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Amazon MP3 music store will be pre-loaded on the Android platform that powers the T-Mobile G1
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2008--Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the Amazon MP3 music store will be pre-loaded on the T-Mobile G1, the world's first Android(TM)-powered mobile phone in partnership with Google. T-Mobile G1 users can search, download, buy and play music from Amazon MP3, which offers over 6 million DRM-free MP3 songs from all four major music labels and thousands of independent labels that can be played on virtually any hardware device and managed with any music software.
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Bruce Delahorne
Mark Cipolloni/AutoRacing1.com
CDW, a large retailer of computers, components,
software, and electronics, chose
Champ Car as one of its primary platforms to market itself and
to develop better relationships with its customers. On Saturday
in Toronto I had the opportunity to meet with Bruce Delahorne,
who is the senior manager of national advertising, and learn
more about why CDW is activating their sponsorship with Champ
Car while other sponsors fail to 'get it.'
MARK CIPOLLONI: Bruce, thank you for taking the time to be with
us today.
BRUCE DELAHORNE: Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity.
CIPOLLONI: I've observed CDW doing more in this paddock in terms
of a sponsor than anybody else, yet you're new to the sport.
Tell us how you got involved, how this all came about and why.
DELAHORNE: We really got involved with Champ Car as an
opportunity for us to extend what we are doing in a lot of the
rest of our national advertising to try to build awareness of
CDW and our product offering, our service offering, to business
customers. We have struggled with getting our story out and have
had a very active program in a lot of other kinds of
After doing a bit of analysis and being pitched quite
effectively by Henry Rischitelli and the rest of the RuSPORT
team, we understand that advertising and marketing, via a
sponsorship in Champ Car, was a very efficient way for us to
reach people who we know from other work are excellent
customers, excellent prospects for our business. I must also
give proper credit to Champ Car for their aid and guidance in
helping us get off to a good start. They deserve a share of the
credit for the strong start we've made.
For us, it was a very logical and rational way to do a better
job of speaking to the right prospects.
CIPOLLONI: Your company sells technology products, computer
technology products. Why racing?
Bruce Delahorne
Mark Cipolloni/AutoRacing1.com
DELAHORNE: Well, I think that there's a lot of inherent benefit
that we offer to customers. We are very well organized to try to
deliver product and service to them very quickly. And for us,
the essential connection was that with the sense of urgency we
try to bring to our customers is essential to racing, and we saw
a great connection, a great match-up in that way. It was a great
way to extend and emphasize what we're trying to do.
CIPOLLONI: What kinds of things are you
doing to activate the sponsorship? There are some sponsors we've seen in racing come in
and put their names on the side of a car and that's all they do,
whereas you seem to be doing a lot more.
DELAHORNE: Well, I think we are doing a lot more. I think one of
the things that we're doing is to really try to emphasize that
for us this sponsorship is not just putting our name on the side
of the car. We have approached working with RuSPORT as a small
business, which in essence they are, according to the way we
would categorize them.
We have worked with them to help analyze how do they use
technology to accomplish their business objectives. In this case
it's to make the car go faster and win races. So our field
engineers worked with them, went to races to see how they use
technology right at the point of the track, how they use
technology back at the race shop, and made a series of
recommendations for things they could do differently and better,
some of them might seem simple, others were much more
complicated and complex, to help them do a better job with the
car and with winning races. So that has been one essential
CDW's RuSPORT Lola Ford
LAT for Champ Car
The other is that we've tried to do those things that we think
that a racing sponsorship can do to help us do a better job
talking to our prospects and our customers so we're advertising
in the Champ Car broadcasts, we're bringing a lot of customers
who are local to the race, to the race to get an inside view of
the sport.
In many cases,
these are people who aren't in advance race fans, but they're
good customers of ours and they're willing to attend a race. I
think they get turned into race fans when they not only see the
excitement of the racing itself, but they end up seeing the
involvement that we have with the team and with the car and get
a better sense of how important the technology is as a part of
Champ Car.
That's really one of the things I think that led us to being
interested in being in Champ Car as opposed to many of the other
race series, is that there is a higher level of technology that
gets employed into setting the cars up and making them go fast.
