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Family Vacation Lake: Recreation Planning and Management
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (LARO) is primarily a place for people to play. A high proportion of its visitors has always been local residents, and in recent years more and more people are choosing to build homes adjacent to the recreation area boundary to take advantage of the many and varied opportunities for recreation on water and land. Recreation areas have sometimes been facetiously described within the National Park Service as "places to get wet," and even recent LARO Superintendents have viewed Lake Roosevelt in this way. [1]
LARO's recreational visitors focus on the water - on boating and swimming and on camping close to the lake shore during the short summer season. Land-based activities, too, have traditionally been aimed at outdoor fun. In the early years, playgrounds and horseshoe pitching areas were popular. Naturalists taught recreational skills such as snorkeling, and Disney movies were shown in the amphitheaters. Fishing has grown in popularity, and new opportunities such as rental houseboats and personal watercraft are increasingly popular with visitors.
Recreation planning and management at the national recreation area (NRA) have had to adapt to challenges such as low funding, jurisdictional disputes, and changing visitor activities over the decades.
Over the decades, LARO managers have initiated a number of studies to learn more about the "typical" visitor to Lake Roosevelt. What attracts people to the area, who are they, and what do they do once they arrive? The popularity of the nation's national recreation areas has grown significantly since the 1940s. By 1990, visits to NRAs accounted for 14 percent of total National Park System visits. [3]
After World War II, outdoor recreation increased tremendously nationwide, particularly water-based forms of recreation such as boating and water skiing. Causes of this growth included increases in the total population, per capita income, proportion of income spent on recreation, and leisure time, along with improved transportation. [4]
Visitation to Lake Roosevelt, however, was very light through the 1940s and the early 1950s, mostly because the reservoir was new, facilities were minimal, and area population was low. For example, in July of 1950 approximately 13,100 recreational visits were made to the NRA. About 90 percent of the use was by local people using simple temporary facilities constructed by the communities of Kettle Falls and Colville for picnicking and swimming. During the fall and winter months, hunters and float-plane pilots and passengers accounted for most of the recreational visits to Lake Roosevelt. Lake Roosevelt was simply overshadowed by Grand Coulee Dam, which was recording well over 300,000 visitors annually at that time. [5]
Visitation rose as Congress began to provide more funding for construction of visitor facilities. The area's population remained essentially rural, although in 1968 some 525,000 people lived within two hours of Lake Roosevelt. In the mid-1950s, Lake Roosevelt - promoted by the Park Service as the "Family Vacation Lake" - began to be discovered by travelers from outside the immediate area, sometimes by accident as they traveled through. In the north half, many of the visitors were from nearby Trail, British Columbia. In 1957, most of the visitors came from a fifty- to one hundred-mile radius, arriving on weekends by car. Day use remained primary; only 25 percent of LARO visitors remained more than one day. By 1962, over one thousand people per day were spending time at swim beaches. [6]
LARO staff has tried to increase and regulate visitation through management actions such as construction of visitor facilities, removal of floating woody debris from the lake, and enforcement of regulations. In some years, visitation to LARO has been noticeably affected by events outside the control of the Park Service. Such events and circumstances include the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, opening of the highway through the North Cascades in 1973, Spokane Expo '74, eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980, value of the Canadian dollar, severe lake drawdowns, national gasoline shortages, improvement of the walleye fishery in the 1970s, overcrowding at other recreation facilities in eastern Washington, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) visitor facilities and attractions at Grand Coulee Dam, population shifts, and the weather.
