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MELBOURNE, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Andy Murray earned his third Australian Open finals berth with a five-set win Friday over world No. 2 Roger Federer.
Murray, the third-ranked player in the world, appeared to be the more confident player throughout a 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 6-2 victory over Federer. He heads into the men's singles final Sunday against world No. 1 and two-time defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic beat Murray in the 2011 finals in Melbourne but Murray picked up his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 U.S. Open with a five-set win over Djokovic. Djokovic is 10-7 all-time against Murray.
Djokovic will be well-rested. Since a 5-hour marathon in the quarterfinals, he had relatively quick matches, including an 89-minute, straight win Thursday over fourth-seeded David Ferrer in the semifinals.
Murray and Federer, who met for the 2010 Australian Open title, played for 4 hours Friday before Murray finished things off with his sixth break of the match.
Even with Murray seemingly playing better than Federer, Federer broke Murray at 6-5 of the fourth set and extended the match. But Murray had a second-game break in the fifth set and dropped just one point in three service games in getting to 5-2 of the final set.
In addition to the six dropped service games, Federer had an uncharacteristic 60 unforced errors against 43 winners. He only forced six break points on Murray, who won 71 percent of the points on serve.
Federer, playing in his 10th consecutive Australian Open semifinal, had trouble getting ahead of Murray, who used a third-game break in the first set to take an early lead.
Federer did win the second set, holding on in the tiebreaker after a building 4-1 lead. That was the first set Murray has lost in the tournament. Murray's sixth-game break proved to be the difference in the third set as he used one of his 21 aces on the day to finish off the set.
Federer had a break -- one of his two of the match -- for a 4-1 lead in the fourth set only to have Murray answer in the seventh game. Murray pulled to the verge of the of a title berth with an 11th-game break at love but Federer answered with a break the next game and forced the tiebreaker, which he controlled.
Azarenka needs Australia win to stay No. 1
MELBOURNE, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Victoria Azarenka is back in the Australian Open women's singles final, this time against Li Na, with the No. 1 world ranking at stake.
Azarenka defeated Maria Sharapova in the 2012 Australian Open women's final for her first Grand Slam title. It also moved her into the No. 1 world ranking for the first time.
She's held that position for most of the ensuing year but the surge by Serena Williams over the second half of 2012 -- including a win over Azarenka in the U.S. Open final -- leaves Azarenka needing a win Saturday over Li to retain the title and top ranking.
Saturday will mark the third major tournament final for Azarenka.
Li is also in her third Grand Slam final. She was lost 2011 Australian Open final to Kim Clijsters but beat Francesca Schiavone for the 2011 French Open championship. She's only been in one other major tournament semifinal.
Azarenka's run to the finals was surprisingly clean. She faced just one seeded player and that was No. 29 Sloane Stephens in the semifinals. Azarenka has lost one set in the tournament.
Li, on the other hand, drew four seeded players, including fourth-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska, who hadn't lost in 2013, and second-seeded Maria Sharapova, who'd dropped only nine games in her first five Australian Open matches. Li defeated both in straight sets.
Azarenka has won her last four matches against Li, running her career record to 5-4. Two of the three matches, however, went three sets.
Venus Williams has back injury
PARIS, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Venus Williams has withdrawn from a tournament in Paris and the upcoming Fed Cup quarterfinals due to a back injury, tournament organizers said Friday.
Organizers said Williams informed them she will miss next week's Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris.
Williams also said she will sit out the United States' Fed Cup series in Italy. The Fed Cup 2013 series begins Feb. 9.
Williams, ranked No. 26 in the world, was beaten in the third round of the Australian Open by No. 2-ranked Maria Sharapova.
Her play in recent years has been limited by a series of health issues, including Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease.
Chris Wood ahead at Qatar Masters
DOHA, Qatar, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Chris Wood shot an 8-under-par 64 Friday and built a three-stroke lead going into the final round of the European Tour's Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.
Wood had an eagle at the par-5, 548-yard 10th hole and seven birdies --six on par 4s -- against one bogey in moving to 15-under 201 after 54 holes.
Wood had five birdies in his first eight holes Friday then had an 8-foot putt for his eagle at No. 10. He had a bogey at the 12th but pulled clear with birdies at Nos. 14 and 16.
Simon Khan, with eight birdies in his first 13 holes Friday, matched Wood's 64 and is tied with Alexander Noren (66 Friday) and Michael Campbell (68) for second at 12-under.
Sergio Garcia, one of the four second-round co-leaders, suffered two late bogeys in a 2-under 70 and slipped into a tie for fifth with Branden Grace (67).
The other co-leaders had worse rounds Friday with Marcus Fraser, despite three consecutive birdies in one stretch, shooting 1-under 71. He is tied for seventh. Martin Kaymer, with two birdies and two bogeys Friday, is among those tied for 11th, six strokes behind Wood.
Ricardo Santos, who led after the first round and was tied after Thursday's play, had two double bogeys and four bogeys in a 4-over 76 and dropped into a tie for 38th at 5-under for the tournament.


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The Glensted Church was established in 1888. Great-grandmother Margaret had moved away by then, but great-great-grandfather John D. Richardson was still nearby and very active. He may not have worshiped here, but he certainly would have been going by here!
The Glensted Cemetery is just across the road from the church. If facing the cemetery, and then turning right , you'd see:
Below is a shot of the property once owned by great-great-grandfather John D. Richardson. I started to cry as I took this photo, filled with thoughts that my great-great-grandfather had been here and now I was, too.
His property continued on to the other side of the current "road." Both parcels are about 6 miles from the Glensted Church.
I took this photo of the Versailles, Morgan County Court House on Sunday afternoon while standing in the middle of the road. There is certainly no civic center in greater Los Angeles county where I could have taken such a photo with no people in it nor any cars to dodge!