CIPOLLONI: We've seen in F1 and NASCAR the drivers featured in
advertising a lot, with the cars that sponsor those teams or
drivers. I think I've seen you doing some of that with Justin
Wilson, is that correct?
DELAHORNE: We have done some things with Justin. He's a
wonderful spokesperson, very appealing character. We have ads
ready to run as soon as we get back up on the top step of the
podium again. We've used Justin and some other aspects of the
race team in some catalog work that we've done and some direct
mail pieces and some other things that we're doing online. We
have an extensive section on our
website now about our racing
involvement, and it gives us a chance to tell the story of how
we're working with RuSPORT.
So I think that we have -- for us, the activation aspect of the
sponsorship has seemed to us like we're not doing anything in
excess of what we should be doing. We wish in many ways, you
know, we were able to do more. But I think we're trying to
approach this with a learning perspective and saying, okay, we
want to continue to do a little bit better and a little bit
more. It feels like we're learning with every race.
CDW's driver Justin Wilson
LAT for Champ Car
CIPOLLONI: One of the things I've commented on over the years is
that NASCAR and F1 have been able to make heroes out of their
drivers by getting the drivers out there in front of the public
on TV and in print ads and so forth. We don't see too much of
that in Champ Car. I feel their TV ratings are suffering because
the drivers are not what I term heroes because of the sponsors
not being on board with the big picture and understanding their
role, not only in bringing money to the sport, but by making the
driver popular, that drives TV ratings, which in turn drives
exposure for their product.
NASCAR seems to get that. F1 seems
to get that. Some of the other series still have to get there.
So I think what you're doing, what I see so far what you're
doing is definitely more than others. For being your first year,
it's fantastic from my perspective.
DELAHORNE: Well, thank you, I appreciate that. And I think that
we would like to be able to do some more and we have plans for
our involvement for going forward this year and next year to
increase and broaden what we're doing. I think there's clearly
an opportunity for us to do some more in making Justin a more
publicly well-known figure. He'll turn himself into a hero
without any help from us.
CIPOLLONI: Winning races will help that.
DELAHORNE: It will help, exactly. And I think that, you know,
he's clearly one of the finest drivers in the series. You know,
in short order, he'll be on the top step, and people will learn
more about him.
CIPOLLONI: Very good. I wish you a lot of luck with your
DELAHORNE: Thank you.
CIPOLLONI: Hopefully it's long-term. I thank you very much for
your time.
DELAHORNE: You are quite welcome.
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This is a manual goniometer used for measuring the contact angle of a static drop of water on the surface of a solid sample. The contact angle gives the user an idea of how hydrophobic or hydrophillic a sample surface is, which may be very useful when attempting to optimize adhesion between two dissimilar materials.
Leica INM 200 Optical Microscope
This is the new Leica INM 200 Optical Microscope system. It is newly designed as a universal inspection microscope, having both reflected and transmitted light imaging capability. In addition, it has extensive image processing software enabling the user to optimize the image, including the ability to greatly extend the depth of focus of high resolution images by digitally combining image slices through the depth of a feature, as shown in the composite image of a device (below). It also features a motorized z-axis stage and protected auto focus. It has a video camera for real time display of images and a very high resolution digital camera which enables a digital zoom capability from a captured image. In general, this microscope serves a wide user base requiring high resolution planar lithography to MEMS features with extreme topology.
Leica INM 100 Optical Microscope
This microscope is a manual, high-performance optical microscope designed for the Semiconductor industry. It is equipped with a nominal CCD camera and a computer system to capture the images – top side illumination only. It is capable of magnifying to 2000x using an extra magnification lens in its body. The microscope has multiple modes of producing images: 1) Bright Field illumination, 2) Dark field illumination, 3) Interference contrast, and 4) Fluorescence imaging. This is used as a utility microscope which can capture images via a digital video camera system. This object has no metrology capability.
