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He was born Sept. 7, 1935, in Lakemont to the late Marlon and Wilda Nations Wilbanks.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Wilbanks was preceded in death by: his wife, Mary Westbook Wilbanks; a daughter, Pamela Wilbanks Christmas; three brothers, Stanford, Andy and Norman Wilbanks; and two sisters, Ethel Wilbanks Young and Nina Wilbanks Stephens.
Survivors include: three sons and a daughter-in-law, Ricky Wilbanks of Decatur, Barry Wilbanks of Jefferson and Jeffrey and Brenda Wilbanks of Loganville; extended family, John Whitfield of Murrayville; 10 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two brothers and a daughter-in-law, Hicks and Joyce Wilbanks of Lakemont and Bartley Wilbanks; six sisters and three daughters-in-law, Sallie Smith, Florine and Jess Wall, Lurlene and Jimmy Stephens and Mary Arthur, all of Lakemont, and Beulah Smith and Jewell and Arthur Speed, all of Clayton; a sister-in-law, Inez Wilbanks of Tiger; and several nephews and nieces.
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10 U.S. Code § 819 - Art. 19. Jurisdiction of special courts-martial
Subject to section 817 of this title (article 17), special courts-martial have jurisdiction to try persons subject to this chapter for any noncapital offense made punishable by this chapter and, under such regulations as the President may prescribe, for capital offenses. Special courts-martial may, under such limitations as the President may prescribe, adjudge any punishment not forbidden by this chapter except death, dishonorable discharge, dismissal, confinement for more than one year, hard labor without confinement for more than three months, forfeiture of pay exceeding two-thirds pay per month, or forfeiture of pay for more than one year. A bad-conduct discharge, confinement for more than six months, or forfeiture of pay for more than six months may not be adjudged unless a complete record of the proceedings and testimony has been made, counsel having the qualifications prescribed under section 827 (b) of this title (article 27(b)) was detailed to represent the accused, and a military judge was detailed to the trial, except in any case in which a military judge could not be detailed to the trial because of physical conditions or military exigencies. In any such case in which a military judge was not detailed to the trial, the convening authority shall make a detailed written statement, to be appended to the record, stating the reason or reasons a military judge could not be detailed.
Source(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 43; Pub. L. 90–632, § 2(5),Oct. 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 1335; Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, § 577(a),Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 625; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title X, § 1048(g)(4),Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1228.)
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|May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 19), 64 Stat. 114.
The word "shall" in the first sentence is omitted as surplusage. The words "for more than" are substituted for the words "in excess of". The words "more than" are substituted for the words "a period exceeding". The word "may" is substituted for the word "shall" in the last sentence.
2001—Pub. L. 107–107, § 1048(g)(4), amended directory language of Pub. L. 106–65, § 577(a)(2). See 1999 Amendment note below.
1999—Pub. L. 106–65, § 577(a)(2), as amended by Pub. L. 107–107, § 1048(g)(4), inserted ", confinement for more than six months, or forfeiture of pay for more than six months" after "A bad-conduct discharge" in third sentence.
Pub. L. 106–65, § 577(a)(1), substituted "one year" for "six months" in two places in second sentence.
1968—Pub. L. 90–632provided that before a bad-conduct discharge may be adjudged by a special court-martial the accused must be detailed counsel who is legally qualified under the Code and a military judge must be detailed to the trial, with a detailed written statement appended to the record if a military judge was not detailed to the trial, because of physical conditions and military exigencies, stating the reasons that a military judge could not be so detailed.
Effective Date of 2001 Amendment
Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title X, § 1048(g),Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1228, provided that the amendment made by section 1048 (g)(4) is effective as of Oct. 5, 1999, and as if included in Pub. L. 106–65as enacted.
Effective Date of 1999 Amendment
Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, § 577(b),Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 625, provided that: "The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 5, 1999] and shall apply with respect to charges referred on or after that effective date to trial by special courts-martial."
Effective Date of 1968 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–632effective first day of tenth month following October 1968, see section 4 ofPub. L. 90–632, set out as a note under section 801 of this title.
