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To compare the incidence of wasting, stunting and mortality among children aged 6 to 36 mo receiving preventive supplementation with either ready-to-use-supplementary-foods (RUSF) or ready-to-use-therapeutic-foods (RUTF).
Children aged 6 to 36 mo in 12 villages of Maradi, Niger (n = 1645) received a monthly distribution of RUSF (247 kcal / 3 spoons / day) for 6 mo or RUTF (500 kcal sachet / day) for 4 mo. We compared the incidence of wasting, stunting, and mortality among children receiving preventive supplementation with RUSF vs. RUTF.
The effectiveness of RUSF supplementation depended on receipt of a previous preventive intervention. In villages where a preventive supplementation program was previously implemented, the RUSF strategy was associated with a 46% (95% CI: 6% to 69%) and 59% (95% CI: 17% to 80%) reduction in wasting and severe wasting, respectively. In contrast, in villages where the previous intervention was not implemented, we found no difference in the incidence of wasting or severe wasting by type of supplementation. Compared to the RUTF strategy, the RUSF strategy was associated with a 19% (95% CI: 0% to 34%) reduction in stunting overall.
We found that the relative performance of a 6-mo RUSF supplementation strategy vs. 4-mo RUTF strategy varied with receipt of a previous nutritional intervention. Contextual factors will continue to be important in determining the dose and duration of supplementation that will be most effective, acceptable, and sustainable for a given setting.
In recent years, ready-to-use-therapeutic-foods (RUTF) have transformed the treatment of child malnutrition. These energy-dense micronutrient spreads often made of peanuts, oil, sugar, and milk powder have been shown effective in the treatment of severe wasting in children and have made large-scale community-based care and treatment possible (1–5). The acceptability and effectiveness of RUTF have led to the development of a variety of new, targeted ready-to-use spreads, including ready-to-use-supplementary-foods (RUSF). RUSF were developed to serve as a supplement to traditional complementary foods and were specifically designed with the prevention of malnutrition among children aged 6 to 36 mo in mind. Compared to RUTF, which provide large quantities of energy and the micronutrients needed by children with severe wasting, RUSF provide lower energy and the recommended daily allowance of micronutrients when combined with the local diet in a small daily dose of spread (Table 1). The RUSF formulation developed for use in prevention, rather than treatment, and the lower cost relative to RUTF have contributed to an increasing interest in the use of RUSF within nutritional programs.
In April 2007, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) initiated a preventive program in which supplementation with the new RUSF formulation was offered to children aged 6 to 36 mo during the months preceding the harvest season throughout the district of Guidan Roumdji, Niger (6). In order to assess the effectiveness of preventive supplementation with RUSF vs. RUTF, we used data collected in 6 villages in Guidan Roumdji that received RUSF through the district-wide program and 6 villages in the district of Madarounfa that received preventive supplementation with RUTF. In this study, we present a comparison of the incidence of wasting, stunting and mortality over 12 mo of follow-up among children aged 6 to 36 mo receiving preventive supplementation with either RUSF or RUTF.
Starting in August 2006, 3533 children aged 6 to 60 mo were enrolled in a cluster randomized trial to examine the effectiveness of short-term supplementation of RUTF in the prevention of wasting. Details of the trial design have been previously published (7). Briefly, non-malnourished children with weight-for-height ≥80% of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reference median in 6 randomly selected villages in the Maradi region of Niger (3 in the Madarounfa district and 3 in the Guidan Roumdji district) received a monthly distribution of RUTF (1 sachet per day, 92 g [500 kcal]; Plumpy'nut; Nutriset, Malaunay, France) for 3 mo preceding the harvest (August to October). Children in 6 other villages (3 in the Madarounfa district and 3 in Guidan Roumdji district) received no preventive supplementation. Surveillance activities, including anthropometric measurements and physical examinations, were conducted on a monthly basis by field teams in each of the 12 study villages. In April 2007, after 8 mo of follow-up, the trial was interrupted due to the observed benefit of supplementation with RUTF to reduce the incidence of wasting.
