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|Extension Corner
|Written by Tracy Trumper
School is out— but, routine is still IN
Kids never thought they would make it to summer, and parents were thinking the same—maybe.
As a parent, you are relieved to not have the morning rush to get breakfast, dress appropriately for the day, make sure everyone has their school materials, prepare that favorite lunch, do hair, brush teeth—so on and so on.
Even though parents and children are ready for a break from the school rush, the routines many parents create during the school year are very important for a child's development, health and mental well-being. Creating a family summer routine will continue to foster the benefits that routines have for children and adolescents.
Daily routines are a way of teaching younger children healthy habits, like brushing their teeth and washing their hands before a meal. Children and young people tend to feel safer when they live in an organized and predictable environment. Having a routine of house chores helps children and adolescents develop a sense of responsibility.
Time management and basic work skills are instilled as a result of routines in the home. In adolescence, regular home routines help children "feel looked after" and can relieve the stress of changes they are experiencing.
"Routines have health benefits, too. Children in families with regular routines have fewer respiratory infections than those in routine-free homes." This is probably due to the healthy habits children have learned.
In addition, our body clocks are set by daily routines. Staying with a bedtime routine helps young people's bodies know when to sleep. Sleep is essential for maintaining a healthy body, brain function, maintaining the immune system and for improving energy levels, learning and concentration.
Children, ages 12-15, need an average of 9 1/4 hours of sleep each night to function at their best. Studies have shown that 90 percent of children do not get the recommended amount of sleep on most school nights. Another recent study of over 15,000 students found that those who went to bed after midnight had a 24 percent higher risk of depression, compared to those who went to bed before 10 p.m.
The study also found that adolescents who slept five hours or less were 71 percent more likely to suffer depression. In addition, if kids are tired they are not going to be as active. Making activity part of normal day activity is going to prepare them into adulthood to prevent weight gain and other debilitating diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
So, disease prevention and good mental health is not just a nine-month project for our children when they are in school. Continue to have children rise about the same time in the morning and go to bed around the same time. This will keep their body clock on track, allowing them to be less moody, have less behavioral issues and allow them to enjoy more summer activities.
In adolescents and teens, this may mean monitoring their computer time, phone time and electronic game time—especially in the middle of the night. Maybe have a daily schedule written down with time for play, reading, watching TV and working or chores.
Older children can be asked to be a part of scheduling. This will allow them to see that there are expectations or guidelines for their day, but that they have some autonomy and responsibility as well.
Remember to be a part of your child's routine. "Routines built around fun or spending time together strengthen relationships between parents and younger children." This time will then continue to support those relationships later in the adolescent and teen years.
Here is a list of routines for all ages to share in:
—preparing and eating meals together.
—physical activity—walking the dog, going for a bike ride.
—family days (family activities).
—family DVD nights.
—family meetings.
—taking turns talking about the day.
—special one-to-one time with a parent.
—regular contact with extended family and friends.
—family chore time.
—saying prayers or observing religious events.
—hobbies or sport.
"Some routine is helpful for all families. It helps you get through the things that need to be done in each day and can also build your family bonds. A good routine caters for the needs of all family members."
"Family Routines," Raising Children Network, http://rais ingchildren.net.au.
"Children's Health," www.mayoclinic.com/health/childsleep.
Holyoke Enterprise May 30, 2013


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Change of course
Tom Fazio has designed roughly 200 golf courses 18 in North Carolina during his nearly 50 years as an architect, including almost a fifth of those listed on Golf Digests Americas 100 Greatest Courses for 2011-12. Still, Fazio Golf Course Designers Inc., which has eight employees at its office in Hendersonville, where he lives, and five more at its headquarters in Jupiter, Fla., wasnt immune to the economic downturn. Once committed almost exclusively to working on courses in the U.S., hes had to traverse the globe to find gigs. He talks to Business North Carolina Senior Editor Spencer Campbell about the change, the state of the Tar Heel golf industry and Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton.
How did you, a native of the Philadelphia area, come to live in western North Carolina?
