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Inspired by a gruesome real-life trio of South American serial killers (among them Luis Alfredo Garavito, who shocked Colombia with the murders of about 140 children), Crónicas follows Miami tabloid TV correspondent Manolo Bonilla (John Leguizamo) and his crew (Leonor Watling and José Mar Yazpik) as they report on one such killer in Babahoyo, Ecuador, failing Journalistic Ethics 101 in the process. (The seductive power of news production is little match, however, for that of Watling's immersive eyes and Castilian sibilant Sa lovely contrast to Leguizamo's Nuyorican-by-way-of-Colombia, mestizo tones.) Leguizamo finds the right mute for his trumpet, modulating his expenditure of emotion to the requirements of the scenario rather than overengaging his capable Mambo Mouth. He's aided by the film's strong sense of place; sorrow's descent on Babahoyo feels as perpetual and all-consuming as the torrents of rain that drench the region, and the town itselfmuch of it suspended over water on ramshackle bamboo bridgesthreatens to collapse from its own psychological detritus.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy part three has been and gone for me - though if you missed it you get the repeat next Saturday evening at 2100 and you can listen again on the Radio 4 web site.
And I thought it was fabulously good.
We have an audience measurement system for appreciation - called AIs - which should not be taken as religion. Sometimes the sample sizes are small, some genres (new comedy) always do less well than others... old favourites etc... and I do not use AIs as a mainstay of commissioning. So I risk inconsistency when I point out that the AIs for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy were 91. This is astonishingly high... indeed, about as high as it gets.
This is my third bout of Smiley-mania. First came Alec Guinness in the TV adaptation in 1979 - then I read the books - and now this with Simon Russell Beale as Smiley. I think he's been extraordinary. And the dramatisers - Robert Forrest and Shaun McKenna - have done wonderfully well in striking a balance between faithfulness to the text and necessary compression.
Do catch it.
Mark Damazer is Controller of BBC Radio 4
All posts are reactively-moderated and must obey the house rules.
I, too, have really appreciated 'Smiley' in all three media, Mark: television, book and radio, and in the same order.
Why it should have worked so well on radio, I am not sure, although I have to agree with your AI.
Great radio! Congratulations to all!
Dear Mr Damazer,
Yes, it has indeed been a brilliant series - congratulations to all concerned. However, I have a problem with The Secret Pilgrim: I've missed the first episode, and it's been removed from iPlayer, though episodes 2 and 3 will both be available until July 3rd. I obviously misunderstood the 'Series catch-up trial' - I thought, from the trails and iplayer notifications, that it was being used for all the multipart stories.
Could Part 1 not be reinstated on iPlayer, at least until July 3rd, for all the other people like me who really would like to hear The Secret Pilgrim in its entirety.
I have posted on the message boards, explaining the problem in detail, here
and with further contibutions to here
I have also contacted Feedback with the note below.
I really hope that something can be done.
Keith Hodgkinson
Please Feedback - we need your help!!
The Radio 4 website is pushing the final 'Complete Smiley' story very hard at the moment. And with good cause - the series has been excellent, as many others have commented on your programme. But I find that, in my dotage, I can't keep track of the complex plots* when they are spread over three 1-hour episodes each separated by a week.
I have therefore been very grateful for the iPlayer 'series catch-up trial' that has kept all three episodes in a story available until 7 days after the transmission of the FINAL episode. It has been my practice to listen to all the episodes close together, either on the day of the final episode or just afterwards.
I had been under the impression, from the numerous on-air trails, that all the (multipart) 'Complete Smiley' stories were part of this 'series catch-up', and had planned my listening accordingly. But it would appear I was wrong - this last story in the series is apparently NOT in the trial, and Episode 1 has already disappeared from the iPlayer, even though Episodes 2 and 3 will be available until July 3rd. I know this because I posted on the Radio 4 messageboard
and was directed by one of the other posters to a BBC Blog by Sarah Prag (I really hate it when information is disseminated by blog - but that's another story)
Sarah Prag says she would be happy to hear our views about the trial. Well, for me, it's simple: it's a great idea, even essential, for SERIALS catch-up, but of little importance as a SERIES catch-up.
So what I'm asking for is a change of heart about this final Similey story - please, please, please reinstate Episode 1 at least until July 3rd. Otherwise I don't think I will be able to bring myself to listen to the other two parts without it.
Can Feedback help?
* Even Jeremy Howe, Radio 4's Commissioning Editor for Drama, admits to the stories' complexities: he says, "For me The Complete Smiley is the most ambitious drama we have embarked upon in my time at Radio 4. Smiley is one of the great characters of 20th century fiction and the way he threads, weaves, ducks and dives his way through the complexities of the Cold War has given us some of the century's most enthralling stories. Be prepared to spend a lot of your Saturday and Sunday afternoons glued to the radio."
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Like things you spot in your side-view mirror, many of the budget numbers flitting around the debt talks are larger than they appear.
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We have to stop subsidizing people to live in harm's way.
If lawmakers really want to stop blank checks for spending binges, they should start with the Pentagon.
Our lawmakers should spend the next month figuring out how to reduce our $16 trillion debt instead of showering special interests with even more wasteful subsidies that have nothing to do with the drought.