It was a wonderful trip! When I started my genealogy research, I didn't know I had Richardson ancestors, let alone that they were from Missouri. Best of all, I have now met my dear friends, Donald and Linda, face to face. That they happen to be my cousins is icing on the cake! And, that Donald is a generous and incredibly thorough genealogist makes it double-thick, chocolate fudge frosting!


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First Lady Michelle Obama will make her debut delivering the presidential weekly address on Saturday, expressing the "outrage and heartbreak" she and President Barack Obama share over the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian girls, the White House said.
Obama hopes "the courage of these young girls will serve as an inspiration for every girl and every boy in our country to recommit themselves to their own education and a call to action for people around the world to fight to ensure that every girl receives the education that is her birthright," said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.
The president generally tapes the address during the week and it is released early Saturday morning, on radio and video.
"Clearly this was an opportunity for the first lady, as a mother of two young daughters, to speak out, to share the heartbreak that she and her husband feel for these 200 girls and express the country's unity for them," Schultz said.
The address will be Michelle Obama's first solo turn on the address; she has previously joined Obama, Schultz said.


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Monday, March 7, 2011
Using Land Records to Solve Genealogical Problems - Part 1
On this particular trip to the BLM website, I searched several spelling variations of Ballenger in Mahaska County, Iowa since that is where I have found William and family in several Iowa State censuses in the 1850s. Here are the results:
Using the information listed for William H. Ballenger, I was able to order this particular land file from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Next up, I'll present the contents of William's land file, lessons learned, and what questions came up. This particular file is different from others I have ordered in the past so it raises a whole new set of questions.
Later on, we will revisit this results list and see how some of these other Ballenger/Ballinger individuals might fit into the picture. One thing at a time...
For a full list of posts in this series, go to Using Land Records to Solve Genealogical Problems Compendium.
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I don't believe I have ever ordered a file, most likely just downloaded the "final" document transferring the property to the ancestor in question. I'm looking forward to the next installment.ReplyDelete
I'm waiting to see just what a file contains, also. Have ancestors from several Iowa counties who had farms.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the blog. --Donna
I'm interested in seeing just what a land record file looks like also. Thanks for the blog! - DonnaReplyDelete
Stay tuned Donna. I'm planning on going through several types of land files.ReplyDelete
Land claim files can differ based on the laws by which the land was granted. The federal government granted land ever since its inception, through military bounties, cash purchase, homestead acts, etc. The requirements for each of these were laid out be Congress, and differed greatly. The circumstances of the patentees themselves also affected what information would appear in a file. For example, my wife's ancestor purchased land in Dakota Territory under a Homestead Act. Because he was an immigrant from Norway, his file contains information on his naturalization.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your input Michael. It's nice to receive input from a real expert.ReplyDelete


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The American Soybean Association (ASA) has expressed extreme disappointment and frustration with the U.S. Senate for its inability to extend the Biodiesel Tax Incentive that expired on December 31, 2009.
The Senate voted 41-58 against a motion to suspend the rules and accept an amendment offered by Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley to enact a retroactive extension of the biodiesel tax credit. On Wednesday night (Sept. 15), Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, announced that the Senate would consider a motion to suspend the rules on the amendment to the Small Business Bill filed by Sen. Grassley to retroactively extend the biodiesel tax incentive through 2010.
"Biodiesel has provided a significant market opportunity for U.S. soybean farmers, as well as jobs and economic development for rural communities," said Rob Joslin, ASA President and soybean producer from Sidney, Ohio. "ASA appreciates the efforts of Sen. Grassley to include the long overdue extension of the biodiesel tax credit in this bill."
The motion to suspend the rules required 67 votes to pass and was necessary because the amendment tree had been filled by Sen. Reid and cloture was already invoked on the underlying bill. Procedural issues and larger partisan political issues unrelated to the biodiesel tax credit have prevented favorable Senate action on the tax credit.
ASA believes that extension of the biodiesel tax credit is supported by a majority of senators who recognize its importance in generating jobs, renewable fuel, a cleaner environment, and positive benefits for farmers and their communities.
"ASA is severely disappointed in the failure of the Senate to extend the biodiesel tax credit," Joslin said. "At a time when jobs and renewable energy production are cited as top priorities, it is unacceptable that Congress would fail to extend the biodiesel tax credit. The biodiesel tax credit has a direct impact on jobs and it is a homegrown renewable energy source – the first and only advanced biofuel commercially produced in the United States."
Biodiesel is one of the cleanest burning biofuels currently used in commercial markets. Biodiesel is a renewable and sustainable energy source that can play a significant role in our national efforts to increase our energy security and improve our environmental footprint. The biodiesel industry creates valuable green jobs and makes a positive contribution to the economy.
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"Veronica", a young, extremely friendly Beagle stayed in an outdoor kennel with 2 other dogs at a West Virginia shelter, a small facility run by a few dedicated souls trying to do the impossible. Veronica, typical of so many Southern dogs, existed under the equation SPACE=TIME=LIFE. Is it right to reach out to shelter dogs far away when so many on Long Island, especially the plentiful "lifer" Pits sentenced to solitary confinement, need our attention? Thisquestion tortures me and other rescuers.
There is a Mason-Dixon Line for shelter dogs. Stays are shorter and euthanasia rates of highly adoptable dogs are higher in the South because there is just no room to house the constant flow of unwanted dogs. Others never make it to the shelter, for "SSS"- which means "Shoot, Shovel, Shut Up"- is often the rural solution to eliminate a starving stray, or hunting Hound not up to snuff. Discarded Beagles, Coonhounds, and Labs are a dime a dozen wherever the spay/neuter message hasn't taken root as it has in the Northeast and other higher income regions.
A few fortunate dogs find their way North where homes are more available with the assistance of shared transports, the canine equivalent of the Underground Railroad. Sparky another Beagle from the same West Virginia shelter sparked Veronica's journey because rescue dogs often have cosmic connections. This time a chain of once pathetic Beagles, linked by love, found its way to her.
