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Photos of the Week (07/04/10)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on July 4, 2010

Photos of the Week

People wait on line along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Racine, Wis., to get tickets for President Obama's Wednesday town hall-style meeting Tuesday June 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Gregory Shaver)



 

People line the streets along President Obama's motorcade route, including one who asked the president to stop in and donate plasma. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo:  Kristyna Wentz-Graff






A man shares his displeasure, showing thumbs down as President Obama's motorcade rolls into Racine. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff


 

President Obama takes a taste of a kringle as he visited the O&H Danish Bakery in Racine with Racine mayor John Dickert prior to his arrival at the town hall meeting. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo:  Kristyna Wentz-Graff

 

US President Barack Obama gestures for the crowd to keep quiet about his visit to the O&H Danish Bakery to buy kringle pastries so that First Lady Michelle Obama wouldn't find out about the visit, during a town hall event on the economy at Racine Memorial Hall in Racine, Wisconsin, June 30, 2010. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images





President Obama took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves before taking questions from the audience. MIlwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff


 

U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Elena Kagan is sworn in by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on the first day of her confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill June 28, 2010 in Washington, DC. Kagan is U.S. President Barack Obama's second Supreme Court nominee since taking office. (Photo by Scott Andrews-Pool/Getty Images)






Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's brother Irving yawns on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, as Kagan, right, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)






His uniform ribbons and pins symbolizing his years of experience and service, U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East takes a seat during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill June 29, 2010 in Washington, DC. Petraeus has been appointed by President Barack Obama to take Gen. Stanley McCrystal's place as commander of the U.S. and NATO Forces in Afghanistan. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)






New York Gov. David Paterson vetoes budget bills in his office at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Thursday, July 1, 2010. Paterson said he plans to veto about 6,900 bills on Thursday. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)


 

Sgt John Barton of the 4th Brigade of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division pets his platoon's pet dog Ray-Ray as he awakens from sleeping outside at combat outpost Impala June 29, 2010 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan. Many US troops in Afghanistan sleep in the outdoors in the summer due to the stifling overnight heat. The 82nd Airborne along with NATO Italian troops have been working for nearly a year in this combative zone in the far northwest of the country near the Turkmenistan border, attempting to pacify and extend the Afghanistan central government rule to this rural and fiercely independent area rife with Taliban insurgents. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)


 

A riot policeman pushes away a protester who was trying to stop officers detain a suspected rioter during clashes at a union protest in Athens on Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Some 16,000 people took part in two separate demonstrations, the second of which turned violent as stone-throwing youths fought with riot police. Public services shut down across Greece Tuesday as workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike that disrupted public transport left hospitals operating on emergency staff and pulled all news broadcasts off the air. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)


 

In this April 30, 2008 file photo, Senate President Pro Tem Sen. Robert Byrd., D-W.Va., bangs the gavel on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to outgoing Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's address to a joint meeting of Congress. Byrd a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday, June 28, 2010 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)






A U.S. Military District of Washington honor guard carries U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd's flag-draped casket into the U.S. Capitol July 1, 2010 in Washington, DC. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and Congress in U.S. history. Byrd will lie in repose inside the Senate chamber Thursday before being taken to West Virginia for funeral services. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)






The flag-draped coffin of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) lies in repose as his desk is draped in black in the Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2010. Byrd, who died at 92 and was the longest serving Senator in history, will lie in repose in the Senate Chamber until he is moved to West Virginia later today. (Stephen Crowley/New York Times/MCT)






Technical Manager Amitabh Rastogi kneels near one of 12 vents that are designed to collect up to 500,000 barrels of oily water a day on the "A Whale" oil skimming ship on the Mississippi River in Boothville, La., Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, the ship is the length of 3 1/2 football fields and 10 stories high. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)


 

Tears roll down the cheeks of Natalie Roshto of Liberty, Miss., whose husband Shane Roshto, was killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion, as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the deepwater horizon tragedy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)


 

A display of thousands of American flags placed on the National Mall by members of the Sierra Club spells out "Freedom From Oil" June 30, 2010 in Washington, DC. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)


 

Performance artist Adriana Disman, left, and Reina Potazinik perform "SpilLover," on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in New York's Times Square. During "SpilLover," created by artist Josephine Decker, six performance artists will spend a couple of hours during the next five days, wearing all-white, delicately balancing full buckets of a mixture of water and food coloring resembling oil on their heads. Performed the five days leading up to Independence Day, the piece asks the questions: Will we smile and let ourselves be soaked? Can we achieve our independence from oil? (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)



 

Pete Duchock holds his daughter, Maddie Duchock, as they stand near oil residue that has stained the beach after washing ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 27, 2010 in Orange Beach, Alabama. Pete Duchock said his daughter cried after seeing the oil washing ashore when they arrived for their vacation. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)


 

Dan and Grace Eaton are splashed by waves as they pose for a wedding photo, Tuesday, June 29, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas. Despite Tropical Storm Alex heading to the Texas coast, the couple celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows on the water. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)


 

A flash of lightning illuminates the sky over the 2,500-year-old Ancient Parthenon temple, on the Acropolis hill during heavy rainfall in Athens, early Monday, June 28, 2010.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)


