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WASHINGTON A Pentagon investigation has cleared Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, of professional misconduct in exchanging emails with a civilian woman linked to the sex scandal that led retired Gen. David Petraeus to resign as CIA director.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was informed of the conclusion by the Pentagon's inspector general. "The secretary was pleased to learn that allegations of professional misconduct were not substantiated by the investigation," Little said, adding Panetta has "complete confidence in the continued leadership" of Allen.
The matter had been referred to the Pentagon in November by the FBI during the course of its investigation of emails between Petraeus and his biographer-turned-paramour, Paula Broadwell. The FBI turned up thousands of emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, who was said to have received threatening emails from Broadwell.
At the time, officials said 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails and other documents from Allen's communications with Kelley between 2010 and 2012 were in question. None of the emails have been made public. Shortly after being contacted by the FBI, Panetta referred the matter to the Pentagon's inspector general, while expressing confidence in Allen and deciding he'd remain in Kabul as commander of all allied forces in Afghanistan. At the same time, Allen's nomination to be the next U.S. commander of NATO forces in Europe was put on hold. The officials said Tuesday the White House hadn't decided whether to go forward with the nomination. Maj. David Nevers, a spokesman for Allen, said he had no comment on reports of his being exonerated.
Allen's successor in Kabul, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, has been confirmed by the Senate and is scheduled to take over on Feb. 10. Allen had maintained he did nothing wrong in the Kelley communications, but he hasn't spoken publicly about the specifics of his email exchanges with her. She served as a sort of social ambassador for U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla. Petraeus is a former Central Command commander, and Allen is a former deputy commander there.


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Testing GH and KH
I recently purchased this Deluxe testing kit from Pet Solutions and to test KH and GH you have two colors. A start color and end color. In the instructions, it states to add one drop of the solution to 6 ml of water then count the drops after that. But the one drop doesn't match my starting color on the card. It takes 5/6 drops to match my starting color.
So should I count the drops from the 1st drop or match the starting color then count the drops to the ending color?
Also, does the gravel that contain trace elements, iron and what ever else it needs really help? I was looking at some of those and wondering. I'm starting to grow plants and recieved my CO2 kit in the mail and noticing a difference in just a few days. The next tank I set up I actually want to do right instead of going off a whim like I did this one.
I have a similar test kit and don't like it much but oh well. I mix distilled and tap water and the distilled turns the palest color of whatever it's supposed to after only one drop. My tap takes forever as it's hard as a rock. It doesn't sound like the directions for a start point are clear for yours or mine. I'm thinking that you should match your color to start.
Anyway, what are you shooting for? GH only measures calcium and magnesium. You can still end up with a high pH if your GH is low but you have other dissolved minerals in your water. Crushed coral can bring it up. The folks here don't recommend adding any chemicals.
Most gravel is inert and won't affect your values.
CO2 will probably lower your pH.
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The gorgeous Ashley Greene has done it again, this time looking oh-so-chic while playing tourist in New York City.
The posh Twilight star looked glamorous in her dark flared denim jeans, a lilac colored silk blouse and a deep purple cropped blazer. The numerous tones of purple looked radiant against her ivory skin. She was all kinds of amazing proving that everytime a girl steps out, she should feel gorgeous - no matter if she's in jeans or a one-of-a-kind gown. Greene added her personality to the outfit through her shoes, bag and makeup. She rocked a stunning pair of suede purple pumps that tied the pieces together, while her black bag with gold accessories kept the outfit chic - a purple bag would have been an overkill for sure.
Greene looked gorgeous with her hair wavy and down, and deep red lips that accentuated her natural pout. Her cheeks had just a hint of rose colored blush and her eyes stood out with brown eyeliner and shades of purple and brown eyeshadow. She looked perfect for a fall New York outing.


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WASHINGTON - The World Bank sprang to life from America's bold efforts to help Europe rise from the ashes of World War II and proved valuable during the Cold War as the bank's cheap and easy loans were employed to gain support from many needy allies.
Now, the bank is struggling to maintain its relevance in a 21st century global economy where many countries it helped, and still helps, can get all the capital they need from private sources and where fighting poverty, its main mission, has proven to be extraordinarily difficult, especially in Africa.
The protracted ethical scandal involving its president, Paul Wolfowitz, has brought the bank's deep-seated problems to the fore, raising questions whether it needs to change the way it provides assistance to poverty-stricken nations and perhaps even shrink its staff of 10,000 employees.
Named by President Bush to the job, Wolfowitz aroused suspicion from the start from those at the bank fearful that he would pursue a political agenda by focusing on the Middle East. When Wolfowitz turned his attention to fighting corruption in many countries eligible for World Bank loans, it also stirred controversy as being too harsh.
The former No. 2 official at the Defense Department, one of the architects of the Iraqi war, found himself accused of a different kind of corruption, arranging a generous pay package and transfer for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a bank employee. Though a special bank panel accused him of conflict of interest, Wolfowitz refused to resign, saying the bank also bore responsibility in the case.
Although his days appeared numbered as White House officials made it clear he could no longer be effective, negotiations with the bank's board over terms of his resignation failed to yield fruit on Wednesday.
But the bank has problems beyond the scandal. Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution, called it "kind of bloated" and too bureaucratic and said that U.S. presidents "have used it as a dumping ground for people who needed a political favor."
When the U.S. and its allies created the bank in 1944 at Bretton Woods, N.H., it was agreed that the U.S. would appoint the president of the World Bank and Europe would provide the head of the International Monetary Fund. Now, some analysts say, this arrangement may have outlived its usefulness.
"There is something wrong with the way the bank is operating," said Desmond Lachman, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "It takes on too many objectives. It is very difficult to hold them to account. They would serve the international community better if they were narrow in their objectives," such as fighting malaria, improving literacy, or providing technical assistance.
"The bank needs a better mission statement," Bosworth said. "It doesn't have a clear understanding of what it can do."
Lachman and other critics said the bank should stop or scale back its lending to "middle-income" countries that now can easily borrow money on world markets without the bank's assistance. "Seventy percent of their money is lent to countries that don't need it," he said.
Another critic, William Easterly, a New York University economics professor and former bank official, said that the bank has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into Africa over the years, with little measurable economic impact, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), the annual output of goods and services.
Wolfowitz has defended the way the bank parcels out aid, saying that it allocates funds to well-governed countries where there is a good chance of success. At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January, he said that Asia has been a bank success story. "Five-hundred million people have escaped poverty in the last 25 years, most in East Asia," he said.
Even though many analysts find fault with bank operations, they believe it should survive because of the prevalence of poverty in the world, albeit as a reformed institution. "You really have to focus the money more," said Bowman Cutter, managing director of Warburg Pincus LLC in New York. "The middle-income countries should get less and the poor countries should get more."
Also, Cutter said, the bank should "use its immense store of knowledge" to provide financial and other types of expertise to developing countries. "That can make it more relevant," added Cutter, a former economic official in the Clinton administration. He also serves as chairman of the board of CARE USA, a relief organization.
The bank has gone through several transformations, but most analysts say that its heyday occurred under Robert McNamara, a former Defense Secretary and architect of the Vietnam War. He took over the bank in 1968 and served until 1981, aiming its resources at the poorest of the poor countries.
"I think he wanted it because of what he had done wrong in Vietnam," Bosworth said. "I think he worked to overcome a lot of mistakes in that era."
Now, in a new era of globalization, analysts said the bank should work to overcome mistakes that have damaged its credibility and raised questions about its relevance.
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A student's "sense of place" incorporates their affective as well as cognitive responses to physical places. Students with strong cultural bonds to homelands, many of whom are ...
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Inventory dates: 2005, 2006
Thesis: Massatti, R. T. 2007. A Floristic Inventory of the East Slope of the Wind River Mountain Range and Vicinity, Wyoming, iv + 120 pp.
This represents the thesis project by Robert T. Massatti. Fieldwork was conducted during the summers of 2005 and 2006. The area encompassed was the Fitzpatrick Wilderness to the north and the remainder of the Shoshone National Forest to the south of the Wind River Indian Reservation (Fremont County) for a total of 1,198 mi2 ranging in elevation from 6,000 to 13,804 feet. Collected were 9,534 specimens documenting 1,056 unique taxa. State records were Carex lenticularis var. dolia and Festuca viviparoidea ssp. krajinae. Species of conservation concern totaled 44 documented at 166 sites. Also vouchered were 55 exotics including nine noxious weeds. Funding was provided by the Shoshone National Forest and the University of Wyoming.
