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Public Notice
County: Franklin County
Applicant: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC)
Bureau of Recreation
P.O. Box 296
Ray Brook, NY, 12977
Contact: Doug Fitzgerald
Address: NYS DEC - Region 5
P.O. Box 296
1115 State Route 86
Ray Brook, NY 12977-0296
Phone: (518) 897-1310
Project Location: Fish Creek Pond Public Campground, Town of Santa Clara, New York
Project Description: Removal of 23 trees in order to place bio-engineered shoreline erosion controls. Tops and stems will be chipped and dispersed on site.
Adirondack Park Agency Completed Applications
County: Franklin
Applicant: William Keneaster
Office: Adirondack Park Agency (APA)
P.O. Box 99, Route 86
Ray Brook, NY 12977
Phone: (518) 891-4050, ext. 207
APA Contact: Colleen C. Parker
Project Number: 2007-248
Project Title: William Keneaster
Location: On or near Red Fox Road in the Town of Bellmont, New York.
For Adirondack Park Agency: Comment Period Ends: July 2, 2009
Project Description: The action involves construction of a dock at the shoreline of Indian Lake. The dock will be approximately 32 feet in length, and the end of the dock will be located approximately 30 feet from the navigational buoys marking the Indian Lake channel. The first 8 feet length of the dock - extending from above the mean high water mark and crossing wetlands along the shoreline - will be 4 feet wide, and the remaining 24 feet of dock length will be 8 feet wide. The dock will be raised 18-24 inches above the surface of the water and will be supported by 5 inch pipe on foot square, ¼ inch plates resting on the lake bottom. This dock proposal amends and replaces the applicant's original proposal to construct a boathouse. The Boathouse is no longer proposed and instead only a dock will now be constructed.
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Hamilton County - The Town of Bombay, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Salt and Salted Sand Storage Building will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves the construction of a 70 foot by 100 foot building to enclose stockpiles of Salt and Salted Sand used in the maintenance of local and County Highways. The primary purpose is to prevent groundwater and surface water pollution. The project is located at 379 Landry Road in the Town of Bombay, New York.
Contact: John Carr, 2328 NYS Route 11B, Bangor, NY 12966, Phone: (518) 481-6543, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hamilton County - The Town of Inlet, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Wastewater Collection and Treatment Facilities Project will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves the formation of a new sewer district. The new sewer district would include a new wastewater treatment facility that would have outfall to Fourth Lake. The new collection system will consist of 3,800 linear feet of PVC gravity pipe, 4,800 linear feet of PVC forced main, 2,700 linear feet of service laterals and 3 pump stations. The project is located throughout the Hamlet of Inlet in the Town of Inlet, New York.
Contact: John Frey, Town of Inlet, P.O. Box 179, Town of Inlet, NY 13360, Phone: (315) 357-5771.
Saratoga County - The City of Saratoga Springs Planning Board, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Wagner Subdivision will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves a 6 lot subdivision for single family residences. The project is located at 7 Joshua Street in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Contact: Jaclyn Hakes, City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga Springs City Hall, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, Phone: (518) 587-3550.


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Chris Thile and Nickel Creek (#401)
Three young bluegrass musicians known for musicianship, vocal harmonies, and innovation.
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With a track record that includes more than a decade as a band, two Grammy nominations, and a listing by Time magazine as one of five Music Innovators for the Millennium, Nickel Creek is well on its way toward establishing itself as a respected veteran group. Yet at the time of this performance, from the 1998 Kentucky Folk Festival in Bardstown, two members of the band were still in their teens and the other was in his early 20s.
Nickel Creeks unique brand of contemporary acoustic bluegrass has been dubbed youthgrass. The group was originally conceived of as a pure bluegrass band, but members Chris Thile, Sean Watkins, and Sara Watkins agree that their sound has turned out to be a conglomeration of everything we listen to. Chris further explains, Its like having paintbrushes in all different sizes and shapes. Each brush paints color in a different way. What were trying to do is grab a really interesting brush and then blend all the various colors of all the genres of music we love.
This Jubilee performance, which includes Chris on mandolin; his father, Scott Thile, on upright bass; Sara on fiddle; and Sean on guitar and mandolin, shows off the bands phenomenal musicianship and songwriting abilities.


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Thursday, July 24, 2008
JEAN: Beach Cleanup Here In Japan
Ever wanted to join a NGO or thought about doing something for the environment? Local volunteers are making a huge effort to get people to join beach cleanup campaigns along Japan's long coastline. Japan Environmental Action Network (JEAN) was founded by three Japanese women who wanted to do something about the trash they found on their trips to the ocean, and held its first cleanup event in September 1990.
JEAN's beach cleanup campaign is making waves not only in Japan. 40,000 volunteers helped to pick up trash here last year, carefully writing down each item as part of the international Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup campaign.
JEAN has a nice motto: "Think Globally, Clean Locally".
More details over at Treehugger.
(Image from Okinawa: Takakuku)
(Graph from Ocean Conservancy 2006 Report pdf)
Written by Martin J Frid at Thursday, July 24, 2008
3 comments:
- tornadoes28 said...
That sounds like a good organization. The problem here in Los Angeles is the trash and other waste people throw out on the street washes out to the ocean.
