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Shortly after being invited to review the A‑Designs Pacifica mic preamp, I stumbled across an interesting thread on a well‑known discussion forum. A young recording engineer claimed that, having read up about the test measurements of microphone preamps, some serious comparative listening to the sound of a range of preamps led him to the conclusion that (I paraphrase) because all of the preamps' operational statistics were very similar, there were no serious differences between them. Further more, he saw this as evidence that the preamp market was all a boutique‑manufacturer‑led sonic con. Despite the initial reactive posts ("you obnoxious troll!" and so on), there followed a more informed discussion, in which it was generally accepted that measurements don't tell the whole story, that there's a wider, demonstrable sonic difference between different preamps, and that, in all likelihood, the original poster must have been conducting the test with sub-standard equipment.
The one thing the young engineer did right was to conduct a subjective test, but it's certainly true that sub-standard equipment will skew your results. You can't assess a decent mic pre without a decent mic and A‑D converter.
I mention all this because the marketing literature for the Pacifica might be enough to drive you to this sort of conclusion. My first impression of the Pacifica's user manual was that it was obviously (though sadly not clearly) written by A‑Designs' marketing department. Its seven brief pages comprise a full‑page legal notice, two pictures, a very short page of contents, a short page of (unqualified by test parameters) specifications, and another short page of features (which include not only 'a Red LED Phantom Indicator' but also a 'Blue LED Power Indicator').
A whole page is devoted to impressing upon the reader that the Pacifica is a sleeping giant of a mic preamp, which actually has a rock & roll heritage as long as your arm — and which stretches back just as far as those of more familiar names such as Neve and API. I can't claim to be qualified to judge the assertion that the A‑Designs consoles were right up there with the big boys in high‑end studios in the '70s: I've never seen or heard a Quad Eight Ventura, but then my recording career started in the mid '80s. But I am slightly confused by the fact that over half of their examples from the 'heyday of American professional music recording' are actually English (the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin). So perhaps we'd better just take their word for it (or not) on those historical facts, and assess the company's Pacifica preamp as it presents itself today on its own terms. Thankfully, it can easily stand alone as an excellent, modern mic preamp, without whatever ghost‑written biography the manufacturer's marketeers provide...
The Pacifica is a 1U, rackmounting, dual‑mono preamp — 'mono/mono', as the manual helpfully explains — with an additional front‑panel quarter‑inch active input. It is transformer loaded (both input and output), boasts an impressive 72dB of gain, and is quoted as offering a generously wide frequency response of 9Hz to 101kHz. In the way in which such things can sometimes be, this is a good‑looking piece of kit, with a nicely understated creamy‑white facing and a red body (that's actually less garish in the flesh than on the manufacturer's web‑site), which apparently aids its possession of a "unique 'Made in California' feel", whatever that might mean.
Each channel sports a large, red gain control knob, the direct inject (DI) input, and push‑buttons for phantom power, a –20dB pad, and a phase invert switch. The back panel has Neutrik input and output connectors, all very solidly connected to the chassis. The build quality is very good.
Bearing in mind what I said earlier, I decided that in reviewing the A‑Designs Pacifica I would conduct some good old‑fashioned, unscientific subjective listening tests, comparing the Pacifica with other mic preamps that I use regularly, including models by Grace, SADiE, and Broadhurst Gardens. I employed a restricted range of mics (Royer, Sonodore, Schoeps) and high‑quality, and famously colourless D‑A converters, such as dCS — and I certainly did hear a difference.
I used the Pacifica on a number of URM Audio sessions, with music ranging from live concert jazz to studio folk and blues, but I decided in advance that all of my experiments on classical sources would have to be strictly off the clock. Subsequent test sessions confirmed the suspicions behind that decision: the Pacifica is not a purveyor of entirely unvarnished truth. But it's none the worse — and in fact sometimes very much better — for that, as it is increasingly rare these days for the unvarnished truth to be the object of the recording exercise anyway.
Take, for example, my problem of the saxophonist with the bad breath — not his own, but rather the obstructive‑to‑recording side‑effects of his deliberate technique of letting the centre of the note die early, then allowing just the breath, which would normally have sustained the tone, to carry on through the instrument alone. From the audience perspective it sounded quite sublime; but through our standard location rig (SADiE LRX2) and the control‑room monitoring, it sounded like we were trying to record on a rough day in Snowdonia. Having tried a number of mic combinations during rehearsals (all stereo — I mic everything in stereo these days), I sadly rejected the use of my Royer SF12 (a firm favourite for sax) on grounds of sheer fear for its survival in high winds. The best result was from a pair of Schoeps MK21s in a sort‑of wide ORTF configuration placed just above the musician's waist height, but well away from him, and then angled up towards him (a technique I use when recording live classical vocals, if the mics must be positioned so that the singer doesn't have to look at them). This diminished the wind noise to a sibilant breathiness, which was still problematic but which I assumed I'd be able to reduce further at the mixing stage with a de‑esser.
But during a break in rehearsal I took an opportunity to plumb in the Pacifica for mic‑pre duty with the Schoeps — and after the next number everyone agreed that the result was instantly better, although quite why it was better was not immediately clear. The high breathiness of the sax didn't hit the listener half so hard, but as the Pacifica had certainly not simply rolled off a whole lot of top (the breath noise anyway varied from around 4‑7k) it wasn't simply a matter of some subtraction from the original signal. Instead, the preamp seemed to be doing more with the lower mid‑range, and in the 'Yin‑Yang' way that messing with any frequency range will affect another, this made the breathiness less obtrusive. It would seem that the Pacifica harmonically thickens the sound (although I'd hesitate to call it 'warming') in a way that doesn't actually diminish detail, but which doesn't call so much attention to it either. And, importantly, the sax player loved the result.
