I didn't want `verbose` because then you don't get the output in the log file unless you're in `-verbose` mode.  I could use `info` but thought the `INFO` line prefix was unnecessary.  Do you prefer every line of output to be prefixed with `INFO` even from a standalone command (`spma-run` is not an NCM component)?

For future reference, it would be helpful to have a way of getting `verbose` messages always to the log file, but only to `stdout` if `-verbose` was specified.