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Photographer's 'Memories' Illuminates a Sound
Many jazz fans experienced their first images of the art from the photographs of Herman Leonard. Shot in the jazz clubs of the '40s, '50s and '60s, they captured the emergence of contemporary jazz in atmospheric black and white. Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis yellow gold cartier love bracelet copy and Billie Holiday were only a few of the iconic figures preserved via the hungry lens of Leonard's peripatetic camera.
More than 30 of those classic photographs have been gathered into an unusual blend of music and pictures: "Jazz Memories" (Universal Music), a book and two CD package. Spun off from a larger picture book collection of the same title, the images are matched to musical selections, many of them similarly classic, by each of the players. The result is a stunning audiovisual overview of a period the late '40s to the late '50s that is arguably one of the most creatively fruitful in the history of jazz.
Interestingly, many of the photographs nearly slipped away before they were seen by the public. When Leonard left the United States in the late '50s to work in Europe, primarily in fashion and advertising, the negatives from his jazz period were set aside, not to be rediscovered until the '80s. Since then, they've been seen in more than 100 exhibitions, his archives have been placed in the Smithsonian Institution, and a portfolio of his prints served as a gift from President Clinton to the king of Thailand, like Clinton a musician and a jazz fan.
Looking through the pictures in "Jazz Memories," one can only marvel at the good fortune that allowed their preservation. One after another they flow quick takes, captured in an instant but filled with revelatory perspectives. A placid looking, pensive Louis Armstrong, seated magisterially backstage, his horn on a nearby chair; Monk, intently working on a manuscript page propped across the strings of a piano; Dexter Gordon, in an often reprinted image, tenor saxophone across one knee, hat brim turned up, cigarette smoke curling into the light; whimsical shots of Gillespie and Cannonball Adderley; a view of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn that instantly delineates their intimate, complex relationship.
"The things that interested me were not so much a picture of someone playing a horn," says Leonard, 78, who has lived in New Orleans for the past decade. "I wanted to capture the private moments. I wanted to show the other side of these people, the side that the public didn't always see."
Which is precisely what he has done, especially in the glimpses of Armstrong and Parker, as well as similarly captivating photos of Art Tatum and Errol Garner. But Leonard is equally successful with his action shots. Like the great French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, he believes in the vital importance of capturing "the moment," that precise point at which visual elements coalesce into their point of greatest impact.
"Ninety nine percent of everything I shot was off the cuff," he says. "Whatever happened in front of the camera was what I took. I almost never told a musician what to do. I didn't want to alter or inject my feelings about things into the final result. I wanted to capture what was really there, untainted by anything I Cartier love bracelet replica would do. My whole principle was to capture the mood and the atmosphere of that moment. Because for me, it was a visual memory of what I was hearing. That was the whole name of the game for me."
There's a lot in that description that could apply to the process of making jazz, as well. And it's not surprising that other photographers Bill Claxton, for one have described the similarities between the two arts replica Cartier bracelet and their resulting compatibility. Leonard adds a further correspondence, imitation Cartier love white gold bracelet one that is not unlike the selection process that takes place once a musician concludes a recording.
"A lot of people don't realize even photographers themselves that you make choices," he says. "Each of the photographs in the book represents one out of four or five or more that I shot in that sequence. I chose those pictures to show. Not the others. So you judge a photographer not just by what he shoots, but by what he chooses to print out of what he shoots. That is the reflection of his taste, that is the reflection of his talent."
And also the reflection of an instinctive eye, one that homed in on its subject despite the relatively daunting problems of photographing jazz artists in dark and smoky night clubs. Working with only a pair of strobe lights ("I couldn't afford anymore," he says), Leonard came up with visual magic.trend fake cartier rose bracelet steel You should have it Let us come more familiar regarding its the situation
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More than 30 of those classic photographs have been gathered into an unusual blend of music and pictures: "Jazz Memories" (Universal Music), a book and two CD package. Spun off from a larger picture book collection of the same title, the images are matched to musical selections, many of them similarly classic, by each of the players. The result is a stunning audiovisual overview of a period the late '40s to the late '50s that is arguably one of the most creatively fruitful in the history of jazz.
Interestingly, many of the photographs nearly slipped away before they were seen by the public. When Leonard left the United States in the late '50s to work in Europe, primarily in fashion and advertising, the negatives from his jazz period were set aside, not to be rediscovered until the '80s. Since then, they've been seen in more than 100 exhibitions, his archives have been placed in the Smithsonian Institution, and a portfolio of his prints served as a gift from President Clinton to the king of Thailand, like Clinton a musician and a jazz fan.