In general, the majority of LARO's early visitors were day users, mostly family groups who lived in the vicinity of the lake. In 1962, park staff estimated that 10 percent of all visitors were in the area one hour or less, 50 percent spent one to four hours, 25 percent spent four to eight hours, and 15 percent spent one or more days within the recreation area. The peak period of use has always been from May to September. In more recent years, as the Spokane and Seattle-Tacoma populations have grown, a higher percentage of LARO visitation is drawn from these urban areas. [8]
A formal visitor survey conducted in 1978 through the University of Washington Cooperative Park Studies Unit helped LARO managers better understand the typical visitor. The study found that regional visitors chose to visit Lake Roosevelt in order to sightsee, visit Grand Coulee Dam, camp, and picnic. Family groups comprised 83 percent of the visitors. Most visitors had been to LARO six or more times and tended to visit the same site regularly. Thirty-two percent were from Spokane (and primarily used the central part of the recreation area), and 14 percent were local, but only 2.8 percent identified themselves as farmers or ranchers. About 13 percent were from Canada. At least half the campers and boaters fished during their visit. Only 15.7 percent camped in tents, and 17 percent of the boaters used non-power boats. In 1981, over half of LARO's visitors were children or teenagers, and 12 percent were Native American. [10]
A 1996 visitor use survey found similar patterns. Washington residents made up 74 percent of the visitors, with only about 7 percent from the United States outside of the Pacific Northwest. About 46 percent were repeat visitors. The most popular activities were camping, swimming, motor boating, and fishing, followed by family gatherings, picnicking, sightseeing, and water skiing. Nearly 75 percent of the use still occurs between June and September, and the late afternoon and evening hours are the busiest. [11]
Visitation to LARO has increased dramatically since the 1950s, when the Park Service first began to provide facilities and access roads along the shores of Lake Roosevelt. Keeping statistics on visitor use is important in every park unit: visitation figures identify trends that help in making management decisions such as planning visitor facilities and as justification for requests for budget increases.
At LARO, the lack of entrance gates makes obtaining accurate estimates of visitation difficult. From the early 1940s until 1955, LARO's visitation was estimated as a percentage (10 or 20 percent) of the visitation figures kept by Reclamation for Grand Coulee Dam. Since then, more accurate visitation figures have been obtained by counting vehicles (using a varying person-per-vehicle multiplier) combined with actual counts or estimates at places such as boat launches, concessionaire facilities, private docks and mooring buoys, and campgrounds. In recent years, reductions are made for nonrecreational users. The counting methods were modified in 1957, the early 1970s, and 1992. In 1988, traffic counters replaced the older tube counters park-wide. Park staff is "very, very confident," according to LARO Program Assistant Roberta Miller, that they are understating and not overstating the visitation to the recreation area. [12]
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Grey God
I recently wrote a piece for Relevant talking about how Christians need to follow a Grey God instead of a Black or White God.
A couple of weeks later, I got an email from a guy named Aaron I met once before who read it and felt like he needed to reach out to me. Here is a piece of that email:
The reason I felt impelled to write you this note was not to discuss the movie, but more so declare my admiration for how you handled your accusers. It also made me wish that you were the type of person I had in my life when I was in the process of de-converting from Christianity.
Yes, you read that correctly. De-converting. A quick backstory on myself. Born in a christian home. I was the model of the perfect child of a christian parent. I went to youth group, went on every mission trip, went to a Christian University. I loved Jesus. When I was 19 I became aware of my homosexual attractions and I have spent the last 15 years in reparative therapy trying to reverse those attractions. I have finally now come to the conclusion that reversing my orientation is not possible. My journey of having my homosexuality "fixed" is long, complicated, heartbreaking, and exhaustive. Unfortunately through all of this my faith in God suffered. I started asking too many questions, I was suffering with too much doubt and all paths led me to where I am today….Agnostic. I actually prefer to say "Agnostic Deist" because although I don't know for sure there is a God, I choose to believe there is a creator God. The concept of a personal God is completely lost on me and I don't believe in the reliability, relevance, or inerrancy of the Bible like I once did. This is not something that came overnight or was an irrational decision based on me not getting my own way. The last two years of figuring out the ridiculousness of Christianity and detoxing from strong beliefs that I once thought helped me have been extremely intense. What I thought helped me actually hurt me
I loved the part in your blog when you were talking about the grey areas and that "grey" represents your belief system. This is the part where I wish i had someone like you in my life years ago and I could have that same mentality. Unfortunately I was raised, indoctrinated, and educated in a religion that only endorsed black and white thinking and if I made one step or had one thought in the opposite direction, I was going straight to hell. Living a black and white life is destructive and my relationship with Jesus suffered because of it. I think that the Jesus of the bible lived in a grey belief system. Thats the Jesus i think I could love now if I ever had the faith again to believe his existence was true and worthwhile. I could fall in love with a Gray Jesus. The Black and White Jesus failed me. The Gray Jesus could have restored my hope in a personal God. Black and White Jesus only presented me with despair. I could fall in love with a Grey Jesus. I could. But i've been tainted. Faith in God represents hopelessness to me.
