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Photos of the Week (10/11/09)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on Oct. 11, 2009

Photos of the Week

Snow covers the playing surface of Coors Field, seen from the main concourse Saturday in Denver. Game 3 of the playoff series between the Colorado Rockies and the Philadelphia Phillies was postponed because of the inclement weather.AP Photo/David Zalubowski






Visitors look at a sand sculpture of U.S. President Barack Obama with a Nobel Prize medal, created by sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik on the Golden Sea beach in Puri, India, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Photo: AP






German writer Herta Mueller holds a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Oct. 8, 2009. Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse. The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy surrounding the academy's pattern of awarding the prize to European writers. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)






Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots over the coffin of Republican John Brady, outside his sister's home in Strabane, Northern Ireland, Thursday Oct. 8, 2009, prior to his funeral. Brady, 40, hanged himself in a police cell last Saturday after being arrested over a domestic dispute while on weekend parole from prison, and it was claimed that he could not face the prospect of returning to jail.(AP Photo/Paul Faith-pa)





John Carruth, center, director of the Eighth Regiment Band of Rome, Ga., stands behind a casket covered with both a Union flag and a Confederate flag as he leads the congregation in singing during the funeral for an unknown Civil War soldier in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Franklin, Tenn., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. The body was accidentally unearthed from a shallow grave by construction workers. It was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery, which contains other Civil War graves. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)






ISAF Commander General Stanley A. McChrystal listens during a meeting with high ranking military personnel October 7, 2009 at the forward operating base (FOB) Walton, outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan. The 55-year-old U.S Army top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has reportedly rankled U.S. President Barack Obama and the White House after he made an appeal for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan and publicly differed with the administration. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)






U.S. Army Engineer Staff Sgt. Rick Atkinson of Roswell, New Mexico plays with a puppy that soldiers of Forward Operating Base Zerok adopted a few weeks ago October 7, 2009 in Zerok, Afghanistan. October 7th marked the anniversary of the beginning of the Afghanistan war in 2001; eight years later, thousands of American and international troops are camped out in field bases around the war-torn country. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)






In this image made available Friday Oct. 9, 2009, by the British Ministry of Defence, Private Daniel Britton is submerged under a fast flowing river where he nearly drowned. This was the first brush with death for the British trooper who has been branded a 'lucky idiot', by his comrades, after cheating death in Afghanistan three times. The 22-year-old Private, from Nantwich, Cheshire, said he is fortunate to be alive after an action-packed six month stint in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. During his six month tour of duty Britton has nearly drowned, he contracted dysentery, had a bullet brush past his head, and then was shot in the chest by the Taliban during a separate strike and was saved by his body armor. Britton and the rest of his unit are due to return to their British barracks soon. (AP Photo / MoD)






In this image made available Friday Oct. 9, 2009, by the British Ministry of Defence, Private Daniel Britton holds the body armour which saved his live when he was shot in the chest by the Taliban. This was just one of the times he had a brush with death, for the British trooper who has been branded a 'lucky idiot', by his comrades, after cheating death in Afghanistan three times. The 22-year old Private, from Nantwich, Cheshire, said he is fortunate to be alive after an action-packed six month stint in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. During his six month tour of duty Britton has nearly drowned, he contracted dysentery, had a bullet brush past his head, and then was shot in the chest by the Taliban during a separate strike and was saved by his body armor. Britton and the rest of his unit are due to return to their British barracks soon. (AP Photo / MoD)






Lt. Michael Bassi of Monongahela, Pennsylvania with the 3/509 of the US Army's 25th Infantry Division, practices his golf swing October 10, 2009 at Combat Outpost Zerok, Paktika province, Afghanistan. Bassi, an avid golfer, wrote to a major golf club manufactuer and asked if they had any discarded clubs they could send to him in Afghanistan, and was delighted to find that they sent him a used set, which he now uses for practice. US troops at COP Zerok, who are tasked with patrolling a particularly dangerous section of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, enjoyed a rare quiet day on their base October 10. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)






Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition carries a cross in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building on October 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. Today the high court will hear oral arguments in a case on involving the building of a memorial with a cross by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in a remote area within what is now a federal preserve. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Peace protesters dressed as a wedding party, protesting the bombing of a wedding party by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, are handled by police in Grand Central Terminal October 7, 2009 in New York City. Protesters were marking the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 following the September 11 terrorist attacks and more than 850 American forces have been killed. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)






Protesters are processed after being taken into custody by the United States Park Police, left, as other protesters lay on the sidewalk in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/ Haraz N. Ghanbari)