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A rash of injuries has forced Detroit manager Alan Trammell to adjust his lineup. The tinkering paid off Friday.
The Tigers hope to get more help from their bench players as they resume a four-game series with the Minnesota Twins at the Metrodome.
Utility infielder Jason Smith started at second base Friday, allowing Omar Infante to play center field for just the second time in his career.
Outfielder Craig Monroe is out with a strained left hamstring and Rondell White (right foot) was limited to designated hitter duty Friday. Center fielder Alex Sanchez remains in Miami awaiting the birth of twin sons, and probably wouldn't be playing anyway because of a sore right foot.
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Thelma Hulbert Gallery
THG is an award-winning public art gallery based in Honiton, East Devon. It occupies an attractive, Grade II listed, Georgian town house, formerly the home and studio of the artist Thelma Hulbert. The gallery has an exciting programme of six exhibitions a year and houses a permanent collection of Thelma Hulbert paintings.
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A small selection of works by the late Thelma Hulbert produced in 1940s-60s are on permanent display courtesy of the Thelma Hulbert Memorial Trust, these include works on paper and oil on canvas. Most notable are 'Rooftop: Ischia' and 'Palms.' Also sketches of Swiss mountain scenery and the Cornish coast. Two previously unseen works have been donated during the past five years.
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Night Lines
- 15 May 2015 7-9pm
Join us on the penultimate evening of our exhibition Drop Me A Line.
THG will stay open after hours from 5pm for visitors to explore and play the current exhibition - a piano wire sound installation by Michael Fairfax and line journeys drawn by Louise Baker.
From 7 - 9pm visitors can enjoy a performance by sound artist Michael Fairfax using some of his hand-crafted stringed instruments (and are welcome to try these out too!) as well as joining visual artist Louise Baker to create a final line to drape around the gallery. Visitors can also create their own smaller night lines using white emulsion on black paper.
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The Learning Room at THG is available to the public whenever the gallery is open (10am-5pm Tues-Sat.) There is no charge and materials are provided. The Learning Room is home to THG's after school art group, 'Masterpieces,' which was established through engage/enquire. Masterpieces meets every other Wednesday in term time, for details ring the gallery. The Learning Room is available for schools workshops and is regularly used on a drop-in basis by local students with special needs.
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Free (donations accepted) ring 01404 45006 for details
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Parking adjacent to gallery in Lace Walk car parks on Dowell Street
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Bloxham, John W (1980) Investigation of the flexural properties of reinforced concrete beams strengthened by externally bonded steel plates. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
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It is sometimes necessary to strengthen in situ concrete structures. Externally bonded plate reinforcement has been successfully applied to structures with subsequent satisfactory performance. However, little research has been reported, especially in respect to long term behaviour. The present study investigated the flexural behaviour of normal under- reinforced concrete beams with plate reinforcement bonded to their tensile face. Furthermore, long term studies of loaded and unloaded plated beams were initiated for testing after exposure to natural weathering conditions. The parameters under investigation were adhesive and steel plate thickness, the degree of cracking in the beam prior to bonding on the plates, multiple plate layers and plate jointing techniques. Test results showed that although the increase in ultimate load produced by the bonded plates was only 17%, the service loads were increased up to 90%. The deformations at service loads were reduced up to 65%. In general, the deformations decreased for an increase in adhesive or plate thickness, the latter having the larger effect. The maximum crack widths in the plated beams-were up to 63% lower than those in the unplated beam. The ACI and CP 110 crack width prediction formulae overestimated the measured values. Within the limitations of the present test series, empirical formulae were derived for calculating rotations, crack widths, crack spacings and concrete surface strains. Tests on specimens after 18 months weathering showed no loss of flexural performance nor any visual deterioration of the adhesive or adhesive/steel interface. Further tests will be reported. Bonded plate reinforcement can only enhance the ultimate strength of a beam to limited extent. More important are the decrease in deformations and consequently the increase in service loads, thus making it a viable technique for up-rating the load carrying capacity of existing structures.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Civil and Structural Engineering (Sheffield) |
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Speaking at an awareness meeting on the programme, he said that Tallapaka, the birth place of saint-lyricist Tallapaka Annamacharya, who rendered 32,000 keerthanas in praise of Lord Venkateswara, would be developed. He said that Sri Lakshmi Venkateswara Swamy temple at Devunikadapa, Sri Prasanna Anjaneya Swamy temple at Gandi and Sri Narapura Venkateswara Swamy temple at Jammalamadugu, which had been taken over by the TTD, would be developed.
