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Peloton chasing the remaing 2 on the break.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Spot 5/10
Spot 5/10
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Bossiaea stephensonii-Stephensons Bossiaea-DSC09049-CR
Bossiaea stephensonii-Stephensons Bossiaea-DSC09049-CR
Upper temptation Creek, Royal National Park north of Audley, Sydney. Special uploads for Helen's mum.
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Monday, August 29, 2011
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Bridge over Torrens
Milan - Wonder what that man just gave me...
Milan - Wonder what that man just gave me...
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Finland: Uusikaupunki
Finland: Uusikaupunki
| The visitors of the Open Day march the gravel streets. Uusikaupunki, Western Finland. August 2011. |
Uusikaupunki (Fin) / Nystad (Swe) [lit. New Town] is a small (pop. 16 000) historical wooden town on the west coast of Finland, on the Baltic Sea. The town was founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden on the 19th of April 1617, and it will soon celebrate its 400th birthday. Uusikaupunki has left its mark in the European history. The peace of The Great Northern War - known as theTreaty of Nystad after the Swedish name of the town - was signed in Uusikaupunki in 1721.
What once was a majorly seaman-populated town, then became a town known for its car manufacturers. Nowadays, most of the machinery has left the town quiet apart from the busy summer season. The long summer days bring many tourists over, especially those with boats, who moor in the famour passenger harbour at the heart of the town.
The town sits on a belt of well-preserved wooden towns scattered on the seaside along the west coast of Finland. As well as the quiet, often unpaved gravel streets, Uusikaupunki is known for its impressive old church. For the more modern in mind, the famous Bonk Museum with the most incredible non functioning machines, or if you prefer, pieces of art. The Crusell Week Music Festival in the end of July offers a lot, too.
I visited the town for its Open Day, when many of the private and public wooden buildings were open for visitors to explore and admire, as well as their impressive city-sized gardens to enjoy. Many of the once shared buildings have now been joint to form one grand-scale single-family house.
The town feels old mainly because of its idyllic, quiet streets and the gravel underneath your feet. The locals have a very peculiar accent which brings a smile to the face of others. They are very friendly and talkative, compared to many other towns on the west coast.
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Route 66 (Day 4) - Branson / Will Rogers Memorial / Oklahoma
Ngoc Tran
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Blue Backdrop
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Belgium, Antwerp, Museum aan de Stroom
Belgium, Antwerp, Museum aan de Stroom
This is a HDR shot of the Museum at the Stream (Museum aan de stroom) based in Antwerp, Belgium. Brand new, opened this year, very state of the art. It has a very nice panoramic view at the tenth floor of the ancient city of Antwerp. Unfortunately, behind 2 inches of teinted glass...
I made a panoramic view of the harbour of Antwerp from another place, you can check it out if you like at
www.gigapan.org/gigapans/84880/
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Marseille 084
Marseille 084
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
HALLSTATT by Wolfgang Wildner
HALLSTATT, Austria,
by Wolfgang Wildner
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Little woman
Little woman
Where: Corner of East 2nd Street and Bowery in Manhattan, New York, USA.
When: Mid-August 2011.
What: A little girl and her dad walking under the rain.
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A Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes off on a test flight past Concorde
Monday, August 22, 2011
St Arnaud commonwealth hotel 1355
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Upper Twin Lake
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Friday, August 19, 2011
SHINE ON ME
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Abercrombie will pay "Jersey Shore" cast to NOT wear their clothing
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"Jersey Shore" star Mike "the Situation" may be wearing less Abercrombie items in the future. Photo by MTV
People have a love-hate relationship with MTV's "Jersey Shore." For example, we hate that we love watching it. Some companies hate that their brand has been plugged during airings of the show and have pulled their ads. And now retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is so upset after seeing cast members flaunting their gear on TV they're willing to pay them not to wear it! See the picture of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino wearing in his A&F sweats in Florence? The company cringes when that happens.
Abercrombie released a statement on Tuesday which they called “A Win-Win Situation.” According to the Wall Street Journal, the outfitter expressed “deep concern” over Sorrentino's clothing preference and said they were willing to bribe him with a “substantial payment" "to wear an alternate brand.”