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Onrpg costom is hopping every day
Onrpg costom is hopping every day
im an extreme mmo hopper i guess.... iv pretty much tried every mm on the market (except muds) til about 2007 when i hit the computer capabilty wall and had to settle for a more constrained share of the market(which iv caught up with by now since i sport an i7 with GTX660Ti now)
the reason why i mostly hop is that many new mmos appear and i want to try them out.... the reason why i abandon games i actually like is the grind/solo wall - meaning you come to a point where a single level takes days to acquire or in some games where you cant proceed since you do not have the gear and you will have to grind below your level to get the neccessary gear to take on stuff on your own level (mostly since the crap aint sold or is non tradeable as it is the case with AO)
i do also hop between mmo just like now i am currently playing
Rohan blood feud for almost a year and then months ago i started
playing RO2 and then when a friend gave me Tera i also tried it and
then someone introduced Dragon Nest and I tried it too i think it's just
normal since even though we are already enjoying a game there are
still times that we get bored and wanted something new
I used to hop between all of the genres until I found a genre I sucked-at and stuck with it!
I started with text-based strategy > 2D shooter > 2D RPG > 3D RPG > 2D strategy > text-based RPG > cardgame > MOBA > Action RPG > MOBA > Action RPG > MOBA > Action RPG > MOBA
... Can you guess where this is going..? Each of those represents a 6-month period of only playing games in that genre.
well, Tera community is dwindling. Flyff and RO2 on the other hand has lots of players. i've been juggling between playing Ragnarok Online 2 and Flyff for the past week. i am having fun on both games are fun i can't decide which one i should stick to.
I will forever be hopping games until a Lineage 3 releases.
I'd still be playing Lineage 2 if it didn't get way too old after more than 5 years of playing it.


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I'm beginning to make the argument that in fact there is no Mars and Venus, but in fact we are allies here on planet earth and our interests are the same."
"Gender equality is not a loss for men.
It might the best thing that has ever happened for us.
I'd like to close then with one sentence.
I did a book some years ago that was a documentary history of men who had supported feminism in the United States from 1776. Now I know what you're thinking, "A history of men that supported feminism, the world's shortest book." In fact it is the fattest book I ever did. It's like 800 pages because I had found thousands of documents by men since 1776 supporting virtually every reform ever introduced by women. And I wanted to share with you one sentence from one of those documents written in 1916 by a writer in New York in a magazine. The writer was Floyd Dell and he wrote an article called Feminism for Men. And this is the first line of that article.
He said, 'Feminism will make it possible for the first time for men to be free.' "
Michael Scott Kimmel (born February 26, 1951 in New York City)[1] is an American sociologist, specializing in gender studies.
He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Stony Brook University in New York and is the founder and editor of the academic journal Men and Masculinities.
Kimmel is a spokesperson of The National Organization For Men Against Sexism (NOMAS).
Kimmel earned a B.A. with distinction from Vassar College in 1972; an M.A. from Brown University in 1974; and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 with a dissertation titled: Absolutism and its Discontents: Fiscal Crisis and Political Opposition in Seventeenth Century France and England.
Before joining the Stony Brook University faculty in 1987, Kimmel worked as assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University from 1982 to 1986 as well as visiting assistant professor at New York University.
He returned to his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley, where he was visiting professor from 1992 to 1994. In the academic year 1992–1993, he was voted "Best Professor" on campus by the The Daily Californian.
Kimmel is considered a leading figure in the academic subfield of men's studies.
He has written numerous books on gender and masculinities including:
Men's Lives (2010, 8th edition)
The Gendered Society (2011, 4th edition)
Manhood: a Cultural History (2012, 3rd edition), and
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008).
He has co-edited The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (2005) and Men and Masculinities: a Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia (2004) which was named "Best of Reference 2004" by the New York Public Library.
Moreover, he is the editor of a series on genders and sexualities at New York University Press. In 1992–1993, Kimmel founded the journal Masculinities which was associated with the American Men's Studies Association. The journal was a precursor to the journal Men and Masculinities which was picked up by SAGE Publications in 1998 and became one of the first academic journals focused on men, with Kimmel as its editor.
In 2004, Kimmel was one of 15 scholars chosen for innovative scholarship by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. His research title was "Globalization and its Mal(e)contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of the Extreme Right".
In an article about a "fight club" in Menlo Park, California, Kimmel remarked that there was a sadomasochistic thread running through them, and said:
..they "are the male version of the girls who cut themselves. [...] All day long these guys think they're the captains of the universe, technical wizards. They're brilliant but empty. [...] They want to feel differently. They want to get hit, they want to feel something real."


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Herbalife Ltd. shares sank 10% from the day's highs after hedge fund manager and short-seller Bill Ackman said the company's nearly three-hour presentation to Wall Street — a detailed rebuttal of accusations that the firm was a pyramid scheme — did nothing to change his mind.
