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As our weeklong series - Massively goes to WAR - rolls on, read below for crunchy game details on every single class in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. At the end of the piece, check out the designers' take on why the Skaven (among other races) aren't in the game. And, if you're a fan of the recently announced White Lion class, make doubly sure to look below, because we have a few great details that should make you very, very well pleased ...
The key element that Drescher and Gershowitz tried to get across was that, despite these classes having many common elements, classes that share similar features might have completely different roles in the game. The best example they mentioned during our time together was our first pairing up for discussion: the White Lion and the Squig Herder.
The Squig Herder and The White Lion
- The pet is, of course, the signature element of these two classes. Squig Herders get a frothing toothy creepy ball of puss as their charge. White Lions get majestic hunting cats.
- Despite similarities, the two classes have completely different roles. Squig herders are skirmish fighters. The White Lion is more of a melee/brawler.
- Masteries for the Squig Herder include long ranged attacks, skirmish (movement-based) attacks, and close-range attacks. This flexibility allows for a versatile class, but Herder attacks tend to be a bit on the weaker side. Their weakness is more than offset with a Squig at their side.
- Pets have various AI states (aggressive, defensive), plus the ability to trigger specific abilities.
- There's is a distinct pet associated with each of the spec lines. Long-ranged specialists will have a 'brawler' squig, skirmish pets have shoot-and-scoot abilities, and the close-attack specialist will get a PBAoE "farting" pet. The White Lion will have similar pet specializations ... though likely no farting great cats.
- The White Lion, unlike the Herder, is a brawler aided by a pet. About this class, Adam says, "The pet's attacks work a lot like a Chaos Marauder's. The Lion himself debuffs his targets so the pet can do more damage. He has a pet that can distract his targets so he can move around and do more situational damage. He has abilities where he can do wide sweeps, his pet will attack his target and he'll attack his pet's target, and they'll cross over. Classes with pets tradeoff by being slightly less effective on their own. Without their pet they're not nearly as effective as the classes that don't have one."
- A favorite White Lion ability: the pet runs up to an opponent and then tosses him backwards into the air to land at the player's feet for easy melee.
- The designers are very much aiming to have pets usable in every situation.
- The Black Orc has actually changed quite a bit over the course of Beta. The orc is still a brawler, but the concept is now 'the smart brawler.' As the biggest and most tactically sound of the Greenskins, the Black Orc doesn't just hit people. He has 'da plan'.
- Fast attacks set up combos. "Clobber? Uhh ... that's a good plan. Think I'll trip him up ... ah, dat's da best plan! Skullthumper to finish."
- This stepped combo chain is very similar to the Swordmaster class, the Black Orc's karmic doppelganger.
- The Swordmaster is hella fast, in comparison to the Orc's power. He'll hit you three or four times for each part of his combo.
- The swordmaster will whittle down defenses a little bit at a time, while the Orc will drop them for a split second with a single powerful blow.
- Swordmaster uses magical enchantments to improve abilities for a brief amount of time, while the Orc uses warcries and battlecries to buff himself and his allies during an encounter.
- UI cues will show the player which stage of 'da plan' or the Swordmaster's dance he's in (similar to the UI elements behind the Shaman's Waaugh.)
- This is one of the simpler mechanics in the game, making both of these classes more new-player friendly.
- Ironbreakers have the "Grudge" mechanic. Their combat experience is all about building up grudge, anger at pain inflicted upon you or a party member. Adam compares the feel loosely to that of a World of Warcraft Warrior, with the key difference being that allies being hit cause Grude to build up as well.
- Their mastery lines are: The Path of Stone (defensive abilities that spend grudge, throw yourself in front of opponents), The Path of Vengeance (offensive abilities, attacks grow more powerful as you hold onto grudge).
- The "Buddy system" is a system used by many of the Tank classes. Here, the Ironbreaker has his Oathfriend; the Black Orc is mentioned as using a similar mechanic. Essentially it's a good way to have multiple tanks collaborating. "Offtanks" can assist the main tank by buffing up offensive or defensive abilities.
- The Blackguard has Hatred, which is a 'flipped' mechanic. You gain hatred through your attacks and the attacks of your allies. By expending hatred powers are more powerfully offensive, by holding in hatred they play more defensively.
- The Rune Priest is another class that's evolved a lot since early beta. The class was originally "crazy complex".
- The class's main ability is the Oath Rune: it's an hour-long buff that also grants the other player a temporary ability. You can have up to five of them out at a time within your party. Good for giving out abilities that classes are weak on (PBAoEs for tanks, healing, etc.). Another Rune allows for self rezzing, but the priest can only have one of those out at a time.
- Zealots use a similar system called 'Marks of Chaos'.
- Both classes are 'flex healers'. The three mastery paths include offensive and defensive elements all within each line. What you're choosing along the paths are what kind of spells you'll be specializing in. One offers many bonuses to direct debuffs, direct damage, direct heals. one path offers Damage over Time, Heal over time abilities. The final path focuses on AoE attacks and heals.
- These are the classes that are for folks who want to play 'pure priests'.
- These classes are all about wading into combat and healing at the same time. They crack skulls, have a lot of AoE heals, group heals, and life taps. The Warrior Priest builds up a righteous fury by attacking, which can then be converted into healing power.
- The Disciple builds up essence in much the same manner. Khaine is a greedy god, so he's not going to grant you boons unless you kill, murder, and steal life force in his name.
- "We're not really talking about their mechanic right now," says Adam. They're still "under the hood", but the general class role is that of the momentum berserker-brawler. They build up fury, bounce from target to target, destroying all in their paths.
- Theses two are the classic "Glass Cannons" we think of as wizards in MMOs. They amazing damage from range, but they have to balance that by playing with dangerous forces.
- The Bright Wizard has "combustion". The more spells he casts, the more powerful his spells become, but he has to watch his gauge ... if he's near the top one wrong spell can cause massive explosions. The caster here can actually be a hindrance to the group if the caster isn't being careful.