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A treatise on the dieases [sic] of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth
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Treatise on the diseases of children
Treatise on the diseases of children. Containing every disorder of importance falling under the more immediate province of the physician
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- 1793
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After a dozen presentations from the audience and a lengthy debate among the school board over developer fees, it fell to Madera Unified superintendent Ed Gonzalez to steer trustees toward the final call on whether or not to lower the developers' impact fees for the second time in four months.
When board president Michael Salvador finally turned to Gonzalez for a recommendation, the superintendent held nothing back. In an impassioned plea, he asked MUSD trustees Tuesday night to "trust him on this one" and then urged them to lower the developers' fees on residential housing to $3.88 per square foot.
On a 4-3 vote, the board adopted his recommendation.
In September 2013, the board reduced the fees from $6.04 per sq. ft to $5.88 per sq. ft. On December 17, the board tabled an attempt to lower the fees even further. On Tuesday, the issue moved to center stage...


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Social Justice is one of five areas grouped together in a category called Personal and Social Responsibility in the General Education requirements at Stetson University. The number of courses from the Personal and Social Responsibility category that you are required to take depends on the college or school that you are enrolled in.
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That is so loud!
September 2011 Archives
That is so loud!
UConn women's basketball, that is.
Under the dome of Gampel Pavilion, the lady Huskies took to the court for a practice open to the press. I'm used to throwing elbows (only at you, Bob Child) to get a good spot in the mob of photographers that usually crowd the court for these women. To my delight, today, I was the only one.
Two things of note - Caroline Doty's return and the fresh (yet strangely familiar) faces of three new freshmen.
Doty seemed excited to be back, after being cleared to play following a year on the bench from a third ACL injury. She admitted taking it slow has been difficult.
"Coach said to me one day, 'Who do you think you are, Kobe Bryant?' Doty said. "You are like a kid going into the candy store and eating all the candy. I told him that I was hungry. He told me, if I get too full, I won't be able to do anything."
She wasn't taking it too easy in practice, sprinting up and down the court, playing defense and making shots.
The most talked about new face on the Huskies didn't seem that new to me at all.
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, the top-ranked recruit from the class of 2011, bears a striking resemblance to Maya Moore. Fitting, since she's wearing Maya's number 23.
I mean, really. Whoa. Someone get this girl a pair of hoop earrings for good luck!
Guard Brianna Banks of Georgia is another new face on the team.
Kiah Stokes, a 6-3 center from Iowa, rounds out the new freshman class.
Other than that, it was business as usual for the pranksters. Stefanie Dolson found a bug on the court when the girls walked in...
...and she proceeded to throw it on her teammates, inciting shrieks from everyone. It's going to be another fun year!
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Things bigger than themselves.
A language of their own.
This one is laughter itself.
We are in on the joke.
Will her image fade over time.
Could someone,
Look at this and just be puzzled.
Who else could turn everything else
Into a prop.
Vivian Vance, maybe,
On another tie.
A couple weeks ago I was in Nashville covering the UConn football team playing Vanderbilt. While out walking along Broadway looking for a place to eat with Hartford Courant beat reporter Desmond Conner and John Silva, beat reporter for the Manchester Journal Inquirer, we passed by a gathering of people on the sidewalk and wondered what the commotion was. Outside one of the many honky tonk's were a line of Harley Davidson motorcycles. Sitting patiently, and some what oblivious to the many onlookers, were these two pooches. Decked out in colorful bandanas, googles and what appeared to be dyed fur rolled into dreadlocks. They never made a sound, just looked around occasionally if someone new moved in for a close-up. Some left tips in the jug, others just chuckled and moved along, most took photos.
Later that night as I walked back to my hotel the dogs were gone, but another type of hound dog was wandering the streets, this type wore cowboy boots and hats.
Pro Tip: I rarely take my work camera out with me when I go for a bite to eat but it sure is convenient to have a smart phone with a camera. Shot with my Droid II. Not sure of the settings.
You're preparing for an exhibit at Trinity and it seems like it's been abruptly postponed or canceled.
We're installing a solo show at Trinity College. It's supposed to go down Thursday, Sept. 15 and just a couple days ago I was notified that it was postponed. That's the official word from Trinity but it's just flat out being censored. And canceled. For a number of reasons, and all of the reasons, I can understand their concern - them being an institution and representing a lot of the ideals that we go against. So it's totally understandable if I were to put myself in their shoes. But they are censoring the Poster Boy show because of the political or legal aspect - or illegal aspect - of the work. The fact that the materials are appropriated from the streets and used for the show itself. And I'm sure that the political views - the statements the work makes - doesn't help.
Poster Boy is plural?
For sure. We try to use "we" a lot and speak in plural and not speak in the first person as much as possible. More or less it's to go against the whole celebrity culture that we are so obsessed with. The idea of us focusing on any one person's life and all the little unimportant details. This is sort of a reaction to that - to have a group of people without authorship or any copyright doing works of art or works of vandalism to get certain messages across.
What exactly do you do with your razor blade? How does Poster Boy work?
It started on just wanting to focus on improvisation. Impromptu thoughts and reactions to the environment. In an area such as New York City, especially in the subway, advertisements are very much a part of the environment. So there's tons of material and the fact the billboards in the subways and above ground, as well, are essentially giant stickers - giant vinyl stickers - with adhesive backing you can cut, remove, whatever and re-adhere to another surface. With that you can create more or less collages with only a sharp object. The most convenient being a two-inch stainless steel razor blade. It doesn't flex. It doesn't bend. With the sharp edge you can cut the object out and with the rest of the blade you can sort of anchor it out and remove the piece. So it's an effective tool and it also speaks to the whole idea of improvisation and reacting quickly to your environment.
You consider yourselves vandal artists and then come in and do a solo show at an elite college?
There's a couple reasons for that. If we really, truly want to effect any change through this medium we can't have a closed mind about it. If we keep an open mind and keep ourselves open to different venues and different ways of reaching (the) public. And one of them for sure is a sanctioned art show. The materials itself and the way they were appropriated is not sanctioned but the fact that it's a controlled setting without someone looking over me or having to look over my shoulder for police officers - that changes everything. That gives the artist involved a little more time to showcase maybe some flare or go in a little more depth than is usually gone into with subway pieces which are completely improv with only a razor. These pieces are still a little improv. There's no planning or sketching involved but like I said the comfort zone is there. We're able to think things a little more. Also you mention the elite school. There's also another reason for that. If we are to just have shows in places we know that are familiar with the street work we're really not reaching anyone new. It just becomes an inside joke and you're sort of preaching to the choir so to speak. If you go to places where it's a little uncomfortable to express these ideas then you're really getting to the issue. If you're not, then you really have to think about why you're doing this and if it's just straight up vandalism or you just want to keep it within a certain group then that's fine but that's not what Poster Boy was about. So we had to think about it and compromise. I don't really see it as compromise. I see it as changing and evolving for the better.
Is there ever the feeling of "let's go to Hartford and see what we can do on the street?" A one-day gig?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Even before the show being canceled we had a plan. We scoped out a couple locations in Hartford, for sure. And I think we're still gonna keep the promise of that. It's definitely a good piece. We've noticed some billboards laying around that deserve some work. With these we're not going to take them down. We're just going to go up and do our thing. They'll stay up there. Nice little treat. I think even with the cancellation I think Hartford still deserves something. Something to look at, for sure.
True to his word, Poster Boy altered billboard advertisements in Hartford this week. A little sooner than he had planned. The images on the left were taken by Poster Boy in the last few days. The images on the right were taken by me on Tuesday afternoon with Poster Boy at my side claiming responsibility for the subversion.
What does Hartford miss out on or gain from this cancellation?
It brings way more attention to the issues we wanted to bring attention to in the first place with the artwork itself. Hartford misses out on a really good time. The way we party in New York we have our art shows, we have a little bit to drink, friends and family over, some good music. We were going to have a DJ spinning some live records. A little bit of Poster Boy antics. That's about it. I think what Hartford has lost with the whole live show is everyone's gain with bringing the attention to light.
