The central topics of Jalkanen’s YouTube and Instagram channels include living in the countryside, renovations and pets.
The Association of Ukrainians in Finland organized an event to show support and solidarity for Ukraine.
The big Lappish production starring top soprano Mari Palo will also be taken to the National Opera. The fur cap opera tells about the serious consequences of harnessing Kemijoki for people and nature.
Vuolas Kemijoki was in its time one of the greatest salmon rivers in Europe. Because Finland needed energy, Pohjolan Voima built the Isohaara power plant in 1949, and as a result the salmon population died.
At the same time, the entire livelihood and way of life along the river was lost.
– One of the main characters, Reino, who has lost hope, plans to drown, but the last salmon of Kemijoki, a mythical creature, symbolically tells the story of how Lapland’s nature was treated badly after the war.
The idea of mini libraries that originated in the USA is to create a sense of community. Mirette Piekkari, the founder of Muhos’s little library, wants to bring the neighborhood together around reading.
In Rova, on the side of the village road, a light blue box decorated with a Moomin figure and shells holds twenty books that anyone can visit to borrow. You can also take the book as your own if you bring another one instead.
– This is a shared library of a small neighborhood, the idea of which is to create a sense of community. Here you can meet neighbors and children can get to know each other, says Mirette Piekkari, who set up the mini-library.
According to Piekkar, it is easy to take reading with you from the cute little library, for example during a walk. He hopes that the little library will increase enthusiasm for reading.
That seems to have happened, because there has been a buzz around the mini-library.
– A lot of people come here. The entire book selection has already changed a couple of times.
– It is worth emphasizing that all community activities that encourage reading or discussing literature are extremely important, Manninen says.
In addition to ordinary citizens, various cabinet or drawer libraries or lending boxes are also maintained by municipal libraries, for example in Turku.
The operation of libraries has changed and diversified wildly in recent decades.
However, the original popular culture and educational mission can be seen in the background, for example, when the library offers people a place to gather and a discussion platform or brings its activities to you in a pop-up style at youth events.
– Of course, libraries also have a recreational function, and small libraries are perfect for that, says Manninen.
Piekkari brought the idea from the state of Michigan in the United States, where he moved back to his home region after three years in the spring. There are many small libraries there, for example near schools and in residential areas.
The Little Free Library organization maintains a global database and map service about libraries, according to which there are 150,000 mini-libraries in over a hundred countries.
In Finland, the organization’s map service has registered twenty small libraries from Helsinki to the northeast corner of Rovaniemi, as far as Käyrämö.
However, Piekkari’s library cannot be found on the map – at least not yet. The matter is still under consideration.
The field library in Muhos is in use until the fall as long as there is enough weather, and returns to the village road in the spring.
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Kirill \”Guitarantula\” Blumenkrants won the twenty-fifth live competition.
The air guitars roared their thunderous air guitar tracks in Oulu on Friday after a two-year break. The world championship was organized virtually during the corona, but now the global air guitar family got to meet live.
– Air guitar playing has been a world peace event since its founding in 1996. Our ideology is that if everyone played the air guitar, no one would be able to hold a gun.
He had not yet seen his winning performance on tape, but he said he hoped that the fun was passed on.
– We want to have fun on stage and send the positive energy we produce to the audience and people who watch us live. Unfortunately, the stream cannot capture the true essence of air guitar.
Blumenkrants was also number one in 2015. At that time, he represented his native Russia, but now the contestants who made it to the finals from the black horse qualifiers all performed under the flag of peace.
– I have made really good friends here and I hope that we will keep the Air Guitar World Championships alive for as long as we can. Especially now, in these dark times, Blomenkrants said.
Espoo’s modern art museum EMMA’s autumn exhibition focuses on art created with the help of technology and artificial intelligence. There is also a work by Artificial Intelligence Art Pioneer Refik Anadol.
First, we enter a space filled with gigantic close-ups of swirls, waves, and ramifications of fingerprints. Then the index finger is pressed (other fingers can also be used) on the sensor, which magnifies the visitor’s fingerprint on the wall by a couple of hundred times with the help of a microscope. At the same time, the visitor’s heart curve also appears on the wall.
At least Aalto University is considering whether it can continue using Tiktok due to the recent revelations. For many public actors, Tiktok is an important tool for reaching the public.
The information security gaps revealed on Tiktok also raise serious questions for Finnish authorities and media houses. Can they operate on a platform that is known to be able to harvest its users’ passwords?
It is possible for the Chinese-owned Tiktok to monitor, for example, the text entered on the keyboard in its own in-app browser. In theory, it would thus be possible for Tiktok to gain access to information such as credit card information or passwords.
Of the applications examined, only Tiktok did not allow the user to switch to the phone’s default browser. According to Krause, it’s about conscious programming.
Tiktok has confirmed Krause’s observations as correct. The company emphasizes that monitoring is done to facilitate user-friendliness and not to collect personal information.
Tiktok is mainly used by 18-24 year olds. In Finland, many authorities also use the service to reach young people.
We asked Yle, Helsingin Sanom, the Helsinki Police, the Tax Administration and Aalto University how they justify operating on Tiktok in light of the new information security revelations.
Finland’s second largest city is only 50 years old. Espoo might be even younger if the neighboring city of Helsinki hadn’t claimed Tapiola and Leppävaara for itself.
Espoo’s population exceeded the 300,000 mark last June. So it’s a Finnish big city. Espoo also has a long history, which is reminiscent of the medieval church.
That is why it is perhaps a little surprising that Espoo did not receive city rights until January 1, 1972.
As a city, Espoo is younger than, for example, Järvenpää, Pieksämäki or Kerava. The city of Vantaa is, after all, a few years younger than Espoo.
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