Another occasion on which I noticed a similar positive effect was when I was using the Royer for recording some rather wispy and winsome female backing vocals in a circle. A goodly proportion of the Pacifica's 72dB of relatively quiet gain came in handy here, whereas the original choice of preamp (a Grace, which is normally so good for female voice detail) provided results that were just too wispy. The Pacifica provided a morsel more meatiness, which gave the backing vocals the body they needed to fill in and around the main voice.
My favourite use of the Pacifica, though, was when a long‑retired session guitarist (me) was persuaded to come out to play one day ("oh go on, please let me have a go") to lay down some classic blues lines — basically repetitive, simplistic and slow — on a folk‑blues song for a CD he was supposed to be producing. Waving away the fussy footpedals of his fellow guitarists, he simply dusted off his PRS Custom guitar and plugged it into his Mesa Dual Rectifier Maverick amp, miked it up through the Pacifica pre, ran through his very best bendy‑string blues riff... and thought he'd died and gone to heaven. I say this quite seriously: the Pacifica went immediately to the top of my list for recording electric guitar, not on the grounds that if it can make me sound good it must be brilliant, but on the grounds that what it delivered to tape was just what the PRS/Mesa should sound like, and does sound like live, but in my experience rarely does so on record. Classical clean preamps are too clinical for such work, whereas many tube preamps — especially those that ape ancient circuits — make for two tubes too many (the Dual Rectifier in valve mode has plenty of its own); and my experience with the revered Neve‑designed preamps is that they add grit to the sound, which isn't always what's needed. The Pacifica captured a balance of body and bite that sounded just lovely.
In the general course of events I don't get much call for direct injections in recording, so I'm not really in a position to judge the Pacifica against its competitors on that score, but I did use it just twice in this way and was very impressed both times. An Ibanez SD bass sounded very articulate, and blended well with the sound of the miked amp; and an Ovation Balladeer was full‑bodied, sounding very nice for jazz.
There are always different horses for different courses, and the Pacifica didn't suit the requirements of some of my other work. Although superb on relatively close‑miked jazz piano, it lost some of the loveliness of a classical Steinway, which the LRX preamps captured in full. While it was great on drums in general, it didn't produce the startling results on high‑toned and tuned percussion (wind‑chimes, marimba, shakers) that the Grace can. And — this to my great surprise — some female vocalists, especially those singing with acoustic accompaniment, simply didn't like what it did to their voices. Of course, we're only talking about subtle differences here, and it could be that if they'd not been offered a choice the vocalists would all have been happy enough, but on a number of occasions when they were offered a choice, they chose the other preamp over the Pacifica.
Most of these results are unsurprising, because putting transformers in the signal path will do things to the sound (the harmonic thickening) which complement some instruments and timbral requirements, but are less effective for others. What was nice about the Pacifica was that when this effect was required, it seemed to leave the high frequencies pretty much alone — which makes it much more widely usable than an across‑the‑board 'warm' pre‑amp.
I like the Pacifica a lot. Within a very wide area of recording needs, it adds a complementary enhancement that is not easy to describe but so often sounds 'just right.' You don't need to buy into any Californian nostalgia trip to recognise the quality of this preamp, or to understand its appeal.
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This restaurant chain has seen no estimate revision in the last 30 days. The Zacks Consensus Estimate hasn't remained in trend either. Friday's price action is encouraging though, so make sure to keep a close watch on this firm in the near future.
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Senators Press Dow Jones Panel to Probe U.K. Hacking Allegations
Two Democratic U.S. senators are pressing a Dow Jones & Co. editorial oversight board to investigate whether any Dow Jones executives played a role in or knew about the U.K. phone-hacking scandal that has rocked corporate parent News Corp.
The senators also asked the committee for reassurance that similar activities haven't taken place in the U.S.
The letter from Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia singles out former Dow Jones Chief Executive Officer Les Hinton. Mr. Hinton ran News Corp.'s News International, the division that included the now-closed News of the World, the epicenter of the hacking scandal. The senators asked the committee if it had investigated Mr. Hinton's role in the scandaleither before or after he was named to the Dow Jones position. He stepped down as CEO last week.
The editorial committee was established in 2007 to protect the editorial independence of Dow Jones's news outlets as part of News Corp.'s agreement to purchase the company from its controlling shareholders, the Bancroft family. The panel is charged with protecting Dow Jones's journalism from undue interference by its owner and reviewing the hiring and firing of top editors. The panel is led by Tom Bray, a former Detroit News editorial-page editor.
News Corp. and Dow Jones declined to comment. Mr. Hinton couldn't be reached. News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal.
In a statement provided by Mr. Bray, the committee said it didn't "investigate former Dow Jones Chairman Les Hinton's activities in London, which were investigated there in the past and are the subject of renewed focus now."
The panel also sought to draw a line between practices at the U.S. news outlets and at the U.K. newspapers. It said that the panel has been focused on ensuring that "the highest standards of journalistic ethics are being met at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires," and that in conversations with "countless" current and former employees, "we have found absolutely no sign of journalistic misconduct such as is at the heart of the scandal in London." It said it would reply to the senators "in due course."
The five-member committee said last week it has already had conversations with Dow Jones officials about the hacking incidents. It said "to date, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe" that Mr. Hinton's resignation was "any way related to activities at The Wall Street Journal or Dow Jones or that any of the London offenses or anything like them have taken place at Dow Jones. We will continue to monitor the situation closely."
The two lawmakers said they were "pleased to learn that the Special Committee will take steps to ensure that no illegal activity took place at Dow Jones and Company publications," but added they were "were surprised that the Committee's statement appears to foreclose any further investigation."
Mr. Hinton has come under increasing scrutiny amid allegations about reporting tactics at the News of the World. In testimony in 2007 and 2009, he told a U.K. parliamentary committee that News International carried out a full investigation into the matter and was convinced just one of the company's journalists was involved. More recently, several people have been arrested by U.K. police in connection with the scandal; all of them were released without charge.
Mr. Hinton has previously said he wasn't aware of any widespread hacking at News International, and that when he left it in 2007, he believed "the rotten element at the News of the World had been eliminated [and] journalistic integrity was restored."
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Here's how it shook out, according to CNN:
- Huckabee: 23%
- Gingrich: 11%
- Bachmann: 10%
- Romney: 8%
- Pawlenty: 7%
- Trump: 7%
- The rest (Haley Barbour, John Bolton, Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum): 34%
The usual caveats apply…straw polls are usually just a popularity contest, it's very early still and this is just one county in SoCa.
Still, it's interesting to see that Huckabee has so much support, while Palin doesn't. And once again…Bachmann shows up over Romney. Interesting…
My bet is Huckabee will wait on running until 2016. I think most GOP hopefuls feel that Obama's campaign machine is just too big to beat and that folks like Palin, Romney and Gingrich will suck the air out of the room.
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Springfield Town Manager to retireBy Susan Smallheer
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Robert ForguitesSPRINGFIELD – Town Manager Robert Forguites announced his retirement late Monday night at the conclusion of a Select Board meeting.
Forguites, 75, said he would stay full time until the end of September, and then work for a smooth transition until the end of December and schedule "a graceful exit."
Forguites has been town manager for 16 years, and before that, served the town four years as comptroller after a career with a variety of Vermont banks. A native of Brandon, he has lived in Springfield since 1978. He is one of the longest serving town managers in Springfield, and he said, "one of the oldest."
Quoting from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," Forguites said "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things: Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.'"
"Now, I am neither a walrus nor a carpenter," Forguites told the board. "I am neither a cabbage nor a king. However, I do need to talk about something," he said, said he needed to "end some speculation, and I'm sure you have heard the speculation."
"I know that I must be fair to the town of Springfield. The town has been good to me and to my wife and has given a good education to our son. I also know that I must be fair to myself," said Forguites. "Therefore, I intend to head down the road to retirement."
Forguites, whose wife Barbara died a few years ago, said there were many projects at their North Springfield home – "so that will be my retirement project."
"And, who knows, I might want to quote Nancy Kerrigan after she won one of her skating titles and say, "I'm going to Disney World!"
After his announcement, there was stunned silence, and his secretary Donna Hall wiped tears from her eyes. Finally board members spoke one by one and thanked Forguites for his long service and dedication.
"People have told me 'You'll know when it is time,' and I know it is now time to start the process," Forguites said.
Thomas Kennedy, executive director of the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission, who was at the meeting to discuss several issues, praised Forguites' professionalism and kindness.
He said in his 25 years with the regional planning commission, he had never worked with anyone "with the integrity of Bob Forguites."
They have worked very closely on many issues, Kennedy said. "He's no longer Bob Forguites, he's my friend. You'll never get another town manager like Bob."
Afterward, Forguites told reporters that he had almost retired last fall, and then during the budget process, before convincing himself to stay through another budget session and March Town Meeting.
He said his proudest accomplishment was a uninterrupted string of town budget victories and bond votes since he became manager.
Forguites was appointed interim town manager in May 1998, and had initially declined the permanent job, but in July 1998, he was named to the job permanently.
"I know it's time," he said.
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As Laber, assistant director of the BCA's forensic laboratory, points out various pieces of equipment recently purchased with nearly half a million dollars in state and federal funds, three forensic scientists traipse about the space, carefully avoiding collisions as they move trays of test tubes from one countertop to the other. Those tubes contain the processed blood of sex offenders--samples the state has collected from offenders convicted of felony sexual assault since 1990. They are about to be fed into the new machines, which will examine the genetic material found in the blood and decode its unique patterns with a laser beam. The result--a set of 26 digits often referred to as a "genetic fingerprint"--will be stored on the hard drive of the Macintosh computer sitting between the two machines.
The principle of DNA sequencing isn't new. But the speed with which the new machines can process samples, Laber says, represents a quantum leap for the lab's capability--a leap that, this spring, prompted the state legislature to drastically expand the number of offenders whose DNA will be entered into the database. Under a measure scheduled to take effect next summer, the state will process DNA not just from sex offenders, but from people convicted of crimes such as murder, manslaughter, assault, robbery, kidnapping, burglary, and indecent exposure. "We're taking a very proactive stance," says the bill's author, Rep. Doug Fuller (R-Bemidji). "These are serious criminals who aren't just committing a single crime."
In fact, felons must commit more than one offense for the database to work. When Laber's staffers receive genetic material from a crime scene, they compare its "fingerprint" to those they already have in the computer. If there's a match, police can make an arrest even if the repeat offender was not a suspect before--an event the BCA refers to as a "cold hit." The database can also eliminate potential suspects from an investigation: If, say, a previously convicted sex offender's DNA does not match the evidence found at a new crime scene, that person will be ruled out as a suspect, since the odds of one individual's DNA matching another's are extremely low. "Instead of making up some number like 'one in kajillion,'" he says, "we usually tell the press the odds are about one in a billion. But the actual odds are almost zero." (In mathematical terms, those odds are, on average, one in 1023--a 1 with 23 zeros behind it.)
Right now the state's database contains DNA "profiles" of about 10,000 sex offenders--just about right, Laber explains, since with the old equipment his staff was able to process only about 1,000 samples each year. With the new machines, it will take but a month for the same staff to add the 4,000 samples expected to start rolling in each year once Fuller's law takes effect next summer. "You take what's going on in Waseca right now," the state representative says, referring to the investigation of the murder of 12-year-old Cally Jo Larson this April. "If we currently had the database that we'll have in two years, this case may very well have been solved by now."
The database expansion continues Minnesota's tradition of staying on the forefront of forensic DNA technologies. In 1991, a year after Minnesota became one of the first states to establish a DNA database, the BCA linked Martin Perez--whose genetic fingerprint was on file because of a rape conviction earlier that year--to the rape and murder of Lowry Hill resident Jean Broderick. Perez became the first person in the United States to be arrested and brought to trial based on DNA evidence.
