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The City of Sanford's tax rate for fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 is $0.62 per $100 assessed valuation. Taxes for residents living in Sanford's city limits are collected by Lee County Government. The annual operating budget for the City of Sanford is posted here.
Sanford City Council approved a $0.02 tax increase for FY 2018-19 to accommodate the cost of upgrading Kiwanis Family Park to include a splash pad, playground, walking track, and improved parking. The project was approved by voters in the 2013 municipal bond referendum.
The FY 2018-19 budget adds a $30 vehicle fee for every vehicle and trailer registered within the municipal city limits. This fee will be applied to street maintenance, including resurfacing, patching, and other necessary repairs. This fee will be included on motor vehicle tax bills generated after July 1, 2018.
The City of Sanford's customer service department is available to answer questions during regular business hours, which are 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.
If you have a water or sewer issue outside of those hours, you can call 919-775-8268. This line is answered by the Sanford Police Department and will be routed to the correct on-call Public Works employee.
Public roads in Sanford are owned and maintained by either the City of Sanford or the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). Knowing the entity that owns a particular street or road helps in knowing where and how to report maintenance issues.
The fountain at Depot Park runs May through October each year. The fountain runs on the following schedule:
The bathroom facilities at the park are only opened when the park is rented for a private event. To rent the park, contact Downtown Sanford, Inc.
For more information about the fountain and its maintenance, contact the Public Works Service Center at 919-775-8247.
The City of Sanford does participate in urban archery.
Hunting is only allowed on a tract or parcel of land which is three or more acres. Tracts or parcels of land may not be combined or pooled to meet this requirement. No bow may be discharged unless the hunter is located 100 feet or more within the property line. The 100-foot buffer within each property line is an area in which no hunting may occur.
Hunters must follow all state and local laws, rules and ordinances when hunting deer within the city limits, and they must have in their possession a valid North Carolina Hunting License showing completion of a Hunting Safety Course.
The Street Division works only on city-maintained streets while the Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) is responsible for maintenance on state-maintained streets.The Street Division does however make utility patches for water and sewer repairs on state-maintained streets.


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The GBC AdvancedPunch is an automated punching system that combines printing, punching, and collating into one convenient step without added labor costs. It handles a variety of stocks, punch patterns, and punches at the speed of the printer, making it ideal for in-plants, facilities management operations, franchise printers, and commercial printers.
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- AdvancedPunch module is fully integrated with the printer
- Select from various interchangeable (optional) dies sets for popular binding styles; no need for offline manual punching
- Three additional die sets can be stored within the AdvancedPunch module
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- AdvancedPunch module uses a unique waste container sensor design and includes a large waste container to collect scrap punches
- Punches at the speed of the printer
Traditional mechanical punching is very labor intensive, costly, and time consuming.
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- Time consuming – Traditional mechanical punching requires a significant amount of time for an operator to punch a limited stack of sheets at a time.
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text: Discuss as: Ancient asteroid strike in Australia 'changed face of Earth' By Science Friday Feb 15, 2013 9:10 AM Email By Michael SinReuters SYDNEY - A strike from a big asteroid more than 300 million years ago left a huge impact zone buried in Australia and changed the face of the Earth, researchers said on Friday. "The dust and greenhouse gases released from the crater, the seismic shock and the initial fireball would have incinerated large parts of the Earth," said Andrew Glikson, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. The asteroid was bigger than 6 miles (10 km) in diameter, while the impact zone itself was larger than 120 miles (200 km) - the third-largest impact zone in the world. "The greenhouse gases would stay in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years," Glikson told Reuters. The discovery was made after another researcher alerted Glikson to some unusual mineral deposits in the East Warburton Basin in South Australia. Glikson and colleagues analyzed quartz grains drawn from deep beneath the Earth's surface in research starting in 2010 and the crater itself was recently identified, he added. The strike may have been part of an asteroid impact cluster that caused an era of mass extinction, wiping out primitive coral reefs and other species, added Glikson, co-author of a study published in the journal Tectonophysics. The impact happened before the dinosaurs, he said. The announcement of the discovery came just before a newly discovered asteroid about half the size of a football field was set to pass some 17,200 miles (27,520 km) from Earth.


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SOMETIMES the students in Cornel Pewewardy's classes respond to a question with silence. "That's when I'm going to point somebody out," he says with a smile. "They know it's coming. They're thinking, 'oh, no—don't pick me.' But I do."
For Pewewardy, director of PSU's Native American Studies program, encouragement is the key to a productive learning environment that leads to student success.
The National Indian Education Association recognized his dedication when it honored Pewewardy with its Teacher of the Year award at the association's 40th annual convention in October.
Pewewardy, who is Comanche and Kiowa, says he had very few outstanding teachers when he was growing up. "I learned from bad teachers how not to be," he says. After graduate studies in elementary education at University of Kansas, Pewewardy honed his teaching skills at the Comanche Nation College in Lawton, Oklahoma, and at University of Kansas.
Pewewardy tries to challenge his students to de-colonize their mindsets and introduces them to indigenous ways of knowing as he teaches courses that cover the history of Indian education, Federal Indian law, and issues of sovereignty, identity, and stereotypes. "Columbus didn't discover me," he may tell them, or he may recast Thanksgiving as "Thanks-taking." It's all done with the aim of encouraging critical thinking and student engagement.


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SCHULTZ: Women's wombs now a political battlefield
In advance, I apologize to my grown kids for what might be, for them, an embarrassing discussion about contraception and their mother's sex life.
However, dear children, I do want to point out that your mother has been hearing far more lately from Rick Santorum than from you.
It seems that recent polls have inspired Santorum to ramp up his efforts to alienate every thinking woman in America.
Consider, for example, Santorum's stand on free prenatal testing:
"It saves money in health care. Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society."
Like millions of mothers, prenatal testing saved my life -- and my yet-to-be-born daughter's life, too. The only time I've had high blood pressure was during my pregnancy. I spent most of my third trimester lying on my left side to keep myself and my baby alive. My only outings were for regular ultrasound exams to make sure she was not in distress.