Zeiss Supra 40 Scanning Electron Microscope
This scanning electron microscope is a multiple use object that has many features. It is capable of imaging resolution of 1-2 nm, it has an EDAX X-Ray spectrometer to determine what elements are present in the image and can map the location of the elements over the image. It has both secondary electron and backscattered electron detectors for common SEM imaging as well as material sensitive imaging. It has an Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction Detector which, via software analysis can determine lattice parameters of various materials. It even has a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope system to obtain images of thin sections by sending electrons right through the sample and detecting an image from underneath the sample. For device characterization, we have a Zyvex nano-manipulator stage and a low-noise semiconductor characterization system. This system has piezo driven probes with extremely sharp points for contacting and or manipulating nano-sized devices. This system is student operated after extensive training by Cleanroom staff.
Veeco Dimension 5000 SPM
The Cleanroom AFM is a Veeco, Model 3100 Dimension V Atomic Probe Microscope, fondly called our AFM for short. The principal upon which this object images a surface is that it scans a very sharp probe point across a sample surface and monitors the vertical movement of the probe. Multiple scans are collected into a graph until a topographical image emerges. Because of the sharp point and precision objecting, this system can image and measure features as small as single atomic plane steps in a crystal surface. It is heavily used to measure feature depths, lengths, widths, surface roughness, and image highly magnified surface features. In particular, the tapping mode of operation follows the surface with the probe tip oscillating up and down, just tapping the surface, which lessens the likelihood of scratching a trench in the surface, so it is ideal for soft surfaces like polymer materials and delicate nano structures – by the way, it also works on hard surfaces.
Woollam M2000D Ellipsometer (WVASE32)
This tool is an automated spectroscopic ellipsometer that can measure thickness, refractive index, and absorption properties of multi-layer thin film stacks. The spectral range of its Xenon arc lamp source is in the 350 nm – 850 nm UV-Visible range. which is ideal for most semiconductor materials. The hardware is operated by a comprehensive software package, called SpectraRay, that controls data acquisition, modeling, fitting, and reporting of ellipsometric data.
Jandel Multiposition Wafer Probe
The Jandel multiposition wafer probe can measure either the resistance or sheet-resistance at several locations on wafers up to 6 inches in diameter.
Alessi 4-point Probe
The Alessi manual 4 point probe uses a Cascade C4S probe head with 1mm spacing between tungsten carbide probe tips.
The metering is provided by a QuadTech LR2000 digital milliohmmeter.
Thermo Electron FTIR Spectrometer w/Ge ATR
Info coming soon.
TOHO FLX2320 Thin Film Stress Measurement
The FLX-2320 is a thin film stress machine. A laser scanner is used to measure the changes in the radius of curvature of the substrate caused by the deposition of a thin film on the wafer. This is accomplished by first measuring the wafer curvature before the film is deposited and then re-measuring the curvature after the film is deposited. A well known mathematical relation is then used to calculate the stress of the thin film.
Veeco Dektak VIII Profilometer
The Dektak 8 profilometer measures the vertical profile of developed or etched patterns by lightly dragging a sharp stylus across the surface and detecting its vertical movement. This allows users to determine resist thickness, etch depth, and general step height distances. Vertical sensitivity is in the fractions of an Angstrom (0.01 nano-meters). It uses a general purpose stylus with a 12.5 micron radius. This system is highly automated but quite user friendly, and can measure features anywhere on a substrate up to 8 inches in diameter.
Nanometrics Nanospec 6100 Thin Film Thickness Analyzer
The NanoSpec 6100 thin film thickness measurement system utilizes non-contact spectroscopic reflectometry to measure sites as small as 25 µm in diameter on reflecting substrates. The object measures film thicknesses in the range of 200 Å – 20 µm with the visible light source and 25 Å – 20 µm with the UV light source. Substrates up to 200 mm in diameter can be measured on the system. It uses a computerized sample stage and an auto focus system to rapidly generate 2D and 3D film thickness uniformity maps and statistics. These features are very useful for optimizing the uniformity of thin film deposition and etch processes. The object is also capable of measuring multiple layers if the optical constants of the materials are known.


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The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Committee on Public Policy (CoPP) has established a biennial award, the AAA Anthropology in Public Policy Award, to honor anthropologists whose work has had a significant, positive influence on the course of government decision-making and action. Public policy is broadly defined to include measures created by any level of government and addressing the full range of contemporary human problems. Starting in 2013, the award will be conferred every other year in rotation with the AAA Solon T. Kimball award.