Looking through the pictures in "Jazz Memories," one can only marvel at the good fortune that allowed their preservation. One after another they flow quick takes, captured in an instant but filled with revelatory perspectives. A placid looking, pensive Louis Armstrong, seated magisterially backstage, his horn on a nearby chair; Monk, intently working on a manuscript page propped across the strings of a piano; Dexter Gordon, in an often reprinted image, tenor saxophone across one knee, hat brim turned up, cigarette smoke curling into the light; whimsical shots of Gillespie and Cannonball Adderley; a view of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn that instantly delineates their intimate, complex relationship.
"The things that interested me were not so much a picture of someone playing a horn," says Leonard, 78, who has lived in New Orleans for the past decade. "I wanted to capture the private moments. I wanted to show the other side of these people, the side that the public didn't always see."
Which is precisely what he has done, especially in the glimpses of Armstrong and Parker, as well as similarly captivating photos of Art Tatum and Errol Garner. But Leonard is equally successful with his action shots. Like the great French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, he believes in the vital importance of capturing "the moment," that precise point at which visual elements coalesce into their point of greatest impact.
"Ninety nine percent of everything I shot was off the cuff," he says. "Whatever happened in front of the camera was what I took. I almost never told a musician what to do. I didn't want to alter or inject my feelings about things into the final result. I wanted to capture what was really there, untainted by anything I Cartier love bracelet replica would do. My whole principle was to capture the mood and the atmosphere of that moment. Because for me, it was a visual memory of what I was hearing. That was the whole name of the game for me."
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"A lot of people don't realize even photographers themselves that you make choices," he says. "Each of the photographs in the book represents one out of four or five or more that I shot in that sequence. I chose those pictures to show. Not the others. So you judge a photographer not just by what he shoots, but by what he chooses to print out of what he shoots. That is the reflection of his taste, that is the reflection of his talent."
And also the reflection of an instinctive eye, one that homed in on its subject despite the relatively daunting problems of photographing jazz artists in dark and smoky night clubs. Working with only a pair of strobe lights ("I couldn't afford anymore," he says), Leonard came up with visual magic.
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His wife, Barbara Amiel Black, had five closets for her evening gowns, $500 shoes and $7,000 handbags in their London townhouse. His chauffeur had a corporate American Express card he used to shop for the couple.
In a criminal trial so far dominated by lawyers parsing the language of corporate filings, what may stick with jurors most are details prosecutors are presenting of the Blacks' personal spending and alleged abuse of company perks. The couple's lifestyle may emerge as a key theme in the remaining weeks of Black's fraud and racketeering trial in Chicago.
"Black's expense practices evidence his attitude that there was no need to distinguish between what belonged to the company and what belonged to the Blacks," said a 2004 report by former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Richard Breeden, who was asked by Hollinger's board to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by Black and other executives. "In Hollinger's world, everything belonged to the Blacks."
Black, 62, and three co defendants are charged with stealing $60 million from Hollinger. Prosecutors say the former chief executive treated the company as his personal "piggy bank" from 1997 to 2003.
Amiel Black, 66, a columnist for Canadian magazines, hasn't been charged with any wrongdoing. Prosecutors say Black, who married her in 1992, abused corporate perquisites by billing Hollinger for thousands of their personal expenses. Amiel Black didn't respond to calls to her lawyers seeking comment. Black declined to comment for this article.
Black's allegedly fraudulent acts peaked in late 2000, as did the couple's spending, according to court records. On Nov. 16, 2000, Hollinger completed its $2.1 billion sale of Canadian newspapers to Winnipeg based CanWest Global Communications.
Prosecutors allege that Black helped divert $51.8 million of the sale proceeds and took $11.9 million for himself.
Five days after the asset sale to CanWest closed, the Blacks were shopping on London's New Bond Street, a half mile long roadway lined with exclusive stores, including Chanel, Hermes and Cartier.
In a 2003 article for the Canadian women's magazine Fashion Quarterly, Amiel Black wrote about her fondness for both stores and said she had acquired a taste for expensive jewelry: "I found I really liked the stuff," she wrote. She also wrote that after marrying Black, she "vaulted into circles where, for some people, jewelry is a defining attribute, rather like your intelligence or the number of residences you have."