Minnesota was also one of seven "flagship" states that worked with the FBI to create a national DNA database, called the Combined DNA Information System (CODIS), in 1993. In 1997 Wisconsin authorities, who did not have the capabilities to analyze DNA evidence, asked the Minnesota BCA to process a sample obtained during an investigation. The sample matched the DNA of a sex offender registered in Illinois, and Minnesota became the first state to score a "cold hit" on the national system.
"We've had about 20 cold hits," Laber notes as he leafs through the file that serves as a BCA trophy case; once the new database gets up and running, he adds, that number should increase dramatically. In addition to processing samples faster, the new DNA sequencers use a new technique called Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), which "amplifies," or clones, a piece of DNA millions of times. So while the current database requires that the evidence taken from a crime scene, such as a semen stain, be about the size of a dime, the new database works with cellular material about one-hundredth that size.
PCR also allows the DNA sequencers to work with old, almost mummified samples. In June, for example, the technology led to the arrest of a Connecticut man after police in that state obtained DNA evidence from a corpse 26 years after the murder took place. The Minnesota BCA has already used PCR to solve several cases where the only evidence found at the crime scene was the dusting of lip cells on a cigarette butt. "About 50 percent of the samples we currently receive cannot be run against the [current] database," Laber says. "So when you combine twice as many samples against the 3,000 extra profiles added [to the new database] yearly, you're going to get a lot more hits."
Numbers like these have gotten politicians and law-enforcement officials thinking. Four states--Virginia, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Alabama--now require all convicted felons to provide samples, and Louisiana recently passed legislation allowing police to take blood from anyone they arrest, much the way they now collect fingerprints. New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir drew headlines last winter when he called for a system like Louisiana's--only to be upstaged by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who said he would consider taking DNA samples from every newborn in the city. In response, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused New York politicians of trying to create a "brave new world."
The Minnesota branch of the ACLU has been watching the state's database expansion and plans to develop an official stance by this fall. The group's legal counsel Teresa Nelson says the MCLU is worried that taking blood samples from all felons may violate the Constitution's protection against unreasonable search and seizure. In addition, she says, there are concerns about how the database could be used in the future. "Just because the government says that they are using this in a limited sense doesn't mean that's how it'll be down the line," Nelson explains. "If employers were able to get this information, maybe they would stop hiring people with a certain genetic disposition." So far, claims Nelson, there is no legal prohibition against outsiders accessing the DNA information through the Minnesota Data Practices Act, which governs the public's access to government data.
Don Gemberling, the director of the state's Information and Policy Division, says Minnesota does have statutes preventing DNA information from being released. What the state lacks, he says, are data-protection laws of the sort many European countries have on the books--laws that prevent governments from using personal data for reasons other than those for which the information was originally collected.
"Have you ever seen Gattaca?" Gemberling asks, referring to the 1997 film set in a society where social standing was determined by DNA profiling. "This database can't be seen in a vacuum, but rather in the larger context of the human genome mapping project." (The project is an international scientific collaboration determined to map out the entire genetic blueprint of the human species.) Without data-protection laws, Gemberling argues, DNA databases might be used to hand down tougher sentences for people considered to have a genetic disposition toward violence, or to prevent them from receiving social services.
Laber dismisses such arguments with an air of annoyance, saying they arise from a misunderstanding of the science involved. Since most people are physically very similar, he explains, the sections of DNA that control physical attributes aren't different enough to be used as a fingerprint. His database focuses on segments that don't seem to have any purpose, because they vary most strongly from one person to the next. "We're only storing junk DNA," he says. "That's why it works in the first place." (The BCA does, however, keep part of all blood samples on file, in case the processing technology changes yet again.)
If anything, Laber argues, civil libertarians should be welcoming a technology that in any given case can eliminate approximately 15 percent of the people police deem "extremely good suspects." Witness the 1994 conviction of serial rapist Timothy Baugh. "In that case you had an innocent man being positively identified out of a police lineup," Laber says; that man was later cleared by DNA evidence. "Sometimes eyewitnesses aren't so great."
But for Fuller, the state representative, the emphasis isn't so much on protecting the innocent as on finding the guilty. "Let me be clear about this," he says. "It's all about catching the bad guys. And the more people we have on file, the more bad guys we're going to catch." Fuller says he may soon consider drafting legislation that would require people convicted of gross-misdemeanor offenses that are violent or sexual in nature (such as fifth-degree sexual assault, or unauthorized fondling) to give DNA samples. And Laber says his lab may soon be ready for that: "We're taking it step by step," he explains. "If we can get the 10,000 [samples] transferred over from the old database and can handle the 4,000 cases that will be coming in, then we hope to step it up another level next March."
Correction published 7/20/1999:
Because of a reporting error, "The Gene Shifters" incorrectly attributed the authorship of the new state law mandating expanded processing of convicted felons' DNA. The state representative who authored the bill and who was quoted in the story is Doug Fuller. The above version of the story reflects the corrected text. City Pages regrets the error.
