Michael Bailey gets ready at 5:21 in the morning for his shift on the Mott's strike line on Saturday, August 7, 2010. A member of the RWDSU (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union) Local 220, Bailey made the decision to live outside his old place of work to save money on gas and support his fellow workers in their strike against Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group, Inc. In Bailey's tattered tent, the wind and rain are close company. He sleeps briefly, but the morning light only seems to give him more energy. As many on the strike line like to quote, "One day longer, one day stronger."
A soldier from the XVIII Airborne Corps. hugs his family before his departure for Iraq, to take part in "Operation New Dawn" on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 from Green Ramp at Pope Air Force Base.
Nine-year old Ashlyn Burton feels the icy snowball on her face after being thrown by her stepbrother, nine-year old Jackson Snell in Fayetteville on Monday, December 27. Sunday's day-after-Christmas snowfall in Cumberland County ranged from 9 inches in Eastover to 7 inches in Fayetteville, according to the National Weather Service.
A young demonstrator is arrested by Toronto Police during the second day of the G8/G20 Convention protests at the University of Toronto on Saturday, June 26 2010. The event was part of the largest and most expensive security operation in Canadian history, with the total cost for preparations totaling C$1.1 billion.
Fayetteville State University's (l to r) Sidney Evans (44) embraces Lenton Donnell (14) at the conclusion of the game. Evans scored the winning three point shot, creating a lead that the Broncos preserved in the final seconds. The Fayetteville State University Broncos men's basketball team defeated the Winston-Salem State University Rams 66-63 in the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC on Thursday, March 3, 2011.
Ashley Stewart (left) kisses her fiance Jonathan Strickland, 26 before leaving him for the evening at the Pearces Mill Fire Department. Both Stewart and Strickland come from firefighter families, and plan to marry the summer of 2011.
Gretchen Staley and her three-year-old daughter MacKenna Staley joke with each other in their home in Canandaigua, NY on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Gretchen is six weeks away from the birth of her third child, a fact that MacKenna has only recently begun to accept.
Revelers embrace at Tilt Nightclub during the celebration of Rochester's 21st annual Pride festival on Friday, July 16, 2010.
Durrell Wynn stands outside the youth Intervention program "Milestones" classroom in downtown Rochester on Saturday, November 6, 2010. Saturday meetings are held to keep young people out of trouble on the weekends.
Christian rap act KJ-52 provided entertainment between acts at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville on Saturday March 19, 2011 for the Winter Jam Tour.