- 11:15 p.m., July 24, 2008
- Martin J Frid said...
Thanks for the comment!! This is one issue where we are all much more near each other than we normally think.
BTW seems there is a lot of action in the Long Beach area, have you heard of them?
- 11:27 p.m., July 24, 2008
- Pandabonium said...
It is disturbing that such a large share of the problem is caused by people who are enjoying the very ocean they pollute.
Wouldn't it be easier to use regulations on producers to reduce the waste being created rather than trying to solve the problem at the disposal end? Sort of nip it in the bud.
- 12:28 p.m., July 30, 2008
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By Greg GelpiFocused on students, teaching and the classroom, she didn't even realize what she was honored for. Jill Stillions of Riverdale Elementary School was one of five Southern Crescent teachers named teachers of the year by Wal-Mart. Four Clayton County teachers and one teacher from Henry county were are among a group selected as Wal-Mart Teachers of the Year. Stillions, Kimberly Gore of Mundy's Mill High School, Kathy Baker of Morrow High School, Denise Pope of Brown Elementary School and Tammy Milner of Mount Carmel Elementary School will be recognized during a breakfast with Gov. Sonny Perdue Tuesday, National Teacher's Day. In the metro Atlanta area, 53 teachers were recognized as Teachers of the Year. In her 24th year teaching, 22 years of which were at Riverdale Elementary, Stillions works as the school's literacy coach, moving between classes demonstrating new education models for other teachers as part of a school improvement program. "I didn't know I wanted to go into teaching, but I have always worked with children," Stillions said. Standing in front of a kindergarten class, she read an Eric Carle book to the students, part of the author study that she is incorporating into the classroom. Turning reading to the student into an interactive program, the Riverdale Elementary kindergartners demonstrated their ability to read and write. "When you say kindergarten, they can't do that," Stillions said. "You just saw them." She encourages the students to find connections between the books they read in class and their lives, she said. In creating an environment for the children to learn, they will learn, Stillions said. It is more about getting them to learn than it is about teaching them. The Wal-Mart/SAM'S CLUB Foundation will donate $1,000 educational grants to each teacher as well as an honorary Wal-Mart greeter's vest. The foundation is giving $136,000 in educational grants in Georgia and $4.3 million throughout the country. Baker has already started plans for her educational grant. She said she will give $500 of the grant to Morrow High's drama program and the other $500 to the school's general fund. The teachers were nominated by members of the community in February and chosen by a committee of store employees. "We are proud to help raise awareness for excellence in education and to salute teachers, who play such an important role in growing and shaping young people," said Betsy Reithemeyer, vice president and director of the Wal-Mart/SAM'S CLUB Foundation. The teachers have the opportunity to apply for the state competition for Teacher of the Year. The winners at the state level will automatically be entered into the national competition and the chance for a $25,000 educational grant.
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John Campbell's Back, And We Unfortunately Know Why He Left
Categories: Politics
|You now know too much about this man.
But Campbell updated constituents in an email blast today, saying he's recovering nicely and is ready to get back to work obstructing our new president. See if you can spot the reason why, perhaps, there's been relatively little talk in the media about our local representative's medical problems (emphasis mine):
The surgery went very well (they took out 18" of my colon) and my recovery is on schedule. Statistics at the Mayo Clinic (where the procedure was done) say that 98% of people who go through this surgery never experience diverticulitis again. I hope I am not in the other 2%. Besides, if I were, Obama would raise my taxes more!
Well, thanks, John! Not only do we have a better sense for your dadaist humor and avuncular tone, we also know about your colon! Props to him for being upfront with his constituents about why he hasn't been on Capitol Hill lately, but he maybe should have included a warning about Google Image Searching his condition -- diverticulitis -- and a note about how all those little would-be-congressmen should be sure to eat plenty of fiber if they don't want to end up like him.
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Penguins notebook: Martin out for Wednesday night's game with Toronto
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Paul Martin was on the ice when Sidney Crosby scored a late tying goal at Boston on Monday night.
He will not take the ice when the Penguins play the Toronto Maple Leafs at Consol Energy Center on Wednesday night.
"He will be out, and we'll have a further update on him in the next couple of days," coach Dan Bylsma said of Martin, who is described as having a lower-body injury.
Martin is 11th among NHL defensemen, averaging 25 minutes and 16 seconds of ice time. He had assumed a role on the Penguins' top power-play unit and plays regularly with Brooks Orpik on the shutdown defense pairing. Defenseman Kris Letang is expected to replace Martin on the power play.
Bylsma noted that Orpik and Deryk Engelland have played together when the Pens face more physical opponents, such as Boston. However, he also suggested a familiar tandem could reunite.
"We've seen Brooks and Kris together as a matchup pair … and that's probably one we'll see together again if it is a significant amount of time (for Martin's absence)."
Broken Glass
Winger Tanner Glass is out 3-4 weeks because of a broken bone in his left hand, Bylsma said.
The injury did not require surgery, and Glass is expected to be placed in a cast this week. He is at least 10 days from gaining clearance to practice.
Glass was injured in a loss at Montreal on Saturday when his hand was hit by a puck off the stick of defenseman P.K. Subban.