Do you attend the opening?
Sometimes. Most of the time I don't. If I do, it's for a brief period of time. We risk arrest every time we go to our own events. We minimize arrests. We learned our lesson the hard way with a couple earlier arrests. One guy facing a sentence of one year, another guy getting a couple misdemeanors. It can take the air out of the whole movement. You can't do anything while you're in jail. You get street credit but that's about it. You definitely want to stay on the street as long as possible and do as much work. So the key to that is staying out of jail.
What's your experience? Your legal status right now?
I'm just going to say that a couple of us are on probation. Some of us can travel outside the five boroughs. Others are limited to just staying in New York and not really doing anything too crazy until we're off probation.
Poster Boy's future?
I would love to go into the future of where Poster Boy is going but I can't. It would just put those projects at risk. Just expect bigger and better. More elaborate. Same ideas. Couple different mediums. We're definitely exploring. Trial and error. Sometimes it fails completely. For instance, we had an offer for a publishing deal to do a book. We took it. With the money we tried to start a legal defense fund for artists working in the public eye. It didn't go off the way we wanted to. At the time it was the height of the whole hype behind Poster Boy and we wanted to use that to our advantage to create something more tangible and concrete. But it didn't go off so well. We got a website going, we were talking to a few lawyers. But the commitment it takes to do a non-profit, a legal defense fund - you need money. You just need money. That's something we definitely didn't have. We had a whole lot of heart and good intentions but you can only get so far with that. We learned our lesson with that. We haven't totally given up. We've helped a few people with it but we envision it to be a lot bigger. We wanted a lot more attorneys on the roster and people volunteering. We didn't get that but we will. If we keep at it I'm sure it will get to that point. Of course, if the need is there. If people don't want legal help when they get in trouble then forget it. We're not doing anything worthwhile. There is a need for it.
Can you give me the Poster Boy time line? When it started in New York City.
It started with a couple of us on our way to work. It's 2007-2008. Our commute to and from work. Ironically working for a really well known established artist. We used razors a lot in the artwork to create the work. And sometimes we'd have razors in our pockets. We'd notice the usual subway poster subversion: the Hitler mustache, the penises, the black tooth. That stuff is always classic. It's always funny to ride the subway and see a black tooth on your favorite celebrity.
And we noticed when we started looking closely at the posters there were these giant stickers that we could mess with. We tried it out with the razors and when we figured that out it was just - every morning we'd do a piece on the way to work and after work we'd do a piece. We just did it so often on the L train - this line that goes from Brooklyn to Manhattan straight across 14th Street - we noticed people blogging about it, talking about it even when we were there. It was like, "wow people are actually paying attention." It was like this inside joke. And when it started getting some real media attention we were like, "let's take it a step further." After only a few months we were taking the pieces a little more serious. People were participating in the work and putting it up on Flicker. I think as soon as we put it up on Flicker - somewhere where people can put it into their blogs or whatever else - that's when it really started. We rode the momentum to doing better work with more cohesive pieces, specific ideas, messages we wanted to get across.
By the second year there were 4 or 5 people doing the pieces regularly. It got really popular. By that time we'd done a few hundred pieces. We were getting invites and offers from all kinds of places. Some of the offers we took. Some of them we just flat out denied because it would be totally hypocritical. For instance, we got an offer to do a billboard for a TV show from one of these companies. We were messing with posters of this certain TV company and they approached us to do one of their show posters. A billboard that would show up all over New York - these giant billboards. It would be totally hypocritical for us to take that. The offer was very lucrative. In the thousands for sure. We're not going to say which company and how much but it was definitely enough. It was definitely a whole salary. A year's salary for one person. And we just couldn't do it. It was very enticing. It was bigger than making money and giving in that easily. We want to see how far we can take it with no budget without taking any kind of offers like that.
After two years the interest was still there but it took a back seat to other things we were trying to work on. People were traveling and leaving NYC. And now we're on the third year. We're trying different things out like the Trinity show. We're going to be traveling soon to Poland to partake in a group show. We got a couple offers to Mumbai, Thailand, Gaza Strip. We've been offered a plane ride to the Gaza Strip to do some work over there. We don't know what to expect. We're used to working off the cuff. We're not going to bring any materials over there. We'd like to see what's available. If there aren't any advertisements available then I don't think there's a possibility of doing a Poster Boy show or event or any work in the street. We tend to stick with the program which is working with the immediate environment.
The BBC covers the Poster Boy's Trinity experience. Click here for their story.
It seems like a play, staged over and over.
This week, our blog Eye Contact marks its first birthday.
We created this space as a safe haven for photography - a place where we didn't have to fight for pages, color ink, or picture play. We wanted to answer a lot of the questions we were being asked by readers who encountered us on assignment. We aimed to bring the important discussions we have about pictures out of the office and into the open.
On behalf of the entire staff, I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to ponder our images and essays. Many of these posts are a labor of love, brought into being long after our work days are done.
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Here are some of our favorite posts from the last year.
Patrick Raycraft and Cloe Poisson shared incredibly personal work from their trips to Haiti.
from Reflections on a Yellow Line by Rick Hartford
Camera obscura.
"The dark chamber."
With it we capture a living reflection and hold it inside
Like a butterfly speared with a hat pin.
Until we release it back into the world
A still life.
We hide behind the camera.
In the belief that it makes us invisible.
Rick Hartford brought poetry into our lives with great works like Gravity, Faces and shared some of his fantastic experiences, like spending an evening with O.J. Simpson.
John Woike set the bar high for our sports coverage, with his first big post done on deadline while on the road: UConn Evicted from the 'Big House'
For me, one of the most fun posts to put together was the portraits from outside the Lady Gaga concert: Lady Gaga and her Little Monsters
Mark Mirko's first post likened making pictures to Making Furniture:
A furniture maker takes a pile of sticks and boards and creates a table. We do the same thing with our cameras when we translate a collection of visual elements into a photograph.
That process of considering, observing and organizing from our subjects' environments resides deeply in what we do. Similar to a woodworker but with editors and deadlines.
Michael McAndrews shared his artful images from throughout the years, imbued with his classic style: Snow Angel and Transitions
Rich Messina's post on his iconic squash image went viral, bringing in about 40,000 hits after being picked up by Reddit: A Gentleman's Game
Cloe Poisson delighted with her unique eye for patterns and compositions in Form v.s. Content
Stephen Dunn's images of a Santa skateboarding around Hartford was one of our lighter moments, as well as his playful images of dogs like Lebowski.
Both of our summer interns, Tanner Curtis and Brooke LaValley, shared images in their unique styles. ConnectiCon - Behind the Costume by Tanner Curtis.
From A Photographic Lifestyle by Brooke LaValley:
"So often while on assignment interesting things happen that have nothing to do with the story that the reporter has requested. Just because it is unrelated does not make it less valuable or beautiful, so I like to take these pictures anyway to recognize their presence in the world. The key is staying focused on both... Although is has long been a discussion of whether or not photography is a "Fine Art" if you speak to any photojournalist they will tell you how difficult it can be to find the beauty in some situations that are poorly lit or uneventful, and that the process alone qualifies it against any other medium. In these cases all of the regular tools are stripped away and all that is left is finding something, anything that is compelling. These guys can make art anywhere!"
Mark Mirko did this compelling series on UConn football players and their tattoos: Under the Armor.
Rich Messina asked Jim Calhoun and Kevin Ollie to give their thoughts on this tender image on the court: The Coach - Player Relationship
Cloe Poisson shared an interesting and important detail in a normally routine 'perp walk': When 1 + 1 = 3
Mark Mirko embarked on a new series exploring peace through photojournalism.
And I got to take readers behind the scenes of one of my most exciting experiences of the year - the 2011 men's Final Four in Houston.
Thanks for reading!
|Carry A Towel
This is my fourth hurricane and I was still stressed out. I had no problem standing in 70 mph winds with waves crashing over me. I have been in worse. My stress came the day before the storm...MORE
-- Stephen Dunn
No pictures.
No pictures.
Go away.
Go photograph criminals.
Go photograph murderers.