The CoPP is interested in naming the new award after a prominent anthropologist whose work in the area of public policy has contributed greatly to the discipline. If you'd like to nominate a person whom you believe the award should be named after, please send your suggestion, along with a two paragraph description of the person's work and achievements, to firstname.lastname@example.com by July 23, 2012.


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Wedding Souvenirs Cherished nieces, nephews as well as child of a household friend, flower girls and ring bearers are a crucial section of any wedding party. First to line foot through aisle, they steal the show and our hearts with the adorable antics and precious style. As you're busy planning the ideal ensembles for the bridesmaids and putting the finishing touches in your dream wedding dress, don't forget to have a moment to reflect upon the littlest participants with your ceremony. We adore to discover brides who choose unique gowns for their wedding days, and these breathtaking dresses by designer Emily Riggs are two in our newest favorites. With modern silhouettes and romantic fabrics like the starting point, these bold shades of antique gold and coral take centre stage.


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Hillsdale, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's basketball team bolted out to an early advantage and withstood a Hillsdale rally to record a 76-63 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) road win over the Chargers on Monday (Dec. 17) night at Jesse Philips Arena.
The win was the fourth-straight for the Bulldogs under first-year head coach Colleen Lamoreaux-Tate and the fifth in the last six contests for FSU, which improved to 6-3 overall and 4-1 in the GLIAC standings.
Junior guard Sarah DeShone keyed the FSU victory with a game-high 27 points on nine-of-12 shooting. She added five assists, four rebounds and two steals for the Bulldogs.
Ferris State jumped ahead by 19 points with 7:21 to play in the first half and owned a 13-point advantage at the break. The Chargers climbed within a possession in the second half, but Ferris State managed to take control and earn the triumph.
In addition to DeShone's 27 points, the Bulldogs also received a personal career-high 19 points from redshirt freshman guard Katie Mavis along with 15 points and six rebounds by senior guard Kylie Muntz.
The Bulldogs shot 50% for the night and nailed five-of-11 (46%) three's along with 21-of-25 (84%) free throws.
Meanwhile, the Chargers received 22 points from Megan Fogt with Kadie Lowery adding 10 points in the setback for HC, which fell to 4-5 overall and 1-5 in the GLIAC.
Ferris State had 21 turnovers, but still managed to post a decisive 21-9 margin in points off miscues by forcing 19 Hillsdale turnovers.
FSU also owned a 38-34 rebounding edge for the night and came away with four blocked shots and 12 steals as five different players had two steals each in the triumph.
Defensively, the Bulldogs limited Hillsdale to only 32.8% shooting for the night with the Chargers sinking seven-of-29 three's (24%) along with 16-of-29 (84.2%) free throws.
Besides her game-high 27 points, DeShone also had five of FSU's 10 assists in the contest. The Bulldogs never trailed in the outing and outscored the hosts 32-18 in the paint for the game.
The outing marked the final game for the Bulldogs prior to the holiday break. FSU will return to action on Thursday, Jan. 3, against league newcomer Malone at Jim Wink Arena in Big Rapids. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. (ET) following the men's contest in the conference twinbill.
The Jan. 3 outing opens a four-game homestand to start the New Year for the Bulldogs. Tickets are currently on sale now and can be purchased in advance. Please visit FerrisStateBulldogs.com for more information or call (231) 591-2888.


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The Centre is open from 12.00pm and the meditation starts at 12.30pm and finishes around 1.15pm.
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Development of the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange will begin this fall and testing is expected to begin in January, so the details of how it will work have not yet been worked out. But SecureKey Technologies, whose briidge.net Exchange cloud platform has been selected for the one-year pilot being operated by the U.S. Postal Service, already provides similar services for the Canadian government.
The Postal Service will set up a pilot of the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange this fall and begin testing in January, using SecureKey briidge.net Exchange — which already provides similar services for the Canadian government. Read more.
