UPVC doors are some of the best to have installed if you want to keep your home or business nice and secure. Simple dead bolts and latches can do the trick in a pinch, but if you want to feel like you have one of the best locks in place then a UPVC door with a multi-point lock is one of your best bets. It is more affordable than the installation of an entire security system, and it is not difficult for a professional locksmith in Birmingham to install. What you need to decide on is whether you want to simply have your current locking mechanism replaced, or if perhaps it is time to update your door as well.
If you have decided to opt for a UPVC lock change, then you are on the right track already. A locksmith in Birmingham can come to your home and provide this service. Before they arrive, give them as much information as you can about your door so they can bring a selection of locks to fit.
The lock change itself may seem like a simple process, but UPVC doors require careful measurements to ensure everything lines up correctly. The locksmith in Birmingham that you dialled will arrive with the UPVC locking mechanism, double-check measurements, remove your old locking system, and install the new UPVC lock. You will be provided with a new set of keys, and voila you are all set up to enjoy the safety and security provided by your new lock.
Now, if you have decided that you want a completely new UPVC door installation, then this will require a bit more than a simple phone call to your locksmith in Birmingham. If you go to your local locksmith's website or into their main branch you may be able to view the different UPVC doors they have on offer. Some doors feature glass windows and others feature more solid panels. You will need to determine what sort of door you are looking for. The glass panel doors tend to be a good primary door, with a more solid door as the secondary one. The secondary door may feature a different locking mechanism such as the dead bolt style with a chain latch.
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I have the habit of not visiting famous monuments of each countries I have traveled. I prefer to do things where I can see the activities and daily life of the locals. While in Yangon, I've heard many people talking about the Yangon circular train ride that lasted around 3-4 hours. From what I've gathered, the ride is a bumpy one and far from luxurious, even if you pay for the first class coach which cost USD1.00!
So on the morning that I checked out from my hotel, the friendly hotel front desk dude asked me what I would do today. I proudly told him that I will take the Yangon circular train ride, hoping to get his approval. I was thinking to myself that he would probably label me as a cool tourist for doing something different from regular tourist, but instead his reaction wasn't what I expected. I then asked him, is it going to be fun and exciting? His answer wasn't really encouraging and sounded like a season politician of trying not to give a definite answer. That's not very encouraging.
I hopped on to a taxi and told the driver that I would like to go to the train station. The taxi was really friendly and chatty at 7.30am in the morning. He asked me if I am going out of Yangon and I quickly replied to him, PROUDLY, that I will take the circular train ride. Still hoping for a positive respond, the taxi driver just chuckled. I asked him if the ride is fun and he just gave a clear answer – NO! I am not going to back out from my plan and I decided to just follow my heart. I bid him "Mingalapar" and went straight in to the train station looking to purchase my ticket.
I crossed an overhead bridge and went to the ticket booth to purchase my ticket. The ticket seller told me that the train would arrive at 8.20am. The time was only 7.55am and I just sat down at one of the seating provided by the station and just observed my surroundings. The train station is really old and there are quite a number of Burmese people waiting for their train ride as well.
A train was approaching at 8.10am and I am not sure if that's my train. The ticket seller came out of his booth and told me that that's my ride. I climbed up the stairs of the coach and took my seat among the locals. Once everybody was on board, the train started to move really slowly, almost like walking pace. I have no idea how this experience would turn out but that's the thing that have always attracted me – the unexpected.
The first one hour, I was paying a lot of attention looking out of the window trying to catch glimpses of beautiful sceneries. After looking out of the window for one hour and taking pictures, I was starting to feel a little bit hungry. There's a lot of vendors coming up and down offering food, betelnut, fruits, tea, cigarettes and small handicrafts to the passengers. A young Burmese dude in his longyi caught me looking at him eating some sort of salad and he made a gesture of offering me some. I just smiled and he proceed to make a thumb up sign. I saw him buying the salad from a lady vendor just minutes ago who was just 2 meters away from me. So I decided to buy and all the passengers near me was suddenly putting their attention on me. I have expected this kind of reaction as the locals normally feel really good if a foreigner are willing to try their local delicacies.
Some market next to the tracks.
I could feel that a lot of eyes were gazing on me anticipating my first bite and reaction. In situation like this, whether the food is good or bad, I would normally make some gesture to show my sign of approval. Everybody was pleased with my reaction and I personally think the food did taste all right. It is some sort of mushroom salad with some dried shrimp, fried shallots, chili powder and sort some of thinly sliced vegetables or fruits which I can't really make out off.
The ride began to be more fun when the locals started to interact with me. The guy who sat next to me attempted to speak to me in his limited English. Even though his English is not at basic conversational level, I could understand most of the things he tried to tell me by looking at his body language. He was with a big group of friends who are mostly in their late teens. Everybody was teasing him for trying to speak in English. He retaliated at the group by pointing at a girl and uttered the words, "head no good" while making the sign of a crazy person by making small circling motion with his index finger pointing to his head. The girl stood up and started hitting him on his back with a mixed of happy and angry emotion at the same time. I enjoyed watching that as I believed the guy was taking this opportunity to flirt with the girl – genius! I can almost swore that he enjoyed getting hit by the girl – at least some body contacts with a different gender.
Nothing much happened after that as we can't really converse much other than jesting around with simple English and body language. Everybody just went about doing their own stuff, some were listening to music, some continued to talk to their friends, some smoked, some chewed more betelnut and some were even tying up the vegetables which I believed ready to be delivered to some market in Yangon.
As the 3 hours passed quickly, the train was approaching at the spot where my ride began. I am glad that I've never been guilty of spending too much time on smartphone or tablet while traveling, even on short MRT rides. I have always prefer to observe my surroundings while taking rides or waiting to board my plane in airports. I believe this makes me a more sensitive and an observant person. The highlight of the ride is not the beautiful sceneries as it look almost the same in the entire duration. The highlight is definitely the friendly Burmese people who made the effort to interact with me. With Myanmar slowly opening up to the whole world, I am not sure how long this kind of things would last. I am just happy to be able to experience the innocence of the locals and went all the way with my decision to try the Yangon circular train ride despite the not so favorable reaction from my front desk hotel staff and taxi driver.