With the successful implementation of a community-based prevention program using RUTF and the development of products specifically designed for prevention in young children, MSF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, initiated a district-wide preventive program in Guidan Roumdji using the new RUSF formulation. In the preventive program, all children 60–85 cm tall (aged 6 to 36 mo) were eligible for participation in a monthly distribution of RUSF (3 spoons per day, 46.3 g [247 kcal]; Plumpy'doz; Nutriset, Malaunay, France) from May to October 2007 (6 mo, Figure 1). Children aged 6 to 36 mo were targeted for supplementation with RUSF as this formulation was specifically developed for children of this age according to the manufacturer. Monthly distributions of RUSF were made in 325g pots (1 pot = 1 weekly ration per child) at sites located within walking distance from each village. At the time of RUSF distribution through the preventive program, nutrition assistants also screened children in attendance for mid-upper arm circumference < 110 mm or edema and referred children to the MSF nutritional treatment program when indicated.
To allow for a comparison of the RUSF supplementation strategy being implemented in Guidan Roumdji vs. RUTF, we continued monthly follow-up activities in the 12 study villages of the previous trial (6 in Guidan Roumdji and 6 in Madarounfa) and continued the preventive distribution of RUTF to children aged 6 to 60 mo from July to October 2007 (4 mo) in the 6 study villages of Madarounfa. Monthly distributions of RUTF were made in individual sachets (1 sachet = 1 daily ration per child) and took place at the same location and time as monthly follow-up activities. As the preventive supplement strategy was determined at the village-level, children were eligible to receive only one type of preventive supplementation and there was no overlap between the two interventions. Supplement distributions were made directly to care givers with instructions to ensure that the target child consumed the amount prescribed by the study per day (e.g. 1 sachet of RUTF or 3 spoons of RUSF). Actual intake by the target child was not directly observed.
All children aged ≤ 60 mo in the 12 study villages were followed on a monthly basis from April 2007 to March 2008. At monthly follow-up visits, trained nutrition assistants carried out anthropometric measurements with the use of standardized methods and calibrated instruments. Child height (recumbent length if <85 cm) was measured to the nearest 0.1 cm using a wooden measurement board. Weight was measured to the nearest 0.1 kg using a hanging Salter scale. Any child found with weight-for-height Z score (WHZ) < -3 of the WHO growth standards (weight-for-height < 70% of the NCHS reference median in April 2007) or with medical complications at a follow-up visit was referred to the nutritional program or neighboring governmental health facility, respectively, for treatment provided at no cost. In 2007, there were 6 nutritional outpatient centers operated by MSF in Guidan Roumdji and 2 in Madarounfa. If a child did not present for the monthly follow-up visit in the village, the head of village provided the cause of absence. If a child had died, the cause of death was provided by a family member or the head of village.
Children aged 6 to 36 mo at baseline in the 12 study villages comprise the cohort in which we compare the RUSF supplementation strategy (247 kcal / 3 spoons / day for 6 mo) to the RUTF supplementation strategy (500 kcal / sachet / day for 4 mo) with regards to the incidence of wasting, stunting and mortality over 12 mo. Our endpoints specifically included wasting (WHZ < −2), severe wasting (WHZ < −3), stunting (height-for-age Z score (HAZ) < −2), and severe stunting (HAZ < −3) according to the WHO growth standards (8), and mortality. Mortality events included all reports for which the cause for absence from surveillance visits was reported to be death by a family member or the head of village.
We examined the distribution of baseline (April 2007) characteristics by supplementation strategy using generalized estimating equations to adjust standard errors for clustering at the village-level. Next, we explored the association between supplementation strategy and the incidence of wasting, stunting and mortality among children aged 6 to 36 mo at baseline. Among children free from the outcome at baseline, we estimated hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) using marginal Cox proportional hazards models with time from recruitment to the event (wasting, stunting, or death) as the outcome and calendar month as the time scale. All 95% CIs used robust estimates of the variance to account for clustering at the village-level. Children contributed person-time to the analysis from baseline (April 2007) until the first occurrence of the outcome or the end of study (March 2008).
