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The Upper Cretaceous Ventura Member of the Goat Wall unit in the southern Methow block of southern British Columbia and northern Washington State holds a syntectonic magnetization. Eight new sites from Manning Park in British Columbia give a mean direction of D = 27.5[degrees], I = 60.1[degrees], k = 304.7, [[alpha].sub.95] = 3.2[degrees] after optimal partial tilt correction. Of five groups of bedded sites from farther south in the basin reported by Bazard et al. [1990], four have a syntectonic remanence with a direction similar to what we observe. The exception is one group which has optimal concentration of remanence directions on >100% untilting and an abherent direction which must be rejected. Combining the accepted sites, the optimal differential syntilting direction is D = 11.8[degrees], I = 61.5[degrees], k = 39.3, [[alpha].sub.95] = 3.4[degrees] (N = 47), giving a mean pole of 79.8[degrees]N, 359.2[degrees]E, K = 19.5, and [A.sub.95] = 4.8[degrees]. The age of the remagnetization is constrained to be between 88 and 80 Ma. Compared to cratonic North America, this result indicates that the southern Methow block was displaced from the south by 1800 [+ or -] 500 km, meaning it lay south of the Siena Nevada subduction zone but well north of other paleomagnetically constrained Cretaceous rock units from the Insular superterrane, including correlative strata of the Mount Tatlow area in the northern Methow block. Among several possibilities to reconcile this discrepancy, the most plausible has the whole Methow block translated coherently but with the southern Methow block strata remagnetized during transit. INDEX TERMS: 1525 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism: Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics (regional, global); 8102 Tectonophysics: Continental contractional orogenic belts; 9350 Information Related to Geographic Region: North America; 9609 Information Related to Geologic Time: Mesozoic; 1533 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism: Remagnetization; KEYWORDS: paleomagnetism, orogenic belts, North America, Mesozoic, remagnetization

Background: Remote monitoring has emerged as a complement to in-person care for patient with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). It provides the care team with information about device integrity, programming issues, or other medical data (i.e. arrhythmias) and since 2015 has been recognized as a part of standard management by the Heart and Rhythm Society for all patients with CIEDs. However, while it can provide invaluable information to providers, the volume of generated data can increase the risk of oversight. We present a novel case of apparent device malfunction that on closer scrutiny was obvious, but provides a lesson in the mechanisms by which data can be artifactual., Case Summary: A 62-year-old male presented after his cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) alerted him that his device was at an elective replacement interval (ERI). He underwent an uncomplicated generator exchange; however, 2 weeks later, a remote alert showed that his device was at ERI and all impedances were above the upper limit. Device interrogation the following day demonstrated that the new device was functioning appropriately and his home monitor had in fact paired with his old generator. He obtained a new home monitor, and subsequent remote transmissions have demonstrated that his device is functioning appropriately., Discussion: This case demonstrates the importance of careful review of details from home-monitoring data. While concerning for device malfunction, there could be alternative causes when alerts are generated by remote monitoring. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this mechanism of alert via a home-monitoring device and should be considered when reviewing unusual remote download data., Competing Interests: There are no relationships relevant to the content of this paper to disclose. Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors., (© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology.)