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Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir takes part in Estonian song festival
East Bay Times - California
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July 29, 2025
While at the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir’s summer camp in Marin County’s Walker Creek Ranch and reflecting on the choir’s recent 15-day tour of Estonia and Finland, Georgia Orcharton recounts the tour day she says she’ll treasure forever....
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
Yle Uutiset
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July 29, 2025
Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week. The city's most recent fatal accident occurred in early July 2024 on Keinulaudantie in the city's Kontula district....
Goose droppings plague Finland’s short and precious summers
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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HELSINKI — Each summer, sun-starved Finns flock to Hietsu Beach, a sandy stretch in Helsinki, to exercise, splash, and attempt to tan. Amid a late July, record-breaking heat wave, a very different flock has also been stalking the surf around...
Congress & BJP are responsible for ruined state of India’s education system: Manish Sisodia
News9 Live
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July 29, 2025
India News Manish Sisodia. (Photo: TV9 Network) NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held both BJP and Congress squarely responsible for India’s ruined education system. Senior AAP leader and former Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia said,...
Pandemic-era shift drives ongoing rise in home schooling in Finland
Helsinki Times
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July 29, 2025
The number of children receiving home education in Finland has continued to grow, four years after the Covid-19 pandemic forced temporary school closures across the country. Education officials say the increase is now part of a broader shift in...
United Nations Watercourses Convention, Presidential Reference and New Education Policy
The Indian Express
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July 29, 2025
India’s 1st private test facility for heavy water upgrade opens Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance. Mains Examination: General Studies III: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports,...
Largest Buddhist monastery in the Nordics established in Finland
Yle Uutiset
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July 29, 2025
The addition of a new sacred monument has turned the Buddhist temple in Jokioinen into the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Nordic region. The newly completed stupa — a symbol of enlightenment in Buddhism — is the largest of its kind in...
Dr. Sonja Bickford presents applied study abroad research at InSITE 2025 Conference in Japan
Oregon Institute of Technology
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Sonja Bickford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Business Management at Oregon Tech, recently represented an international research team at the 2025 InSITE Conference in Hiroshima and Tokyo, Japan. Her presentation, “Building Global Educational...
‘The Spirit of Helsinki’ and European Borders: A View From 2025
Valdai Discussion Club
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The OSCE may look like an anachronism, but its declaration of principles, developed half a century ago, may well serve as a guide for building dialogue in the new era. This, however, requires components that were lost after 1991: a...
The Impact of Whole Body Vibration on Muscle Tone, and Sensory Motor Function in Children with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
Dove Medical Press
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July 29, 2025
Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of movement and posture disorders that limit activities and are caused by non-progressive disturbances in the brain during maturation. There is often a combination of sensory, perception,...
Educator Alison de la Bastide commits to improving literacy in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 28, 2025
Features Newsday 5 Hrs Ago Director of the NGO Let’s Read, Alison de la Bastide is dedicated to improving literacy through access to diverse books and the revitalisation of school libraries. - BAVINA SOOKDEO More than 6,000 of the over 17,000...
CUSD 300 leadership remains silent amid whistleblower's claims that elementary student gender transitions kept secret from parents
Kane County Reporter - Illinois
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July 29, 2025
CUSD 300 Superintendent Dr. Martina Smith | CUSD 300 CUSD 300 Superintendent Dr. Martina Smith | CUSD 300 An anonymous source has come forward to expose what they say are troubling practices by Community School District 300—alleging that three...
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ESA
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What is ESERO? The European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) project is ESA's main way of supporting early years, primary and secondary education community in Europe. ESERO uses space related themes and the genuine fascination felt by young...
Helsinki Cathedral appears darker after restoration paintwork
Helsinki Times
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July 27, 2025
The façade of Helsinki Cathedral has taken on a noticeably darker tone following restoration work, prompting public curiosity about the landmark’s changing appearance. The change is the result of a new coat of traditional lime paint applied as...
Russia is using the campaign to reopen the border with Finland as a tool of influence
The Odessa Journal
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Russia uses the campaign to reopen the border between Finland and Russia as a tool of hybrid pressure on the West, experts from the Robert Lansing Institute (RLI) say. According to analysts, behind what is presented in Finland as a humanitarian or...
Inspired by trip to Finland
The News (Central Otago & Wānaka)
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July 28, 2025
A Cromwell principal has looked to the top-performing Finnish education system for inspiration as New Zealand schools brace for major reforms. Goldfields School principal Anna Harrison joined a group of 20 educators from New Zealand and Australia...
Drowning deaths in Finland rise as July heat draws crowds to water
Helsinki Times
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July 28, 2025
At least 11 people drowned across Finland over the past weekend, bringing this year’s drowning figures in line with those of 2023, according to the Finnish Swimming Teaching and Lifesaving Federation (FSL). A prolonged period of hot weather has...
‘Mythbusters’ Stars Jamie Hyneman Resurfaces, Reunites With Former Co-Star
PopCulture
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July 30, 2025
Nearly a decade after the original iteration of the show came to an end, an unexpected Mythbusters reunion just took place! Earlier this month, former series star Jamie Hyneman and build team member Kari Byron caught up over coffee for “an epic...
Trying to keep your brain young? A big new study finds these lifestyle changes help
KBBI AM 890 - Alaska
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July 28, 2025
Scientists have unveiled the strongest evidence yet that a combination of diet, exercise, and brain training can improve thinking and memory in older Americans. A study of more than 2,100 sedentary people in their 60s and 70s found that those who...
US POINTER trial: Structured lifestyle intervention delays cognitive decline
EurekAlert!
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About The Study: This randomized clinical trial found that among older adults at risk of cognitive decline and dementia, a structured, higher-intensity intervention of regular moderate-to-high-intensity physical exercise, adherence to the MIND...