Rescuers get endless pleas for help, but certain situations really grab you. Vivid details stand out. The Last Hope web mistress forwarded an email from Michele, an extremely articulate high school English teacher. She knew "Last Hope had its hands full rescuing dogs from local pounds" when she wrote that after Tom, her Beagle saved from a laboratory died, she searched for another Beagle suffering a similar plight to adopt in Tom's honor. Her quest instead led to Sparky a 12 year old Beagle gasping from heat exhaustion, lying in the road across from a police station. The lady who found him could not get the police to help.
Michele explained how Rosy, director in rural West Virginia at Wetzel County Animal Shelter (WCAS) heard and got Sparky, barely alive, on a stretcher and nursed him back to health. Thanks to Donna and a Delaware transport group, Michele wound up adopting Sparky who has blossomed and prompted a continued friendship with Rosy and Donna. Michele described the many obstacles Rosy was up against since she left her job as a registered nurse 8 years ago to try to improve the deplorable conditions of the rural shelter and the attitudes of the locals towards animals. The email was heart breaking. Michele asked if Last Hope could help in any small way so more Wetzel dogs could be saved. Perhaps Michele knew Last Hope just brought a Coonhound here from Kentucky. It didn't matter. I couldn't get her message out of my mind.
After clicking on www.wetzelpets.petfinder.com.to tour the tiny WCAS shelter; then on their adoptable pet list, a photo pulled me into the Veronica vortex. ("Veronica" is my middle name and tie to my grandmother who adored her dogs.) As desirable as this Beagle was, no one there would redeem or want her. My neighbor was anxiously awaiting a female Beagle, and although "Beagle" is a relatively easy LI request, I could only offer her males. Without committing, I asked Rosy about temperament testing, vetting and transports. Rosy was extremely helpful but since I am used to EBay where Pay Pal whisks your heart's desire to your door, Veronica's deliverance was going to be a bit more complex. She was 500 miles away.
Wetzel Co. Shelter in New Martinsville only has 7 small indoor cages and 10 outdoor enclosures with igloo shelters, yet only 2 employees a day tend to about 500 dogs a year. Intake is so overwhelming that several dogs must share each outdoor run year round. As is the case with LI deprived dogs, shelter accommodations, no matter how sparse they seem to us, are the Waldorf Astoria when compared to the life the dogs had before. Wetzel hold time is dependent on this precious communal space, so dogs, even those previously starved, cannot be food or dog aggressive. Few dogs are adopted by residents. Rosy seeks loving, indoor homes. Themajority of the dogs adopted go out through rescue groups.
We arranged Veronica's transport via Donna of Delaware Alliance for Animal Welfare Groups (www. daawgs.org) - the same Donna who delivered Sparky. This wonderful network helps Wetzel and other WV and Ohio shelters. Veronica was spayed and heart worm tested last Thursday. She left Wetzel again on Friday so Parkersburg Humane, an hour to the east, could combine a van full of shelter dogs to bring to Maryland on Saturday where Donna (who began her trip in southeast PA) met them to drive Veronica and a Pit puppy to Delaware, our rendezvous point, a mere 170 miles away from LI. The Pit pup would become a DAAWG foster.
Meanwhile nifty navigator Doris and I left early enough to do some Christmas shopping and even geo-caching in Delaware while we awaited our Beagle bundle of joy, slightly delayed by a surprise snowstorm. Veronica is a treasure. She exited her crate kissing everyone and didn't make a peep the whole trip. I fed her pizza crusts at rest stops to transform her into a New Yorker. Next day, she already had a good application at Last Hope but not my neighbor, because there is another twist of Beagle karma.
Coming Next Week-a New Concept: why not adopt a shelter? Veronica, similar to the familiar starfish parable, is a single dog spared in a sea of discards. She is symbolic of thousands of deserving dogs like her; while WCAS represents thousands of struggling rural shelters. Wetzel which now has a 501 c 3 Supporters' Group desperately needs funds and supplies. One dog saved is not enough. Next week I would like to propose a holiday campaign, asking kind folks to Adopt Wetzel County Animal Shelter. I promise you won't have to trek to West Virginia or take in a needy Beagle, (unless you want to).
Adoptables Back Home at Babylon Town Shelter (643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: When it rains it pours. After we arranged to foster Veronica, a female Beagle, foraging for food by a hot dog truck came into the shelter. The Commack Rd. area adjoining the Pilgrim/Edgewood property is our Beagle dumping ground, a microcosm of the rural South. Rabbit hunters abandon hunting hounds there. My neighbor plans to call this Beagle "Vicki". Next day an older, thinner female Beagle, covered by ticks, turned up in the same vicinity. She and Vicki appear to know each other. All 3 gals (Veronica too) have had litters. The senior was christened "Violet" to complete the V trilogy. Come meet "Violet" in Cage 42 and/or see the many other Babylon Shelter deserving dogs and cats online at Petfinder-NY275.


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Chocolate, Strawberry, Banana & Beyond: 15 Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
It's Ice Cream Week at The Kitchn — a week we look forward to all year long, as an excuse to dip into that sweet, cold, and creamy goodness of homemade ice cream — any flavor you like! We also took this as an excuse to look back at 15 of our all-time favorite ice cream recipes from The Kitchn, from the best chocolate ice cream ever, to ice cream with fresh strawberries, to that famous one-ingredient banana treat.
But that isn't all — read on for mint chocolate chip, brown butter, salted almond, and more. And don't let the lack of an ice cream maker stop you — we have some tips for that too. It's ice cream season — and here we go!