Go away...MORE
-- Rick Hartford
|Irene - Overstayed Her Welcome
For some, Irene made her mark immediately. For others, she was a bit more patient. I must admit, I was fooled by her first impression. I followed the storm closely from Saturday night on....MORE
-- Rich Messina
Bonnie Ables, of Texas, looks out her hotel room as her son Haden Watkins, 5, looks at the rain and wind from the second floor balcony. Ables said Haden never seen it rain so long in his life, as their hometown is currently been without rain for quite some time. Ables said she was in Connecticut to find family she has not seen in twenty years.
Although Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm before hitting Connecticut, she was still threatening. But by the end of my shift late Sunday night, I thought we escaped the worst of it. After all most roads were passable, I had not experienced many serious effects of the storm, the rains and winds were less than I had experienced in past storms, and we had not lost power. I was expecting to spend the dangerous parts of the storm in a shelter or my hotel. But the conditions never felt threatening enough for that. I learned later that others in the sate had a much more devastating experience.
Home Depot had not opened yet, but the manager was nice enough to hear my request to photograph his store and agreed to check with corporate headquarters. Eventually I was given permission to shoot, and the manager even agreed to allow me to interview him with my cell phone. A woman and her son were also let in before the opening. She needed a water pump because she already had water in her basement.
A section of bridge on Lower River Rd. in West Cornwall, fell into the Housatonic Rver, Sunday morning, while crews were trying to remove a tree that was causing a blockage in a streem running under it. Mark Hamilton, a member of the amulance crew, looks at the damage the to the bridge the water created.
Video shot Sunday
On to Cornwall to check on the Housatonic River and see how one of my favorite Connecticut bridges was weathering the storm. Along the way I took a couple of pictures of poor road conditions where they existed. At one point, the drizzle ended briefly and the sun shone through the clouds. Was that the eye of the storm again? Could a storm have two eyes? The weather was oddly calm compared to what I was expecting. The covered bridge was fine, but a road near it had washed out and created a bit of a local gathering point. I shot some pictures and video, and recorded a video interview with the first selectman on my phone. But again, I never got a chance to send it back to the paper because the connection wasn't fast enough.
I transmitted a few pictures and then took a circuitous route to Kent to look for other storm damage. I knew a section of Route 7 would surely be under water. Route seven was closed when I pulled into Kent, and going around the barrier and driving down the road, I noticed the rivers edge creeping up to the lip of the roadway. I knew the water would break the surface very shortly, so I turned the car around. When I got to Bulls Bridge, I was not alone. The parking areas were all full, and everyone was watching the rushing waters. Gawkers were walking through the one-lane covered bridge and causing a traffic backup. I shot some more pictures and video, and then feverishly searched for a good Internet connection in a part of the state that barely has cellular service on a clear day. I sat in my car, edited the video and transmitted it back. Then I headed home, looking for more damage along the way. No road closures or downed trees interrupted my trip. When I got home, we still had phone, power, and Internet. I shared a sigh of relief with my family for how blessed we were to be spared our worst fears.
Oddly enough, even though the northwest corner of the state was the only place the eye of the storm passed, it seemed to make it through the least affected. At least that's what I came to realize as the rest of the week when I covered flooding in Simsbury, toured destroyed homes in East Haven with FEMA, documented flood victims in Middletown, and interviewed people nearly a week later still without power in Plainfield. Irene was a guest that has overstayed her welcome.
No pictures.
Go away.
Go photograph criminals.
Go photograph murderers.
Go away.
Tropical storm Irene has arrived
And the trees churn in spikes of wind.
A man huddles in the bus shelter
As the wind blows
And the rain swirls.
His umbrella a shield
Against nature.
Against the theft
Of his image.
I was assigned to cover the Middletown, Haddam and Portland area. My biggest challenge on the eve of Tropical Storm Irene was getting enough rest and preparing myself for extreme conditions. There were batteries to charge, the Weather Channel to monitor, a wedding celebration outside my hotel room and the anticipation of an epic storm. As I started photographing Sunday morning, it became clear to me that this was a fierce weather system. My job and our responsibility as a staff was to stay out of harm's way while making solid images. Remain calm. Stay safe. I'm amazed there were not more fatalities or serious injuries as a result of Irene. I had to consider all downed utility lines as lethal. The problem was that I didn't always see the wires on the ground. I would get out of my car to photograph and realize that wires were intertwined with tree limbs. Yeah, I admit being very frightened at times last Sunday.
Sunday, 7:45 a.m. Haddam
I listened closely to all updated storm conditions on WTIC 1080. Residents who called in to report power outages, trees down and vehicles off the road guided my coverage in Portland and Chester. I am still very disappointed in the lack of storm coverage by NPR. It missed a genuine opportunity with Irene.
Sunday, 10:01 a.m. Portland
WTIC reported that a vehicle in Portland had gone off the road. I was lucky to happen on the scene after taking a mandatory detour off of Route 66. And then this local resident walks by which helped me make a much more informative photograph. He told me the driver was safe and had veered off the road early Sunday morning. I used towels to keep my gear as dry as possible but you can see the moisture here. Irene's wind and rain were overwhelming. I also shot video with my Droid but it did not meet the conditions. It was rendered useless until about noontime. I used my personal iPhone to make quick pictures and email them back to the Courant web staff. I have to say that my iPhone was extremely dependable.
Sunday, 11:19 a.m. Chester
I was concerned that I was going to be trapped in Chester by flood waters or by another downed tree. And I was prevented from venturing into eastern Connecticut due to all of the downed foliage along Route 66. I informed John Scanlan, our director of photography, that it was difficult for me to travel eastward. We decided to cover storm damage and reaction in the Hartford area which I found to be a sort of oasis and largely unscathed. From there I was sent to photograph flooding in Southbury. By the way, I have no idea what the driver of this vehicle was doing out and about at the height of the storm.
Sunday, 4:25 p.m. Southbury
Jason Jorge, 11, and his family had been displaced from their flooded home (at top of frame) in March when the Pomperaug River overflowed. Jason's mother told me they were two weeks away from moving back in after making several home repairs.
Monday, 11:22 a.m. Forestville
It's incredible that 12 hours earlier there were two feet of flood water at this location in the Forestville section of Bristol. My colleague John Woike made several striking images on Sunday at this crossroads where this computer repair shop totaled about $40,000 in damages. "Where do you start? We don't know where to turn for help," store manager Jim Civitello told me as he dumps collected flood water into the street.
Tuesday, 6:45 a.m. Stamford
Columnist Rick Green and I rode on Metro North as it resumed daily service two days after Irene. It was a quiet morning as commuters - many still without power at their homes - seemed to trudge back to their jobs in New York. I only made two photographs of this scene before the nose of a train, at left, zoomed into my frame.
Thursday, 4:48 p.m. Clinton
I look at Enea Bacci, the owner of the Lobster Landing in Clinton, as a beacon of hope along the shoreline. "We were lucky. We can't complain," he told me as I photographed him on Thursday evening. He had re-opened earlier in the day and was serving hot lobster rolls. Still without power, his business was running off of a generator. After several days of Irene coverage, we all stayed safe. We can't complain.
This is my fourth hurricane and I was still stressed out.
The buzz about Hurricane Irene, eventually downgraded to a tropical storm, began a week before it would make landfall. Plans for news coverage on all platforms, print, web, tv and mobile were put in place so reporters, photographers and editors would be able to know where to go when. Everyone on staff was told they would need to be available all weekend long, even if they were not scheduled to be on the main list to be dispatched somewhere. I was not scheduled to work but if anything developed I would need to be available ASAP.
"Right now, we aren't even thinking about the hurricane, we have this to deal with," Kenneth Horton said while taking a quick break from his tractor and eyeing the dark clouds approaching over the Connecticut River. "If we can do a little more harvesting before the rains from the hurricane start, we should be OK. Then we have to start to worry about all the buildings standing."
Sandy Dondero said workers have been collecting ripe and "anything close to being ripe" and putting it in cold storage with generators ready. "Between the wind and the rain, we are expecting a lot of fruit to fall or get bruised."
"We've had a real nice crop of pears and we are going to be sad to see those go. You always hope the weatherman is wrong, but so much has happened this season. Everything is out of tilt."
"The sad thing," she added, "is we were looking forward to pick-your-own because we are celebrating 100 years in operation and here we are pulling everything down we can and hoping for the best."