“We understand that the show is for entertainment purposes, but believe this association is contrary to the aspirational nature of our brand, and may be distressing to many of our fans,” the statement continued. Abercrombie also extended the offer to other "Jersey Shore" cast members and said they were "urgently waiting a response.”
Supposedly Coach sent Snooki a Gucci bag so she would no longer carry Coach. Photo by Pacifc Coast News
While we can understand certain higher end brands disliking the association with such reality stars, but Abercrombie seems like the right demographic for the MTV set. In fact, just last year Sorrintino told New York magazine about a t-shirt they'd created in his honor. "Abercrombie & Fitch, their most popular shirt, they told me, is ‘Fitchuation.’ I mean, where did they get that from? Obviously from myself.” Abercrombie did indeed make the shirt.
With all the negative attention Abercrombie has gotten lately from former employee lawsuits and unfairly banning their biggest customer, we wouldn't be shocked if this was all one big publicity stunt. But this isn't the first time a fashion brand has tried to distance itself from the "Jersey Shore." Last year Barney's Creative Ambassador Simon Doonan pointed out in the New York Observer that Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has suddenly switched bag loyalties from Coach to Gucci. Doonan believes Coach supplied Snooki with the fancy new purse so she wouldn't further taint their own image.
So while brands willingly hand over money or clothing to preserve their dignity the "Jersey Shore" cast are making out like bandits with free swag. Hmm, that doesn't seem right.
If you saw someone on "Jersey Shore" wearing a particular brand would it turn you off from that brand?
Related links:
Abercrombie & Fitch, The Jersey Shore, and 10 Other Brand Breaks-Ups with Famous People
How NOT to Look Like a Jersey Shore Cast Member on Spring Break
Abercrombie's padded push-up bikini for seven-year-olds
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Looking great today
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Conley battles Bryan for Jets' punting job
Only one starter's seat remains unreserved on what the Jets hope becomes a long ride to the Super Bowl and glory.
A transplant from Australian rules football and a last-chancer, according to coach Rex Ryan, begin serious competition for that punting spot tonight in the preseason opener against the Texans.
Two-year apprentice T.J. Conley is the nominal starter at the top of the two-man depth chart, while Australian Chris Bryan has made it a seesaw to replace Steve Weatherford, now working for the Giants.
"At first, it was our Aussie that looked like he was in front. The last few days, it looked like Conley has come back," Ryan said. "It's important for T.J. because this is either make-or-break. You're either going to do it this year or you might not ever get another chance. This is it. That one is a good battle to watch."
The competitors agree that consistency will be the deciding factor.
"This is my third year in training camp and I've improved quite a bit over the last few years in consistency. The coaching staff has noticed that," Conley said. "I've always been able to hit big balls, but it's consistency that's going to get you a job.
"Consistency has been my small advantage, but he's a pretty good punter, too. Both of us have pretty strong legs, hang time, distance. The thing the coaches will be looking for is consistency."
Bryan says that factor was his downfall in his move from Down Under last season, when he went through training camp with Green Bay and the start of the season with Tampa.
"As a punter, you have to be consistent, and I wasn't. I worked on it during the off-season," Bryan said. "It was enough of a taste to get me hungry for another chance."
At 29, Bryan says his Australian rules days were about done, so the NFL was attractive.
"There aren't many similarities," Bryan said. "Our game in Australia is continuous play. The differences are so many, helmets, pads, the stop-start nature.
"The only similarity is back home [in Melbourne] we kick the ball, and here I kick the ball."
That depends on who wins the job.
mark.everson@nypost.com
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Surface of the Moon
Monday, August 15, 2011
All we do is Kiteboarding
All we do is Kiteboarding
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Panorama
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This is my very first Panorama
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Shooting at Estonian Ministry
A shooting has occurred at the Estonian Defence Ministry building on Thursday afternoon around 1500 EET.
A person working at the ministry, who declined to be named, said that an email was sent to all staff around 1500 EET, urging personnel to stay away from the building's corridors. "I then heard three gun shots. I first thought it was some kind of drill," the person said. Shortly afterwards another email went out to employees asking them to lock their doors.
"Moments later safety guards appeared, and asked us to leave the building through the back door. When I came out, the building was surrounded by the police," the person said.
