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Photos of the Week (03/21/10)

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Photos of the Week

Reps. Chellie Pingree, DMe., Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., Chair Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., Doris Matusi, D-Calif. and James McGovern, D-Mass., at a meeting of the Democratic members of the House Rules committee who met to discuss the health care legislation prior to the full committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, March 20, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)






People attend a 'Kill the Bill' rally in opposition to government reform of health care in Washington, D.C. Saturday, March 20, 2010. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

Citizens gathered at the heart of Charlotte to voice their support of the Healthcare Reform Bill. Approximately 300 folks gathered at Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist Church at 11 am on Saturday and proceeded to march up W. Trade Street to gather with about 200 other supporters at The Square. LAURA-CHASE MCGEHEE - Charlotte Observer.







Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) holds up a copy of proposed health care reform legislation during a "CODE RED" rally in opposition to the health care reform bill on Capitol Hill March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by The American Grass Roots Coalition and the Tea Party Express, the rally focused attention and opposition to the congressional Democrats' efforts to push through a final vote on health care reform by the end of the week. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)






Rod Covenah, left, and Sally Sinacore, right, shout during a tea party protest against the proposed health care plan outside the office of Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., in Schaumburg, Ill. on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)






A passerby yells in support of health care during a tea party protest against the proposed health care plan outside Congresswoman Melissa Bean's office in Schaumburg, Ill., Tuesday, March 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)





George Martin, left, and Walt Stoelting argue over health care reform during a rally outside the district office of Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger, in downtown South Bend, Ind., Thursday, March 18, 2010. Groups on both sides of the debate on the federal health care overhaul are keeping up the pressure on three Indiana Democratic congressmen who say they haven't decided how they'll vote. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Marcus Marter)


 

Opponents of health care reform demonstrate outside George Mason University where U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak on health care reform March 19, 2010 in Fairfax, Virginia. Obama is making a last minute appeal for support of his proposed health care legislation as the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the legislation as early as Sunday afternoon. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)






Thai police officers stand next to sea of blood after protesters and supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra poured it on the ground at the ruling Democrat Party building Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Protesters poured several jugs of their own blood in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)






Palestinian demonstrators hurl stones at Israeli troops during clashes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiyeh, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Hundreds of Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires ablaze across the holy city's volatile eastern sector, where thousands of officers, including reinforcements brought in from other locations, were in place for a fifth straight day. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)




A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, Saturday, March 20, 2010. A Palestinian teenager was killed during clashes with Israeli troops in Iraq Burin, medical officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)






An Israeli undercover police officer detains a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Hundreds of Palestinians hurled rocks at Israeli riot police and set tires and garbage bins ablaze across east Jerusalem on Tuesday, drawing rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas in the heaviest clashes this volatile city has seen in months. (AP Photo/Olivier Fitoussi)






Members of the Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, are removed from the street by security agents during a protest in Havana, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented Ladies in White from marching on the outskirts of the capital to demand release of their jailed husbands and sons, physically removing them when they lay down in the street in protest. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)






A laborer's child sleeps in a heap of soil, as his parents, unseen, work outside the site of a commonwealth games stadium in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 18, 2010. At least 43 workers have been killed building venues for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi because of dangerous work sites and a lack of proper safety gear, according to a court-appointed panel. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)




Sgt. 1st Class Richard Goolie, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, talks with children while patrolling through the village of Behsood with the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, Thursday, March 18, 2010, in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)






Brianna Hudson, 5, cries as she hugs her father Sergeant Amos Hudson, a member of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, after he returned from a year-long deployment in Afghanistan, at Pope Air Force base March 16, 2010 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The unit provided full-spectrum aviation operations in southern Afghanistan and played a key role under heavy fire in the major assault on Marjah last month. (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images)






A pedestrian walks by a roadside memorial that features over 5,000 wooden crosses that represent U.S. troops that have been killed in Iraq March 19, 2010 in Lafayette, California. Today marks the seven year anniversary of the U.S. led war in Iraq. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)






Thousands of people protest on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and President Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan in Washington D.C., Saturday, March 20, 2010. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)






Hazel Caldwell joined the WASPs (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) as soon as she could during World War II. She was in the fourth class of women trained to fly newly manufactured bombers cross-country to their shipment points for overseas theatres of war. Last week, she and other former WASPs or their families were given Congressional Gold Medals in Washington, D.C. TODD SUMLIN - Charlotte Observer.






Betty Cross kisses her mother Hazel Caldwell at Caldwell's south Charlotte residence. Caldwell joined the WASPs (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) as soon as she could during World War II. She was in the fourth class of women trained to fly newly manufactured bombers cross-country to their shipment points for overseas theatres of war. Last week, she and other former WASPs or their families were given Congressional Gold Medals in Washington, D.C. TODD SUMLIN -  Charlotte Observer.






Primate of All Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady, left, hands out a letter from the Pope to worshippers, at St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh, Northern Ireland, Saturday, March, 20, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI rebuked Irish bishops Saturday for "grave errors of judgment" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church to wipe out the scourge. In a letter to the Irish faithful read across Europe amid a growing, multination abuse scandal, the pope did not mention any Vatican responsibility. And he doled out no specific punishments to bishops blamed by victims and Irish government-ordered investigations for having covered up years of abuse. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)






A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) volunteer demonstrates a full-body scanner at O'Hare International Airport on March 15, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. The Backscatter Advanced Imaging Technology scanners are scheduled to be put into use at the airport today. Twenty airports nationwide are now using full-body scanners. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)






A homeowner, who would not give his name, takes out the trash as his sister's car sits crushed by a fallen tree in the driveway of his Larchmont, N.Y. home in the aftermath of a storm Monday, March 15, 2010. (AP Photo/David Goldman)






Here's some more of that global warming. Tourists walk in snow on the Great Wall of China, north of Beijing, China, Monday, March 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)




A pedestrian walks through near-blizzard conditions in Tulsa, Okla. on Saturday, March 20, 2010, the first day of spring. Accumulations of up to 12 inches of snow are expected in the northeastern part of the state as a second storm hits Oklahoma Sunday. (AP Photo/David Crenshaw)






Mark Houglum works on a 40 foot flood wall used to protect his Moorhead, Minn. residence from the swollen Red River on Thursday, March 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)






Katie Worral reacts after falling in the mud while Sigrid Grinde, left, runs away after their mud fight on Wednesday March 17, 2010 in Fargo, N.D. The students were relieving some stress after sandbagging outside of Oak Grove Lutheran School on Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)







Crocus emerge from a blanket of fallen leaves Wednesday morning, March 17, 2010, in Salina, Kan. The first day of spring was Saturday. (AP Photo/The Salina Journal, Tom Dorsey)






A loose cow charges down South Fourth Street in Ames, Iowa, after escaping from the Iowa State University veterinary medicine building Friday, March 19, 2010. Police chased the pregnant cow, which was brought to the college for calving, for over two hours, shooting her with a total of four tranquilizer darts. (AP Photo/Ames Tribune, Ronnie Miller)






High tide waves wash over some of the thousands of starfish that have been washed up on the beach at Budleigh Salterton on March 18, 2010 in Devon, England. Over the last few days hundreds of thousands of starfish have been washed up on the beach, which marine experts believe is due to them become susceptible to high tides and storms after becoming exhausted spawning. Similar events happen once or twice a year in the UK, but it is the first time for Budleigh Salterton. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)






Olive Ridley turtles return to the Bay of Bengal sea after laying eggs on the Gokhurkuda beach, in Ganjam District, about 140 kilometers (88 miles) from Bhubaneshwar, India, Thursday, March 18, 2010. Olive Ridley turtles nest their eggs in parts of the Bay of Bengal Sea's Orissa coast. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)






A sea lion catches a fish during meal time at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Japan Saturday, March 20, 2010.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)






"Girlie," a 29-year-old Philippine Eagle which has a blind right eye, stares from its cage at the Parks and Wildlife Center at Manila's Quezon city, Philippines, Sunday, March 14, 2010. The Philippine Eagle, one of the largest eagles in the world and globally considered as critically endangered since 1969, was adapted and regularly funded by Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who retained his WBO Welterweight crown versus Joshua Clottey of Ghana on Saturday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)






An unidentified man falls from his donkey as another man chases the animal with a stick, during the traditional Donkey Race in teh village of Sakule, 30 kilometers northwest of Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, March 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)






Marquette forward Lazar Hayward (32) plays with Zera Williams, 8, daughter of head coach Buzz Williams, during NCAA college basketball practice in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Marquette played  Washington in a first-round East Regional game Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)


 

Washington's Quincy Pondexter puts up the game-winning basket against Marquette. MU loses, 80-78.
AP photo.






Marquette's Lazar Hayward drops to the floor after the Golden Eagles' loss to Washington. AP photo.






Jon Leuer (30) hugs Wofford’s Cameron Rundles after Wisconsin squeaked out a 53-49 victory in first-round NCAA action in Jacksonville, Fla. Photo: MCT






Andy Fox kisses the trophy after Hartland Arrowhead defeated Madison Memorial to win the Division 1 title, 72-51. Journal Sentinel photo: Benny Sieu.






In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Grand Haven High School senior Nate VanArendonk (34) throws down a dunk and shatters the glass backboard at Grandville High School during the third quarter of the Class A regional championship game in Grandville, Mich. Teammate Isiah Law (11) reacts in background. The game was delayed for well over an hour and eventually resumed at Jenison High School, where the Grand Haven Buccaneers defeated the Rockford Rams to claim the school's first regional championship since 1992. (AP Photo/Grand Haven Tribune, H. Andrew Loree)






Fans chase a foul ball hit by Washington Nationals' Chris Duncan during the sixth inning of a spring training baseball game against the Houston Astros Wednesday, March 17, 2010 in Kissimmee, Fla. The Astros won the game 11-2. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)






Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels, right, signs autographs for fans before a spring training baseball game against the New York Yankees in Clearwater, Fla., Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)






Czech Republic's Zdenek Krupicka, left, reacts as he's hit by Italy's Gregory Leperdi during first period ice sledge hockey action at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Wednesday March 17 2010. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Darryl Dyck)






Over 50,000 pounds of butters and cheeses from all over the world were judged during the 2010 World Championshiop Cheese Contest held at Monona Terrace in Madison. Thirty tasting experts gathered, and tasting was under way to find the top entries in each class.Monona Terrace in Madison. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff



 

Although it's only 3-months-old, this Liederkranz cheese (center) from Chalet Cheese Co-op, packs quite a pungent punch. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff. Related story






Cardinal Edward Egan, right, and Archbishop Timothy Dolan laugh outside St. Patrick's Cathedral during the 249th St. Patrick's Day parade, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)






Karim Simmons, right, from the Bronx, watches the participants march up 5th Ave during the St. Patrick's Day parade, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)






Jack Morrison, 85, of Columbus, Ohio, left, along with his great-grandson Brendan Fernandez, 6, of Vermilion, Ohio, pass the time by leaning on their canes before marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/The Columbus Dispatch, Eric Albrecht)






Seventeen-month-old Emma McIntosh sleeps while her father, Jason McIntosh, protects her ears during the 183rd Savannah St. Patrick's Day parade, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)






A green shamrock hot- air balloon , named "Paddy" flown by Orlando Balloon Rides drifts Wednesday, March 17, 2010 over Reunion Resort, a private golf resort in Kissimmee, Fla., on St. Patrick's Day. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Red Huber)






Sean Sarich (from left), Kelly Carsten, Raynaldo Roman, Joshua Walker and Daniel Smokovich enjoy a hearty Irish breakfast with green beer at 7 a.m. at Trinity Irish Pub, 125 E. Juneau Ave. Journal Sentinel photo: Gary Porter






A parade-goer gets a mouthful of beer from a passing float on Wednesday during the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in the Town of Erin in Washington County. Thousands of people lined Highway K to take part and watch the 30th annual parade. Journal Sentinel photo:  Mark Hoffman


 

John Daly putts out on the 10th hole during the first round of the Transitions golf tournament Thursday, March 18, 2010, at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara).

Actress Katherine Heigl (shoe detail) arrives at the Warner Bros. Pictures presentation to promote her new film, "Life as We Know It" at the Paris Las Vegas during ShoWest, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, March 18, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)


 

Actress Katherine Heigl, right, accepts the Female Star of the Year Award while holding a broken strap on her dress as show host Billy Bush looks on at the ShoWest 2010 Final Night Talent Awards in Las Vegas on Thursday, March 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)






Brad Burmeister, left, and Michael Dubois move a figure of the late Fred Rogers, host of the PBS children's television program "Mister Rogers Neighborhood", at the Heinz History Center before it is placed on exhibit at the museum in Pittsburgh, Friday, March 19, 2010. Rogers, who died in 2003, was a Pittsburgh area native. Now, Rogers' friends want to honor his legacy with a national day of volunteering on his birthday.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)






Performer Mariya Klose - a "lovely" in circus parlance - rides atop one of the elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus near the U.S. Capitol as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images)






Anti-Obama billboard in Grand Junction, Colorado. Photo: smokingballoon.org