Prosecutors say Black billed Hollinger $1.4 million from 1997 to 2003 to pay the staff of his four homes, including an 11 bedroom townhouse in London, a Toronto mansion on 12 acres, an oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and the Manhattan apartments.
His wife, Barbara Amiel Black, had five closets for her evening gowns, $500 shoes and $7,000 handbags in their London townhouse. His chauffeur had a corporate American Express card he used to shop for the couple.
In a criminal trial so far dominated by lawyers parsing the language of corporate filings, what may stick with jurors most are details prosecutors are presenting of the Blacks' personal spending and alleged abuse of company perks. The couple's lifestyle may emerge as a key theme in the remaining weeks of Black's fraud and racketeering trial in Chicago.
"Black's expense practices evidence his attitude that there was no need to distinguish between what belonged to the company and what belonged to the Blacks," said a 2004 report by former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Richard Breeden, who was asked by Hollinger's board to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by Black and other executives. "In Hollinger's world, everything belonged to the Blacks."
Black, 62, and three co defendants are charged with stealing $60 million from Hollinger. Prosecutors say the former chief executive treated the company as his personal "piggy bank" from 1997 to 2003.
Amiel Black, 66, a columnist for Canadian magazines, hasn't been charged with any wrongdoing. Prosecutors say Black, who married her in 1992, abused corporate perquisites by billing Hollinger for thousands of their personal expenses. Amiel Black didn't respond to calls to her lawyers seeking comment. Black declined to comment for this article.
Black's allegedly fraudulent acts peaked in late 2000, as did the couple's spending, according to court records. On Nov. 16, 2000, Hollinger completed its $2.1 billion sale of Canadian newspapers to Winnipeg based CanWest Global Communications.
Prosecutors allege that Black helped divert $51.8 million of the sale proceeds and took $11.9 million for himself.
Five days after the asset sale to CanWest closed, the Blacks were shopping on London's New Bond Street, a half mile long roadway lined with exclusive stores, including Chanel, Hermes and Cartier.
In a 2003 article for the Canadian women's magazine Fashion Quarterly, Amiel Black wrote about her fondness for both stores and said she had acquired a taste for expensive jewelry: "I found I really liked the stuff," she wrote. She also wrote that after marrying Black, she "vaulted into circles where, for some people, jewelry is a defining attribute, rather like your intelligence or the number of residences you have."
Prosecutors say Black billed Hollinger $1.4 million from 1997 to 2003 to pay the staff of his four homes, including an 11 bedroom townhouse in London, a Toronto mansion on 12 acres, an oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and the Manhattan apartments.
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Conchita, a pet chihuahua, and two other pooches were left a $3 million trust fund and Miami Beach mansion by their recently deceased owner, heiress Gail Posner.
In the past, Posner, the daughter of infamous businessman Victor Posner, lavished the pampered dog with a gold Cadillac Escalade, a diamond Cartier necklace and weekly spa visits.
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Brett Carr is disputing the will in court by suing his mother's personal aides, who he claims took advantage of his ailing mother in her final days, getting her to substantially alter her last wishes.
As part of her will, members of her entourage, which includes bodyguards and housekeepers, were left a lump total of $26 million.
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Conchita, a pet chihuahua, and two other pooches were left a $3 million trust fund and Miami Beach mansion by their recently deceased owner, heiress Gail Posner.
In the past, Posner, the daughter of infamous businessman Victor Posner, lavished the pampered dog with a gold Cadillac Escalade, a diamond Cartier necklace and weekly spa visits.
But Posner's only son, who received a measly $1 million, is fighting back, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Brett Carr is disputing the will in court by suing his mother's personal aides, who he claims took advantage of his ailing mother in her final days, getting her to substantially alter her last wishes.
As part of her will, members of her entourage, which includes bodyguards and housekeepers, were left a lump total of $26 million.
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Place Royale, below the Dufferin Terrace, is built over the site of Samuel de Champlain's original Abitation, dating to the 17th century.
Also in Lower Town, near the cruise ship terminal, the restaurants, inns and antique shops along St. Paul, St. Andr and Sault au Matelot streets have a definite 19th century European feel.
In front of the National Assembly is the ornate Tourny fountain, a gift to the city from Peter Simons, current head of the Simons retail chain. At his own expense, Simons rescued and restored the fountain, first erected in the mid 19th century in Bordeaux, a city in southwest France.