I read this email and knew I had to meet this guy in person. If you know me, you know I act pretty quickly on things, so I contacted Aaron and met him for lunch the next day. I sat and listened to Aaron's story for almost two hours, asking a lot of questions and discovering more reasons why I wish people who "issue statements" or "take a stand" would just listen a bit more.
I found it interesting that Aaron's church enlisted him to do a video testimony that played on Easter Sunday about his freedom from homosexuality—even though he was still gay. And then he did a "cardboard testimony" stating the same thing, and then some donors in his church (as well as the church itself) spent thousands of dollars to send him to "Straight Camp" so he definitely wouldn't be gay anymore.
The problem is, it didn't work.
Nor did the nine months he spent at YWAM's discipleship training school.
Nor did any of the countless therapy sessions, psychologists, counselors, homosexual healing groups, books written by ex-gays, bondage-breaking intercessory prayer, or anything else he has tried for the last 15 years.
So, what has the church left him with? Unbelief. He can no longer believe in God because everything he has been told about God "curing" him and "fixing" him hasn't worked. All it's given him is a long list of questions about God and about himself.
I can sympathize. If I was told for years that what I was doing was wrong and the feelings I felt were wrong and that God would give me a way out, but still felt all that stuff after thousands of dollars and thousands of hours invested… yeah, I'd have trouble believing, too.
I shared Aaron's story with a friend today and she told me, "Come on, Craig. I get the idea of a 'grey God' but he has to be black and white on some things…" I wanted to mute her. She's got it all wrong.
Last month World Vision got it all wrong, first issuing a statement saying they would employ homosexuals who were either celibate or were in legal, church-sanctioned marriages. Countless vehemently angry phone calls and 10,000 cancelled child sponsorships later, they retracted the employment policy and reassured donors everyone working there would be straight.
Let me say this clearly, Christians: we don't need more statements and stances.
You know what we need? More people who are willing to see that this is not about morality or culture wars or doctrinal differences.
It's about people.
Think about the people who were welcomed to work at World Vision one day and unwelcome the next? How do they feel about Jesus now?
What about the 10,000 kids whose sponsorships were cancelled? What should we tell them about Jesus?
What about Aaron and a 15-year struggle that has left him on fragile terms with his family, as well as without a church family or God? How should he feel about Jesus?
I've said this before, but it needs to be said over and over: be quick to listen and slow to speak. Most people and companies issuing statements and talking about a definitive black and white God have never sat and listened to the people and lives on the other end of their statements. That takes a little work; you have to get out from behind your stance and sit down for a two-hour lunch with a confused kid who's been told he doesn't belong. You have to blow past the black-and-white rhetoric of the establishment and get down in the grey dirt with the outcasts.
You know. What Jesus did.
I just bought greygod.com and have no clue what to do with it or what else I will write about this but I think there is something here. Maybe it is a book or maybe it could be a blog. Not sure but thought it was worth 7 bucks. And for all you people reading this thinking I spelled grey wrong. That to is just your opinion because there are two ways to spell grey and both are right. Grey or Gray. Imagine that two different ways to spell the same word…kind of like two different ways to see the same God. Just saying.

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I just finished watching "Kill Theory", and I must admit, I actually quite enjoyed it. I'm a little surprised as well, like Tom said, it's not really anything new or special, but there is definitely something enthralling about it nonetheless.
