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There is a pressing need to develop effective and broadly accessible interventions to address pediatric obesity. An important dimension in translating interventions to community settings is evaluating the fidelity with which the intended treatment is delivered and the level of facilitator needed to deliver the intervention with efficacy.
The primary objectives of this study were to: 1) provide descriptive information regarding adherence to protocol and non-specific facilitator characteristics (e.g. interpersonal characteristics, group management skills) within the context of a community based pediatric weight control intervention delivered by paraprofessionals; and 2) examine the relationships among facilitator adherence and characteristics and rate of change in percent overweight demonstrated by youth over the course of the 24-week intervention.
The intervention was conducted between February and September of 2011. Children (6–16 years) and parents completed primary outcome measures at baseline, 12, and 24 weeks (i.e. end of treatment). A 2-part rating form was developed to assess facilitator adherence to weekly content and general provider characteristics at two different time points during the intervention.
Youth participating in this study were on average 11.3 years old (SD = 2.8), with most being under the age of 13 years (74.2%). Over half were female (54.8%) and over two-thirds were White (68.4%). On average, facilitators adhered to 96.0% (SD = 5.2%) of the session content at Time 1 and 92.6% (SD = 6.8%) at Time 2. Higher Content Adherence at Time 1 and Time 2 were associated with greater loss in percent overweight.
Our data suggest that paraprofessionals without prior expertise in pediatric weight control can be trained to successfully deliver an intervention that is evidence based and incorporates behavioral and educational components. These findings need to be considered in light of some limitations, including the fact that facilitator domains were assessed with a modification of a standardized tool and we did not obtain inter-rater reliability of observations. These limitations not withstanding, investing time in training facilitators to adhere to a given protocol is critical and may be of higher priority than focusing on more general facilitator characteristics.
Obesity; Pediatric; Intervention; Community; FacilitatorBackground
Pediatric obesity is an epidemic in the United States, with approximately one third of youth identified as overweight or obese [1,2]. Obesity in youth is associated with a number of health risks, including elevations in cholesterol, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, triglycerides, and fasting insulin levels as well as increased risk for type 2 diabetes [3,4]. Furthermore, obesity in children tracks into adulthood, which in turn is related to increased rates of morbidity and mortality [5]. In addition to health risks, youth who struggle with excess weight are at greater risk for a range of psychosocial difficulties including decreased self-esteem, challenges in peer relationships [6,7], and impairments in health related quality of life (HRQOL) [7,8].
Family-based behavioral weight control programs have demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of overweight children between the ages of 8 and 12 years, with some promise regarding long-term outcomes. While effective, these interventions have been administered through carefully controlled clinical trials [9,10] or delivered in specialized/tertiary clinical settings affiliated with academic medical centers. As a result, they are available for only a small percentage of children and adolescents struggling with excess weight. The need for identifying alternative, more broadly accessible delivery systems for these interventions increased with the USPSTF recommendation that primary care providers refer youth to behavioral intervention programs [11].
There are very few examples of interventions to assist children and adolescents who are already overweight/obese that are delivered in community settings and available to a greater segment of the population. We are aware of only three studies explicitly designed to examine effectiveness of pediatric obesity interventions in a community setting. Project STORY [12] examined the utility of Cooperative Extension Service offices in rural settings for delivery of a weight control intervention for children 8–12 years. Children assigned to both a family based and parent only condition demonstrated greater decrease in BMI z-score than those assigned to wait list control at 10-month assessment. A second effectiveness study involved examination of the MEND Program developed in the United Kingdom [13]. Children between 8–12 years randomized to receive the intervention demonstrated significant decreases in BMI (-1.2 kg/m2) and waist circumference (-4.1 cm) compared to those assigned to a delayed treatment control. More recently, the JOIN program, developed by UnitedHealth Group and delivered through the YMCA, was shown to significantly decrease percent overweight among school age children [14].
While these interventions have been effective, little is known regarding the fidelity of treatment implementation, including adherence to treatment protocols and facilitator characteristics. Such information is critical for scalability of health change interventions, as it has direct implications for interpretation and potential generalizability of study findings. In a recent review, only 5% of more than 75 weight control studies reported on the extent to which the intervention content was delivered as intended [15]. Attention to treatment fidelity is also highlighted by the NIH Behavior Change Workgroup, which includes recommendations for defining, evaluating, and enhancing treatment fidelity in behavioral interventions [16]. In addition to examining the extent to which the intervention was delivered as intended, the Workgroup further emphasized the importance of assessing provider characteristics (e.g. warmth) [16].