No other reason than my wife said we were going to live there. In 1981, when I was planning Wade Hampton Golf Club in Cashiers and my family was living in Florida, we decided to buy a summer home in Hendersonville. After a couple of summers, my wife, who had just had her sixth child, decided that she wanted to live in western North Carolina full time.
Why do you think your courses are so well-received?
I dont know. I ask people why, and the common answer seems to be that theyre fun. I agree, but Id rather have someone else say it.
But every designer has a distinctive style, such as Donald Ross and his turtle-back greens. Whats yours?
I dont agree with that at all. I purposely dont have a style. If you look at Forest Creek, Pinehurst Nos. 4, 6 and 8, all designed by me, theyre completely different. I do want people to have a good time. If someone asked me to build the most difficult course in North Carolina, the first thing Id do is try and talk them out of it. The second thing I would do is pass.
Whats distinctive about golf in North Carolina?
The environment. From the Outer Banks to the mountains and the Sandhills to the rolling hills of our Virginia border, theres so much variety, uniqueness and beauty.
The courses may be great, but the shape of the industry isnt.
Whats going on here parallels whats going on nationally. There was such a boom in the 1990s and early 2000s, so we have an oversupply of golf courses. Its certainly not good for people in the industry, but Im a positive person. At least its good for the consumer because prices are down.
How have you adapted?
The work now is offshore in China, Brazil and other places around the world. I was never a world guy, but now we have the opportunity to go overseas and take the Fazio brand, which is obviously highly regarded, to places weve never been before. I have a son whos now in charge of the day-to-day operations of my firm. Hes the guy who takes those international flights.
Has revenue fallen?
Not much because were overseas. But expenses are higher, too, traveling. Thats part of the program. Were not as busy as many, and we have fewer staff, but were working. With an oversupply of courses and lack of new building, it seems designers would suffer more than many in the industry. You get nervous because you dont see much discussion about golf-course architecture or new projects right now because there arent any.
Will it stay that way?
Yes. Its a business cycle, so we have to get rid of the excess inventory. Right now, you dont need to build a new course to take care of the demand for new people, because the existing facilities arent filled. If the game itself isnt growing, supplys the only thing that can keep prices in line. Its not just about golf. You look at Washington, the economy, the housing market and the banking industry there are a lot of things to be fixed.
How did you get started?
With my uncle George Fazio, who won twice on the PGA Tour in the 1940s. He had the name that opened the doors and got us the jobs. Later, our recognition came from products that we had built. Now, the Fazio name is considered one of the tops in the world. Thats just the way it evolves.
Does it bother you when PGA Tour players with little design experience get big-money design jobs?
If you were to check out whos doing golf courses around the world, youd find most of them are celebrities. When the business was big 300 or 400 courses being built in the U.S. each year course design became a great business model. Jack Nicklaus started that about 40 years ago, so people followed the leader. You name them Tom Watson, Jerry Pate, Phil Mickelson, Greg Norman, Mark McCumber theyve been in the design business.
Does it upset you to see Tiger Woods get a reported $10 million to design the Cliffs at High Carolina, only a few miles from where you live?
No. Tiger Woods brand is one of the biggest in the world. Thats just the way it is. Ive been fortunate to have plenty of work, and the phone keeps ringing. But for younger people without name recognition, its harder to break in now. Its harder to find a job.
Youre approaching 70. Any chance of slowing down?
Even though Im 67, I feel young, act young. Im not even going to die old; Im going to die young. Thats my plan. I went to a Baltimore Ravens playoff game in January and visited with [Carolina Panthers quarterback] Cam Newton. Hes a really sharp guy. Thats the kind of people I like hanging around.
Do you have a favorite North Carolina course?
Of course not. I get asked that all the time, but if youve ever been to Wade Hampton Golf Club and Mountaintop Lake and Golf Club in Cashiers, Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte or Brights Creek in Mill Spring theyre all so beautiful, how could you pick one over another?
View a full list of North Carolina's top 100 golf courses and best courses by region here.


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Did you know that you can tell the temperature by counting the chirps of a cricket? It's true! Here's the formula:
To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of chirps in 14 seconds then add 40 to get temperature.