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Fruit & Herbs
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• 8 Strawberry Ice Cream with Cacao Nibs
• 9 Savannah Buttermint Ice Cream
Beyond the Basics
• 10 Brown Butter Ice Cream
• 11 Rose Geranium Ice Cream with Pistachios
• 12 Buttery Popcorn Ice Cream
• 13 Coffee Ice Cream with Hot Fudge Sauce
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Oh yes, its not even Thanksgiving yet and my brain is focused on Christmas! I love this time of year! Today my hubby is out hunting and my littlest is home sick with the flu. What's a mommy to do with an unexpected day at home? How about set up the tree and get my craft on! ;) {Ok that was kind of lame, sorry!}
Last year I shared with you a Pottery Barn knock off pillow for the holidays. This year I wanted to make a tree skirt to match! Please don't be intimidated! This was a lot easier than I expected it to be and took less time than I thought. {Especially if your leaves are cut out ahead of time}
I promised my kids that they could decorate the tree for family night tomorrow night, so she's only sporting her skirt and lights, for now!
The concept for this skirt is a simple one and could easily be adapted to your decor by changing the colors of the skirt or felt leaves.
Here's what you need to make one:
- Fabric {I used drop cloth fabric that I pre~washed}
- Sewing machine
- Felt
- Poms
- Hot Glue
- Iron
1} Start by measuring how far out you want your skirt from your tree. I measured out from the trunk. My skirt is about 20" out from the trunk all the way around.
2} Fold your fabric in fourths and measure about 21" from the folded corner.
3} Next starting with the folded edge cut at the 21" mark then move your tape measure around as you cut.
Now you have circle, that desperately needs ironing. So #4 is to iron.
5} Fold your ironed circle back up and cut a semi-circle at the corner for your tree trunk.
6} Unfold your circle and cut the "opening" for your skirt, anywhere you want.
7} Now we are going to hem all the way around and along our cut opening. I am not a seamstress and I will admit I had no clue how to hem the center hole. I figured that no one would see that hole anyways so it would be fine. You may want to just stitch around that opening to keep it from fraying.
8} I did not iron after I pinned and it turned out just fine, but if you are a perfectionist you may want to. Now we are going to stitch it up. I did a zigzag stitch. Here are my settings.
9} Now I ironed the hem. Then lay it out on a large work surface. My kitchen counter did the job.
10} Ahead of time you will want to cut out your felt leaves. It took about 6 sheets of felt that I cut in strips first then free handedly {spell check doesn't think this is a word but it works for me!} cut out my leaves. Cutting the felt into about 2" strips helps you keep the height of your leaves more uniform when you cut them out. Sorry, I guess I have no pictures of this part.
11} Using a hot glue gun glue an even line of leaves about 2-4" apart and 2" up from the hem all the way around. This is important because it keeps your leaves headed in the right direction and looking even all the way around. Once you add in the random ones its easy to get off track if you don't have these as your guide.
12} Now we are going to fill them in by adding more leaves.
13} Once your leaves are done we are going to add our pom "berries" using a generous amount of hot glue.
{It helps to have plenty of Diet Coke on hand and maybe some Christmas music on in the background}
And then you are done!
I have a cute little helper who kept trying to get into the pictures!
And after you make the skirt you might want to make a garland with your leftover felt. I will show you that tutorial next week!
In the mean time, Happy Thanksgiving!
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This is a cute paper, however, the front side is pretty busy! It is easily cut into thirds vertically & then you could slice into it horizontally to get sections. Or just slice through it randomly like I did : )
The stars pattern on the back is really cute.
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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (TH - DVD)
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Young-goon (Lim Su-jeong) is a pretty and deranged young woman who is convinced that she is not a human, but a human-like cyborg. She refuses to eat, instead she 'charges' herself by licking and touching batteries and she spends most of her time talking to her transistor radio. Understandably, Young-goon has been admitted into a mental institution. In the sanitarium she meets Il-soon (pop star Rain), a mask-wearing patient who believes he has the ability to steal memories and character traits from the other inmates.
Park Chan-wook's post- J.S.A. work has been so uniformly fantastic that he's become more or less the quality barometer for Western World interest in South Korean filmmaking. The only South Korean pictures I can think of that have any kind of recognition outside of specific film fans are Bong Joon-ho's The Host, Kim Ji-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters (maybe Bittersweet Life), Jang Jun-hwan's Save the Green Planet, and unfortunately, Shim Hyung-rae's Dragon War. As time goes by I'm positive that South Korea will find a larger place in popular world cinema, but for the time being they're still the underdogs.
My point being that when Chan-wook sets out to make a new film, people take notice. And when he finally begins to sidestepping his four-year obsession with vengeance (even his part of Three…Extremes was basically about revenge), we take special notice. Old dog, new tricks, and all that.
Well, Park doesn't entirely avoid vengeance, his lead in I'm a Cyborg is still interested in a mad sort of revenge, but he's growing. Here the notoriously hard-edged director proves he can deal with happier subjects like romance and physical comedy, and he proves he can create strong female leads even without the help of Lee Young-ae. Of course Captain Gloomy isn't capable of entirely letting himself over to the light side, the whole film throbs with melancholy, but no film with a climactic, slow-clap eating scene can be all serious.
I'm a Cyborg isn't as much a statement on genre as J.S.A. or any of the films found in the Vengeance Trilogy, it actually quotes other films in homage rather than deconstruction. The most obvious, and not so shocking homage is Milos Foreman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The madhouse environment is hard to maintain without quoting Foreman at least a little bit. I said in my Lady Vengeance review that Park has a bit of Wes Anderson in him, and by proxy Anderson's inspirations, chiefly Stanley Kubrick. For I'm a Cyborg Park again utilizes bright, garish colours and floaty camera tricks at every turn. The ornate visual style and use of the tighter 1.85:1 framing also often recalls Terry Gilliam, who of course dealt with similar issues for 12 Monkeys.