The importance of treatment fidelity is further highlighted in the RE-AIM framework [17], a model helping to increase the external validity and public health impact of health interventions. Within this framework, "Implementation" is a key domain that includes the extent to which project staff delivered an intervention as intended [18]. Historically, both weight control prevention and intervention studies have provided minimal information regarding the consistency with which interventions are delivered and potential differences of treatment efficacy across interventionists [15,19]. We are not aware of any previous research that has examined the combination of treatment fidelity and provider characteristics as related to outcomes for pediatric behavioral weight control interventions. Assessment of fidelity is particularly important in the context of development and implementation of a scalable intervention, given the absence of a tightly controlled environment and the broad scale implications for dissemination.
We had the opportunity to examine treatment fidelity and facilitator characteristics in the context of a recently delivered 24-week community based pediatric weight control program for youth ages 6–17 years old. The JOIN program [14] involved a collaboration between UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization and the YMCA of Greater Providence to deliver an empirically supported family based behavioral weight control intervention. Intervention components from evidence based treatments were modified to reduce cost and increase scalability. Specific modifications included: intervention delivery by YMCA facilitators with no previous training in pediatric obesity, combined child and parent groups, and 12 in-person sessions (efficacy trials typically include a greater number of sessions), with 12 additional sessions conducted by parents at home. Findings from the initial pilot were recently published and indicated a 4.3% reduction in percent overweight for children between 6–12 years, with a smaller decrease for adolescents [14]. These results have significant implications for continued development of scalable interventions to address pediatric obesity that can be delivered in community settings. To be effective, such interventions will require replicable models for training paraprofessional facilitators as well as identification of key facilitator characteristics that are related to positive outcomes.
The purpose of this study was to examine two key components of treatment fidelity: facilitator adherence to treatment content and non-specific facilitator characteristics in the context of a community based pediatric weight control intervention. Primary study objectives were to: 1) provide descriptive information regarding adherence to the treatment protocol and non-specific facilitator characteristics (e.g. interpersonal characteristics, group management skills); and 2) examine the relationships among facilitator adherence and characteristics and rate of change in percent overweight demonstrated by youth over the course of the 24-week intervention.
Children and parents completed primary outcome measures at three evaluation points, baseline, 12 weeks, and 24 weeks (i.e. end of treatment).
Body weight was measured on calibrated scales (Detecto Model 6129, Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Company, Webb City, MO) with participants wearing light clothing and no shoes. Height was measured using a stadiometer (Seca 217 Mobile Stadiometer, Seca, Hamburg, Germany). Body mass index was calculated as weight (kg) divided by height (m)2. Percentage overweight was calculated as the percentage over the median BMI for age and gender.
Facilitator ratings
A total of 16 groups (12 child, 4 adolescent) were conducted at eight different YMCA sites in the Providence, RI area. Nine of the groups were based in urban locations, with seven in suburban/rural settings. Sessions were led by nine YMCA-based facilitators, 7 of whom had Bachelor's degrees and 2 of whom had Masters degrees. All of the facilitators had some experience supervising groups and 7 had experience with behavioral coaching. None of the facilitators had experience with pediatric obesity, although 3 of them had prior experience with adult weight control. Three of the nine facilitators led both child and adolescent groups.
YMCA facilitators received a total of 4.5 days of in-person training with experienced behavioral weight control interventionists (Drs. Foster and Jelalian), including 2 ½ days prior to start of the program and 2 1-day sessions during the course of the intervention. The initial training session included an orientation to the program, review of behavioral weight control strategies with children and adolescents, recommendations for managing group interactions, review of the first several lesson plans, and information regarding involvement in research and administrative oversight. Approximately 1 ½ days were focused on clinical content. The additional 2 full-day trainings focused exclusively on review of treatment materials and role-plays of lesson content. Throughout treatment delivery, facilitators also participated in 1-hour weekly telephone based supervision meetings to facilitate adherence. Approximately 75% of each hour long call was devoted to treatment related issues, including review of upcoming content, a question and answer period, and concerns regarding specific participants. The remaining time was dedicated to logistical issues such as use of the program tracking tool to document weekly attendance and weight. This study was approved by the New England Institutional Review Board.
The intervention included a total of 12 face-to-face sessions conducted at the YMCA and 12 briefer (i.e. 10–15 minute) home-based sessions led by parents. Home sessions were designed to last 10–15 minutes and followed the general format of a parent and child reviewing progress with behavioral goals and the parent briefly introducing new content provided to them by the YMCA facilitator. Face to-face sessions were held across the 24-week intervention at weeks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, and 24. Each facilitator was observed twice during the 24-week intervention. The "time 1" observation was conducted during session 1, 2, 3, or 4 of the face-to-face sessions. The "time 2" observation was conducted during session 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, or 20 of the face-to-face sessions. All facilitators except for one were observed once at time 1 and once at time 2. This facilitator was observed only once because the group was discontinued. For the three facilitators who conducted both child and teen groups, observations were made for one of the child and adolescent groups, resulting in a total of 12 observations at each of two time points. All observations were conducted by one of two observers, a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric psychology or a clinical psychologist with expertise in weight control.