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DNA could provide the missing link in cracking some of the 40 unsolved homicide cases in Placer County. A $500,000 National Institute of Justice grant will give law enforcement the means to free up a full-time district attorney's investigator and a sheriff's detective for 18 months to work full-time on solving unresolved murder and sexual assault cases. District Attorney Brad Fenocchio said the intent of the new Placer County Cold Case Crimes Unit is to find and prosecute people responsible for unsolved crimes, prevent more crimes from occurring by those people, and — equally as important — help bring closure to the families of victims. Some of Placer County's unsolved homicides are perplexing because of their lack of clues. One of them dates back to December 1977, when the body of a woman was found nude and strangled in a snowbank by a couple walking their dog near the Highway 20-Interstate 80 interchange, east of Emigrant Gap. The coroner who examined the body after its discovery said finger marks on the neck indicated she had been strangled. Known only as Jane Doe, Case No. 11929-77, the woman was never identified. She was buried 11 months after being found — in a pauper's grave. Sometimes, the cases created widespread shock to a community but no resolution as decades go by. Mary Lloyd, 68, was abducted from an Auburn grocery store parking lot in June 1985, where she had stopped in to buy a quart of milk after going to St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Her body was later found in a nearby field. She had been stabbed to death. Her abductor drove off in her car. The car was found abandoned in Hollywood five days later. The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved acceptance of the $500,000 grant last week. The grant is one of the largest of 15 provided to California communities by the national justice institute. Fenocchio said that about 40 homicide cases in Placer County remain open, as well as an unknown number of sexual assault cases to be identified for possible DNA testing. Those cases could have biological evidence that was collected and never examined, he said. "The use of DNA has enhanced the resolution of homicides and violent crimes by pairing science with law enforcement and moving beyond traditional techniques used to solve crimes," he said. Part of the grant will pay Department of Justice fees to process the DNA at its Sacramento lab. Scott Owens, District Attorney's Office spokesman, said plans are to look at all unsolved homicide cases and then narrow them down to the ones that are the best candidates for DNA testing. The Journal's Gus Thomson can be reached at email@example.com or comment at Auburnjournal.com. -------- More notable Placer County cold cases Cindy Wanner — Wanner disappeared from her sister's Granite Bay home on Nov. 25, 1991. She had been cleaning the house when the abduction occurred, leaving her 11-month-old child sitting in a high chair. Her ATM card was used at a local bank. But, tragically, the video was erased before investigators learned of the filming of a probable suspect. Wanner's body was found in the Foresthill area three weeks later by a hunter. Despite a nationwide TV appeal, no arrest has been made. Glenn Whitten — Auburn teen Glenn Whitten was shot to death July 25, 1995, and his body was left on the rocky shore at Upper Lake Clementine. The 18-year-old was last seen alive early that morning at the Lincoln Way McDonald's. Two suspects were later arrested but they were never charged with the shotgun slaying. Family members continue to press for resolution. This past summer, new posters were put up in the area marking the anniversary of Whitten's death. Susan Waters — Waters' death was not immediately determined to be a homicide but an autopsy after her Sept. 6, 2003, death showed she had been a victim of foul play. She was found behind bushes outside a Lincoln Way building in Downtown Auburn. Cause of death has not been released. Coincidentally, Waters' only son would die shortly afterward while on duty in Iraq.


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|PUMPABLE SEAT ASSEMBLY AND USE FOR WELL COMPLETION - An assembly and process for fracturing, stimulating and producing a wellbore having a plurality of oil or gas producing zones is provided comprising introducing into the well the pumpable seat assembly comprising a generally cylindrical tube having an outer diameter and an inner diameter with an upper end forming a ball seat; setting the pumpable seat assembly below an oil or gas producing zone to be produced; introducing a dissolvable ball into the well, said dissolvable ball having a sufficiently large enough outer circumference so that it can sit on the ball seat and temporarily restrict a flow of fluids to the portion of the wellbore located below the pumpable seat assembly; and fracturing the oil and gas producing zone to stimulate oil or gas production; whereby the biodegradable ball is configured to dissolve within a predetermined period of time so that when it dissolves any oil or gas produced from zones below the pumpable seat assembly can flow through the cylindrical tube.
|COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS FUELING STATION - A compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station module is provided. The module includes a vault for below grade installation, the vault comprising a compressor for compressing natural gas, a storage tank for holding compressed natural gas, a dispenser for dispensing compressed natural gas, each of the compressor, the storage tank and the dispenser in fluid communication with each other. Secured to the vault is a canopy for above grade orientation, the canopy comprising a CNG fuel nozzle in fluid communication with the dispenser and an interface for allowance purchase of the CNG.
|PROCESS AND PROCESS LINE FOR THE PREPARATION OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING FLUID - A process and process line is provided for preparing a friction-reduced hydraulic fracturing fluid at a central location which can be readily transported to an oil or gas well in a formation at a well site, comprising: preparing a mixture of polymer and water at the central location by shearing the polymer in the water in a high shear environment to create the friction-reduced hydraulic fracturing fluid; pumping the friction-reduced hydraulic fracturing fluid through a series of pumps and pipelines to the well site; and injecting the hydraulic fracturing fluid into the oil or gas well at a pressure sufficient to cause fracturing of the formation,
|TREATMENT OF WATER FOR USE IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION - A process and process line for treating water containing hydrogen sulfide for use as a hydraulic fracturing fluid is provided, to practice the following steps: separating a gaseous portion containing hydrogen sulfide from the water to form a first degassed water product; introducing the first degassed water product into a mechanical gas stripping unit and treating the first degassed water product with a stripper gas; recovering from the mechanical gas stripping unit at least one overhead vapor stream containing hydrogen sulfide and a stripped water stream as a bottom stream; degassing the stripped water stream in a degassing tank to produce a second degassed water product; and treating the second degassed water product with a hydrogen sulfide scavenger to produce a sweet water product having substantially reduced hydrogen sulfide.
|REMOVAL OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE FROM WATER - A method of removing hydrogen sulfide from water is provided, comprising providing water containing a first amount of hydrogen sulfide and having a first pH; adding a stripper gas to the water to form a mixture; agitating the mixture; and separating a gaseous portion from the mixture to form a water product, the water product containing a second amount of hydrogen sulfide that is less than the first amount of hydrogen sulfide.
|Gas flow system - A gas flow system for removing a liquid from a well bore and allowing for gas production is provided. The gas flow system comprises a casing in the well bore for allowing flow of the liquid and gas; a tubing string in the casing for allowing flow of the liquid and gas; pressure measurement devices for use in determining a rate of liquid influx into the well bore; a casing control valve moveable between various positions ranging from fully open to fully closed for controlling flow through the casing; a tubing control valve moveable between various positions ranging from fully open to fully closed for controlling flow through the tubing; and flow measurement devices for determining the rate of flow through the tubing and the total rate of flow. The system is switchable between a current production phase and an alternate production phase based on the determined rate of liquid influx, a tubing critical velocity and a gas flow rate through the tubing, wherein switching from a current production phase to an alternate production phase results in the either or both of a decrease in liquid build-up in the well bore and an increase in gas production rate and wherein the current production phase differs from the alternate production phase.