I've seen A LOT of horror movies, and most certainly my share of slasher flicks, and it usually takes something pretty special to impress me (in fact I've been more annoyed with the modern offerings in the slasher realm than anything else, and I didn't even particularity like "Saw" past the 1st one either); but "Kill Theory" has somewhat of a raw realism that I enjoyed. I liked watching each character's unique personality change and unfold in response to their unlucky predicament… and trying to predict who would turn on who (not always an easy task I might add) made for even more gut wrenching fun!
I also found the character's reactions to the given circumstances to be quite honest and realistic. I used the word "raw" before which I think is a good way to describe it. I'm sure that anyone who watches this film won't be able to help themselves from imagining what they would do if placed in the same situation, and even though they may not admit it, will easily empathize with at least one of the characters (including the "chubby whiner" as Tom so eloquently described him above).
Now I'm not saying that this is a perfect film by any means. The script itself could have definitely used some work (though I honestly felt that the actors did a mighty fine job with what they were given to work with), the story behind the crazed killer could have been developed a bit more (I really would have liked to see more of Kevin Gage, though I wasn't completely dissatisfied with what we were given), and yes, the general aspects of the story have been done to death, so to speak. But all in all, I found this movie to be genuinely fun and exciting to watch! Not to mention often tense, with some great kill scenes!
Considering the director and screenwriter were both first-timers in their given element, I'll be really interested to see what they come up with once they each have some experience under their belts!
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Jair Fernandez looks to be the starting backstop for the Miracle in 2010, and the 23-year old is looking for a better outcome than his 2009 campaign in Fort Myers. Fernandez batted only .224 for Fort Myers last season, but is a very good defensive catcher. Daniel Rohlfing should also see some time behind the dish, and will be making a jump from short-season Elizabethton to High-A. The former 14th round selection will also be used in the outfield. Rounding out the catchers is Chris Herrmann, who is likely to see more time in the outfield.
The infield is loaded with talent, especially up the middle, as they feature prospects Andrew Thompson, Chris Cates, and Paul Kelly. Yangervis Solarte will also see some time up the middle, as he comes back from injury. Kelly and Thompson were once very highly touted prospects, and if they can stay healthy, will likely be top prospects once again. Michael Harrington and Nate Hanson will see time at first base, and Deibinson Romero should be the everyday third baseman. Romero hit only .222 for the Miracle last season, but is scouted as being a top infield prospect in the organization.
Herrmann will be a starter in the outfield for the Miracle, after batting .300 for Elizabethton last season. He is a very patient hitter, and has the ability to hit for power. Evan Bigley will be returning to the Miracle, after batting a respectable .280 after being called up mid season. Bigley has batted close to .300 for his professional career, and could be in New Britain before the year is out. Ramon Santana will be making the move from shortstop to the outfield in 2010, after a very successful 2009 season. Santana batted close to .300 for Beloit, and then was shipped to New Britain for the end of the season. Nicholas Romero will round out the position players, and Manager Jake Mauer will try to get his big bat in the lineup as much as possible.
The Minnesota Twins spent their 2010 first round pick on Kyle Gibson, and the right-hander will be the ace of the Fort Myers staff. The fireballer will lead a rotation that will also feature Mike Tarsi, Bobby Lanigan, Bruce Pugh, and Shooter Hunt, though Hunt will be used out of the bullpen to start. Lanigan is a proven starter in the Twins organization, and saw some action in the Florida State League last season. Pugh looked good in eight starts for Beloit in 2009, and Tarsi made 11 decent starts for the Miracle. Hunt is a former top pick who has struggled since turning pro. However, the Twins are still very high on him.
The bullpen will consist of Ron Mahay, Blake Martin, Henry Arias, Michael Allen, Tony Davis, Brad Tippett, and Billy Bullock. Mahay is likely to be in Fort Myers for a short time, and will be in Rochester very soon. Tippett is a big-time prospect, who has been successful in all pitching roles throughout his young career. Billy Bullock is a top prospect on many scouts boards, and was a beast in his first pro season in 2009. Blake Martin and Henry Arias are both very capable of getting people out, with Arias looking to shake off a rough year in Fort Myers last season. Michael Allen was very good in his ten appearances for the Miracle in 2009, and Tony Davis got valuable experience in New Britain last season, after being a big arm for Elizabethton.