Day off
Crosby did not practice Tuesday, but Bylsma said he was one of a few players taking "maintenance days." Only 14 players practiced, though that group included veterans such as Letang, center Evgeni Malkin and wingers Chris Kunitz, Pascal Dupuis and James Neal.
Praise for Kessel
Bylsma suggested Maple Leafs right winger Phil Kessel will play a pivotal role for Team USA at the upcoming Winter Olympics.
Kessel played on the 2010 silver-medal team.
"Phil has added to his game in the last four or five years of his career — more detail, more structure," Bylsma said. "He's got electric speed, and his shot is dynamic. It's in the James Neal category as a real weapon.
"In terms of the U.S. team, there are two or three players that have that kind of skill and ability to score and break a game open. He's at the top of the list with that."
Around the boards
Forward Brian Gibbons was re-assigned to AHL affiliate Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He scored a goal and recorded a point in five games with the Penguins.
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The Julian Assange Biography The Most Dangerous Man in the World (April 2011) by Andrew Fowler. "The thrilling, definitive account of WikiLeaks and the man who is as secretive as the organisations he targets"
The Julian Assange Biography: The Most Dangerous Man in the World is written by Andrew Fowler and published by Melbourne University Press. Fowler, an Australian writer with many awards under his literary belt details the twists and turns of Julian Assange's life from his early childhood in Australia to his youth "Hacktivism" to his ultimate founding of the game-changing organization Wikileaks. The Julian Assange Biography is quite the read!
Also Read: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Books and Autobiography
In fact, Hollywood movie studios are anticipating an excellent perspective and story to emerge from this book by Fowler. So much so that the rights to the Julian Assange Biography The Most Dangerous Man in the World have been sold to Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm for their Wikileaks Movie.
If you are interested in learning more about Andrew Fowler and his experience with Wikileaks and Julian Assange the team at ABC posted their interview with Fowler.
In late 2010, we learned that Julian Assange, out of economic necessity, will soon release his autobiographical memoirs. However there are reports of delay as the months drag on into 2011. These memoirs are reported to have brought Assange over a million dollars, monies which are desperately needed to keep the mission and vision of Wikileaks alive and kicking.
In the very near future there will be enough biographies, memoirs. films and movies about Julian Assange and Wikileaks to fill a small study (or Lady Gaga CD). But this Julian Assange Biography will be certainly be one for the history books…as well as the Wikileaks Movie.
Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist and a contributing reporter for the ABC's Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs. He has been chief of staff and acting foreign editor of The Australian newspaper and a reporter with SBS Dateline and Channel 7, as well as heading up the ABC's Investigative Unit. He first interviewed Julian Assange for the ABC in May 2010.
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In response to your editorial on privatizing the liquor stores (Feb. 10) as usual YDR didn't research all the facts. You said in the editorial that "privatizing government operations isn't always a good thing. But in the case of the liquor stores, it makes sense. Let's just make sure the governor doesn't sell it off cheap." Let me enlighten you as to some of the facts of what the governor has proposed.
The current proposal would have the beer distributors able to purchase a wine and spirit license at a cost of $200,000-plus depending on location. However, it would also mean that those who currently own a distributor's license would have to "repurchase" their beer license at the cost of $150,000 just to be able to sell 6 and 12 packs of beers. If someone has already purchased a license to sell beer by the case and has been doing so for years, why should they be required to repurchase their license again? You are looking at a cost for licenses of $350,000-plus. That's just for the license. You will also be looking at remodeling or expanding your current property to accommodate the stock of wine and spirits.
So tell me, where are the numbers that prove that there will be enough business to support this type of debt load? How many small distributors (mom and pop stores, and there are many throughout the state) can afford this type of a debt load? In this economy where do you propose we find financing for this venture? You say use the existing liquor stores? Well most beer distributors already own their properties and would not want the extra cost of rent of the existing liquor stores which are located in malls that charge high rents. You think this plan will decrease the price of liquor? Think again. Like Washington state, we would still have to purchase the liquor and wine through Pennsylvania. So the state will tack on their profit margin first before the distributors.
Gov. Tom Corbett sent a letter to the beer distributors across the state on Jan. 31, 2013. In the letter he states "this announcement will have a significant impact on you, your family and your employees. Please be assured, this decision was not made lightly." No, Gov. Corbett, in my opinion this decision wasn't thought out at all and will put many of the small beer distributors out of business.


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|Prognostic role of dobutamine stress echocardiography in myocardial viability.
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|PMID: 16900006 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of this review is to provide a perspective on the role of dobutamine stress echocardiography to evaluate myocardial viability and assess prognosis in patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction. RECENT FINDINGS: Pooled analysis of currently available data demonstrates that dobutamine stress echocardiography provides useful information on recovery of dysfunctional but viable myocardium and prognosis. In fact, improvement of long-term prognosis may be the ultimate clinical challenge in the management of patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction. Dobutamine stress echocardiography can be used to assess residual ischemia and contractile reserve, which are significant determinants of prognosis. Additionally, other echocardiographic variables, such as end-diastolic wall thickness, end-systolic volume, and extent of viability, affect outcome after revascularization in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. SUMMARY: Dobutamine stress echocardiography provides information on myocardial ischemia, contractile reserve, and other prognostically relevant parameters in patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction. This information can be used to select the optimal treatment strategy for these patients and to estimate and improve clinical outcome.
|Arend F L Schinkel; Don Poldermans; Abdou Elhendy; Jeroen J Bax
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|Created Date: 2006-08-10 Completed Date: 2006-12-12 Revised Date: -
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In the 2013 Rose Cup, the team of Scott Buckstaff, Corey Lynch and Sammy Shea from the San Francisco Yacht Club have claimed victory. The event is a U.S. youth national match racing championship sanctioned by US Sailing, hosted by Sail Sheboygan in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and sponsored by Gill, Harken, Line Honors Outfitters, North U, North, Sail Sheboygan, and the event's founder the Newport-Balboa Sailing & Seamanship Association.