- The Sorceress is almost identical, only she wields dark magic instead of pyroclastic fury.
- Both of these classes are are roguish positional DPS types. They use a combo points system, building up chains of attacks with big finishers that do massive damage.
- The biggest difference between the two is that the Hunter has his gun. The elf uses poisons, damage over time effects, debuffs, and elixirs that self-buff her.
- Jeff Hickman's favorite class.
- These classes are heavy tanks, but with a split. In some ways they have mechanics that act somewhat like the Swordmaster, in that they enhance their attacks through magic.
- The other major Chosen component is the Aura. Chosen can have can have up to three Dread auras active at a time, looping. The auras pulse out effects to surrounding players, some beneficial for allies, some detrimental for opponents. Some even do both; acting as a buff for you and debuff for everyone else.
- The Knight has shouted commands, which operate in much the same vein.
- These two classes have roles very similar to the Squig Herder/White Lion. The Shadow Warrior is a skirmishing character, Marauder is a straight-up brawler.
- The Shadow Warrior has stances which can lead to very powerful attacks. The tradeoff is that he has to pick and choose what abilities he is focusing on at any given time.
- Shadow Warrior mastery paths naturally move the character in one of three directions. Again, they'll be familiar to Squig Herder fans.
- The Marauder is a Brawler, pure and simple. Says Adam: "He gets in your face and just punches you repeatedly, rends through armor, starts debuffing a single target. He has a straight up single-damage line sort of positional attack, he can slide around and jab you. Then he also has the melee AoE line, which is a bunch of broad sweeps that hit a number of people in front of him."
- Full details on the Marauder can be found in our Spotlight on the Chaos Marauder article.
- Full details on these classes can be found in our Spotlight on the Goblin Shaman article.
- Full details on these classes can be found in our Spotlight on the Dwarven Engineer article.
Josh: Obviously there are going to be vocal factions for whatever we don't have in the game. The minute we announced what races we are doing, we started getting petitioned by the Britonnian faction. The Skaven people have always been very vocal, and if you play a Lizardman army you're a Lizardman through and through. Anybody who has ever had an affection for the IP is going to have a core opinion of what needs to be there. We tried to target the races that we thought were most appropriate for the type of game that we're making. They help to establish a core element of the world, forming a coherent view.
We wanted to choose careers that built on that legitimate view of "this vs. that." There are a couple of places throughout the IP that have a tradition, a coherent sense of conflict. We picked three of them. There really is a traditional foe for these guys, there really is a sense of why they'd be doing this. There are plenty of races and classes we could have chosen, the Skaven are an obvious example. But they don't really make as much sense from the point of view of Realm vs. Realm. They're more like an infestation. A lot of those choices were made for practical reasons, some were made for aesthetic reasons.
We do have preferences, Mark definitely had preferences. But we had to pick, in the end. And we hear you guys every day, we hear you.
"We tried to target the races that we thought were most appropriate for the type of game that we're making. They help to establish a core element of the world, forming a coherent view."
Adam: An example of that is the good old Slayer, right? He was in a lot of our early artwork, but when we tried to make a class out of him he sort of started falling apart. When your whole intent and purpose is to give up all worldly possessions, throw yourself into battle, and then die ... it makes things hard. It raises questions like itemization, what happens when you die? There were issues with that. When it came down to it, we took some of the most popular elements from GW lore, miniature sales, that sort of thing. The one thing that Josh didn't mention was that we tried to take the races that were key Warhammer originals. Skaven, ogres, everything else ... those came after. Dwarves, Orcs, Empire, High Elves, Dark Elves, Chaos - those were all there day one. That weighed heavily into our and GW's decision. We polled them for what they wanted ...
Josh: "Nothing but Haflings and Chaos Dwarves!"
Adam: Big hats.
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At TechColumbus, an incubator in Columbus, Ohio, tenants are startup companies, and the facility provides everything they need -- Internet connections included. 'Our model is that we're a one-stop shop,' explains Steven Clark, vice president of incubation services. 'We want to take the service provider complexity out of starting a business.'
Whether incubator or not, a growing number of facilities or outsourced IT firms are offering their own version of one-stop shopping that includes Internet access -- in effect, sharing one supply of bandwidth among several tenants or customers. Such an arrangement can indeed reduce the complexity of running a business, and might provide greater flexibility as well. But it doesn't mean you can just plug in to the Internet and let someone else worry about security and dependability -- you're still responsible for keeping your own network safe.
Here's how to make sure things keep running smoothly:
- Ask questions about network performance. 'Ask for performance statistics for the facility's network,' Clark advises. 'Find out what kind of quality assurance they have, and what redundancies are in place.' For instance, some facilities aggregate bandwidth from more than one provider so that in case one experiences a problem, tenants won't completely lose their connections.
- Provide your own security. You should have your own router and firewall to protect your network from any viruses or intrusions that may try to come in through the Internet connection. The best setup, experts agree, is a virtual local area network (VLAN) which in effect creates a network completely separated from those of the facility and other tenants. Not only does this prevent outsiders from seeing confidential information, it also protects your network if another tenant, or the facility itself, is infected with a virus.
- Make sure others can't hog bandwidth. Even with a VLAN, there's one scenario where you're still vulnerable if one of your neighbors gets attacked: If the malicious software starts using lots of bandwidth, for instance to send out spam, it can create an overload that will affect your connection. 'A common problem is where there's an SMTP [simple mail transfer protocol] server handling a company's e-mail, and a virus program sets it up to serve spam. That can slow things down to where other companies are feeling the pain,' says Todd Barrett, director of sales, Security & Networking Division, CPU Sales & Service, Inc. There may also be cases where another tenant is simply using large amounts of bandwidth, even without a virus attack. To make sure this isn't a problem, check that the facility is using a firewall that controls and monitors each tenant's usage. 'We started out with a shared pool of bandwidth,' Clark says. 'Then we had one tenant using 60 to 70 percent of it. They were downloading DVDs or something. Now we can isolate utilization so that doesn't happen.'