At the closing bell, Herbalife HLF, -0.51% dipped 1.8% to end the session at $39.24 a share. The stock had risen nearly 8% in morning trade as the nutrition-products makers' senior executives blasted Ackman's late-December accusations, which had sent the shares to a two-year low. Trading volume was heavy: 27 million shares changed hands or nearly four times the daily average.
Hedge fund standoff over Herbalife
Paul Vigna and Emily Glazer discuss the standoff between Herbalife and two hedge funds. Photo: Reuters.
"The attack is sad to me," Herbalife Chief Executive Officer Michael Johnson told investors gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in midtown Manhattan. "The Girl Scouts sell cookies on a direct method and no one attacks them." The comment drew some chuckles from the crowd at the meeting.
Get blow-by-blow of Herbalife presentation on The Tell's live blog.
In a statement fired off after the presentation, Ackman, who runs the Pershing Square fund, stuck to his thesis: that Herbalife's method of selling through individual distributors amounts to a pyramid scheme. Read more on Ackman's Thursday response.
Ackman said the company "distorted, mischaracterized, and outright ignored large portions of our presentation."
He said he'll will respond with "particularity to every issue raised today by Herbalife."
Pershing Square has been contacted by "numerous interested parties who have provided additional insight in into Herbalife's business practices," Ackman said.
Herbalife also talks up earnings
While Herbalife spent much of the morning meeting focusing on its business model and refuting "misrepresentations" by Ackman, officials also said the company expects to meet or exceed its fourth-quarter forecast.
It's also considering moves to buy back more stock.
Even with the loss, the stock remains well above its recent closing low of $26.06 on Christmas Eve, four days after Ackman launched his attack. Before Ackman's move, the stock was trading in the low $40s.
Ackman has disclosed a massive short position, essentially a $1 billion bet that the stock will fall. In his presentation, Ackman said Herbalife relies on recruitment of new participants rather than sales of products to generate profits.


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Small-fiber Neuropathy in Chronic Kidney Disease
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Neurological dysfunction is a common complication of late stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) and peripheral nerve system is often involved in such complication. Sensory disturbances such as paresthesia and hypoesthesia are the predominant symptoms in uremic polyneuropathy and it is traditionally thought the uremic polyneuropathy mainly involve large-diameter sensory nerves. However in uremic patients the abnormal thermal thresholds, the sensory symptoms like numbness, burning, paradoxical heat, cold or freezing, and pain, and the frequent symptoms of autonomic dysfunction suggest that small-fiber neuropathy should be a clinical entity in patients of CKD. But there are still few investigations with emphasis on the changes of small-fiber nerves in CKD, and little is known about the characteristics and mechanism of small-fiber neuropathy in CKD. Skin biopsy with evaluation of epidermal nerve density and the morphology of epidermal nerves and the subepidermal nerve plexus is an effective and minimally invasive test for assessment of small-fiber neuropathy. Contact heat evoked potential (CHEP) recording the brain responses evoked by contact heat stimuli on the skin is a non-invasive technique to investigate the thermo-nociceptive pathways mediated by small-fiber nerves. In the current study, we will use an integrated approach by combining the skin biopsy, quantitative sensory testing, autonomic function tests, and CHEP to investigate the pathological, psychophysical and physiological aspects of small-fiber neuropathy in patients of CKD. The aims of the current study is to address the following issues: (1) the changes of small fiber nerves in uremia and CKD of different stage; (2) the correlation of skin innervation with clinical manifestations, thermal thresholds, and autonomic function; (3) the influence of dialysis therapy, the type of dialysis therapy, or renal transplantation on the small fiber neuropathy in uremia; (4) the roles of blood chemical substances, metals, and endocrine profiles on the development of small-fiber neuropathy; (5) the relationship between the small-fiber neuropathy and pruritus or restless leg syndrome; and (6) the pathological and physiological correlates of painful symptoms by skin biopsy and CHEP in CKD related neuropathy. The results of the study will provide important insights in the understanding of the pathogenesis, and the prevention and new treatments of small-fiber neuropathy in CKD.
Small-Fiber Neuropathy
Chronic Kidney Disease
Other: Skin biopsy
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|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Small-fiber Neuropathy in Chronic Kidney Disease
- The pathology of skin biopsy [ Time Frame: within 3 months after inclusion ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Intraepidermal fiber density [ Time Frame: within 3 months after inclusion ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Autonomic function [ Time Frame: within 3 months after inclusion ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Function of small-fiber sensory nerve [ Time Frame: within 3 months after inclusion ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|August 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Other: Skin biopsy
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- The patients should fulfill the criteria of CKD according to renal function study and the patients of end-stage renal disease should receive regular dialysis therapy and follow-up at outpatient clinics.