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Troy reveals his list of issues, from disappearing superstars to the dormant power play and to defensive breakdowns, that should have received much more concern from Penguins fans during the series.
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You will find the main protagonist in the previous video, Jeremy Maxwell, starring in this video as well, and who wouldn't give up their Galaxy S3 now to be in Jeremy's shoes, who is carrying around some sort of flashlight in a box - no, I'm kidding, but the Galaxy S4 is surely what little Jeremy has been carrying around for some time already.
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MAPP, MISO & PJM: Three Regions Fight Over Wires, Prices and Profits
occurring, and PJM has not investigated whether or not such things are occurring, but the ability exists to make such things occur."
Bruce W. Radford is editor of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Taken by Surprise? The ISO collaborative that wasn't.
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"I have since learned that NSP was actively working on the development of an ITC ¼ beginning in the fall of 1997. NSP's ITC activities were kept secret. In fact, I believe NSP's representatives on the MAPP committees were taken by surprise by the company's sudden repudiation of ISOs."
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Loss Leader? Cinergy sees revenues falling as a member of Midwest ISO.
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Please describe the financial risks associated with joining an ISO.
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ANIMALS EVERYWHERE: Worland Middle School seventh graders Sean Mortimer (left) and Ben Thurston work on animal head sculptures in Kerri Barent's art class. Barent said the students first drew the animal they wanted to sculpt on a grid to get size and proportion right before beginning sculpting.
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CHEYENNE (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from a Northern Arapaho man who faces a criminal charge for killing a bald eagle without a permit.
Winslow Friday has acknowledged that he shot and killed a bald eagle on the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming for use in his tribe's 2005 Sun Dance.
The court ruling means that Friday will face a misdemeanor charge in federal court in Wyoming. He could face up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine if convicted.
The court's ruling is the latest turn in a long-running legal dispute over the rights of American Indians to kill eagles for religious purposes.
John Carlson, a federal public defender in Denver, represented Friday in the Supreme Court appeal. He said that both he and Friday are disappointed by the court's decision.
"A single bald eagle is taken for the Northern Arapaho Sun Dance, which has been held since time immemorial, and it results in criminal sanctions," Carlson said. "But bald eagles get electrocuted on electric utility lines in Wyoming and elsewhere, and little or nothing happens."
The bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened species in 2007, following its reclassification in 1995 from endangered to threatened. However, the species is still protected under the federal Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
U.S. District Judge William F. Downes in 2006 threw out the charge against Friday. The judge ruled it would have been pointless for Friday to apply for a permit to kill the eagle because of the federal government's "callous indifference" to the religious concerns of American Indians.
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The U.S. Solicitor General's Office argued against Friday's request to have the Supreme Court review his case. Attempts to reach lawyers and others there for comment on Monday were unsuccessful.
Carlson said he had warned Friday that the Supreme Court wouldn't take his case, but said that didn't make the decision any less disappointing.
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CHEYENNE (AP) — Samantha Johnson hasn't always been Samantha Johnson.
Johnson said she changed her identity eight years ago to protect herself and her son after decades of abuse and stalking by her stepfather and mother. It was a radical choice — she abandoned every public facet of who she is, including her teaching career — but Johnson said she hasn't regretted the decision.
"I don't live in fear anymore. I actually trust people," said Johnson, who changed her name in Colorado.
Johnson was lobbying hard for a bill that would have put Wyoming among a handful of states that offer the strictest protections for domestic violence victims who change their identities to purge abusers from their lives. After passing the House, the measure died Monday in the Senate, 20-9.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. banks have taken another step to clear away the wreckage of the 2008 financial crisis by agreeing to pay $8.5 billion to settle charges that they wrongfully foreclosed on millions of homeowners.
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NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. drivers are hoping 2013 doesn't start off like 2012 at the gas pump. So far, so good.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Cameras that can record in 3-D are usually pretty complicated, sporting two lenses instead of one, to mimic human binocular vision. Samsung says it has a more elegant solution: a single lens that can go from 2-D to 3-D mode with the flip of a switch.