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- Consider adding a backup. The facility should have redundancies to make sure the Internet is always available. But if your company, like most, would be crippled by an outage, consider adding some redundancy of your own. 'You can bring in an inexpensive DSL line for $120 a month or less,' Barrett says. 'That way, if the T1 line the facility is using goes out, you can switch to the less expensive one.' It may not offer the same connection quality, but at least you'll still be online.


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Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas told gun rights supporters Tuesday night that he favors a middle ground with respect to restricting guns, even as he acknowledged that the state's current assault weapons law has on one occasion left his staff baffled.
Freitas was speaking on a panel at a forum sponsored by the county's Republican Central Committee. Among the panelists were Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, and a leader of the gun rights group Calguns Foundation.
Freitas acknowledged he had yet to decide personally where to draw the line between allowing unlimited gun rights and prohibiting all gun possession. But he asked the audience of more than 170 people to consider every friend, family member and acquaintance they know.
"Should they all have a loaded gun all the time?" Freitas asked. "I have some family members who shouldn't."
Even so, Freitas said he was pleased by the U.S. Supreme Court decisions establishing an individual's right to possess firearms in certain circumstances. He also suggested that he has provided more concealed weapons permits than his predecessor.
Freitas said the Attorney General's Office "went bonkers" when he threw up his hands on whether a particular rifle confiscated locally fell under the state's assault weapons ban.
Freitas said neither the deputies who seized the weapon nor his department's firearms experts could determine whether the rifle in question was actually illegal. The sheriff turned to the state for help and found "the Department of Justice can't figure it out." In the end, he said he found the law so confusing that he told the firearm's owner, "you win."
The audience broke out in applause Tuesday when the moderator in his introduction noted that Donnelly "had founded the largest chapter of Minutemen" in California, a reference to the organization where private citizens had sought to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing into the U.S.
Donnelly, who has formed an exploratory committee for a possible candidacy for the governor's race in 2014, urged the audience to oppose the efforts in Sacramento and Washington to limit gun ownership that he said is protected by the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
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I had a really good day today. It felt great after the earlier part of the week just seemed to drag on, dull and lifeless. I had things going on at work today that allowed me to really dig in and I love when I can do that. It makes the hours go by fast. They may have gone by a little too fast, since I ended up staying late to finish things up.
Came home after work and Mark was just waking up for the day. (No, he's not that lazy. He's on the night shift this week.) He wanted to get an early dinner since he had to go in to work early tonight. We grabbed some SmashBurger, of which I've decided I'm not a fan. The food tastes great but it's too greasy. Anyway, we got our food to go and came home to eat it in front of the t.v., watching several episodes of Cash Cab, where, according to the website, "Unassuming people enter the 'Cash Cab' as simple passengers taking a normal taxi ride, only to be shocked when they discover that they're instant contestants on Discovery Channel's innovative game show!"
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Manji, an adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's erotic novel, is a perfect demonstration of critic Tadao Sato's assertion about Masumura: "A sense of anguish...shows through the laughter...together with the almost abnormal and wild behavior of his characters-people trying to overcome adversity. Masumura portray[s] people with strong egos, and through their apparently mad behavior, he forces Japanese viewers to ponder about the true nature of human beings." Kyoko Kishida portrays a housewife and art student who falls in love with a young and sexually mysterious woman (Ayako Wakao). Into this relationship she pours all her passion and affection, until her husband, a lawyer, is himself drawn into the web of desire the two women have formed, throwing the wife's assertion of selfhood into painful ambiguity. Masumura moves from lurid expectation to matter-of-factness, to a haunting domesticity of desire that prefigures Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses.
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So tell me, how many products have Apple released officially as beta? To my recollection, only Siri.So why did they do this? To get there first? To help differentiate a new product from an older one?I'm still waiting for an answer but not getting any, just apologies for Apple.People should be less defensive and more critical, otherwise be like an Ostrich.


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Hopewell Girl's Soccer Building A Foundation
By Ryan Lazo, sports editor
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HOPEWELL — Due to abnormal weather causing an inability to get outside to practice, Hopewell's girl's soccer team looked forward to Monday night's scrimmage against Manchester. For one, it represented a chance to get out of the monotonous routine of conditioning drills which they were relegated to while indoors and it gave them a chance to put what they practiced and discussed into action on the field.
Unfortunately for Hopewell, the lack of outdoor practices highlighted rust from the players. For the first three minutes of action, Hopewell could not retake possession of the ball as Manchester worked either flank to great success, firing whipping crosses into the box.
The Blue Devils' defense mainly withstood each attack, but could only clear the ball to midfield before goalkeeper Taylor Henderson was called for a handball outside of the box — the lines were difficult to see when mixed with the football lines on the field — resulting in a free-kick.
Henderson eyed up the blast to her immediate right to get hands on the ball, but it deflected past her and rolled into goal. It would be that type of game for the Lady Blue Devils in a 6-0 defeat at Merner Field.
However, the scrimmage loss helped more than hurt the team in terms of evaluation and learning what needs to be done to compete before the season officially starts next week.
"I think it was good for the girls and to give them a lot of playing time," first-year head coach Emily Michalek said after the game. "I think it was good for them to see what it's like to play on the field, especially since we had two of our three practices inside. It was really good to get on the field and we have another scrimmage on Thursday, so hopefully we make some changes in the next couple of days and see a little bit of a turnaround."
A turnaround seems likely following the drastic difference in level of play from the first to second half.
While the first half showed a penchant for overcommitting to the ball defensively, thus leaving the Lady Blue Devils vulnerable to crosses, the second half showed a great ability of marking a man inside the box. Throughout the final 35 minutes where Manchester fired 10 shots on net, not a single opposing player was left unmarked.