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Free college proposals should include private colleges
Students can use federal financial aid to attend any college they want, whether public or private.
But the "free college" proposals floated by some 2020 presidential candidates would increase federal funding only for community colleges or state-run universities. Private nonprofit universities would be excluded.
From my vantage point as scholar of economics of higher education, I see a few factors at play.
A question of resources
One is cost. It would be easier to fulfill campaign promises to make higher education "free" by covering only public institutions, which tend to charge lower tuition and to spend less educating each of their students.
But cost and quality tend to go together, and this relationship holds true for higher education.
One way to measure quality is whether students complete their studies as planned. Four-year completion rates at public institutions trail those at private non-profits by as much as 20% for students of the same race and sex.
Colleges and universities with more funding and higher tuition – typically private institutions – not only graduate students faster, but their graduates go on to earn higher salaries than their peers who graduate from less well-funded colleges, after accounting for differences in student characteristics and selectivity. Several studies have come to similar conclusions: Educational resources affect earnings.
Since students at public colleges graduate at lower rates and earn lower salaries, they tend to default on their student loans more often than those who went to private nonprofit colleges. By making federal money available to both public and private colleges, it could lead to fewer students defaulting.
Quality and spending
Ideally, federal funds provided by "free college" initiatives would boost quality at colleges and universities. But covering tuition at only public institutions won't increase the quality of education at these schools unless it means the schools have more money to spend.
Poorer outcomes at public institutions can be explained by lower spending. For example, during the 2015-2016 school year, four-year public institutions spent about US$12,000 less than four-year private nonprofits per student per year. Two-year public colleges invest dramatically less.
But the resource problems at colleges won't get better if federal money merely pays the same tuition that students are paying now. Many state governments prohibit state colleges and universities from increasing tuition, even as states have cut the amount of money they spend per student. Tuition caps would prevent public colleges from obtaining the additional resources they need to improve quality.
These price ceilings worsen problems such as high student-to-faculty ratios, low instructor pay and restricted course offerings. They also mean schools must turn away qualified students and allow facilities and equipment to fall into disrepair.
Without tuition caps, price would still be limited by market competition. Private nonprofits compete with each other for students and offer education across a range of prices and quality levels.
Some free college proposals call for tying federal funding to state matching funds. One prominent example is the Debt-Free College Act of 2018, which is cosponsored by several presidential candidates – Sens. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten E. Gillibrand. But demanding more state funding could backfire. Some state governments might turn down federal funding for higher education if it requires states to spend more. The same thing happened when many states turned down Medicaid expansion.
Many students won't attend college unless it is close to home, or is in a city where they hope to settle. Restricting these students to public institutions would limit their choice of academic programs and quality. For example, in some parts of the country, only private institutions offer programs like business economics or electromechanical engineering. Including private institutions would mean a wider range of choices.
What could a federal subsidy look like that would empower students to choose the college they believe is best for them?
One option would be a voucher that would fund costs at a school of the student's choice. For instance, a voucher could cover between 30% and 80% of tuition, fees, books and reasonable living expenses at any accredited public or nonprofit college or university.
Investing more public dollars in higher education boosts income and employment, which leads to more tax revenue, which benefits the general public.
Some candidates have called for "means-testing" public funding for higher education. Means-tested funds are only made available to those who can prove they fall below a certain income or wealth threshold.
But public investments in education do not have to be limited to the poor to help the poor. Programs that only benefit the poor are more prone to budget cuts than more universal programs.
Including private nonprofit institutions in affordability programs – or "free college" proposals – will benefit middle-income and poor students. Many private nonprofit institutions seek to include and assist qualified students from less privileged backgrounds. Indeed, some of the most selective institutions – and typically the best funded – have been among the most generous with respect to assisting students with financial need. With more government support, private institutions could more easily educate more of these students.
Some might argue that making education funding available to private institutions would divert funding from public universities. But respecting student choice might make these programs more popular and build broader political support for increased funding for higher education.
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Sapulpa Public Schools » News » Theatre class taking one-act play to competition
Theatre class to take one-act play to competition
(SPS) -- The Sapulpa High School performance theatre class will face five other schools when they take their one-act play "The Revlon Girl" to the regional competition.
But before they take their show on the road, the public has an opportunity to see it on the stage.
"The Revlon Girl" will be performed at Shaw Auditorium at Sapulpa High School on Thursday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Material is not suitable for young children.
The competition takes place about a week later at Putnam City High School in Oklahoma City. Sapulpa's group of young actors will take the stage for the regional competition at 1:45 p.m. on Saturday, October 9.
"I'm super excited to be able to travel with the kids and get them on stage with other actors. It's going to be a fantastic time," said Becky Braswell, speech, debate & theatre teacher at Sapulpa High School.
Mrs. Braswell says last year, the students put on a virtual performance because of the pandemic. This year, the students are looking forward to flexing their acting chops in front of an in-person audience.
"That's part of the beauty of it, not just doing the show but the bonding that happens with the kids," said Mrs. Braswell. "As you work on a show, everybody gets close -- we share things together, we work together. And then to be able to get on a bus and go travel together, and rehearse the night before at the hotel, it's going to be a great opportunity for these kids."
The play, "The Revlon Girl," deals with difficult issues. It revolves around women who have endured loss and are going through the grieving process.
"The play is about a group of women in Wales who lost their children in an accident," said Ashlyn Bush, a senior who plays 'Sian' in the play. "And they invite a lady from Revlon, to try to put themselves back together and start healing."
The play is based on the aftermath of the deadly 1966 Aberfan mining disaster in Wales, in which a school was destroyed by an avalanche of coal.
Mrs. Braswell went through several plays before she found the right one for this particular group of actors. She says it has been an emotional undertaking, but one her students are prepared for.