Activists with Health Care for America Now, the California Labor Federation and Service Employees International Union hold a "body pile-up" as they demonstrate outside the offices of Anthem Blue Cross/WellPoint to protest what they say are bad health insurance policy practices on October 6, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Activists say their issues of concern include the denial of coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions, imposition of arbitrary caps on payments, offering of incentives to employees to deny patient care and reject claims, and policy termination. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)






A sign depicting U.S. President Barack Obama as Uncle Sam is displayed during a protest against the war in Afghanistan on the UC Berkeley campus October 6, 2009 in Berkeley, California. A small group held a protest against the war in Afghanistan on the eighth anniversary of the US led conflict that began after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)






Farmers use their tractors to block a road around EU headquarters during a demonstration in Brussels, Monday Oct. 5, 2009. Hundreds of dairy farmers drove tractors into the center of Belgium's capital Monday to push EU farm ministers for more funding to survive the milk price crisis. Thousands of farmers across the 27-nation bloc are facing a financial crunch because of collapsed milk prices and are seeking more EU help and quotas to artificially drive them up. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)






Anti-war protesters dressed to represent Guantanamo Bay prisoners march to the White House October 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. Dozens of protesters were arrested after they participated in an act of civil disobedience to call on the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Photo: Getty Images






Masked protesters attack a bank office as they demonstrate against the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in downtown Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Turkish police fired warning shots into the air and used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray on Tuesday to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)






A protester carries a rag doll during a rally and march 'calling for withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan' on October 5, 2009 in front of the White House in Washington, DC.Photo: Getty Images






During a firefight with Taliban militants, a spent shell casing flies through the air as U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan Christie, of Washington, Ind. with 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines returns fire, in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Taliban militants opened fire on the Marine patrol. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Following a firefight with Taliban militants, a U.S. Marine searches a home as his squad checked for signs of their enemy while also working to establish a friendly rapport with local residents in a contested area of Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. A joint patrol of Marines and Afghan Army came under fire from Taliban militants, but leaving no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)






Filipino children look out from a small opening of their still submerged house in the town of Taytay, Rizal Province, Philippines on Wednesday Oct. 7, 2009. Several towns are still submerged more than a week after typhoon Ketsana exits the country leaving hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)






Heavy fire races over a ridge top as a fire engine assigned to structure protection makes its way along Lone Pine Canyon road in the San Gabriel mountains around 75 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, early Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. A wind fanned wildfire that charred 3,500 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains continued to rage Sunday as firefighters worked to prevent flames from advancing toward a mountain resort community. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)






Terminally ill patient Jim Staloch (R), caresses a dove on October 7, 2009 while at the Hospice of Saint John in Lakewood, Colorado. Animal therapist Tom Loux (L), brings the birds as part of an animal therapy program designed to increase happiness, decrease loneliness and calm terminally ill patients during the last stage of life. The non-profit hospice, which serves on average 200 people at a time, is the second oldest hospice in the United States. The hospice accepts patients regardless of their ability to pay, although most are covered by Medicare or Medicaid. End of life care has become a contentious issue in the current national debate on health care reform. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)






A rutting stag bellows in a wildlife park in Aurach near Kitzbuehel, in the Austrian province of Tyrol, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Temperatures are very mild and will climb up to 28 degree Celsius (82.4 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson)

In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 photo, Boomer, a 180-pound Landseer Newfoundland dog, drinks water from the kitchen sink at Caryn Weber's home south of Casselton, N.D. The dog measures seven feet from nose to tail. stands 36 inches tall at the shoulders, measures 7 feet from nose to tail, and weighs 180 pounds. Weber will send his measurements to Guinness World Records for consideration as the tallest living dog. The previous record holder was a Great Dane that died this summer. He measured just over 42 inches at the shoulders. (AP Photo/The Forum, Dave Wallis)

This photo taken Aug. 11, 2009 shows people watching as some of the more than 1.5 million bats emerge beneath them from the Congress Ave. bridge in Austin, Texas. For more than two decades the bats return from northern Mexico during warmer months to roost in the bridge. The bat colony awakens each evening above Lady Bird Johnson Lake to fly toward the Texas Gulf coast in search of insects. The roost began around 1980 after engineers designing the bridge unknowinlgly created crevices that would soon become the home to the largest urban bat colony in North America. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)






White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs holds up a photograph of U.S. President Barack Obama blocking a shot by his personal aide Reggie Love at a basketball game, during the press briefing in Washington October 8, 2009. Photo: Reuters