Propensity score adjustment was used to assess the effect of potential confounders (9–11) We estimated the propensity score in the full cohort using a logistic regression in which we estimated the probability of receiving the RUSF supplementation strategy given the baseline characteristics that were a priori considered to be potential confounders or were associated with the supplementation strategy in univariate analyses at P < 0.20 (12). This included child's age at baseline (6–11, 12–23, 24–36 mo), sex, baseline WHZ and HAZ (continuous), previous episode of malnutrition as reported by mother upon recruitment (yes/no), child's sleeping under bed net as reported by mother upon recruitment (yes/no), malaria diagnosis at previous visit (yes/no), being breastfed ≥6 mo (yes/no), maternal age (13–19, 20–29, ≥30y), maternal education (yes/no), maternal BMI (<18.5, 18.5–24.9, ≥25), parity, more than one co-spouse in the household (yes/no), and number of children in household aged < 5 y (0–1, 2–3, ≥4) (c statistic = 0.71). Indicators for quartile categories of the propensity score were included as independent variables in each outcome model. When considering the potentially confounding effects of child's age, sex, and baseline WHZ and HAZ, there was no difference when using traditional multivariate or propensity score adjustment. In models for stunting, severe stunting, and mortality, we additionally adjusted for intervention status from the previous trial.
In the cohort analysis reported here, we considered that the performance of the RUSF strategy may be modified by receipt of the previous nutritional intervention (7), owing to differences in nutritional status, food security environment or use of the supplement within the household associated with the previous intervention experience. To assess the potential interaction between the previous intervention in the randomized trial and subsequent preventive strategy using RUSF or RUTF, we compared Cox models with and without a cross-product term for previous and subsequent supplementation strategies using a partial likelihood ratio test for the wasting and stunting outcomes. The interaction was not assessed for mortality due to limited power. P≤0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analyses were conducted using SAS version 9.1 (SAS Institute Inc, Cary, North Carolina).
The study protocol was approved by the Government of Niger and the Comité de Protection des Personnes, "Ile-de-France XI", France, and the study was authorized by the Ministry of Health of Niger. Approval from all heads of villages was received prior to the start of the study, and the objectives of the study and study protocol were explained to heads of households with eligible children before inclusion. An informed consent statement was read aloud in the local dialect before being signed or fingerprinted by the head of household or child care giver.
A total of 1645 children, corresponding to 1151 households, were included in the analysis. Nineteen percent of children were aged < 12 mo at baseline and 40% were aged between 12 and 23 mo. The mean age (± SD) of children's mothers was 25.7 y (±6.4), and educational attainment was low, with a minority of mothers (4%) ever attending school. On average, children receiving RUSF were slightly older (P = 0.03) and had lower WHZ scores at baseline (P = 0.05) (Table 2). The prevalence of stunting and presence of morbidities did not significantly differ by supplementation strategy at baseline. During the 12 mo surveillance period, children contributed a total of 19,234 mo to follow-up for the survival endpoint, with a median of 12 visits per child (mean 11.2 ± 2.1). The number of children with anthropometric measurements in April, July, October 2007, and January 2008 was 772, 754, 754, and 725 within the RUSF strategy and 873, 868, 854, 846 within the RUTF strategy, respectively. More children in the RUSF strategy, compared to the RUTF strategy, were in villages that received the previous nutritional intervention (50.3% vs. 43.9%). On average, children had higher WHZ scores (−0.76 Z ± 1.07 vs. −0.93 Z ± 1.10) and HAZ scores (−2.24 Z ± 1.04 vs. −2.56 Z ± 1.15) at baseline in villages where the nutritional intervention was previously implemented.
We found that the previous nutritional intervention modified the association between subsequent preventive strategy and the risk of wasting (P for interaction = 0.002) and severe wasting (P for interaction = 0.05). In villages that did not receive the previous intervention, we found no difference in the incidence of wasting (adjusted HR: 1.31, 95% CI: 0.59 to 2.91) or severe wasting (adjusted HR: 1.21, 95% CI: 0.69 to 2.14) by supplementation strategy (Table 3). On the other hand, in villages that received the previous intervention, the RUSF strategy was associated with a lower risk of wasting (adjusted HR: 0.54, 95% CI: 0.31 to 0.94) and severe wasting (adjusted HR: 0.41, 95% CI: 0.20 to 0.83) when compared to the RUTF strategy.