|CONVERSION OF HEAVY OIL AND BITUMEN TO METHANE BY CHEMICAL OXIDATION AND BIOCONVERSION - A process for the conversion of heavy oil or bitumen to methane by chemical oxidation and bioconversion.
|Use of coated slots for control of sand or other solids in wells completed for production of fluids - The present invention relates to an approach to reducing or eliminating the plugging of slots in a slotted liner while otherwise allowing the liner to function in its normal capacity as a solids exclusion device which permits the reservoir fluids to flow through relatively freely. The approach taught by the present invention involves coating the surface of the slot with a suitable material. The coating at least partially covers the irregularities that are formed on the slot surfaces as a consequence of the slot manufacturing process. The presence of the coating results in a markedly reduced slot plugging problem while still enabling the slot to perform its main function in excluding or inhibiting the inflow of larger particles and allowing the inflow of fluids.
Patent applications by EnCana Corporation


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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard Shaun Livingston hasn't yet signed to play for a minor league team in Illinois. The team's owner says he still could.
The Central Illinois Drive of Bloomington, Ill., said this week that the team was signing an NBA player for its first season. Team co-owner Scott Henderson said the player was Peoria, Ill. native Livingston.
Henderson on Friday clarified that Livingston would only sign if the NBA lockout continues until the Premier Basketball League season starts in January and if other options don't come along.
Livingston will help promote the team in the meantime. Livingston is friends with Drive coach A.J. Guyton and player Daniel Ruffin.


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The Intel-powered Windows 10 phone that was due to be released in 2016 isn't happening, according to Windows Central, which cited anonymous sources "familiar with Microsoft's plan." Now, rumor has it that a Microsoft Surface phone is in the works.
Microsoft released its latest Windows 10 Mobile preview build for testers this week as the release date of the Lumia 950 and 950XL, which will run on the OS, inches ever closer. Whether the company is wrapping up its preparations and readying a full release remains unclear, though some think this version could be the final product.
Microsoft is set to unveil the Surface Pro 4, new smartphones and other hardware at a launch event in October, according to a new report.
Nokia was testing Lumia smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system "well before" discussions that led to Microsoft agreeing to purchase the company's struggling mobile phones business for $7.2 billion, The New York Times reports.
Nokia promised its newest Windows Phone 8 operating system update will reach all Lumia smartphones by the end of this month.
Nokia released an updated version of its Music streaming service for Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, adding concert notifications and new release alerts.
Nokia is rolling out a Windows Phone 8 operating system update that extends camera features introduced this spring in its Lumia 925 smartphone to other devices within the Lumia portfolio.
Nokia released a new app for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system that allows users to upload videos directly to Google's YouTube. While the actual app is a relatively minor item in the overall mobile marketplace, it serves to highlight the increasingly complex web of alliances and rivalries that has grown out of the intense competition in the mobile industry among the world's largest technology companies.
Nokia's disappointing second-quarter financial results indicate that consumers are "content" with a mobile ecosystem dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS, according to an investor note released by Needham & Company Analyst Charlie Wolf.
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A Washington Post story about Russia's attempts to combat excessive smoking and drinking noted the following (emphasis added): The latest government health figures suggest the difficulty ahead: Last year, 2,500 more people died than were born, and the infant mortality rate rose to 8.7 deaths per 1,000 births from 7.1 in 2011 after a dozen years of dramatic decline. Now that sounds pretty awful. A 22% increase in the infant mortality rate in a single year suggests an outright collapse in the public health system. Considering that Russia's demographic indicators have been consistently
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Publish Date: October 24, 2010
In a food processor or blender coarsely puree beans and tomatoes.
In a 6 quart heavy kettle cook onion, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper in butter over medium heat, stirring until onion is softened and beginning to brown. Stir in bean puree. Mix in broth, pumpkin and red wine until combined and simmer uncovered, stirring occasionally, 25 minutes or until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
Just before serving, add ham and vinegar and simmer, stirring, until heated through. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with toasted pumpkin seeds (and shredded cheese, optional).
Toast Swanson Organic Raw Shelled Pumpkin Seeds sprinkled with Himalayan Crystal Salt in the oven at 375° F for 5-7 minutes, turning once.
*In lieu of beef broth, substitute an appropriate amount of bouillon with 4 cups of water.
Makes 9 servings. Serving size 1.0cup.
Calories 300, Fat 10 grams, Protein 16 grams, Sodium 1058 mg, Carbohydrates 34 grams, Fiber 10 grams
Calories 300, Fat 10 grams, Protein 16 grams, Sodium 1058 mg, Carbohydrates 34 grams, Fiber 10 grams
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In our quest to make the upcoming TurnKey 11.0 release more "turnkey", I set out to extend the firstboot inithooks to include application specific configuration hooks such as setting of the admin password, email and domain to serve (where applicable).
I'm glad to announce that the quest is now over, and that puts the end to default passwords.
In TKLBAM the backup key is a secret encrypted with a passphrase which is uploaded to the Hub. Decrypting the backup key yields the secret which is passed on to duplicity (and eventually to GnuPG) to be used as the symmetric key with which backup volumes are encrypted on backup and decrypted on restore.
When you create a new backup, or change the passphrase on an existing backup, a new backup key is uploaded to the Hub where it is stored in the key field for that backup record.
When you restore, tklbam downloads the backup key from the Hub and decrypts it locally on the computer performing the restore. Note that the Hub only allows you to download the backup key for backup records to which you have access (e.g., you are the owner).
All of this matters because it means that as long as you use a passphrase to protect the key, even the Hub can't decrypt your backups, only you can - provided you remember the passphrase (or failing that, at least have the escrow key stored in a safe place).
