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Photos of the Week (05/19/13)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on May 19, 2013

Photos of the Week

1) Cathy Munoz of Lincoln purchases Powerball tickets for an office pool at a convenience store in Lincoln, Neb., Friday, May 17, 2013. The estimated Powerball jackpot climbed up to 590 million dollars. A single ticket sold in Florida matched the winning numbers. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)


2) Kenny Chesney performs during a tour stop Saturday at a sold out Miller Park. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood


3) Grant Gauthier (from left), 15, Rachel Gauthier, 9, their cousin Zach Wollner and brother Mitchell Gauthier, 12, cheer as Kenny Chesney takes the stage as part of his 'No Shoes Nation' stop at Miller Park. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff


4) Kayla Spatt (left) and Alexa Reese, both of Sheboygan, missed their graduation so they could attend Kenny Chesney's 'No Shoes Nation' tour at Miller Park, where they hoped to 'walk the stage.' Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff


5) This May 14 photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows a smoky wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that has consumed 8,700 acres, destroyed nearly 50 structures and forced dozens from their homes. The DNR says the wildfire in Douglas County is about 90 percent contained Wednesday morning, meaning firefighters have stopped most of the fire from spreading. Photo: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources via AP


6) A structure burns along Sutfin Road east of Comminsky Road in Highland Township, Wis., east of Solon Springs, Wis., on May 14. Crews from Wisconsin and Minnesota were trying to control a rapidly growing wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that forced evacuations of the sparsely populated area. Several structures were destroyed in a mostly rural and wooded area east of Solon Springs as the forest fire grew to 9 square miles, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said. No injuries had been reported.  Photo: Clint Austin / AP


7) Denise Avrutik (R) gets emotional as she and her daughter Julianne Avrutik, watch the home she grew up in get demolished after it was damaged six months ago by Superstorm Sandy, May 15, 2013 in Ortley Beach, New Jersey. Mrs. Avrutik's family has owned the home since 1959 when she was only three years old. The nearby town of Mantoloking had all 528 homes either damaged or destroyed by the storm and say that at least 50 homes are scheduled to be demolished in the upcoming weeks. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)


8) Searchers working the Rancho Brazos neighborhood in Granbury , Texas, look for unaccounted residents, Thursday, May 16, 2013. A rash of tornadoes slammed into several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens more injured and hundreds homeless. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley)


9) This aerial photo shows first responders sifting through the wreckage of a home Thursday, May 16, 2013 in Granbury, Texas. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, G.J.McCarthy)


10) Baby birds are rescued from a fallen tree on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Cleburne, Texas, after overnight storms sparked tornadoes and caused damage to the area. (Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News/MCT)


11) A U.S. soldier arrives at the scene where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul on May 16. Photo: Anja Niedringhaus / AP


12) U.S. President Barack Obama arrives for the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol May 15, 2013 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)


13) Former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland, disabled in the Vietnam War, and a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star, right, looks at the casket containing the remains of 13 servicemen from the Vietnam War during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)


14) Jackmial Robles-Garcia, son of Corporal Wilbel A. Robles-Santa, squats next to the base of a Eastern Red Bud tree that was dedicated to his father during a Warriors Walk Tree dedication ceremony, Thursday, May 16, 2013 at Fort Stewart, Ga. Robles-Santa died April 6 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit in Zabul, Afghanistan. The Eastern Red Bud trees planted on Warriors Walk serve as a living monument to soldiers serving with the 3rd Infantry Division since the war in Iraq in 2003. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)


15) Protesters depicting detainees of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stage a 'murder scene' during a demonstration outside the US embassy in central London, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Friday, May 17, marked the 100th day the vast majority of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, have been on hunger strike. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)


16) Denise White, of Duxbury, Mass., center, pauses to read notes written on running shoes at the site of a memorial near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, one month after the bombing, in Boston, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)


17) Plastic surgeon Oskar Assmann, center rear, stands next to his patient, Hungarian worker Tibor A., in Vienna's AKH hospital on May 13. The 37-year-old man drove just over nine miles to the nearest hospital on May 11 after he accidentally sawed off his right arm below the elbow while cleaning a machine that processes construction rubble. He was able to retrieve the cut-off arm from the machine, then drive himself from Purbach, eastern Austria, to a hospital in Eisenstadt. He was then flown to Vienna, where doctors successfully reattached the arm. Photo: Herbert Neubauer / EPA


18) Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) stands next to a printed version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during a news conference on Capitol Hill May 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. On top of calling for the repeal of Obamacare, Boehner fielded questions from reporters about the Obama Administrations' subpoena of AP phone records, the IRS scrutiny of conservative political groups' applications for tax exemption and other issues. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)


19) Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official, is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice. Department. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte,R-Va., wants to know more about the unwarranted targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department's secret seizure of telephone records at The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)