"I knew that I had a class full of girls," she said. "I ordered several different shows with all-female casts. I was down to three different shows. This one was the heaviest, but it was also the best. It's got beautiful characters, a beautiful story, and it's based on an event that actually happened."
Students in the theatre class will also do the publicity for the play. And they designed the costumes and makeup, taking the 1960s time period into account.
"It was a lot of researching and looking up things," said theatre student Ashlynn Mathena, who designed the costumes along with Francia Zlata.
"We also took into account how different people would dress at the time, and how the trauma they'd experienced would reflect in how they would do their makeup or the clothes they'd wear, or how much effort they'd put into their appearance," said Zlata.
Be sure to catch Sapulpa High School's production of "The Revlon Girl" on Thursday, September 30, at Shaw Auditorium. The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Cast & Crew of "The Revlon Girl"
Sian - Ashlyn Bush
(Acting Partner - Avery Johnson)
Revlon - Kalysta Jacobs
(Acting Partner - Ashlynn Mathena)
Marilyn - Bri Williams
(Acting Partner - Katie Waldrop)
Jean - Allyson Fielden
(Acting Partner - Francia Zlata)
Rona - Maggie Lawson
(Acting Partner - Jebediah Moss)
Stage Manager - Sarah Wideman
Sound - Katie Waldrop
Lights - Jebediah Moss
Costumes & Makeup - Ashlynn Mathena & Francia Zlata
Publicity - Avery Johnson & Katie Waldrop
Props Master - Jebediah Moss


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Millions of children across India do not have access to shelter, education or healthcare, so, how can they have dreams?
The Big Hug Foundation are working to change this by ensuring every child understands their rights and is given the opportunity to dream. They work with organisations across India to empower underprivileged children through education, giving them a head-start in life and the opportunity to achieve their dreams.
A grant of £12,300 for The Early Intervention Clinic will provide early screening and intervention for infants (ages 0 -2) affected by Cerebral Palsy and other motor-neurone difficulties (expected to benefit 269 users) in Kolkata, India.
Update - Grant Provided by One Kind Act 22 December 2018
A grant of £12,300 was made as funding to help The Early Intervention Clinic as above.
Despite a steady improvement in the quality of prenatal care over the last two decades, instances of severe disabilities remain high in newborns throughout India. We work with our local partner, the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy to care for the needs of infants at high risk of cerebral palsy and other motor-neurone diseases. Through the Early Intervention Clinic an early diagnosis is given and offers affected children the best possible care, support and therapy. The clinic offers relief to local hospitals and health centres, providing diagnosis for many at-risk infants, where early intervention is key.
Many of the families referred to the clinic live in slums, below the poverty line, and without access to basic medical care and treatment. The free support and therapy provided by the Early Intervention Clinic truly is a lifeline to these vulnerable children.
Expected outcome
The service the Early Intervention Clinic provides includes medical assistance, physical and occupational therapy and assistive technology devices. The clinic also provides advice and guidance on home management offering a trans-disciplinary team of therapists, special educators and social workers to affected families.
The Early Intervention Clinic is split into three key areas – all vital in providing the best possible infant care:
•	Paediatric Clinic: Two paediatricians conduct weekly clinics, performing thorough check-ups through to diagnosis.
•	Neurology Clinic: Conducted by a neurologist twice a month, more than 100 children are referred for treatment of epilepsy. Anti-convulsion medication is provided free of charge to the children from low income families.
•	Speech Clinic: A Consultant Speech Therapist and Audiologist conduct this clinic every week. Children are screened for possible hearing difficulties and rehabilitation programmes are advised. All infants below the age of three who attend the Early Intervention Clinic are routinely checked for any hearing abnormalities.
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Regardless the season, ants are walking all over your house? You should do something about it, because this means that they have their home…in your own home, and this is not very pleasant.
So, follow these steps to quickly remove them.
The first thing you have to do is watch from where ants come into your house, and hide the foods that attracts ants. Never, but never leave breadcrumbs on the table or water in the sink…because ants love crumbs and water. Clean up the kitchen table after eating, and you can broom the kitchen a bit.
A lot of people keep their trash bin in the house (usually under the sink). A very dangerous thing in my opinion, because that is a bacteria and germ environment, and you should never keep it in your home. And, it's also an ant and cockroach magnet. If you have a house, keep it in the backyard as afar as possible from your house, and if you live in an apartment, then you should keep the garbage on the balcony.
When you open a bag of flour, wheat, corn, etc., after use, seal the pack with food foil. You will prevent those annoying ants and other insects to invade your kitchen or pantry.
If you figure out which are the holes that ants come in, you'd better clog them off. The less toxic solution is silicone.
If you have kids, it is normal to make sure you don't use toxic substances. But you can get rid of ants with natural insecticides: hot pepper powder. Equally effective are the dried mint leaves. Spread these "ingredients" through the house entrance. Ants will detect the smell and they will stay away.
Here are some recipes with which you can keep your ants away from your home.
– Pour a teaspoon of boric acid into 74 ml of honey and warm until the boric acid dissolves. Pour the solution into a pipette and mix it with a water pipette, then pour into the places where you usually see ants, for two weeks, and ants will disappear.
– Put in the blender the peel from one orange with water and spray the solution where you see the ants.


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Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Appointed to Florida State Board of Administration Litigation Pool
12/11/2009 - The Florida State Board of Administration announced that it has reappointed Barrack, Rodos & Bacine to the pool of law firms available to represent the agency in lawsuits involving securities matters. The SBA oversees the $113 billion Florida Retirement System and $23 billion in other funds. The SBA conducted a public selection process for the pool and received 31 applications. The SBA selected BR&B and several other firms to participate in the pool.
ValueClick Settlement Receives Final Approval
11/25/2009 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, sole lead counsel for lead plaintiffs in Waldrep v. ValueClick, Inc., et al., Case No. CV 07-5411 DDP, announces that the Honorable Dean D. Pregerson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, has granted final approval to a settlement of the case. Under the settlement, defendants have made a cash payment of $10 million for the benefit of the class.
Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss in RICO Case
11/23/2009 - The Honorable Andrew J. Guilford of the United States District Court for the Central District of California has denied, in large part, defendants' motions to dismiss the complaint filed by Barrack, Rodos & Bacine on behalf of plaintiffs in Reiter, et al. v. Mutual Credit Corp., et al., Case No.
Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Files Antitrust Complaint Against Producers of Blood Plasma Proteins
11/6/2009 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed a class action complaint against Baxter International, Inc., CSL Limited and CSL Behring alleging that these companies violated the federal antitrust laws by conspiring to restrict output, allocate markets, and to fix, raise, maintain and/or stabilize the prices for Ig and Albumin proteins derived from blood plasma ("Blood Plasma Proteins").
Opposition to Motions to Dismiss Filed in AIG Case
10/2/2009 - On behalf of the State of Michigan Retirement Systems, the Lead Plaintiff in the AIG 2008 Securities Litigation, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed an omnibus opposition to the motions filed by all defendants to dismiss the Consolidated Class Action Complaint. In opposing the dismissal motions, BR&B cited extensively to the complaint, to case law relating to the claims asserted against defendants, and to a Declaration of Jeffrey W. Golan.
Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Files Complaint Concerning Exxon Mobil Corporation
10/1/2009 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed a stockholder's direct action and derivative action on behalf of Exxon Mobil Corporation. The complaint alleges that the company and members of its management team made false and misleading statements in the company's proxy statements for the 2008 and 2009 annual stockholders meetings about the company's ability to take tax deductions for the compensation paid to its most senior executives. The complaint also alleges that the board failed to seek timely stockholder reapproval of the company's performance-based compensation plan.
Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Files Stockholder's Derivative Complaint on behalf of Pfizer, Inc.
9/30/2009 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed a stockholder's derivative action on behalf of pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer, Inc. alleging that its past and present directors and senior officers harmed the company by causing it to illegally market 13 prescription drugs over many years. Pfizer was fined $2.3 billion for its illegal conduct, the company's fourth multi-million dollar fine since 2002. The derivative complaint also alleges that the Pfizer directors solicited proxies without disclosing their involvement in the conduct that resulted in the fine.
Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Files Complaint Against Guitar Center and National Association of Music Merchants
9/24/2009 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed a class action complaint against Guitar Center and the National Association of Music Merchants ("NAMM") for violations of the federal antitrust laws. This class action is brought on behalf of a class of purchasers of fretted musical instrument products such as acoustic and electric guitars, violins, amplifiers and strings ("FI Products") between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2007 (the "Class Period").
Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Announces Summary Notice of Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement of In re The Mills Corporation Securities Litigation
9/21/2009 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine announces the issuance of a Summary Notice of Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement of In re The Mills Corporation Securities Litigation and Notice of Rescheduling of Settlement Fairness Hearing. Click here for the complete text of the press release and summary notice. For additional information about the litigation and the settlement, click here.
Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Files Complaint Against The National Arbitration Forum, Inc.
9/11/2009 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine filed a class action complaint against the National Arbitration Forum ("NAF"), the largest arbitration company in the United States for consumer credit disputes. The lawsuit alleges that while representing to the public that it is independent and impartial, the NAF actively markets its arbitration services as a collections tool.


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John Engler praises Mark Dantonio as 'honorable' as contract extended
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EAST LANSING – With Michigan State University's Board of Trustees giving football coach Mark Dantonio a contract extension until 2024, interim president John Engler again took a shot at ESPN's reporting on the university.
Asked Friday after the board meeting about ESPN's coverage, Engler singled out a female reporter who he believes has an agenda and "cherry-picked facts to write a fanciful tale."
The former governor also added privacy laws prevent him from saying what he might want to say.
"A reporter can take something that's leaked, put her spin on it and run with it, especially from a news media that's frankly struggling," Engler said. "Great way to be sensationalistic, and then I'm barred from saying what I might know."
Dantonio, who is heading into his 12th season in charge of the Spartans, signed a six-year deal in 2016 worth $4.3 million annually. The contract renews annually and contains a $700,000 annual retention bonus.
At a meeting of the board Friday morning, Engler called Dantonio "one of the most honorable coaches, I think, in the country," saying Dantonio's handling of two sexual assault cases involving four football players last year was "textbook." All four players are awaiting trial in Ingham County.
Three of the players – Josh King, Donnie Corley and Demetric Vance – were suspended Feb. 9, 2017 for a January sexual assault allegation. Dantonio dismissed them from the program June 6 when charges were issued by Ingham County Prosecutor Carol Siemon. MSU did not renew the contract of staffer Curtis Blackwell, who also was suspended for his role in handling the case.
Dantonio also dismissed a fourth player, Auston Robertson, after he was charged with criminal sexual conduct April 21 for an incident that allegedly happened earlier that month.
"That's a great tribute to him, because that's the kind of man he is," Engler said of Dantonio. "That's the integrity he has."
It was the second time in a week that Engler defended MSU's coaches. On Monday, the interim president in an email to MSU's students and community called ESPN's reporting that attempted to connect Dantonio and basketball coach Tom Izzo to the Larry Nassar scandal "a sensationalized package of reporting."
Nassar, the former MSU Sports Medicine doctor, pleaded guilty last month to multiple charges of assaulting girls and women over the past 20 years.
People called Lou Anna Simon one of MSU's best presidents. Then came Larry Nassar.
Prosecutor: 3 Michigan State football players to face sex assault charges
ESPN published its initial Outside the Lines story on Jan. 26, about two hours after Mark Hollis announced his retirement as athletic director and two days after Lou Anna K. Simon announced her retirement as MSU's president.
In its report, ESPN detailed 16 football players and five basketball players who were alleged to have committed sexual assaults and/or violent attacks on women.
A Free Press investigation also published that day, which began in 2017, identified three previously unreported sexual assault reports involving six former players, bringing the total to 11 players involved in six alleged sexual assault reports during Dantonio's tenure, which began in 2007.