The competitors and officials at the 2013 Rose Cup, raced in Sail Sheboygan's Elliott 6m's, the same boats raced in the 2012 Olympic Games.
Racing was done in the same Elliott 6m's used in the 2012 Olympic Games. Second was defending champion Will Holz, Clay Danly and Alex Woloshyn from the Chicago Yacht Club. Third and fourth were Ryan Davidson, Brandon Folkman and Gregg Kent, and Christophe Killian, Harrison Vandervort and Jack Martin, both from the Balboa Yacht Club.
The Killian team was awarded the Nick Scandone Sportsmanship Award based on a vote by the competitors and umpires. Five skippers qualified for invitations to the Governor's Cup, an international youth match racing event held at the Balboa Yacht Club in Newport Beach, California, July 16-21, 2013.
(from left to right) Sammy Shea, Scott Buckstaff and Corey Lynch win the 2013 Rose Cup, a national youth match racing championship sailed in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Olympian Sally Barkow from Nashotah, Wisconsin ran a two day clinic and continued coaching all the teams during the round robin. 'What impressed me the most,' said Barkow, 'was the tremendous improvement in the match racing and small keelboat racing skill of all eight teams. Most had no experience in the Elliotts, and some had very little experience in formal match racing. By the last day, it looked like a Grade 3 match racing regatta with multiple lead changes and boats overlapped at the finishing line.'
Dave Perry, chairman of the US Sailing Match Racing Committee said, 'Many of us are working hard on introducing the 16-22 year old sailors in the U.S. to competitive match racing, and the Rose Cup is our pinnacle event. We are pleased to announce that next year's event will be hosted by Oakcliff Sailing and the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, June 18-22, 2014, in Sonars.
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Green Township resident Jenna Webster, who grew up in Evendale, won more than $20,000 on 'Wheel of Fortune.'
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Have You Ever Dated Someone Who Just...Vanished?
My ghosting experience happened with Adrian. We had been dating for a few weeks when he asked me to be exclusive. But, of course, there was a catch — he also needed to take a month-long work trip to Turkmenistan to help save the endangered snow leopards. I can't make this stuff up.
The idea of being exclusive right when Adrian was going to be gone for a month didn't sit well with me, so I told him I'd rather wait until he returned. The night before his flight, Adrian wanted to sleep with me (one of the intimate perks that, for me, comes with being exclusive) — but I told him that wasn't going to happen. He was respectful, told me he'd miss me, and promised to e-mail me as soon as he landed the next day. I never heard from Adrian again.
The first few days, I tried not to freak out. I went about my day with a quiet storm of thoughts running through my head: His flight was probably delayed. Maybe he doesn't have Internet in Turkmenistan. Did I give him the correct email address? What if he's getting bounce-backs? By week two, I was officially losing my mind. I called his work; when the receptionist answered, I froze. I could have said, "Hello, I'm calling to see if one of your employees was eaten by snow leopards, or if he's ghosting on me, can you help?" Instead, I hung up the phone and called Ghostbusters, a.k.a. my girlfriends. We spent the night collectively trying to stalk Adrian over cocktails, but we didn't have much to go on. We decided that closure was needed in the form of one final, saucy voicemail.
I put my phone on speaker and dialed his number. The number was disconnected — Adrian had really vanished. Now, I was angry. I couldn't believe this was happening. After another round of drinks, we decided that the only thing to do was to offer an "R.I.P." to that relationship and keep moving. I couldn't make Adrian call me, and I couldn't text a snow leopard to see if he had been spotted in the wilderness. The whole situation was out of my hands. I reminded myself that people do crazy things to avoid confrontation.
I decided that I wasn't going to spend more time mourning Adrian than I spent actually dating him. I snapped out of my funk, and was suddenly grateful. The desire for a relationship can be an overwhelming feeling (more on that single-girl problem here), but I was glad I'd followed my instincts and pumped the brakes when Adrian wanted to be exclusive. Can you imagine how crazy I would have been if I never heard from my "boyfriend" again? I can't help but wonder if his whole exclusivity chat was just a ploy to hook up before his month out of the country. Who knows?
It all boils down to trust, which for me, has to be earned. I really liked Adrian, but in the few weeks we had been dating, he hadn't earned the trust required to be my long-distance boyfriend. I could have let my desire for the "girlfriend" title trump my desire to build a long-lasting and real relationship, but instead, I chose to stay single and let Adrian show me just how trustworthy (or not) he could be. He certainly showed me.