In other words, the decryption of the backup key happens locally and at no point does the passphrase reach the Hub, so we can't decrypt your backup even if you asked us to. Neither can an attacker that has theoretically compromised the Hub, or a government agency that comes kicking down our door with a court warrant.
But wait. If an attacker has local access to the key, his ability to run dictionary attacks to find the key's passphrase is limited only by the computational resources he can throw at it.
We've just pushed out a maintenance release for the 2009.10 appliance batch featuring:
Keeping it simple, HTTPS is a combination of the HTTP and SSL/TLS protocols, which provides encryption while authenticating the server. The main idea is to create a secure channel over an insecure network, ensuring "reasonable" protection from eavesdroppers and man-in-the-middle attacks.
HTTPS assumes that special CA (Certificate Authority) certificates are pre-installed in web browsers. If your SSL certificate is not signed by one of these CA's, the browser will display a warning:
Why we disabled SSL and use an SSH tunnel for web site administration
Content managements systems like the one we're using for the web site (Drupal) need to provide a privileged administration interface which you usually want to access securely. Due to the insecure nature of the Internet, it's reasonable to assume your traffic may be intercepted at some point. So how do you prevent that?
Up until recently, we used SSL. You could access the web site from both:
Unfortunately, as the site grew in complexity this created a range of subtle but annoying paper-cut type problems.
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Los Angeles Kings' Road To Stanley Cup Paved With Game 7 Wins
With an exciting end to Game 1, this Stanley Cup Final between the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Rangers looks to be a clash for the ages. Helene Elliott of the Los Angeles Times joins Bill Littlefield to share her thoughts.
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After a thrilling seven-game series between San Antonio and Miami in 2013, the Spurs and Heat are back at it in the 2014 NBA Finals. But don't get too excited. The Wall Street Journal's Chris Herring explains.
From The Navy To The Hall Of Fame: A Conversation With David Robinson
David Robinson knows a thing or two about the NBA Finals. Over the course of 14 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs, Robinson earned the NBA's Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and MVP, along with two championship rings. He joins Bill Littlefield.
Five-Time Olympian Dara Torres: Out Of The Water But Close To The Pool
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The Life Of A French Open Ball Kid
Three-thousand children applied for jobs as ball boys and girls at the French Open this year, but only 250 made the cut. John Martin of the New York Times joins Bill Littlefield to explain what set that group apart and what life is like for the ball-kid elite.
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In 'Eight World Cups' George Vecsey chronicles his travels to past World Cups, as well as his analysis of soccer's big-picture concerns and controversies. The author joins Bill Littlefield.
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Beatrice runs a boutique in Runyenjes town, a venture she initiated in 2008. She appreciates the fact that she has been able to get access to K-MET loans to improve her business. This has really changed her life. She periodically travels to Nairobi to get most of her stock. She mainly sells children's, ladies' and men's clothing. Beatrice hopes to use her next loan of Kshs 40,000 to enable her to purchase more stock of clothes currently in the market.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 7:34 AM
Fresh off their victory in defeating collective bargaining law Senate Bill 5, at least ten Ohio teachers have filed to run for seats in Ohio's House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket.
At a Nov. 8, 2011 watch party, AFT President Randi Weingarten told the crowd that Ohio would lead the nation, starting with the defeat of Issue 2.
Fresh off their victory in defeating collective bargaining law Senate Bill 5, at least ten Ohio teachers have filed to run for seats in Ohio's House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket.
Democratic party officials said the influx of teacher-candidates was a reaction to cuts to education funding and to Senate Bill 5, which would have sharply limited collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public employees had unions not waged a successful campaign to repeal it:
"State budget cuts and the unfair attacks in SB 5 have put educators and our children's education directly in the crosshairs of the Republican's anti-middle class agenda and teachers are standing up, fighting back and getting involved," said [House Democratic Caucus Campaign Co-Chair State Rep. Debbie] Phillip. "We are very excited to have so many great teachers running for office. They are trusted and well known in their communities, which are two key components of electoral success."
On Wednesday night, party officials were still waiting on a final count of teacher-candidates, but the candidates include at least two candidates who have served as high school government or social studies teachers: Cleveland teacher Todd LeVeck (who primarily teaches computer science) is running against Rep. Nan Baker in the 16th district. And Cleveland Heights teacher Tom Schmida is running against Rep. Kristina Roegner in the 37th district.
The 2002 Ohio Teacher of the Year, Maureen Reedy, now a "curriculum specialist" in the Upper Arlington school district, is also running for an open seat in the 24th district.
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On the Republican side, the only candidate identified as a teacher is Anthony Ziroli, who is running in District 56 against Rep. Dan Ramos. In a press release, the House Republicans identify Ziroli as a "former teacher."
Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly described candidate Todd LeVeck's teaching areas. LeVeck primarily teaches computer science, but also teachers social studies and language arts.


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$1,312—$1,577 2—3 bed 7001 West Cross Creek Trail, Brecksville OH, 44141
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7001 West Cross Creek Trail, 44141
Commute to Downtown Broadview Heights
Grand Bay of Brecksville Apartments has a Walk Score of 2 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
Upscale Apartment Homes, 1416-1775 Square Feet, Attached Garages, Estate-Like Setting, Private Entrance, Pets Welcome (call for details), Two or Three Bedrooms With Two Full Baths, Up to 1775 Square Feet, Cozy Gas Fireplace, 30 Minutes to Cleveland or Akron, In-Suite Utility Room With Washer/Dryer, Outdoor Pool
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Mar 09, 2015
Great apartments and helpful management. They have improved the quality of service over time. I have been satisfied with the timely maintenance and level of care. a very family and pet friendly place to live.