20) O.J. Simpson walks up to the witness stand to testify during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court May 15, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine to 33-year sentence in state prison as a result of his October 2008 conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping charges, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial, claiming he had such bad representation that his conviction should be reversed. (Photo by Julie Jacobson - Pool/Getty Images)


21) In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponent Corrie Zastrow, left, calls out to patients while clinic escorts secure signs on the front gates to prevent abortion opponents from visually confronting patients as they enter the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss. The 2012 Mississippi law requires each doctor who performs abortions at the clinic to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Diane Derzis, the clinic’s owner, says all hospitals have refused. Last summer, the clinic filed its federal lawsuit seeking to permanently block the admitting privileges law. A federal judge allowed the law to take effect in July but prohibited the state from punishing the clinic as it sought to comply. In April, the judge blocked the state from holding a license revocation hearing while the lawsuit is pending. A trial is at least two months away, or the judge could decide the case without testimony, based on written arguments that are still being submitted. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)


22) Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with faithful on the occasion of a Pentecostal vigil St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 18, 2013.(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)


23) First lady Michelle Obama hugs Jenika Headley-Greene as Obama hands out diplomas during the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)


24) This is the incredible moment a fierce lightning bolt crashed against the Grand Canyon. Shrouded in darkness, the breath-taking landscape was shocked into life as mother nature fired the bolt illuminating the canyon walls. As it cracked against the rocks the bright blue bolt lit up the South Rim of the canyon, considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. With just the Desert View Watchtower in the foreground, the lightning was perfectly framed by Arizona's most famous landmark The once-in-a-lifetime shot, captured by photographer Travis Roe, was taken last year but has only just surfaced after he submitted the image to the U.S. Department of the Interior. The DOI, the government agency tasked with protecting US land, water and wildlife, runs an annual photo contest called Share the Experience.


25) Young locusts hop across the desert sand in the Negev Desert in Israel on May 12, 2013. Photo:
Dave Copeland / NBC News


26) Keeper Tobias Taraba looks into the mouth of walruss Odin during the annual animal inventory at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany, on May 16, 2013. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS GERMANY OUTCHRISTIAN CHARISIUS/AFP/Getty Images


27) In this undated handout photo provided by John Gomes, photographer for the Alaska Zoo, is Kali, a polar bear cub orphaned when its mother was killed by a hunter in northwest Alaska. The cub arrived at the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo N.Y., on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alaska Zoo, John Gomes)


28) A Humboldt penguin swims at Taman Safari in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)


29) This could very well be the Fischer back yard. But it's not. A Canada goose gosling walks on the north shore of the Allegheny River near downtown Pittsburgh, Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)


30) Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)


31) Paris Saint-Germain's midfielder David Beckham from England, waves to supporters as he celebrates PSG's French League One title, at the Parc des Princes Stadium, in Paris, Saturday, May 18, 2013. The match was his final home game for Paris Saint-Germain before retirement. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)


32) Philadelphia Phillies' Jimmy Rollins picks up his pink bat, in honor of Mother's Day, during the first inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Sunday, May 12, 2013, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)


33) Serena Williams from U.S. is tossed by ball boys while she poses for pictures after winning the final of the Madrid Open tennis tournament against Maria Sharapova from Russia, in Madrid Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)


34) Wisconsin third baseman Michelle Mueller, right, hugs winning pitcher Cassandra Darrah (8) as Badgers catcher Whitney Massey (2) hugs teammate Taylor-Paig Stewart following the team's win over Minnesota on Sunday, May 12, 2013, during the Big Ten Softball Championship game at Bowlin Stadium in Lincon, Neb. The Badgers defeated the Golden Gophers 9-3. (AP Photo/The Journal-Star, Francis Gardler)


35) A deflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, with the island skyline looming at the background, May 14. The 16.5-meter-high inflatable sculpture, which made its first public appearance in the territory on May 2, will be shown at the Ocean Terminal for a month. The Rubber Duck was deflated after some of its parts broke. Photo: Tyrone Siu / Reuters


36) Men using sledgehammers on a Maserati car outside the Qingdao International Convention Center in Qingdao, Shandong province, on May 14, 2013. A wealthy Chinese Maserati owner hired four sledgehammer-wielding men to smash up his $420,000 supercar in protest at poor customer service. Photo: AFP - Getty Images


37) A visitor of a Wave-Gothic meeting poses for a photo on May 17, in Leipzig, eastern Germany. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt / AFP - Getty Images


38) A topless FEMEN protester with an inscription on her body that reads "Life In Plastic Is Not Fantastic" holds up a burning cross with a Barbie doll attached to it outside the Barbie Dreamhouse Experience on May 16, 2013 in Berlin. Photo: Sean Gallup / Getty Images


39) Rock and Roll devotees Lori Barker and Yvette Hillebrandt pose as they attend the 50th Hemsby Rock 'n' Roll Weekender on May 21 in Hemsby, England. Photo: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images


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