Even more promising was the ability of a defensive midfielder like Kayla-Mae Conley and right back Tranae' Wiggins to recover possession and immediately pivot to take the ball upfield. While Hopewell didn't record a single shot on goal during either half, they demonstrated a more attacking mind-set in the second which showed what they can be capable of in the future.
But at the moment, Michalek couldn't hide her enthusiasm for how well her team implemented halftime adjustments to the pitch, so quickly and effectively.
"We definitely worked on some talking and communicating with each other," Michalek said of the defensive adjustment. "We got them organized in the back and that's going to be something we work in the next couple of days and throughout the season."
Another aspect they will need to focus on is how to successfully counter teams and pressure the opposing team's defense by doing so.
Hopewell does not possess the type of players needed to have an possession stye offense similar to those run by Spain and the United States Women's National Team. Instead, they will be focused on a defensive type of game-plan with one lone striker over the top and one holding midfield in Conley to help connect passes out of the backfield.
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At moments throughout the scrimmage, it was obvious the Lady Blue Devils have players who can make the philosophy a success. Senior Brittany McConnell and freshman Elana Nichols each had momentary moments of brilliance with on-the-ball skills.
"It's exactly the type of players we have and that's what we are trying to do," Michalek said of the countering attack. "If we can get them more organized in the back, we can see more up front."
But one player who does not need to get much more organized and already looked to be in midseason form was Henderson in goal. The sophomore totaled 16 saves — eight in each half — on 22 Manchester shots.
Those totals were made even more impressive because many of Manchester's attempts came from inside the box and many more were thwarted by Henderson's decisiveness to come out of goal.
"She's a strong keeper and she's going to do really well this season," Michalek said of Henderson. "I'm looking forward to working with her. I was a goalkeeper ... I'll definitely get her talking more because she already has great instincts."
However, Michalek is most concerned about building a program in Hopewell.
She wants the Lady Blue Devils to be the type of team that no one wants to face and has the type of sustained success that will bring with it respect and attention it deserves. While it's a process, she knows she has players capable of making it a reality.
"Our goal this season is to create a lasting program," Michalek explained. "A program that has a good image in the community, so we're working on having positive attitudes on the field, encouraging each other, being here to support JV — all of that. I'm really working with them on building that program from the ground up."
If Hopewell can remain positive and work through the disadvantages presented to them — they are without their own jerseys for one example — than the results on the field and in the community will start to fulfill Michalek's vision for her team one practice and game at a time.
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For the past few seasons, the Pitt football program has had its share of drama to deal with. Three coaches during that span may have made it hard to recruit all the players the team may have wanted or needed, but the Panthers did do a good job of getting their paws on some talented players from right here in the northern suburbs.
A few years back, Pine-Richland punter Matt Yoklic made his services available to the Panthers. Most recently, Shaler tight end J.P. Holtz, who had many suitors, chose to stay with the Panthers after considering other schools.
Yoklic is a redshirt junior who has one season of eligibility left, and Holtz is a true freshman.
Yoklic handles the punting duties and holds for the kickers, and his steady hand has helped the Panthers convert on all of the point-after attempts and nail 17 of 24 field goals. While Yoklic helps the Panthers win the field position battle, Holtz helps the offense in several ways. The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Holtz sheds tacklers like they are nonexistent. He's caught 12 passes for 170 yards and three touchdowns, perhaps his most memorable being a 9-yard scoring catch against Notre Dame, ranked No. 3 at the time but currently the top team in the country.
"That touchdown definitely will be a good memory down the road," Holtz said. "It was an honor to play against them, but I still wish we could have won that game."
Holtz was known as a physical utility player while at Shaler. He played running back, tight end and linebacker for the Titans, but now in college, he gets to focus his attention on one position, something he said has aided his success.
"It is a lot better if you can focus on one thing," he said. "You have no worries except that job. You learn a lot in the meetings — that is where it all happens, then you work it out on the practice field."
Holtz said the rigors of keeping up his school work and digesting all the football keeps him busy. His results on the field speak for themselves, but the freshman said classes are going well, too.
"You have to stay on top of school," he said. "So far I am doing well. I want to keep that up."
Despite committing to Pitt a little later than some freshmen, Holtz was not going to be outworked. He hit the weight room hard. He said the extra work made him bigger and stronger, and although he said his is a little faster, he wants to improve his speed.
"It took me a couple games to get used to the speed of the college game and the size of the guys," Holtz said. "Now, it's just another game."
Yoklic, on the other hand, already had his feet wet. He endured the coaching changes, and although this season has been up and down, the Panthers had the opportunity to earn a bowl bid during the final week of the season.
The Panthers have been on a lose-two-games, win-two-games path all season, and that trend held up as they won, 27-3, over South Florida to earn a trip to a bowl game for the fifth season in a row.
Pitt will play in the BBVA Compass Bowl for the third consecutive year, this time facing Ole Miss on Jan. 5 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala.
Yoklic may not be opening up rushing lanes or hauling in touchdowns like Holtz, but his abilities to hold for kicks and control field position with his punts have been just as important.
"I have great snappers, which makes my job easier," Yoklic said. "I know those things get overlooked at times, but it's stuff that has got to be done."
Under coach Paul Chryst, Yoklic's role has expanded, as he now handles the pooch-punting duties (previously done by the quarterback) and has done a good overall job.
"The coaches preach field position a lot," Yoklic said. "I always try to pin them down inside the 10."
Yoklic noted the up-and-down nature of the season.
"We beat teams in the top 20, gave Notre Dame a run for their money and had control (of our bowl destiny) on Saturday," he said. "We want to go to our bowl and win."
Yoklic still has a year of eligibility left, and he said he will play. He will graduate this spring with a communications degree and said either a masters or a second degree is on tap for next year.
"I think coach Chryst has us going in the right direction," Yoklic said. "He is getting guys to stay here. The local guys are doing a good job, and that is key.