Among those children not stunted at baseline, there were fewer stunting events associated with the RUSF strategy, compared to the RUTF strategy. After adjustment, the RUSF strategy was associated with a 19% (95% CI: 0% to 34%) reduction in the incidence of stunting. We found no difference in the incidence of severe stunting by supplementation strategy, and no interaction with the previous intervention was observed for the incidence of stunting (P for interaction = 0.36) or severe stunting (P for interaction = 0.49). We found no difference in mortality between supplementation strategies.
This study examined differences in the incidence of wasting, stunting, and mortality among children aged 6 to 36 mo that received preventive supplementation with either RUSF or RUTF. To our knowledge, this is the first study to provide information on the relative performance of preventive supplementation strategies in young children using RUSF vs. RUTF to reduce the occurrence of malnutrition and mortality in young children. This study draws from an extensive surveillance database that included a relatively large number of children and high rates of follow-up (< 4% of follow-up visits missed). Application of propensity score methods to control for confounding by a number of measured factors allows the use of these unique data to inform the ongoing discussion on the use of RUSF within nutritional programs while randomized trial data become available.
This study, however, has several limitations. In addition to the dose, the two preventive strategies under comparison differ in important ways, including the duration of supplementation, mode and time of initiation of distributions, and age of children eligible for supplementation. The frequency of anthropometric screening also differed by strategy, with children receiving the RUSF strategy screened twice as often as those receiving the RUTF strategy owing to screening at both the RUSF distribution sites and monthly follow-up visits. As a result, our conclusions relate to the relative performance of the two preventive strategies overall, rather than the individual products. In addition, this comparison involves children from different districts. The study districts may differ with respect to baseline nutritional status, malaria endemicity, frequency of additional food aid distributions (e.g. corn-soy blend and oil), proximity to medical and nutritional care, and other unmeasured factors that influence the health and survival of children. While we are unable to ensure the comparability of children between districts owing to the non-randomized nature of the study, we do have information on a number of potential confounders. Adjustment for baseline anthropometry and other measured factors did not substantially alter our conclusions. Finally, we do not have complete data on compliance or supplement use within the household and thus cannot know if the supplement was consumed as intended by the target child.
We found that the effectiveness of preventive supplementation varied with the village experience with a previous nutritional intervention. The mechanisms underlying this interaction are unclear, but they are more likely related to contextual factors related to the village experience with the previous intervention than to individual factors associated with intake, such as baseline nutritional status. Children in villages where the previous nutritional intervention was implemented were of better nutritional status (measured by higher WHZ scores), and it is plausible that duration of supplementation may contribute more to improvements in weight gain than dose among children of better nutritional status. However, the effect of the supplementation strategy on the incidence of wasting or severe wasting was not modified by baseline WHZ or HAZ in supplemental analyses (data not shown). The interaction by previous intervention also persisted in the subgroup of children who were not eligible for the previous intervention due to their young age, again indicating that village-, rather than individual-level, factors associated with the previous intervention may contribute to the observed interaction.
In villages with previous experience with RUTF supplementation, RUTF may have been used as a replacement (as opposed to a complement) to habitual family meals or breast milk or shared with other household members. Either scenario could have contributed to lower energy intake with RUTF in villages where the previous intervention was implemented. Increased energy intake has previously been associated with increased weight gain (13, 14), and the energy provided by RUSF is within the range (200–300 kcal/day, assuming average breast milk intake) that older infants require from complementary foods (15). Previous evaluations of RUSF supplementation have been consistent in demonstrating improved weight gain in a variety of study populations and against a range of comparator products, including micronutrient fortified flours and porridge (16–18).