I'm as pro-choice as they come. In 1987, I chose to become Caitlin's mommy.
Here's Santorum on contraception:
"It's not OK, because it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They're supposed to be within marriage; they're supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal but also (inaudible) but also procreative. And that's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. (If) we take any part of that out, we diminish the act."
I think that during the inaudible part, he was saying "really, really fun." Just a guess, of course.
When I was a freshman in college, I went to Planned Parenthood to go on the pill. I was 19. In retrospect, I wish I'd waited longer to become sexually active, but that regret doesn't take up much room in my head.
I'm grateful that Planned Parenthood made it possible for me to make mature decisions about my health, even as I made immature choices in men.
Twenty years later, I was the mother of a newborn and regularly in the emergency room with full-blown asthma attacks. Imagine trying to breathe through a straw. Now imagine you're responsible for an infant, and you understand why I was terrified.
My doctor put me on the pill, and the attacks evaporated. I stayed on the pill for more than 20 years, which studies show may dramatically reduce my risk for ovarian cancer.
I always have thought my birth control was a whole lot of nobody's business. However, Santorum and that all-male panel of pontificates at the recent congressional hearing make clear that silence is not an option, not if we want subsequent generations of women to live long, healthy lives.
Outrage works. The Virginia legislature was about to pass a bill that requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a vaginal ultrasound probe. Thanks in large part to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's reporting, the bill became the object of national ridicule. Now, Virginia's governor is balking.
I wonder whether there's an easier way to snip in the bud this manly urge to control women's bodies. What if we required every man seeking that little pill for erectile dysfunction to watch a Viagra video.
Have you seen the list of that drug's potential side effects? Yowsa. Headache, face flushes, upset stomach. Maybe blurred vision, too. That's not even the whammo list of rare side effects: heart attack, stroke, irregular heartbeats and death.
I can't help think we could deter a lot of this unnecessary sex with a mandatory Viagra video. Red-faced guys grabbing their chests in a swirl of Vera Wang sheets. Guys dangling their heads over the side of the bed to hurl. At the end, the camera slowly zooms in on the way-too-young girlfriend, her long tresses blowing in the wind as she sobs at graveside.
Surely, this additional information would inspire men across America to swear off sex and take up mah-jongg.
Just as surely, I would become Queen Constancia, empress ruler of Freedonia.
Connie Schultz is a columnist for Parade magazine. She is the author of two books, one of which chronicled the successful Ohio race of her husband, Sherrod Brown, for the U.S. Senate. Email: email@example.com.


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We need a brand new logo for our advertising agency along with a matching, stylish, clean and modern website design. The logo will need to be drawn in vector format so that it can be re-used for print so .ai .eps formats would be preferable. The website layout must be modern and match the style and the the winner must provide the full .psd and rights to the design to us when confirmed as the winner.
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For the logo we are looking for a clean, modern and fun style. The company is called zytch and the website will be hosted on zytch.com. Ideally, we are looking for a logo that has a unique, professional appearance and that utilises some kind of image that can easily be remembered, for example, the 'Z' snakelike figure in the current logo on the site at http://www.zytch.com. We are looking for a logo that can be brandable, so an image that can be instantly recognisable would be advantageous. A figure perhaps? that looks like a fun character? a creature? Keep in mind the theme of the site - we are an advertising agency - so whatever the brand icon is to be, it must fit the style.
The website must obviously match the logo. We are looking for a style of website that distinquishes our two main usergroups from one another. Our usergroups are:
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b) publishers
Examples of this distinguishing of groups can be seen on http://www.linkxl.com, http://www.adbrite.com, http://www.text-link-ads.com You see clearly that advertisers have a place and publishers have a place. We are looking for a very simple but modern looking website layout that falls in line with these styles.
The web layout needs only to be very minimal:
It needs a logo, a login button/text link, links/tabs/buttons for 'about us' 'home' 'contact us' and 'help' in a navbar
In the main content i want two distinct boxes/shapes/sections one for advertiser related content and one for publisher related content.
At the bottom I need a very simple copyright notice and a few link colour schemes but also must fit in with the modern style of the site.
An initial concept can be seen here for the general layout style: http://www.zytch.com/concept/1.jpg
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The Bachelor of Social Work degree program is ideal for you if you want to make a difference in the lives of individuals and communities. The curriculum imparts the skills and knowledge you'll need to begin your career as a social worker.
Our BSW coursework will teach you how to interview clients, knowledgeable about the issues that confront them. You'll learn about and understand substance abuse, human behavior and urban environments. You'll discover the legal aspects of Social Work, and you'll explore the boundaries and ethics of the profession. You'll gain the insight you need to work with children, families and individuals who may be facing the most critical crises in their lives.
Our program places a unique emphasis on the concept of social justice, and we prepare our students to lead and support social justice action agendas. We teach them to develop the community resources that individuals and families rely on to live their lives with dignity and progress.
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Trade Unions in the Americas urge governments and trade negotiators gathered in Geneva to fulfill the commitments of the Global Jobs PactVictor Baez*
The trade union organizations affiliated to the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) have been closely following the Doha Round negotiations since they were reactivated in 2007. The trade union movement remains mobilized before the 7th WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva.
Entre el 30 de noviembre y el 2 de diciembre de 2009 se realizará en Ginebra la VII reunión ministerial de la OMC. Será un nuevo esfuerzo de reanudar las negociaciones de la Ronda de Doha, iniciada hace 8 años, y un escenario donde los países desarrollados nuevamente intentarán imponer su propia agenda de liberalización y desregulación de los mercados.
WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.
International Gender and Trade Network at the WTO Ministerial in Geneva
30 Nov – 2 Dec 2009
Nothing more could attest to the failure of the neoliberal dogma than the current global crises. Pure faith in the market as the sole and most efficient allocator of resources for society has dominated all aspects of economic policy (finance, trade, investments, public services delivery) and had negative consequences on people's lives across nations, classes, ethnicities and gender.