Chan-wook's film contrasts Jang Jun-hwan's equally zany and colourful look at madness, Save the Green Planet, by allowing his audience to identify most with Il-soon, who is likely not insane, but rather extremely eccentric. From his point of view we know that Young-goon is not actually a cyborg, and he acts accordingly to help her, as he seems to be somewhat the guardian angel of the psych ward (just like R.P. McMurphy in Cuckoo's Nest). Had Park only provided the hospital's doctors (the 'antagonists') as a counter point to Young-goon's madness, the reality of the film's world would've been in question, just like that of Save the Green Planet, where audience expectations are flipped just about every fifteen minutes. Fans of Park should have also come to expect baroque hallucinations out of his characters by now, as seen in all three Vengeance Trilogy films and Cut. Though we are meant to care about these characters, we are meant to view their world objectively.
I've been burned by early release Thai DVDs before, but this one looks rather decent. Almost the entire film is brightly lit, either taking place in the white painted and fluorescently highlighted corridors of the hospital, or the perpetually sunny outdoors. This brightness helps the transfer avoid issues with low-level noise and general compression. The candy-coated colour schemes are vibrant and poppy, but warm colours exhibit a lot of jagged edges. Il-soon's baby-blue masks are particularly bold, and cleaner than other strong colours. Black levels are decent (it took me a while to realize that Young-goon's hair was actually died deep blue), but they tend to suffer a bit of lightening due to the consistent brightness. The transfer is also interlaced, but I noticed very few combing effects during viewing, though the screen grabs proved a bit difficult.
Park may be over his gloom and doom phase, but apparently he and composer Jo Yeong-wook haven't gotten over their love of Vivaldi and Bach. Though slightly more upbeat, I'm a Cyborg utilizes even more string accompanied Baroque music. The 5.1 Dolby Digital Korean track (also available with a 5.1 Thai dub) isn't particularly impressive, but there isn't much to complain about either. The whole film is generally more audibly subtle then other Park films, depending mostly on the (well centred and crystal clear) dialogue, and floaty music to tell its whimsical story. There are a few moments of aggressive surround and LFE work, specifically scenes where Young-goon makes believe she's transformed into a weapon and shoots up the hospital staff, but the majority of surround work is subtle electronic hums and such.
It's a cheap disc, and it's region free (despite the box art's claim of R3), but you'll have to go without extras I'm afraid.
Decidedly different from Park Chan-wook's previous and more popular work, I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK is still a luscious and heart warming little slice of weird that should keep fans satiated. 2007 was a really great year for skewed romantic comedy between this, Stardust, and Wristcutters: A Love Story. The disc is affordable and ready to play in the USA, so those not willing to wait any longer for Tartan USA to crawl out of their funk might want to give it a go.
You can find and many other cult Asian films at Xploitedcinema.com. Check them out and support my sponsor.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 1st January 1995
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Korean, Dolby Digital 5.1 Thai
Subtitles: English, Thai
Extras: None
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Park Chan-Wook
Cast: Jung Ji-Hoon (Rain), Kim Byeong-Ok, Lim Su-Jeong, Oh Dal-Su
Length: 107 minutes
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With an application from Becky Riddle, the Kentucky Historical Marker Program Coordinator, Chris Bennett and Alan Reed were able to push the project forward. It was the dream of Major Richard Blakelee's son, Rob to have a historical marker placed at the site of the crash.
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Interesting, understandable and practical research from San Diego Organizational Psychology graduate Dr. Jennifer Konkin
The Leadership Study is a series of research studies starting with Jennifer Konkin's doctoral dissertation at Alliant International University. The dissertation was designed to explore how cognitive ability, emotional intelligence, and adjustment predict managerial job performance when moderated by emotional labor. Past research (i.e., Schmidt & Hunter, 1998) has demonstrated that cognitive ability is the best predictor of job performance and accounts for 25% of the variance in performance. However, these findings were primarily based on samples of students and individual contributor employees. Current understandings of the substrates of managerial performance are heavily based on research conducted with individual contributors and university students. The primary research question of this study was to investigate whether interpersonal skills such as emotional intelligence and adjustment are more predictive of job performance in managerial positions than cognitive ability. One hundred and sixty one managers participated in this applied research from 37 companies across the United States. Each manager completed four assessments for data collection and a leadership development coaching session based on the results of the assessments was offered to each leader for participating in the study.
Results indicated the hypotheses were not supported — that is, emotional intelligence, adjustment and cognitive ability did not predict managerial performance. Nor was there a significant moderating effect of emotional labor. Interestingly, direct effects were present between emotional labor and performance accounting for 6% of managerial performance. ANOVA confirmed that cases in the data set were non-independent, which is that the company the participant was recruited from varied significantly with performance and predicted 41.6% of the variance of performance. The implication of the identified company effect is the possible need to consider cultural or environmental factors when considering studies into managerial performance and that while the effect size is smaller, the direct effect between emotional labor may require further investigation to better understand the nature of this relationship.
Dr. Konkin continued The Leadership Study with post-graduate research into leadership competencies that predict performance. Leaders completed a competency-based 360 degree assessment, where their workplace colleagues completed ratings on both leadership competencies as well as performance. Leaders were at minimum a manager in hierarchical level, most were considered executives. Ratings of over 2,200 feedback providers revealed that the four leadership competencies of decision-making, influence, execution, and results orientation account for 57.6% of managerial performance. This research resulted in the publication of the Leadership Dashboard Assessments now available to practitioners as a leadership development tool to guide development.
Dr. Konkin continues The Leadership Study with executive interviews focused on investigating the nature of potential culture and environmental factors that may further impact managerial performance. Further understanding the factors impacting managerial performance may enhance our understanding of how to develop impactful leaders.


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Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo recently participated in a videoconference sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Health. Health officials representing more than 30 states joined together to discuss advancements in videoconferencing technology.
Demand for videoconferencing services to skyrocketBy KEVIN KINNAIRDFRANKFORT, Ky. - As state government coffers tighten amid tough economic times, the demand for videoconferencing services is expected to double within the next year, a state technology official said.
