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Photos of the Week (07/08/12)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on July 8, 2012

Photos of the Week

1) The Waldo Canyon fire burns an entire neighborhood near the foothills of Colorado Springs, Colo. on June 26, 2012. Colorado endured nearly a week of 100-plus-degree days and low humidity, sapping moisture from timber and grass, creating a devastating formula for volatile wildfires across the state and punishing conditions for firefighters. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post/Associated Press)


2) A tree sitting atop a vehicle offers free firewood in Falls Church, Va., Monday, July, 2, as cleanup continued after Friday's storm, Around 2 million utility customers are without electricity across a swath of states along the East Coast and as far west as Illinois as the area recovers from a round of summer storms that has also caused at least 17 deaths. Photo: Karen Mahabir / AP


3) Candles are placed at the scene of a triple shooting on the Fourth of July, on Thursday, July 5, 2012 in Los Angeles. Authorities report a gunman walked up to a crowd watching Fourth of July fireworks and opened fire, killing a young girl, Unique Russell, wounding a 12-year-old and a man.(AP Photo/Grant Hindsley)


4) ReaNo Su-hui, center, is detained by South Korean officials as North Korean officials, foreground, look on, immediately after No crossed the demarcation line on July 5, 2012. South Korean police arrested the activist for making an extended trip to Pyongyang without South Korean government approval as required by law. Photo: Kim Kwang Hyon / AP


5) Former President George Bush and his wife Laura visited the Kasisi Children's Home in Lusaka, one of the largest orphanages in Zambia. Pictures released during Mr Bush's one-week stay in Africa show him tenderly hugging a young boy and holding a baby while his wife looks on. Photos: The Daily Mail


6) Laser lights shine from The Shard over Tower Bridge on July 5, 2012 in London, England. The European Union's highest building, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, stands at 310 meters. Photo: Matthew Lloyd / Getty Images


7) Zoo keeper Lena talks to a newborn Tapir cub during its first walk in the outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, Friday, July 6, 2012.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)


8) Tori, a 15-year-old orangutan, smokes a cigarette inside her cage at Satwa Taru Jurug zoo in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Friday, July 6, 2012. Zookeepers said they plan to move Tori, who learned to smoke about a decade ago by imitating people, away from visitors who regularly throw lit cigarettes into her cage so they can watch and photograph her puffing away and exhaling smoke. (AP Photo)


9) A honeybee takes a drink from a fountain on the campus of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., July 1. The temperature was forecast to top 100 degrees for the third day in a row. Photo: Allen Breed / AP


10) A sun bear reacts to triple-digit temperatures at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., Friday, July 6, 2012. The temperature reached 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.5 Celsius) Friday. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)


11) A dock extends into a dry cove at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind., Thursday, July 5, 2012. The reservoir is down 3.5 feet from normal levels. Oppressive heat is slamming the middle of the country with record temperatures that aren't going away after the sun goes down. Temperatures exceeded 100 degrees in Central Indiana. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)


12) A marshal is treated for heat exhaustion on the 18th green during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament, Thursday, July 5, 2012, in Kohler, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)


13) Milwaukee Brewers manager Ron Roenicke argues with first base umpire Sam Holbrook Saturday in the first inning in Houston before being ejected. Photos: AP


14) Serena Williams celebrates with the trophy, the Venus Rosewater Dish, after her women's singles final victory over Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska at the Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament July 7. Photo: Glyn Kirk / AFP - Getty Images


15) Team Saxo Bank rider Jonathan Cantwell of Australia lies on the ground after a fall during the fifth stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Rouen and Saint-Quentin on Thursday. Photo: Joel Saget / Pool via Reuters


16) Injured Thomas Danielson of the US sits in the grass after a crash in the pack at some 20 kilometers from he finish line during the sixth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 207.5 kilometers (129 miles) with start in Epernay and finish in Metz, France, Friday July 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)


17) Participants gather to celebrate the 'Chupinazo' to mark the start at noon sharp of the San Fermin Festival on July 6, in front of the Town Hall of Pamplona, northern Spain. Tens of thousands of people packed Pamplona's streets for a drunken kick-off to Spain's best-known fiesta: the nine-day San Fermin bull-running festival. Photo: Rafa Rivas / AFP - Getty Images


