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Photos of the Week (01/30/11)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on Jan. 30, 2011

Photos of the Week

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) scores a touchdown past Chicago Bears safety Danieal Manning (38) during the first quarter of the NFL NFC Championship football game in Chicago, January 23, 2011.






Green Bay Packers running back James Starks (44) scores a touchdown against the Chicago Bears during the second quarter of the NFL NFC Championship football game.






Green Bay Packers' quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) attempts to tackle Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher (54) after Urlacher intercepted him during the third quarter.






Green Bay Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji (90) runs for the end zone with an intercepted pass between Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Hanie (12) and Chicago Bears center Olin Kreutz (57) during the fourth quarter. The Packers beat the Bears, 21-14.

Above photos: Reuters





US President Barack Obama receives a jersey of Green Bay Packers NFL football player Charles Woodson from Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (C) as Green Bay mayor James Schmitt looks on at Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on January 26, 2011 as part of his White House to Main Street Tour.  Obama, a Chicago native, predicted the Chicago Bears would beat Green Bay in the NFC Championship game.Photo: Getty Images






U.S. President Barack Obama's speech is shown before delivering his State of the Union speech January 25, 2011 in Washington, DC. During his speech Obama was expected to focus on the U.S. economy and increasing education and infrastructure funding while proposing a three-year partial freeze of domestic programs and $78 billion in military spending cuts. Photo: Getty Images






US President Barack Obama delivers the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress as House Speaker John Boehner applauds at the Capitol in Washington on January 25, 2011. Photo: Getty Images






A seat is left empty (C) for US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, seriously injured in the recent Tucson, Arizona tragedy, during President Barack Obama annual State of the Union Address before a joint session of congress and the supreme court on January 25, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Congressmen wear a black and white ribbon, in honor of the lost and wounded in the shooting, the white band representing hope for a peaceful, nonviolent society, the black in remembrance of all who have died and been wounded as a result of violence. Photo: Getty Images






Dallas Green (2nd L), the brother of Christina Taylor Green, 9, who was killed in the January 8 mass killing in Arizona, rests on his father John Green's shoulder as he listens to US President Barack Obama's annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on January 25, 2011 with his mother Roxanna Green (2nd R) and US First Lady Michelle Obama (R). Photo: Getty Images






Ramon Diaz Castellon sits in the back of the pickup he is living in as he watches U.S. President Barack Obama deliver his State of the Union speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill on January 25, 2011 in Miami, Florida. Mr. Castellon said he is unemployed after losing his job working at a restaurant that went out of business. President Obama mentioned during his speech that as a country we will move forward together, or not at all. Photo: Getty Images






In this screen grab taken from video, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. , delivers the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. Photo: AP






U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) (L) and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (R) join Tea Party supporters in saying the Pledge of Allegiance during the first meeting of the U.S. Senate Tea Party Caucus January 27, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The senators gathered with supporters to discuss spending proposals, options for balancing the budget, bringing an end to the U.S. budget deficit and limiting the size and scope of the federal government. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)






Anthony Hines, of Atlanta, right, shines the shoes of James McCurry, with the Savannah Chamber of Commerce as the Legislature meets for a session at the Georgia Capital, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 in Atlanta. This is Hines 7th legislative session and shines about 25 pairs of shoes on a good day. Hines says this has been a slow session so far due to the poor winter weather in the area. (AP Photo/David Goldman)


 

Astronaut Mark Kelly sits in the passenger seat of the ambulance as it carries his wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, to TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, in Houston. Giffords was transferred Wednesday to begin the next phase of her recovery from a gunshot wound at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)






A red rose rests on a marker for space shuttle Challenger commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee during the annual National Day of Remembrance ceremony in the Astronaut Memorial Tree Grove at the Johnson Space Center on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in Houston. NASA holds the agency-wide Day of Remembrance every January to honor the fallen crews of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. Friday, Jan. 28, will mark the 25th anniversary of the Challenger accident. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool)






Roses are placed January 28, 2011 at the Space Mirror below the names of the seven astronauts that died on board 51-L space shuttle Challenger 25 years ago at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)