State's new network expansion, design key to preventing downtimeBy KEVIN KINNAIRDFRANKFORT, Ky. – A new design in the state's expanded fiber-optic network will soon prevent widespread data disruptions to state offices should the cabling ever become compromised, an official said.
Agencies to reap savings from reduced computing costsBy KEVIN KINNAIRDFRANKFORT, Ky. - Increased computing power and capacity on the state's new mainframe computer will result in less computing costs for state agencies, according to Commonwealth Office of Technology.
Kentucky Ranks 7th in 2008 Digital States SurveyFRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky has been recognized as the seventh most tech-savvy state government in the nation, according to the Center for Digital Government's (CDG) 2008 Digital States Survey.The biennial survey, which is in its eighth year of publication, is the original and only continuous survey of stategovernments' use of information technology. This year marks Kentucky's highest ranking in the survey and its secondconsecutive appearance in the top 10.
E-Transparency Web Site Goes Online FRANKFORT, Ky. — A mockup of Kentucky's first e-Transparency Web site is now online and members of the public are being asked to make comments on its design. "Kentucky's Open Door" Web site has been designed as a one-stop venue where citizens can review how their tax dollars are being spent, as well as obtain other vital information about state-funded programs.
New Statewide Partnership To Increase Cyber safety Education Attorney General Jack Conway, Kentucky Child Now and the Kentucky Department of Education today announced a new partnership that will expand statewide cyber safety education efforts and teach adults to be online models, mentors and monitors.
Question: The demand for videoconferencing services is increasing as state government agencies look for ways to save money. How many videoconferencing hours are now being logged every month by COT?
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Federal inspectors have seized nearly 1,400 Chinese-made little girl pirate costumes that were on their way to a Seattle retailer. Authorities found they contained 11 times the legal limit for lead.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission tested the costumes for lead after they were singled out for inspection by customs due to a past violation, reports MSNBC.
The harmful substance was in the buttons and trim of the Halloween costume, which could have posed a major health threat if an unsuspecting child had put those pieces in their mouth. High levels of lead in a kid's blood can cause vomiting, coma or convulsions, while low levels can cause difficulties with learning and paying attention.
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For someone who did more than enough to attain hero status in Brazil, Vicente Italo Feola has a curiously controversial reputation in his home country. The former national team coach, so it is said, had a very open-minded and laid-back approach to his job, so much so that he would allegedly let his older players run the team and sometimes appeared to be taking a nap on the bench.
Having guided A Seleção to their first FIFA World Cup™ win at Sweden 1958, Feola was undoubtedly successful. Yet in Brazil at least, he is remembered just as much, if not more so, for the disastrous campaign he oversaw at England 1966, when the then reigning world champions crashed out in the group phase.
When you consider that Feola spent 16 years at the top of his profession, taking some of the biggest and most profound decisions ever made in Brazilian football, the popular view of him as a happy-go-lucky yet sleepy-eyed character is hard to believe. Yet over the years, that perception of him, one reinforced by the national side's catastrophic showing in England, has outweighed the facts, unfairly so in the view of some of the people who worked with and under him.
"Virtually everything that's said about Feola comes from tittle-tattle in the Brazilian press," the legendary former Brazil player and coach Mario Zagallo told FIFA.com.
Zagallo is well-qualified when it comes to discussing Feola. In the run-up to Sweden 1958 he was contesting the left-wing slot with Canhoteiro and Pepe. Though Zagallo lacked their technical ability he offered something they could not: the willingness to track back and defend when he was not in possession, a new development in the game at that time.
"Brazil had used a traditional 4-2-4 formation up till then, and without much success," continued Zagallo. "In 1958 I ended up being an important player for Feola, who had me pushing forward when we were in possession and then tracking back into midfield to support the left-back Nilton Santos when we weren't. I'm very thankful for his philosophy on the game. He didn't just come to me and say 'Play like that', but he'd seen what I was doing at Botafogo, and that was the first real tactical shift in Brazilian football."
The big stage
By the time he took Brazil to glory in Sweden, Feola had already acquired a vast amount of coaching experience at Sao Paulo, the club he once played for. Though he described himself as a terrible player, Feola would have far more success in the dugout. And it was during the course of his first four spells in charge of Sao Paulo, which extended over a period of 20 years, that he played a fundamental part in the emergence of Leonidas da Silva, one of the greatest names the Brazilian game has ever produced and the leading goalscorer at France 1938.
"It was Feola who insisted that Sao Paulo should sign me from Flamengo in 1942," recalled the flamboyant centre forward in an interview with the newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo, given shortly after Feola's death in 1975. "And when I wanted to give up playing in 1947, he told me I should carry on. I took his advice and ended up winning the Sao Paulo state championship in 1948 and 1949."
I'm very thankful for his philosophy on the game. He didn't just come to me and say 'Play like that', but he'd seen what I was doing at Botafogo, and that was the first real tactical shift in Brazilian football.
As an assistant coach to national team boss Flavio Costa, Feola was also on duty for O Maracanazo, the fateful final game of the 1950 FIFA World Cup Brazil against Uruguay, a match the hosts only needed to draw to clinch their first world title but which ended in defeat before a disbelieving Maracana crowd.
Feola had acquired no shortage of experience therefore by the time, in 1958, that Brazilian FA delegation chief Paulo Machado de Carvalho put him in charge of the largest and best-organized coaching team ever assembled for the national side.
Yet the very fact that he was the first head coach to have a team supervisor, fitness coach, doctor, manager, dentist and psychologist working alongside him led some to imply that he lacked authority.
Decision time
Indeed, that view became so widely held in Brazilian football that the tactical revolution spearheaded by the 1958 team was attributed not to Feola's visionary take on the game but to a supposed meeting of the squad's senior players, a meeting that bordered on mutiny.