We found that the 6-mo RUSF strategy was related to a reduction in the incidence of stunting relative to the 4-mo RUTF strategy. It is possible that the duration, rather than the dose, of supplementation may contribute more to the maintenance of linear growth associated with the RUSF strategy. Although the impact of previous complementary feeding interventions on linear growth has been inconsistent (19–22), ourstudy is consistent with the limited evidence specific to RUSF. RUSF was related to greater length gain compared to micronutrient-fortified flour among children aged 6–18 mo in Malawi (17), a micronutrient-only supplement among older infants in Ghana (13), and an unfortified spread among stunted children aged 3-6 y in Algeria (23).
Owing to the interruption of the earlier trial, this study compared the performance of two preventive strategies in the context of whether or not a nutritional intervention was implemented in the previous year. The finding that previous intervention can modify the effectiveness of a nutritional program underscores that contextual factors should be considered early in program development, as the most effective dose and duration of supplementation may depend on the particular context of the program setting. Our findings suggest that there may be some settings in which there is no appreciable difference in the prevention of wasting between strategies that provide lower energy for longer duration and those that provide higher energy for shorter periods. However, the non-significant trend towards an increased risk of both wasting and severe wasting among children receiving the RUSF strategy in villages without the previous intervention is of concern. This should be confirmed in other studies.
Randomized trials that allow for direct estimation of the preventive effect of RUSF on the anthropometric and micronutrient status of young children are warranted. As age and nutritional status continue to be important predictors of nutritional outcomes, studies designed to compare the effectiveness of RUSF by age and nutritional status are also needed to identify groups in which supplementation is most effective and could be targeted. Finally, cost-effectiveness studies are required to help guide the choice of the strategy according to the context. While preventive strategies using RUSF for longer durations may be appropriate in some settings owing to its lower costs ($ 0.19/dose/day for RUSF vs. $ 0.37/dose/day for RUTF, written communication Stéphane Doyon, MSF, Paris, France, February 2009), the extended duration of such strategies will have additional indirect costs and programmatic implications.
We found that the relative performance of a 6-mo RUSF supplementation strategy vs. 4-mo RUTF strategy varied with receipt of a previous nutritional intervention. Contextual factors will continue to be important in determining the dose and duration of supplementation that will be most effective, acceptable, and sustainable for a given setting. As we continue to better understand the implications of supplementation with ready-to-use foods, their targeted use in community-based preventive programs could contribute to important improvements in child nutrition.
We thank the Ministry of Health of Niger, in particular Dr. Amina Yaya (Nutrition Division) and the Regional Public Health Office of Maradi, in particular Dr. Mahamane Laouali Manzo, for their support of this project. We thank the field teams of Epicentre and Médecins Sans Frontières, our dedicated teams of translators, research nurses and nutritional assistants for their support in gathering data. In particular, we wish to thank the Program Director, Isabelle Defourny, MD (Médecins Sans Frontières), for her critical and precious insight into the operation of the MSF program in Niger and support of this research and Elodie Marchand, RN (Epicentre) and Nael Lapidus, MD (Epicentre), for their dedication and work on ensuring the data collection in this study. André Briend, MD, PhD (World Health Organization) and Andrea Minetti, MD (Epicentre) provided important comments on the draft of this manuscript. No individual has received compensation for this study.
Conflict of interest: None declared.
Financial disclosure: This study was supported by Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). Sheila Isanaka was supported by the Berkowitz Fellowship in Public Health Nutrition, the Caroline Cady Hewey Fund of Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health (grant R25 CA098566). Francisco Luquero and Nohelly Nombela were supported by the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden. MSF reviewed the final study protocol as described here and had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data or preparation of the manuscript.
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For those not familiar the scope of the Linux Foundation is growing. Linux Foundation now hosts Collaborative Projects which are independently funded software projects facilitate collaborative development across industries and ecosystems. By spreading the collaborative DNA of the largest collaborative software development project in history, The Linux Foundation provides the essential collaborative and organizational framework so project hosts can focus on innovation and results.
The founding members of the Daylight project include some of the industries biggest IT players each at different levels of support.