On Saturday morning I decided to take a chance at stop at the Home Depot near my house to see if they had any generators. I had stopped in Friday afternoon and was informed they were sold out but they were expecting a shipment on Saturday, they just didn't know when it would arrive. Yea I know, wait 'til the last minute and you get what you deserve - nothing! Initially I was told late morning - early afternoon arrival. When I was leaving the store, I spotted a tractor trailer pulling in and went back inside to inquire if that truck had generators on it. They could not confirm they had arrived but I took my chance. I drove home to drop off my dog since we stopped after our morning walk at the park so she wouldn't have to sit in the car the entire time. When I returned, a salesman I spoke with earlier confirmed they had come in and they would be available once an inventory had been taken. I took my spot in line, #10. The line began to grow as 20 lucky people that had prepaid were given their generators first. I would estimate 60-70 people waited for a chance to walk out with "POWER". The cost - $850 bucks! All for the possibility we could be without power for days, weeks even. I still didn't anticipate any trouble from the storm but I do have two sump pumps in my basement and figured it was worth the investment even if the storm petered out.
I didn't sleep all that well Saturday night. I must have woke up five times to see if we still had power. Funny thing was, hard rain or whipping wind was not what woke me. I would peek out and chuckle thinking "just another typical rain storm." I woke up around seven when I realized the paddle fan above our bed wasn't running I looked at my alarm clock to see we were without power.
"Yippee" I can fire up that new generator now. When I went outside to set it up I was not impressed by the damage that I saw. It didn't seem like a lot of rain fell and there were no trees down that I could see. But after ten minutes we were up and running with power running through the house. Having a generator in a power outage "Priceless."
I went back inside and began to watch some TV to see if this storm had really been as bad as predicted. It was difficult to determine just how bad things were. The shoreline looked like it took it pretty hard and many parts of the state were without power but I still didn't think it was that bad. Later in the day as the skies began to clear and reports started to come in about rising flood waters in my hometown of Bristol I took a walk with my dog down to Forestville center. When I reached the end of my street I also noticed all these houses had power, yet we were not so lucky.
The Pequabuck River runs through the center of Bristol and into our little "Hamlet" of Forestville. It has been known to spill over its bank under heavy rains and during the flood of '55 most of Forestville was wiped out.
As I approached the area, you could hear the river roaring and I could see that what once was East Main Street was now just a flowing river of mud colored water. I took a few photos of the swollen river from a safe distance when I noticed a familiar figure standing near the yellow tape closing off Central Street.
I called out, "JR", and rushed over to see if he was OK. JR Rusgrove and wife Leanne had opened a new restaurant two weeks earlier right where the river was now rushing past. They had a successful breakfast cafe located in the Federal Hill section of Bristol but that had been destroyed by fire on Valentine's Day and are in the process of reopening that restaurant. We spoke briefly and he was gracious to give me an interview on video before excusing himself to gather himself.
Rusgrove slowly walked over to the police tape and broke down. Emotions overflowed from him as he could only hope that the damage would not be a complete loss. I'm happy to report that the restaurant survived with minimal damage and was scheduled to open on Thursday, Sept 1.
The curious came out to see the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene as the Pequabuck River overflowed its banks in Forestville center and filled East Main Street and the businesses along the roadway. JR's restaurant is the building on the left with the sign still on.
As the crowds began to grow on the bridge overlooking the flood waters, a young man nearby handed his cell phone to his girlfriend and said "Take a picture of me standing in the middle of the road out there." I turned to him and asked if he was really that stupid! Not knowing how deep or what the raging water had done to the road underneath, one slip and its, see ya! Luckily he thought about it and decided he would either wait until I was gone or considered the dangers and decided it would be better to test his fate another day.
The sad thing is, only a couple hours later it was reported that two men had decided to take a canoe down the river.
Ray Clyma and his friend Shane Seaver had just finished a remodeling project in Seaver's bathroom Sunday when they decided to look at flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene. It was a decision that cost Seaver, 46, his life. The canoe was sucked into the raging waters of the river from which only Clyma emerged alive.
Monday morning I was asked to take some aerial photos of the damage throughout Connecticut. I called Terry Keller from Premier Flight Center to arrange a flight along the Farmington Valley and then along the shoreline pending clearance from the FAA. We took off at 10:30 am from Brainard Airport in Hartford. It was later than we had hoped but airport personnel was backed up trying to get all the airplanes out of the hangers where they were stored over the weekend to protect them from the storm.
We headed south along the Connecticut River which had spread its wings to reach I-91 in the South Meadows of Hartford, Wethersfield and Glastonbury.
As we flew south we came upon The Goodspeed Opera House and Gelston House Restaurant which looked to have been spared the worst.
Not far from the shoreline you could begin to see how far the storm surged reached as boats where left lying about the property of this marina.
Katerine Hepburn's former house in the Fenwick section of Old Saybrook looks to have weathered the storm fairly well.
As we flew south along the coastline in Old Saybrook, you could begin to see some of the damage caused by the storm surge. Cottages that were boarded up had been battered, some now without porches, decks and in some cases, complete home fronts.
The storm surge breached many areas, flooding streets beyond the cottages directly along the shore.
Standing water surrounds homes and cottages beyond the direct coastline.
Indiantown Harbor and Beach Rd in Saybrook Manor.
A hot tub seems to be hanging on to what once was a deck on a cottage along the seawall on Indiantown Harbor.
Cottages along Old Mail Trail in Westbrook are battered as parts of the seawall are gone and sand extends across the road to the buildings on the other side.
While a few cottages and homes along Circle Beach Rd in Guilford were relatively unscathed by the storm, one was knocked clear off its pilings and onto the beach and road behind it.
Homes along Ozone Rd and Selden Ave in Branford lost a good portion of their ocean front property to erosion from the storm surge.
This image struck me a little funny. At left is a lone man standing at yellow caution tape surveying the damage at the end of Cocheco Ave in Branford while the two cottages to the right have patio furniture set in place like nothing ever happened, other than losing some property along the shore. It kind of sums up how some people were directly affected by Tropical Storm Irene and others were very fortunate.
News crews descended on one of the hardest hit areas of the shoreline, Cosey Beach in East Haven. Damage from the storm was extensive wiping out cottages and homes or moving complete structures off foundations in a very condensed area. As I was flying over the shoreline, there were times when I could not detect much damage. Then you would come across an area like this and see the devastation.
One thing I wish I had done was take one more lens with me on the flight. For those that have never taken aerial photos before, the cockpit of most planes used, a 4 seater usually, is limited in space. After being harnessed in, it can be a little difficult to maneuver a couple camera bodies without bumping the control sticks. Shooting out an open window with a long lens, typically a 70-200mm or 300mm, can be trying as the wind will grab at it and if you don't wrap the camera strap around your hand you could wind up losing it out the window.
I made two cardinal sins on this trip. #1 - I took just one body to cut down on the chance something would get in the way since it can be difficult to switch between a short lens body and a long lens. I decided to take just a 17-55mm zoom and a 70-200mm zoom thinking that being 500 feet in elevation they would be sufficient. Sometimes we were higher than the 500 feet due to other aircraft in the area or being near an airport's airspace. A 300mm would have been a better choice for some of these images, a 200mm left a little too much room and did not convey the damage as well.
After looking at some images my colleagues took from ground level at the same spot, these aerials don't show the impact.
The amphitheater at Seaside Park on The University of Bridgeport where the VIBES Tour played this past July is completely surrounded by flood waters.
A sailboat that broke from its mooring washed ashore near Penfield Place in Fairfield.
No Man Is An Island
No man is an island entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
The weird thing about this photo is that when I was doing research using Google Maps to find where these photos were taken, this cottage is always surrounded by water in Sherwood Millpond in Westport.
After flying all the way down the shoreline to Norwalk we headed back to Stratford to follow the Housatonic River northward. The water had turned from a murky aquamarine in Long Island Sound to a coffee colored mud.
The Stevenson Dam was built in 1919 by the Connecticut Light and Power Company to produce hydroelectric power. The dam created Lake Zoar, the fifth largest freshwater body in the state. They say that the lake now covers the original village of the Pootatuck Indians.
Flood waters surge over the dam as cars travel along Rt 34 which runs across the top of the dam between Stevenson and Derby.