Mr. Adikesavulu said that Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has approved plans to cover the entire Tirumala temple with gold plating and recalled that only the Vimana Gopuram in the temple was covered with gold as of now. TTD has taken up Rs. 300-crore project to provide drinking water supply to the religious places - Tirumala, Tirupati, Srikalahasti, Kanipakam, Tiruchanur and Kanipakam in Chittoor district. He promised disbursal of compensation to people of Tallapaka whose lands were acquired for construction of Venkateswara temple, theme park and 108-ft. Annamacharya statue
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Eva Braun at the 2008 EXIT festival, from left to right: Stojkov, Glavaški, Rajić, Vasović, Dolinka, Obradović
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Also known as | Viva Brown |
Origin | Bečej, Serbia |
Genres | Britpop, pop rock, power pop, baroque pop |
Years active | 1990–present |
Labels | Carlo Records, B92, Automatik Records |
Associated acts | Minstrel, Popcycle, Rebel Star, Veliki Prezir |
Members | Goran Obradović Goran Vasović Ljubomir Rajić Milan Glavaški Petar Dolinka Zvonko Stojkov |
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Eva Braun (Serbian Cyrillic: Ева Браун) is a Britpop/pop rock band from Bečej, Serbia, notable as one of the most important bands of the Vojvodina pop-rock scene of the 1990s. The band is credited for starting the pop rock revival in FR Yugoslavia of the 1990s which produced other notable acts like Oružjem Protivu Otmičara, Kristali and Veliki Prezir.[1]
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In 1989 Goran Vasović and Petar Dolinka made some discussions about forming a band. On Spring 1990, the core of the band was formed by the former two and Milan Glavaški. The agreement took place in a rented apartment in Novi Sad's Miše Dimitrijevića street. The first songs from this period were "Kuća lutaka", "Kao da znam", "Sva tvoja ćutanja" and "Dan pobede". In September, Ljubomir Rajić, after coming back from the army, joined the band as the fourth member. The name of the band, Eva Braun, was proposed by Vasović after viewing a biographical film about Adolf Hitler. The name was both unusual and provocative, which was agreeable to the other members. The first rehearsals took place in November, and the first concert was held in the end of 1991 in a local "DB Klub" in Bečej. The band played both their own songs as well as cover versions of The Beatles, Little Richard, The Byrds, Idoli songs. Most of the year 1991 was spent in composing the music that would appear on the debut album.
The debut album Prisluškivanja (Eavesdroppings) was recorded between February and April 1992 in the "Do Re Mi" studio in Bukovac near Novi Sad. The studio owner and album producer was Predrag Pejić Peđa, a friend of the band members since their beginnings. The recording lasted for about 130 hours on the 8 channel Magnetophon, using rhythm machine instead of drums. At the time of the recording, the band still haven't got a label. But one of the guests of the "Do Re Mi" studio was Mića Jakšić, owner of the Carlo Records for which Belgrade's Dža ili Bu had just signed. After some negotiations, the agreement was made with him to release the album. So, on October 5, 1992 the debut album Prisluškivanja was released. Only 500 copies of vinyl LPs were printed.
Although the marketing campaign was rather chaotic and unprepared, the album was noticed by some influential people of the music industry, like Gordan Paunović, Momčilo Rajin, Petar Janjatović, Bojan Žikić, Nebojša Pajkić, Tomislav Grujić and Dinko Tucaković, who was the art director of the Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive. Radio B92 also played a great role in promoting Prisluškivanja. The rest of 1992 the band spent on promoting the album on the medias who were interested in pop and rock music. Eva Braun had no music videos in this period, so TV appearances were only in the form of interviews and lip-synch performances. Few songs from Prisluškivanja became minor hits such as "Već viđeno", "Ponekad", "Sva tvoja ćutanja", "Jagodna Polja" and "Kuća lutaka".
In January 1993, Mića Jakšić organized a tour called "Dobri bendovi Vojvodine" (Good Bands of Vojvodina) as a response to then heavily promoted tour "Brzi bendovi Srbije" (Fast Bands of Serbia). Few bands of very different music styles took part and, besides Eva Braun, those were Generacija Bez Budućnosti, 16x8x23, Gluve Kučke, Instant Karma, Oružjem Protivu Otmičara and others. Till the end of February, the tour had included all the major cities of Vojvodina, and the last concert was held in Belgrade's KST. The bands who took part in the tour also recorded a cover of The Clash' song London Calling, under the title "Vojvodina zove" (Vojvodina Calling), but the song was never released.
Having finished the "Dobri Bendovi Vojvodine" tour, the band started working on the unplugged concert which was announced for the mid-Spring 1993. With a help of Dinko Tucaković, the concert was held on April 16, 1993 in the Hall of the Yugoslav Film Archive. The crowd of 200 people enjoyed what is considered the best concert of the band's early career. The concert lasted for two and a half hours, with three encores. The band played own songs as well as some covers. The guests were Sabljar of Dža ili Bu and violinist Saša Štukelja. The whole performance was recorded and, about a month later, released as a live album Unplugged 16.04.1993.. The album is considered today a rarity, as it was released only in 200 copies on audio cassettes.
Nationwide success, breakup (1993–1996)[edit]
Until the end of the summer, Prisluškivanja was sold out, and Unplugged was heavily praised. Eva Braun slowly came to popularity. But, the things were not going easy for the band. In Autumn 1993, Carlo Records was closed. Gordan Paunović, the music editor of radio B92 approached the band and offered them to take part in the compilation album Radio Utopia,[2] which was to be released for the occasion of the fifth anniversary of B92. The band chose to do a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Stephanie Says". The song was named "Aljaska" (Alaska), and became one of Eva Braun's greatest hits so far. After this success, the band signed for the new formed B92 record label. During the same year, they recorded two songs to the lyrics of the poet Ljubivoje Ršumović for the children TV show "Fore i fazoni" of TV Novi Sad, and soundtrack for the play "Caligula" by Albert Camus directed by Ana Miljanić. In the meantime, the band was working on their second studio album.