- For disease comparison, patients with peripheral neuropathy of variable etiologies will also be recruited.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Poor control DM,
- Severe heart failure,
- Bleeding tendency,
- Severe lung disease with respiratory distress,
- Severe infection,
- Alcoholism,
- Amyloidosis,
- Poor wound healing history.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01078857
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|886-2-23123456 ext 88182
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|Taipei, Taiwan, 10002
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|Principal Investigator: Chi-Chao Chao, MD
|Study Director:
|Sung-Tsang Hsieh
|National Taiwan University Hospital
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|Chi-Chao, Chao, Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01078857 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|February 28, 2010
|Last Updated:
|March 1, 2010
|Health Authority:
|Taiwan: Department of Health
Keywords provided by National Taiwan University Hospital:
Chronic kidney disease
Small-fiber neuropathy
Skin biopsy
Contact heat evoked potential
Autonomic neuropathy
Neuropathy in late stage chronic kidney disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Kidney Diseases
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Cardiovascular Diseases
Peripheral Vascular Diseases
Renal Insufficiency
Urologic Diseases
Vascular Diseases
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Suriname lies on the northeast coast of South America, with Guyana to the west, French Guiana to the east, and Brazil to the south. It is about one-tenth larger than Michigan. The principal rivers are the Corantijn on the Guyana border, the Marowijne in the east, and the Suriname, on which the capital city of Paramaribo is situated.
Constitutional democracy.
Suriname's earliest inhabitants were the Surinen Indians, after whom the country is named. By the 16th century they had been supplanted by other South American Indians. Spain explored Suriname in 1593, but by 1602 the Dutch began to settle the land, followed by the English. The English transferred sovereignty to the Dutch in 1667 (the Treaty of Breda) in exchange for New Amsterdam (New York). Colonization was confined to a narrow coastal strip, and until the abolition of slavery in 1863, African slaves furnished the labor for the coffee and sugarcane plantations. Escaped African slaves fled into the interior, reconstituted their western African culture, and came to be called "Bush Negroes" by the Dutch. After 1870, East Indian laborers were imported from British India and Javanese from the Dutch East Indies.
Known as Dutch Guiana, the colony was integrated into the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1948. Two years later Dutch Guiana was granted home rule, except for foreign affairs and defense. After race rioting over unemployment and inflation, the Netherlands granted Suriname complete independence on Nov. 25, 1975. A coup d'état in 1980 brought military rule. During much of the 1980s, Suriname was under the repressive control of Lieut. Col. Dési Bouterse. The Netherlands stopped all aid in 1982 when Suriname soldiers killed 15 journalists, politicians, lawyers, and union officials. Defense spending increased significantly, and the economy suffered. A guerrilla insurgency by the Jungle Commando (a Bush Negro guerrilla group) threatened to destabilize the country and was harshly suppressed by Bouterse. Free elections were held on May 25, 1991, depriving the military of much of its political power. In 1992 a peace treaty was signed between the government and several guerrilla groups. In March 1997, the president announced new economic measures, including eliminating import tariffs on most basic goods, coupled with strict price controls. Later that year, the Netherlands said it would prosecute Bouterse for cocaine trafficking.
Public discontent over the 70% inflation rate prompted President Jules Wijdenbosch to hold elections in May 2000, a year ahead of schedule. The New Front for Democracy and Development, a coalition led by former president Ronald Venetiaan, won the election. Venetiaan was reelected in Aug. 2005.
In May 2006, torrential flooding left more than 20,000 homeless.
In July 2007, a United Nations tribunal settled a long-simmering maritime dispute between Suriname and Guyana. The UN redrew the maritime border to give both countries access to an area potentially rich in oil deposits.
Former Dictator Bouterse Returns to Power
The Mega Combination coalition, headed by former dictator Dési Bouterse, won a two-thirds majority in May 2010's parliamentary elections. Parliament elected him president in August.
In 1998, the position of prime minister was abolished. The position was replaced by that of vice president who took charge of the Council of Ministers. The vice president became second in command behind the president, elected in the same way, by getting at least two-thirds of the vote in the National Assembly of Suriname. The first vice president was Henck Arron. Robert Ameerali has been the vice president since August 12, 2010.
In July 2015, Parliament re-elected President Bouterse. Bouterse was unopposed in the election. Ameerali remained vice president.
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