The briidge.net Exchange is a cloud-based credential exchange that allows multiple organizations to trust ID credentials that have been issued and authenticated by a third party. This lets citizens use usernames and passwords they already have from one organization — a bank, for example — when logging in to a government website. This can simplify life for the end user and for the agency that no longer has to manage its own usernames and passwords.
SecureKey's chief marketing officer Andre Boysen said FCCX is expected to work much like Canada's Concierge credential exchange. Here's what the process could look like:
Even though personal information of the user is hidden during this process, the system works because participating agencies agree in advance to trust the identity proofing and authentication process of the third-party credential providers. FCCX credential providers will be approved under the Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management program. There currently are 13 credential providers approved under FICAM.
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It was a sunny afternoon, when New Zealand received three new refugees. They were not refugees of war or famine; rather they had been displaced by the relentless advancing march of the oil industry into the pristine Arctic environment they once had the joy of calling home. They were a family of polar bears.
The family searched for days to find suitable shelter, rummaging through the scraps their new human neighbours had abundantly discarded. The children shuddered as trains and cars flew past them, running on the same resources that had caused them to abandon their home in which they had grown up.
Growing desperate, the family decided to search one final location: Aotea Square, in Auckland. With a deep breath and wondering how they would be accepted, they took their first tentative steps into the unknown.
A few people looked, a few people stared, but everyone was welcoming. The young children flocked to the family of bears; offering hugs, kisses and making them feel right at home after their traumatic adventure. Feeling much more relaxed, the kind Kiwis then showed this family exactly what they had been looking for.
Across the far side of the square stood the only frozen block of solid ice the bears had seen since crossing the equator. With a sense of joy running through their hearts, the children grabbed the hands of the father bear and raced towards what would be their new home. The family were so pleased to be welcomed so heartily by the community on the ice that they started to dance with some of them, round and round the ice. When the sun was setting, the family looked at each other and smiled at the discovery they had made today, relaxing together for the night and content that they had found their new home.
This story has a happy ending, but what will happen to the real polar bears when their home melts away? Act now, sign the petition and Save the Arctic.


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Plan for a long retirement
Thanks to healthier lifestyles and breakthroughs in medical technology, life expectancy for Americans has increased significantly during the past half-century. While it's good news that you can expect to live longer in retirement and have a better quality of life, it also means your investment portfolio may need to last for 30 years or more.
For example, here's the likelihood of 65-year-olds living to certain ages, according to figures from the Society of Actuaries:
- Male. A 65-year-old man has a 41% chance of living to age 85 and a 20% chance of living to age 90.
- Female. A 65-year-old woman has a 53% chance of living to age 85 and a 32% chance of living to age 90.
- Couple. If the man and woman are married, the chance that at least one of them will live to any given age is increased. There's a 72% chance that one of them will live to age 85 and a 45% chance that one will live to age 90. There's even an 18% chance that one of them will live to age 95, as shown below.
The following interactive example is designed to estimate the probability of living to a specific age.* You may enter your current age alone—or your and your spouse's current ages—and a number of years to see the chances of living that long.
Probability of living a selected number of years
* Calculations are based on mortality data from the Society of Actuaries Retirement Participant 2000 Table.


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Banks have thousands of applications, each with large complex code-bases that must be supported long after the original application authors have moved onto something else. When something goes wrong a support engineer will invariably check the log file first. Few things are as common to every application as the humble log file.
It's quite surprising to think that Java didn't have an official logging API in the JDK until its fifth major release (1.4).
The sad history of Java logging
In the beginning there was
System.out.println which writes out to the console. Many still use that today.
For those who needed more sophisticated logging, a package called log4j emerged in 1999 from IBM 'alphaworks'. This steadily grew in popularity until it became the de-facto standard. Then Sun decided to write their own logging package and include it in the JDK, as java.util.logging. Not that there was anything significantly wrong with log4j, it was simply an example of the 'not-invented-here' syndrome that Sun was suffering from at the time. Despite a hard fought campaign to persuade Sun to incorporate log4j into the platform. Soon after, Sun realised that this sort of thing was damaging to Java's reputation and created the JSR process to incorporate the wider Java community in decision making.