- Platinum: Big Switch, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, Juniper, Microsoft, Red Hat
- Gold : NEC, VMware
- Silver: Arista Networks, Dell, Fujitsu, Nuage Networks, Plumgrid
The first code from the OpenDaylight Project is expected to be released in 3Q13 and expected donations and projects include an open controller, a virtual overlay network, protocol plug-ins and switch device enhancements. A variety of companies and organizations are already proposing contributions or considering open sourcing key technologies that will be reviewed by the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee (TSC) for possible inclusion in the project. Here's an overview of the architecture of Open Daylight, which will be a pluggable controller platform that provides a north bound API (Open Daylight's RESTful API) and a Southbound Service Abstraction Layer (SAL).
The thing that is exciting is that virtually every major networking player is planning on providing their input and technology to drive a very robust open networking platform. The following list is but a few of the contributions:
- Cisco has contributed controller technology to the Project including an Application Framework and Service Abstraction Layer (SAL). This provides basic controller functionality with support for southbound plug-ins to communicate with network devices using various protocols including OpenFlow, the ability to integrate controller applications as modules, and a set of REST APIs that expose the controller capabilities.
- Citrix has contributed an application controller that integrates Layer 4-7 network services for enabling application awareness and comprehensive control into the OpenDaylight Project. This will help simplify network administration by enabling a prescriptive, app-driven approach for defining networking policy and topology and automating network configuration. Citrix has also committed to contributing a plug-in for OpenDaylight into the Apache CloudStack project.
- IBM intends to submit an open source version of its Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE) technology(presentation by IBM fellow Renatio Recio last year on DOVE) as its initial contribution. DOVE is designed to work on top of existing network infrastructures to help simplify the process of setting up, managing and scaling virtual networks for faster and more flexible delivery of cloud, analytics, mobile and social business services.
- NEC intends to propose its Virtual Tenant Networking (VTN) model and application in Q2 of 2013, which enables users to create and manage multi-tenant virtual networks.
- It's also very exciting to see Red Hat add their open source credibility and participate in the OpenDaylight Project community to build and deliver an SDN solution integrated with OpenStack, Linux and KVM.
There are so many contributions beyond that, too many to list but Alacatel's Nauge Networks, Arista, Brocade, Ericsson, and Jupiter are signed up as well.
Here's a little video on Project Daylight produced by some of the Project Daylight marketing team explaining the philosophy and genesis of Open daylight .
Related Links:
- OpenDaylight Announcement
- Twitter – @OpenDaylightSDN
- OpenDaylight on Google+
- OpenDaylight on Facebook
- Wall Street Journal -Vendors Hope Open Source Jolts Sluggish SDN Market
- Linux.com - OpenDaylight Project Marks New Dawn for Software-Defined Networking
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Questing France is an elegant and thoughtful firsthand account of Self discovery through the process of confronting infidelity, marital separation and reconciliation. The story builds up to a romantic and emotionally charged finale where Marilyn and her husband celebrate twenty-five years of marriage with a luxurious trip through France. Relationship skills and travel tips are shared.
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In September 2005, Abbie Johnson married Bill Taylor, 19 years her senior and blind. Three months later, he suffered the first of two strokes that confined him to a wheelchair. Here, the author tells the story of how she met, married, and then cared for Bill for six years, detailing both the happy times and the hard ones. After one month in a nursing home, Bill Taylor passed away in October 2012.
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In Hemingway's Room is not a literary overview of Hemingway's work nor is it a definitive biographical study, it is a collection of stories about one of the most adventurous hotel lovers the world has ever known gathered by a fellow hotel lover who could never get enough of Hemingway hotel stories when he heard them.
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Another short simple memoir from my life. In this very short story, I find myself stuck in the hospital, sharing a room with an irate and bitter old man. Location: Centennial Medical Center in Frisco, Texas. Warning...contains a few uses of profanity.
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Autobiographical reflections of a former NFL Player from Super Bowl XIV. This book is a must read for aspiring football players. It provides invaluable insights and advice for ball players at any age from secondary school through college. It is a great tool for those who want a Super Bowl ring.