Dantonio addressed the reports on Jan. 26 before the MSU-Wisconsin basketball game, denying an ESPN allegation that he personally handled at least one sexual assault claim.
"Any accusations of my handling of any complaints of sexual assault individually are completely false," Dantonio said. "Every incident reported in that article was documented by either police or the Michigan State Title IX office. I have always worked with the proper authorities when dealing with cases of sexual assault.
"We have always had high standards in this program, and that will never change," he said. "The values that we teach to everyone in this program will be enforced. We've also always tackled problems here head-on and have dealt with issues. When you find out about the problems, it has come from the police or the university authorities. I can assure you as in last year's incident, I also immediately reported that to the proper authorities."
Contact RJ Wolcott at rwolcott@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolcottR. Contact Chris Solari: csolari@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @chrissolari. Download our Spartans Xtra app for free on Apple and Android devices!


The 2018 Honda Classic third round tee times are out for Saturday's moving day, and, as always, we have a mix of professionals chasing one of the PGA Tour's biggest titles at PGA National's Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Rickie Fowler is defending champion, but he missed the cut. Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia are part of the weekend field. Tiger Woods' Saturday third round tee time is at 12:10 p.m. with Jason Dufner.
You can watch the Saturday third round coverage of The Honda Classic on TV on Golf Channel from 1-2:45 p.m. Eastern and from 3-6 p.m. on CBS.
Here's how to watch Saturday's coverage online: PGA Tour Live also airs featured groups coverage from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern, while Golf Channel's coverage is on GolfChannel.com and the Golf Channel app. CBS' coverage is on PGATour.com, CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports app.


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Egyptian Militant Group Joins Al Qaeda
L.A. Times Archives
Aug. 6, 2006 12 AM PT
From the Associated Press
CAIRO —
Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader announced in a new videotape aired Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terrorist network.
It is the first time that Al Qaeda has announced a branch in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous nation. The Egyptian group, Gamaa al Islamiya, is apparently a revived version of a militant group of the same name that waged a campaign of violence in Egypt during the 1990s but was crushed in a government crackdown.
"We announce to the Islamic nation the good news of the unification of a great faction of the knights of the Gamaa Islamiya
Zawahiri said the Egyptian group was led by Mohammed Islambouli, brother of Khaled Islambouli, the militant who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and was later executed.
The video included a statement by Mohammed Hakayma, identified as another top leader of the revived Gamaa.
Mohammed Islambouli left Egypt in the mid-1980s and was believed to have been in Afghanistan working with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said Diaa Rashwan, an Egyptian expert on militant groups.
It was not clear how much of a following the new version of Gamaa al Islamiya has in Egypt.
Egypt has seen a string of terrorist bombings against tourist resorts in the Sinai peninsula since October 2004, killing nearly 100 people. Egyptian authorities have said those attacks were carried out by a group calling itself Monotheism and Jihad.


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An Alternative to Plate and Expansion Tectonics
Robertus Maximus
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Re: An Alternative to Plate and Expansion Tectonics
Unread post by Robertus Maximus » Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:54 am
webolife wrote: RM,
Interesting conjectures throughout the OP articles.
However, I'm failing to see how these various terrestrial structures would be unique to Earth based on the premise of an electrified plasma environment... why not the other planets and moons as well, don't they have plasma environments and alleged electrical discharge features?
As for me, I'm still a rapid continental drift adherent. The current Plate Tectonics model would have come into place after the seafloor spreading came to a halt.
The currently accepted New Global Tectonic paradigm is based on a process unique to Earth, 'plates' have never been identified on any other terrestrial body in the solar system and I am sceptical of their existence on Earth.
Plate Tectonics is geology's Big Bang, it is another example of Big Science and just like any other branch of Big Science it attracts lots of funding and makes lots of careers to the exclusion of alternatives and competition as such criticism is limited to groups such as NCGT (http://www.ncgt.org/)
Yes, other planets and moons do have their own plasma environments and electrical discharge features and that is the point; Plate Tectonics cannot explain any of the features on say Mars, Io or Titan.
What I have suggested will not explain all of the features on Mars, Io or Titan because each body has its own unique history but we can find landforms that have some degree of overlap formed during a period when their plasma environments were at least as active as Earth's and probably more active- perhaps with the exception of Io, it's still pretty active there! For example, the uplift of planation surfaces to form mountains, even today, is a complete mystery- despite the claims of Plate Tectonicists. My suggestion to look at Johnson and Anderson's work would provide a solution not only on Earth but elsewhere in the solar system.
In modern geology Plate Tectonics is the starting point for explaining not only the Earth's surface features today but also of the distant past. In the spirit of the Electrical Universe paradigm I have suggested an alternative- Earth's electrical nature and environment is the driver of global tectonic activity- not moving plates. Like Plate Tectonics I have suggested that Earth was different in the past unlike Plate Tectonics I have suggested that Earth's present surface features formed rapidly during a period of electrical instability.
I'm highly sceptical of continental drift in the modern guise of Plate Tectonics and the 'Fast Forward' version Catastrophic Plate Tectonics, as you can probably guess.
Just consider the following, when we look at a map of Earth it is easy to see the 'fit' between South America and Africa- it looks as if they split apart only yesterday!
However, that is just the problem- we are told the two continents were last in contact some 150 million years ago! During this time dinosaurs came and went, sea levels rose and fell and the occasional asteroid collided with Earth. Yet, during this vast expanse of time South America and Africa conspired to preserve their coastlines as evidence of a former connection for our benefit today. Really? Given the known modern rates of erosion the continents would have eroded to sea-level in some 10 million years. Plus, because of the fractal nature of coastlines you can virtually fit any coastline to any other coastline producing absurd continental arrangements.