It was about this time that the trip became a little bumpy as we traversed over land and varying terrain causing me to ask my pilot, Terry, what happens if I need to, uh, toss my breakfast! As my mouth began to water he said "Just give me about 30 seconds and I'll have a bag ready for you." Great, 'cause the last thing I wanted to do was puke out the window at 500 feet, with my luck the wind would blow it back into the cockpit and then we both would need to suffer the rest of the journey.
At this point he brought us up to about 1500 feet which smooth out the flight. I could use a little break from looking to my right for the past two hours through a camera. My neck was beginning to fall into a groove as my head would slink right. Fifteen minutes later, I was feeling a whole lot better and we descended to 500 feet as we approached New Milford.
Businesses and homes along Danbury Rd, Rt 7, Rt 202, in New Milford submerged by the flood waters.
New Milford, Bridge Street and Rt 7, Rt 202.
Next up was the West Cornwall bridge. Staffer Richard Messina had been assigned to the Litchfield County for coverage on Sunday and I remembered a photo of his showing a portion of Lower River Rd washed out next to the historic covered bridge. A couple months earlier I had taken a kayak down through this area for a features story. I had taken a new Contour POV camera with me for the trip, had it mounted to my baseball hat as I passed under the bridge. I was psyched to see that footage. Unfortunately the river was far lower than today and when I hit a rock near the conclusion of my paddle, the hat fell off and floated down the river as I capsized. I could only watch in disappointment as the camera fluttered down stream. Every curse word flew from my mouth at that point but I was fortunate there were other kayakers nearby. One paddled out to grab my flotation bag holding my main camera. I'm sure that piece of equipment is out to sea or caught in a dam gate now.
Once we hit Falls Village in Canaan, it was time to head back to Hartford and the Farmington Valley. As we entered Simsbury, you could see the expanse of the flood waters from the Farmington River as it spilled into the farmlands. Rt 315 between Simsbury and Tariffville was closed off as the waters spilled onto Terry's Plain Rd to the south and Tariffville Rd to the north.
As we headed south, I got that sickly feeling again and told Terry "You've got 30 seconds!" Just as I got the little plastic bag open I buried my face and...I'll spare you the details. Terry said "We can be back to Brainard in about 3 minutes." After one more heave I told him to circle around because I needed to get some more pics, besides, I was feeling much better now.
This photo holds a special place for one Hartford Courant employee. On Thursday, I was in the cafeteria at work and overheard a conversation as co-workers were swapping horror stories of their plight during the storm. One man, Carter Alevrides, began showing photos of his house in Simsbury surrounded by water from the Farmington River so I inquired where he lived. I told him I thought I might have something of his home and I would check my shoot. Sure enough, the white house across from the bridge happens to be his. He had three bilge pumps going all week since he still had power. He had sandbagged around his place and kept the damage to a minimum. He was however emotionally and physically exhausted by the experience as he barely got any sleep.
The center of Simsbury is in the background as the waters closed off Rt 185, Tower Rd, parts of East Weatogue Rd and land near Folly Farm Stables.
An out building and truck are submerged by flood waters in Simsbury.
The Avon Old Farms prep school is safe on higher ground but their ball fields and the soccer fields at Fisher Meadows in Avon are completely underwater.
A good portion of the Tunxis Plantation Golf Course in Farmington is flooded as Town Farm Rd and Rt 4 were closed to traffic.
The Farmington Club, a well known wedding and banquet facility is used to flooding most years, usually in the spring, not in August during peak wedding season. A family friend is a wedding planner and when she first saw this photo her heart dropped since she has a wedding there this weekend, hopefully all went well.
This is one of my favorite images for the flight. I didn't see it when I took it but I really like the survival, humanity and dicotomy of the image. I've been to the Farmington Polo grounds many times in my life to photograph different events. From horse shows to rain drenched antiques shows but this hits a balance of the tragedy of the flooding yet the humanity of the horses and people finding some dry ground to carry on.
From here it was back to Hartford so we could post some of these on the web as soon as possible and edit the best for the paper. On our way back I had to revisit the little plastic bag as we approached Brainard but Terry commended me on being a trooper. "It's no wonder you got sick, we'd been up for over three and a half hours."
I saw the best and worst in people through the week as we tried to piece back our lives. For some, there was no storm damage and life went on as usual, some were lucky to get power back with in a day or two, mine came back on Tuesday morning as I was headed to my dad's to do a load of laundry. Some of my co-workers were still without power and in some cases without running water. I count myself among the fortunate who suffered no real loss. I had a generator, have enough knowledge how to hook it up to give us power through most of the house. No trees down, my basement stayed dry, thanks to the generator, and for the most part went on with our normal routines.
On Friday, I visited the town of Sterling in eastern Connecticut. Most of the residents there still had no power and were not getting much service, other than lip, as they waited for power to return.
This blackboard with a message along Rt 14 in Sterling from Russ and Linda sum up how a lot of residents in the quiet corner of Connecticut feel after being without power for nearly a week.
Tim Sinko and his nephew Gavin Richards, 4, look at some of the tree damage caused by Tropical Storm Irene which left the town of Sterling close to 100% without power on Friday. Sinko and his family own the River Bend Campground in the Oneco section of Sterling. It will be closed this Labor Day weekend because their well was damaged by a fallen tree and the state will need to inspect that before allowing people to camp.
Joslyn Richards (C) and her brother Tim Sinko have to break the bad news to Katie D'Amato (R), 9, and her father Jeff that they will not be able to camp this Labor Weekend. Sinko and Richards were trying to help the D'Amato's and friends on the way to find another campground nearby. Austin Chadwick, a maintenance worker at the campsite is in the background.
A sigh of relief from State Representative Mae Flexor after receiving a call from Mary Calorio, acting town manager of neighboring Killingly, that she will loan the town Sterling some of their emergency supplies after Flexor learned that the supplies promised by the state were not going to be delivered Friday. Flexor said "That's what neighbors do for one another." in a situation like this, you help each other out. Sterling will give back any supplies not handed out when their allotment from the state arrives.
Assistant chief Wayne Glaude (C) and Craig Bein (R) help PFC Winston Powell, National Guard 1048 Transportation Division out of Stratford, unload supplies of MRE's and water at the Sterling volunteer fire department on Main Street Friday evening.
By 5pm a line began to form in the parking lot as residents pulled into the firehouse as volunteers began the distribution of supplies. Assistant chief Wayne Glaude and Keith Benoit sort bottled water and MRE's for one happy Sterling resident Friday evening at the Sterling Volunteer Fire Dept on Main Street. As the line was forming a shout came out from a distance "I've got power!" The power was restored at the firehouse and some of the surrounding homes by early evening. Hopefully by the end of the weekend all of the state will be back on line.
This weekend is Labor Day. I hope many can enjoy a few days of rest and relaxation after such a trying week of mental, emotional and physical exhaustion. Enjoy your neighbors, your family, your friends and things that are most valuable. Celebrate all your hard work because you never know when something like this will happen again. Best to be as prepared as possible then roll with what you're dealt.
I was relieved when I was not drafted to work the day Hurricane Irene was forecast to hit Connecticut last Sunday. Having covered Hurricane Gloria back in 1985 when I worked for the Bridgeport Post and Hurricane Bob in 1991 for the Courant, I knew that some of the most dramatic photos only come from being out in the thick of it, but I was glad to not have to deal with the water, wind and wet equipment. I was instead assigned to head out at 5:00 a.m. on Monday to photograph whatever damage Irene left in her wake. So, I figured this was the storm I'd sit out. But when I awoke at 4:00 a.m. Sunday to hear sheets of rain coming down and wind gusts that made it difficult to fall back asleep, I knew that I should be out working the storm. I managed to drift back to sleep until about 7 when I awoke to realize we had lost power. I immediately went downstairs and opened the basement door - my worst fear had materialized and my basement had several inches of water in it. Nothing I could do about it until the storm was over, I told myself. After pacing around all morning hoping one of the large maple trees in my yard wouldn't fall on the house, I called John Scanlan, Director of Photography, and volunteered to head out since the storm was to taper down mid-afternoon, earlier than we had expected. Why wait until Monday morning to go out and find damage, I reasoned. I also thought it would be good to relieve either Bettina Hansen, Steve Dunn or Mark Mirko who had been out along the shoreline since dawn covering the storm. They were doing fine, I was told. A few minutes later, John called back and asked me to head down to East Haven to catch up with Gov. Malloy who would be touring hard-hit areas. I managed to find the Governor at Cosey Beach after a couple of detours due to flooding. I took a few quick shots and followed the Governor and his motorcade to a shelter in West Haven. When I was told the Governor was heading back to Hartford, I decided to head to Milford to check on the residents of Melba Street where I had visited the Secondi family on Friday to photograph storm preparations on their two homes. After Irene, one home fared pretty well, but the second lost the back deck, patio and part of the foundation. Both were heavily water damaged.