18) Revellers taunt a fighting cow in the Plaza de Toros following the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 7. Photo: Joseba Etxaburu / Reuters


19) A reveler is tossed by a Dolores Aguirre Yabarra ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain, July 7. Photo: Daniel Ochoa De Olza / AP


20) Spanish fans console Steve Torchia while at St. Francis of Assisi School in Little Italy, as Italian and Spanish soccer fans gathered on College Street for the final game of the Euro Cup in Toronto on Sunday. Spain won the game 4-0. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star)


21) A computer glitch apparently caused the fireworks mishap that disappointed thousands of people who camped out to watch the Big Bay Boom in San Diego's Glorietta Bay Wednesday night, when they got more of a Big Bay Bust. Hours after the fireworks malfunction, August Santore, co-owner of Garden State Fireworks, told San Diego morning television stations, "We apologize to all the residents and all the people who missed their fireworks."  Photo: Reuters


22) SSG Travis Mills and his wife Kelsey Mills of Fort Bragg, N.C., talk to their 9-month-old baby, Chloe Mills, during a visit on July 4 to the 9/11 Memorial at ground zero in New York. Mills, who became a quadruple amputee after being injured by an IED in Afghanistan, was visiting the memorial with other wounded veterans as a part of a trip organized by the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which is helping to build accessible homes for the wounded veterans. Photo: Seth Wenig / AP


23) Alison Turner struggles for her straw after being buried by friends on Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., on Wednesday. Photo: Grant Hindsley / AP


24) Kate Fowler, 13, attends the Fourth of July Parade in Avondale Estates, Ga.  Photo: Erik S. Lesser / EPA


25) Cooks prepare "Stars and Stripes" desserts, fashioned as the U.S. flag, before a ceremony for the Fourth of July celebrations at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Photo: Jacques Demarthon / AFP - Getty Images


26) Tourist Ron Stuart of Seattle, Wash., poses for a photograph by a plate of hot dogs following a weigh-in for contestants in the annual Coney Island Fourth of July international hot dog-eating contest at City Hall park in New York, Tuesday, July 3, 2012, as some of the contest's competitors chat among themselves, right. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)


27) Joey Chestnut ate a record-tying 68 hot dogs to take the 2012 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest crown at Brooklyn's Coney Island.  Photo: Eric Thayer / Reuters


28) People pose with a 3D painting during the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition Of China at Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Center on July 3, 2012 in Hangzhou, China. The exhibition will run from July 1 to August 6 in Hangzhou. OK, one more. Photos: Getty Images


29) A model presents a creation during the Chevrolet Underground Catwalk, a fashion show in a special driving train of Berlin's subway, on the sidelines of the Berlin Fashion Week on July 4, 2012 in Berlin. The Berlin Fashion Week, presenting the collections of Spring/Summer 2013, is running from July 2 to 8, 2012. AFP PHOTO / BARBARA SAX/AFP/Getty Images


30) A model poses during the annual World Bodypainting Festival in Poertschach, Austria on July 7, 2012. Photo: Heinz-peter Bader / Reuters


31) People crawl on the pavement during a "zombie walk" event in Frankfurt on July 7, 2012. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach, Reuters


32) Players compete in the 2012 Swamp Soccer World Cup China in Beijing on July 6, 2012. The 10-day competition kicked off on July 5. Thirty two teams consisting of six players, including at least one woman, are taking part. The winners receive a 2012 London Olympics commemorative torch, local media reported. Photo: China Daily / Reuters


33) Teams take part in the Ironing Board Surfing event at the Chap Olympiad 2012 on July 7, in London, England. The Chap Olympiad describes itself as “a celebration of eccentricity and athletic ineptitude with the emphasis on panache and style over sporting prowess.” Guests and participants are encouraged to wear period dress, and the events are said to separate the chaps from the cads-- the winners receiving bronze, silver and gold cravats. Photo: Matthew Lloyd / Getty Images


34) Competitors take part in the Not Playing Tennis event, where the aim is to make the least effort at playing tennis, at the Chap Olympiad 2012 on July 7, in London. Photo: Matthew Lloyd / Getty Images


And we close with a video because a photo simply wouldn’t do it justice.