Recording the album Pop Music was very slow and difficult. It started in September 1994 in the "Do Re Mi" studio, which was now relocated to Novi Sad, and was going very slowly. The reasons were numerous: often power cuts, bad and old equipment, etc. The relations within the band were also not as harmonic any more. During the ten months of the recordings, the band members spent only four days together in the studio. The authorship of the album was shared between Vasović, Glavaški, Dolinka, and, for the first time, Ljubomir Rajić. The recording was finished on July 1995, and the album was released on December 14, 1995.
The album was promoted in Belgrade's "Plato" club, and one of the guests was Vlada Divljan of Idoli who had just come back from Australia where he lived for years. In February 1996 Eva Braun and Vlada Divljan recorded a cover version of "Hajde, sanjaj me sanjaj", originally released on the Idoli album Odbrana i poslednji dani. The music video for this song was directed by Dinko Tucaković. Pop Music was critically acclaimed, and had a large public interest. For the first time, the band had a real hit, the song "Sasvim običan dan". The other, minor hits were "Zmajevi", "25. Avgust" and "Sada ne znam gde sam ne znam šta". For all the songs Relja Mirković had directed the music videos, and on the videos for "Zmajevi" and "25. Avgust" (recorded on the same day), Petar Dolinka was absent. By that time he had already left the band, but came back later only to do few more concerts on the Pop Music tour.
Internal conflicts between Vasović and Glavaški were increasing, which soon came to the point of no return. This led to the end of the first line-up of Eva Braun. Although the atmosphere in the band was dark, the band's live performances were still appreciable. The best concerts from this tour were held in Belgrade's clubs REX and SKC and in Novi Sad's Dom Mladih. The concert in SKC held on July 1996 was actually the last concert of the original Eva Barun lineup. The members did not even talk to each other at this point. After the concert, Eva Braun disbanded.
Reformation, hiatus (1996–2001)[edit]
In Autumn 1996, the members of "Zajedno" coalition invited Goran Vasović to reform Eva Braun and take part in the coalition's final meeting before the 1996 local elections in Serbia. Vasović took the chance, and called Zvonko Stojkov and Srđan Ljiljak, guitarist and drummer of the local R&B band Specijalno Izdanje. The band was reformed after two days of rehearsals. The new Eva Braun lineup performed three songs at the political meeting in front of the crowd of 100,000 people. Dušan Ševarlić, the bassist of the Novi Sad's band Minstrelm joined Eva Braun a few weeks later.
In late 1996, Eva Braun signed for a new record label, Automatik Records from Belgrade. The reissue of Prisluškivanja was released with a bonus track "Hajde, sanjaj me sanjaj". In the meantime, the new line-up recorded two new songs at the "Drum" studio in Novi Bečej: "Zviždi Srbija" (Serbia Whistles, a cover of The Beach Boys' "Surfin' U.S.A.") and "Vrteška", composed by Vasović and Tomislav Grujić of B92. A music video for "Vrteška" was also made. This led to some attention of the media and a series of concerts was made in 1997 with a good reception. In just four months period, between February and May 1997, the new line-up held more concerts than the original one had done in their whole career.
As the new line-up showed good results, Goran Vasović decided to continue the band's activity. In the Summer of 1997, the band started to prepare their third studio album. The recording took place at the "M" studio in Novi Sad and "O" studio in Belgrade during the Winter and Spring. The producer was Mirko Vukomanović, who previously produced highly acclaimed album Barbiecue by Zrenjanin band Oružjem Protivu Otmičara. Although he left the band, Petar Dolinka continued to write songs for Eva Braun together with Vasović. Two of them wrote all the songs for the new album except for one cover. The guests on the album were Aleksandra Kovač on the song "Santa Fe", actor Sergej Trifunović on the cover of Film's "Odvedi me iz ovog grada" and Tina Milivojević as a backing vocalist on "Mala prodavnica užasa" and "Ja to radim samo kad sam sam".
In the early June 1997, the single "Lavirint" was released accompanied by the two different music videos, directed by Aca Ilić, announcing the new album Heart Core. The album contained twelve songs of modern pop music, and is considered by Vasović to be the best album of the band's career. But, although the band expected Heart Core to be their magnum opus, the critical reception was mixed. The music video was filmed for the song "Mala prodavnica užasa", directed by Srdan Golubović. After the series of concerts, interviews and intensive promotion, the album found its way as one of the best selling albums of the year 1998 in FR Yugoslavia.
In 1998 Vasović, helped by Željko Rakočević Kole, a Serb from Los Angeles, succeeded to make Eva Braun part of the International Pop Overthrow festival in Los Angeles. Eva Braun's performance on the festival was well received, and the band gained the opportunity to record an album for the North American market. Having returned home, the band recorded The Nowhere Land in 1999, consisting mostly of the old Eva Braun songs with lyrics in English language. The lyrics adaptations were done by Goran Obradović of Popcycle. The band changed the name for the U.S. market to Viva Brown, which was felt to be more politically correct.
