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Today's Photos

BY DI PHOTOSTAFF | SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 7:30 AM

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Dave Gibbons takes a break from work to play foot bag with a group of colleagues from Budcat Creations, a local video game company, in a parking lot outside their building on Monday. A group of employees from the company that made Guitar Hero for the Playstation 2 often takes a break to play footbag for about an hour a day.

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Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, greets UI students and staff during a roundtable regarding the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act at the IMU on Monday. If the bill becomes law, it could save taxpayers roughly $87 billion and reform student-loan programs, backers say.

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Nineteen-month-old Ava Swift plays with a doll house in the UI Children’s Hospital playroom on Monday. The Children’s Hospital is competing in an online “game-room makeover.” The contest is organized by Microsoft XBox 360 and Children’s Miracle Network.

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Cory Ward (right), the head coach at the Spot, claps after a prayer session on Sept. 16. Ward is one of many volunteers — including a number of UI students and Hawkeye athletes — who run the youth center, which aims to be a positive place for youth in the city’s Southeast Side.

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Tieron James (center) sits near the entrance of the Spot on Sept. 16. The youth center, funded by Parkview Church, provides activities for area kids to help have a positive effect on their lives. Doug Fern, the director of the facility, said many kids don’t have much positive influence in their lives.