Regional news agency Baltic News Service wrote that there had been an explosion, according to preliminary information. BNS added that Estonian police received the first call about the shooting at 1510 EET. A police spokesperson said the building has been evacuated by police and that the area has been sealed off.
According to BNS, a special police unit of about ten men entered the Defense Ministry building at 1647 EET together with a bomb robot. The news agency added that a sound similar to that of a shooting could be heard from the building at 1651 EET.
"Six or seven shots could be heard," said a BNS reporter who arrived at the location. Postimees, Estonia's largest newspaper, said that a hostage has been taken at the ministry.
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Friday, August 12, 2011
Setting a Speed Trap
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Torin Koos of the U.S. competes in the men's 4x10km relay race at Whistler Olympic Park this week during the Olympics.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Don't believe them when they tell you the Winter Olympics are all about courage, hard work, mental toughness and grace under pressure. There's only one quality that's universally worshipped here in Vancouver—going fast.
The heroes of these games, from Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn to speed skater Apolo Ohno and even figure-skater Kim Yu-na, all depend—to some extent—on the ability to move at a hair-raising pace. Speed is one of the elements that makes the Winter Games the jaw-dropping spectacle that it is (it's also the element that makes it dangerous: Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died in a training run just before the Games began, lost control of his sled at an estimated 90 miles per hour).
Olympics: Faster Than a Speeding... Zamboni?
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Speed has been a dominant factor at these Winter Games. The Wall Street Journal equipped some reporters on the ground with a radar gun to track speed at events. WSJ's Bryan Gruley talks with Kelsey Hubbard about some of the surprising results.
The odd thing about the Olympics is that for all the stopwatches and television cameras trained on its events, raw speed isn't something that's consistently measured. We already know who the fastest Olympians are—a Canadian bobsledder took that prize at the Whistler Sliding Centre with a speed that wasn't too far from triple digits. High up there in the speed rankings were the downhill skiers, who reach speeds well into the 70s.
But what about everyone else?
To find out just how fast Winter Olympic events really are, we rented a Stalker Sport radar gun.
With one of these things, you don't have to listen to the "experts" tell you how fast Olympians are traveling. The gun doesn't lie.
What we found was more than a little interesting. Did you know curlers occasionally go over the speed limit of some gated communities in Florida? Did you know speed skaters go faster than snowboarders in a half pipe? Did you know cross-country skiers are faster than hockey players? We didn't either, until we figured out how to use the thing.
91 MPH: Women's Bobsled
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Kallie Humphries and Heather Moyse, Canada
59 MPH: Team Ski Jumping
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Thomas Morgenstern, Austria
54 MPH: Ski Cross
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Christopher Del Bosco, Canada
At a recent men's curling match, we had the pleasure to speak with a seasoned expert on radar guns: a Vancouver police officer, who first ribbed us for renting a Stalker, which, he said, wasn't the latest in radar technology. "Wait till I tell the guys back at the station you've got a Stalker," he laughed.
Steve Hocker, senior product manager for Applied Concepts, the Stalker's manufacturer, says that the Sport model is an older machine but was updated about two years ago. He says the technology, which uses Doppler radar, is accurate to within one mile per hour and is the best system for clocking sports.
Newer speed guns used by law enforcement have narrow beams that are good for clocking specific automobiles, he says, but are less adept at catching the speed of a pitcher's fastball or getting a reading on a skier whipping around gates on a slalom course. (The newer models also cost $2,800, about twice as much as the Stalker Sport).
So what did the gun tell us? Curling may be the slowest sport at the Winter Olympics, but it's not as pokey as you'd think. When someone is curling, they usually move somewhere around seven or eight mph, which is slower than the hockey referees we timed during stoppages of play. But when curlers want to knock a bunch of stones out of the way, they can slide along the ice at a furious 10 mph.
That's still slower than a Zamboni ice-cleaning machine, which we clocked at 11 mph, but just barely. Now we understand why this game got the Scottish so excited.
If curlers go 10 miles per hour, Olympic hockey players must go around 90, right? Wrong. While hockey players got up to roughly 20 miles an hour while back checking, most of the time they were cruising around the ice at a pedestrian 14 miles per hour. When Latvia's Kristaps Sotnieks took a pass on the blue line with a clear lane to the net during Friday's game against the Czech Republic, he reached a max of 16 mph before scoring. To put that in perspective: It's slightly slower than the cross-country skiers we clocked on the downhill portion of the course in Whistler, and about 35% slower than a women's short-track speed skater.
