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Photos of the Week (07/22/12)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on July 22, 2012

Photos of the Week

1) Yellow markers sit next to evidence, including a gas mask, as police investigate the scene outside the Century Aurora movie theater in Aurora, Colo., on July 20. Photo: David Zalubowski / AP


2) Firefighters stand outside the apartment complex where suspect James Eagan Holmes lived in Aurora, Colo., July 21. Police probing a Colorado shooting rampage prepared on Saturday to send in a robot to detonate what they called a sophisticated booby-trap in the apartment of Holmes, 24, accused of killing 12 people at a screening of the new "Batman" film. Holmes is accused of storming into a theater in a suburban Denver multiplex just after midnight on Friday clad head-to-toe in black body armor and a gas mask and tossing smoke bombs into the audience before shooting seemingly at random. Photo: Joshua Lott / Reuters


3) Tom Sullivan embraces family members on July 20 while searching frantically for his son Alex, who was celebrating his 27th birthday at the movie theater. Photo: Barry Gutierrez / AP


4) In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, people watch villain Bane on the screen during the midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises" inside the Liberty Science Center IMAX theater Friday, July 20, 2012, in Jersey City, N.J. A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, July 20, 2012, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)


5) Corn plants dry in a drought-stricken farm field on July 17, 2012 near Fritchton, Ind. The corn and soybean belt in the middle of the nation is experiencing one of the worst droughts in more than five decades. Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images


6) Boats sit on the dry, cracked bottom in a dry cove at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind., on July 16. The reservoir is down nearly 6 feet from normal levels and being lowered 1 foot every five days to provide water for Indianapolis.  Here's  another photo from the same location. Photos: Michael Conroy / AP


7) A dead fish lies in Mitchell Lake in the Ballard Wildlife Management Area near Barlow, Ky., as lack a of rain and excessive heat deplete oxygen from the water Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)


8) Golfers look for a ball in the bed of a dried up pond next to the fairway on No. 7 during the Junior City Golf Tournament Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at Lafayette Golf Course in Lafayette, Ind. The ball disappeared in a deep crack in the parched soil of the former water hazzard. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, John Terhune)


9) When a heat wave hits Wisconsin, no big deal. New York? That's different. It becomes news. People relax in the sand at the Brooklyn Bridge Park pop-up pool on July 16, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. A heat advisory was issued in the city that day as high temperatures were expected in the 90s the next three days. Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images


10) Incoming Wisconsin Senate President Fred Risser, D-Madison, right, is congratulated by outgoing Senate President Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, after Risser assumed the seat during a swearing-in ceremony at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Democrats elected Risser as president of the state Senate after taking majority control following a victory in a recall election. John Lehman's victory in Racine gave Democrats a 17-16 edge. Photo: AP


11) Makayla Fideler, 11, of West Bend looks over her shoulder as she prepares to call another registered voter at the Republican Headquarters in downtown West Bend, Wis. , on Wednesday afternoon July 18, 2012. The Young Republicans made calls to 'swing voters" to gather information for the upcoming election between President Barack Obama and Mit Romney this November. Photo: AP


12) Tea Party supporters attend a ''Patriots in the Park'' rally while waiting to hear Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate, speak at the Wayne County Fairgrounds July 14, 2012 in Belleville, Michigan. The event was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity: Michigan and the Willow Run Tea Party Caucus. Photo: Getty Images


13) Maricopa County Sheriff's Cold Case Posse Lead Investigator Mike Zullo announces Tuesday, July 17, 2012, in Phoenix that President Obama's birth certificate, as presented by the White House in April 2011, is a forgery based on an investigation by the Sheriff's office. Photo: AP


14) Patient Tim Gordon, who lives in Wise, Va., and who is patient number 1117 out of 1,500 for the day, catches a nap in the trunk of his car as he waits to get into the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic held at the county fairgrounds, July 20, in Wise, Va. Over 3000 patients will be seen on the multi-day event by the largest free health clinic in the United States for dental, vision, wellness, women's health, lab testing, and health education, by volunteers from medical schools, hospitals, and civic organizations. Patients come from thousands of miles away and camp out in the muddy parking lot for a chance at the free health care. Photo: Paul J. Richards / AFP - Getty Images


15) Kim Ranck touches the arm on the Joe Paterno statue as she walks away in tears Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Ranck, a 2006 Penn State University graduate and current Penn State employee, was out of town when the controversy surrounding the statue broke and came to visit before something happened to it. The Joe Paterno statue, on the Penn State campus, in State College, Pa., has become a highly debated topic since the release of the Louis Freeh report. (AP Photo/Centre Daily Times, Nabil K. Mark)


16) Habiba Abubakar of Nigeria, right, talks with psychologist and faculty member Yaron Prywes while attending the "Common Bond" summer camp in Newbury, Mass., on July 18, 2012. Teens from across the world who lost loved ones due to terrorism gathered for the 10 day camp to share their feelings, insights and a chance to be the world's next generation of international peacemakers. Abubakar lost her father during the Jos religious riots in 2010. Photo: Charles Krupa / AP


17) Nasa Indians drag off a soldier in Toribio, southern Colombia on July 17. Dozens of Indians attacked half a dozen soldiers guarding communication towers on the outskirts of the town. Photo: William Fernando Martinez / AP


18) A member of the Legislative Council Leung Kwok-hung, also known as Long Hair, center, throws an effigy of the head of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to Leung during the first question-and-answer session in Hong Kong Monday, July 16, 2012. Leung become a target for Hong Kong residents' discontent because of his plummeting popularity following a scandal over illegal additions to his mansion. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung).


19) NASA astronaut Joe Acaba captured this photo of the southern lights in a dazzling aurora display on July 14-15, 2012, during an uptick in solar activity.