But the fact that Java had 2 near-identical logging packages led to further complexity. Apache created a facade called commons-logging that attempted to wrap both packages. By deciding to use a Java interface, Apache commons-logging negated the carefully crafted performance of the log4j package it was wrapping.
There have been attempts in the Java world to improve matters. One notable example is slf4j.
Logging in Clojure
Clojure logging neatly solves the problems of Java logging.
First, there's a single API to use: clojure.tools.logging. Thank Alex Taggart and others for this. Second, it integrates with all the important logging frameworks: log4j,
java.util.logging, Apache's commons-logging and now slf4j. Finally, it side-steps many of the performance penalties associated with logging.
If you have a lot of logging statements in your code-base, you only want to pay the performance penalty for logging statements that are actually being written to the log file. However, too often CPU is wasted in creating a logging message only for that message to be filtered out later on. The conventional workaround in Java is to wrap every complex logging statement with a conditional.
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug(x + " plus " + y + " is " + (x + y));
Without the conditional wrapper, the String concatenation would be quite expensive if it was ultimately unnecessary (for example, if the logger in question was configured to output warnings only). But the workaround is obviously cumbersome, implemented inconsistently and adds noise to the code's readability. (Being the new(est) kid on the block, slf4j is able to make use of the JDK 1.5 varargs feature to avoid common string concatenation until after the message has made it through the filters).
Fortunately for Clojure programmer, the
clojure.tools.logging takes care of this for them by using macros. As a Clojure programmer you get the benefit of optimized performance without the unsightly code-bloat.
Unfortunately the Clojure logging facility doesn't offer anything to help configure the logging package being used underneath.
Typically, Java logging is configured using configuration files. As you'd expect from Java, every configuration file is different, each one balancing flexibility with complexity. This is a horrible Java legacy to subject Clojure programmers to. An alternative approach is needed, so I've written a library: clj-logging-config.
You start by using requiring the library with
:use (or
:require) in your namespace declaration. In these examples I assume you are using log4j configuration, but you can configure
java.util.logging in a similar way.
(ns my-ns
(:use clojure.tools.logging
Then you configure the logging system declaring a logger with
and just start logging :-
(info "Just a plain logging message")
Check your console (not the REPL).
console> INFO - Just a plain logging message
In log4j it is common to set a pattern against the logger. Full syntax can be found in
org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout. For example, to set a pattern which just displays the message, do this:
(set-logger! :pattern "%m%n")
(info "Just the message this time")
console> Just the message this time
Or this.
(set-logger! :pattern "%d - %m%n")
(info "A logging message with the date in front")
console> 2011-08-07 10:58:21,084 - A logging message with the date in front
In the same way you can set the level of the logger. For example, so that the logger only prints warnings, you can do this :-
(set-logger! :level :warn)
Or if you want to use the log4j Java class, you can do that as well :-
(set-logger! :level org.apache.log4j.Level/WARN)
You can also set the appender to one of the appenders provided by the logging package you are using. For example, you can do this :-
(set-logger! :out (org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender.))
Or even provide your own appender function.
(set-logger! :out (fn [ev] (println (:message ev))))
You can also set filters in the same way. Filters are useful but rarely used in log4j because they're fundamentally a function, and log4j configurations formats don't support writing functions – perhaps they should have used LISP!
(set-logger! :filter (fn [ev] (not (re-seq #"password" (:message ev)))))
For filters and appenders the underlying logging event is converted to a Clojure map (with the original event bound to the
:event key, should you need it)
You can also set the additivity of the logger – the default is true but you can set it to false. Addivity is described in the Log4J user-guide – so we won't repeat it here.
(set-logger! :additivity false)
It (almost) goes without saying that you can combine all these options together :-
(set-logger! :level :warn
:additivity false
:pattern "%p - %m%n"
:filter (constantly true))
There are some combinations that doesn't make sense (such as using
:pattern and
:layout together). In these cases an exception will be thrown.
So much for getting started. In a real system you'll want to configure multiple loggers in the same place :-
{:level :info :pattern "%m"}
["com.malcolmsparks.bar" "com.malcolmsparks.zip"]
{:level :debug})
You'll find a lot more in this package, including support for per-thread (per-agent) logging which is useful in certain situations. One of the design goals of this library is that it 'does the right thing' most of the time. The aim is to prevent the common experience in log4j where you can't figure out why you can't see your logging statements and revert to
println in frustration.