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What Kind of Dinosaur Would You Be?
Jul 12 2012
Dinosaurs were some bad motherfuckers back in the day. They had sharp teeth, ate each other, and could grow bigger than the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. If it wasn't for that big ass asteroid that hit Earth a long time ago, they would still be around today making the water in cups ripple and turning Newman from Seinfeld into Sunday brunch.
Anybody with half a brain recognizes how cool these creatures were when they had their turn at the top of the food chain, the real conundrum is which kind of dinosaur was the best. Like, would it be better to be a gigantic t. rex or a nimble velociraptor? A flying pterodactyl or a spiky stegosaurus? We hit the streets of New York to find out.
Tommy, works at Nordstrom
Tommy: Actually, I just went to the new Dinosaurs Park in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Was it like Jurassic Park?
Yeah, you should go. They have fake dinosaurs, big electronic ones that move, and it's a really fun experience.
Which was your favorite?
The t. rex is awesome. They have great personalities and could kick your ass.
Jim, professor at NYU
Jim: I am not a dinosaur fancier. I know a lot of kids that can say all of the names perfectly and are utterly captivated, but I would have to say that I am not a part of that culture.
What if you could be a dinosaur?
I wouldn't want to be. To me, the whole culture of the dinosaurs, all that dinosaurs represent, is something that properly came and went. It's not something that interests me. I'm just happy sitting on this bench.
Judy, student
Judy: Um, the t. rex?
Because it's the biggest.
Is that the only dinosaur you know?
Henny, being an awesome kid who wears Gogol Bordello t-shirts
Henny: The swamp dinosaur.
Because it lives in the swamp in the deep dark night.
Do you want to live in a swamp?
Matty, visual merchandiser
Matty: The triceratops, because it comes with three horns.
As opposed to?
A di-ceratops or a uni-ceratops.
I didn't know those existed.
I don't know either, but three is the best.
Is three your lucky number?
Moses, being a decent human being
Moses: I guess representative democracy, because it's totally outdated and reeks havoc across the entire planet.
That's your favorite dinosaur?
I consider it a dinosaur, though it's not extinct.
Oh, was that like a political joke? It wasn't funny. Really, what's your favorite dinosaur?
Do you remember what kind Little Foot was? The one with the long neck who ate a lot of leafy greens?
I think he was a brontosaurus.
I'm into that.
Is it because you're a vegetarian?
Yea, I don't eat animals.
So you don't eat dinosaurs?
You're missing out.
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Short Cervix and Preterm Laborby Bradley G. Goldberg, M.D.
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My doctor told me that I have a short cervix and that there is a possibility for me to have a premature baby. I am only 19 weeks and this is very frightening for me if there is any advice you can give me please do so.
A Until recently the only way to determine if a woman was at risk for premature labor was for the doctor to manually check her cervix. Currently, many obstetricians now use ultrasound to more precisely measure the length of a pregnant woman's cervix. Not all women need this cervical length ultrasound study, just those who are felt to be at high risk for premature labor.
The data from these ultrasound studies is still growing, and we are constantly trying to decide the best ways to both monitor and treat this condition. We do however, have a good idea as to what length a pregnant woman's cervix should be by these ultrasound measurements. When the cervix shortens significantly from these normal values, treatment can be considered but it is highly individualized.
Newer tests, such as the "fetal fibronectin" test are also sometimes used to augment the predictive value of these ultrasound measurements, but these tests also are new and not yet available in all locations.
Possible treatments for a shortening cervix depend upon how far along in the pregnancy a woman is. These treatments include placing a "cerclage" or stitch in the cervix to help prevent further dilitation. Also, use of 'tocolytics" which are medications to decrease contractions are sometimes used; and for pregnancies between 24 - 34 weeks, administration of steroids to aid in the development of the baby's lungs can also be considered.