In 2000, Automatik Records released the compilation album First and Last, which consisted of twenty-two songs featuring the complete albums Prislučkivanja and The Nowhere Land and the singles "Hajde sanjaj me sanjaj" and "Vrteška". The music video for "Cabaret Noire" (originally from The Nowhere Land) was filmed. The band then played a concert in Belgrade's "Saund", accompanied by Saša "Džule" Džuklevski who became the band's fifth member. After few more concerts in Serbia, Eva Braun started the work on their most ambitious project so far, an album entitled Vremenske zone (Time Zones). Dolinka and Vasović approached this album as prominent. The album was later renamed Everest, which is the original title of The Beatles' Abbey Road. The album was released by B92 in 2001, a year after the work had started. The first single released was "Meg Ryan Blues" accompanied by a music video, directed by Academy Award nominated director Stefan Arsenijević. After the album's release, the farewell concert was held in Belgrade's REX club, as Vasović decided to quit performing live. Eva Braun went on hiatus.
Original lineup reunion (2007–present)[edit]
After four years of inactivity, Eva Braun was reformed in 2007 in the original line-up (Vasović, Dolinka, Glavaški, Rajić), with the adedition of Goran Obradović on bass guitar,[3][4] and made a comeback concert in Bečej the same year.[5] During 2008, Label Star released a compilation album Off The Record which contained unreleased and demo recordings from the 1997-2006 period. The album was available on free download on the record label official site.[6] The album featured a new song, "Evergrin" ("Evergreen"), also released as a single, reaching the third position on the B92 annual chart for 2008.[7] In the same year, the band made few well received concerts in Belgrade's SKC,[8][9] at EXIT festival in Novi Sad[10] and Nisomnia festival in Niš.
In 2008, the band started preparing a new studio album with the work title Nesanica (Insomnia).[11] The album, retitled Playback, recorded at the Novi Sad Do-re-mi studio and produced by Peđa Pejić, would feature selected recordings from about thirty songs the band had recorded during the sessions for the album.[12] On 28 June 2010, the first single "U izgnanstvu" became available for free download at the B92 records official site.[13] On February 3, 2011, the band released yet another single for free download, the song "Okreni moj broj" ("Dial My Number"), for which a promotional video had also been recorded.[14] In May, the band released the single "Istra" ("Istria") for free download through Exit festival official website.[15] Playback album was finally released digitally on 1 June 2011.[16][17] In November, the band released the video for the song "Primenjena ljubav" ("Applied Love"), which featured guest appearance by Veliki Prezir frontman Vladimir Kolarić.[18]
On June 30, 2012, Eva Braun performed on the last evening of the first Belgrade Calling festival.[19] On December 15, the band celebrated twenty years since the release of their debut album with a concert in Belgrade's Dom omladine. On the concert, the band performed Prisluškivanja in its entirety.[20] In January 2013, the band released the video for the song "Sve što gubiš sam ja" ("All that You're Losing Is Me") from Playback. The video was directed by Aleksandar Marić, who used some of the material recorded for the documentary Route 66: Glavna ulica Amerike (Route 66: America's Main Street) to make the video, which was his gift to the band.[21]
The album Prisluškivanja was polled in 1998 as 75th on the list of 100 greatest Yugoslav popular music albums in the book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike (YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music).[22]
In 2006, the song "Sasvim običan dan" was ranked No. 58 on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list.[23]
The lyrics of 12 songs by the band were featured in Petar Janjatović's book Pesme bratstva, detinjstva & potomstva: Antologija ex YU rok poezije 1967 - 2007 (Songs of Brotherhood, Childhood & Offspring: Anthology of Ex YU Rock Poetry 1967 - 2007).[24]
- Goran Vasović — vocals, bass, guitar
- Petar Dolinka — vocals, guitar (1990–1996, from 2007)
- Milan Glavaški — guitar (1990–1996, from 2007)
- Ljubomir Rajić — drums (1990–1996, from 2007)
- Zvonko Stojkov — guitar (from 1996)
- Srđan Ljiljak — drums (1996–2003)
- Dušan Ševarlić — bass (1996–2003)
- Saša Džuklevski — guitar (2000–2003)
- Goran Obradović — bass (from 2007)
Studio Albums[edit]
- Prisluškivanja (1992)
- Pop Music (1995)
- Heart Core (1998)
- Everest (2001)
- Playback (2011)
Live Albums[edit]
- Unplugged 16.04.1993. (1993)
Compilation Albums[edit]
- First & Last (2000)
- Off The Record (2008)
Extended Plays[edit]
- To Nowhere Land (1999)
- U Izgnanstvu (2010)
- Okreni Moj Broj (2011)
- Istra (2011)
- ^ Interview with Eva Braun, X ZABAVA, August 1998 (Serbian)
- ^ Various - Radio Utopia (B92: 1989-1994) at Discogs
- ^ Eva Braun Discogs page
- ^ Eva Braun Myspace page
- ^ Popboks: MILAN GLAVAŠKI / REBEL STAR / POPCYCLE / EVA BRAUN: Pop Music, 08.05.2007. by Andrej Dolinka (Serbian)
- ^ "Eva Braun "Off The Record (1997-2006)"". Sites.google.com. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
- ^ "Godišnja domaća lista 2008". B92.net. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
- ^ Dragan Kremer: Bec(ejs)ki vals (Vreme 899, 27.03. 2008) (Serbian)
- ^ Out & About: Eva Braun - SKC 22.03.2008., Posted on 02 Sep 2008 (Serbian)
- ^ Eva Braun na Đavi, S. Malešev (BEČEJSKI MOZAIK), Thursday, July 31, 2008 (Serbian)
- ^ POPBOKS: Eva Braun se sprema za Novu godinu, 13.10.2008. (Serbian)
- ^ ROCKanje: Eva Braun na Exitu: Velika konkurencija pesama za "Nesanicu", 18 June 2008 (Serbian)
- ^ [1], 22.06.2010. (Serbian)
- ^ "Moj FM :: B92FM Radio". B92.fm. 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
- ^ "Istra - novi singl Eve Braun", Popboks
- ^ B92: Eva Braun – Playback, by VLADIMIR SKOČAJIĆ, 9 Jun 2011 (Serbian)
- ^ Download Playback
- ^ Novi spot "Eve Braun" za pesmu "Primenjena ljubav", blic.rs
- ^ "BELGRADE CALLING - ČETVRTI DAN: Odvedi me iz ovog grada", popboks.com
- ^ "Koncert Eve Braun povodom 20 godina od Prisluškivanja", popboks.com
- ^ "Eva Braun" dobili spot na poklon, balkanrock.com
- ^ Antonić, Duško; Štrbac, Danilo (1998). YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike. Belgrade: YU Rock Press. p. 47.