I do hope that Clojure programmers find this library useful. The only way to find out is to ask people to use it. It definitely needs more exposure to real projects but I wanted to release it now to get more feedback. The library is licensed under the EPL (same as Clojure's) and available here.


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YouTube's favorite conman Richard Wiseman has returned with ten more bets you'll never lose, just in time to spice up the never-evending barrage of holiday parties and family get-togethers this time of year.
The trick where simple science and a little gravity is used to magically swap water and whiskey between two shot glasses is particularly neat, and it might be the one bet that leaves the loser impressed enough to not want to take a swing at you. [YouTube]


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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child will expand knowledge of the concept of book and understand that printed materials provide information by collecting books to free captured Don Quixote.
Your child learns a multitude of important interpersonal, math, and reading skills as they help the grumpy old troll become the thankful old troll with Dora and Boots.
Your child will practice identifying shapes and colors while using mouse skills to help Dora and Swiper collect presents in their sleigh.
Your child practices spatial awareness and strategic reasoning by moving Dora through the ocean and collecting stars and jewels along the way.
Your child develops matching skills by guiding Dora through different levels in which she has to collect keys which match the keys in pictures.
Your child develops computer literacy skills as they practice using the mouse to collect pirate treasure.
Your child develops fine motor skills as they help Dora collect constellations.
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AIARE 1 - Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
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Begin: 12/02/2019; End: 12/04/2019
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Melanie Osborne is responsible for providing legal guidance to Chugach's board of directors and executive leadership team. She also provides legal oversight and leadership across the Chugach organization. Melanie is a lifelong Alaskan with a passion for advocating on behalf of the Alaska Native community. She has garnered more than 16 years of experience with tribal organizations and Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs), and has been involved in a wide range of areas involving legislation, lands, compliance, litigation, employment, share inheritance and other legal issues.
Prior to joining Chugach in 2014, Melanie served as vice president and deputy general counsel at NANA Development Corporation, vice president and general counsel for Ahtna, Inc., and as an attorney at Stoel Rives LLP and Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller and Munson LLP.
Melanie is involved in several community organizations, and currently serves as on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, Alaska Legal Services and other professional organizations. She holds a law degree from the University of Washington and bachelor's degrees in justice and psychology from the University of Alaska Anchorage.


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Robert Griffin III inactive for Redskins against Browns
After the Washington Redskins announced late Saturday via Twitter that fellow rookie quarterback Kirk Cousins would get the nod over injured starter Robert Griffin III for Sunday's tilt in Cleveland, multiple outlets Sunday morning reported that the NFL's co-leading passer will be inactive for the game.
According to reports by NFL.com and ESPN, Griffin will not dress Sunday, leaving veteran Rex Grossman as the only other available quarterback behind Cousins.
Griffin, who suffered a Grade 1 MCL sprain in last week's win against the Ravens, addressed the team's decision with a tweet of his own shortly after the announcement.
"The decision was not my own... But I will be there for my team!!! In every way I possibly can," Griffin tweeted.
Griffin officially had been listed as questionable after practicing all week. Coach Mike Shanahan, in a show of gamesmanship, was coy all week about who would start against the Browns, even though signs seemed to point toward Griffin.
USA TODAY Sports' Jim Corbett noted Friday that Griffin "seemed to have an extra bounce in his step as he skip-hopped to practice, showing good burst and no hitch on a rollout pass during the portion of practice open to reporters."
So this news comes as a bit of a surprise, especially considering the position in which Washington finds itself.
Now the Redskins will rely on Cousins, who closed out a dramatic win last week over the Ravens, to keep pace in the NFC playoff race.
Heading into Sunday, Washington, at 7-6, is one game behind the New York Giants in the NFC East and one game behind the Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears for the final wild card spot.


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let's just say the scrabble pieces don't want to stay put. You hear this loud smack at all hours of day and night-- the hubs is all,
"What was that?" at like 3 a.m., and I'm like,
"Just scrabble. Go back to bed."