Professional dancer Cheryl Burke and her partner former US congressman Tom DeLay perform on "Dancing with the Stars" in Los Angeles October 6, 2009 in this publicity photograph from ABC. DeLay -- the former Republican congressman turned TV celebrity -- was expected to quit popular program "Dancing With The Stars" on the night of October 6, 2009, according to media reports. People magazine said DeLay will withdraw on Tuesday night's result show due to stress fractures in both of his feet. Photo: Reuters






Thousands of participants in the annual Brigg's and Al's Run & Walk head down Wisconsin Ave. near the Midwest Center just after the start of the race Saturday. Photo: Ernie Mastroianni






Milwaukee Brewers' Craig Counsell (30) hugs Alcides Escobar while Prince Fielder (28) hugs Felipe Lopez after the Brewers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 9-7 in 10 innings of a baseball game Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Curry)

Chris Maragos of Wisconsin dives in for a touchdown off a fake field goal against Ohio State Saturday. The Buckeyes beat the Badgers, 31-13.  1st photo: Journal Sentinel,  Rick Wood. 2nd photo: AP






This was a big part of Wisconsin's troubles Saturday. Scott Tolzien is sacked by Ohio State's Nathan Williams.Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood






Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema walks off the field after the loss. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood






Fans in the stands display their feelings prior to Monday night's Packer-Viking game. Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman






Brothers Jim and John Van Zeeland (left to right) show their colors prior to the game.Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman






Favre celebrates one of four TD's. Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn






Packers tight end Jermichael Finley blows past Vikings safety Tyrell Johnson while enroute to a 62-yard touchdown reception.Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood






Packers linebacker Clay Matthews races 42 yards for a touchdown after stripping the ball from Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman



 

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is sacked in the end zone for a safety by Vikings defensive end Jared Allen during the fourth quarter.Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman






Aaron Rodgers fumbles the ball after being hit in the first quarter. Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman






Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre (4) and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers meet after the Vikings beat the Packers 30-23 in an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, in Minneapolis. AP Photo

A fan of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre carries a sign before the team's NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 5, 2009. Photo: Reuters





Deanna Favre (L) took time to pose with a Vikings fan. Photo: 620wtmj.com






A pink armband is seen on New England Patriots' Leigh Bowdden, in honor of breast cancer awareness week, prior to a NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)






Pink umbrellas and balloons are displayed over a stream to promote the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)






John Janiszyn, of Walpole, N.H., lines up pumpkins for sale along the side of the road in Walpole, N.H. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

Country music artist Gretchen Wilson, center, performs with her band during the Farm Aid Concert event Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Kyle Ericson)






A woman stands in front of the "Untitled," a stainless steel creation by British artist Anish Kapoor, during a press preview in Hong Kong Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. The work is estimated at US$560,000 to US$730,000 and will be auction as part of the Seoul Auction autumn sale on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)






An art enthusiast views the work of artist Enrico David which has been shortlisted for The Turner Prise 2009 in the Tate Britain gallery in October 5, 2009 in London, England. Artists Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright have been shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize which will be announced at an awards ceremony on December 7, 2009 with the winner receiving £25,000. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Mike Libby of Insect Lab Studio, left, talks to reporter Roni Proter about his Insect Lab Specimen Artwork at the unveiling of luxury retailer Neiman Marcus' Christmas Book Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, in Dallas. The artwork is encased in glass and costs $8500. (AP Photo/Tim Sharp)






An egg weighing in at 143 grams is seen amongst regular sized eggs at the home of Mike McCannell in Vars, Ontario, Canada on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. McCannell found the egg while collecting on Friday afternoon. He says it was laid by a chicken that is around 4-years-old. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Pawel Dwulit)






Food professionals toast with various kinds of beer during the European Beer Star 2009 competition, on October 9, 2009 in Graefelfing near Munich, where the testers have to determine a winner out of some 800 varieties of the beverage. OLIVER LANG/AFP/Getty Images







Revelers take part in 'Correfoc' (A Run with fire) on October 10, 2009 in Sant Llorenc del Penedes, near Barcelona. Revelers walked semi-naked in the streets to protest against a European Parliament law which prohibits the use of fire at traditional celebrations. LLUIS GENE/AFP/Getty Images)






Danny Balan lifts up the waxwork head of Pope John Paul II into place beside the waxwork of current Pope Pope Benedict XVI, during final preparations for the official opening of the reopened National Wax Museum Plus in Dublin, Wednesday Oct. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Julien Behal-pa)






A model presents a creation by French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac for his spring summer 2010 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 in Paris.( AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)






A model presents a creation by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen for his Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2010 fashion collection, presented in Paris, Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)