Example: 30 chirps + 40 = 70° F
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Example: 48 chirps /(divided by) 3 + 4 = 20° C
On our kids' Web site in the summers, you can hear a cricket chirp change speed depending on the temperature you choose. Listen here.


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The Heliospheric Imagers Onboard the STEREO Mission
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Mounted on the sides of two widely separated spacecraft, the two Heliospheric Imager (HI) instruments onboard NASA's STEREO mission view, for the first time, the space between the Sun and Earth. These ... [more ▼]
Mounted on the sides of two widely separated spacecraft, the two Heliospheric Imager (HI) instruments onboard NASA's STEREO mission view, for the first time, the space between the Sun and Earth. These instruments are wide-angle visible-light imagers that incorporate sufficient baffling to eliminate scattered light to the extent that the passage of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) through the heliosphere can be detected. Each HI instrument comprises two cameras, HI-1 and HI-2, which have 20° and 70° fields of view and are off-pointed from the Sun direction by 14.0° and 53.7°, respectively, with their optical axes aligned in the ecliptic plane. This arrangement provides coverage over solar elongation angles from 4.0° to 88.7° at the viewpoints of the two spacecraft, thereby allowing the observation of Earth-directed CMEs along the Sun -- Earth line to the vicinity of the Earth and beyond. Given the two separated platforms, this also presents the first opportunity to view the structure and evolution of CMEs in three dimensions. The STEREO spacecraft were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in late October 2006, and the HI instruments have been performing scientific observations since early 2007. The design, development, manufacture, and calibration of these unique instruments are reviewed in this paper. Mission operations, including the initial commissioning phase and the science operations phase, are described. Data processing and analysis procedures are briefly discussed, and ground-test results and in-orbit observations are used to demonstrate that the performance of the instruments meets the original scientific requirements. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 166 (22 ULg)
Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI)
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The Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) is a five telescope package, which has been developed for the Solar Terrestrial Relation Observatory (STEREO) mission by the Naval ... [more ▼]
The Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) is a five telescope package, which has been developed for the Solar Terrestrial Relation Observatory (STEREO) mission by the Naval Research Laboratory (USA), the Lockheed Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (USA), the Goddard Space Flight Center (USA), the University of Birmingham (UK), the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Germany), the Centre Spatiale de Leige (Belgium), the Institut d'Optique (France) and the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (France). SECCHI comprises five telescopes, which together image the solar corona from the solar disk to beyond 1 AU. These telescopes are: an extreme ultraviolet imager (EUVI: 1 1.7 R[SUB]o[/SUB]), two traditional Lyot coronagraphs (COR1: 1.5 4 R[SUB]o[/SUB] and COR2: 2.5 15 R[SUB]o[/SUB]) and two new designs of heliospheric imagers (HI-1: 15 84 R[SUB]o[/SUB] and HI-2: 66 318 R[SUB]o[/SUB]). All the instruments use 2048×2048 pixel CCD arrays in a backside-in mode. The EUVI backside surface has been specially processed for EUV sensitivity, while the others have an anti-reflection coating applied. A multi-tasking operating system, running on a PowerPC CPU, receives commands from the spacecraft, controls the instrument operations, acquires the images and compresses them for downlink through the main science channel (at compression factors typically up to 20×) and also through a low bandwidth channel to be used for space weather forecasting (at compression factors up to 200×). An image compression factor of about 10× enable the collection of images at the rate of about one every 2 3 minutes. Identical instruments, except for different sizes of occulters, are included on the STEREO-A and STEREO-B spacecraft. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 69 (11 ULg)


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WXIA -- The 11Alive Help Desk wants you to know about registration for free heart screenings for Gwinnett County students.
Simon's Fund, a Philadelphia nonprofit organization, is bringing awareness of cardiac arrest and heart failures to the children of Gwinnett. The organization will provide free heart screenings for Gwinnett county middle school and high school students.
The screenings will take place on April 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Cardiovascular Group in Lawrenceville. Doctors from the practice will conduct a 30-40 minute screening consisting of a physical, an echocardiogram and an electrocardiogram.
If necessary, doctors will refer the student to a cardiologist.
Presently, there are 300 spots available for registration. Those interested can register at simonsfund.org.