In my opinion, some of the greatest advances in modern medicine have been in the fields of Obstetrics and Neonatology. We have significantly reduced the risk of maternal mortality (which is the risk of a mother dying in childbirth), and our ability to successfully care for premature infants improves every year. Unfortunately, there are still many questions to be answered as to what causes premature labor and what we can do to prevent it. For now, your best course of action is close monitoring with your Obstetrician, and possible consultation with a perinatologist which is a doctor who specializes in these high-risk pregnancies.
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Hi i am 33 weeks but had ultrasound at 30 weeks and results said my cervix was short but didn't find out until my doctor appointment just this week st 32 weeks and the doctor told me they need another ultrasound to check my cervix and i might need a steroid shot and stop work. i told him i have been experiencing lower back pain tail bone sore. i have also been feeling like swollen down there and stuff but they tried making an appointment for another ultrasound. but place booked so nurse told me to call if no one contacted me in regards to the appointment to check. that was 3 days ago i keep trying to call the doctor but it's either closed or i get answer machine so should i just go to hospital myself and see what is going on? or just keep trying to get a hold of doctor?
I justhad my ultrasound done today and was told that my cervix is short and that it can cause premature labour. i hae been bleeding and having belly pain. im only 19 weeks pregnant and so scared for my baby boy :(((
I was told around 20 w that my cervix is short( 13mm) and might go in early labour. i did indeed had my girl at 27 w, my question is why if they knew i had 4 miscarriages before did not check my cervix to have any treatment ??? they are spending so much money to care for preterm babies, my opinion is that they have to try to do proper checks before pregnancies. i went to a recurrent clinic, but the procedures are so limited , no checking of my cervix was done, i believe it could have been prevented. and i am not the only one!!! i am sure many women have to go through the trauma of having a preterm baby, not saying nothing about what these babies are going trough , they are crying, a lot, no one can say what they feel, all the stress. i am trying to say that, as with everything is better to prevent than to treat!!!
My first ultrasound showed that my cervix is only 2.5,by the week 20 of my pragnancy it came down to 0.8cm i was addmited to hospital and had my stich done. by week 35 my stich couldn't hold any longer, and my dr told me that i should rest and take it day by day . week 37 had my baby girl, healthy,3.4kg she is almost two years old today. good luck with u pragnancy and i hope everything goes well for u.
Hi ladies,, am going tru the samething i am currently 25 weeks and had just went for a cervix routine check up and was told my cervix was shorter than the last time i went so the doc decided to send me to labor n delivery and get the steroid injection to help baby lungs develop faster just in case i deliver i am scared because i had my 2 previous kid at 34 and 31 week .. but i knoe god is there with us n will guide us :) we just leave it in his hands..
I found out a while ago about my shortened cervix an been having pains shoot threw my beelly into my legs for some reason my doc said its normal along with the spotting ive been having im also breech so i guess that dont help anything either im 33 weeks an 4 days an i just feel harable what should i do.....
I am 33 weeks tomorrow and i have been having contractions for 9 days now. at 31 weeks my baby weighed 5 lbs 9 ozs and they were asking if i had gd which i dont but im concerned about the contractions so i went to the hospital and the said my cervix had shortened and that i was having more contractions then i should be. im not dilated and my water hasnt broken but they are getting worse. what should i do?
I am 33 weeks tomorrow and i have been having contractions for 9 days now. i went to the hospital and the said my cervix had shortened and that i was having more contractions then i should be. im not dilated and my water hasnt broken but they are getting worse. what should i do?
I'm 20 weeks. i was called in to my dr.'s office last week after my ultrasound results came back, showing my cervix had shrank down to 1cm. i was referred to a specialists at north austin medical (st.david's) and within 2 hours my iv && medications were in. i was really worried why this was happening. my dr didn't even understand why because i had never had children before. anyways, long story short.. lol i went to the hospital tuesday afternoon, had my cerclage at 5pm wed. && was able to go home the next afternoon. i have to say i was really scared that they were going to put me under lol but a simple spinal was all that was needed. i'm still on bed rest till 28 weeks, then we'll see how things are going. i'm also going to transfer to the hospital the specialist is at because it is amaaaazing! && everyone there is very nice && care for you well. good luck to everyone else on bed rest! we will get through these boring times! lol && it will all be worth it when our beautiful healthy babies arrive!