20) The Space Shuttle Enterprise is seen at a press preview of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's new Space Shuttle Pavilion on Wednesday in New York City. The Enterprise was NASA's first space shuttle and a prototype which performed tests in 1977 within the Earth's atmosphere. NASA awarded the Enterprise to the museum after the 2011 retirement of the shuttle program. The pavilion will open to the public July 19. Of the six shuttles that NASA built, only four remain: Enterprise plus Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. The other two experienced disasters during their missions, killing their crews: Challenger exploded in 1986 and Columbia disintegrated in 2003. Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images


21) A motor tricycle loaded with recyclable plastic bottles drives along a street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China on July 18, 2012.


22) Indian villagers stand near a group of centipedes at Lavad village, about 35 kilometers from Ahmadabad, India, Saturday, July 21, 2012. Millions of centipedes have surfaced in Lavad village invading kitchens, homes and schools, forcing village authorities to close school and nearly half of the 6,000 population to temporarily migrate, a newspaper reported. The Gujarat state government has asked veterinary doctors to visit the area and submit a report on the phenomenon for appropriate action, the report said. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)


23) Patrick Karabaranga, a warden at the Virunga National Park, sits with an orphaned mountain gorilla in the gorilla sanctuary in the park headquarters at Rumangabo in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday. The Virunga park is home to some 210 mountain gorillas, approximately a quarter of the world's population. The four orphans that live in the sanctuary are the only mountain gorillas in the world not living in the wild, having been brought here after their parents were killed by poachers or as a result of traffickers trying to smuggle them out of the park. "They play a critical part in the survival of the species" says Emmanuel De Merode, Director for Virunga National Park. He adds that the ICCN does not currently have access to the gorilla sector of the park due to the M23 rebellion. Photo: Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images


24) The Olympic spirit is up and running at London Zoo on Thursday, as Bob the owl, takes on a 100 cm - yes - 100 cm sprint. Bob was participating in the zoo's daily Animal Athletes in Action and showing off his unique running technique. The six inch tall owl works daily to beat his personal best time. Photo: EPA


25) Elise Costa holds a 21-pound-lobster that was caught off the coast of Cape Cod. "I had its tail on my shoulder and I had each claw in one of my hands, and it was as long as my arms and as big as my torso," said Elise Costa, restaurant manager of Capt'n Elmer's, to WBZ NewsRadio. "It's giant." Because it was caught in an unrestricted area, the fate of the 21-pound Cape Cod lobster remains uncertain."Usually, for every four and a half pounds of live lobster, once you cook it and clean it, you get one pound of meat. So 21 divided by four and a half, that would give you about five pounds of meat," Costa said. She also said the lobster would remain on display for a few days before either being sold or raffled for charity. Photo: The Daily Mail via Elise Costa/WBZ.


26) People walk by an Olympic mascot, painted in the likeness of a member of Parliament, across the River Thames from Parliament on Saturday, July 21, 2012, in London. The statue is one of 84 fiberglass sculptures of the mascots Wenlock or Mandeville that were painted by various artists and erected across the city for the 2012 London Olympic Games. (AP Photos/Charlie Riedel)


27) Over 300 teams and 5,000 players competed in the annual Swamp Soccer Championships in Hyrynsalmi, Finland last  weekend. Here, a manager of one of the losing teams wallows in the mud.   Photo: Johanna Kannasmaa / EPA


28) Participants of the Miss World Next Top Model 2012 beauty pageant perform during the contest in Beirut, Lebanon, late Sunday, July 15, 2012. Thirty-eight models gathered from all over the world to compete in the biggest international event to be held in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)


29) A combination photo shows Belgium's Queen Paola, left, trying to help King Albert II to remove his sword which was caught in a drain grate outside the Saint-Gudule cathedral before a religious service (Te Deum) in Brussels, Belgium, July 21. Belgium celebrates its national day and its 182nd anniversary of independence on Saturday. Photo: Yves Herman / Reuters


30) US President Barack Obama greets 11-year-old Haley Klepper during a ceremony honoring the 2012 NCAA Women's College Basketball Champion Baylor Bears in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 18, 2012. The team's so-called biggest fan, Klepper, who suffers from a rare Mitochondrial disease, attends all the team's games and has a reserved spot in the locker room. The Baylor Lady Bears became the first NCAA basketball team to complete a 40-0 season by defeating Notre Dame 80-61 in the NCAA women's championship. Photos: Getty Images.


31) US President Barack Obama kisses his wife, US First Lady Michelle Obama, beside daughter Malia (R) during the Men's USA Basketball vs Brazil game at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, July 16, 2012. GOTCHA! Photos: Getty Images.


32) Orlando Duque of Colombia dives 95 feet off a rock monolith during the first round of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Islet Vila Franca do Campo in Azores, Portugal on July 20, 2012. Photo: Dean Treml / AFP - Getty Images


33) A photo of a gun-wielding, bikini-clad woman standing on a crowded Tel Aviv beach has become an Internet sensation, with thousands of viewers curious about whether the brunette beauty is part of Israel's military and why she wasn't in uniform with her weapon in tow. The young woman, dressed only in a black-and-white string bikini, was captured chatting with a friend, rifle (with its magazine removed) slung casually behind her back. Though there's no uniform to identify her, the woman appears to be part of the Israel Defense Forces. Two years of IDF service is mandatory for most Israeli women at age 18. Men serve three years. Photo: The Blaze via Facebook.


AND FINALLY,


34) Oak Creek players race onto the field in celebration as Hayden Krimmer slides across home plate to score the winning run in the state summer baseball final against Germantown. Oak Creek won, 5-4. Krimmer scored on a hit by Riley Shelton, which capped Oak Creek's rally from a four-run deficit. Franklin had won the two previous championships. Photo: Peter Zuzga