[Rep. Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat] said a fuller reckoning of the number of suicides among military personnel and veterans is needed not so much to tell lawmakers and the public that there is a problem — that, he says, they know. Rather, it is needed to more accurately gauge the extent to which programs to help troubled troops are having an effect.
‘american kills’ by chilean-born new york based artist sebastian errazuriz
Audio has been released of the Commander of the Livorno Port Authority yelling orders at the Captain of the Costa Concordia (nearly 115K tons and 1,000 feet long) after it rammed into rocks at 15 knots in calm waters on the 13th, began to sink and was declared abandoned.
Police divers close to the wrecked cruise ship off the coast of Giglio island, Italy. Guardian UK Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA
Here’s a YouTube version with translation. Note the line at 2:10 “Vado a bordo, cazzo!” (Go on board, cazzo!):
The captain of the luxury liner shipwrecked off Italy on Friday has explained his early escape from the vessel by claiming he stumbled into a life raft and was unable to get out.
Erik Noren of Peacock Groove Bikes explains in this video what a deep custom is and how it can affect your identity — make you less like every other “door knob”.
Sami languages, and Sami song-chants, called yoiks, were illegal in Norway from 1773 until 1958…in Russia, Sami children were taken away when aged 1-2 and returned when aged 15-17 with no knowledge of their language and traditional communities.
Vuoi mu gollelottas
Vuoi mu beaiveidjalottas
giehka ja goaskin
Vuoi mu spalfu
Vuoi mu spalfu
miellevuol besiinis
Vuoi mu idjaloddi
ravddahis geahcastagainis
Vuoivuoi mu
Vuoivuoi mu
Vuoi my little yellow bird
Vuoi my summer night bird
cuckoo and eagle
Vuoi my swallow
Vuoi my swallow
with nest under riverbanks
Vuoi night owl
with limitless vision
Vuoivuoi me
Vuoivuoi me
Vuoivuoi joy
Vuoivuoi joy
with hearty laughter
Vuoi sorrow
Vuoi sorrow
with oceans of salty tears
Vuoivuoi winter frost and cold
Vuoivuoi winter frost and cold
vuoi summer with burning hot days
Vuoivuoi me
Vuoivuoi me
language and song were considered such a risk that they were banned for centuries.
The Sami chant, the yoik, traditionally had a dual function. On the one hand, it was, and still remains, the distinctive musical expression of the Sami. The yoik is used “to remember people”, to characterize individuals, animals and landscapes. It can be described as a melodic-rhythmic lecture, in which rhythm is paramount and less emphasis is put on the verbal description of the lyrics. The yoiker’s task is to use music and images to create an emotion or atmosphere that then evokes the person, animal or place yoiked. In the pre-Christian religion, the yoik formed an important part of religious ceremonies. In such ceremonies, the shaman added a rhythmic accompaniment to the yoik by beating his drum. This dual function is the reason why some people even today see the yoik as sinful and therefore incompatible with Christian religious life.
As early as the 17th century the yoik was banned by law. Anyone breaking the law was to be punished severely. The reason the yoik was banned and condemned at this time was that the period saw the beginning of Christian missions among the Sami, and the yoik was seen exclusively as an expression of pre-Christian religion.
Mari Boine explains in the video below how and why she started to recognizes and reclaim her own heritage and sing the yoik.