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Social support has proved to be one of the most effective factors on the success of diabetic self-care. This study aimed to develop a scale for evaluating social support for self-care in middle-aged patients (30–60 years old) with type II diabetes.
This was a two-phase qualitative and quantitative study. The study was conducted during 2009 to 2011 in Tehran, Iran. In the qualitative part, a sample of diabetic patients participated in four focus group discussions in order to develop a preliminary item pool. Consequently, content and face validity were performed to provide a pre-final version of the questionnaire. Then, in a quantitative study, reliability (internal consistency and test-retest analysis), validity and factor analysis (both exploratory and confirmatory) were performed to assess psychometric properties of the scale.
A 38-item questionnaire was developed through the qualitative phase. It was reduced to a 33-item after content validity. Exploratory factor analysis loaded a 30-item with a five-factor solution (nutrition, physical activity, self monitoring of blood glucose, foot care and smoking) that jointly accounted for 72.3% of observed variance. The confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit to the data. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient showed excellent internal consistency (alpha=0.94), and test-retest of the scale with 2-weeks intervals indicated an appropriate stability for the scale (ICC=0.87).
The findings showed that the designed questionnaire was a valid and reliable instrument for measuring social support for self-care in middle-aged patients with type II diabetes. It is an easy to use questionnaire and contains the most significant diabetes related behaviors that need continuous support for self-care.
Diabetes is a worldwide health problem and the number of people with diabetes will exceed to 366 million in 2030 and mostly among middle-aged populations [1]. This widespread of the disease makes any health care systems unable to respond to the need of patients [2]. Thus, it is suggested that self-care in this context is essential [3]. Self-care is defined as 'self-motivation, understanding and considering the situations that influence health, making decisions to improve health, and implementing these decisions' [4]. However, there is no promise for self-care if we do not accurately recognize and evaluate the constructs that are affective on it. It has been suggested self-care needs some additive components such as social support to be maintained. It has been recommended that providing social support for self-care might have twofold advantages. Firstly, it could prevent the possible complications and secondly, could guarantee the continuity of the self-care behavior where self-management plays an important role in patients' overall health status [5,6]. Several self-care behaviors were recognized to improve health in diabetic patients. For instance, Mc Dowell et al. believe nutrition, physical activity, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), and foot care as the main behaviors for self-care in patients with type II diabetes [7]. It is argued that these behaviors could not be achieved unless we provide appropriate social support for patients [8,9]. However, as there are many types of social support [10,11], patients with diabetes also could receive different types of support for self-care such as informational, emotional and instrumental [12-14].
Several studies examined the relationship between self-care and social support in patients with diabetes [9,15,16]. The consistent findings from the literature were that patients with diabetes did not receive enough social support from families and professionals and when they received such supports, they showed improved self-care behaviors [17,18]. Yet, the main critic with previous studies relies on the fact that similar measures were used to assess social support for patients with different demographic backgrounds while, for instance, providing social support for young diabetic patients could be different from providing social support for elderly patients. Even, in a study, it was found that older adolescents have obtained less family support than younger ones, and older girls reported the highest level of support from their friends but the highest level of family support was for younger boys [19].
Therefore, the preliminary aim of this study was to develop a tailored measure for self-care social support. Since most diabetic patients are in the middle years of their lives, we thought to tailor an instrument for this age group. In brief, tailoring is a very useful psychological and social approach that could enhance health behaviors in target population [20]. Hawkins et al. refer tailoring to a number of methods for creating individualized communications that will lead to larger intended effects of these communications [21]. In addition, it was found that existing measures for self-care social support had no focus on all behaviors or included only a specific type of social support. Accordingly, the second aim of this study was to develop a comprehensive instrument that includes all forms of support for at least five recommended self-care behaviors that needs social support.
Scale development
This was a study to develop an instrument to measure social support for self-care in diabetic patients. Evidence suggests that social support makes people in general and patients in particular more able to care about themselves and maintain healthy behaviors. Social support can come from a variety of sources and is defined as the help one receives from family, friends, and significant others (such as physicians) [12,22].
Several procedures were followed to provide an item pool for the study:
i. A review of the literature.
ii. A small-scale qualitative study was conducted to explore what does 'social support for self-care' mean to diabetic patients. For the purpose of qualitative phase, four focus group discussions were conducted with a sample of diabetic patients. Patients were recruited from diabetes screening centers affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. We have tried to recruit patients with different characteristics to ensure that patients from diverse demographic backgrounds are present in the focus groups. In all, 38 patients agreed to take part in the study. The characteristics of patients are presented in Table 1. All patients informed about the aim of the study and their informed consent was obtained. The discussions were hold in the screening center and all were tape-recorded. We stopped data collection until saturation was reached. Then, we transcribed group discussions and used a deductive method to analyze the data. Deductive content analysis is used when the structure of analysis is operationalized on the basis of previous knowledge [23]. Since we were concerned about five main self-care behaviors, the intention was to determine the frequency of sayings under five topics that were nutrition, physical activity, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), foot care and smoking. Finally, a list of items was prepared with their examples. Trustworthiness of the results also was checked. As suggested four criteria were considered for the trustworthiness: credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability [24]. For credibility, we designed clear processes for drawing conclusions from the data. For transferability, we provided rich enough descriptions and data sets that other researchers can use them in the other contexts and settings. For dependability, we checked the consistency of the study processes and finally, we checked the internal coherence of the data and the findings for confirmability [24].
iii. Interview with a panel of experts: Experts were asked 'What are the most important self-care behaviors in type 2 diabetics? Why these behaviors are so important? Why do you think the other behaviors are not as much important as your selected behaviors?'
