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Day in photos Arming teachers, sand surfing, rape protests in India and more.
Dec. 27, 2012
Clark Aposhian, president of the Utah Shooting Sport Council, holds a pistol during a concealed-weapons training class for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants.
Rick Bowmer
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AP
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Dec. 27, 2012
Aposhian demonstrates with a plastic gun during a concealed-weapons training class for Utah teachers in West Valley City.
Rick Bowmer
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Dec. 27, 2012
Cori Sorensen, a fourth-grade teacher from Highland Elementary School in Highland, Utah, receives firearms training with a .357 magnum from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy during a concealed-weapons training class for Utah teachers in West Valley City.
Rick Bowmer
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AP
Dec. 27, 2012
Bobbi Frampton, a vocational teacher, listens during a concealed-weapons training class for Utah teachers in West Valley City.
Rick Bowmer
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AP
Dec. 27, 2012
From left, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and Sheriff Lee Baca show some of the weapons collected during a gun buy-back event during a news conference at police headquarters. Villaraigosa's office says the weapons collected Wednesday included 901 handguns, 698 rifles, 363 shotguns and 75 assault weapons. The buy back is usually held in May but was moved up in response to the Dec. 14 massacre of students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
Dec. 28, 2012
A man is wrapped in pythons — mostly albino Burmese pythons — in Malabon, Philippines, as part of a show celebrating the coming year of the snake in the Chinese calendar.
Romeo Ranoco
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Reuters
Dec. 27, 2012
Eric Waite of Westborough, Mass., piles up kids on a friend's sled in Greenfield, Mass. A winter storm that caused tornados in the South on Christmas Day swept across the Northeast on Thursday, bringing snow, sleet and rain, and causing dangerous travel conditions.
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Dec. 27, 2012
Cody Mooney tosses his 17-month-old daughter, Willow, in the air as snow geese take flight behind them in the Skagit Valley near La Conner, Wash. Bird watchers took advantage of a day without rain to gaze at some of the tens of thousands of snow geese that spend the winter near the mouth of the Skagit River. The geese migrate from their mating grounds in Alaska and Siberia in late November to spend the winter in wetlands and farm fields of the Skagit Valley and other areas of northwest Washington state.
Elaine Thompson
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Dec. 27, 2012
Cameron Doll looses control of his sled while enjoying an afternoon of sledding at Fort Harrison State Park in Indianapolis.
Darron Cummings
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AP
Dec. 27, 2012
A man sand skis in the desert near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Alhwaity
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Reuters
Dec. 27, 2012
A man sand skis in the desert near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Alhwaity
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Reuters
Dec. 28, 2012
Revelers take part in the battle of Enfarinats, a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival in Ibi, Spain. Citizens of Ibi celebrate the annual festival with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers. The battle takes place between two groups, a group of married men called Els Enfarinats, which takes control of the village for one day, pronouncing a whole of ridiculous laws and fining the citizens that infringe them, and a group called La Oposicio, which tries to restore order. At the end of the day, the money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes in the village. The festival has been celebrated since 1981 after the town of Ibi recovered the tradition, but its origins remain unknown.
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Dec. 27, 2012
Parked cars wait under mounds of snow on Montreal’s Darling Street.
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Dec. 27, 2012
Firefighters and frontier soldiers rescue ice-bound ships at the frozen Bohai Bay of Bohai Sea in Jinzhou, China. A fresh cold snap will hit most parts of China, according to the National Meteorological Center's forecast on Wednesday, Xinhua News Agency reported.
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China Daily via Reuters
Dec. 27, 2012
The Big Orange, a New Year's Eve time ball, is prepared to be raised onto the side of the Hotel InterContinental in Miami. The ball has been renamed La Gran Naranja this year in honor of Viva Florida 500, a three-year Spanish heritage campaign that begins Jan. 1. The 35-foot ball rises 400 feet to the top of the building and is lowered at midnight on Dec. 31 to mark the beginning of the new year.
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Dec. 27, 2012
Kashmiri Sikh students protest in Srinagar, India, against the brutal gang-rape of a woman on a bus last week in New Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Thursday to take action to protect the nation's women, while the young victim was flown to Singapore for treatment of severe internal injuries.
Dar Yasin
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AP
Dec. 27, 2012
Demonstrators shout slogans and wave placards as they move toward India Gate in New Delhi during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student in the Indian capital. Protests against sex crimes have swept India over the last week, with demonstrators denouncing the police and the government.
Sajjad Hussain
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 28, 2012
Lothar Moos of Biosphere Potsdam holds a giant stick insect from Thailand in Potsdam, Germany. Animals at the tropical zoo were counted for their end-of-the-year inventory.
Patrick Pleul
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Dec. 26, 2012
A titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as a corpse flower or corpse plant due to its odor, is displayed at the Inhotim Art Institute and Botanical Garden in Belo Horizonte, in the southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
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Dec. 27, 2012
Poinsettia, a dog abandoned two days before Christmas, is looked after at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London. The home was founded 150 years ago and has rescued, reunited and re-homed more than 3 million dogs and cats. The average stay for a dog is just 28 days, although some stay much longer. About 550 dogs and 200 cats are provided refuge by Battersea at any given time.
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Dec. 27, 2012
A tomato frog (Dyscophus antongilii) sits in its terrarium during an animal inventory at the Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany. During the annual inventory, all animals are counted, weighed and measured.
Christian Charisius
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Dec. 27, 2012
St. Denys Church sustains flooding in the village of Severn Stoke, near Worcester, England. This could be the United Kingdom's wettest year on record, according to forecasters; On Thursday, there were 88 flood warnings and 207 flood alerts in England and Wales. The Environment Agency in Hereford and Worcestershire are expecting further heavy rain, delaying a clean up until after the weekend.
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Dec. 27, 2012
An ornament is surrounded by stuffed animals at a memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Adrees Latif
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Reuters
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