Yoklic said with the football program going in the right direction, coupled with a good education, Pitt is a great place to learn and play.
"The coaches here care about us, not just as players, but people," Yoklic said. "It's a stay-positive- no- matter-what attitude."
Holtz said he is a home town guy and shared the thoughts of his teammate.
"You are in the spotlight because people know you, so you can't screw that up," he said. "Everyone here is a fan."
Holtz said he was a little surprised at the amount of playing time he saw so early, but said he did his best to make sure the Panthers were successful.
He said the bowl will be great, and he played his hardest last week for more than just himself.
"I wanted to get the seniors one more game," he said.
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Facial Hair Friday: Sir Frederick Bruce
Today's blog post comes from Katrina Wood, a summer intern with the Public Affairs Office.
As I took a self-guided tour of Embassy Row in Washington, DC, and paused at the statue of Winston Churchill at the British Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue, I thought of all the diplomats and representatives who have made homes in Washington.
Sir Frederick Bruce was a highly valued diplomat in Queen Victoria's service. Somewhat surprisingly, he seems to be portrayed in a fashion slightly more casual than his lengthy political and diplomatic career would suggest.
Sir Frederick held posts from colonial secretary and consul-general to envoy extraordinary and chief superintendent of British trade in China. He was a native of Scotland, born in Broomhall, Fifeshire.
In 1865, when Sir Frederick was the British Minister in China, he received a new assignment as Minister to the United States. He arrived in New York only one week before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and never officially met the President.
The diplomat did not survive the President very long. Sir Frederick died in Boston on September 19, 1867. His obituary in the New York Times praised him for performing his ministerial functions "faithfully and earnestly, but with no … [ Read all ]
Posted by Mary on August 30, 2013, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: ambassador, facial hair, facial hair friday, Frederick Bruce
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Facial Hair Friday: Gideon Welles, Bearded and Bright
Since the new film Lincoln has spent a few weeks in theaters, we thought it'd be interesting to learn more about President Lincoln's fantastically hairy cabinet.
First up is Gideon Welles, who served as President Lincoln's and then as President Johnson's Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, the longest anyone had held the position. Born to an esteemed Connecticut family, Welles had facial hair almost as prodigious as his political presence.
Gideon Welles graduated from what is now Norwich University in Vermont with a degree in law. However, he found he had a knack for journalism and became editor and part owner of the Hartford Times in 1826. That year, he was also elected to the legislature. As a Jacksonian Democrat, Welles supported wide-spread enfranchisement and President Jackson's anti-bank campaign. In 1836, Jackson appointed Welles as the postmaster of Hartford, Connecticut, until William Henry Harrison removed him in 1841.
When the "slavery issue" emerged in the 1850s, Welles became a major figure in the newly formed Republican party, serving as Republican national committeeman and member of the party's national executive committee. He also helped establish the Hartford Evening Press to support the party. He was a strong advocate for … [ Read all ]
Posted by Nikita on December 7, 2012, under - Civil War, Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: abraham lincoln, Andrew Jackson, andrew johnson, beard, Cabinet, civil war, Connecticut, facial hair, Gideon Welles, journalism, Norwich University, postmaster, Secretary of the Navy
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Facial Hair Friday: Vagabond Goatee
It gets harder to find worthy examples of bearded and mustachioed Americans in our holdings after the first decades of the 20th century, when facial hair went out of fashion. Fortunately for us, we can look into a decade known for groovy facial hair: the 1970s.
This is one of our most popular images, though I wonder if it's because of the puppy and the patchwork pants rather than the scraggly goatee. The original caption identifies the man as a hitchhiker on Route 66. He certainly seems pretty relaxed despite standing barefoot on rocks that I presume are hot from the Arizona sun.
This photograph is unusual for more reasons than its retro facial hair. It was taken by Charles O'Rear, who was a photographer in the DOCUMERICA project launched by the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1971. Photographers were assigned by geographic region to document what they saw destroying America's landscape and natural resources: mining, air pollution, garbage.
Charles O'Rear, however, had a slightly more cheerful assignment. At one point during his time as a contributing photographer, he was sent to the healthiest place in America at that time: southeastern Nebraska. His work there documents an area that had the lowest death rates for American white males.… [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on June 1, 2012, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: Bliss, Charles O'Rear, documerica, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, facial hair, facial hair friday, goatee, O'Rear, photograph, puppy
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Facial Hair Friday: A Letter from Hairy Harry
Today's guest post comes from Tammy Kelly at the Truman Presidential Library.
This week's Facial Hair Friday photo is a most unexpected person: Harry S. Truman, before he became President! At the Truman Library, we know of only two photographs of Truman wearing any kind of facial hair, so this is a rare photo, indeed.
What prompted this mustache? Truman was away from home.
Truman served as a captain of Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery during World War I. After his discharge, he joined the Army Reserves and participated in yearly training camps, usually held during the summer. Truman had always fancied himself a soldier, and by and large, he had enjoyed his time in the Army. Participating in the Reserves allowed him to continue to fulfill his dreams—and provided a convenient means to get together with "the guys" for a little politicking, poker playing, and tale-telling, as well as for the fresh air and exercise.
But while Truman enjoyed getting away from the stresses of his job, he also desperately missed his family. Whenever he was away from his wife, Bess, for more than a day or two, he wrote her a letter. The Truman Library has over 1,300 letters that Harry wrote to Bess over … [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on December 9, 2011, under - Presidents, - World War I, Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: 129th Field Artillery, Army Reserves, facial hair, Fort Riley, Harry Truman, howitzer, Jackson County, Kansas City, letters, Margie Truman, mustache, secret mustache, toilet paper, Truman, Truman Library, world war i, WWI
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Facial Hair Friday: Movember
It's the most wonderful time of the year! No, I don't mean the frenzied season of gift-giving. I'm talking about November, the month when several of your friends who have maintained clean-shaven faces suddenly begin to grow mustaches. If you love facial hair, this is your time.