And my kids are like,
"Mom, what does
It's secret code, kids.
Anyhow. That was pointless. Let's talk mantels!
Recall that I am still banned from my favorite shopping places, so if I can't find it in the house, I get to wrangle something up. Crapt style.
I had this old doorknob (that I replaced with a locking doorknob to lock my children out of the toy room because that's the kind of mother I am), and I thought to myself,
"Self, this could be a cool decorative piece."
Scrap piece of wood here. Ran it through my router (my roman ogee bit has been seeing a lot of use lately. Not that anyone cares),
and there we are. Put it on the hallway shelf, and honestly, I didn't love it.
But it's been growing on me. Oh!!
I felt like my kids needed updated silhouettes. That was fun. You can see how I do my silhouettes here. (FYI I didn't have them cut out this time-- I just printed them out and was done with them.)
I spy little fingerprints all over that mirror. Someone should clean that.
So. Where were we with the newest mantle?
Ah. . . yes. I needed to grout, still.
Let me just say, I love that there's a place for the controllers to go, now. ('S what the bowl is for.)
Oh ma gosh. . . "M & J"??! Ca-ute! (Just threw up in my mouth a little.)


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Grand View Wins Third-Straight National Championship
TOPEKA, Kan. – (Team Scores | Brackets) Grand View (Iowa) cruised to its third-straight team championship after tying an NAIA record with 193 total team points – an NAIA record 108.5 points more than the next team – in the 2014 NAIA Wrestling National Champions at the Kansas Expocentre. Great Falls (Mont.) finished in second place with 84.5 points, edging third-place Montana State-Northern by one point.
Grand View, which is the eight team in NAIA history to win at least three national titles, is the fourth program to win three-straight since Lindenwood (Mo.) claimed three-consecutive banners in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Additionally, the Vikings team total tied former member Dana's (Neb.) 2006 point total, which previously stood as the national record.
Grand View ended the event with four individual national champions, highlighted by three-time All-American Eric Thompson. The senior 285 pounder controlled the entire match against first-time All-American Courtney Freeman of Cumberlands (Ky.), eventually grinding out a 17-2 technical fall win. With the victory, Thompson becomes the first three-time national champion at the heavyweight division since Jeff Thue of Simon Fraser (B.C.) accomplished the feat in 1991, 1992 and 1993.
Thompson ends his career with a 14-0 all-time record at the national championships.
In addition to Thompson, Ryak Finch (125), Brandon Wright (141) and Chad Lowman (165) claimed national crowns, while Gustavo Martinez (141) and Dallas Houchins (157) finished runner-up after dropping a 2-1 and 5-3 decisions. Overall, Grand View had 11 of its 12 qualifiers earn All-America honors.
Lowman, who was the fifth Viking to take the mat, won his second-straight national champion with a 7-5 victory over three-time All-American Ethan Hinebauch of Montana State-Northern. The 165-pound senior won his first national title last season at 157 pounds.Southern Oregon's Brock Gutches, who won his third-straight title at 174 pounds with a 3-2 win over Jared Miller of Montana-State Northern, was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler for the 57th annual event. Similarly to Thompson, Gutches has never lost in three appearances at the national championships en route to becoming the first three-time national champion in NAIA history at 174 pounds.
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) was the only other program with multiple national champions, including Jameel Bryant at 184 pounds. Bryant, who is the fourth national champion in team history, won his second-straight banner with a 6-5 win over Cody Linton of Cumberland (Tenn.), while teammate Joe Cozart avenged his championship final loss last season with a 5-3 win against Dallas Houchins of Grand View.
Bryant is the first 184 pounder to win two-straight national championships since Jeremy Engelhardt of Mary (N.D.) in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Six individuals earned their first national title – Finch, Bryce Shoemaker (133) of Baker (Kan.), Wright, Jake Williams (149) of Cumberland (Tenn.), Cozart and Jesse Hellinger of Dickinson State (N.D.).
Shoemaker is the first-ever national champion for Baker. The freshman grappler won a 3-0 decision against Justin Brooks of Indiana Tech, who was also wrestling in his first title match.
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