A 2-part rating form was developed to assess facilitator adherence to weekly content and general provider characteristics. Weekly content adherence was measured as the extent to which the facilitator covered each of the prescribed topics, with ratings of Yes, No, and Partial. Nine-items evaluated more general provider characteristics such as interpersonal skills and ability to effectively manage group interactions. These items were adapted from a well validated psychotherapy assessment tool [20] and rated on a 5-point likert scale. A final item included assessment of overall expertise (1–3 = "Novice," 4–6 = "Intermediate," and 7–9 = "Advanced").
Analytic Plan
In order to examine the relationships among facilitator adherence, facilitator characteristics, and rate of change in youth's percent overweight over the course of the 24-week intervention, random effects growth modeling was conducted using Mplus 6.11 [21]. This approach coupled with robust maximum likelihood estimation allowed for the modeling of change with nested and non-normally distributed data. Robust estimation of standard errors takes into account both non-normality of outcomes and non-independence of observations due to the nesting of study participants across group facilitators. The random effects capture individual differences, in terms of random slopes (i.e., individual differences in the rate of change in percent overweight across the 24 week program) and intercepts (initial percent overweight values). As a necessary first step, an unconditional linear growth model was evaluated to determine whether there was significant variability in youth's rate of change in percent overweight over the 24 weeks of treatment. Pending significant variability in the rate of change, a second model (Table 1) was evaluated in which youth's rate of change in percent overweight was predicted by facilitator adherence, facilitator characteristics, percentage of session content covered, and youth's age and initial percent overweight. This model allowed all predictors to correlate with one another.
Table 1. Parameter estimates and inferential statistics for the growth models (N = 155)
Participants included 155 children and one parent/guardian per child, and were referred to the program through area pediatricians, school nurses, and postings at local YMCA facilities. Participating youth were on average 11.3 years old (SD = 2.8), with more children under the age of 13 years (74.2%) than adolescents ages 13 and older (25.8%). Over half of children participating in this study were female (54.8%) and over two-thirds were White (68.4%). At baseline, participants had an average BMI of 30.5 (SD = 7.3), a BMI z-score of 2.23 (SD = .41), and percentage overweight of 72.5 (SD = 34.0). The vast majority (91.6%) of youth were obese (≥ 95th BMI%ile) and nearly half (46.5%) met the 99th BMI%ile for age and gender.
Weight change outcomes
Eighty four percent of the sample (n = 130) completed the 24 week assessment, this included 86% of children (99/130) and 78% of adolescents (31/40). Completers were defined as participants who attended at least one group session and were present for the 24-week assessment. Completers and non-completers did not differ on baseline characteristics. We also examined attendance by age group and found that children attended a mean of 8.62 face-to-face sessions and 8.16 home-based sessions, while adolescents attended an average of 9.39 face-to-face sessions and 9.80 home-based sessions. Attendance rates did not differ significantly for children <13 and those ≥ 13 years.
For the overall sample, there was a significant reduction in percent overweight (M = 3.5%) from baseline to 24 weeks. Children (<13 years old) experienced a 4.5% (<.001) reduction in percent overweight from baseline to 24 weeks, while adolescents (≥ 13 years old) did not show a significant reduction (0.2% reduction in percent overweight, p > .05. This may reflect the fact that a number of adolescents had BMIs in excess of 45 and may have been less well suited for a lifestyle intervention. No significant gender effects emerged for change in percent overweight at 24 weeks.
Descriptive findings
Intervention content adherence
An observation of the extent to which group facilitators adhered to intervention content was conducted twice for each of the nine facilitators. On average, facilitators were observed to adhere to 96.0% (SD = 5.2%) of the session content at time 1. Adherence to session content at time 2 was slightly lower, at 92.6% (SD = 6.8%). There were no significant differences on any domains for facilitators who led one group (n = 5) compared to those who led more than one group (n = 4).
Facilitator characteristics and expert facilitator rating
Alpha reliability for the 9-item facilitator rating scale was 0.86 both at time 1 and time 2. Average ratings on the facilitator rating scale were 4.04 (SD = 0.61) at time 1 and 4.14 (SD = 0.47) at time 2. Facilitator rating sum scores at times 1 and 2 and average scores on each of the nine individual facilitator rating scale items are presented in Table 2. Overall facilitator competence in delivering the JOIN intervention content, as measured by the expert facilitator rating, was in the Intermediate expertise category both at time 1 (M = 5.92, SD = 1.56) and at time 2 (M = 6.09, SD = 1.30) at time 2.