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Boston Bombing Suspected Indicted, and More
What's News: A federal grand jury returns a 30-count indictment against Boston Marathon bombing suspect. Apple spells out terms to record labels ahead of iTunes radio service launch. Gold drops below $1,200 an ounce. Joanne Po reports.
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... the suspect in the eye this is what's news I'm WS J live I'm Joann Co ... a federal grand jury returns of thirty county incitement against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Zurn Ayad ... people fifty bombing killed three people and left more than two hundred sixty injured ... authorities believe the nineteen year-old carried out the bombings but has since deceased brother ... the charges include ... using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use resulting in death seventeen of the charges authorize a penalty of up to life in prison for the death penalty ... Mr. Zurn Ayad is scheduled to be arraigned on ... the lights out ... Apple sells out its terms to independent record labels ahead of the launch of its online radio service ... Apple intends to pay royalties the labels based on a plan of how many times listeners hear their songs ... and how much advertising Apple sells ... during iTunes Radio's first year Apple will pay label thirteen cents each time a song is played as well as a fifteen percent of net advertising revenue based on proportion of music playing ... in the second year at those payments will get a bomb ... the terms are more generous with music companies then what rival Pandora currently pay ... gold prices continue to be under pressure sliding for the fourth consecutive trading session ... precious metal briefly dipping below twelve hundred dollars an ounce ... for the first time since August twenty ten ... driving a selloff in gold as a combo of falling inflation expectations ... economic and political pressures in India and China ... and declining physical demand ... gold prices have declined more than twenty seven percent year to date looking keep us anomaly this is about instructed and what's his aunt WS J last ...


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11/12/2012 - Colombia will become the 40th Party to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention on 19 January 2013. OECD Deputy Secretary-General Rintaro Tamaki, speaking at a ceremony marking Colombia's accession in Paris with Colombia's Minister of Justice Ruth Stella Correa, said:
"Bribery distorts markets and increases the cost of doing business. This month marks the 15th anniversary of the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention, the first and only legally-binding international instrument to focus exclusively on active bribery in business. Colombia's joining the Convention sends an important signal to governments and business in Latin America of the importance of working together to fight corruption."
La OCDE acoge con satisfacción los esfuerzos de Colombia para combatir el cohecho internacional y le anima a movilizar en esa lucha a las principales autoridades del gobierno y organismos públicos encargados de velar por el cumplimiento de las leyes
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Designed for relaxed elegance, our versatile island helps make your kitchen the ultimate place to gather, eat and entertain. Its sit-in structure offers plenty of room to pull up a counter stool, while convenient storage spaces and towel racks make this piece exceptionally practical.
- Multifunctional island has comfortable seating space on one side—and myriad storage options on the other.
- Ideal for prep work and serving, the straight-edge Italian basalt top is crafted of natural volcanic rock with a matte gray finish that is scratch resistant and exceptionally durable.
- Four drawers provide ample space for cooks' tools, flatware and other essentials.
- Wide cabinet with adjustable shelf is great for storing everything from linens to cookware.
- Four open side shelves create additional room for storage and display.
- Two sturdy bars, one on each end, provide hanging space for kitchen towels.
- Solid-brass hardware (drawer pulls, knobs and towel racks) available in your choice of Polished Nickel or Oiled-Bronze finish.
- Variations in the color and surface of the Italian basalt top make each kitchen island a singular work of art.
- In-home delivery with White Glove service.
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- 84"W x 34"D x 36"H.
- Top: 80"W x 34"D x .75" thick.
- Overhang of top: 1" at sides; 1" at end.
- Base: 80"W x 32"D x 35"H.
- Drawer interiors (4): 12.75"W x 17.75"D x 2.75"H.
- Cabinet doors: 13"W x 22"H x .75" thick.
- Cabinet interior (without shelf): 30"W x 19.25"D x 22"H.
- Cabinet shelf (1 adjustable): 30"W x 17 .75"D x .75" thick.
- Top side shelf: 20"W x 18"D; 10.5" height clearance.
- Bottom side shelf: 22.5"W x 21"D; 10.5" height clearance.
- Columns: 5" diam. x 22"H.
- Feet: 5" sq.
- Distance between feet: 70" at side; 22" at end.
- Clearance under island: 1.5"H.
- Towel bars (2): Each is 28" long and provides 26" hanging space; projection: 2.75".
- Product weight: 442 lb.
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Basalt Top:
- Quarried in Italy.
- Cut and honed in USA.
- Legs, supports and frame are solid poplar.
- Levelers on legs provide stability on uneven surfaces.
- Made in Vietnam.
- Solid alder frame.
- Bottom panel is MDF with alder veneer.
- Drawers open smoothly on a solid oak wooden bottom glide.
- Poplar frame, MDF panel.
- Poplar plywood.
- White painted finish is sealed with a lacquer varnish.
- Oil-Rubbed Bronze or Polished Nickel.
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- Clean with a soft dry or damp cloth; dry thoroughly.
- Avoid harsh cleaners and abrasives as they may damage the finish.
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- To protect the top surface, use a cutting board when cutting or chopping.
- Always use protective mats under hot dishes to prevent thermal shock.
- Use coasters or trays under vessels/containers for liquids, as this will prevent moisture and chemicals from leaking and staining the stone surface.
- Wipe up spills and moisture immediately with a dry rag, by carefully blotting to prevent staining of the stone.
- Dust regularly, using a microfiber cloth, to remove dust and loose surface debris that can scratch the stone.
- To clean, wipe the stone with warm water and a few drops of mild dish soap; rinse and dry thoroughly.
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Please allow up to 2 to 4 weeks for delivery. Item arrives fully assembled and in one piece by our in-home delivery with White Glove service. We'll call you in advance to schedule a delivery time, then bring the item into your home, unpack and inspect it, perform simple assembly and dispose of all packaging material. (Please note that outdoor grills are not unpacked and require owner assembly. Complete beds will be set up; headboards only will be unpacked, but not attached to existing bed frames.) Delivery is by appointment, Monday – Saturday; our delivery service will call to arrange a day. Available in the 48 contiguous states. Please call 888.922.4108 for additional assistance.