Table 1. Demographic profile of the study participants
At last, the data derived from the literature, the qualitative phase and interviews were crosschecked and in all 38 items were generated. Consequently content and face validity were evaluated.
Content validity: is a comprehensive review by an expert panel to decide whether items adequately cover the behavior that you are interested in measuring them [25]. It is an essential step for developing a scale and a mechanism for linking abstract concepts with tangible and measurable indicators [26]. The expert panel was consisted of 12 specialists in health education, nursing and internal medicine. Qualitative content validity was determined based on 'grammar', 'wording', 'item allocation', and 'scaling' indices [27]. All items were checked and the expert panel's recommendations were inserted into the questionnaire. Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Content Validity Index (CVI) were calculated in order to perform quantitative content validity. For calculating CVR, the expert panel was asked to evaluate each item using a 3-point Likert scale: 1 = essential, 2 = useful but not essential and 3 = unessential. Then, according to Lawshe's table [28], items with CVR score of 0.56 or above were selected [27]. For the CVI, based on Waltz and Bausell [29] recommendation, the same panel was asked to evaluate the items according to a 4-point Likert scale on 'relevancy', 'clarity', and 'simplicity'. A CVI score of 0.80 or above was considered satisfactory [30].
Face validity: is an evaluation of lay people in understanding and comprehending a scale [25]. In this part, both quantitative and qualitative methods were applied. For quantitative part, 10 patients were asked to evaluate the questionnaire and score the importance of each item on a 5-point Liker scale in order to calculate 'Item Impact Score' (Impact Score = Frequency (%) × Importance). The impact score of 1.5 or above was considered satisfactory as recommended [27]. For the qualitative part, the same patients were asked about the 'relevancy', 'ambiguity', and 'difficulty' of the items; and some minor changes were made to the preliminary questionnaire.
Pre-final version: following the reflection of the above approaches, finally 5 items were removed and the pre-final version of the questionnaire consisting of 33 items was provided for the next stages (validity and reliability of the questionnaire).
The main study and data collection
A cross sectional study was designed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the S4-MAD. A consecutive sample of the middle-aged patients with type II diabetes was recruited from two screening diabetes centers affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The patients were entered into the study if they were aged between 30 to 60 years, their last HbA1C test was equal or above 7% (or their FBS test was more than 150 mg/dl), having diabetes for more than 1 year, and wished to participate in the study.
Statistical analysis
The construct validity of the questionnaire was performed using both exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA).
a) Exploratory factor analysis (EFA): A sample of 204 patients completed the questionnaire and its factor structure was extracted using the principal component analysis with varimax rotation. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett's Test of Sphericity were used to assess the appropriateness of the sample for the factor analysis. Eigenvalues above 1 and scree plot were used for determining the number of factors. Factor loadings equal or greater than 0.4 were considered appropriate [31].
b) Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA): A separate sample of 138 patients completed the questionnaire and factor analysis was performed for assessing the model fitness. As recommended various fit indices including relative Chi-square (χ2/df), Comparative Fit Index (CFI), Incremental Fit Index (IFI), Normed Fit Index (NFI), Non-Normed Fit Index (NNFI), Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA), and Standardized Root Mean Square Residual (SRMR) were used [32]. Relative Chi-square is the ratio of chi-square to degrees of freedom and its recommended reference value is less than 3 for accepting the fitness of the model [33]. The value for CFI, IFI, NFI and NNFI could range between '0 to 1' and values closer to 1 are indicative of data fitness [34]. An RMSEA ranged 0.08 to 0.10 shows a mediocre fit and below 0.08 indicates a good fit [35]. The acceptable value for SRMR is less than 0.10 where values less than 0.08 indicate adequate fit and values below 0.05 indicate good fit [36,37].
Internal consistency was evaluated by Cronbach's α coefficient. Cronbach's α coefficient of 0.7 or above was considered satisfactory [38,39]. In addition, a sub-sample of patients (n = 15) completed the questionnaire twice with a 2-weeks interval in order to examine the stability of the scale by calculating Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) where the ICC of 0.4 or above was considered acceptable [40].
All statistical analyses except confirmatory factor analysis were performed using the SPSS version 16.0 [41]. The confirmatory factory analysis was performed using the LISREL 8.80 for Windows [42].
The ethics committee of Tarbiat Modares University approved the study. All patients gave their written informed consent.
In all, 342 diabetic patients participated in this study. Of these, 204 patients took part in the main study and the remaining 138 patients completed the questionnaire in order to perform confirmatory factor analysis. The characteristics of the patients are shown in the Table 1.
Exploratory factor analysis
The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin was 0.92, and the Bartlett's test of sphericity was significant (5.55, P<0.001) showing sampling adequacy. The initial analysis indicated a 5-factor structure for the questionnaire with 3 items loading unexpectedly and irrelevant to the loaded construct. Thus, these were removed from the analysis and a final 30-item questionnaire loaded on five distinct constructs that jointly accounted for 72.3% of variance observed (Table 2) [Additional files 1 and 2].