Table 2. Facilitator characteristics at Time 1 and Time 2
Results from the first growth model are presented in Table 1 (model 1). Youth (on average) began at 72.10% overweight (intercept) and their percent overweight decreased significantly by 0.14 per week over the 24 week program. Youth's rate of change was unrelated to their initial percent overweight. Table 1 also reveals significant individual differences in youth's initial percent overweight and rate of change, which permitted further investigation of predictors of change.
A second model (Table 1) was evaluated in which youth's rate of change in percent overweight was predicted by facilitator characteristics, facilitator expert rating, percentage of session content covered, and youth's age and initial percent overweight. Of the predictors presented in Table 1, three were significant: Facilitator Characteristics (time 2), Content Adherence (time 1), and Content Adherence (time 2). More specifically (holding all other predictors constant), a one unit increase in Content Adherence at time 1 was associated with an additional 0.016 weekly reduction in percent overweight. Similarly, a one unit increase in Content Adherence at time 2 was associated with an additional 0.027 weekly reduction in percent overweight over the course of the trial. Unexpectedly, higher ratings of Facilitator Characteristics at time 2 were associated with (0.06) less loss in percent overweight during the course of the 24 week program. Facilitator Characteristics (time 1), expert rating (time 1), expert rating (time 2), youth's age, and initial percent overweight were not related to youth's rate of change in percent overweight. Table 3 presents the means, standard deviations, and correlations among study variables (taking into account non-normality and nesting).
Table 3. Correlations among study variables, (off diagonals), and means and (Standard Deviations) corrected for non-normality and nesting
Facilitator training for this community based pediatric weight control intervention, which consisted of approximately 2 ½ days of in person didactics followed by two 1-day booster sessions, and weekly phone supervision, resulted in a high level of adherence in delivering weekly content as intended. It is noteworthy that during both the first and second observations, facilitators exceeded 90% in their coverage of prescribed material. These findings clearly document that paraprofessionals without prior experience in pediatric weight control can be effectively trained to deliver a complex evidenced based weight control intervention.
Overall, YMCA staff also scored highly on ratings of facilitator characteristics (e.g., expressing warmth, genuineness, and enthusiasm) traditionally associated with positive outcomes in the psychotherapy literature [22]. Relatively lower scores were observed on use of open ended questions and attention to behavioral goals, while higher ratings were seen on less specific domains of interpersonal skills and managing group behavior.
To our knowledge, this is the first community based obesity treatment study to include examination of intervention implementation. Previous research suggests variability in treatment fidelity for programs targeting youth health practices (e.g. substance abuse) in a real-world setting [23]. Although not specific to obesity, assessment of fidelity within the context of school-based nutrition education curriculum demonstrates that fidelity and facilitator rapport with youth are associated with increases in student knowledge [24].
Contrary to our expectation, higher ratings of general facilitator characteristics at time 2 were associated with participants achieving less change in BMI. One possibility for this finding is that facilitators recognized that children in their group were struggling and subsequently increased their efforts with regard to the non-specific facilitator characteristics measured in this rating. Alternatively, this finding may have resulted from measurement error and/or facilitator reactivity to in-vivo observation. In particular, facilitators with group members who were not doing as well with regard to weight loss may have increased their efforts in response to the presence of observers.
A number of limitations need to be taken into account in considering the study findings. First, the nature of the study prohibited use of videotaped observations. As a result, facilitators were aware of observers within the group meetings and we were unable to calculate inter-rater reliabilities for observations. To alleviate potential reactivity to in-vivo observation, facilitators were assured that ratings would not be shared with YMCA staff and that ratings would be anonymous at the data entry phase. In addition, observers remained in the background to minimize any impact on group participants. Despite these limitations, differences in adherence were related to weight change, suggesting that reactivity of observations may not have been a major concern. A second limitation is that we used a modified measure of intervention fidelity. While standardized measures of intervention fidelity for certain interventions (e.g. motivational interviewing) do exist [25], we did not utilize a standardized measure because this type of measure does not exist for community-based behavioral weight control. Inclusion of a standardized measure with evidence of reliability and validity would have strengthened this study. Finally, this study did not include pre- and post-tests related to facilitator content knowledge included in the training. Examining changes in facilitator knowledge would be helpful for informing refinement of facilitator training practices. It is also important to recognize that adherence to content reflects only one aspect of a complex process through which content delivery, and participant knowledge acquisition and learning, are related to behavior change [26].