Could it be that the idea of continental drift and development of the New Global Tectonics paradigm of movable continents whether on a static or expanding Earth was misguided from the start? Based on a geometric illusion no more valid than seeing faces in the clouds?
webolife
Unread post by webolife » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:30 am
Hmmm... I question your objection to the continents fitting. The 80+% coastline fit [based on inclusion of continental shelves, seafloor spreading and the related "parallel" [aligned] mid-ocean rift complex argue soundly for a model of continental drift [or alternately the expanding earth hypothesis, with which I do not agree]. Fitting as though they were separated yesterday, as you put it, argues for the possibility of a rapid and recent drift episode, which I favor. The uniqueness of the plasma environment about Earth does not seem to me to be a superior argument to the uniqueness of continental drift/plate tectonics on this planet, particularly as the latter adequately explains the gamut of seismic patterns around the earth: earthquakes, boundary mountain ranges, volcanic chains, island arcs, etc. Can your alternative do better?
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Unread post by Junon » Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:04 am
Can the expanding Earth theory fit with the changing plasma environment as well as Jan Lamprecht's correct version of the hollow Earth hypothesis? In other words, could the planet have been smaller in the past and expanded, creating the hollow space within? Otherwise, is there any possibility of the oceanic ridges having been electromachined in place? This would explain the geometric shape-match between the continents, as a giant arc going across the planet could create that effect. That assumes the arc retains the same circumference as it moves, so any movement left and right would create the matching geometric pattern that we see.
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Unread post by Grey Cloud » Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:32 am
Re the S. America - Africa fit: Surely it needs to be more than just a visual fit? Does the geology of eastern S. America match that of western Africa? And is that geology dissimilar to western S. America and eastern Africa, for example? Or the Atlantic coasts of Iberia or Central America? What about the flora and fauna?
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Unread post by webolife » Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:40 am
The answer is that there are several uncanny geologic, and [fossil] floral and faunal matches across the Atlantic.
As expected, in a catastrophic crust-splitting deluge there are some places where the match is not so "perfect".
(However, how would this differ in the case of an EDM gouged ocean?)
What does the EDM model account for that less exotic more evidencial models do not?
Unread post by Robertus Maximus » Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:15 am
Grey Cloud wrote: Re the S. America - Africa fit: Surely it needs to be more than just a visual fit? Does the geology of eastern S. America match that of western Africa? And is that geology dissimilar to western S. America and eastern Africa, for example? Or the Atlantic coasts of Iberia or Central America? What about the flora and fauna?
The point to remember is that the 'fit' came first, the cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1596 first proposed such a former 'fit', based on what geological or palaeontological evidence? None; the geometric similarity came first.
Much later how much more geological evidence was available? 'When plate tectonics was first elaborated in the 1960s, less than 0.0001% of the deep ocean had been explored and less than 20% of the land area had been mapped in meaningful detail. Even by the mid-1990s, only about 3 to 5% of the deep ocean basins had been explored in any kind of detail, and not much more than 25 to 30% of the land area could be said to be truly known (Meyerhoff et al., 1996a). Scientific understanding of the earth's surface features is clearly still in its infancy, to say nothing of the earth's interior.'
In 1972 as the Plate Tectonics paradigm was steamrollering its way through geology Paul S. Wesson wrote: 'Since nearly all coastlines fit, there seems little point in continental drift re-constructions. (2) The congruence of coast-lines that can never have been in juxtaposition, even if drift is valid, has been demonstrated by Lyustikh (1967), and (3) Australia has even been connected to the east coast of America by Voisey as a demonstration of the ubiquity of possible fits. (Taylor [1965] discusses this and other interesting aspects of drift.) It is important to realize that coastlines need never have been in actual contact to show parallelism: some influence connected with the midocean ridge system may have given the impression of a fit while the real fit is in fact a remote one. (4) Fault matching frequently causes problems which should not occur, such as the Cabot versus Great Glen system (Wilson 1962) which has opposite senses on either side of the Atlantic (Webb 1968; Russel and Burgess 1969); this is connected with general difficulties in tracing orogenesis across the gaps left after drifting (Holmes 1965, p. 230). (5) Pieces are often left out of re-constructions to improve the fit (e.g., the Caribbean region was excluded from the 1965 computer fit of Bullard et al.), while others are included ad hoc with the same object in view (e.g., the Rockall Bank). In the reconstruction of the southern continents by Smith and Hallam (1970), the South Orkneys and South Georgia were omitted because they made the computer-fit worse…'
What about the flora and fauna? 'Meyerhoff et al. (1996b) showed in a detailed study that most major biogeographical boundaries, based on floral and faunal distributions, do not coincide with the partly computer-generated plate boundaries postulated by plate tectonics. Nor do the proposed movements of continents correspond with the known, or necessary, migration routes and directions of biogeographical boundaries. In most cases, the discrepancies are very large, and not even an approximate match can be claimed. The authors comment: "What is puzzling is that such major inconsistencies between plate tectonic postulates and field data, involving as they do boundaries that extend for thousands of kilometres, are permitted to stand unnoticed, unacknowledged, and unstudied" (p. 3).
'The known distributions of fossil organisms are more consistent with an earth model like that of today than with continental-drift models, and more migration problems are raised by joining the continents in the past than by keeping them separated (Smiley, 1974, 1976, 1992; Teichert, 1974; Khudoley, 1974; Meyerhoff and Meyerhoff, 1974a; Teichert and Meyerhoff, 1972). It is unscientific to select a few faunal identities and ignore the vastly greater number of faunal dissimilarities from different continents which were supposedly once joined. The widespread distribution of the Glossopteris flora in the southern continents is frequently claimed to support the former existence of Gondwanaland, but it is rarely pointed out that this flora has also been found in northeast Asia (Smiley, 1976).
'Some of the paleontological evidence appears to require the alternate emergence and submergence of land dispersal routes only after the supposed breakup of Pangaea. For example, mammal distribution indicates that there were no direct physical connections between Europe and North America during Late Cretaceous and Palaeocene times, but suggests a temporary connection with Europe during the Eocene (Meyerhoff and Meyerhoff, 1974a). Continental drift, on the other hand, would have resulted in an initial disconnection with no subsequent reconnection. A few drifters have recognized the need for intermittent land bridges after the supposed separation of the continents (e.g. Tarling, 1982; Briggs, 1987). Various oceanic ridges, rises, and plateaus could have served as land bridges, as many are known to have been partly above water at various times in the past. It is also possible that these land bridges formed part of larger former landmasses in the present oceans.'