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North Sindarin, also called Mithrimin or just Mithrim,[1][2] is an extinct dialect of Sindarin. It was spoken in Mithrim and the highlands of Beleriand.
[edit] History
The Sindar of Beleriand were divided in several groups, and their language had developed some dialects. North Sindarin, the flavour of Sindarin spoken by the Mithrim, the northernmost group of the Sindar, differed from the Sindarin of Beleriand proper in many aspects. It was this language which was adopted by the exiled Noldor after their return to Middle-earth, and by their mortal allies, the House of Beor. During this time North Sindarin was changed much, partially due to the adoption of Quenya features, and partially due to the love of the Noldor for making linguistic changes. Beren's heritage was clear to Thingol of Doriath as he spoke the North Sindarin of his homeland.
North Sindarin retained many features of Archaic Sindarin which had been lost in the Sindarin of Beleriand proper, but also went through several changes of its own: lenition occurred far less in this dialect than in the other dialects.
After the end of the First Age, the survivors of Beleriand's realms generally adopted the more southern variants of Sindarin, but several proper names which are uninterpretable in normal Sindarin which remained in use during the Third Age show North Sindarin influence.
[edit] Other versions of the legendarium
In Tolkien's earliest writings, there was a language called Ilkorin, the language of the Ilkorindi (the Dark Elves who stayed in the Great Lands). After Tolkien evolved his mythology, the background and setting of the stories changed, and Ilkorin was replaced by Sindarin, the language of the Sindar.
Edward Kloczko observed that the few words mentioned as "Mithrim" fit to the phonological changes and principles seen in Ilkorin: for example Mithrim has ô where Sindarin has au, and retains final -v and -m where Sindarin has final -w; he theorized that Tolkien recycled parts of Ilkorin as Mithrim.[3]
[edit] The case of cw
However, Sindarin and Mithrim descended from Common Telerin, where the primitive sound kw (seen in Quenya as qu), was simplified in p (cf. Quenya quár against Telerin Pār and Sindarin paur).
This setting is part only of the later conception and Ilkorin, which belongs to the earlier version, does not reflect this: primitive kw stays cw or c in some Ilkorin words such as alch (ALÁKwÂ), côm (KwAM), cwess (KwESS), salch (SALÁKwÊ) something that would be impossible in a Sindarin dialect.
If we are to update Ilkorin to North Sindarin (the way some update Noldorin in Neo-Sindarin), these words would possibly become *alph, *pôm, *pess, *salph.
[edit] Context
Another problem with the identification of Ilkorin with North Sindarin is that the Ilkorin words which have survived in the canon as Sindarin, have little to do with the Mithrim.
In the early legendarium, the Ilkorindi were the vernacular Elves of all Beleriand, and therefore Ilkorin names are to be found in almost all the range of the stories. Names Tolkien marked as Ilkorin have to do with Doriath (Thingol, Beleg, Belthronding, Aros), Ossiriand (Lindon, Brilthor, Duilwen) or the Falas (Brithon, Brithombar).
Another example is the name Esgaroth, the lake in Rhovanion where Men dwelt in the Third Age, which Tolkien listed as Ilkorin; The Hobbit was written in 1937 while Tolkien still worked on The Etymologies.
The Mithrim on the other hand would hardly give names to those locations. There is little room of speculation of why a First Age Mithrimin dialect should reach Ossiriand, or even Rhovanion of the Third Age.
[edit] Mithrimin and Doriathrin
The word lómin (cf. Dor-Lómin) was a variant of lómen "echoing", both in Doriathrin[4], another dialect of Tolkien's early legendarium; Doriathrin shows adjectives ending in -in instead of standard Sindarin -en (Dungorthin, muilin).
Tolkien later redefined lómin as a Mithrimin word, as an example of the absence of a-affection in the dialect[5], something which would result in -in endings.
However unlike Doriathrin and Mithrimin, Ilkorin shows the ending -en (thúren, Mablosgen) but also -in (Ermabin)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson) p.134
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Index"
- ↑ Edward Kloczko, "Ilkorin and North Sindarin", in Tyalië Tyelelliéva #9, October 1996
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", entry LAM
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson) p.133
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels
- Ryszard Derdzinski, "Northern Dialect of Sindarin", Gwaith-i-Phethdain
- Helge Fauskanger, "Ilkorin", Ardalambion
- Roman Rausch, "Mithrimin", at Sindanórië
[edit] External links
- Wordlist of Mithrim, comprised of Ilkorin corpus with neo-North Sindarin "updates"
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Huguette Clark, the mysterious copper heiress who lived in hospitals under fake names until her death at 104, left her longtime nurse $33 million from her $400 million estate.
Clark, whose father was born in 1839 and became one of America's richest men, left the bulk of her estate to charity, according to her newly released will. She left $500,000 each to her attorney and accountant, two of the only people to have contact with her over the last two decades of her life. She died in May.
No money was left to the distant relatives who surfaced after MSNBC broke the story of her mysterious life. She owned vast estates in Connecticut and Santa Barbara that she had not seen in decades, and her Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan is the largest on a street populated by billionaires.
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The nurse who cared for her since 1991, after being randomly assigned to her by an agency, Hadassah Peri, had already been given $2 million by Clark, according to MSNBC. She now is in line to receive a gift of cash and Clark's vast collection of dolls, which MSNBC reporter Bill Dedmon estimated is worth a total of $33 million after taxes.
Clark's collection of masterpieces, including works by Renoir, Monet and John Singer Sargent, will go to a new charity called the Bellosguardo Foundation, named for her rolling estate in Connecticut.
The will is likely to be contested by relatives, though Clark made it clear she was freezing them out.
"I intentionally make no provision in this my Last Will and Testament for any members of my family, whether on my paternal or maternal side, having had minimal contacts with them over the years," the will said. "The persons and institutions named herein as beneficiaries of my Estate are the true objects of my bounty."