The "branch" places for nightlife in Quebec City are Grande Alle, with its terrace restaurants and discotheques, and Cartier, where Mick Jagger once dined at a restaurant called Graffitti.
But rue St. Jean, closed to motor traffic in the summer within the walls, is Quebec City's soul.
At the end of St. Jean, between the Saint Patrick Pub and the Italian Portofino restaurant is rue Couillard, named not for Health Minister Philippe Couillard, but for his ancestor Guillaume Couillard, one of the first farmers in New France.
Down the sinuous street, the Auberge de la Paix youth hostel still displays a peace sign.
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Looking for medieval garb? A sword and nice lace up shirt or dress? La Table Ronde on St. Jean has what you need for the annual Fte de la Nouvelle France.
Chez Paillard, an airy newcomer to St. Jean, offers a sandwich salad combo starting at $10.
Outside the stone walls, where St. Jean widens into Place d'Youville, is the rebuilt Palais Montcalm. Boasting exceptional acoustics, the concert hall is the venue for Bernard Labadie's renowned Les Violons du Roy.
Across the square at the Capitole de Qubec theatre, the French version of the musical Les Misrables will be presented this summer.
Il Teatro, a terrace restaurant (and also a hotel) in front of the Capitole, is a great, sunny place for lunch in summer.
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That would a shame because the city, famous for the distinctive architecture of the Chteau Frontenac and the fortifications ringing the old city, has much to offer.
Including a hug.
Mireille Poulin, 23, a social service student at the city's Universit Laval, and her band of people huggers, will be at Place d'Youville just outside the stone walls this summer with their bilingual signs, Clins gratuits/FREE HUGS.
"It is simply to make people happy," Poulin said. "It makes people smile."
Nearby Poulin and her band replica Cartier love bracelet Platinum stand two black leather clad Punks with their dogs. Metal studs on one boy's jacket, spell out, "Drink, fight f k."
"We would like to hug them," Poulin said. The boys are unmoved.
In some ways, time has passed by Quebec City. Peace and love, and Punk both not dead here.
Place Royale, below the Dufferin Terrace, is built over the site of Samuel de Champlain's original Abitation, dating to the 17th century.
Also in Lower Town, near the cruise ship terminal, the restaurants, inns and antique shops along St. Paul, St. Andr and Sault au Matelot streets have a definite 19th century European feel.
In front of the National Assembly is the ornate Tourny fountain, a gift to the city from Peter Simons, current head of the Simons retail chain. At his own expense, Simons rescued and restored the fountain, first erected in the mid 19th century in Bordeaux, a city in southwest France.
The "branch" places for nightlife in Quebec City are Grande Alle, with its terrace restaurants and discotheques, and Cartier, where Mick Jagger once dined at a restaurant called Graffitti.
But rue St. Jean, closed to motor traffic in the summer within the walls, is Quebec City's soul.
At the end of St. Jean, between the Saint Patrick Pub and the Italian Portofino restaurant is rue Couillard, named not for Health Minister Philippe Couillard, but for his ancestor Guillaume Couillard, one of the first farmers in New France.
Down the sinuous street, the Auberge de la Paix youth hostel still displays a peace sign.
And two doors farther along is a city landmark, Chez Temporel, a French caf that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, from caf crme to cream ale.
Across the street is a plaque commemorating Calixa Lavalle, who wrote Canada here in 1880 for replica cartier juste Un clou bracelet the Socit St. Jean Baptiste, to mark June 24 celebrations that year, not for July 1, Canada Day.
Backtracking up St. Jean, near Portofino is Les frres de la cte, a French style bistro with a bouillabaisse to die for.
Also on St. Jean's pedestrian strip is Pantoute, a non chain bookstore whose name means "not at popular replica Cartier love bracelet all." It's across from the Archambault chain's book and music store.
Le Chantauteuil and Saint Alexandre are two bars offering a variety of wine and draft beers and music in the summer.
But Bar Chez son pre, a bote chanson with a long past, where chansonniers like Gilles Vigneault got their start, has been closed to make way for an expanding Crocs plastic shoe store.
Looking for medieval garb? A sword and nice lace up shirt or dress? La Table Ronde on St. Jean has what you need for the annual Fte de la Nouvelle France.
Chez Paillard, an airy newcomer to St. Jean, offers a sandwich salad combo starting at $10.