Despite these limitations, this study provides important information. Our data suggest that paraprofessionals without prior expertise in pediatric weight control can be trained to successfully deliver an intervention that is evidenced based and incorporates behavioral and educational components. The observed adherence was even more impressive given the fact that facilitators had to manage the challenges of parents and children attending the same group session. Given the need for continued development and implementation of weight control interventions in community settings, these findings have important implications. Second, our findings suggest that investing time in training facilitators to adhere to a given protocol is critical and of higher priority than focusing on more general facilitator characteristics. It is noteworthy that even with high rates of content adherence, differences in adherence were related to changes in weight status. Just as models of learning [26] emphasize the importance of analyzing and applying knowledge in the process of acquiring knowledge, it is important to consider how paraprofessionals trained to deliver the intervention may have utilized additional strategies past simply verbalizing the curriculum (e.g., applying intervention content to the unique children/parents in their groups). Future research should include videotaped or audiotaped session observations to allow for assessment of observer reliability as well as consider the potential for identifying less intensive training models that result in equally high levels of facilitator adherence. In addition, it would be valuable to move beyond evaluation of content adherence to examine both participant and facilitator understanding of content (and ability to apply content to real-life situations) as related to behavioral outcomes.
Competing interests
Elissa Jelalian has no financial disclosures.
Gary Foster is a consultant for UnitedHealth Group.
Amy Sato has no financial disclosures.
Kristoffer Berlin has no financial disclosures.
Cynthia McDermott is employed by the YMCA of Greater Providence.
Deborah Sundal is employed by UnitedHealth Group.
Authors' contributions
EJ contributed to the study design, data analysis and interpretation, and was primarily responsible for drafting the manuscript. GF contributed to study conception and design, interpretation of data, and assisted with drafting the manuscript. AS contributed to data acquisition, data analysis, and assisted with drafting the manuscript. KB performed the statistical analyses and contributed to drafting the manuscript. CM assisted with data acquisition and contributed to drafting the manuscript. DS contributed to study conception, data interpretation, and assisted with drafting the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors would like to thank the study participants, UnitedHealth Group Center for Health Reform and Modernization, YMCA of the USA, YMCA of Greater Providence and United Health Group's Scientific Advisory Board on Childhood Obesity (Robert I. Berkowitz, MD, Leonard H. Epstein, Ph.D., Elissa Jelalian, Ph.D., Marsha D. Marcus, PhD and Denise Wilfley, PhD).
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Lausanne, Switzerland, July 17, 2014 – Australia and nine-time winners Brazil commence their Final Six bids in the 2014 FIVB Volleyball World League at the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence, Italy, on Thursday. Brazil will renew its 2013 World League Finals rivalry with Russia in Pool I, while Finals first-timers Australia will play against USA, who are aiming to bounce back from a straight sets defeat against hosts Italy on Wednesday evening.
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Olaf Blanke, of the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, explains how it was done:
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Olaf Blanke, of the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, explains how it was done:
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If we depend on visual cues to locate ourselves within the body, where do blind people locate their sense of self? Are there more reports of a sense of dislocation, including out of body experiences, in the blind?
Thanks, Mo. I had read a BBC article about this experiment earlier today that implied our sense of location is mainly visual. If proprioception involves all sensory clues, this may be why so many people find VR a disorienting and irritating experience. It may take a holodeck to make it fun.
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The above article mistakenly described the experiences produced by the research teams as out-of-body experiences. The journal Science and Science News (AAAS) describe that �this week's issue of Science, two teams of cognitive neuroscientists independently report methods for inducing elements of an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers. � The operating word is elements. The experiences reported by the volunteers have 3 elements of some out-of-body experiences but they were not in fact out-of-body experiences � a distinct state of consciousness and neurophysiology from the normal waking state.
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Following the Gollum-themed TV spot from this weekend, New Line Cinema has unveiled yet another TV spot from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins, whose courage helps keep the darkness at bay, according to Ian McKellen's Gandalf. Take a look at the latest footage from director Peter Jackson's Middle Earth adventure, arriving in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D theaters this weekend, which finds Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) setting off on an adventure to save his people and his homeland.
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Hey guys I'm a uni student and I'm new to programming, I've never ever used loops before and I've been asked to create a programme where the user the user types in the time they want to take on their journey and then there is a list of three journeys in a text file. My application is going to calculate the time they want to take on their journey and then compare it to the three options, if the journey can be completed in one of the journeys then the result should be written on the screen and and to an output file called results.txt. If the journey can't be completed then it should only be written to the screen. The messages to the screen should only indicate if the journey is suitable of not.
This is the journey data:
Journey One
1 -Amount of changes
200 - Distance 90 -Time
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Journey Two
300 120
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50 75
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This is the format it is wanted in:
<journey name>
<c> // where c is the number of changes
<dn><sn> // for each leg n, dn is the distance and sn is the speed. Note n=(c+1).
This is what is needed in the programme:
• Writing To Files.
• Iterative Statements (while / for).
• Nested Loops.
