closing of the data fields is believed to be within the programming abilities of a person of ordinary level of skill in the art using a conventional window style operating system (Windows, OS, Linux, etc.).
[0043] One skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be practiced by other than the described embodiments, which are presented for purposes of illustration and not of limitation.
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