Outside the stone walls, where St. Jean widens into Place d'Youville, is the rebuilt Palais Montcalm. Boasting exceptional acoustics, the concert hall is the venue for Bernard Labadie's renowned Les Violons du Roy.
Across the square at the Capitole de Qubec theatre, the French version of the musical Les Misrables will be presented this summer.
Il Teatro, a terrace restaurant (and also a hotel) in front of the Capitole, is a great, sunny place for lunch in summer.
Continuing up St. Jean is St. Matthew's Anglican church, now a library.
Dominating the other monuments in the cemetery beside the church is the cross to replica cartier love bracelet cheap commemorate Robert Wood and his wife, Charlotte. Some say Wood, born in 1792 when the duke of Kent was stationed in Quebec City, was the illegitimate son of the duke and his French mistress Julie de St. Laurent. The duke of Kent later fathered Queen Victoria.
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In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not."In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with Replica Van Cleef & Arpels necklace the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not." ()Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, a navigator who on Aug. 6, 1945, guided the Enola Gay over Hiroshima to drop the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare, died Monday at an assisted living facility in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was 93.The last surviving member of the Enola Gay's 12 member crew, Van Kirk died of age related causes, said his son Tom.A veteran of 58 World War II combat missions over Europe and Africa, Van Kirk was told that he had been chosen for a top secret bombing mission that could help end World War II. The payload was never specified.Boarding the stripped down B 29 on the island of Tinian in the northern Marianas, Van Kirk and his crewmates flew some 1,700 miles to Japan. They dropped a bomb code named Little Boy, which took 43 seconds to detonate, generating a burst of heat estimated at 50 million degrees. local time, Little Boy ushered in the dawn of the atomic age, destroying most of Hiroshima in a blinding flash. A poisonous mushroom cloud rose more than 50,000 feet.Van Kirk, who looked down at the city for a jarring moment and saw what he later likened to a pot of boiling tar, had just one thought at the time, he said in numerous interviews: "The war's over."The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.See more videos"Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not," he told the Sunday Mirror, a British newspaper, in 2010. "I have never apologized for what we did to Hiroshima and I never will."In succeeding generations, the question of nuclear weapons was anything but simple. Hiroshima, with at least 80,000 of its residents killed instantly and more contaminated by nuclear fallout, became a symbol. 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In October 1941, he enlisted as an Army aviator but washed out as a pilot. As a navigator, however, he flew many missions out of England and shuttled Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to North Africa. When he was teaching in New Orleans, his old friend, Paul Tibbets, who was then a lieutenant colonel, called to ask him if he'd like to be part of a secret mission.Tibbets, who remained one of Van Kirk's lifelong friends, became the Enola Gay's commander.The crew trained for months in Wendover, Utah. Among other maneuvers, they practiced the sharp turns they'd have to make to escape the bomb's shock waves. Scientists said they'd need to be 11 miles from the blast to avoid being shaken apart. As it was they experienced what Van Kirk later described as "a hell of a jolt."On Aug. 5, 1945, the crew was staged on Tinian. Van Kirk, Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee played poker that night."How else are you going to spend your time after they tell you you're going to be dropping the first atomic bomb?" Van Kirk once asked a reporter.After their mission, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and other honors.As a civilian, he received a degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and spent 35 years working for DuPont. In California, he made his home in the Marin County community of Novato.Van Kirk didn't talk much about Hiroshima until anniversaries started becoming major media events, his son said."He thought he did his duty," his son said. "Given the circumstances the country found itself in, with an enemy showing no desire to not continue to engage in war, with invasion imminent, he felt it was exactly the kind of thing this country should have done." In his later years, Van Kirk delivered that message to schools, veterans groups and history conclaves.