• Conversion between decimal and 24 hour clock representations of time.
This is what I've done so far..
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
//This saves me writing std; all the way through the programme/
using namespace std;
int main ()
// Create an ifstream input stream for reading of data from the file./
ifstream outFile;
outFile.open("Task 3 data.txt", ifstream::in +ifstream::binary);
//These are the different variables I will use, I have appreviated these so it will be quicker for me to type them eg. j1l stands for journey1length./
int time, j1l, j2l, j3l, usermins, userhours;
cout <<"Journey Planner" <<endl;
//This will show this message on the screen and the user will enter how long they want to spend on their journey./
cout <<"Please enter the max time you would like to spend on your journey " <<endl;
cout <<"Hours" <<endl;
cin >> userhours;
cout <<"Minutes" <<endl;
cin >> usermins;
//This is going to show the user how many minutes they will be travelling for./
cout <<"The total time you will be traveling in minutes is " << userhours*60+usermins <<endl;
while (inFile)
I don't know where else to go from this so any help will be appreciated!
//This will keep the programme open./
return 0;
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The "Sehnsucht" cover, designed by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, shows ashen-faced band members bound, poked and disfigured by painful looking clamps and wires. The band's publicity photos are just as grisly
Jared Marske, 19 years old, heard the new album of a German band called Rammstein at a party and was hooked.
"It sounded really, really good loud," says Mr. Marske, who lives in Saugus, Calif., and attends a nearby community college. "The cover says something about death or destruction or something," he says. "I don't know what the message is."
The message is unusually stark and violent -- even in today's anything-goes world of rock music -- and it's making an unexpected splash in the U.S. In nine weeks on the U.S. pop charts, the group's album "Sehnsucht" ("Yearning") has risen to No. 49. That's the best showing for a German album since Nena and her record with "99 Luftballons"("99 Balloons") reached the No. 27 spot 14 years ago.
Nena sang of world peace; Rammstein sings songs with titles like "Du Hast" ("You Hate") and "Bestrafe Mich" ("Punish Me"). One of its songs -- "Tier" ("Animal") -- is a graphic number about father-daughter incest.
Teutonic Imagery
Heavy-metal bands have long used Teutonic imagery to create an allure. Motorhead spelled its name with an umlaut. Kiss used the typeface of Hitler's SS storm troopers. Rammstein takes the trend to a new extreme --and some U.S. fans are gobbling it up.
David Wilson, a 15-year-fan from Cleveland, found translations of Rammstein songs on the Internet. He says he took an instant liking to the music. "When I heard it, I said, 'Whoa, that's German. It's the first really different thing I've heard in a long time,' " he says.
The "Sehnsucht" cover, designed by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, shows ashen-faced band members bound, poked and disfigured by painful looking clamps and wires. The band's publicity photos are just as grisly.
Then there is the stage show. Using fire as his chief prop, lead singer Till Lindemann shoots sparks from his boots and gloves during concerts. The pyrotechnics pass muster with German authorities; but during a show in Chicago in May, local fire officials refused to let Rammstein perform unless it put away the matches.
Rammstein's videos are particularly controversial. "Stripped," its latest, uses footage from Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-sponsored film "Olympia."
When Rammstein was making its first video, it naively sent film director David Lynch a copy of its "Herzeleid" album and asked him to be the video's director. Mr. Lynch, who directed "Blue Velvet," itself controversial, turned down the job offer but found the music inspirational and used two of its songs in his film "Lost Highway."
Going Alternative
American radio has also embraced Rammstein. "Du Hast" was picked up first at stations playing "active rock," such as songs from Aerosmith and Pearl Jam. But in the past two months, Rammstein's U.S. label, London Records, says the song has crossed over to "alternative rock" radio. That's important since most alternative radio stations carry higher audience ratings. The album has sold more than 245,000 copies in the U.S.
"Rammstein will stand out on any playlist," says London's Wayne Pigini. "In Burlington, Vt., a station played it once, and the phones lit up for hours after that." The influential WXRK station in New York played it for the first time at 7 p.m.; the station told Mr. Pigini it was still getting phone calls through midnight.
Rammstein fans in the know say the "Sehnsucht" album is tamer than the band's debut album "Herzeleid"" ("Heartache"), which sold well in Germany but was never released in the U.S. Now London Records, part of the Polygram NV entertainment group, plans to re-release "Herzeleid" at some point.
The label enclosed cards in each "Sehnsucht" album, which buyers could send in for translations of the lyrics. Many did, and London will use the cards as a way to get the "Herzeleid" word out. "This is like having gold," Mr. Pigini says. "You have your Rammstein fans laid out in front of you on paper."
Rammstein guitarist and songwriter Richard Kruspe says he finds criticism of the band off the mark, particularly the attacks on the lyrics. "You can always take stuff out of the text and be provocative," he says. "You have to look at the entire lyrics."