Most Olympic events are designed to reward consistency and precision. But if they changed the rules to award medals for the highest top speed achieved, Austria's Romed Baumann would have a medal. He finished fifth in men's giant slalom Tuesday, only a split second away from winning. During the final stretch of the run, however, we clocked him at 53 miles per hour, faster than any of the medalists that day.
China's Zhifeng Sun didn't technically win the women's halfpipe snowboard competition here in British Columbia. But maybe she should have: While other snowboarders were going down the halfpipe in the mid-to-high-20-mile-per-hour range, we clocked Ms. Sun at about 31 miles per hour, the fastest top speed our gun registered that evening.
So what does Ms. Sun get for pushing it harder than any of her competitors? Absolutely nothing.
The Radar Games
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Click above to see a comparison of speeds for different events.
When Christopher Del Bosco of Canada qualified for the semifinals in men's ski cross, he was going faster than 54 miles per hour as he came over the final jump of the course. That was the fastest speed for any competitor that day, and it presaged good things for the Canadian. But Mr. Del Bosco was a little too fast in the finals. In place to win a bronze medal, he fell in the final stretch.
American speed skater Shani Davis wanted gold in the men's 1,500-meter competition, but Dutchman Mark Tuitert stole it away from him by a mere 0.53 second. Our speed gun, however, said Mr. Davis reached a top speed of 37 miles per hour—faster than Mr. Tuitert's peak of 35.3. That's gotta count for something, right?
If there's any unofficial speed record for the Winter Games, it was likely set in 1992 in Albertville, France, when the International Olympic Committee made speed skiing a demonstration sport. The object of the sport is pretty simple: Someone skis down a straight slope as fast as they can wearing aerodynamic gear. It's one of the fastest things humans can do without the help of an engine. In that event, the skiers went about 125 miles per hour, nearly 40% faster than the fastest lugers go. Why is this not the showcase Olympic event?
If you're looking for the slowest Olympic activity, we don't have a ready answer. We tried to take a reading while waiting in line for beer at Canada Hockey Place–but the pace was so slow it didn't register on the Stalker.
—Matthew Futterman and Phred Dvorak contributed to this article
Write to Reed Albergotti at reed.albergotti@wsj.com
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
UFL shuts down Hartford team
OMAHA, Neb. -- The struggling United Football League announced Wednesday that it will play a shorter season with four teams instead of five with the Hartford, Conn., Colonials suspending operations.
The UFL, which has lost more than $100 million it its first two years, said it will play a condensed regular-season schedule starting Sept. 15. Without Hartford, the second-tier pro league is left with teams in Omaha, Neb., Norfolk, Va., Las Vegas and Sacramento, Calif.
Each team will play six regular-season games instead of eight, with three at home and three on the road. Training camps open Aug. 22 and season openers are Sept. 15-17. The top two teams will play in a championship game.
Hartford players will join surviving UFL teams through a dispersal draft Monday. Hartford coach Jerry Glanville will become a league consultant.
“We are disappointed to have to suspended operations in Hartford and are grateful to the Colonials fans for their support,” commissioner Michael Huyghue said in a statement. “We have not closed the door on Hartford and will review the viability of returning to the city at the end of this season.”
Huyghue gave no reason for why Hartford was selected for contraction. He was expected to speak with reporters in a Wednesday afternoon teleconference.
The league is made up of players who were cut in NFL training camps, veterans who want to get back to the NFL and free agents. Players earn about $40,000 a season.
The UFL said last month that it would push back the start of the season a month, fueling speculation that the league would fold. Huyghue has said the UFL needs an injection of new revenue or a partnership with the NFL to survive beyond this year.
The UFL’s majority owners are Bill Hambrecht, Paul Pelosi and Bill Mayer. Huyghue said the league projected that it would lose money the first three years, but not at this rate. The $100 million in losses was far greater than Huyghue had reported previously.
The league had pinned its turnaround hopes in 2011 on a long NFL lockout. The UFL originally planned to start its season in August, with the idea of landing a revenue-producing television contract that would put UFL games in time slots normally reserved for NFL preseason games.