In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not."In an undated photograph, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, second from left in top row, stands with Replica Van Cleef & Arpels necklace the flight crew who dropped a bomb code named Little Boy on Hiroshima. Years later, Van Kirk told an interviewer, "Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not." ()Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, a navigator who on Aug. 6, 1945, guided the Enola Gay over Hiroshima to drop the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare, died Monday at an assisted living facility in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was 93.The last surviving member of the Enola Gay's 12 member crew, Van Kirk died of age related causes, said his son Tom.A veteran of 58 World War II combat missions over Europe and Africa, Van Kirk was told that he had been chosen for a top secret bombing mission that could help end World War II. The payload was never specified.Boarding the stripped down B 29 on the island of Tinian in the northern Marianas, Van Kirk and his crewmates flew some 1,700 miles to Japan. They dropped a bomb code named Little Boy, which took 43 seconds to detonate, generating a burst of heat estimated at 50 million degrees. local time, Little Boy ushered in the dawn of the atomic age, destroying most of Hiroshima in a blinding flash. A poisonous mushroom cloud rose more than 50,000 feet.Van Kirk, who looked down at the city for a jarring moment and saw what he later likened to a pot of boiling tar, had just one thought at the time, he said in numerous interviews: "The war's over."The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.See more videos"Do I regret what we did that day? No sir, I do not," he told the Sunday Mirror, a British newspaper, in 2010. "I have never apologized for what we did to Hiroshima and I never will."In succeeding generations, the question of nuclear weapons was anything but simple. Hiroshima, with at least 80,000 of its residents killed instantly and more contaminated by nuclear fallout, became a symbol. In 1995, anti nuclear demonstrators poured blood and ashes over a piece of the Enola Gay on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air Replica Van Cleef and Arpels necklace and Space Museum. Veterans groups, on the other hand, complained that the display, with its graphic depictions, was too sympathetic toward Japan and made short shrift of the Americans who would have died had the war continued. On Aug. 15, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.Van Kirk was frequently asked whether he and the Enola Gay's other crew members experienced any physical or emotional damage from the bombing."We did not suffer any effects from radiation, and none of us, I will add, had any psychological effects," he told NPR on the bombing's 60th anniversary in 2005. "None Van Cleef and Arpels White necklace fake of us went crazy. None of us went into monasteries and everything else that a lot of people say we did."Born Feb. 27, 1921, in Northumberland, Pa., Van Kirk grew up on a farm. In October 1941, he enlisted as an Army aviator but washed out as a pilot. As a navigator, however, he flew many missions out of England and shuttled Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to North Africa. When he was teaching in New Orleans, his old friend, Paul Tibbets, who was then a lieutenant colonel, called to ask him if he'd like to be part of a secret mission.Tibbets, who remained one of Van Kirk's lifelong friends, became the Enola Gay's commander.The crew trained for months in Wendover, Utah. Among other maneuvers, they practiced the sharp turns they'd have to make to escape the bomb's shock waves. Scientists said they'd need to be 11 miles from the blast to avoid being shaken apart. As it was they experienced what Van Kirk later described as "a hell of a jolt."On Aug. 5, 1945, the crew was staged on Tinian. Van Kirk, Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee played poker that night."How else are you going to spend your time after they tell you you're going to be dropping the first atomic bomb?" Van Kirk once asked a reporter.After their mission, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and other honors.As a civilian, he received a degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and spent 35 years working for DuPont. In California, he made his home in the Marin County community of Novato.Van Kirk didn't talk much about Hiroshima until anniversaries started becoming major media events, his son said."He thought he did his duty," his son said. "Given the circumstances the country found itself in, with an enemy showing no desire to not continue to engage in war, with invasion imminent, he felt it was exactly the kind of thing this country should have done." In his later years, Van Kirk delivered that message to schools, veterans groups and history conclaves.
Olympic imitation cartier love ring flame greeted with enthusiasm across Montreal
The Olympic experience continued across the island on Thursday with the relay running through municipalities including Dollard des Ormeaux, Kirkland, Pointe Claire and Hampstead, before swinging north of the mountain and finishing in Old Montreal.
The torch was carried to Place Jacques Cartier in the evening, where there was a celebration featuring Quebec entertainer Gregory Charles.
"We just want to show our support for our Olympic athletes, and hope they do well in Vancouver," said one high school student as the torch made its way through Pointe Claire.
Todd van der Heyden carries the torch
CTV Montreal anchor Todd van der Heyden ran through St. Marthe sur le Lac with the Olympic flame on Thursday morning.
He received the flame from Maxime Remillard, gave him a high five, then slowly jogged along Des Promenades Blvd.
"I'm really in the spirit this morning," said van der Heyden. "It doesn't hit you until you've got the torch in your hand.
"I really found myself welling up with emotion."
Van der Heyden was surrounded by dozens of screaming fans as he carried the torch in front of a high school, before passing it along to Marina Hartl.
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The Olympic experience continued across the island on Thursday with the relay running through municipalities including Dollard des Ormeaux, Kirkland, Pointe Claire and Hampstead, before swinging north of the mountain and finishing in Old Montreal.