- ^ The B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list at B92 official site
- ^ Janjatović, Petar (2008). Pesme bratstva, detinjstva & potomstva: Antologija ex YU rok poezije 1967 - 2007. Belgrade: Vega media.
- Aleksandar S. Jankovic: BIOGRAFIJA, Sunday, May 13, 2007 (Serbian)
External links[edit]
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Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Picchu, "Old mountain") is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 km (50 mi) northwest of Cusco. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire.
The Incas started building the estate around AD 1400 but it was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a century later at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction.
Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Since it was not plundered by the Spanish when they conquered the Incas, it is especially important as a cultural site and is considered a sacred place.
Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. These are located in what is known by archaeologists as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. In September 2007, Peru and Yale University reached an agreement regarding the return of artifacts which Hiram Bingham had removed from Machu Picchu in the early twentieth century.
Machu Picchu was constructed around 1460, at the height of the Inca Empire. It was abandoned less than 100 years later. It is likely that most of its inhabitants were wiped out by smallpox before the Spanish conquistadores arrived. Hiram Bingham, the credited discoverer of the site, along with several others, originally hypothesized that the citadel was the traditional birthplace of the Inca people or the spiritual center of the "Virgins of the Suns".
Another theory maintains that Machu Picchu was Inca "llacta": a settlement built to control the economy of the conquered regions. It may also have been built as a prison for a select few who had committed heinous crimes against Inca society. Research conducted by scholars, such as John Rowe and Richard Burger, has convinced most archaeologists that rather than a defensive retreat, Machu Picchu was an estate of the Inca emperor, Pachacuti. In addition, Johan Reinhard presented evidence that the site was selected based on its position relative to sacred landscape features. One such example is its mountains, which are purported to be in alignment with key astronomical events.
Although the citadel is located only about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Cusco, the Inca capital, it was never found and consequently not plundered and destroyed by the Spanish, as was the case with many other Inca sites. Over the centuries, the surrounding jungle grew over the site, and few knew of its existence.
On July 24, 1911, Machu Picchu was brought to the attention of scholars by Hiram Bingham, an American historian then employed as a lecturer at Yale University. He was led there by locals who frequented the site. Bingham undertook archaeological studies and completed a survey of the area. Bingham coined the name "The Lost City of the Incas", which was the title of his first book. He never gave any credit to those who led him to Machu Picchu, mentioning only "local rumor" as his guide.
Bingham had been searching for the city of Vitcos, the last Inca refuge and spot of resistance during the Spanish conquest of Peru. In 1911, after years of previous trips and explorations around the zone, he was led to the citadel by Quechuans. These people were living in Machu Picchu, in the original Inca infrastructure. Even though most of the original inhabitants had died within a century of the city's construction, a small number of families survived so by the time the site was 'discovered' in 1911, there were still mummies (mostly women) in Machu Picchu and some families still living on the site. Bingham made several more trips and conducted excavations on the site through 1915. He wrote a number of books and articles about the discovery of Machu Picchu in his lifetime.
Simone Waisbard, a long-time researcher of Cusco, claims that Enrique Palma, Gabino Sanchez, and Agustin Lizarraga left their names engraved on one of the rocks at Machu Picchu on July 14, 1901. This would mean that they 'discovered' it long before Bingham did in 1911. Likewise, in 1904, an engineer named Franklin supposedly spotted the ruins from a distant mountain. He told Thomas Paine, an English Plymouth Brethren Christian missionary living in the region, about the site, Paine's family members claim. In 1906, Paine and another fellow missionary named Stuart E McNairn (1867-1956) supposedly climbed up to the ruins.
In 1913, the site received significant publicity after the National Geographic Society devoted their entire April issue to Machu Picchu. In 1981 an area of 325.92 square kilometers surrounding Machu Picchu was declared a "Historical Sanctuary" of Peru. In addition to the ruins, this area includes a large portion of the regional landscape, rich with flora and fauna.