Former Concord High School student Kelly Garfield, who had Christa McAuliffe as a homeroom teacher, stands Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, in Concord, N.H., at her gravesite at 11:38, 25-years after the shuttle Challenger exploded, killing McAuliffe and the rest of the crew. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)


 

Councillor Dr C. Nemeth examines the Jewish Museum exhibitions on Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, 2011 in London, England. The global remembrance day is held on the anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi killing camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)







Hundreds of thousands of people march from the National Mall to the Supreme Court to declare their commitment to the unborn at the 38th annual March for Life on January 24, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)







Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio smiles as he stands in front of bales of marijuana seized recently by his deputies, after speaking at a news conference announcing his latest crime suppression illegal immigration operation sweep at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Training Academy Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)






Egyptian protesters clash with riot police in Suez, Egypt Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Egyptian activists protested for a third day as social networking sites called for a mass rally in the capital Cairo after Friday prayers, keeping up the momentum of the country's largest anti-government protests in years. (AP Photo)






Egyptian riot police disperse demonstrators in Cairo on January 28, 2011, demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images






An Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters poured into the streets of Egypt Friday, stoning and confronting police who fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas in the most violent and chaotic scenes yet in the challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)






The body of a child wrapped in posters is brought out of a supermarket Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 in central Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb exploded inside a grocery store frequented by foreigners on Friday in Kabul, killing and injuring people, police and eyewitnesses said. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the attack was against a U.S.-based security contractor. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)




 

Demonstrators imitate a policeman at a rally against government spending cuts in central Manchester, England, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Scuffles broke out later between protesters and police in Manchester. (AP Photo/Jon Super).






U.S. President Barack Obama tours Orion Energy Systems, Inc January 26, 2011 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other members of the President's Cabinet are traveling to Manitowoc, Wisconsin to highlight the administration's efforts to rebuild the American economy. (Photo by Brian Kersey-Pool/Getty Images)






A Streetcar is seen in downtown New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. In another sign that New Orleans is reinventing itself by restoring its past, the city announced plans Tuesday to spend up to $90 million to lay streetcar tracks down river from the French Quarter, a working-class and Creole side of the Big Easy immortalized by Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire." (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)






A street is blanketed by snow January 27, 2011 in the Brooklyn borough of New York, United States. New York City, still reeling after the Christmas blizzard, closed public schools and limited public transportation following another heavy snowstorm. As of 2am eastern time, Central Park had received a total for January of 32.3 inches which breaks an 86-year-old record for the month. For much of the northeast this has been one of the snowiest winters in over a decade. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)





A man shovels a walkway to a mailbox in Manchester, Conn., after a winter snow storm, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)






A pedestrian makes her way over a tow truck chain being used to extricate a truck stuck on Boerum Street in the Bushwick neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)






Lakeesha Paylor, left, who worked with Newark Mayor Cory Booker to dig cars out from under the snow, gets a hug from the mayor after he helped her dig her vehicle out, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in Newark, N.J.






People enjoy the Arpoador beach at night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Temperatures reached 106.5 degrees Farenheit (41,4 Celsius) in the hottest day of the summer so far in Rio de Janeiro.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)






A man views a beached whale in the San Rossore protected area near Pisa, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. Some fishermen noted the 25-meter-long whale was hardly breathing two days ago, not far from the beach where it was found dead. (AP Photo/Paolo Lazzeroni)







Afghans watch a dog fight Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)


 

In this Jan. 25, 2011 photo, Milo, a puppy from a Farmington animal shelter, is held by State Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, as he testified before a House Tax Committee at the State Capitol, in St. Paul, Minn. Garofalo introduced a bill that would exempt animal shelter pets from the statewide sales tax. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)






