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Photos of the Week (10/14/12)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on Oct. 14, 2012

Photos of the Week

1) Vice President Joe Biden was all smiles as he debated Paul Ryan during the VP debate Thursday night. Photo: NBC News


2) Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, right, watches as Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/David Goldman)


3) Senator Dean Heller, R-Nev., left, and Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., wait with moderator Mitch Fox for the lights to come back up after a power failure in the middle of their televised senate debate, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Las Vegas. Photo: Julie Jacobson / AP


4) Cadets at Virginia Military Institute pray before a major foreign policy speech delivered by Mitt Romney on Oct. 8, which was intended to distinguish Romney from President Obama on questions of foreign policy. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP


5) Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and his wife Janna wash pots at St. Vincent DePaul dinning hall, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, in Youngstown, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)


6) President Barack Obama high-fives with a child as he arrives at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport in Newport News, Va. on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)


7) A nun wears a hat made with newspaper pages as she waits for Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate a mass marking the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. Benedict, after celebrating mass, will greet churchmen, including a dozen original Vatican II participants, re-enacting the great procession into St. Peter's that launched the council in 1962. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)


8) Spectators gather to watch the space shuttle Endeavour make its way down Manchester Blvd in Los Angeles. Photo: Chris Carlson / AP


9) U.S. Army soldier SSG Norma Gonzales of 426 Civil Affairs Battalion reads a magazine next to fellow soldiers while waiting to be ferried by a helicopter to different U.S. military bases in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan on Thursday. Photo: Erik de Castro / Reuters


10) Army Pfc. Derek Southard, center, is hugged by his mother Shawn Southard, left, and his sister Jaylee Hepner, right, during a welcome home ceremony for soldiers from the Army's 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, on Oct. 10, at Fort Stewart, Ga. Overall about 2,200 soldiers from Fort Stewart's 3rd Infantry Division have deployed to Afghanistan this year. Photo: Stephen Morton / AP


11) New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) and New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly (C) stand among family members of officers who died in the line of duty during an unveiling ceremony at the New York City Police Memorial Wall on October 11, 2012 in New York City. The city unveiled the names of fiften officers who died last year.Thirteen succumbed to illnesses as a result of September 11 and two died from violence in Brooklyn. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)


12) Pakistanis across the country continued vigils Thursday to pray for a 14-year-old girl who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education for girls and criticize the militant group. Malala Yousufzai, 14, was unconscious Thursday in critical condition after being shot in the head and neck as she left school on Tuesday, but doctors said she had moved her arms and legs slightly the night before. Photo: Shakil Adil / AP


13) Melanie Minnie, a teacher at the Rietfontein nursery school, stands beside her car after being fined by the Tshwane Metro Police for transporting 19 children in the vehicle on October 11, 2012 in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo: Nico van Heerden / Gallo Images via Getty Images


14) A baby abandoned in a "baby box" at Joosarang church waits for a medical examination at a children's hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 19. Pastor Lee Jong-rak of the church, who runs a "baby box" where mothers can leave unwanted infants, has seen a sharp increase in the number of newborns being left there because, the pastor says, of a new law aimed protecting the rights of children. South Korea is trying to shed a reputation of being a source of babies for adoption by people abroad. It is encouraging domestic adoption and tightening up the process of a child's transfer from birth mother to adoptive parents. Here, South Korean pastor Lee Jong-rak carries a baby, abandoned a day earlier at a "baby box" at his Joosarang church, to hand it over to ward officials as portraits of other abandoned children raised and adopted by him are seen on a wall of the church in Seoul on Sept. 20. Photos: Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters


15) School children use inflated tire tubes to cross a river to go to a public school in Rizal province east of Manila, Philippines, on Oct. 12, 2012. Photos: Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA


16) Malnourished children eat a meal at the Apanalaya center, an organization working for the betterment of slum children, in Mumbai, India on Oct. 9, 2012. The United Nations now says its 2009 headline-grabbing announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually more like 870 million. Photo: Rafiq Maqbool / AP


17) A 21-year-old heroin addict looks for food among garbage in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11, 2012. Camden, New Jersey is now the most impoverished city in the U.S. with nearly 32,000 of Camden's residents living below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images


