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Aolieia Bergsma, 8, volunteers to squeegee the stage next to Calder Plaza despite the continuous rain during the Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts on June 5, 2010.

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Jason Brunemann, of Bonita Springs, does a back flip to the amazement of his friends after a world cup soccer party at Jenni Robinson’s house in Naples Park, Fla. on June 26, 2010. Brunemann didn’t hurt himself.

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Pioneer Construction install the first piece of the 30,000-pound table and chairs set atop the Blue Bridge pedestrian walkway over the Grand River on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. The installation, titled “The Furniture City Sets the Table for the World of Art,” by Sarah Grant is 20 feet tall and will sit atop the main trestles of the bridge.

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Asunta Petito gets her groove on to the beat of a street musician while walking to her hotel room after a night at the clubs in Key West, Fla. on May 15, 2008. She said a friend gave the rose to her.

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From left, Greg Ledet, 33, and Ken Ring, 43, of Utilikilts show off the features of their product to Thomas Lowther, 50, during the Dublin Irish Festival in Dublin, Ohio, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. “The chicks freak over it,” Lowther said.

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A Grand Rapids “freegan” group meet a couple times per month to collect food and other items thrown away by various businesses off of Alpine Avenue or 28th Street SE in Grand Rapids, Mich. Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.

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Lolo, a mixed bread fox, who was once a house pet before being abandoned, eats raw beef at Manon Van Schoyck’s home for injured wild animals on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. Ohio Nature Education hosted its annual open house and fundraiser to raise money for a permanent home for the dozens of critters Van Schoyck keeps at her Johnstown home.

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Chris Massie, center, and other members of the Fishnet Mafia camp it up during a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening at Studio 35 in Columbus, Ohio.

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Ben Fleury, 24, and Meghan Smith, 22, both from Lansing, check out the Alexander Calder exhibit during their day trip to the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Smith said this was the first time she visited an art gallery.

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The Capital Pride Band play for people walking by off East Beck Street near Mohawk Street in German Village in Columbus, Ohio, during its Village Lights celebration on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010.

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Residents of the Cleveland Avenue area neighborhoods put on a play called “Tiwa and the Magic Eggs” at a community garden in Columbus, Ohio on Friday, July 23, 2010. City officials told organizers they needed licenses to do this, but they went ahead and had the play anyway. “This is something positive to do in a community filled with destruction,” said Linda Early, the narrator of the play.

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Lowl Lendvoy, 2, plays with his big wheel truck on the flat bed trailer where his dad’s truck sat a few minutes ago during the Concerned Racers 4-wheel-drive Club’s public mud bog competition at the Saginaw County Fair Grounds on Saturday, June 20, 2009. “He loves hanging out with his dad,” Lowl’s mother said.

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Riley Theisen, 5, shields his candle from the wind outside of the Kentwood Parks and Recreation Department during the 16th annual Christmas Tree Lighting on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.

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Johnny Nobles, 14, blue shirt, laughs with other children as Detravious Brown, 14, left, takes a seat after another child knocked down Brown. A rainy day kept the children inside on April 18, 2007, so the Reichert House staff let the children box with protective headgear and gloves. The Reichert House is a free, need-based, after-school program whose goal is to provide males between the ages of 11 and 18 assistance in achieving a lifestyle that is free from substance abuse, crime and incarceration.

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Jeremy Wolf, 9, gets hosed by his buddy Max Byers, 12, at the Holiday Inn Express off Clay Avenue SW on Friday, April 9, 2010. The boys wanted to go swimming, but it was too cold outside.

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From left, Maria Monsalve, 14, and Jessica Ortega, 12, both from Orlando, take a spin on the Fire Ball ride during the Osceola County Fair on Monday, February 14, 2011. “It felt like you were flying,” Ortega said.