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If there's a too-large sweater, duplicate toy or other dud gift under the tree this year, getting a refund or exchange might be easier, or harder, depending on where it was purchased. MarketWatch's Kelli Grant has details.
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WORCESTER, Mass.—The Harvard heavyweight crew won four grand finals and swept the Rowe Cup events for its second consecutive varsity and team championships—and its second straight Ivy League title—at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints Championships Sunday on Lake Quinsigamond.
The Crimson claimed its 27th Eastern and Ivy titles and its 31st Rowe Cup team win while sweeping the varsity eight, second varsity eight and freshman eight events for the sixth time in program history. It was only the ninth top-three heavyweight sweep by any school in the 65-year history of the Sprints. The three boats have entered 24 races this year and won each one.
The heavyweights' performance was part of an outstanding all-around day for Harvard oarsmen. The Crimson lightweight varsity eight followed their heavier counterparts with an Eastern title of their own, marking the 13th time Harvard has won gold in both varsity eight races. Only four other schools have accomplished that feat, once each. A win by the lightweight second varsity helped the Crimson capture the Jope Cup, giving Harvard a sweep of the EARC team trophies as well.
The Rowe Cup win was the Crimson's seventh in 10 years. Harvard's heavyweight second varsity title was its 21st and first since 2006; the freshman crown was the Crimson's 22nd and third in four years.
Harvard started the varsity race well, gaining an early three-seat lead, but Wisconsin caught up and passed the Crimson in the second 500 meters. Harvard regained its three-seat advantage by the 1,000 mark and led the rest of the way, winning by about two seconds in 5:40.388 as Princeton edged the Badgers for silver.
"It feels great, and I think it feels great for everyone on the team," said Crimson captain Anthony Locke of the Crimson's second title in as many years. "I think it means more the second time because you have something to prove. You have to prove that you're good again, particularly coming in as the first seed."
Coxswain Chris Kingston and rowers Patrick Lapage, Jason Phillips, Nick Jordan, Matthew Edstein, Locke, Michael DiSanto and Josh Hicks earned first-team All-Ivy League honors with the win.
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Syracuse 5:50.864
Cornell 5:55.725
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Princeton 5:42.370
Wisconsin 5:42.508
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Syracuse 5:47.101
Boston University 5:48.750
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Heat 1
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Syracuse 5:59.749
Boston University 6:06.346
Columbia 6:15.206
George Washington 6:21.406
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Wisconsin 5:52.526
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Princeton 5:54.326
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Brown 6:13.179
Penn 6:24.021
Dartmouth 6:33.787
Grand Final
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Harvard 5:55.399
Cornell 6:00.792
Brown 6:04.394
Navy 6:10.530
Princeton 6:18.291
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Navy 6:20.452
Brown 6:25.783
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Cornell 6:02.683
Brown 6:03.949
Yale 6:14.775
George Washington 6:26.597
Rutgers 6:50.284
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Princeton 6:00.422
Northeastern 6:02.531
Navy 6:03.697
Cornell 6:05.975
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Tuesday, April 24
When Will Tiger Woods Relinquish No. 1 World Golf Ranking?
This got me thinking, when will Tiger Woods be dethroned? Except for an interruption in 2004-05 courtesy of Vijay Singh, Tiger has held the top spot in the World Golf Ranking for a golf eternity, more than 440 weeks.
But nothing lasts forever.
So what year will Tiger be toppled? (And not just an interruption, but for good.) Will it be 2010? 2013? 2020? And who will knock him off his golf pedestal? Will it be someone we already know of or a complete newcomer?
Until Tiger finishes chasing down Jack Nicklaus's majors record, I don't see him giving ground to anyone. I expect Woods to be at the top for at least another six years. I have no clue who might replace him.
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Great question. I'm biased because I'm a huge Tiger fan. I do think he's going to topple Jack's major record. Tough call trying to figure out when he'll lose the top spot. Eventually age or injury will take it's toll but he takes such good care of himself, so who knows when that'll happen. As for maybe an unexpected bad streak (like most players have at some point): he didn't have his "A" game at the Masters and still finished top five.
- Miranda said...
I got the sense that Tiger didn't win the Masters this year because he wasn't prepared, not because he just didn't have his A game. I've seen him come back from one bad round and kick butt the next three rounds and win. This time, it just didn't seem to me that he was in the right competitive mind-set to win. I think he's got other interests with his new tournament, his charities, the upcoming birth of his child. I think he's losing interest in playing golf.
Of course even if he didn't play for 6 months, he would still be ranked #1 because the ranking system is flawed.
Top 5 at the masters with out being on great form? Tiger will be number 1 for a long time to come... partly due to the crazy ranking system.
Forget the world golf rankings and any of it's flaws for a moment and just consider the PGA Tour money list. He's at the top just ahead of Vijay Singh with less than half the number of events.
Tiger is in an important personal transition as anyone who has children would certainly understand. The experience leading to the birth of your first child captures your complete and total attention. The fact that he remains on top is a testament to his ultra-dominance in a sport filled with brilliant players bent on dethroning him.


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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Just like I did in the Brooks/Delhomme debat I will once again call out those guys who are slinging mud at me. I'm challenging the two of you to a debate. I have obviously been very clear in my opinion ...
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Just like I did in the Brooks/Delhomme debat I will once again call out those guys who are slinging mud at me. I'm challenging the two of you to a debate. I have obviously been very clear in my opinion that the Saints just aren't going in the right direction during free agency, and unless things change, they will not be successful next year.
Apparently, according to you two, that makes me a whiny b-tch in need of medication. Yet, the two of you have done little to dispute anything I've said. In fact, all that you've done is question my loyalty to the Saints and mental state. Well, here's your chance to prove to everyone on this board how wrong I am. Go ahead. Prove me wrong. I'll even let you start the debate.
You tell me why this team will be better next year then it was last year. Show me all the things that they've done in the off-season so far that makes you feel that it has been anything other than a let down. Prove me wrong......