18) In Hong Kong, affordable apartments are so scarce that people are living in spaces much like an enclosed bunk bed. These so called "coffin homes" fit a single bed and aren't high enough to stand in. Residents share a common space with a toilet and sink and pay about $155-180 per month for the space. Nearby is some of the most expensive real estate and luxury stores among the city's gleaming skyscrapers.  In New York City, a similar disparity is taking place, with new towers going up and multi-million dollar apartments in high demand while a similar building boom is happening for tiny, 200-square foot apartments. Photo: Damir Sagolj / Reuters


19) Northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminate the sky over Potter Marsh, foreground, and in the distance, Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 shortly after midnight. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)


20) Garden birds fight for a spot at a feeder in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Oct. 7. Photo: Denis Farrell, AP


21) Montee Ball leaps past a Purdue defender into the end zone for a first-half touchdown for Wisconsin. Ball ran for 247 yards and 3 TDs in a 38-14 victory. Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman


22) Packers fans were out in force last Sunday, including Mackenzie Lewis, 12, from Effingham, Ill., who takes a cell phone photo with her mother Stacey at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Journal Sentinel photo: Mike De Sisti


23) Packers receiver James Jones stretches for a 6-yard touchdown against the Colts to give Green Bay a 14-0 lead last Sunday. Journal Sentinel photo: Mike De Sisti


24) Green Bay's defense can't stop Colts receiver Reggie Wayne from scoring a touchdown in the fourth quarter that sealed Indianapolis' 30-27 victory Sunday. Journal Sentinel photo: Mike De Sisti


25) Derek Jeter  of the New York Yankees reacts after he injured his leg in the top of the 12th inning against the Detroit Tigers during Game One of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium, Oct. 13 . Jeter is out for the rest of the season. The Tigers won, 6-4. Photo: Al Bello / Getty Images


26) Baylor's Brittney Griner leaps over teammate Mariah Chandler as she competes in the slam dunk contest during moonlight madness to open the NCAA college basketball season, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/ Waco Tribune Herald, Jerry Larson)


27) A photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows a giant eyeball from a mysterious sea creature that washed ashore and was found by a man walking the beach in Pompano Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. The eyeball will be sent to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. Photo: Carli Segelson / Fla. FWCC via AP


28) Bar owner Salvatore Calabrese pours out the mixed ingredients into a glass as he attempts to create the world's most expensive cocktail at his bar in London on Oct. 11. Calabrese blended 1770 Kummel Liqueur, circa 1860 Dubb Orange Curacao, 1778 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac and circa 1900 Angostura Bitters to create "Salvatore's Legacy," at a cost of $8,800 a glass. The event was attended by officials from the Guiness Book of World Records and was an attempt to break the previous record set by "The Skyview Bar" in Dubai whose cocktail cost around $6,000 a glass. Photo: Andrew Winning / Reuters


29) Danika Starr, 9, sits with her father's winning pumpkin at the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Weigh-off contest in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. The pumpkin weighed 1,775 pounds, making it a new California record. Starr wins six dollars for each pound, which equals $10,650. Photo: Tony Avelar / AP


30) Zack Lemann, animal and visitor programs manager of the Audubon Butterfly Garden, holds a dragonfly in his mouth while collecting them for their exhibits, in Des Allemands, La. on Sept. 24. Lemann cooks and serves the dragonflies at the insectarium. "They taste like soft-shelled crab," he says. Photo: Kerry Maloney / AP


31) Bavarian riflemen fire a gun salute on the steps of the Bavaria monument at the Theresienwiese fair grounds of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, on Oct. 7, the last day of the world famous beer festival. Photo: Christof Stache / AFP - Getty Images


32) Members of the Colla 'Vella de Valls' climb up as they construct a human tower during the 24th Tarragona Castells Comptetion on Oct. 7, in Tarragona, Spain.  Photo: David Ramos / Getty Images


33) Visitors to the Shocktober Fest dressed as zombies pose at Tulleys Farm on Oct. 6, in Turners Hill, England. People dressed as zombies from around the United Kingdom have converged on Tulleys Farm in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the most zombies together in one place. Photo: Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images


34) A model displays a creation by Japanese designer Hiromichi Ochiai during the 2013 Spring/Summer Collection at the Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)


35) A model avoids droppings as she parades with sheep as it relieves itself in Oxford Street on October 11, 2012 in London, England. Four models escorted by four sheep posed for photographs in support of The Campaign for Wool's 'Wool Week' (15 - 21 October) to encourage people to donate unwanted woollen items to be reused, recycled or resold through Marks and Spencer and Oxfam shops. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)