A Google User
Apr 22, 2010
So in all fairness, these apartments are pretty nice. They are spacious with lots of window, large bathrooms, and huge closets. The attached garages are nice and the area is safe and quiet. However, for all that we pay, you would think that the driveways would be shiny and black in the winter. I do not think they ever salted them and only shovelled once a day. Sorry, that just does not cut it in a town like Cleveland. Also, they had stupid rules, like a car cannot be parked in a space backwards. And the kicker for me was when we were moving out. We had moved into the apartments in the middle of July, however we were expected to pay for the full month of July when we left at the end of June the next year. The lady at the management office also gave me attitude when I pointed this unfairness out to her. Although there are nice people that work here, I have also found a few are useless and rude. Once again, these apartments are not cheap and you would expect amazing service, but they definitely fell short on that.
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- Stone Bulwark Totem
- Frozen Power
- Call of the Elements
- Ancestral Swiftness
- Rushing Streams
- Primal Elementalist
- High Tide
Stone Bulwark Totem
Earth Totem
8% of base mana
1 min cooldown Instant
Summons an Earth Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 30 sec, granting the caster a shield absorbing 11,840 damage for 10 sec, and up to an additional 2,960 every 5 sec.
Frozen Power
Your Frost Shock now also roots the target in ice for 5 sec.
Call of the Elements
3 min cooldown Instant
Resets the cooldown on all totems with a base cooldown shorter than 3 minutes.
Ancestral Swiftness
1.5 min cooldown Instant
Increases haste by 5% and attack speed by 5% at all times. When activated, your next Nature spell with a base casting time less than 10 sec. becomes instant.
Rushing Streams
Your Healing Stream Totem now heals two targets at once for 15% additional healing.
Primal Elementalist
Your Earth and Fire Elemental Totems draw forth primal elementals 80% more powerful than regular elementals, with additional abilities, and acting directly under your control. Also grants additional abilities and control to your Storm Elemental Totem.
High Tide
Your Chain Heal also bounces to up to 2 additional targets affected by your Riptide, and no longer diminishes in power with each bounce.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Healing Wave
RestorationPassiveYour Healing Wave also heals you for 10% of the healing effect when you heal someone else.
Glyph of Healing Stream TotemPassiveWhen your Healing Stream Totem heals an ally, it also reduces their Fire, Frost, and Nature damage taken by 10% for 6 sec.
Minor Glyphs
Glyph of Astral RecallPassiveReduces the cooldown of your Astral Recall spell by 5 minutes.
Glyph of the LakestriderPassiveYou automatically gain Water Walking while you are in Ghost Wolf form.
Glyph of Deluge
RestorationPassiveYour Chain Heal now has a watery appearance.
- Astral Shift
- Windwalk Totem
- Call of the Elements
- Echo of the Elements
- Ancestral Guidance
- Elemental Blast
- Elemental Fusion
Astral Shift
1.5 min cooldown Instant
Shift partially into the elemental planes, taking 40% less damage for 6 sec.
Windwalk Totem
Air Totem
6% of base mana
1 min cooldown Instant
Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 6 sec, granting raid members within 40 yards immunity to movement-impairing effects.
Call of the Elements
3 min cooldown Instant
Resets the cooldown on all totems with a base cooldown shorter than 3 minutes.
Echo of the Elements
The following spells and abilities now have 2 charges. Other effects that reset their cooldown will instead grant 1 full charge.
Lava Burst
Lava Lash
Fire Nova
Unleash Life
Spirit Link Totem
Lava Burst
Lava Lash
Fire Nova
Unleash Life
Spirit Link Totem
Ancestral Guidance
2 min cooldown Instant
For the next 10 sec, 20% of your damage and healing, including multistrikes, is converted to healing on up to 3 nearby injured party or raid members.
Elemental Blast
40 yd range
12 sec cooldown 2 sec cast
Harness the raw power of the elements, dealing 6,632 Elemental damage and increasing your Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, or Multistrike by 500 for 8 sec.
Elemental Fusion
Your Lava Burst and Lava Lash increase the damage of your next Shock by 40%, stacking up to 2 times.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Chain LightningPassiveYour Chain Lightning spell now strikes 2 additional targets, but deals 10% less damage.
Glyph of Fire Elemental TotemPassiveReduces the cooldown and duration of your Fire Elemental Totem by 50%.
Glyph of Flame ShockPassiveWhen your Flame Shock deals damage, it heals you for 45% of the damage dealt.
Minor Glyphs
Glyph of Astral RecallPassiveReduces the cooldown of your Astral Recall spell by 5 minutes.
Glyph of the LakestriderPassiveYou automatically gain Water Walking while you are in Ghost Wolf form.
Glyph of Thunderstorm
ElementalPassiveRemoves the knockback effect from your Thunderstorm spell.
- Health216780
- Mana160000
- Intellect 3068
- Spell Power 4122
- Mastery 60.41%
- Spirit 1185
- Crit 14.48%
- Haste 17.78%
- Multistrike 6.29%
- Versatility 2.32%
- Intellect 3068
- Spell Power 4122
- Multistrike 6.29%
- Crit 14.48%
- Haste 17.78%
- Mastery 60.41%
- Versatility 2.32%
- Strength 692
- Agility 1346
- Intellect 3068
- Stamina 3613
- Damage 1115–1297
- Attack Power 1346
- Speed 1.95
- Spell Power 4122
- Mana Regen 8411
- Armour 1150
- Dodge 3.36%
- Parry 0.00%
- Block 3.00%
- Crit 14.48%
- Haste 17.78%
- Mastery 60.41%
- Spirit 1185
- Bonus Armor 0
- Multistrike 6.29%
- Leech 0.00%
- Versatility 2.32%
- Avoidance 2.16%
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x The average starting price for a place to stay in Paramaribo is £63 per night.
Cornelis Jongbawstraat 16Great 80%
Domineestraat 7-9Good 70%
Van Roseveltkade 20Good 70%
tristan.bellard Bedrooms too small and not so confortables, noisy in front of the street... But swimming-pool is very pleasant. Not far from the commercial town center and the historic center, you needn't any car to enjoy your stay.
Hofstedecrull'laan 90 60%
Kennedyweg 6670 0%
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