The torch was carried to Place Jacques Cartier in the evening, where there was a celebration featuring Quebec entertainer Gregory Charles.
"We just want to show our support for our Olympic athletes, and hope they do well in Vancouver," said one high school student as the torch made its way through Pointe Claire.
Todd van der Heyden carries the torch
CTV Montreal anchor Todd van der Heyden ran through St. Marthe sur le Lac with the Olympic flame on Thursday morning.
He received the flame from Maxime Remillard, gave him a high five, then slowly jogged along Des Promenades Blvd.
"I'm really in the spirit this morning," said van der Heyden. "It doesn't hit you until you've got the torch in your hand.
"I really found myself welling up with emotion."
Van der Heyden was surrounded by dozens of screaming fans as he carried the torch in front of a high school, before passing it along to Marina Hartl.
"The other thing is that a bunch of my friends showed up as well," said the CTV anchor. to France, buy cheap imitation Cartier love bracelet watched him run with the torch online, and sent in congratulatory messages afterwards (read them in the comments section below).
"To be part of this was just an awesome experience," said van der Heyden.
Another inspirational torch bearer was Dollard's Greg Shulkin.
He contracted meningitis when he was 18, and has spent much of the past 15 years in a wheelchair.
With the help of his brothers, he walked the last few steps of his 300 metre replica cartier love bracelet journey with the Olympic flame.
"It's a once in a lifetime thing Rob," Shulkin told CTV reporter Rob Lurie. "What a rush, what an inspiration. I can't wait to watch this on TV when I imitation cartier jewelry get home."
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The Wheatfield of 1888, which is close to the exit of the large Van Gogh exhibition at the NGV, makes the flimsy grasses monumental. By his welter of impulses, the carpet of ticklestakes on a grand multiplicity, gathering contrary colours to make a bristling accord that also captures the golden shimmer of the wheat.
This energetic toggling between different hues and saturation provides a chromatic cypher for the richness of the world. In its gilded glow, the most ordinary patch of countryside takes on an inimitable,oxymoronic logic a blazing rightness, a fierce tranquillity, a glorious commonplace, a raging serenity.
Van Gogh identifies the "grain" of the world in this agitated hymn to yellow, the copious fibre and strands of growing things that vie in parallel, bursting from their common plane with a shared urge to absorb the sun.
His pictures resonate with the grain that is cereal and the grain that is integral to living formations and also to the organic gestural construction of a painting, which Van Gogh demonstratively heightens.
Structuring this exhibition around the seasons is clever. It's not so much because you get a chill in the Winter rooms or experience hope with Spring; rather, the theme of the seasons belongs to the very grain of the planet, the division into parallel and recurrent strands of time that support the stretch and weave of everything else that grows and occupies space for its destined duration.
We no longer live by the seasons. We expect a constant indoor temperature and buy all fruit and vegetables throughout the year.
To negate the effect of the seasons, we consume inordinate energy. Van Gogh's world of the seasons proves that little of this ecological waste is necessary.
Perhaps just because Van Gogh himself lived by the seasons, his paintings belong intensely to the moment of their creation.
They aren't always scrupulously crafted. Some are imperfect, hasty, messy and unsatisfying.
Many contain unresolved areas of tentative, scratchy handling, with thin equivocal layers that have no rapport with the strong, tonal impasto that they abut.
Many pictures have inexplicable linear elements a legacy of the artist's rub with Cloisonnism that compromise the atmospheric wholeness of things and their environments.
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These rough, uncomfortable decisions don't necessarily matter because the pictures are so much about a subjective response to a motif that we end up accepting the mannerism, or ascribing it to emotion.
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This energetic toggling between different hues and saturation provides a chromatic cypher for the richness of the world. In its gilded glow, the most ordinary patch of countryside takes on an inimitable,oxymoronic logic a blazing rightness, a fierce tranquillity, a glorious commonplace, a raging serenity.
Van Gogh identifies the "grain" of the world in this agitated hymn to yellow, the copious fibre and strands of growing things that vie in parallel, bursting from their common plane with a shared urge to absorb the sun.
His pictures resonate with the grain that is cereal and the grain that is integral to living formations and also to the organic gestural construction of a painting, which Van Gogh demonstratively heightens.