In my view the use of fossil evidence to plot former continental arrangements is futile. If not found in isolation fossils of both marine and terrestrial life-forms are found in 'graveyards'. Such 'graveyards' are not indicative of past environments but a global cataclysm.
David Pratt has written a summary of objections to Plate Tectonics: http://davidpratt.info/tecto.htm
Paul S. Wesson, 'Objections to Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics' paper can be found here; https://www.jstor.org/stable/30059314?s ... b_contents
Two decades of objections to Plate Tectonics and alternatives can be found here: http://www.ncgt.org/
Unread post by webolife » Tue Jan 17, 2017 1:24 pm
RM,
You may be surprised that I agree with most of the objections raised in your post, but you are missing some things [in translation]:
1. All of the studies prior to 1970-ish are based on comparatively very little data, so a strong case cannot be made either way from that information.
2. The paradigm being challenged in your article is a plate tectonic model built on the gradualist premise of over a hundred millions of years of drift. The floral and fauna differences and fossil comparisons are made on the present continent positions assuming they would have been similarly distributed before the rift. Again this is a uniformitarian assumption that doesn't necessarily hold in the case of a catastrophic crustal separation.
3. Coastlines would have been devastated by seismic wave action during and throughout the split, so the differences, as I noted previously, would be expected. The ubiquitous fit comment is the voice of detractors from Wegener's original theory, which were based on data not including the more modern mappings of the continental shelves, which did much to confirm the actual fit of the continents. That there are still a number of ways the fit might work doesn't hinder the theory a bit. If it were found opposingly that numerous proposed fitting don't work, then you'd have a good objection.
USGS generalized map of a particular fossil correlation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent ... il_map.svg
Unread post by Grey Cloud » Tue Jan 17, 2017 2:08 pm
RM and Webolife,
Interesting and stimulating discussion: thanks.
Webolife,
3. Coastlines would have been devastated by seismic wave action during and throughout the split, so the differences, as I noted previously, would be expected.
Are you not trying to have your cake and eat it here? If the geology matches then it supports your view; if it doesn't then it's down to seismic wave action.
In my, admittedly limited, understanding of this subject the fossil evidence at least points to vertical movement. Whether this movement was in geological time or human time is a different, albeit related, question.
Perhaps a daft question(s) due to my lack understanding but - Accepting that there was a 'Pangea', then why was there only a single continent? Why was the Earth's surface not covered more or less entirely by 'continent'? What waas happening to the rest of the Earth's surface while Pangea was breaking up - in other words, if something caused Pangea to break-up and move around, what effect did it have on the rest of the planet?
Unread post by Robertus Maximus » Tue Jan 17, 2017 10:38 pm
Junon wrote: Can the expanding Earth theory fit with the changing plasma environment as well as Jan Lamprecht's correct version of the hollow Earth hypothesis? In other words, could the planet have been smaller in the past and expanded, creating the hollow space within? Otherwise, is there any possibility of the oceanic ridges having been electromachined in place? This would explain the geometric shape-match between the continents, as a giant arc going across the planet could create that effect. That assumes the arc retains the same circumference as it moves, so any movement left and right would create the matching geometric pattern that we see.
I am highly sceptical of Expanding Earth theories for the same reason I am of Plate Tectonics, namely they are both based on the idea of a continental 'fit'.
Expanding Earth proponents have now included fossil evidence of the largest dinosaurs claiming that these animals could only have survived on a physically smaller Earth with a reduced gravity, for example: http://www.dinox.org/
With the exception of its formation period it is my view that the Earth's diameter has remained constant throughout its history, however, Earth's surface gravity has changed since its formation, most recently increasing.
Jan Lamprecht has demonstrated that a hollow Earth model can equally be invoked to explain seismic data just as much as a solid Earth can. Mainstream geology needs a solid Earth for its dynamo to generate Earth's magnetic field. If the Earth's magnetic field arises because of the planet's interaction with its environment then we can consider other possibilities such as Lamprecht's.
Elsewhere it has been suggested that rocky bodies form by expulsion from larger gas giant and/or dwarf star bodies, if Earth formed in this way it is likely electrical forces were involved, experiments have demonstrated bodies formed in this way tend to be hollow suggesting Earth's hollow cavity would be primordial. In comparison to other terrestrial bodies in the solar system the Earth appears to have and abundance of volatiles, I have considered the possibility that the 'hollow', perhaps, contained trapped hydrocarbons, water, nitrogen for example, that have been continuously upwelling throughout the planet's existence. Superdeep drilling has certainly revealed copious amounts of brines and hydrocarbons in Earth's crust.
In my opinion Earth has certainly experienced a catastrophic electrified period during which electric-discharge machining took place. If we consider Valles Marineris on Mars has formed through an EDM process then why not similar features on Earth? It is certainly a possibility. Presently I favour subsidence over EDM as the cause of certain ocean basins, although that's not to say only subsidence took place to the exclusion of EDM, it may well be that magnetic anomalies are evidence of such discharges. Mid-ocean ridges I see as possible channels currently involved in the charge exchange process between Earth and its environment.
In a recent TPOD https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/0 ... ron-bands/ the discovery of two 'jet-streams' at the Earth's core was considered. In the original paper the southern 'jet-stream' surrounds Antarctica; Antarctica is surrounded by mid-ocean ridges, the two may not be unrelated.
Unread post by Junon » Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:51 pm
Shouldn't gravity decrease as the Earth equalizes its charge with its surroundings? Wal Thornhill writes that "low gravity [of Saturn] suggests low internal electric stress." So if we get less volcanoes etc with the equalization of charge, then by the same process, gravity will decrease, right?
Unread post by Robertus Maximus » Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:10 am
Junon wrote: Shouldn't gravity decrease as the Earth equalizes its charge with its surroundings? Wal Thornhill writes that "low gravity [of Saturn] suggests low internal electric stress." So if we get less volcanoes etc with the equalization of charge, then by the same process, gravity will decrease, right?
