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Photos of the Week (1/18/09)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on Jan. 18, 2009

Photos of the Week

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) holds a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House January 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. Bush spent nearly an hour fielding questions during his last news conference as president of the United States before President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in on January 20. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

 

In this handout image provided by the White House, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney signs the inside of the top drawer of his desk in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building January 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. The desk, constructed in 1902 and first used by President Theodore Roosevelt, has been signed by various presidents and vice presidents since the 1940s. Mrs. Lynne Cheney is seen at right. (Photo by David Bohrer/The White House via Getty Images)

 

Stacks of Barack Obama t-shirts sit on a shelf at the Official Inaugural Collectibles store in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, in anticipation of Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

 

Mikail Bicquet, 9, of Nevada, examines a wax figure of President-elect Barack Obama after it was unveiled at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino January 15, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

 

A worker cleans Barack Obama masks in the Mascaras Condal factory in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. The new face of the White House is the hottest for this year's Carnival in Brazil. Thousands of masked, half-naked "Obamas" will take to the streets during the dozens of Carnival parades once the holiday begins at the end of February. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

 

Mark Ndesandjo, the intensely private half brother of President-elect Barack Obama, plays the piano to raise money for orphans during a charity concert in Shenzhen, southern China, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. The press release for the concert didn't reveal the long-kept secret of who Mark Ndesandjo really is, nor did the posters and e-mails promoting the event in this southern Chinese boomtown where he wore a brown silk Chinese-style shirt while playing the piano to raise money for orphans. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Protesters march on the sidewalk across from the North American International Auto Show Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009 in Detroit. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)

 

Samuel Wurzelbacher, known as Joe the Plumber, reporting for the conservative pjtv.com Web site is back-dropped by smoke from fires caused by Israeli military attacks inside the Gaza Strip, poses for pictures, near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Wurzelbacher became famous after campaigning for US republican presidential candidate John McCain during the US Presidential elections in 2008. (AP Photo/Moshe Milner, Government Press Office, handout)

 

An explosion is seen after after an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah near the border with Egypt on January 13. Israeli troops and Hamas fighters fought fierce battles in the streets of Gaza's main city on Tuesday as Israel's war on Hamas continued and the death toll went above 900. (SAID KHATIB, AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

 

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama offers special prayers for world peace along with others in Sarnath, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Varanasi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Rajesh Chaurasia)

 

Debris flies in all directions as an Army Blackhawk helicopter crashes in a field at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Dave McDermand, Bryan-College Station Eagle)

 

Passengers stand on the wings of a U.S. Airways plane as a ferry pulls up to it after it landed in the Hudson River in New York, January 15, 2009. Local media said the plane was an Airbus with 146 passengers and five crew which had just taken off from La Guardia Airport and was trying to return after apparently striking a flock of birds. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid  

Passengers are rescued after a U.S. Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in New York January 15, 2009. A US Airways jet with more than 150 people on board came down into the frigid Hudson River off Manhattan after apparently hitting a flock of geese on Thursday and officials said everyone was rescued. REUTERS/Eric Thayer






Crews lifted the Airbus A320 out of the water off Battery Park City late on Saturday night. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times

 

Ice forms in the Milwaukee Harbor on the morning of Tuesday, January 13, 2009, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More snow fell Wednesday and bitter cold temperatures made for a tough week. (Tom Lynn/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Runner Keith Golke of Minneapolis resembles an icicle while jogging around Lake Calhoun Tuesday morning, Jan. 13, 2009, on the coldest day in Minnesota since 2004. An Arctic blast has descended on much of the midwest causing temps to plummet with record breaking lows approaching minus 40 degrees in parts of North Dakota.(AP Photo/Star Tribune, David Joles)

 

Melissa Pallin watches as Larry Benford (center) and Albert McMillon of AAA replace her car's battery Wednesday morning at E. Elmdale Court in Shorewood. 
Journal Sentinel Photo/Tom Lynn

 

A Sarajevan warms his hands at the eternal flame - a monument to victims of World War II, in downtown Sarajevo, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. The flame went off last week after Russia shut of gas supplies to Europe but went on again when Hungary started shipping gas to Bosnia.(AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)

 

Bosnian people search for food and other provisions, scavenging anything that is worth re-cycling at the garbage depot on the outskirts of their village, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, near their village of Visca, suburb of northern Bosnian town of Zivinice, Bosnia. The extreme winter low temperatures persist in the region and has forced people who live in poverty to resort to desperate measures to scrape a living. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

 

A woman cools off under a shower in a Buenos Aires park, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. The temperature rose Friday to 33.3 degrees Celsius (92 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

 

Jean Hooper, 45, who teaches hula-hooping as a form of exercise on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 14. While record low temperatures cross much of the nation, record high temperatures are being set this week in Southern California, with highs reaching into the mid-80s. "This is our winter. That's why I'm doing my happy hula dance," (DAVID ZENTZ, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Greg Cousins tastes a bowl of gruel served out by the Royal Society of Chemistry in London, Tuesday. Jan. 13, 2009. Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry says it has perfected the recipe for Oliver Twist's most famous meal - workhouse gruel. Members of the society consulted historical sources and Charles Dickens' beloved novel to recreate the porridge, made from water, oats, milk and an onion, which they describe as "barely palatable." But the scientists are warning that requests for more _ in homage to the famous line, "Please, sir, I want some more" _ just won't be tolerated. The society says it undertook the task of recreating the Dickensian gruel to highlight its work on food. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

 

Elephants do a trick for elephant manager Kelly Schroer, not shown, at the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday Jan. 8, 2009. From New York to Los Angeles, hard financial times are threatening government support for zoos, aquariums and gardens. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

 

Judy Walker of Oviedo holds Tanker, a four-week-old puppy, on Wednesday, January 14. He was born missing his front two legs, abandoned in a box with his siblings along a road and later taken to Pet Rescue by Judy. But now, he's on a fast track to stardom. A woman in Texas who trained her two-legged dog to walk upright has agreed to adopt him and plans to put him in an upcoming movie about her dog, Faith. Faith has quite a following and has been on talk shows including Oprah and Montel. (RICARDO RAMIREZ BUXEDA, ORLANDO SENTINEL)

 

Stephanie Metzendorf, 9, of Mequon, reads “Riptide” by Frances Ward Weller, to Lucy, a 2-year-old golden retriever at the “Read to Rover” program Wednesday, at the Frank L. Weyenberg Library of Mequon-Thiensville. The program allows children to gain confidence in reading aloud and to spend time with a quiet listener. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff

Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson, foreground, embrace during a New York news conference, Tuesday Jan. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)





Here's one you don't see very often in the NFL. Baltimore Ravens cornerback Corey Ivy (35) hugs the referee after the Ravens defeated the Tennessee Titans at LP Field. Baltimore upset Tennessee, 13-10. Dipti Vaidya / THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN

The Klements racing sausages take a lap around the gymnasium in Deerfield School in Oak Creek on Jan. 9. Milwaukee Brewers bullpen catcher Marcus Hanel spoke to the students before the
sausages made a surprise appearance. Oak Creek NOW Photo by Charles Auer

 

A model displays a creation designed by Hong Kong designer Ameber Leung during the annual Hong Kong fashion week at the Convention and Exhibition center Hong Kong Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. The 40th Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter, the largest show of its kind in Asia and the second-largest in the world, features 1, 400 exhibitors from 23 countries and regions. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)




 

People stop to take pictures of the inaugural setup at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Elect Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Model builder Gary McIntire puts the finishing touches on a Lego presidential inauguration scene on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, at Legoland California in Carlsbad, Calif. The scene was built to celebrate President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker)