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Photos of the Week (04/25/10)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on April 25, 2010

Photos of the Week

Rep. Thomas Lothian (R-Williams Bay) and Rep. Cory Mason (D-Racine) rest between speeches on the last day of the state legislative session.Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood






Peter Isely, right, a spokesman for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, reacts after victim Arthur Budzinski's address outside the federal courthouse Thursday, April 22, 2010, in Milwaukee. A federal lawsuit was filed Thursday that accuses Pope Benedict XVI and senior Vatican officials of failing to defrock Rev. Lawrence Murphy despite allegations Murphy molested at least 200 deaf children from 1950 to 1975. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)






With a variety of law enforcement people standing behind her, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer talks about why she signed immigration bill SB1070 into law Friday, April 23, 2010, in Phoenix. The sweeping measure would make it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally, and would require local law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)






An Arizona state patrolman watches as demonstrators protest a new immigration law outside the Arizona State Capitol building on April 23, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona. Critics say the new law will lead to racial profiling and civil rights abuses against the Hispanic community. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

 

Ernie Getford holds a sign in support of the controversial SB1070 illegal immigration enforcement bill during a rally at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Friday April 23, 2010. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Nick Oza)






An undocumented Mexican immigrant peers from her living room on April 24, 2010 in Tuscon, Arizona. She, her husband and daughter moved to Arizona illegally 10 years ago. The family, who asked not to be identified by name, said that with Arizona's new immigrant law they were scared that they would be randomly stopped and deported. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)






Iraqi policemen search the site of a joint U.S-Iraqi raid that killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, two top-ranking al-Qaida figures, about six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of Tikrit, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. A regional al-Qaida leader was killed Tuesday as U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to put pressure on the terrorist organization following the reported deaths of its two top-ranking figures over the weekend, officials said. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri were killed in a joint operation Sunday in what Vice President Joe Biden called a "potentially devastating blow" to al-Qaida in Iraq. (AP Photo)






Cozette Westenberger, left, of Dothan, Ala., hugs U.S. Army veteran Phillip Hewitt, right, of Greensboro, N.C., during a visit to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., Saturday, April 16, 2010. Hewitt was participating in the Triad Flight of Honor. Westenberger spotted Hewitt and two fellow veterans touring the memorial, hugged the three and thanked them for their service. (AP Photo/News & Record, Nelson Kepley)






Lighting seen amid the lava and ash erupting from the vent of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in central Iceland early morning Sunday April 18 2010 as it continues to vent into the skies over Europe. Low-energy lightning is sometimes active during eruptions, arcing between particles as they exit the volcanic vent at around 100 metres per second. The dramatic volcanic eruption which has closed Europe's airspace for days has entered a new phase - producing less smoke but bubbling with lava and throwing up chunks of molten rock. (AP Photo/ Jon Pall Vilhelmsson)






A plume of ash from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier covers the farm of Pall Eggert Olafsson, in Thorvaldseyri, Iceland, Monday, April 19, 2010. Meteorologists in Iceland said eruptions from the volcano were weakening and the ash was no longer rising to a height where it would endanger large commercial aircraft. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)






An aerial view showing a plume of ash rising from the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Airlines lost at least $1.7 billion in revenue during the volcanic ash crisis, an industry group said Wednesday as the debate heated up over whether European governments were justified in shutting down their airspace for so long. In Iceland, where all the trouble began with an April 14 eruption, there was no sign Wednesday that the Eyjafjallajokull volcano would stop erupting anytime soon, according to Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the Institute of Earth Sciences in Reykjavik. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)






Huw Thomas, of England, eats his breakfast in his cot at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Monday, April 19, 2010. Thomas and his family were originally supposed to fly back to England from a vacation in New York on Friday, April 16, but now they are unsure of when they'll be able to return home. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)


 

Daisia Garvilova of Russia, stranded since April 15, sleeps on a baggage belt inside John F. Kennedy International Airport while hoping to catch a flight on FinnAir following flight disruptions due to volcanic activity in Iceland April 20, 2010 in the Queens borough of New York City. Many European flights resumed for the first time in days but chaos continued as a backlog a flights continued to grow and London's airports remained closed. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)






Members of the Perrin Field Honor Guard Corp, made up of Boy Scouts from Pottsboro, Texas, line up facing the east gate before the 15th anniversary observance ceremony of the Murrah Building bombing April 19, 2010 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people in what was then the largest terrorist attack in United States history. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)






Mabel Knight, aunt of Lakesha Levy, killed in the Murrah Building bombing, holds Levy's boot, which was found in the rubble, as family members gather around Levy's memorial chair at the Oklahoma City National Memorial after the 15th anniversary observance ceremony of the Murrah Building bombing April 19, 2010 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people in what was then the largest terrorist attack in United States history. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)






Polish soldiers carry a coffin of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Sunday, April 18, 2010 in Krakow, southern Poland. The state funeral for late Polishwith the President Lech Kaczynski in mostly Roman Catholic Poland began with a Mass at the 13th-century St. Mary's Basilica. The bodies of the first couple are carried in a funeral procession across the Old Town to the historic Wawel Cathedral, where they will be interred. Kaczynski, his wife Maria and other 94 people have been killed in a plane crash a week earlier. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)


 

Clarke County Det. Rebecca Croxton comforts a newborn whose mother was fatally shot at the scene of a multiple domestic shooting in Southeastern Clarke County, Ga. on Tuesday April 20, 2010. Law enforcement personnel say the suspect, a 28-year-old living with Asperger syndrome, allegedly shot and wounded his 63-year-old mother, 31-year old sister and killed his 29-year-old sister before shooting himself in the chest. (AP Photo/Athens Banner-Herald, David Manning)






Wearing ghilli suits, Iranian army soldiers march during a parade marking National Army Day, in front of mausoleum of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)


 

From left to right, Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Lt. Dan Choi, Cpl. Evelyn Thomas, Capt. Jim Pietrangelo II, Cadet Mara Boyd and Petty Officer Larry Whitt handcuffed themselves to the fence outside the White House during a protest for gay-rights in Washington, Tuesday, April, 2010. The group demand that President Obama keep his promise to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) this year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)


 

Nine demonstrators are arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct after they indicated they intended to stay chained to the doors of the old Capitol building until the governor vetoed Senate Bill 1070, the wide-ranging illegal immigration measure. Arizona lawmakers approved a sweeping immigration bill Monday intended to ramp up law enforcement efforts even as critics complained it could lead to racial profiling and other abuse. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Nick Oza)


 

A woman passes a joint at a pro-marijuana "4/20" celebration in front of the state capitol building April 20, 2010 in Denver, Colorado. April 20th has become a de facto holiday for marijuana advocates, with large gatherings and 'smoke outs' in many parts of the United States. Colorado, one of 14 states to allow use of medical marijuana, has experienced an explosion in marijuana dispensaries, trade shows and related businesses in the last year as marijuana use has become more mainstream. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)



 

A paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of U.S.A. Pavilion at the World Expo site on the trial day, Friday, April 23, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Shanghai's Expo which opens May 1, is likely to be the largest world's fair ever, with some 70 million visitors expected to attend in the six months before it closes on Oct. 31. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)






Pope Benedict XVI waves from the Popemobile as he arrives in Floriana, Malta, Sunday, April 18, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI met Sunday with a group of clerical abuse victims and promised them the Catholic Church would do everything in its power to punish abusive priests and protect young people in the future. The Vatican said Benedict expressed his "shame and sorrow" at the pain the men and their families suffered and prayed with them during the meeting at the Vatican's embassy in Malta. (AP Photo/Lino Arrigo Azzopardi)






In this photo taken April 12, 2010, a "parking" meter which takes donations to benefit the homeless stands at the Grand Central bus stop in front of the Premium Outlet Mall in Las Vegas. Las Vegas has begun a program similar to some other cities, using refurbished bright green parking meters to collect spare change to fund homeless services. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jerry Henkel)


 

