Jesse Neider

EDITORIAL

Editorial Singles Collection

Cooling off during the opening night of the Gathering of the Vibes music festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Jesse Neider for the Wall Street Journal.
   
A contestant at the Miss Teen International Competition exits the stage rapidly after finding out she did not place.
   
     
  
Michelle Deidrick helps her youngest adopted son Codey (hidden center), 4, brush his teeth while the other children (left to right) Casey,5, James,7, Adam,8, and Kristopher,9, brush their teeth. Michelle decided to adopt all seven of the kids she was providing foster care for.
   
  
     
  
   
  
Jerry Kish, of Easton, Conn., a longtime patron of The Cedar Brook Café in Westport Conn., smokes a cigarette outside the bar on Wednesday, July 23 2010. The Cedar Brook Café has been an institution in Fairfield County for over 71 years and is the oldest gay bar in America. The owner, Clem Bellairs, has decided to close down the bar in the face of increased rent and a general feeling his establishment is no longer welcomed by the community.
     
  
Swimmers plunge into the Kiputh Pool at Yale University to warmup during the CIAC Boys Class L Swimming Championships in New Haven, Connecticut.
   
Chris Dietrich bounces off of the diving board while his Golden Retriever, “Cali,” races to meet him in the pool on an July afternoon in Syracuse, New York.
   
A couple enjoys an unseasonably warm September afternoon at the park.
     
  
A man is silhouetted by the light spilling out from police cars near a crime scene in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
  
High Tea at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, South Afirca.
   
UConn’s freshman forward, Maya Moore, signs autographs for a large crowd of fans who watched the team’s practice session.
     
  
A man acting as the new headmaster of a school for boys who have been taken in from the streets of Cap Hatien stands in the small entry space of his future schoolroom in Haiti.
   
Homelessness and poverty have forced many from their homes in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A man sleeps on the side of the road in the car he is now living out of after loosing his home.
   
A boxer competing in the New York Amateur Golden Gloves tournament warms up away from the main ring inside a building on the New York State fairgrounds.
     
  
   
Mark Wettering pushes his physical limits while competing for his Junior High School track team Inspired by cheering spectators, Wettering says, “I love hearing the crowds.” Despite the fact that Wettering insists his teammates have welcomed him, his physical condition occasionally isolates him from the others.
  
Mike Trumble, 17, of Orwell, NY dumps a barrel of fish guts off at the Pulaski City Dump in preparation for another day of cleaning fish with his father, Lloyd, outside of Pulaski.
     
  
A Haitian boy wearing a prized soccer uniform, sets up for a match while surrounded by flames from burning trash in Cap Haitien.
   
Referee Mark Brown checks on wrestler Christian York who lays motionless in the center of the ring after being "knocked out " during the featured match of the night at the KYDA Pro live event. Popcorn thrown by fans covers the mat around him.
   
The two people in a car that was involved in a head-on collision with a motorcycle Thursday night near Syracuse's Clinton Square receive medical attention. The 28-year old motorcyclist was critically injured, city police said. The crash happened just before 9 p.m. at South Salina and James streets. An ambulance took the man, who suffered internal injuries, to University Hospital, where he was in critical condition late Thursday, Sgt. Tom Connellan said. The motorcyclist had been wearing a helmet. The female driver of the red Chevrolet Monte Carlo was not injured, Connellan said. Police closed the intersection and several surrounding streets while they worked to reconstruct the crash, which remains under investigation.