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With warmth, humor and photos, Warren Philipson recalls his 70 years with pets--dogs, fish, turtles, gerbils, a parakeet, a horned lizard, salamanders and especially cats. Of the latter, you'll meet cerebral Lassie, disappearing Rex, the lesser intelligent Boss, and Henry, who so intimidates a pet sitter with 20 years' experience, she is unable to enter the house.
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Genovese Crime Family Defendants 1959 Narcotics Conspiracy Trial by Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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My e-book looks at each of the defendants in the 1959 narcotics trial. Some defendants like Vincent the Chin Gigante had most of their criminal careers in front of them. Others like Genovese were nearing the end of their organized crime influence. Genovese died in prison following his conviction. A single woman defendant, Jean Capece was a friend of the DiPalermo brothers, Charles and Joseph.
Brother Harold by Joe Garner Turman
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God took Brother Harold Witmer from the farm fields of Pennsylvania and made him counselor and confidant to some of the world's most powerful and influential people. Brother Harold is an ordinary person, but there is nothing ordinary about his extraordinary faith in action. A prominent church leader described Brother Harold: "Persons like him come along once in a lifetime."
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One day, after years interviewing strangers in my job as a journalist, I started wondering what it would be like to interview people I know. I rounded up twelve of my bravest friends. I gave them baked goods, hot drinks and questions; they gave me their stories. This is the result.


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A prize-winning entry by Physical Facilities in a Green Week poster session will help fund a "green roof" project by the student organization Boiler Green Initiative. The decision to donate the $250 prize is a sign of appreciation for BGI's energy, commitment and leadership, says Robin Mills Ridgway, environmental regulatory consultant and co-chair of the Sustainability Council at Purdue.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 25, 2016 - Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has named a national research university and a consortium of New Mexico universities to its team competing for the Sandia National Laboratories Management and Operating contract. Purdue University, New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will play key roles in Sandias specialized research and development and technology transfer initiatives. Each university will provide expert personnel and facilities to advance Sandias dynamic research and development programs, which are on the cutting edge of nuclear deterrence, cyber security, energy technologies, non-proliferation and advanced computing. In addition, the new team arrangements will allow students and faculty from the universities to interact more strategically at Sandia to promote collaboration, innovation and talent development. Sandias hallmark is nationwide impact coupled with strong New Mexico roots, and weve built a team that reflects that character while positioning the Labs to meet the needs of a dynamic national security environment, said Rick Ambrose, chair of the Sandia Corporation board of directors and executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems. Our goal is to help the National Nuclear Security Administration further solidify Sandias role as a national asset by bringing in even stronger R&D partnerships, improving the national security talent pipeline and sparking small business growth through a robust commercialization program.Read Full Story


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New York: A travel ban for the New York area was lifted on Sunday but Washington remained at a standstill after a blizzard paralysed the northeastern United States, killing at least 19 people.
The storm was the second-biggest in New York history, with 68 centimetres of snow in Central Park by midnight on Saturday, just shy of the record 68.3 centimetres set in 2006, the National Weather Service said.
