The center houses classrooms, studios and shops for set and costume construction, sculpture and painting, digital media and cinema, as well as several performance spaces, a screening room, rehearsal and practice rooms and a cafe.

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Plug in a set of headphones and hook up a guitar, and you can approximate the sound of a rock concert without disturbing everyone in your immediate vicinity (Slash says he uses it to practice in hotel rooms).

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Such revenue goes into a pot that helps establish better-than-Cinderella arenas, locker rooms, practice facilities, tutoring resources, and saliently, coach and staff salaries.

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While fans have been buzzing about the idea ever since the league green-lit a cold-weather championship game in New Jersey's New Meadowlands, rules dictating minimum requirements for hotel rooms and practice facilities probably nix the idea.

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ABS, not the Gideons, pioneered the practice of putting Bibles in hotel rooms.

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The practice originated in online chat-rooms but has quickly inspired several specialist websites, such as 51tuangou.com and www.teambuy.com.cn.

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As you walk around the sparely hung rooms, you see immediately that Manet's portraits rarely conformed to 19th-century practice.

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All were what you would call bread-and-butter physicians: busy, full-time, private-practice doctors who work from seven in the morning to seven at night and sometimes later, their waiting rooms teeming and their desks stacked with medical charts to review.

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