Pope and Migrone board up the windows of one of the Secondi homes.
The storm surge ripped off the porch steps, the plywood and the brick foundation of one of the Secondi homes at Point Beach.
Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and Gov. Dannel Malloy listen as Michelle Lettiero describes events as she and her daughter rode out Hurricane Irene in their beachfront home on Cosey Beach Avenue. "The waves were pounding against my sliders," explained Lettiero. "My patio and fence are gone, washed away." The area was hard hit with flooding and wind damage.
The beach and pavement across the street from Chick's Seafood Restaurant in West Haven were damaged by the storm. Two feet of sand coated First Avenue in front of the popular restaurant.
Melba Street in Milford is coated in a muddy debris-strewn mess after the road was covered with several feet of water during the height of the storm.
Luba Shumylo's water-filled clock shows the time Irene's storm surge flooded her Melba Street home.
Monday morning, I was assigned to revisit Cosey Beach in East Haven where residents returned to their homes to salvage what they could. Cosey Beach was hard hit with more than 20 homes destroyed or heavily damaged by Irene's storm surge. Under an ironically bright summer sky I found residents trying to make sense of the disaster.
Gina Romano tries to make sense of the destruction of her home on Cosey Beach Avenue in East Haven the day after Tropical Storm Irene brought the sea crashing through, ripping off the front of the house and destroying it's contents. The house is condemned, but Gina and her husband Claudio and their son came back Monday to try and salvage what they could from the muddy mess. The Romanos have owned the house since 1988 and had never seen a storm like this one.
The beachfront side of the Romano's home was ripped off the rest of the house by the storm surge.
Pam Borer, (left) and her sister, Laura Boyer, (right)both of West Hartford, salvage boards from their grandmother's summer cottage (far right) that was destroyed by Irene. The cottage, built in 1895, has been in their family since 1943.
Richard Filipelli tries to salvage what he can from the apartment he rented with his fiance on the bottom floor of a three-story house on Cosey Beach that collapsed under the storm surge.
Filipelli and family members work to save what they can from the wreckage.
Countless summer memories were washed away during the peak of the storm as it washed over Cosey Beach.
Andy Weinstein, of Woodbridge, peers into what was once the living room of his family's summer cottage on Cosey Beach. The Weinsteins bought the house four years ago after renting for several seasons. "We plan to rebuild," said Paige Weinstein, Andy's wife.
Shayna Weinstein gets a hug from her dad, Andy Weinstein, after they surveyed what's left of their summer cottage (at left) on Cosey Beach, that was destroyed by Irene. The storm, which completely flattened the house, struck on Shayna's 16th birthday. "It's the worst birthday I've ever had," she said.
All things considered, I fared pretty well compared to some of the families I met this past week. My heart goes out to them. My power finally was restored on Thursday. A hot shower never felt so good. And, of course, my house is still standing.
Friday I studied maps and assembled my hurricane kit. Fortunately, I had plenty of good advice from other experienced photojournalists and stocked up on Hefty bags, gaffer's tape, towels, fix-a-flat, food, water, batteries, an extra AC inverter and lightweight clothing.
The day of the storm, I was assigned to the New Haven / Branford / Milford areas. Luckily, a friend and colleague, Michelle McLoughlin, offered to let me stay with her in New Haven and team up. She drives an SUV and grew up in Florida, a hurricane veteran. She also knows the shoreline area a lot better than I do. She was my saving grace.
We left her house in New Haven at about 6:00 AM Sunday to see what kinds of people would be out checking out the storm. There were already branches down everywhere and the whipping wind made it difficult to walk straight. We found Kevin Houlberg of West Haven walking his dog Hollywood in West Haven along the beach.
Several people were out to experience Irene firsthand, like this cyclist in bright reflective orange.
Streets were iffy, as trees kept falling taking powerlines with them. It was quite the spectacle for residents, who walked as though sightseeing through the damage.
I thought it was funny that the homeowners of this place on Ocean Avenue in West Haven tried to give their fisherman statue some respite from the storm.
The water along Ocean Avenue in West Haven was churning but there really wasn't anywhere to shoot waves crashing, as much as we tried.
After a couple hours of shooting, we went to the Pequonnock Yacht Club in New Haven and found a couple guys who were heading back to City Point Yacht Club to check on their boats. We followed them over there and found a lot of activity from the owners and members checking on boats, and hauling in anything that might float away. The water level was rapidly rising, the combination of high tide and the storm surge.
We stayed there for a while to ride out the worst of the storm, because there was plenty to shoot, friendly folks, shelter and power for us to transmit images back. A pretty perfect situation to be in.
By that point, my 17-55 lens had become extremely fogged on the inside, and no matter how much I wiped it down, it fogged. I only had one other lens, my 14 mm, and wanted to save it for after the storm. I chose to shoot everything with the fogged lens while it continued to rain so that I had a lens that was good for the destruction pictures afterwards. If you have two wide lenses, keep one dry! You'll be grateful when the storm subsides and you need a clear lens.
After the worst subsided, we drove around a bit to see where flooding had occurred and found people enjoying the spray of the cresting waves at Long Wharf in New Haven.
Chapel Park (aka Criscuolo Park) in New Haven had been completely submerged in water, and tons of people from the neighborhood had come out to see it, like this couple who are expecting a baby any day now.
After New Haven, we decided to head to Branford to check out the Stony Creek area for damage. First, we saw this gigantic downed tree, and stopped to find Frank Brunson taking a picture of his two daughters, Fiona, 5, left, and Molly, 4, right, in front of a huge tree that fell in front of the First Congregational Church in Branford. It was so funny to see people taking pictures in front of the damage like it was a Disneyland attraction. They were really sweet and live down the street from the church.
Michelle had a feeling about Stony Creek, so we headed to their Main street area. Not seeing much but an Ice Machine in the middle of the street, we started driving away when I thought I saw something that looked out of place. Sure enough, we stopped to check it out and saw this 50-ft sailboat perched on someone's deck.
We drove around to the house and found Jim and Lisa Gerrity trying to figure out how to get someone to remove the 50-foot sailboat that drifted into the deck and dock of their house. They graciously invited us in to check it out. What a surprise it was, Lisa said, to see a 50-ft sailboat headed right towards your house. Thankfully, it turned sideways and lodged itself into the deck instead of slicing right through the house while they rode out the storm.
The next spot we wanted to check out was Milford, so we headed towards the Woodmont area and were greeted by Darryl Nemeth and his brother Don walking down a flooded Merwin Avenue. They told us that they had just been at a 'hurricane party' of folks gathered at the end of the street.
Sure enough, the drinks were flowing like the floodwaters and beach music accompanied the jovial crowd.
Walking across to Villa Rosa, the mood was quite different as a 100-year-old decorative sea wall had crumbled under the weight of the water.
Hundreds of starfish had become beached in the storm, and this woman was throwing them back out to sea.
Kevin Swanepoel of Milford chased down one of his four lost kayaks in the low tide.
Walking down towards Hillside Avenue, the amount of damage increased significantly. Concrete was cracked and tossed aside. Walls were torn away, revealing innards of furniture and beach toys. The mood was quiet, somber.
We passed a woman with arms full, holding a bunch of clothing on hangers, taken from a closet. We introduced ourselves and she invited us in. Her boyfriend, Nick Krashefski, walked us through their destroyed living room.
'It's inevitable, It's gonna happen,' Krashefski said about the damage. 'The most important thing is, no one got hurt.'
As we walked out, we passed the group partying with the music, but this time, we didn't feel so jovial.