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Also, unlike previous titles, Tails actually reaps benefits from collecting ''just one'' Chaos Emerald (an increase in HP and Flight stamina).The Japanese manual says this game [[{{Prequel}} takes place on Cocoa Island before Tails first met Sonic]], while the western manual says it takes place after Sonic and Tails' last adventure and Tails is on vacation on Tails Island.It has a comic book tie-in in ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic Universe]]'', though it took a few liberties with the plot (such as it is). The Battle Kukku Army, referred to as the Battle Bird Armada, has since taken on a role as one of the major villain groups in Archie's ''Sonic'' series.----!! ''Tails Adventure'' features the following tropes:* AbsenteeActor: This is one of the very few games in the series where both Sonic and Robotnik are completely absent. The backstory for the US game mentions Sonic in passing, but the Japanese backstory justifies this due to the game being a prequel that takes place before Tails met Sonic. There ''is'' an item in the game called Sonic with his face on it, and it lets do you a spin-dash like move, but that's it.* ADayInTheLimelight: Tails.* AdaptationalWimp: To fit in with the slower paced action RPG gameplay, Tails' default flight ability and speed are extremely nerfed compared to how he plays in the standard Sonic games. While the Chaos Emeralds considerably beef up his flight, even the Sonic item doesn't make him move as fast.* AwesomeButImpractical: The Knuckles item.* BunglingInventor: [[spoiler:Tails is shown in this light in the closing credits.]]* BusmansHoliday: In the western manual's story, this game takes place during Tails' vacation.* TheCameo: While Sonic and Knuckles do not appear in person, two items, the Sonic Item and the Knuckles Item, have their faces adorned on them.* CoolBoat[=/=]CoolAirship: The Sea Fox.* ComicBookAdaptation: Issues #16-18 of Archie's ''Sonic Universe'' comic.* ConvectionSchmonvection: Used in the Poloy Forest level. The entire forest has been set ablaze, but Tails strolls through without breaking a sweat or running into a lick of the flames. The flamethrower robot at the end of the level is another story.* ContinuitySnarl: The Japanese backstory says that this game is a prequel set before Tails met Sonic, but the game includes not only an item styled after Sonic, but an item styled after Knuckles as well.* DropTheHammer: The (Pikkon) Hammer item.* EndGameResultsScreen: Post-credits, the game shows you your item collection ratio.* GadgeteerGenius: Tails is able to convert the Remote Robot so it [[TransformingMecha changes into a submarine)]].* GaidenGame: A spinoff that features Tails as the main protagonist.* HitboxDissonance: Napalm Bombs, hornets, and hornet hives behave strangely together. Napalm Bombs will damage both of these things (including the big one that appears from destroying the hive) as long as they occupy the same vertical space. Even if it the sprite passes well under them, it'll damage them for no apparent reason.* InfiniteSupplies: Tails never seems to run out of bombs.* KidHero: Tails.* {{Leitmotif}}: The title screen music is woven into a couple of other tunes in the game, serving as a somewhat downplayed leitmotif for Tails. * {{Metroidvania}}* NightVisionGoggles: An item you can get that is required for one level.* OddballInTheSeries: A Sonic game that not only isn't centered around speed, but is a slow paced {{Metroidvania}} with mild RPG elements sandwiched in instead of a linear arcade like platformer. To say the least, it's a drastic change of pace for the series.* {{Prequel}}: According to the Japanese manual, this game takes place before Tails met Sonic.* TheRival: Speedy.* RobotBuddy: The Remote Robot.* RobotMe: The Remote Robot. Its name is even "Mecha Tails" when playing on a Japanese Game Gear.* SelfImposedChallenge: Beating the game with only one Chaos Emerald collected.[[note]]The one the game forces on you at Polly Mountain 1.[[/note]] This leaves you with only 20 HP and a 6-second flight timer[[note]]this can be circumvented by immediately pressing the jump button to re-fly as you start to fall[[/note]] to tackle the rather relentless latter half of the game. A total low-item completion run (using only the mandatory equipment) is also possible, to a point - [[MacrossMissileMassacre the underwater cannon gauntlet]] that leads to Kukku Island is so punishing that getting through without the [[NighInvulnerable Mirror Armor]] is almost impossible.* SoundTest: The Radio item acts as a portable Sound Test that you can use during gameplay.* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut]]'' summary, Cocoa Island and Great Battle Kukku were properly translated, but they were respectively mistranslated as "Kokko Island" and "Great Badoru Kukku" in the ''Sonic Gems Collection'' manual. Also, Kukku Island is similarly known as Coco Island when the game is set to English - which may mean that it was supposed to be "Cuckoo".* StuffBlowingUp: Tails uses bombs as his main weapons.* ThisIsADrill: The Sea Fox's drill bit.* TransformingMecha: In three areas, the Remote Robot can transform into the Sea Fox.* OverlordJr: Speedy is said to be the son of the leader of the Kukku army.* TheUnfought: In the Archie comic adaptation, Tails doesn't even ''meet'' [[BigBad Grand Battle Kukku XV]].* VillainOfTheWeek: The Battle Kukku Army, in one of the very rare occasions where Dr. Robotnik is not the villain of a Sonic game and is completely absent from one.* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys----


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