Riikka Kaihovaara felt the demand for objectivity in journalism to be burdensome. \”As a documentarian, I can say that, and it’s pretty wild.\”
Cultural guest Kirsi Marie Liimatainen believes that equality is in the line of fire when sexual orientation is talked about as an ideological choice.
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 Virve reform, which will start in the fall, concerns a large number of Finns, as the network is used by rescue services and the police, among others. Two million group calls are taken through Virve every week.
The twenty-year-old Virve network has great prospects in front of it, when the traditional narrowband radiotelephone traffic turns into a broadband network utilizing 4G and 5G mobile networks. In addition to speech, images and video can also be transmitted in the new authority network.
Virve is used by the rescue service, social and health services, the police, the Defense Forces, the railways, the emergency center and numerous other security operators, such as Yleisradio. In the Virve network, calls and group calls can be made securely even for a large group at the same time.
The huge reform affects a large number of people: There are 51,000 Virve subscriptions in Finland. 74 million messages go through them every week and 2 million group calls are taken every week.
The old system will work alongside the new one until at least the end of 2025.
– For the police or the Defense Forces, this is strict testing before the new system is accepted as an operational operating system.
In addition to the radio network, the device base is renewed when a traditional radio telephone changes to a smartphone, tablet, smart watch or computer.
The use of the new Virve network is really only limited by your imagination, because the broadband enables a variety of applications in various wireless terminals.
A drone could be used to transport a first aid kit to an injured person before first aid arrives at the scene. Drones could also be used to transmit a video of the situation in major accidents to the management of rescue operations.
Although video will be included, the main use of the new Virve network will continue to be voice.
– Group talk will remain at the center of everything. Different commands in tight situations, if life or health are threatened. Video can remain secondary, says Jarmo Vinkvist.
In Finland, after the rescue services, social and health services are the second most active users of the official network, and the third most are the police.
– Our units use verbal messaging to the emergency center and communicate with each other using the Virve system.
Niemikallio says that Virve has operated reliably in the area of the Päijät-Häme rescue service, although there are certain limits to its coverage. In advance, the aim is to map properties with belonging problems. In smoke diving, VHF phones are always used to ensure hearing.
– The signal may not pass through walls in large buildings, such as industrial buildings with concrete walls.
The Rescue Act has long required that the authority network must operate in premises where there is a high personal safety risk. For example, in large shopping centers. In these buildings, it is required to install repeaters for the radio network, so that the Virve network can be heard well even indoors.
Jarmo Vinkvist, business director of separate networks, says that the need to build a separate indoor network is being investigated in new properties that the authorities have defined as risk targets.
– Two hundred of these have been made every year.
In the new Virve network, official traffic is secured with a priority function. If the radio network becomes congested in the event of a major accident, for example, Virve has the right to use the network. Then the required amount of traffic from other subscriptions is automatically transferred to lower 3G or 2G networks.
Geographical coverage in the current Virve network is approximately 97 percent. For example, there are cat trees in the very north of Finland. The 4G and 5G network built by Elisa aims for the same coverage.
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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Before corona, parents were more exhausted in the most individual-oriented countries than in more communal countries. During the Corona period, individualism was no longer a significant explanation for the differences between countries.
Severe parental burnout increased worldwide during the first year of the corona pandemic, says the latest publication of the International Investigation of Parental Burnout(https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/2157-3891/a000050) consortium project.
The study compared parenting burnout in 26 countries in 2018 and 2020.
While in 2018 severe parenting burnout was observed in 4.2 percent of parents, in 2020 it was observed in 5.8 percent of parents.
At the average level, there was no globally statistically significant change in exhaustion, but the difference became apparent specifically when looking at the prevalence of severe exhaustion.
Severe exhaustion increased the most in Burundi, Chile, Portugal and Iran. Severe exhaustion also increased in Finland, but the change was not statistically significant.
Exhaustion was defined as severe if the parent experienced all the assessed exhaustion symptoms weekly or daily.
Partly the same background factors were connected to exhaustion both before and during the corona virus. Mothers had more exhaustion than fathers, as did younger parents and parents with a weak financial situation.
In addition, parents were more exhausted if they had small children, several children or children with special needs.
The parents’ exhaustion was higher the longer they had been isolated during the corona period. Distance school, for example, from home was also connected to exhaustion.
Before the corona era, differences between countries in parenting exhaustion were mostly explained by individualism: in the most individual-oriented countries, parents were more exhausted(https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11699449) than in more communal countries. During the Corona period, individualism was no longer a significant explanation.
Docent Matilda Sorkkila thought this was interesting.
– When the surrounding conditions change, the influence of cultural values \u200b\u200bcan also change. During the Corona period, in all the countries that participated in the study, parents had been forced into isolation and community support, which in certain countries could previously protect some parents from exhaustion, was no longer available to anyone.
Pampering, i.e. the culture-specific acceptance of enjoying life, joy and fun, emerged as a new cultural factor explaining the differences between countries during the corona period.
In cultures that accept pampering, parenting exhaustion was less during the corona period than in more restrained cultures, which were characterized by strict social norms and discipline.
Among the countries that participated in the study, acceptance of pampering, as measured by Hofsted’s cultural value index, was high in Colombia and the Netherlands, for example, and weak in China and Vietnam.
– In a way, it’s quite understandable that pampering has become a significant explanation. It certainly has a surprisingly large effect if the environment allows doing things that bring joy even in a difficult and otherwise stressful and burdensome situation, Sorkkila reflects.
Finland ranked in the middle stages in the pampering comparison.
– In a time like this, when there are very few external sources of joy, such as hobbies and meeting people, it is important not to feel guilty about taking it easy and doing happy things with the family. Enjoying life can be a very important value and a factor that improves the quality of life. We still have something to learn from that, Sorkkila says.
10,622 parents participated in the study in 2018 and 9,923 parents in 2020. These were different samples and the sample sizes varied between countries, which is why the findings must be treated with caution.
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.