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Table 2. The social-support scale for self-care in middle-aged patients with type 2 diabetes and its factors loading (n=204)
Confirmatory factor analysis
The 30-item questionnaire was subjected to the confirmatory factor analysis. The relative chi-square (χ2/df) was 2.03 indicating the fitness of the model (P<0.0001). All comparative indices of the model including CFI, IFI, NFI and NNFI were more than 0.9 (0.96, 0.96, 0.93 and 0.96 respectively) showing the goodness of fit for the data. The RMSEA of the model was 0.087 (90% CI=0.078-0.096). The SRMR was less than 0.08 (0.06) confirming an adequate fit for the model. The results obtained from the CFA are presented in Figure 1.
Figure 1. A five-factor model for the questionnaire obtained from confirmatory factory analysis (n = 138).
The instrument had an excellent internal consistency (0.94). The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.87 indicating an appropriate stability of the questionnaire. The results are shown in Table 3.
Table 3. Cronbach's α coefficient and ICC for the social support scale and its subscales (n =204)
The present study reported the stages of designing and developing a scale for evaluating social support for self-care in middle-aged patients with type II diabetes and the findings indicated satisfactory psychometric properties for the questionnaire. Social support for self-care is a crucial issue in adults with diabetes [18]. It can contribute to treatment adherence and the outcomes. For instance, evidence suggests that encouraging families to exercise with their diabetic patients could increase physical activity among these people [17].
There are a number of scales for measuring social support [43-46] but to the authors' best knowledge, there are only two questionnaires for assessing social support in diabetic patients the Diabetes Social Support Questionnaire, and the Diabetes Care Profile (DCP) [47-49]. The DSSQ is a well-known instrument and has been used in a number of studies on social support for self-care in diabetic patients [47,50]. It was primarily developed for type I diabetic patients and measures insulin injection, blood glucose testing, meal plan, exercise and emotional support. The Diabetes Care Profile (DCP) is a set of different sections and one section including six questions related to social support. The DCP asks the support that one receives for meal plan, medicine, foot care, physical activity, testing blood sugar and emotional item [48]. However, the focus of current study was to develop a scale containing the five most important diabetes related behaviors namely nutrition, physical activity, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), foot care and smoking. It is argued that when addressing self-care activities in diabetic patients, it is important to address the unmet needs for social support [49]. As different aspects of social support for self-care in diabetes patients might be considered, it is recommended that when assessing social support, there is need to decide which aspects of support are relevant to measure in any specific situation [51]. In this study, we thought diabetic patients need instrumental, informational and emotional support for self-care and thus, we considered these three aspects of social support and incorporated them to the all dimensions of the questionnaire as needed.
Performing both exploratory and factor analyses, the results indicated a good structure for this new instrument. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that the five-factor structure of the questionnaire could jointly account for 72.3% of the total observed variance. It seems that a careful selection of items related to social support for self-care might be the reason why we obtained such satisfactory results [52]. CFA also showed that factor structure of this scale was appropriate.
A reliable instrument can increase the power of the study to recognize real significant correlations and differences in the study [53]. Internal consistency of the final scale as measured by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was found to be 0.94 indicating a desirable reliability. In addition, ICC showed appropriate stability for the scale as it was examined by 15 patients with a 2-weeks interval (0.87).
The main feature of the S4-MAD was the fact that it was developed for middle age diabetic patients (the main affected age group), and contained items on foot care and smoking. However, we did not include items on medications since neither patients nor experts did address the topic during the course of scale development. In addition a unique item (item 18) was included in this new instrument on reminding patients for blood glucose test every three months. The other characteristic of our questionnaire was related to its wording structure. Unlike other questionnaires that contain short statements for each item we used prolonged and complete sentences in order to help patients to understand the items and avoid confusion. Finally, we believe without losing any important dimension on social support for self-care, the S4-MAD is relatively a short questionnaire and easy to use.
This study however had few limitations. For example we did not perform concurrent validity in order to demonstrate the instrument correlates well with a measure that has previously been validated in Iran. Yet, the study had a number of strengths. Notably we recruited two separate samples for the study. In fact, as recommended, we used one sample for the EFA and another sample for the CFA.
The social support scale for self-care in middle-aged patients with type II diabetes is a valid and reliable instrument for evaluating the social support in these patients and now can be used in future studies of social support in patients with type II diabetes.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
SHNM was the main investigator, collected the data, performed the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript. SHN supervised the project and contributed to all aspects of the study. FA, and EH were the study consultants. AM helped as a consultant and contributed to the study design, analysis, provided the final draft, and revised the final version. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This article is a part of a PhD thesis. The authors are thankful for help and support received from Tarbiat Modares University and the Health Education and Promotion Office of Ministry of Health and Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). We also appreciate all patients who participated in this research project.