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Is this where the hand slapping and pulling of hair will commence?
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Hey man - you weren\'t around way back when for the Delhomme/Brooks arguments. You think this one is bad, you should have seen those.
I\'m just trying to start a forum where the issue at hand is discussed. So far, I think I\'ve done a pretty good job at laying out why I feel the way I feel about the Saints at the moment. If anyone wants to hear it yet again, just let me know and I\'ll spell it out for you again. These two guys want to insult me, but I haven\'t heard a single argument for either of their opinions. Well here\'s their chance. I just want to hear them talk about the Saints. I know how they feel about me... but they haven\'t made one good argument about the Saints in who knows how long. Here\'s their chance to show off what they think and why.
I\'m not slinging mud in here. I haven\'t made one derogatory comment about either of them in this thread. So let\'s hear it you two. Why will the Saints be a better team next year? Hell, Black and Blue if you can add some insight go right ahead.
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I\'m not one of the 2 but I\'ll tell you why:
The team has squashed the QB controversy that was about to brew and added a capable back-up the fans won\'t be screaming to see in the game ahead of Brooks. They have dumped a oon field and locker room problem in Turley and added a better pass protector in Gandy. Who by the way has alot of experience blocking for a mobile, shifty QB. They have added a more experienced CB to the secondary in Ambrose. A definite upgrade over Irvin, also a guy who can mentor a young project CB we can draft and he knows the ins and outs of our biggest rival we couldn\'t beat last year. Carter will likely be around all year and with a better grasp of the defense. Ruff will play more like a MLB should and hopefully the athleticism of Allen and Hodge can offset any growing pains he has. A young high potential DT can platoon with our current DT group and add some speed and push. Grant and Howard will only get better. Until Knight and Bellamy are officially gone, they are still Saints. Same thing with Clemons, Hand, etc. We have basically traded Ambrose for Irvin, get Carter full-time, have Ruff to push Clemons (until he signs elsewhere), and our offense was great and will only improve with continuity and a small turnover in this area. That sounds like an upgrade. We have had no impact losses on the team at all and have added bodies to the roster. Granted it\'s no blockbuster advancement but it\'s better than before.
We also have a fistful of picks in the draft to add to overall team speed, depth and the possibility of getting the next immediate impact player like a Urlacher, Kearse, Woodson, etc just out of the draft.
We have a year of video to study the Vick run Falcons, the Gruden run Bucs and the Fox run Panthers (whose QB we also know well). They had already had a few years film of Haslett\'s Saints with Brooks and Horn to watch. We have the upper hand this year moreso than last because of this. Last year they were all unknowns and we did quite well getting a 3-3 division record because of that.
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Moves that have made us a better team this offseason:
Hiring Jerry Palmieri
Signing Gandy (which basically gave us a good LT and a 2nd round draft pick in next years draft)
We\'ve gotten deeper at positions with other FA signings, but nothing significant
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Hey man - that\'s exactly the kind of post I want to see in here. Great one lumm0x.
I\'ll disagree with you on some points though. For starters, there wasn\'t a QB controversy until Brooks got hurt. Delhomme was a great backup and it\'s yet to be seen wether he will be better than Bouman. Personally, I liked having him, b/c regardless of what your opinion on Brooks is, he was a proven backup that had been in the system for five years. Further, if Brooks doesn\'t pan it out would be nice to have another guy who may be starter quality to come in and give it a try.
I\'ll agree that Gandy is better for the Saints than Turley. I think they\'re play will probably prove to be pretty even, but the lack of distractions will help. Mark one up for the Saints on that move... although I liked it from the start, just for the record.
I don\'t think Ruff is the answer at middle linebacker, nor is Ambrose at corner. Ruff is as big of a question mark as Clemons, if not bigger. Our money could have easily been spent on a player like Chris Claiborne, who would have undoubtedly been an upgrade. Ruff may pan out, but he may just be worse, thus hurting our defense.
Ambrose is a good nickel guy, but we already have a good nickel guy in Thomas. Again, that\'s money that could have been better spent on a shut-down type corner. He is an improvement over Irvin, but Craver is already here and he will fight for the number two and three spot as well. Try to remember how well he played early last year before he got hurt. There were many saying that even if Carter came back Craver would continue to start. That was far-fetched to me, but my point is that if we are going to spend money on the secondary it should be on a true shut-down corner, or a safety (which looks to be a much bigger area of need right now).
As for Knight and Clemons, etc... I was under the impression that they had voided the last year of their contracts so they were gone. Maybe I\'m wrong on that - but it\'s hard for me to imagine Sammy Knight being a Saint next year. That leaves a big hole at safety. There\'s also a big problem up front where our DTs are less than stellar. Both of those spots make this defense worse.
So, with every other team in our division have better talent and/or an offense playing better than when we faced them, staying where we are on defense, which is bad to begin with, leads to larger problems and tougher struggles in conference.
If you think not knowing what a team was going to do on offense hurt us last year, then how did we beat the Bucs twice, but lost to long time division rival Atlanta? Vick played in at least one game against us two years ago... I was there. Plus, I expect Carolina to look totally different on offense with the addition of Delhomme, Davis, and Dyson.
In any case... I hope you\'re right and this team does get better. I\'m just not convinced yet. If nothing else, I thank you very much for actually debating the issue. I enjoy these kinds of discussions. You obviously know your football and you\'re a great addition to this board. Keep up the good work man.
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I belive I\'ve stated enough of my opinion on my last post of the other thread. Once again, WhoDat. You started with the insults. Don\'t try to make yourself look like the victim. If I didn\'t feel offended, I would have never come back at you like I did. I\'m an easy-going guy and even easier to get along with until someone shows disrespect. At that point, I show just how much of an ******* I can be. If you don\'t believe me, just try me. What I\'ve said so far is NOTHING to how bad it could get. So we can do one of two things. We can keep going like juvenile school kids, or we can call it a truce. Choice is yours. Oh...one more thing....My wanting to call this off is NOT a show of surrender. You haven\'t impressed me enough to get that far.