Huyghue said he tried unsuccessfully to negotiate deals with CBS and TNT. When it became apparent last month that the lockout was ending, Huyghue announced that the UFL would scrap its plan to start in August and revert to its normal September kickoff.
UFL spokesman Michael Preston said games would be carried on HDNet and regional sports networks. Versus had televised games last season, but the league had to pay production costs. Versus was not listed as a TV partner in a news release issued by the league Wednesday.
The season will open Sept. 15 with the Virginia Destroyers visiting the Omaha Nighthawks. The two-time defending champion Las Vegas Locomotives visit the Sacramento Mountain Lions on Sept. 17.
Huyghue said in the statement that the mid-September start date will allow UFL teams to sign players who are in NFL camps but don’t make final rosters. He said the shorter season will allow NFL teams to sign UFL players earlier than in the past.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Kranket Island, 1985
Kranket Island, 1985
Kranket Island, near Madang, png. Note the toilet at the right over the water, July 85
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Schelpenbank in de Waddenzee
Schelpenbank in de Waddenzee
Bij laag water, nabij Ameland
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
+ 02 Restored Industry Depot
Monday, August 8, 2011
Ponte Sant'Angelo and reflection
Ponte Sant'Angelo and reflection
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Au dtour de la route....
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Gros plan sur le monument aux Morts en guerre.
La Guerre de 1914-1918 affecte la Corse en profondeur. En 1914, prs de 50 000 d'entre eux sont mobiliss et envoys au front pour la dfense de la mre patrie. Leurs sacrifices, leurs douleurs et leurs croyances dans les valeurs de la rpublique sont gravs sur les monuments aux morts rigs partir de 1920 dans tous les villages insulaires.
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Croatian evening mood
Croatian evening mood
Vodice, Croatia
I'm back from dalmatia but I was so photo-lazy! So you won't see many more shots from there unfortunately, it was too hot, too much party and too little time for shooting since there were masses of people during peakpeak season. Unfortunately, I also didn't make it to other places, such as Sibenik but I hope I will do that another time...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Sure is lonely down on Jersey Shore
Louise Befumo's four motels along the New Jersey shore would normally be packed at this time of year.
"When you have a heat wave like this, people should be running to the shore," says Befumo, who has been in the motel business in New Jersey since 1972.
"Still, we don't fill up. A lot of people have gone from having secure incomes to not being sure about their jobs."
This summer Befumo hasn't lit the "No Vacancy" sign even once during the week.
"There's a lot of misery among middle-class families with incomes between $40,000 and $85,000," says Chris G. Christopher Jr., an economist at forecaster IHS.
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WAVE GOODBYE
Tourists staying home.
"Discretionary spending for things like taking a vacation aren't at the top of the list."
Unemployment for leisure and hospitality workers in June was 10.9 percent, higher than the 9.1 percent national average, and second only to construction workers, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
June occupancy levels at economy motels -- those charging an average nightly rate of $52 -- was 61 percent, says Smith Travel Research. It was 66 percent in 2007.
One sign people are skipping vacation: Average gasoline demand for the four weeks ending July 15 fell 1.3 percent, the 18th consecutive drop for the average this year, according to MasterCard.
In New Jersey, tourism spending may not return to 2007 levels of $39 billion until 2012, according to a report for the state by Vantage Strategy, a consulting firm.
Midway through the July 15 to Aug. 15 peak season, occupancy at Befumo's motels is running about 65 percent, compared with 90 percent five years ago, she says.
Her sales may fall as much as $100,000 to $200,000 per hotel this year.
"We just have to eat the losses and hope it gets better," she says.
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
0052 Seagull In The Rocks Area In Sydney 28-6-2009
Friday, August 5, 2011
Grote Markt - Antwerpen (Belgium)
Grote Markt - Antwerpen (belgium)
Grote Markt 07/05/2011 14h11
Nothing wrong with green.
AntwerpenPeople (a group for candid people on the streets of Antwerpen...soon on Flickr)
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Plaza del Sol, Madrid, Spain
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Mikey
Mikey
Mikey is like a little whirlwind, managed to grab a couple of snaps while he was not running around.
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