 

This undated image provided by Famous Chihuahuas, shows Gail Posner and Chonchita, one of Posner's three chihuahuas that were left a $3 million trust when Posner died. Posner's only surviving child, 46-year-old Brett Carr, is challenging her will contending that Posner was coerced into changing her will by several employees while she was suffering from cancer and drug addiction. (AP Photo/Famous Chihuahuas)


 

An Argentine supporter wearing a hat depicting Argentina head coach Diego Maradona is seen before the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Argentina and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)






England football fans prepare to watch the action on a large screen provided for the World Cup soccer game between England and Germany, at Glastonbury Festival, Sunday, June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)





Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel watch the World Cup soccer match between England and Germany being played in Bloemfontein, South Africa, at the G20 summit in Toronto, Sunday June 27, 2010. Germany beat England 4-1. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)






A Germany fan holds up a banner that reads 'Goodbye England' following the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Round of Sixteen match between Germany and England at Free State Stadium on June 27, 2010 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)


 

Supporters of the German football team celebrate Germany's victory in a fountain after the 2010 FIFA World Cup quartel final match between Germany and Argentina on July 3, 2010 in Munich, Germany. Germany won 4:0. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)




 

Seattle Mariners left fielder Milton Bradley plays a double off the wall hit by Milwaukee Brewers' Corey Hart during the fifth inning of an interleague baseball game Sunday, June 27, 2010, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)






Workers prepare the world's largest ballpool, which will contain 15,000 footballs, outside City Hall on July 1, 2010 in London, England. The ballpool has been created by BT to promote the availability of the sports channels Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 via a subscription service. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)






Dale Earnhardt Jr. slid into a car honoring his late father on Friday and gave a fitting tribute as he drove the No. 3 straight into Victory Lane at Daytona. It had been 85 points races since Dale Earnhardt Jr. made it to Victory Lane. The end of the drought finally came at Daytona International Speedway, in the famed No. 3 car, in race that honored his late father and stirred emotions to even the most stoic NASCAR fan. Earnhardt raced to his first victory since 2008 on Friday night, driving a tribute car to his father in the Nationwide Series race. Photo: Getty Images






An Atlantic bottlenose male dolphin calf swims with his mother at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Thursday, July 1, 2010, in Vallejo, Calif. Two dolphin calves were born in May and June, both pregnancies the result of successful artificial insemination procedures with sperm procured from males at different facilities. It was a conscious decision to bring new genes into the group of 15 dolphins at the park to allow for greater genetic diversity and ensure the overall health of the population. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)


 

In this undated photo released by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, long-billed vulture chicks huddle at a breeding center in Pinjore, northern India's Haryana state. One of  the world's most endangered birds has been bred in captivity for the first time in India, scientists said Tuesday, June 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)






A very rare Guam Micronesian Kingfisher hatched early this month and is fed a diet of mice, insects and anoles by Giana Giuffre an animal keeper at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, June 18, 2010. She is using a decoy animal while feeding. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/MCT)






A meerkat at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, defends a watermelon from three others, Thursday, July 1, 2010. The animals were given the treats in honor of the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, and eventually, all of them appeared to have had a chance to sample the tasty treat. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)



 

A small fish hangs on the bill of an anhinga after the bird speared it, while fishing underwater in The Anhinga Trail section of Everglades National Park near Homestead, Fla. Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The Anhinga is one of the most skilled fresh water diving birds. It slips beneath the water surface quietly, barely making a ripple and fishes for its food. It eats fish, frogs, eggs, and even small alligators. After spearing the fish it flipped it off its bill and swallowed it. (AP/ Photo/J Pat Carter)






A Cambodian girl shows to travelers a live spider clinging on her shirt at the town of Skun, Kampong Cham province, 75 kilometers (46 miles) northeast of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The town is the well-known place for selling deep-fried spiders to travelers, who stop by on their way to and from the country's northern and northeastern provinces. Live spiders are also put into rice wine to make traditional medicinal liquor. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)



 

One of the V‡c mummies, Michael Orlovits, emerges from a CT scan at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The Orlovits family was with a group of mummies found in 1994 in a forgotten church crypt in Vac, Hungary. The mummy will be part of the "Mummies of the World" exhibit, which is being called the largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled. The 45 mummies and 95 artifacts in the show come from 15 museums in seven countries, said Marc Corwin, CEO of American Exhibitions Inc. The show opened Thursday at the California Science Center, then will go on a three-year tour across the country. (AP Photo/Adam Lau)






Three bears roasting marshmallows over a fire is but one pattern Scott Skelly has created in cornfields. This one appears at his family’s farm near Janesville. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman






Nicolas Fernandez paints one of the fifty 19-foot stars in the American flag that covers almost four acres of the property owned by Bob and Doris Burr, Friday, July 2, 2010 in Bowling Green, Ky.. Fernandez laid out the design of the flag that takes about 500 gallons of paint to complete. Sherwin Williams donated 200 gallons of paint to the patriotic display that has been painted on the property for eight years, starting in 2001. It has been painted every year except one. (AP Photo/Bowling Green Daily News, Miranda Pederson)