'Punish Me'
In the case of "Animal," the band says the song is meant as a protest against pedophilia, not an endorsement. Mr. Kruspe suggests that instead of focusing on songs like "Punish Me," people should consider songs like "Klavier" ("Piano"), a gentle love song.
Some of the harshest criticism comes from Rammstein's home in Germany. "If there was a still a Third Reich, would a band like Rammstein appear at the 35th Nazi Party congress?" asked a Dresden entertainment magazine before a recent concert there. The Schweriner Volkszeitung, a German newspaper, observed that Mr. Lindemann rolls his "R"s like Hitler.
"Nonsense," Mr. Kruspe says. "I don't know why people keep saying that." But he worries the criticism will make it harder for other German acts to break through. "I think it is important that we give the impression that Germans make good music, and that there is more to Germany than National Socialism," he says.
MTV Germany studied the lyrics, talked to the band and came away satisfied that Rammstein is apolitical. "They aren't in any way connected with any right-wing activities," says Peter Ruppert, head of music programming. The criticism, he believes, is unavoidable for a band that draws inspiration from German culture. "You can't stop driving the Beetle because it was a car built by Hitler," he says.
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By AmyNovember 14, 2000 - 10:56 AM
Michael Marek of Cinescape has posted his review of last week's Voyager episode, 'Inside Man'. He quite like the episode, in a week where many reviewers have divided opinions, calling it "well plotted, strongly acted and enjoyable".
Dwight Schultz displays his wide range of acting skill, playing the obsessive Reg Barclay, as well has his debonair hologram. To entertain the Voyager crew the hologram also does effective parodies of Janeway and Tuvok. At the climax of the episode, Schultz also does a nice job as the obsessive Reg pretending to be the debonair hologram in order to deceive the Ferengi into closing the warp before Voyager can pass through.
We have complained before that Marina Sirtis deserves a more substantial role than just asking Reg "how does that make you feel?" In this episode, she uses her emotion-sensing ability to get the truth out of the Dabo girl.
Part of the charm of "Inside Man" is its liberal use of Next Gen references. We learn that Deanna and Wil Riker still vacation together, and that Reg and Deanna attended Geordi's birthday party recently. We also see a Ferengi Dabo girl in action, having previously pretended to be Reg's girlfriend in order to obtain the secrets of his hologram plan.
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I'm enjoing it more than the first one. I just finished beating Demyx(?) and I killed 1000 heartless in that mingame/mission thing. i love seeing the awesome combos Sora pulls off.
The Battle of 1000 Heartless was one of my favorite parts of the game. Actually, that whole section, with Leon/Cloud, fighting Demyx.. all great. I still prefer the original though.
And if it was actually hard. You can kill like 50 of them in one action command, and it is easy to never even get hit.
I enjoyed it because at the time, it hadn't really been done before. Atleast not in any games I played. It had such a large epic feeling to it. I think it was supposed to reflect Sora's strength against the Heartless, which could explain the lack of difficulty. Or it just easy because they wanted it to be easy. *shrug*
It blows your mind at first. 'I have to fight 1000 heartless? Pfffft, please, no way. I bet that's just an exaggerated number to scare me or something. Now onto the fight. HOLY CRAP, there IS 1000! Granted, I can pmow down 20 of them with one reaction command, but WOW.' Now, imagine how that fight would be if they used the original plans with it in the early trailer with Behemoths involved.
Taking down 1000 heartless apparently isn't that hard seeing that Donald and Goofy probably soloed them on there own too.
The 1,000 heartless battle was incredibly fun for me, I actually have a save file that takes me right to the battle so I can play it whenever I want. Enjoy the rest of the game! Oh and uh, good luck getting past Xaldin :/
Demyx is still a huge problem with me. It was torture during my Let's Play. I think I was underleveled, but I mostly lost because of the stupid timed parts of the battle. I didn't even notice I only had 10 seconds until there were only 4 seconds left. On the other hand, I completely wiped the floor with Xaldin... twice. Our disc had issues with a cutscene in Olympus Coliseum, and I didn't save so had to restart the battle. I also finally found out how to dodge that stupid huge wind attack he does. Too bad it was mostly a fluke and I usually don't get it.
The Luxord fight gets annoying if you get turned into a card or dice. The pirates of the caribbean level was unique in how you could only beat the Pirates in moonlight, tedious if you were level grinding.
It is definitely a good game. While I don't really speak too highly of it I enjoyed it my first time playing, so it must've done something right When I pick up KH2, I feel more like I'm about to watch a great movie than play a great game. In the three times I've played through the game, I've never taken a hit during the Battle of 1000 Heartless. It's wicked easy, but it makes me feel a heartless slaying deity. BTW: have fun fighting Sephiroth
Not going to bother doing Sephiroth now. I finished KH 2 in time so I can start BBS for the first time and replay Days because I dont rememeber what happens.