Yes, it's Movember! The month when men grow mustaches to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer.
Now, this is a noble cause, and "I'm growing it to fight cancer" will certainly be a silencing response to people saying things like "The 1970s called and they want their mustaches back." But we would like to make a case for you to keep that sub-nose hair after November 30. After all, the mustache does not just belong to cheesy 70s flicks.
We often feature Civil War–era facial hair, but mustaches do not have to be outrageous Albion Howe–style affairs. Many famous American men sported a well-groomed mustache. So in case you may want to consider keeping yours after November 30, we've assemble some inspirational mustaches below.
Now when people ask why you are still growing that 'stache on December 1, you can say you are stealing the style of one of the men below.… [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on November 4, 2011, under Facial Hair Fridays, Uncategorized.
Tags: 70s, Edgar A. Poe, facial hair, Gen. George A. Custer, Grover Cleveland, Movember, mustache, Theodore Roosevelt
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Lets be brutally honest, when each and every one of us started to play these games (no matter the series) we all, ALL started playing (because we had no idea what to expect) defensively or "campy".
To get mad, to rage, to quit, to write "how I hate thee" is the most hypocritical thing you can do as a COD gamer. Even today, with three years of COD under my belt do I never, NEVER RUN into the enemy with out defending myself FIRST!
Seriously either you need to check you "ego" or move on to another game (which by the way there are MANY) from which you can enjoy a more peaceful, relaxing time.
Stop being hypocrites, stop bashing other players for choosing to play the game as THEY WANT, play, win, lose, kill and die its all subjective to what that voice in your mind is telling you, check him please.
Good hunting COD.
THIS is a older post of mine from back in MW3 days. Yet after all that time the word "camping" is used to describe any other persons style except (your) their own!
WHY do we allow such things to consume our COD time, or is it simply a way we justify something quickly, just by saying, what a camper or in spanish "campero". I've heard it all at this point.
Ghost is no different in the subject, to those who think "ghost is campy", NO. All COD games have someone hiding, ALL of them.
To be honest I don't give a **** how people play the game because they spent $60.00 on it so they should be able to play however the hell they want.
Everyone started somwhere, Quake, Unreal, BF, COD and so on till we got to BO2. Some of us, like me started with BO2, 3 weeks ago. I can't run & gun and chew gum at the same time. How does that make me an inferior peace of manure (camper) because I can't run & shoot at the same time? Maybe in 3 years instead of 3 weeks, I'll be just as cool as y'all.
I don't know why people get so butt-hurt about campers. Most of the time I get killed by a hardcore camper, I'll check the scoreboard as I'm always curious as to how successful this method is, and almost always they are at the bottom and negative. Not usually like 4-25 negative, more like 8-11 negative. But point is they aren't usually that good. Yeah they got you that time, but you probably get them more often than not (you probably get them a lot and don't realize it as they're running to their camping spot)... it's no big deal.
some ppl never try to change thr play style even after so many years of experience...isnt that sad though.
Unles u try u wont fail...if u wont fail u wont learn...
I started playing COD MP on BO1, before that I was primarily campaign
Here's my 2$...
I never mind a good camper...it's always legitimate reason to step back and readjust my play style! If I'm runnin and gunnin with my SMGs having fun going after challenges and I'm gettin beasted by somebody campin...I'm not gonna continue that approach, instead ima whip out my FAL with TF or M27 equip some flashes and c4s and slow my role a little bit!
It's always rewarding to take'em out! Keeps things fresh, I mean really, where's the fun in always playing the same way??
Don't assume that all players start off camping. I started playing FPS's with DOOM and started playing COD at Black Ops 1. I can honestly say that I've NEVER been a camper. BO1 was the first game FPS I ever played online with other people, and I was running straight into the open, right trigger down from day one. My KD started out below .60, but I was possitive within 3 days of game time and have never looked back.
Why? Because this isn't ******* Afghanistan we're talking about. This isn't war. This is a video game. It's meant to be played for fun. And camping aint no fun. Just like you can't imagine people starting off as run and gunners, I can't imagine anobdy sitting around waiting on enemies to appear and finding it fun.
The folks you run into that hate and bash campers are probably players like me who don't camp, never have camped, and just can't wrap their heads around how anybody could find the camping experience enjoyable.
Well said dude...some people never camp...and those players will improve...those who camp will always camp and will do regardless of how many cod's or other MP games they play...
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some ppl never try to change thr play style even after so many years of experience...isnt that sad though.
Unles u try u wont fail...if u wont fail u wont learn...
Sad? No, unimaginative Yes.
Good quote.
Don't assume that all players start off camping.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that when you first started playing the game you ran straight into the enemy spawn because you knew exactly what to do. In any case if my post was intended for you and that very few amount of people who knew how to play the game before playing then apologies. Your a runner, congrats.


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Posting an edit of BBD's Junk midrange deck. Tell me what you think of the changes I've made and stuff.
Changes from BBD's: +3 Lingering Souls, -1 Oblivion Ring, -2 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, -1sb Garruk, Primal Hunter, -1sb Knight of Glory, +1sb Selesnya Charm, +1sb Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
Lingering Souls is added to help deal with pesky fliers. I figured taking out an Oblivion Ring would work for that considering it's the same mana cost, Lingering Souls is more effective against Geist of Saint Traft, and it can also help provide for more aggressive play. I decided to move a Trostani, Selesnya's Voice to sideboard and cut the rest considering the heavy color required to cast her. I added a Selesnya Charm to test it out against various decks. I figure the +2/+2 and trample portion will get the most use.
Thank you for reading this. Questions and comments? .
Have you considered soul tithe for additional lockdown? Have a look at mine if yov'd like. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/enchant-aggro/
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BOURNE -- The passenger in a Toyota Corolla involved in a Sandwich Road head-on crash shortly before 6 p.m. Friday has died.
