02.26.2010: Springfield, MA - Jesse Martin, a member of the Service Employees International Union Local 615, demonstrates with a group of union supporters outside a Stop & Shop office hiring replacement workers should the SEIU strike. Stop & Shop and members of the United Fod and Commercial Workers Union have been in contract negotiation. Stop and Shop workers have voted to authorize a strike if negotiations "don't provide a fair contract."

02.26.2010: Springfield, MA - Jesse Martin, a member of the Service Employees International Union Local 615, demonstrates with a group of union supporters outside a Stop & Shop office hiring replacement workers should the SEIU strike. Stop & Shop and members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union have been in contract negotiation. Stop and Shop workers have voted to authorize a strike if negotiations "don't provide a fair contract."

02.25.2010: Middletown, CT - During a press conference, Don Holmstrom, the Chemical Safety Board Lead Investigator of the Kleen Energy power plant explosion, uses a photograph made on the morning of the event to show how natural gas, which is mostly methane, was used to clean debris from natural gas pipes at the plant. According to a statement he read, "To remove debris, workers used natural gas at a high pressure of approximately 650 pounds per square inch. The high velocity of the natural gas flow was intended to remove any debris in the new piping. At pre-determined locations, this gas was vented to the atmosphere through open pipe ends, which were located less than 20 feet off the ground. These vents were adjacent to the main power generation building and along the south wall. The open pipe ends are visible here in the photographs." "Initial calculations by CSB investigators reveal that approximately 400,000 standard cubic feet of gas were released to the atmosphere near the building in the final ten minutes of the blast." "That is enough natural gas to fill the entire volume of a pro-basketball arena with an explosive natural gas-air mixture, from the floor to the ceiling." "This gas was released into a congested area next to the power block building. This congested area likely slowed the dispersion of the gas. The gas built up above the lower explosive limit of approximately 4% in air and was ignited by an undetermined ignition source.

02.25.2010: Middletown, CT - During a press conference, Don Holmstrom, the Chemical Safety Board Lead Investigator of the Kleen Energy power plant explosion, uses a photograph made on the morning of the event to show how natural gas, which is mostly methane, was used to clean debris from natural gas pipes at the plant. According to a statement he read, "To remove debris, workers used natural gas at a high pressure of approximately 650 pounds per square inch. The high velocity of the natural gas flow was intended to remove any debris in the new piping. At pre-determined locations, this gas was vented to the atmosphere through open pipe ends, which were located less than 20 feet off the ground. These vents were adjacent to the main power generation building and along the south wall. The open pipe ends are visible here in the photographs." "Initial calculations by CSB investigators reveal that approximately 400,000 standard cubic feet of gas were released to the atmosphere near the building in the final ten minutes of the blast." "That is enough natural gas to fill the entire volume of a pro-basketball arena with an explosive natural gas-air mixture, from the floor to the ceiling." "This gas was released into a congested area next to the power block building. This congested area likely slowed the dispersion of the gas. The gas built up above the lower explosive limit of approximately 4% in air and was ignited by an undetermined ignition source.

02.15.2010: Bolton, CT - While waiting for his friend's father to pick them up at the Lower Bolton Pond boat ramp, Ethan Moser, 7, of Ellington, examines a set of wings he and his friends Colin Garrow, 8, (far right) and Tommy Garrow, 6, (not pictured) found during an ice fishing trip with Colin and Tommy's father John Garrow. Taking advantage of today's holiday, the group was out on the ice most of the day and with a grill on scene was able to successfully catch and cook their lunch. Moser said he was going to share one of the wings with Tommy Garrow, who helped chip it out of the ice but he was going to hang the other wing on his wall. "I want my mom and dad to see it," he said, "I want to surprise them."

02.15.2010: Bolton, CT - While waiting for his friend's father to pick them up at the Lower Bolton Pond boat ramp, Ethan Moser, 7, of Ellington, examines a set of wings he and his friends Colin Garrow, 8, (far right) and Tommy Garrow, 6, (not pictured) found during an ice fishing trip with Colin and Tommy's father John Garrow. Taking advantage of today's holiday, the group was out on the ice most of the day and with a grill on scene was able to successfully catch and cook their lunch. Moser said he was going to share one of the wings with Tommy Garrow, who helped chip it out of the ice but he was going to hang the other wing on his wall. "I want my mom and dad to see it," he said, "I want to surprise them."

