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A taxidermy giraffe created by Jon Verwoest, of Marysville, and Grady Miller, of Olivehurst, is loaded into a truck to ship from Rio Oso to the International Wildlife Museum in Tucson Arizona, on Friday, May 24, 2013. At left is Eric Nelson who owns the Rio Oso "Man Cave" where the taxidermy work took place, and inside the truck is Grady Miller. View a photo gallery. -
Nia Dorner, of Cordova High School, leaves the blocks in the Girls 400m race during the Masters Track Meet on Friday afternoon, May 24, 2013 at Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove, California. View a photo gallery. -
Pacific Technology School eight-graders drag their boat in to shore to win their heat in the Slalom Course event at the 6th Annual Cardboard/ Plywood/ Whatever Boat Regatta Friday, May 24, 2013 at Negro Bar State Park Lower Beach in Folsom. Forty-nine teams from area middle and high schools competing for Honor and Glory in the Drag race, Slalom Course, Best Sinking (Titanic Award), Best Design-Construction, Greatest Buoyant Force (huck finn), Most Recyclable/ Green Boat competitions. View a photo gallery. The team from left, Ashley Abraham, Lilly Beireis, Sydney Hess and Cecily Rockwood. -
Metal sculptor, Gina Rossi, lifts a metal dragon bike rack down from a wall in her workshop in midtown, Friday, May 24, 2013. Rossi, a licensed vocation nurse and welding instructor, has developed a thriving business fashioning bike racks that double as public art. -
Maintenance workers from the Moore Public Schools erect crosses at the Plaza Towers elementary school that they built in memory of the seven children who died during the Moore tornado, Friday, May 24, 2013 in Moore, Okla. One large cross and seven smaller crosses with the names of the victims are in memory of the seven students who died in the Moore tornado. View a photo gallery. -
Tony Garza, left with his brother Jose Garza from Houston Texas visits the gravesite of their father, Manuel Garza, a WWII veteran, before the Memorial Day holiday, Friday May 24, 2013 in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles National Cemetery. -
A surfer carries his board on the beach in Huntington Beach, Calif., Friday, May 24, 2013. AAA expects 31.2 million Americans to hit the road this weekend, virtually the same number as last year. Throw in planes, trains and buses, and the number of travelers will drop about 1 percent, AAA says. -
A collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge lies at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below Thursday evening. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. At an overnight news conference, Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste blamed the collapse on a tractor-trailer carrying a tall load that hit an upper part of the span. -
A Cambodian nun hold a poster of Buddha's image as she prays during the Buddhist Visak Bochea ceremony at Udong resort in Kandal province, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh on Friday, May 24, 2013. About ten thousand of Buddhist monks, civil servants and residents gathered to mark the Visak Bochea, the holiest day of the Buddhist calendar, which marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha on the day of the full moon in May. -
A newly wed bride rests in the shade as her groom helps holding the hem of her wedding dress during their wedding photo session in Shanghai, China, Friday, May 24, 2013. -
Nepalese boys play at Kumgun Monastery in Lukla, Nepal, Friday, May 24, 2013. LuklaÊis a town in northeasternÊNepal situated at 2,860 meters (9,383Êft) and is a popular landing spot for people visiting the Himalayas. -
Hundreds of candles burn during Wesak Day celebrations at the Buddhist Maha Vihara temple in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Brickfields in Malaysia, Friday, May 24, 2013. Wesak Day marks the three momentous events in Buddha's life, his birthday, enlightenment, and achievement of Nirvana. -
An Indian rickshaw driver sleeps on his rickshaw on a hot afternoon in New Delhi, India , Friday, May 24, 2013. The capital city has been reeling under a heat wave with temperature crossing 45 degree Celsius (113 degree Fahrenheit) on Friday. -
Pakistani construction workers shower under a leaking water supply pipe at the end of their workday in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. Pakistanis are facing a shortage of clean drinking water due to the low level of water in the country's dams. -
An Afghan policeman fires his weapon during a gunbattle following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gunbattle in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. -
An Indian child plays in water to cool off, at a water theme park during a hot summer afternoon in Hyderabad, India, Friday, May 24, 2013. The region continues to reel under extreme heat wave conditions with the mercury reaching 44 degrees Celsius. -
Justin Wilson, of England, heads into the first turn during the final practice session for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Friday, May 24, 2013. -
President Barack Obama congratulates Alexis Marisa Werner with open arms during the United States Naval Academy commencement ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 24, 2013. -
Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley leaves after his last news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, May 24, 2013. Donley, who is retiring next month, and Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh, spoke about the sequester and other issues regarding the Air Force. -
Holding a single flower each, two protesters wearing black hoods and orange jump suits take part in a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 24, 2013, calling for the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The protest was organized by a coalition of groups including Witness Against Torture.