The Corolla collided with a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck driven by a 20-year-old Harwich man, according to Bourne fire and police officials.
Two women in their 80s in the Corolla were critically injured in the crash near 728 Sandwich Road.
CPR was administered on-scene to the passenger, Bourne Deputy Fire Chief David Cody said Friday.
The woman, who was taken to Tobey Hospital in Wareham, died, Bourne police Sgt. Kim Young said this morning.
The Tacoma's driver was taken to Tobey Hospital and then transferred to another hospital with internal injuries, Young said.
The Corolla's driver was taken by MedFlight helicopter from the state police barracks in Bourne to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Police are not releasing the identities of the people involved in the crash yet, Young said.
The road was closed for about an hour as police cleared the scene. Police are continuing to investigate the cause of the accident, Young said.
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Film London sets second PFM for October 20-21
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KUSA - 9Wants to Know Investigative Reporter Jace Larson and 9NEWS Photojournalist Kevin Sullivan talk about producing the story which showed Colorado pot being trafficked to nearby states.
Law enforcement predicts the numbers of marijuana busts outside of Colorado will grow now that Amendment 64 legalized recreational marijuana. Recreational marijuana is only legal in the states of Colorado and Washington.
Watch or read the final product here: http://on9news.tv/WOTzM3
Discuss this story with Investigative Reporter Jace Larson on Twitter using the hash tag #PotWar.
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|Availability of saliva for the assessment of alterations in the autonomic nervous system caused by physical exercise training.
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|OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to assess the alterations of the autonomic nervous system activities caused by physical exercise training under food restriction using a running wheel in mice based on an analysis of saliva. METHODS: Male ICR mice, weighing 39-50 g, at 32 weeks of age were divided into three groups; an exercise with food restriction (EXP), an exercise without food restriction (EXA) and a control (CTL). The EXP group was fed the same amount of diet as the CTL group (pair-feeding). The EXP and EXA groups used a "voluntary running wheel" for exercise. The pilocarpine stimulated whole saliva was collected from the oral cavity by micropipette over 15 min 4, 8 and 12 weeks after the beginning of the experiment. The salivary flow rate, protein concentration and amylase and kallikrein activities were determined, since amylase and kallikrein release have been shown to be evoked by beta- and alpha-adrenergic receptor stimulation, respectively. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in the sera corticosterone levels among the three experimental groups. The flow rate of saliva per total salivary gland weight in the EXP was significantly lower than that in the CTL and the EXA groups. The total protein secretion and kallikrein activity decreased by 20-30% in the EXP mice between 4 and 12 weeks after the starting of experiments in comparison to the CTL mice, thus suggesting that signal transduction in the alpha-sympathetic nervous system was downregulated. There was no significant difference in the amylase activity between the EXP and the CTL groups. CONCLUSION: Physical exercise under diet control induced alterations in saliva secretion, while exercise training alone did not affect the content of saliva. The results demonstrate the availability of saliva and suggest that the present experimental situation is a suitable experimental model for sports activity performed under diet control.
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Fighting Blindness with Belly Dancing
April 11, 2011
|Yvonne Felix belly dancing at Girls on Foot.
The night featured Yvonne and Kathy belly dancing to an eclectic arrangement of live music by Kyle Rawn, of www.avery-island.com fame.
Yvonne Felix was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a form of juvenile macular degeneration, when she was just seven years old. Her sister, Kathy Beitz and another sibling, Will, were also diagnosed with the genetic eye disease shortly after. Currently there is no treatment or cure for this genetic eye disease that slowly leads to blindness.
Vision loss hasn't stopped the two sisters. Yvonne is a local award-winning artist and Kathy is an early childhood educator who uses dance as her creative outlet. Both sisters are dedicated to raising awareness and funds for vision research.
"I will never know why my family was given this disease but I do know that it has given me the chance to use my art to help others. The Foundation Fighting Blindness – Canada's leading private contributor to vision research for eye diseases like mine and my family's – has provided me with the hope that a cure is in sight," said Yvonne
You too can host your own community fundraiser for vision research. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 1.800.461.3331. You can help – support us today!


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which medical school is best for neurosurgery? i want a name though?
i want it to be the name of a medical school and which undergraduate school is better
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which medical school is best for neurosurgery? i want a name though?
i want it to be the name of a medical school and which undergraduate school is better
Duke would be a great med school for that, but frankly you don't learn neurosurgery in med school – you learn that in your residency. If you haven't done undergrad yet, you're at least 8 years away from worrying about your residency. For now, just concentrate on getting into a good college. Pretty much every college and university offers the premed classes (not a major) so go to the best school you can get into.
there is no "better"
apparently you don't know a whole lot about the career you want to go into, but…
1) go to the undergraduate school of your choice. Keeping in mind your preferences for a large school vs a small school, cost, scholarship opportunities, closeness to home etc
2) choose your degree, biochemistry will be the best background for medical school, but they do not care as long as you have the necessary pre-requisites (1 yr physics with lab, 1 yr bio with lab, 1 yr general chem with lab, 1 yr organic chem with lab, 1 semester calc. minimum…and some schools have additional requirements]
3) volunteer like crazy, research like crazy, get to know professors and other staff
4)get fantastic grades, closer to a 4.0 the better (and don't try to take an easy way out by majoring in something "easy" as they will calculate a separate math/science GPA)
5) study for, and take the MCAT exam
6) apply to multiple medical schools. You don't seem to realize how hard it is to get into medical school, most people apply to at least 7 in the hopes of at least getting into one. Some people apply to 12 or more and don't get accepted at all.
7) If you are accepted into medical school, your performance, interests, relationships with professors, and test scores will all play a part in where you get matched for residency.
8) The match process- you don't choose neurosurgery, you choose surgery. Then, in a match process that is rather similar to how sororities and frats pick people (you make a list of your top 3 areas, for example 1) surgery, 2) neurology, 3) radiology, and the hospitals make a list of the profile of the people they want grade wise, review wise etc. On a chaotic day called "match day" people are matched with a residency program. If you don't like what you get, or you get nothing, the next day you scramble begging anyone to take you.