The next morning, we rose early again, dispatched to the Cosey Beach area of East Haven. National Guard troops had the area closed off, and Cloe Poisson was in position to head in with residents as they got a first glimpse of their homes since the storm. Access was cut off to us from there though, so we decided to head over into the Brazos section of Cosey Beach, which wasn't guarded by National Guard troops. Heck, there weren't even any police over there. Residents said the firefighters that came through to check on the damage were the first emergency personnel they had seen the entire time.
East Haven Firefighter Rob Ashton was taking stock of gas leaks and building stability. While the National Guard was deployed to the other side of Cosey Beach, residents said they had received no assistance from Guard troops or police as of Monday morning.
After spending the morning in East Haven, we decided to head over to the Point Beach section of Milford and found this Ice Cream truck, driven by Jeff Fitzgerald and his wife Sherri. The two drove around the beachfront areas of Milford affected by the storm. From left, Richard Whitten, 11, Tyler Pinto, 9, and Jake Owens, 11, all kids who live in the neighborhood, stopped to buy treats. 'For everyone who doesn't have power, at least they have ice cream,' Sherri Fitzgerald said. The couple live in Milford and didn't have power in their home either.
Walking around the neighborhood, we encountered Orville Greunke of Point Beach Drive cleaning up. The storm washed away a whole wall in his living room and straight through to his garage.
Joe Kubick of Seymour helped shovel landscaping rocks out of his brother's driveway on Point Beach Drive.
After Point Beach, we headed to Melba street in Bayshore in Milford. Cloe had made some nice pictures there the day before, and the striking thing was how much sand and sediment had washed up into the street and homes.
This home's foundation was completely swept away, and water rushed straight through the first floor.
Where the water could get under the concrete, it was just peeled away.
Looking down Melba street, people progressed with the messy cleanup.
I live in the Hartford area but stayed in New Haven one more night to do one more early shift. I hadn't yet seen Stratford, so first I headed to the Lordship section near Sikorsky airport.The beach at the end of Washington Parkway had completely eroded away, exposing a two-way gas main. A huge rock and a heavy trash receptacle had fallen on the main, so Ken Moulton of Southern Connecticut Gas Company was working to clear it while Rick Battis, top, of Dalling Construction, was working with crews to scrape sand off roads and return it to the heavily eroded beach.
I had heard a Red Cross shelter in Bridgeport was still open, so I drove over there and found Richard Hudson of Bridgeport sleeping on the floor. At the peak of the storm, the two Bridgeport Red Cross shelters held about 700 people, between Bassick School and Harding. The Harding shelter closed Sunday night, but several people needing special assistance remained in the shelter through Tuesday morning, having slept there since Saturday night. Hudson didn't know if he lost power or not, but was told to evacuate, and brought to Bassick. After his cot broke Monday night, he just curled up on the floor.
After transmitting those photos, I headed to Madison, which we hadn't covered yet. The fishing pier at West Wharf beach had crumbled and I found two men sitting in a damaged cottage right next to the Madison Beach Hotel.
Kenny Singh, left, and his father Anan Singh, of Westchester New York, sat in the sand and sediment of their flooded out cottage on West Wharf Beach in Madison, two days after Tropical Storm Irene swept through the area. Water washed out the front screen of the cottage and brought a thick layer of sand throughout the home. The Singhs are helping to build the large new Madison Beach Hotel next door and were staying there for the last three months. 'Left here Friday and it was pristine,' said Kenny. 'I guess this means the summer's over now.'
As I was heading over to East Wharf, I had been told to look for tree damage. I asked the next police officer I saw, where the worst tree damage was. 'Bradley Corners Road, right off of Race Hill,' he said. Sure enough, a huge tree brought down lines, poles and transformers in a tangle. A girl stopped by with a camera, and told me there was a lady living in the house, whose driveway was blocked by a transformer. So I knocked on her door, and boy was she happy to see me.
Barbara McDonald, 77, of Madison, had been stuck in her home on Bradley Corners road since Saturday night, when a large tree fell on power lines, and the whole electrical pole and transformer fell in her driveway. McDonald lives alone and had a total knee replacement three and a half weeks ago, so her mobility is limited, but she's grateful that no trees fell on her home and for the neighbors who stop by to say hello. Residents said they had not seen CL&P crews out yet, as of Tuesday afternoon, but that local police had been by to survey the area.
I left Barbara with a box of Cheez-its and a whole bunch of granola bars from my hurricane kit and she was glad to get some goodies and chat with company after being alone in the house for so long. By that point, I was exhausted and finally headed to my home back in the Hartford area. It was fine, and judging by my clocks, never lost power once.
The next day, I headed down to the Madison Ice House because Michelle had heard of some long lines there. I got there several minutes before they were about to sell their last bag.
Traffic jammed in the parking lot Wednesday afternoon after they sold their last few bags of ice. 'We're trying,' owner Jeff Bailey said. 'We can only make so much,' Bailey said he only gets one delivery a day and the way to find out if they have ice is to call 860-388-4202 before coming down. Hundreds of thousands of people were still without power.
I headed then to East Wharf to see the damage there. The force of the water ripped up concrete and asphalt along Middle Beach Road in Madison, right in front of the Madison Beach Club.
Driving out, I spotted a CL&P truck and stopped to check it out. Melanie Simmons of Higganum, working as an engineer for Connecticut Light and Power, was inspecting a tree tangled up with a utility pole on Island Avenue in Madison. 'This is uh, impressive, to say the least,' Simmons said about the damage. She said she'd been working 16-hour minimum shifts and finds it hard to sleep when she gets her eight hours off. 'How do you sleep with this stress?' she said.
Earlier in the day I had heard Clinton First Selectman Willie Fritz on 99.9 talking about having a free pasta dinner at the town hall. What a great resource those radio stations were for information. They opened up their programming for people to call in and share their news and experiences. So many of my ideas came from people who called into the show.
Sue Mugavero of Clinton spent most of the day coordinating and cooking the free pasta dinner at the Clinton Town Hall Wednesday evening. The pasta dinner served hundreds with 30 pounds of donated pasta from Shop Rite and bread from Stop and Shop. Many also stopped by to charge their cell phones and laptops and just check in with neighbors.
The pasta dinner was a success, as a steady stream of people flowed in the door, relieved to have a hot meal and spend time with neighbors. Kellie Ranaudo of Clinton, right, takes a plate from volunteer Colleen Brooks after Jim Mugavero (front) put in a fresh batch of penne.
By Friday, many people remained without power, and I headed to Andover where volunteers from the town's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) as well as the CERT from RHAM High School were distributing MRE's and cases of bottled water to residents. This is Ryan Harlow, 9, of Andover, one of the volunteers.
Before the CERT volunteers arrived, I encountered Joan Soucy, the coordinator of the Andover Congregational Church food pantry and her granddaughter, Amanda Nieves, 13, picking up supplies to deliver to some of the elderly folks and families with young children in Andover. I asked if I could ride along with them. This picture is of Amanda giving a hug to Pat Mancini, after they dropped off food and water at her home Friday.
In the car, Joan told me a story about how, 34 years ago, when she had her son, she couldn't afford shoes that fit him properly. A visiting nurse graciously gave her a voucher to buy shoes through the Salvation Army. Since then, she hasn't been able to turn away when there is a need for help, be it a bell-ringer at Christmastime, or a visitor to the food pantry.
'What goes around, comes around,' Joan told me. 'When I was in need, I got help. We're all human, we all have our frailties.'
Joan and Amanda delivered food and water to 37 homes Wednesday, and their oldest recipient was 105 years old.
For me, that was the most striking thing about the storm. People were out and about, really participating in each others lives, curious about shared experiences and generously helping each other. Joan and Amanda really exemplified that spirit.
PRO TIP: Team up if you can. It's a lot easier to handle the extreme stress and make smart decisions if you have a good partner. It's also safer and easier to approach subjects together, especially when dealing with delicate situations. People can be very emotional and on edge after losing their home in a storm, understandably. Show humanity and compassion - listen first and take pictures second - don't just start snapping away. They will open up to you much more that way, and their story will reveal itself if they want it to be told. Also, always keep one lens dry, so when the storm passes, you won't have two fogged lenses. If your camera gets wet, toss it in a bag of rice to draw out the moisture.
Shot with a Nikon D300 and D300s - Majority on a 17-55 and 70-200 and 14mm on Aperture Priority at F4, Cloudy WB.


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