Structuring this exhibition around the seasons is clever. It's not so much because you get a chill in the Winter rooms or experience hope with Spring; rather, the theme of the seasons belongs to the very grain of the planet, the division into parallel and recurrent strands of time that support the stretch and weave of everything else that grows and occupies space for its destined duration.
We no longer live by the seasons. We expect a constant indoor temperature and buy all fruit and vegetables throughout the year.
To negate the effect of the seasons, we consume inordinate energy. Van Gogh's world of the seasons proves that little of this ecological waste is necessary.
Perhaps just because Van Gogh himself lived by the seasons, his paintings belong intensely to the moment of their creation.
They aren't always scrupulously crafted. Some are imperfect, hasty, messy and unsatisfying.
Many contain unresolved areas of tentative, scratchy handling, with thin equivocal layers that have no rapport with the strong, tonal impasto that they abut.
Many pictures have inexplicable linear elements a legacy of the artist's rub with Cloisonnism that compromise the atmospheric wholeness of things and their environments.
These clumsy outlines might have begun as an attempt to Van Cleef necklace white gold fake secure the lineaments and presence of objects, but they wreck the continuity of air and light that creates atmosphere.
These rough, uncomfortable decisions don't necessarily matter because the pictures are so much about a subjective response to a motif that we end up accepting the mannerism, or ascribing it to emotion.
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Moldova's PM says the only way is Europe
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Filip is in Brussels this week for talks on reforms Moldova agreed to implement as part of a trade and political agreement with the European Union signed in 2014, and about plans to open a NATO liaison office in the Moldovan capital Chisinau.
His visit coincided with Dodon announcing a referendum that the president hopes will ultimately pave the way for his Socialist party to take power and ditch Moldova's EU trade pact in favour of a Russian dominated customs union.
Moldova has been ruled by a succession of pro Western governments but a corruption scandal involving the looting of $1 billion from three local banks has sapped the popularity of pro EU leaders.
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"Our EU road is priority one," Filip told Reuters by phone from Brussels, speaking through a translator.
"This is the priority for both me and my colleagues, and we are only heading in one direction. This is an assurance that I wanted to make to all my counterparts here in Brussels."
Dodon says the EU agreement needlessly worsened relations with Moscow. Russia imposed retaliatory trade restrictions on Moldovan farm exports in response to the EU deal.
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Dodon has criticised plans for the NATO office. Filip dismissed concerns about it as scaremongering and said cooperation would help make the Moldovan army more professional.
KIEV (Reuters) Amid the tumult of Brexit, Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip on Friday vowed to keep his country on a European path and accused his rival, President Igor Dodon, of trying to pull the country back towards Russia for domestic political gain.
Filip is in Brussels this week for talks on reforms Moldova agreed to implement as part of a trade and political agreement with the European Union signed in 2014, and about plans to open a NATO liaison office in the Moldovan capital Chisinau.
His visit coincided with Dodon announcing a referendum that the president hopes will ultimately pave the way for his Socialist party to take power and ditch Moldova's EU trade pact in favour of a Russian dominated customs union.
Moldova has been ruled by a succession of pro Western governments but a corruption scandal involving the looting of $1 billion from three local banks has sapped the popularity of pro EU leaders.
Dodon signed a decree on van cleef jewelry replica Tuesday to hold a referendum in September on whether to give him greater powers to dissolve parliament and call a snap election. The referendum also proposes to cut the number of Moldovan MPs.
A snap election would mean more upheaval for Moldova after the turmoil caused by replica Van Cleef & Arpels Clover Necklace with flower the banking scandal, which triggered waves of street protests and economic pain for ordinary citizens. Filip is the country's fifth prime minister since 2009.
"Our EU road is priority one," Filip told Reuters by phone from Brussels, speaking through a translator.
"This is the priority for both me and my colleagues, and we are only heading in one direction. This is an assurance that I wanted to make to all my counterparts here in Brussels."
Dodon says the EU agreement needlessly worsened relations with Moscow. Russia imposed retaliatory trade restrictions on Moldovan farm exports in response to the EU deal.
"I can understand what Dodon is doing but I don't think it's right," Filip said. "I think he's only using this position to pump How much Van Cleef & Arpels Clover necklace up his image."
Filip said Moldova and Russia had agreed last year to set up a bilateral commission on trade relations.
"Now basically the ball is in the Russian Federation's court," he said.
Dodon has criticised plans for the NATO office. Filip dismissed concerns about it as scaremongering and said cooperation would help make the Moldovan army more professional.