Short answer, no. Low internal polarisation equates to low internal electrical stress which in turn gives us low surface gravity.
As Earth, or Saturn, collect electrons from their environment this increases internal polarisation which gives us an increase in surface gravity.
Likewise, we can picture Mercury as being too highly polarised. Electrons are being stripped from Mercury's surface- this charge exchange between Mercury and its environment results in the formation of 'hollows', the mainstream substitutes an electrical process (EDM) for a mechanical one hollows are formed by sublimation in their view. However, we also find similar features on Ceres.
It is my position that Earth's tectonic activity is powered by a charge exchange process between the Earth and its environment. The increase in surface gravity is a consequence of this process separate from current tectonic activity.
Unread post by webolife » Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:25 pm
I'm skeptical of the hollow earth hypothesis, as it explains far less about the rotation and revolution of the earth known from Newtonian mechanics, let alone having verification in seismology. Electrically driven surface gravitational variations should be much less "stable" than what is observed. On the other hand if electricity and gravitation are of the same [unified] origin, then we have a larger dilemma: the current state of affairs in the local universe is quite stable, so how can the plasma "machine" account for that? Clumsy wording... ie. how can a process which is by its
fundamental description highly variable account for the observed "stability" of the Earth and solar system?
The "all continent" Earth is the primordial condition of the Expanding Earth hypothesis. It is interesting to consider such a planet overlaid with an ocean, but the formation of the mountains doesn't follow from the Adam's scenario. On the other hand, as I stated elsewhere, I have no clear explanation for the existence of the supercontinent as a distinct entity. Fractioning during cooling is a general view I consider... The relative amount of continent surface seems to be roughly "conserved" over time... fossils contribute to understanding the positions of the continents to a small degree... I guess that's why we have this [alternative] thread!
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Unread post by seasmith » Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:45 pm
What do you all think of the recurring thesis that most of the catastrophic disruption had occurred over the eastern hemisphere (Atlantic and Indian ocean basins generally), while the Pacific basin has remained relatively pacific?
The now fairly intact Pacific 'plate' surrounded by its "ring of fire", and the mid-ocean split right down the middle of the Atlantic basin could support this theory.
Fracture zones ~orthogonal to the Atlantic and Red Sea rifts, like the Himalayas and the Wallace Line (Sunda Shelf) are said to result from the spreading eastern hemisphere crustal ~slabs rotating up against the more stable Pacific crust.
After a lot of heaving and buckling, Earth's rotational forces have since then reestablished the basic spherical shape (like a glassblower spinning a round bowl).
If i'm remembering the main bits correctly.
Unread post by webolife » Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:24 pm
I kinda go along with that... Another idea that has popped up a time or two: an impact in the Pacific basin somewhere creating the mantle hotspot that generates the Hawaiian Islands, also conducting a shock wave around or through the globe that "collided" and started the fracture in the center of the continental mass there... the rift that became the Mid-Atlantic Rift. Not my favorite theory, but it has some merits.
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Unread post by moses » Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:52 pm
<(However, how would this differ in the case of an EDM gouged ocean?)
What does the EDM model account for that less exotic more evidencial models do not? webo>
Hello webo,
Initially we would have the flat Earth (no mountains or oceans), and a 4 prong Birkeland Current went through and around Earth. Thus forming the Atlantic Ocean in particular.
Creatures might well have lived where the Atlantic Ocean is now. So some creatures might have lived on both sides of this area, as well. Explaining what happened as each EDM event cut out material from where the ocean is now, is complex. Certain areas seem to have missed some episodes of laminated deposition, and consequently many creatures might have survived in such areas. Also many creatures might survive such a deposition that would initially be quite wet.
The oceans have edges that very much suggest EDM. The Mid Atlantic Ridge beautifully fits the idea of a current passing upwards both raising the ridge and producing the volcanoes. This theory deserves attention.


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By Ursula Jorch April 17, 2021 Business
HOLDINGS: [1]-A hospital's receipt of Medicare payments created jurisdiction under Federal Arbitration Act § 2 (9 U.S.C. § 2) regarding an employee's claim that the hospital's payroll system had rounded hours inaccurately, and there were other transactions involving interstate commerce; [2]-Because there was no inconsistency between the collective bargaining agreement and the employee's individual agreement, neither of which said anything about the electronic payroll system or any rounding of hours worked, an arbitration provision in the employee's individual agreement was not preempted under Labor Management Relations Act § 301(a) (29 U.S.C. § 185(a)) and was enforceable; [3]-The employee agreed to arbitrate statutory claims; [4]-A contractual exclusion from arbitration for employees subject to a collective bargaining agreement was inapplicable because the employee agreed otherwise. Parties' litigation lawyer appeal.
Reversed in part and remanded.
The Superior Court of San Francisco County (California) entered judgment against defendant mail order company, finding that it had engaged in a deceptive business practice by charging its customers an "insurance fee" with every order placed. The trial court also entered an order awarding plaintiff customer litigation expenses and attorney fees. The company appealed.
The trial court's ruling presumed that the company, rather than its customers, bore the loss of risk in transit, so that the customers received nothing of value in return for paying the fee. In reversing, the court held that the company did not bear the risk of loss of goods in transit under Cal. Com. Code §§ 2509, 2401, 2320, and 2326. Nothing in the company's conduct suggested it was offering anything other than a standard, C.I.F.-type shipment contract, which the customers agreed to when they used the company's mail order form to purchase goods. For a purchase in which the buyer paid for the goods before shipment to be a sale on approval there had to be some provision or objective fact demonstrating an intent that, notwithstanding that the buyer had paid for the goods, they did not "belong" to the buyer until the buyer approved them. That the company permitted a customer to return goods for a refund was a benefit to the customer, but did not in and of itself suggest that the parties intended the seller to retain an interest in the goods until some time after they were delivered to the customer, and did not convert a routine sale with a right to return into a sale on approval.
The court reversed the trial court's judgment and order.
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