A Yemens Chameleon is pictured at Heathrow Airport's Animal Reception Centre on January 25, 2011 in London, England. Many animals pass through the centre's doors ranging from exotic animals such as snow leopards and elephants, snakes and crocodiles, to the more common such as cats and dogs. In 2010 alone the centre processed approximately 10,500 cats and dogs, 1,300 birds, 105,000 day old chicks, 246,000 reptiles, 230 horses and 29 million fish. Most animals are part of zoo transfer schemes, the pet trade, or are pets in transit. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)






in this photo provided Jan. 25, 2011, by the Saint Louis Zoo, is a baby black rhinoceros calf with his mother, Kati Rain, at the Saint Louis Zoo in Saint Louis. The as yet unnamed male was born at the zoo on Jan. 14 and weighed 120 1/2 pounds. He is the first black rhino calf to be born at the Saint Louis Zoo in 20 years. (AP Photo/Saint Louis Zoo)
 

Kathy Polich, Director of Nursing, tries to take cover as she is pelted with giant marshmallows during a snowball fight at Manor Care Health Services in Platteville, Wis. Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011. Residents of the nursing and rehabilitation facility got to throw giant marshmallows at each other and staff during the game, which encouraged physical activity. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Jeremy Portje)






Green Bay Packers NFC Champions shirts fly off the tables at Sports Authority in Greenfield Monday. Journal Sentinel photo: Gary Porter






Contractors raise the Miller Park sign above the new scoreboard Tuesday. The scoreboard will will debut at the home opener April 4. The new video board features a single screen and high-definition display. At 5,940 square feet, it will be the fourth-largest scoreboard in Major League Baseball.  Jounral Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn


 

The puck bounces in front of the mask of Vancouver Canucks' goalie Roberto Luongo as he makes a save during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)






A Warriors Girls cheerleader performs during the Golden State Warriors game against the San Antonio Spurs at Oracle Arena on January 24, 2011 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)






Elmo and puppeteer Kevin Flash of the film "Being Elmo" poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Victoria Will)


 

In this image made available by Liverpool Hope University, Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011, former Miss Canada finalist Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy poses next to the Penny Lane street sign in Liverpool, England, after becoming the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles. Zahalan-Kennedy, 53, was one of the first students to sign up for the course on the Beatles when it launched at the university in March 2009. Twelve full-time students joined the Master of Arts course in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society that year and Mary-Lu is the first from her class to graduate.(AP Photo/Alan Edwards, Liverpool Hope University, ho)







A U.S. Coast Guard boat passes near a grand piano on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 in Miami. The piano recently showed up on the sandbar, about 200 yards from condominiums on the shore. The piano, which weighs at least 650 pounds, was placed at the highest spot along the sandbar so it doesn't get underwater during high tide. While officials aren't sure how it got there, they know it won't be going anywhere unless it becomes a hazard to wildlife or boaters. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) UPDATE ON THIS STORY






Lorenzo Quinn's Vroom Vroom sculpture is installed in its new setting on Park Lane on January 23, 2011 in London, England. The four-metre high sculpture, consists of a vintage Fiat 500, the first car that the sculptor ever bought, grasped by an oversized aluminium child's hand modelled from Quinn's son. The exhibition has previously been displayed in Valencia and Abu Dhabi. (Photo by Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images for Halcyon Gallery)






Bar captain, Solomon from Kenya, places a bottle of champagne at "At.mosphere" the world's highest restaurant in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday Jan. 23, 2011. Situated 442 meters (1,350 ft) high on level 122 of the world's tallest building "At.mosphere" , which opens Sunday, has a panoramic view of the city. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)


 

A jury of some of the most renowned names in pastry, from each participating country, examine Belgium's dessert submission during the World Pastry Cup in Lyon, central France, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. Nineteen countries are participating in the contest, as part of the Sirha, the International Hotel Catering and Food trade Exhibition. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)


 

Models presents creations by US designer Thom Browne, as part of his Men's fall-winter 2011/2012 collection presented in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)



 

A model wears a creation by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier for his spring/summer 2011 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)


 

Dee Fox, left, and Liz Sarvinas, right, wear fur coats over their swimsuits as they wait to take part in the Maryland State Parks Polar Bear Plunge fundraiser for Special Olympics at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Md., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 in Chesapeake Bay. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)