Machu Picchu was designated as a World Heritage Site in 1983 when it was described as "an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique testimony to the Inca civilization". On July 7, 2007, Machu Picchu was voted as one of New Open World Corporation's New Seven Wonders of the World. As a result of environmental degradation resulting from the impacts of tourism, uncontrolled development in the nearby town of Aguas Calientes (including a poorly-sited tram to ease visitor access), and the construction of a bridge across the Vilcanota River in defiance of a court order and government protests (which would most likely bring even more tourists to the site), the World Monuments Fund placed Machu Picchu on its 2008 Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites in the world.
Machu Picchu is 70 kilometers northwest of Cusco, on the crest of the mountain Machu Picchu, located about 2,350 meters (7,710 ft) above sea level. It is one of the most important archaeological centers in South America and the most visited tourist attraction in Peru.
From the top, at the cliff of Machu Picchu, there is a vertical rock face of 600 meters ending at the foot of the Urubamba River. The location of the city was a military secret because its deep precipices and mountains were an excellent natural defense. The Inca Bridge, an Inca rope bridge across the Urubamba River in the Pongo de Mainique, provided a secret entrance for the Inca army. Another Inca bridge to the west of Machu Picchu, the trunk bridge, has a section across a cliff face with a 6 metres (20 ft) gap in it which could be bridged by two tree trunks. If the trees were removed, it would leave a 570 metres (1,900 ft) fall to the base of the cliffs to discourage invaders. It is above Urubamba Valley.
The city sits in a saddle between two mountains, with a commanding view down two valleys and a nearly impassable mountain at its back. It has a water supply from springs that cannot easily be blocked, and enough land to grow food for about four times as many people as actually lived there. The hillsides leading to it have been terraced, not only to provide more farmland to grow crops, but to steepen the slopes which invaders would have to ascend. There are two high-altitude routes from Machu Picchu across the mountains back to Cuzco, one through the sun gate, and the other across the Inca bridge. Both could easily be blocked if invaders should approach along them. Regardless of its ultimate purpose, it is in a highly defendable position.
Most of the construction in Machu Picchu uses the classic Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape. The Incas were masters of this technique, called ashlar, in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. The Incas were among the best stone masons the world has seen, and many junctions in the central city are so perfect that not even a knife fits between the stones.
Other Inca buildings have been built using mortar, but by Inca standards that was quick, shoddy construction. Peru is a highly seismic land, and mortar-free construction was more earthquake-resistant than using mortar. Inca walls show numerous subtle design details that would prevent them from collapsing in an earthquake.
Doors and windows are trapezoidal and tilt inward from bottom to top, corners are usually rounded, inside corners often incline slightly into the rooms, and "L" shaped blocks are often used to tie outside corners together. Walls do not rise straight from top to bottom but are offset slightly from row to row. As a result, Machu Picchu is a city that has stood up well to earthquakes over the years.
The Incas never used the wheel in any practical manner. How they moved and placed enormous blocks of stones is a mystery, although the general belief is that they used hundreds of men to push the stones up inclined planes. A few of the stones still have knobs on them that could have been used to lever them into position. After they were placed, the Incas would have sanded the knobs away.
The space is composed of 140 constructions including temples, sanctuaries, parks and residences (houses with thatched roofs). There are more than one hundred flights of stone steps - often completely carved from a single block of granite - and a great number of water fountains, interconnected by channels and water-drainages perforated in the rock, designed for the original irrigation system. Evidence has been found to suggest that the irrigation system was used to carry water from a holy spring to each of the houses in turn.
According to archaeologists, the urban sector of Machu Picchu was divided into three great districts: the Sacred District, the Popular District, to the south, and the District of the Priests and the Nobility.
Located in the first zone are the primary archaeological treasures: the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Windows. These were dedicated to Inti, their sun god and greatest deity. The Popular District, or Residential District, is the place where the lower class people lived. It includes storage buildings and simple houses to live in. In the royalty area, a sector existed for the nobility: a group of houses located in rows over a slope; the residence of the Amautas (wise persons) was characterized by its reddish walls, and the zone of the Nustas (princesses) had trapezoid-shaped rooms. The Monumental Mausoleum is a carved statue with a vaulted interior and carved drawings. It was used for rites or sacrifices.
As part of their road system, the Inca built a road to Machu Picchu. Today, tens of thousands of tourists walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu each year, acclimatizing at Cusco before starting on a two- to four-day journey on foot from the Urubamba valley up through the Andes mountain range.
Shamanic legends say that if you're a sensitive person and you rub your forehead against the stone you will see the spirit world. The Intihuatana stone is one of the many ritual stones in South America. They are arranged so they point directly at the sun during the winter solstice.
The Spanish did not find Machu Picchu until the 20th century so the Intihuatana Stone was not destroyed like many other ritual stones. It is also called "The Hitching Point of the Sun" because it was supposed to hold the sun in its place.
At midday on March 21st and September 21st the sun stands almost above the pillar creating no shadow at all. It is (as they said before) believed to be an astronomic clock built by the Incas.