9) If you got into a surgery match, you spend a few years of your residency there, then may be accepted into a neurosurgery fellowship [or may complete a separate neurosurgery residency]
But the process is far more complicated than you seem to think, and it has far more to do with you and your performance, than it does with where you go to school.So I don't have a name for you, but perhaps YOU should be looking all this up since you supposidly want to be a doctor. But let me tell you, its not like Grey's Anatomy. Nothing like it actually.
As the above poster said, there is no 'best' for a specific specialty. If you do well in undergrad, you have a chance to get into medical school. Your specific medical school doesn't matter nearly as much as your performance on the USMLE Boards (you take Step 1 and Step 2 in medical school), as well as what else you do in medical school. You also don't go straight into being a practicing neurosurgeon. All students get the same education in medical school; you learn your trade in your residency. You would want a surgery residency, which is 7 years post-medical school training. Then you'd go for a Fellowship, which could be an additional 5 years of training. Even after all that, you're at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to licensed physicians in your field.
I can almost guarantee that if you make it through medical school, you won't want to do neurosurgery anymore. Just like most undergraduates change their major, most medical students change their specialty choice.


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I seriously would rather watch Lady Gaga then watch the Kardashians cause I'm guessing there are some crazy ish that goes on in her house.
Here's a question for you the gossipers or wateva. DO YOU THINK LADY GAGA WILL EVER HAVE LITTLE MONSTERS RUNNING AROUND HER MANSION?
@give me a break that could be true,but then again where's your proof? Have some proof before you come up with stupid conclusions. Thats what she did back in her younger days when she was confused,but now that she's older and has kids honestly do you think she has time to be doing all these childish shiz?


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Love u jai Kumar nair.Love your Dance with sanaya irani.Hope to see u both dancing in future
Hi Jai Kumar nair.Love u with sanaya irani.U both dance so well.Missing u both.
Jai Kumar Nair wish you all the best in JDJ 8
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That is the batman movie I would have watched. His bat symbol reminds me of , if I remember right, the Phoenix from the X-Men though.
So they are look aggressive, and I guess that's good. But they are all designed in a way that gives them very little functionality, I don't imagine they'd be good for much more than throwing them at whoever oppose you. If I were you I'd try to google up some info and pictures on the kalashnikov, because that is probably the best gun ever made, and it's still pretty much the blueprint that all modern guns are built after. If a gun design doesn't look like it functions like the kalashnikov then it's most likely a bad design. As long as we're talking semi-automatic or automatic firearms at least
When I'm designing for anything other than myself, I usually use reference, but these were just little exercises for myself really. More in a sci-fi sense than anything.
"Had a craving for guns, so I decided to whip up a few designs. Took maybe 3 hours total.
I was just having fun with the designs, but I did try and keep a bit of functionality in there, nothing serious or definite."
In essence, I just drew what looked cool to me, hahaha.
I think the smg and the pistol - especially the pistol - could benefit from the addition of a trigger guard of some sort, both for aesthetic and practical reasons.
The heavy assault might look a tad better with one too, but it's not as off balanced/awkward as the other two.
Otherwise - besides the functional things that Rubisko stated - they look fantastic
That AR oughta have a LAM launcher. That would really please ol' JC.
@Topper- Yea that's true about the trigger guards. I used to add them on all my previous gun designs like yeaaars ago, then sorta gradually dropped them for some reason, lol. As for the heavy, I kinda hate that one, it's actually the first design I did. The other three are all variations derived from the heavy, lol.
I'm working on bringing a bit more functionality to my next set so I can sorta solidify that 'yes, I can do functional designs'. I just kinda... prefer (love) that magical future world where stuff works just cause it can xD (I actually do know quite a bit about guns... so I don't really know why I don't apply it. ARTISTIC MERIT) And thanks mang.
@Sy- A WUT! And there's two ARs, man. I'm gonna assume you mean the heavy, whichever one you're talking about?


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Japan's governing Democratic Party (DPJ) chose Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its leader, making him the country's sixth prime minister in five years. We'll talk about Japan's new PM with Steve Clemons of The Atlantic. We spend the rest of the hour on Libya. University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer examines the implications of President Obama's approach to the Libyan conflict. And, after a six month uprising, rebel forces swept into the capital of Tripoli last week, effectively ending Colonel Qaddafi's 42-year-long grip on power. BBC correspondent James Reynolds chronicles the key turning points in the North African nation's conflict.
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"Very good all round. The kitchen and common area were fantastic - some of the best I have seen. Comfortable beds, big lockers and decent showers. The wifi was good and fairly reliable, though it didn't reach my room…"Read all LoL Hostel Siracusa reviews
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Please note that the private twin is a big room (4 or 8 beds which is offered as a private for only two people) but it has no double bed. We also have luxury double private rooms with a double bed, air conditioner/heating, a bathroom, TV and mini-fridge. They are more expensive and are not offered online.
We offer to our guests:
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Here you will find an international easygoing atmosphere and very friendly English speaking staff.
We look forward to having you in Siracusa
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-the cheapest is the huge loft, called simply "DORM (ensuite)", an entire wing of the building, all open space, of about 110 sq. meters on two floors: on the ground floor there are 6 bunk beds (up to 12 people) and on the first floor 4 bunk beds (up to 8 people), with toilets and showers inside; clima and lockers.
-8/10/4 bed dorms, all with bathroom inside; clima and lockers
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All the rooms and dorms are brand new (building entirely rebuilt in 2009).
** Please note also that the option "Dorm (Ensuite)", which is the cheapest, indicates the huge loft, while in all the other options you will find the exact number of beds, for example "Dorm (10 beds) Ensuite" indicates the 10 bed mixed dorm.
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