02.09.2010: Hartford, CT - "How do you recognize when someone you are dating is an abuser before you are involved," asked 20-year-old CCSU student Gina Ratz of a panel of four teen dating violence experts during a Forum at the University of Hartford. The Key Issues Forum was moderated by Susan Campbell, columnist for the Hartford Courant, and featured on its panel: Dr. Jhumka Gupta, Yale School of Public Health, an expert on violence against boys and girls; William S. Pollack, author of Real Boys and director of the Centers for Men and Young Men at McLean Hospital, Boston; Iris Ruiz, assistant director, Interval House, and teen dating violence survivor; and Alisson Wood, youth program manager for a Bridgeport program that prevents teen dating violence and a survivor herself. The forum was named: "Teen Dating Violence: How to Spot It, What to Do About It."

02.09.2010: Hartford, CT - "How do you recognize when someone you are dating is an abuser before you are involved," asked 20-year-old CCSU student Gina Ratz of a panel of four teen dating violence experts during a Forum at the University of Hartford. The Key Issues Forum was moderated by Susan Campbell, columnist for the Hartford Courant, and featured on its panel: Dr. Jhumka Gupta, Yale School of Public Health, an expert on violence against boys and girls; William S. Pollack, author of Real Boys and director of the Centers for Men and Young Men at McLean Hospital, Boston; Iris Ruiz, assistant director, Interval House, and teen dating violence survivor; and Alisson Wood, youth program manager for a Bridgeport program that prevents teen dating violence and a survivor herself. The forum was named: "Teen Dating Violence: How to Spot It, What to Do About It."

02.10.2010: Storrs, CT -UConn student Amanda Madajewski, 19, of Nanticoke, PA, playfully jumps from a sidewalk barrier wall after she, her brother Brian Madajewski, 22, of Nanticoke, PA, and Noelle Horelik, 21, of Lowell, MA, went ice skating at UConn's Swan Lake during a snowstorm that is expected to drop 1-2 inches through 8pm tonight. Classes were canceled at the university today due to the storm and Brian Madajewski, who is a senior, said he came out the ice today after the idea occured to him and his friends a couple weeks ago that ice skating at Swan Lake was a "must do" event to do as a UConn student.

02.10.2010: Storrs, CT -UConn student Amanda Madajewski, 19, of Nanticoke, PA, playfully jumps from a sidewalk barrier wall after she, her brother Brian Madajewski, 22, of Nanticoke, PA, and Noelle Horelik, 21, of Lowell, MA, went ice skating at UConn's Swan Lake during a snowstorm that is expected to drop 1-2 inches through 8pm tonight. Classes were canceled at the university today due to the storm and Brian Madajewski, who is a senior, said he came out the ice today after the idea occured to him and his friends a couple weeks ago that ice skating at Swan Lake was a "must do" event to do as a UConn student.

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02.11.2010: Storrs, CT - Connecticut Young Farmers meeting.

02.11.2010: Storrs, CT - Connecticut Young Farmers meeting.

01.29.2010: Plantsville, CT - A snowboarder at Mount Southington walks under the blast of one of the facility's snow-makers. The mountain has 50 acres of terrain over 14 trails and 100% snow-making coverage.

01.29.2010: Plantsville, CT - A snowboarder at Mount Southington walks under the blast of one of the facility's snow-makers. The mountain has 50 acres of terrain over 14 trails and 100% snow-making coverage.

02.05.2010: Farmington, CT - Evan McKay, a six-year-old in Diana Petro's first-grade class at Noah Wallace, makes Valentine's Day cards for his parents.

02.05.2010: Farmington, CT - Evan McKay, a six-year-old in Diana Petro's first-grade class at Noah Wallace, makes Valentine's Day cards for his parents.

02.04.2010: Hartford, CT - An historic brownstone owl sculpture that has been part of Hartford Public High School and its history for more than a century, was removed from its perch outside the school for repair in 2006. It's back and has been placed in a secure, indoor spot, mosty dur to the efforts of the school's historian R.J. Luke Williams, who oversees the schol's history musem.

02.04.2010: Hartford, CT - An historic brownstone owl sculpture that has been part of Hartford Public High School and its history for more than a century, was removed from its perch outside the school for repair in 2006. It's back and has been placed in a secure, indoor spot, mosty dur to the efforts of the school's historian R.J. Luke Williams, who oversees the schol's history musem.

02.02.2010: Hartford, CT - Prince Tech senior Dajai Wilcox practices his shot in a stairwell outside the Prince Tech gym before his team's game against Capital Prep Tuesday night. Wilcox went on to score a game-high 27-points during his school's 83-55 win.

02.02.2010: Hartford, CT - Prince Tech senior Dajai Wilcox practices his shot in a stairwell outside the Prince Tech gym before his team's game against Capital Prep Tuesday night. Wilcox went on to score a game-high 27-points during his school's 83-55 win.

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