The Intihuatana Stone was damaged in September 2000 when a 450 kg (1,000-pound) crane fell onto it, breaking off a piece of stone the size of a ballpoint pen.
In the 1980s, a large rock from Machu Picchu's central plaza was moved to a different location in order to create a helicopter landing zone. Helicopter landings were forbidden in the 1990s. Reports circulated in February 2008 that a company, Helicusco, was able to make tourist flights over Machu Picchu, but the situation is unclear.
Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage site. As Peru's most visited tourist attraction and major revenue generator, it is continually threatened by economic and commercial forces. In the late 1990s, the Peruvian government granted concessions to allow the construction of a cable car to the ruins and development of a luxury hotel, including a tourist complex with boutiques and restaurants. These plans were met with protests from scientists, academics and the Peruvian public, worried that the greater numbers of visitors would pose tremendous physical burdens on the ruins.
A growing number of people visit Machu Picchu (400,000 in 2003). For this reason, there were protests against a plan to build a further bridge to the site and a no-fly zone exists in the area. UNESCO is considering putting Machu Picchu on its list of endangered World Heritage Sites.
Machu Picchu's unusual patterns are best viewed from the sky. Some people believe it to be a landing strip for extraterrestrials, much like Peru's Nazca Lines. Its celestial observatory depicts many patterns found on petroglyphs throughout the world. This takes us to Ancient Alien Theory.
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Mysterious statue once stood at Machu Picchu MSNBC - July 25, 2011
A mysterious stone statue, possibly the portrait of the great Inca emperor Pachacuti, once stood in Machu Picchu, according to archival research. Likely placed against a round stone wall on one of Machu Picchu's terraces, the statue had already disappeared by the time American explorer Hiram Bingham climbed the steep jungle slope to be faced with an archaeological wonder exactly a century ago on July 24, 1911. Bingham, who has been credited as one possible inspiration for the "Indiana Jones" character, saw "a remarkably large and well-preserved abandoned city " perched some 8,000 feet in the clouds "in a wonderfully picturesque position," he wrote in the March 26, 1914, issue of Nature.
Pictures: Machu Picchu, Before and After Excavation National Geographic - July 25, 2011
Bingham returned to Machu Picchu in 1912 with a team to begin excavation of the site, and then briefly visited again in 1915.
Rain, mudslides strand nearly 2000 at Machu Picchu NZ Herald - January 26, 2010
Peru's tourism minister says heavy rain and mudslides have blocked the train route to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, stranding 1,954 tourists. Heavy rain has battered the region in the past three days, flooding rivers and causing mudslides that killed two women in a poor neighborhood and damaged stone walls at Inca sites.
Perurail spokeswoman Soledad Caparo said the rail operator suspended service yesterday and is working to clear rock and mud covering the tracks. Rail is the only means of transportation on the last leg of the trip to Machu Picchu from the ancient Inca capital of Cusco. Tourism Minister Martin Perez says the government may send helicopters to evacuate tourists and locals from Machu Picchu Pueblo, the town next to the citadel.
Machu Picchu Is Mini Re-creation of a Mythic Landscape? National Geographic - June 15, 2009
Peru's Machu Picchu was an Inca pilgrimage site and a scaled-down version of a mythic landscape, according to a controversial new study. The finding challenges the conventional view that Machu Picchu was a royal estate of the Inca ruler Pachacuti, who built it around A.D. 1460.
'Lost city of the Incas' was not a true city MSNBC - June 10, 2009
Machu Picchu, the "lost city of the Incas," was not a true city but rather a pilgrimage center symbolically connected to the Andean vision of the cosmos, an Italian study has concluded. According to Giulio Magli, professor of archaeoastronomy at Milan's Polytechnic University, Machu Picchu was the ideal counterpart of the Island of Sun, a rocky islet in the southern part of Lake Titicaca. This island had a very important sanctuary which was a destination of pilgrimage. An apparently insignificant rock was believed to be the place of birth of the sun, and therefore of the Inca civilization.
Inca Elite Imported Diverse "Staff" to Run Machu Picchu National Geographic - October 28, 2008
Inca nobility at Machu Picchu relied on special, permanent servants from the far corners of the empire to manage the royal estate, according to a new study of human skeletons found buried at the site. Machu Picchu sits high in the Peruvian Andes about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of the former Inca capital of Cusco. Royal retainers, known as yanacona, may have been brought to the site from as far away as South America's Pacific Coast, the northern highlands, and the area around Lake Titicaca near Peru's border with Bolivia, the study says. Determining the geographic origins of yanacona may help researchers better understand how the Inca practice of paying tributes with labor helped shape the empire's social classes.
Rare Mass Tombs Discovered Near Machu Picchu National Geographic - September 16, 2008
Eighty skeletons and stockpiles of textiles found in caves near the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu may shed light on the role that the so-called lost city of the Inca played as a regional center of trade and power, scientists say.
Researchers found the artifacts and remains at two sites within the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park in southeastern Peru, said Fernando Astete, head of the park. The remains, most of which were found in May 2008 at a site called Salapunku, probably date to 500 to 550 years ago, said Francisco Huarcaya, the site's lead researcher. Due to extensive looting, however, as much as 75 percent of the fabrics found wrapped around the remains are in "bad shape," Huarcaya said.


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