Legend has it that after Brazil's opening two games in Sweden – a 3-0 defeat of Austria and a 0-0 draw with England – Didi, Nilton Santos and a group of other leading players got together and forced Feola to make two changes for the decisive final group match with the USSR. In came Garrincha and Pele coming into the team at the expense of Joel and Mazola, thus assuming their places in football folklore.
"It's a lie. There was no meeting," said Zito, a member of the 1958 side, in conversation with FIFA.com. "It was Feola's decision, and he made it after the team doctor, Hilton Gosling, said Pele was fit to play."
Feola changed our entire system, and put everyone in different positions so that nobody could tell who was who or how Brazil were going to play.
That version of events is one that O Rei himself confirmed in an interview with FIFA.com. Having picked up a right-knee injury following a heavy tackle by Ari Clemente in a warm-up match against Corinthians, the 17-year-old Pele nearly missed out on the trip to Sweden altogether.
Taking up the story, he told how Feola and Gosling approached him before the meeting with the Soviet Union: "Dr Hilton came up to me and said: 'You're fit'. Then Feola said: 'You'd better get ready then, because you're going to play."
"He was Feola's golden boy," said Zagallo by way of confirmation. "I'd never met Pele because he'd never played at the Maracana. But Feola had seen a lot of him when he was the coach at Sao Paulo."
Zagallo also had the inside story on why Garrincha was brought into the side along with Pele: "Joel was my team-mate at Flamengo and we shared a room at the team hotel. After the second game he said to me: 'Zagallo, my knee hurts.' And I said to him: 'Hey, if you say anything, you'll lose your place in the team.' But he insisted: 'I know, but I can really feel it. I'm going to say something.' And that was that. In came Garrincha.
"Speak to the journalists and they'll tell you even today that the players really did have a meeting because they reported it. But I was there, staying in that hotel, and I didn't see anything."
Zagallo added: "We had a training session the day before the game against the USSR, whose training ground was right next to ours. The press just wanted to know about Pele and Garrincha playing together, so Feola changed our entire system, and put everyone in different positions so that nobody could tell who was who or how Brazil were going to play."
A high and a low
The rest, as they say, is history. A Seleção went on to win all their remaining matches in Sweden, playing an increasingly expansive game and becoming the legendary side so closely associated with Pele and Garrincha.
Consigning their reputation as also-rans to history, Brazil became known for their beguilingly successful brand of football and retained their world title four years later in Chile. Feola would have been in the dugout then too but for recurring health issues triggered by his weight problems and a weak heart, which caused him to close his eyes on many occasions, feeding his reputation for being fond of a mid-game nap.
From that point on Brazil fans have come to regard any FIFA World Cup campaign not ending in glory for A Seleção as a failure. Feola's last appearance on the biggest stage of all in 1996 is a case in point.
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Re: I want to go back to law school
Reply #10 on:
July 11, 2012, 11:19:51 AM »
I didn't even finish the first semester at 'SC. In fact, I walked out of finals. I think that marred my transcript with a bunch of W's. Now, I have my sights set on Columbia. What LSAT do you think I'll need to get in there?
Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 11, 2012, 11:27:21 AM »
I don't remember what your UGPA is (and I don't know if you are just messing around), but it looks like low 170s will be required.
Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 11, 2012, 11:45:46 AM »
Jack24, I am kinda messin' around. I already got a 166 on the LSAT, which is 93-94 percentile, and attended the University of Southern California's law school before I dropped out. I may just go to business school and proceed to reap what I've sown.
Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 18, 2012, 11:44:24 AM »
First off, judging by your other posts, I don't think you're serious (or truthful) about much of anything, least of which being your interest in law school, LSAT scores or whether you actually attended law school. But I'm bored, so why not throw a real answer in for the heck of it. Assuming everything you said is true, your chances of getting into any T14 school are slim. If you walked out during finals, your transcript isn't marred by Ws, it's marred by Fs. Schools have withdrawal deadlines, usually very early in the semester. No school I have ever heard of permits you to withdraw in the middle of finals. So you have a whopping 0.0 lawschool GPA, that you will be required to report. So that puts you into a very interesting and unpleasant situation. You're not exactly a transfer student, since you have no transferable credits, but you have to report your failed first swing through law school. So that 166 LSAT score isn't going to help you very much either. It's more than 5 years old, so it's not reported, and despite having attended law school, you are still a prospective 1L, so you will need to take the LSAT again. Hopefully you will do as well or better. If not...well, you already had an uphill battle, might as well give up. As for any "soft" factors, I wouldn't hang my hopes on that either. "Soft" factors might help someone on the cusp or help an otherwise "no" in a tier 2 school to be reconsidered. It's not going to be the basis to get into a top 14 school. I'd wager you're pretty much SOL for Columbia. But on the bright side, going by your other posts, I'm guessing you're full of B.S. anyway, so none of this really matters. If I'm wrong, I'd say your posts show a lack of maturity and judgment to be successful in law school, and your second attempt would probably have similar results to your first, so don't waste the money for the LSAT or applications.
Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 20, 2012, 12:44:47 PM »
Well, Zepp, I am only 29 years old. Between you and me, I still have a bit of that "sow your wild oats" thing raging in my body because I never did "sow my wild oats" when I was younger. Like when I was in high school or college. So, it's kinda like, I'm off schedule. I should be effing--"sowing my wild oats"--right? Perhaps it's wise to "sow your wild oats" before you go to law school. I am not kidding about my LSAT. I did get a 166, and that's 93-94 percentile; I did attend USC law in 2007. a top-twenty ls; and my undergrad GPA from
flagship university of Maine was ~3.56. That's magna cum laude. Not to forget that I am a member of Phi Beta Kappa, that presitigious collegiate honor society many politicians belong to. And, lastly and penultimately, I became an assistant manager at CVS/pharmacy in Beantown, U.S.A., with a salary of $39,000; as well as sell $2 million of merchandise at a Ford dealership in NoHo, CA. I must've sold about a dozen Ford Focuses. I think those are two "soft factors" that count.