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Thanks WhoDat.
My point in all of this is that we\'ve turned a dollar into a dollar and five cents. Maybe not into two dollars, but more than we started with. That is progress. Just like a runner the first steps are shorter and less ground gaining than the later steps. I think letting free agency play out a bit is smart. We have seen the value of certain players and your Ruff/Claibourne comparison is a good one. Claibourne was better value IMO than Ruff after this played out. Had we waited and found what values players are getting may cost us some good names but may get better value on other good names. If Flowers, Knight, etc start getting less than astonishing values we might get Lassiter or Jones for less than we originally thought. Turley is a good example of this as well. A team like the Broncos could have jumped on him and given up a solid LBer or higher pick, but it helped the Rams get him cheaper because they saw no one was showing great interest and the longer he sat the more he devalued himself. I think they found the line where he couldn\'t make his own value any lower by opening his mouth.
We may end up getting Lassiter or Jones still, maybe get a really solid LBer after the June 1st cuts. And you are right, Clemons and Knight did void and that essentially shuts the door, but their names remain property of the Saints until signed or final roster is declared.
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D_it_up - I\'ll say this. You did call me out specifically and you called my posts nothing more than belly aching and whining b/c the Saints weren\'t doing what I wanted (implying that I was actually that egotistical). You are right though. It was Iceshack that cast the first stone with his medicine comment - not you. Your post prior to my first that was \"aggressive\" didn\'t exactly cast me in a great light, but I will admit when I\'m wrong, and I think I jumped on you more than you deserved. Iceshack was far more deserving of my words.
However, that doesn\'t change the fact that I still haven\'t heard a compelling argument from you as to why you think the Saints will be better. You talked about how bad Mora and Ditka were. You talked about how bad we have been or how things could be worse, but you didn\'t ever say why you think they could be better. My post may not be the most positive in the world, but I\'m not 100% negative either. I\'m trying to be realistic. Maybe you see that as pessimistic, but I\'m also applying the past and present to try to make some stab at the future. I haven\'t seen you make much of an argument for WHY the Saints will get better. So I\'m inviting, again, to do so. Lumm0x did that and look at how I responded. I will always respect a person who can make a good argument. I\'m sure you have good reasons for why you feel like you do... let me hear them.
Lumm0x - again, you prove yourself as a good evaluator of what\'s going on. My concern is that while we\'ve made our dollar into a dollar five, our NFC South opponents have made a buck fifty. We\'re unable to buy the sure winner million dollar lotto ticket (offense and special teams) b/c we can\'t seem scrounge a dollar together on D, despite having two kentwood bottles filled with change in the corner.
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Welcome to Conflict Resolution 101 with Gatorman as your professor. Of course they\'ve gotten better since the Ditka days. The thing that is most frustrating to me is that no coach before Haz ever had anywhere near the kind of talent we have on O and special teams. We\'re squandering it b/c they don\'t want to spend money on D... or at least, they still think they\'ll find nothing but diamonds in the rough, which they really haven\'t done since Joe Horn. Albert, AKA \"I like to steal from my teammates\" was obviously a HUGE bust. Sloan hasn\'t been spectacular to date. They misjudged Clemons talent. Now I think they\'re misjudging Knight and Ruff. Why should I think Ruff will work out better than Sloan did? Even Pathon was average at best. Go get someone you know is good. You can still find VALUE - if that\'s what you\'re so worried about. Hell, we could have signed Claiborne for $500,000 to $1,000,000 less than we\'re talking about signing Jones for, and without giving up any picks. Instead we got Ruff. I cannot tell you how excited I am.
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What is a Nested Diagnostics Context?
Let's say that we're writing a message driven bean (MDB) that we'll
deploy on Glassfish. Let's say
that the MDB's onMessage()
method grabs the payload of the message and calls into a stateless
session bean (SLSB) for processing. Let's say that the implementation
of the SLSB
calls into org.apache.xparser:
my.company.MDB > my.company.SLSB > org.apache.xparser
Let's say that he xparser
package may log some warnings if the
payload is not properly formatted. No problem so far. Now let's say
that the application is put in production together with a dozen other
applications and that many of these applications use this library. The
administrator once in a while finds these warnings in Glassfish's server.log:
[#|2007-09-17T18:36:03.247-0400|WARN|sun-appserver9.1|org.apache.xparser.Parser |_ThreadID=18; ThreadName=ConsumerMessageQueue:(1); |Encoding missing, assuming UTF-8|#]
Let's say that the administrator wants to relay this information to the developer responsible for this application. Using the category name org.apache.xparser.Parser, the administrator can find out what code is responsible (a third party component in this case), but how can the administrator find out which application is responsible for this log output?
One approach is to always log
the application name before calling into the SLSB, so that the
administrator can find the application name using the _ThreadID: he would look at the
_ThreadID of the warning,
then look for a message earlier in the log that has the same _ThreadID that identifies the
application. Not only is this
cumbersome, it's also a big problem that the application now fills up
the log with the application name just in case the SLSB would log
It would be nice if somehow the MDB could associate the thread with
the application name, so that if code downstream logs anything, the log
message will be adorned with the application name:
[#|2007-09-17T18:36:03.247-0400|WARN|sun-appserver9.1|org.apache.xparser.Parser |_ThreadID=18; Context=Payrollsync; ThreadName=ConsumerMessageQueue:(1); |Encoding missing, assuming UTF-8|#]
In Log4J, this is quite simple using Log4J's NDC class: before the MDB calls
into the SLSB, it would call NDC.push("Payrollsync")
to push the context onto the stack, and after the SLSB it would call NDC.pop(). NDC stands for
Nested Diagnostic Context. It's called nested because it maintains a
stack, so that the SLSB could push another context onto the stack,
hiding the context of the MDB, and pop the context off the stack to
restore the
stack in its original state before returning. Of course each thread has
to have its own stack.
The NDC is a nice facility in Log4J. Unfortunately, in java.util.logging there's no such facility. Let's build one!