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Logan: As a rule I like to start every school day with a hot blonde waiting for me in the parking lot.
Veronica: Me too!
Logan: I'm not blonde!
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[In this technical piece, Introversion's Knottenbelt discusses the 'discrete event simulation' approach to multiplayer in the upcoming Darwinia+ for Xbox Live Arcade, in which player movements and button presses are sent over the network, instead of actual positions of the thousands of in-game objects ]
Not many people know this but Introversion's IGF award-winning title Darwinia was released incomplete: Darwinia was originally conceived as a multiplayer game.
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Yes, this is pretty much how all RTS games work. This is known as a deterministic / lockstep simulation.
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Interesting article, I do believe this is what other RTS games do as well but it's still a very good explaination of how the system works. I'm curious what strategies you used to ensure validity of the game data and synchronization between clients.
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I'm also curious since I've never tried to implement this. If you are just recording the order of these, but not the time, won't that affect the outcome? For example, Player A could have given a command at a certain time and then that event is recorded and simulated on other clients, the results of that command might be time sensitive (e.g. - changing velocity while moving puts you at a different spot depending on when you changed velocity). For the movement command you give as an example, you give the source and dest locations, so make it independent of time in a sense. Is that your method for all the commands?
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I used a similar lockstep simulation method for multiplayer in node-def (http://www.node-def.com). I've found that the main challenges with this method, apart from the floating-point computation issues is ensuring that your game logic is fully deterministic. For example, at one point I had some of the pointers to in-game entites stored in a hash map. The problem was that since the pointer's numeric values would be different on another computer, the order of the pointers in the hash map would vary from instance to instance. This led to rare and subtle bugs where a certain target would be attacked in one instance, because it was at the top of the hash map, and wouldn't get attacked in another instance, because it occupied a different position in the map.
Another disadvantage of lockstep simulation is that input on the client will always be subject to a delay before the client perceives the results. This is because the client has to ask the server for permission to execute any game-changing command. For example, if you issued a move command in an RTS as a client, and the round-trip latency was on the order of 500 ms, you would experience a substantial delay between clicking and seeing your troops move. Of course, the effect of this can be mitigated with good a good UI design, for example, giving immediate and obvious feedback that the troops will in fact move by placing a visual effect at the move destination.
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Trying to get floats to behave identically across different platforms sounds terrifying; is this something that you have working (i.e for Multiwinia/PC)?! Seems like a great solution for the XBLA version though since you know everyone's on identical hardware.
|Alex Champandard
You should definitely write another article about the process of making the simulation deterministic -- as you mentioned in the disadvantages. That's the key challenge here! :-)
|William Meehan
@raigan burns: I might be wrong on this, but I believe consoles only guarantee hardware consistency to a point. I mean, they will have the same system architecture, but I'm pretty sure you can get differences in performance on consoles. I'm not just talking about differences between a PS3 and a PS3 Lite. I was under the impression that as time goes on, and they refine the manufacturing processes, there may be subtle hardware differences between an original PS3 and one made Recently.
@Alex Champandard: I agree, I would love to learn more about making the simulation consistent/deterministic.
|filip sound
One thing seems to be obvious to me: The simulation must not use any random numbers (if they are not spread at some point). I'd love to know more details too.
|Adam Prall
@RJ Martin: What's recorded is the sequence, not the exact time, which is about the best you can do in a multi-machine environment. Since all clients are "locked" onto the same "step" in the simulation, it doesn't matter what exact time every command occurred in, just at which step and in which order the server received it in. And at 100Hz, you're not likely to notice little errors, mostly just the huge latency errors. Also, you can accommodate latency by actually recording and sending/synchronizing timestamps, making that a transaction that occurs solely between the player sending the event and the gameserver.
@Alex Champandard: yeah this article definitely calls for this and would lead very naturally for a part II, especially addressing @filip sound's very relevant concern about creating deterministic random numbers I use my own generator instead of the native rand calls because it's the only way to work with random data (because of course the actual, physical universe isn't really random, it just looks that way).


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