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Day 304: Halloween Party Food and Dinner at the Farm
So yes, it's my birthday today. Thanks for all the well wishes! My plan, dull as it may sound, was to 1) sleep in, and 2) spend as much of it as possible on the couch flipping through the latest Saveur and boxes of back issues of Gourmet, Food & Wine, Cooking Light and Martha Stewart that C purged her garage of and brought over yesterday (Mike was thrilled, let me tell you). I kind of slept in, if you count waking up 17 times burritoed (much worse than sandwiched) between a writhing toddler and sweaty husband and then slipping in and out of consciousness as W screamed and the dog barked and they made pancakes downstairs. I did manage an hour or so of couch time, and the better half of a movie tonight, before I remembered I promised to make brain cakes, not ghostcakes. guh.
And no, I didn't have to cook dinner! My Mom and Dad took me to Farm, Janice Beaton's new charcuterie on 17th Avenue, around the corner from Caffè Beano. I charged the batteries for my camera and then left it at home, so I can't show you the beautiful goat cheese fritter set beside a spinach salad with roasted beets, or the bubbly penne and cheese or chopping boards of meats, cheeses, bread and wonderfully spiced pickles; it's a menu geared toward sharing but a change from tapas. And since I was all caked out, a birthday crème brulée (made by someone other than me) was just fine, thank you.
Which isn't to say I didn't do any cooking – I had a lot to prep for CBC (7-8) and BT tomorrow morning (9 and 9:40). M and W helped make spider truffles (black licorice rope stuck into the sides of chocolate truffles to make spiders), bloody gutscakes (x 45 as there will be a troop or two of Brownies at BT tomorrow) with marshmallow frosting piled high into ghosts (I used a frosting made out of boiled gelatin and sugar, beaten with icing sugar, which then sets into essentially a non-sticky marshmallow), meringue ghosts, and bacon caramel corn. (The meringue I use for pavlova also makes great ghosts; I spooned it into a plain plastic produce bag from the grocery store, snipped a big chunk off the corner and squeezed it out onto cookie sheets, then stuck mini chocolate chips in for eyes and baked them at 250°F for an hour or so.)
And because I had to top last years' creation of bacon caramel corn, I made my grandma's peanut brittle – with cooked and chopped crispy chunks of bacon stirred in instead of the nuts. After spreading it out on the cookie sheet I showered it with freshly ground black pepper while it was still molten. (I'll post the recipe tomorrow; I have no doubt I'll be making more sometime around tomorrow afternoon. It could be noted that the chunks of bacon makes it look a lot like scab brittle, which is pretty cool too.)
And just in case you need it tomorrow:
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Make sure you wash and dry your seeds well if you want them crispy.
2 cups pumpkin seeds, washed and dried
a good drizzle (about 2 Tbsp.) canola or olive oil
1 tsp. coarse salt
1/2 tsp. each cayenne, curry powder, chili powder and cumin (optional)
In a medium bowl, toss the seeds with oil, salt and spices. Spread out in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast at 375°F for 35-40 minutes, until crisp and golden.
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11 Responses to "Day 304: Halloween Party Food and Dinner at the Farm"
Lana on 31 Oct 2008 at 7:10 am #
Holy Shit, Batman, that bacon-caramel-corn sounds deeelish.
I would be SO in the good books if I whipped some of that up for John this weekend!
Happ Birthday (again) and Happy Halloween!
sue d. on 31 Oct 2008 at 8:39 am #
I love your spider truffles, they look so menacing!
Also love the sound of the spiced roasted pumpkin seeds. Do you know if they keep for a long time, like a few weeks?
Avery from the block on 31 Oct 2008 at 8:47 am #
WHOOPEE!! Loved you on BT this morning, Julie… it looked like a lot of fun…
Barb on 31 Oct 2008 at 10:30 am #
Belated Birthdays wishes to you. Glad you got some quality down time!
robyn on 31 Oct 2008 at 12:22 pm #
Yay! I'm glad you got to go out for your birthday dinner. You SO deserve a break!!! Farm sounds amazing…..
We have a place like that too in Gastown, but I can't remember the name of it. Giada de Laurentiis went there on her weekend getaway show. It sounds like the same idea as Farm…
Jenny on 31 Oct 2008 at 4:08 pm #
be honest…after you finished at Farm, were you dying to go for burgers and a milkshake?? As one dining companion commented after our time there: I've seen more food on plates out of the dishwasher! Just sayin'. Happy belated birthday, JVR.
twomittens on 01 Nov 2008 at 7:00 pm #
I saw you on BT too. FUNNY (and gross).
Happy Belated!
Natalie on 03 Nov 2008 at 6:45 am #
Roasted pumpkin seeds have got to be one of my favourites! I get people to bring me the guts of their Jack-O-Lanterns so that I get lots and lots of seeds. Try this for roasted pumpkin seeds: Give them a little rinse, but leave some of the pumpkin guts on. Gives them a bit of extra flavour. Then toss them in soya sauce. Then roast 'em. That's it! Seriously yummy!
Cranberry-Orange Loaf | dinner with Julie on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:23 am #
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mama duck on 18 Oct 2012 at 2:45 pm #
Just loved your meringue ghosts! Though I tried and I ended up with flat pavlova Still tasted great but not a ghost at all. Just how stiff does it have to be? I thought it was ok but once i got the bag ready to pipe I realized it was not going to work.
Halloween traktatie: schuimspookjes! (recept) » Homemade Happiness - Het leven is een feestje! on 19 Oct 2012 at 4:05 am #
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