Building a Nested Diagnostic Context
The Nested Diagnostics Context will have to keep a stack per thread.
the logging mechanism logs something, it needs to peek at the stack
and add the top most item on the stack to the log message. The stack
needs to be accessible somehow by both the application that sets the
and by the logging mechanism. A complicating factor in this is that it
needs to work with both delegating-first
and self-first classloaders.
The latter is found in some web applications (special setting in sun-web.xml) and in some JBI
components. Furthermore, we would like to use this mechanism in
Glassfish and avoid having to make changes
to the Glassfish codebase. Lastly, we need to avoid making
changes to the application that would cause the application to be no
longer portable to other application servers.
The loggers com.sun.EnterContext
and com.sun.ExitContext
are special loggers that we'll develop; messages written to these
loggers directly interact with the context stack. Through these special
loggers, this example will result in adding the context to any log
messages that are
produced in the slsb.process(msg)
call. On other application servers without these special loggers, this
will result in logging the
context at FINE level
before and after the call to the SLSB is made, so that one can
a log message using the _ThreadID;
it will not do anything if FINE
logging is turned off.
What if we want to add more than one context parameter to the log message? For instance, what if we want to add the ID of the message that we're processing?
Logger.getLogger("com.sun.EnterContext") .log(Level.FINE, {0}={1}, {2}={3}, new Object[] {"Application", "Payrollsync", "Msgid", msg.getMessageID()});
Logger.getLogger("com.sun.ExitContext") .log(Level.FINE, {0}={1}, {2}={3}, new Object[] {"Application", "Payrollsync", "Msgid", msg.getMessageID()});
The special logger will take the Object[] and push these on the
stack. The message string "{0}={1},
{2}={3}" is there merely for portability: if the the code is
deployed onto an
application server to which we didn't install the NDC facilities, this
will simply log the context parameters at FINE level.
ImplementationIn a stand alone Java application, you would simply set your own LogManager and implement the NDC functionality there. Glassfish already comes with its own LogManager, and we don't want to override that. Rather, we want to plug in new functionality without any changes to the existing code base. Here's what we need to do:
- create the special loggers com.sun.EnterContext and com.sun.ExitContext
- hookup these special loggers
- hook into the log stream to print out the context
To create the special loggers, we can simply create a new class that
derives from java.util.logging.Logger,
say EntryLogger. Next, we
need to make sure that when someone calls Logger.getLogger("com.sun.EnterContext"),
it will be this class that is returned. Without making any changes to
the LogManager, the way
that that can be accomplished is by instantiating the new EntryLogger and registering it
with the LogManager
immediately. This has to be
done before anybody calls Logger.getLogger("com.sun.EnterContext").
In other words, we should do this before any application starts. In
Glassfish there's an extensibility mechanism called LifeCycleListeners. An object
that implements this interface can be loaded by Glassfish automatically
upon startup.
Lastly, we need to find a way to add the context to the log entries
in the log. Glassfish already has a mechanism to add key-value pairs to
each log entry: when formatting a LogRecord
for printing, Glassfish calls LogRecord.getParameters()
and checks each object in the returned Object[] for objects that
implement java.util.Map
and java.util.Collection.
For objects that implement java.util.Map,
Glassfish adds the key-value pairs to the log message. For objects that
implement java.util.Collection,
Glassfish adds each entry as a String to the log message.
If each LogRecord can
somehow be intercepted before it reaches Glassfish's Formatter, the context can be
added as an extra parameter to the LogRecord's parameter list.
This can be done by adding a new java.util.logging.Handler
to the root-Logger before
Glassfish's own Handler.
For each LogRecord that
this new Handler
receives, it will inspect the Context stack and add a Map with the Context to the LogRecord. Next, the root-Logger will send the LogRecord to Glassfish's own Handler which takes care of
printing the message into the log. Once again, the LifeCycleListener
is the ideal place to register the new Handler.
Give it a spin!
You can download the jar that has these new classes and/or download the sources. Put the jar in Glassfish's lib directory. Restart the server and install the LifeCycleListener:


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Okay, here's a picture of me posing with one of my bike club members with my new hair style. Ahhhhh! No more braids. What do you think?
It's been funny. Since I've moved here, a lot of my friends and family are saying, "So you move to Atlanta and now you're spicing things up a bit." LOL I guess that has been true, but not because I moved near Atlanta. I felt so good with the move and change in life and the first thing I vowed was to get healthy. Exercising and going to the gym has never been an issue for me as far as forcing myself to go. I love working out. Music keeps me going. But consistency is usually the issue. Things come up and throw me off my routine. So, I've committed to becoming consistent. I've also commited to eating healthier and actually preparing my own food from time to time so I can control salt content. And I now drink about 10 glasses of water a day, which I noticed actually helps with the hair and skin. I was having skin issues when I got here and a trip to the dermatologist helped me to smooth out the skin on various parts of my body.
Well, you can't have great skin without improving the teeth. I've scheduled a dental appointment to schedule routine check ups and cleanings, and in the meantime, used whiting strips until I can get them whitened at the dentist.
Okay, with great skin, whiter teeth, and with feeling better from eating, water, and working out, a girl just HAS to get individual eyelashes, right? But of course. And you just can't get indivudual lashes without trimming up the eyebrows. That wouldn't be right! And with that focus in the facial area, you have to get new earrings. Yeah...that's it...new earrings. A NEED!
Getting the nails and toes done in french manicure was a must even before moving to Georgia. But with all of this, I just had to change up the hairstyle, right? I mean seriously, what other choice did I have?
And now, I'm back on the serious mission, as always, of getting to my ideal weight. Started last week and lost 3.5 pounds. Now, if I can just be consistent so I can stop losing the same 10 pounds over and over and over! LOL
All of this has been fun. Next....A NEW WARDROBE!!!!!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
1 comments:
- Rose Wed Jul 23, 02:07:00 PM EDT
Girl your hair looks great and very healthy....... You look good wearing your hair.
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