Jim Martinson, a retired U.S. Army Sergeant who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, golfs using a special vehicle on the driving range at the American Lake Veterans Golf Course, Tuesday, April 20, 2010, in Lakewood, Wash. The course recently celebrated the completion of a new rehabilitation and learning center, and planning is underway for an additional nine holes that will be designed by Jack Nicklaus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)


 

A boy with his mother checks a sudden rain while sitting in their car, in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 19, 2010. Rain on Monday brought respite from heat by lowering the temperatures to around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)






Saint Martin's University civil engineering student Jennifer Hatfield volunteers as a practice target before a group of department professors took the stage for a pie tossing fundraiser for Haiti earthquake relief Tuesday, April 20, 2010 on the Lacey, Wash. campus. The event, which brought in $2,300, was organized by the university's engineering department, which plans a trip to Haiti with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Engineers Without Borders (EWB). They will work on service projects to help those affected by the recent earthquake. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)






Cheyenne gets a belly rub from owner Michelle Bacon, of Harcourt, Iowa, during the 31st annual Drake Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest, Monday, April 19, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa. The pageant kicks off the Drake Relays festivities at Drake University where a bulldog is the mascot. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)






Ashley, 9, right, and Allison, 8, Welter from Winchester, Va., enjoy the new Penguin Playhouse exhibit at the Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies Tuesday, April 20, 2010 in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The $5 million addition to the aquarium opened Tuesday with 18 black-footed penguins on display. (AP Photo/ Paul Efird, Knoxville News Sentinel)






Two six week old white tiger cubs named Rico and Kico drink from bottles during a press conference at the Serengeti-Park zoo in Hodenhagen, northern Germany, on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Both were born on March 8 at the park and now got their first medical examination. (AP Photo/dapd/Focke Strangmann)






Katie Gut, a volunteer at the Racine Zoo, feeds American White Pelicans capelin fish, on Thursday, April 22, 2010. The zoo houses several pelicans on the grounds. (AP Photo/The Journal Times, Scott Anderson)


 

In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, staff and volunteers from the Turtle Hospital watch a 200-pound, male Loggerhead sea turtle named "Pal" make its way to deeper water off the Florida Keys Thursday, April 22, 2010, in Marathon, Fla. The turtle was released on Earth Day after being treated for more than a month with antibiotics and laxatives for an impacted digestive system. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)






A baby Great-Horned Owl at Blandford Nature Center in Grand Rapids Mich, the last animal accepted for rehabilitation through the Wildlife Program, is pictured Thursday, April 22, 2010. The Wildlife Department, which houses several birds of prey, mammals, and reptiles that cannot survive in the wild, may be cut due to a lack of funding. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Emily Zoladz)






Models pose wearing futuristic garb, besides an electric chopper motorbike, at a Siemens stand before opening the Hanover industrial fair in Hanover, Germany, Sunday, April 18, 2010. From April 19 to 23, 2010, about 4,821 industrial exhibitors from some 64 countries will gather at the fair. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)






Former Iowa tackle Bryan Bulaga was selected by the Packers with the 23rd overall pick in the NFL Draft Thursday. Photo: AP


 

World chess champion Viswanathan Anand from India, right, watches as his Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov, left, plays during the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Saturday, April, 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)






Six-year-olds wait to audition for coveted spots at the famed School of American Ballet in the Rose Building at Lincoln Center April 19, 2010 in New York City. Today is the first day in a series of audtions for new students between the ages of 6 and 10. Dancers trained at the school currently perform on the rosters of more than 70 national and international companies. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)






Alice Anderson, right, a 103-three-old from Prairie Estates Care Center in Elk Point, South Dakota, rides an elephant at the 60th Annual Abur Bekr Shrine circus, Friday, April 16, 2010, at the Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena, Sioux City, Iowa. Vicky the elephant is part of the George Carden Circus International. Anderson is accompanied by Katelyn Lawson, sitting next to her, and Rose Chicoine, back to camera, both employees of Prairie Estates. (AP Photo/Sioux City Journal, Jerry Mennenga)