BbS is so good. Easily my favorite entry to the series so far. Best combat, IMO. Put it on Proud for your first time through, it's so worth it, plus beating it on proud 3 times (as the different characters) will net you the final episode.
I did Ventus, Aqua, Terra on critical. It was so worth it to get the final episode without having to do a bunch of extra stuff
The 1000 Heartless Battle was pretty fun, but I really do wish they went with the version in the original trailer. I would have loved to see some Shadow of the Colossus like battle with a Behemoth over a sea of other Heartless on the ground... But sadly it seemed like the PS2 could barely handle it as it was. I was always bothered by the fact that the Kingdom Key showed up in the cutscene and there was no "sparkle" effect when it reappeared after a reaction command, but I guess that was just for technical limitations of the time. I've never understood why people have found Demyx or Xaldin hard though. Demyx I can at least see dying on that one water clone part, I did a couple of times when I was caught off guard by it. Xaldin is a breeze though. I had him down to one hit and I let myself die the first time through because I wanted to see what this whole playing as King Mickey business was about.
kh2 is awsome.. but i like kh1 better cause i feel like there was more to it than mashing the X button in combat
You know Tetsuya Nomura said if he had to cut out one part of the game it would be the 1000 heartless event? Odd since most people seem to like it.
The 1000 Heartless battle is one of the greatest moments in KH...even if it was obscenely easy. was pretty heart-wrenching too, and a great leadup to that battle, since it really just pisses you off before you get there
You should try Xaldin out on proud mode. I found the 1000 Heartless battle so amazing. When goofy got hit on the head i couldn't believe he was dead. When i got to the crystal part i found it was a massive middle finger up at me when Goofy came back alive... KH2 was generally a good game
I just loved how past paced Kingdom Hearts II was. If they could implement the same thing in Kingdom Hearts III, but increase the difficulty significantly, I would be very pleased.
Kinda like what was done with birth by sleep and Dream Drop Distance with the use of a deck command, it minimizes the need to button mash and allows more effective strategy in combat. Making the game play still challenging and fun.


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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The election of Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi has sent shivers through many among India's 150-million strong Muslim community, but neighbouring Pakistan is cautiously hopeful for a thaw in long-fraught ties.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is himself a centre-right leader, has hailed Modi's "impressive victory" which saw the hardliner gain an outright majority in India's parliament for the first time in 30 years.
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Hello I ve installed Litespeed on my Debian & Plesk Panel server btw i did setup the user and group in the install progress as www-data because there is no apache user and group ( i guess ur guide in wiki page is out dated ? ) . And then when compile PHP i have this error checking for specified location of the MySQL UNIX socket... no configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under yes. Note that the MySQL client library is not bundled anymore! **ERROR** Could not configure PHP build And inside the Litespeed Web admin console i got this error Found 2 warning/error messages in the log: More Time Level Message 2010-06-20 03:36:15.937 ERROR [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:137] Invalid user name: ${APACHE_RUN_USER}! 2010-06-20 03:36:15.937 ERROR [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:138] Invalid group name: ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}! Pls help me Thanks so much
You need to install the "dev" package for mysql, you need to find out the package name of you system. it could be libmysqlclient-dev, mysql-dev etc.
Not sure about the Apache_run_user and Apache_run_group error, does plesk uses mod_macro? Mod_macro support is in 4.1RC3 only.
Thanks for quick reply i ve fixed the issue with php compile by install the libmysqlclient-dev ( i did some research myself on google ) . For the error 2010-06-20 03:36:15.937 ERROR [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:137] Invalid user name: ${APACHE_RUN_USER}! 2010-06-20 03:36:15.937 ERROR [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:138] Invalid group name: ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}! i dont know if the problem caused because i set the user and group in Litespeed to www-data ???
Please post the configuration around line 137 138 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. see if it is in a macro or something.
This is line 136 137 138 pls help # These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars User ${APACHE_RUN_USER} Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP} Btw i think maybe because of wrong User/Group setting , when i swich to Litespeed i can not upload image ???? i got this message Whenever i swich back to Apache i can upload just fine . With Litespeed music file upload i can still upload no problem =.= so i dont know/understand what is problem here , i can upload music files but not image file =.= ?
As long as you install LSWS as the same user/group that being set in /etc/apache2/envvars, then it is fine, you can ignore those warnings. The second error, maybe due to missing PHP modules or something. If you use suphp or PHP suEXEC with Apache, you need to turn on PHP suEXEC in LSWs, otherwise, turn PHP suEXEC off.
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