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Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 21, 2012, 06:26:53 AM »
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July 23, 2012, 01:36:29 PM »
I vaguel;y remember showing a customer where tampons were located. In that case, maybe what I did is sell
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Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 24, 2012, 02:02:43 AM »
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Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 24, 2012, 08:25:51 AM »
Well, if you are being sincere, I suggest you hold off even trying to apply to law school, because your other posts here give a very strong impression that you still lack the maturity and focus for law school, and would have similar results to your first attempt. A friend of mine once described law school as all the drama and hormones of high school, but without the restraint of living with your parents. And I can understand not being mentally there yet. That was me as an undergrad. Had painfully average (if not worse) undergrad grades. Thought about law school, but one of my proffs suggested I take some time off, dabble in the real world, and make sure it was what I really wanted to do, rather than get into a middling law school, get middling grades, and if I'm luck, get a middling job, and perhaps practice for 3 years before looking for something different. So I started a career, got a masters in some liberal arts field just for personal enrichment, and then applied for law school in my early 30s. Only ended up getting into a tier 2 school, ranked top 5 in my class after the first year, and transfered to Georgetown, and graduated cum laude. So yes, I can understand lack of maturity being an obsticle.
Now for your other factors, and getting into a top tier school. As I said earlier, you are not strictly a 1L, nor are you a transfer. You can kiss that LSAT score from 2005 good bye, because every law school is going to require you to have current LSAT scores. Anything older than 5 years is not current. You will have to take the LSAT again. Your 2005 LSAT score won't even be reported. For all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist. Hopefullly, you will do just as well. However, to pretend that it is a given is to delude yourself. Your attending USC doesn't help you in the least, because you failed out. It might as well have been a top 5 law school. Failing out of a great law school is not a selling point to an admissions board. If anything, this is probably your biggest hurdle to get into a decent school. Perhaps you can try to explain it away in a personal statement, but you can't just pretend you are only relying on an undergrad GPA and LSAT score. If you didn't have that giant 0.0 on your law school transcript, your magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa would certainly mean open doors at top14 schools, but you shot yourself in the foot. As for your "soft factors," sorry to tell you, they aren't that impressive. You held down some jobs that didn't require physical labor, and managed to work your way up to assistant manager. Congratulations. But it really isn't that much of a big deal. It's not like you joined the Peace Corps, organized a successful non-profit that distributes clothes to homeless vets, became a lobbyist, worked on a congressional staff, etc. You held a pair of retail positions. It really is no big f'en deal. It's not a strike against you (as if you had been living in your parents' basement for the past 8 years playing video games), but I'd be very surprised if it made a difference one way or the other.
If you really want to go to law school, first and foremost...grow up. If you manage to get into a top tier law school, everyone will have similar credentials as you, so you can't afford not to take things seriously. Even if you only get into a second tier school because of your failing out, you will still encounter folks with solid academic backgrounds. You will be graded on a strict curve, so even if you put out a really solid final, it might still only get you a B- (mercifully, the higher tiered schools have much easier curves than the lower tiered schools, and the top 3 don't even report grades). With the legal market as tight as it is, do you really want to take on a quarter of a million dollars in non-discharable law school debt if you are only going to screw off, "sowing your wild oats" and finishing with an unimpressive GPA that will leave with no job prospects when all is said and done?
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Re: I want to go back to law school
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July 24, 2012, 01:15:01 PM »
but he got 166.
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Krasa Center, Room 060
5700 College Road Lisle IL, 60532
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m


text: I just got an amazing tattoo from Kat Von D on her show 'LA Ink.' I have been a fan for a long time and I am so excited to finally have it done. Kat is incredible and totally nice and funny and fun. We had an awesome time and it didn't even hurt because Kat is so pretty nothing she does could possibly hurt anyone!


text:
I want to build some sort of gun or other projectile launcher that uses Spongebob minifigs for ammo.
Operator: ok, are you ready?
Spongebob: I'm ready!
Operator: I seriously doubt that...
a high pitched scream pierces the night air as a brilliant yellow blur is seen hurtling through the sky before exploding upon impact with the castle wall.


text:
What Do Targeted Attacks Look Like?
You don't often get to see what an actual targeted attack looks like. These are usually in the form of an e-mail sent to a narrow group of people or a single person. The message is tailored to their interests, may be sent "From:" someone they know (like the boss), and has a malicious attachment.
F-Secure's latest blog entry shows us some examples.
The first one, I must say, would make me suspicious immediately, as it refers for former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as the "Former Minister of Finance." Other than that, they are well-written, unlike most malicious notes which appear to be written by non-native English speakers. They all have plausible messages. One comes from a Yahoo address, one GMail and one AOL. They are probably all legit addresses, but not necessarily set up by the people whose names are used for them.
Note that all 3 sample messages have PDF attachments. Note it, but don't be surprised by it.


text: Hi there! Three strange problems arised from - I don't know from where to be honest... This is what happens: - When a new maildomain is created nothing happens until a new mailuser is inserted (intended behavior as far as I know). When a new mailuser is created the following problems arise: 1. The maildomain.name [f.e. test.int] has the permission-set 0755 (owned by vmail) and not 0700 - is that intended behavior? 2. The maildir of the new mailuser is owned by the user root (0700) which obviously leads to trouble during maildelivery. 3. If the mailuser is updated (function user_update in mail_plugin.inc.php) the user is honored by applying the correct owner to his maildir. I thought that my problem would reside in the mail_plugin.inc.php and I compared it with the "install-version" and only found the changes that I applied - see here. I've attached my mail_plugin.inc.php as textfile - maybe someone can give me a hint what's going wrong here. (It seems that line 123 is not executed. All changes are marked with "osterhase".)