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BAO Music Festival 2025
Avant Music News
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July 8, 2025
Live set H21:30 Brighde Chaimbeul Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading proponent of Celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes, the softer, more emotional cousin of the famous bellows-blown Highland bagpipes. She has brought the...
Sony strikes hard with a Karate Kid Ultimate 6-Movie 4K Blu-ray set
JoBlo
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July 8, 2025
Karate Kid: Legends is now available on digital, but Blu-ray.com is reporting that Sony has announced a special 6-movie Karate Kid film collection that will be on 4K Blu-ray. You can own The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, The Karate Kid Part...
Musician Uses Moths’ Flight Data to Compose a Piece About Their Decline
Mother Jones
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July 6, 2025
Owl moth.ephotocorp/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk...
Physical fitness associated with better cognition in people with relapsing-remitting MS
Medical News
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July 8, 2025
Good physical performance is associated with better cognition in people with relapsing-remitting MS, according to a recent study by the University of Eastern Finland. Good functional capacity was also clearly related to cognition and physical...
A night hike into the heart of Finnish folk music
This is Finland
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July 8, 2025
A mosquito buzzes by your ear. Your socks are already wet from the puddles soaking through your trail shoes and the person ahead of you nearly slips on the smooth granite. Behind you, a stream of colourful raincoats stretches deep into the pine...
Raise Your Voice, Save the Wild: A Folk-Powered Ode to Finnish Biodiversity
World Music Central
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July 8, 2025
Various Artists – Nouse Luonto – Lauluja Monimuotoisuudesta (Nordic Notes / CPL-Musicgroup, 2025) Nouse Luonto (“Rise, Nature”) is a remarkable collaborative album that brings together leading Finnish folk musicians in support of biodiversity....
Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to how it’s designed
NiemanLab
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Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values, and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with conspiracy blogs — interspersed with photos...
Exclusive: Finnish startup raises €25M to put a ‘Donut’ motor in EV wheels
The Next Web
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July 7, 2025
Finnish startup Donut Lab has secured €25mn in seed funding to scale up its in-wheel hub motors for electric land, sea, and air vehicles. Alongside the investment, Donut Lab is opening an R&D hub in Chippenham, UK. Risto Siilasmaa, serial tech...
Helpmekaar Kollege learner to climb for SA in Finland
Rosebank Killarney Gazette
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July 8, 2025
Helpmekaar Kollege learner Roux Wentzel (14) has climbed his way to the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Youth World Climbing Championships, taking place in July in Helsinki, Finland. Read more: Young climbers set to make waves...
Classical Music Playlist, July 7, 2025
Capradio - California
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After attending a performance of a Serenade for Winds by Mozart, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák completed his own wind Serenade in just a couple weeks, but in his own Czech musical accent. Dvořák’s friend Johannes Brahms (no less) would call this...
Govt issues written warning to Finnish envoy to Lisbon
Daily Finland
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The Ministry for Foreign Affairs on Monday issued a written warning to Finnish Ambassador to Portugal Titta Maja-Luoto, said the Ministry in a press release. The warning was issued following the alleged violation of civil servants' duty of conduct...
Social Media Can Support Or Undermine Democracy – It Comes Down To How It’s
The Nigerian Voice
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Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with conspiracy blogs – interspersed with photos...
The sadness of death, the joys of life, all at the Grant Park Music Festival
Hyde Park Herald - Illinois
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The Grant Park Music Festival is one of the nation’s few free outdoor classical music series. It was created in 1935, when Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak and James C. Petrillo, the president of the musicians’ union, got together with an idea of...
Young musicians set to play in Finland
Shetland Times
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July 7, 2025
of the performance by Shetland and Finnish groups at 2025 Shetland Folk Fest by Tom Jamieson. Young musicians will showcase their talent in Finland this week as part of an exchange between folk festivals in the isles and the Scandinavian country....
How Finland’s new aid rule wiped out rent support for thousands.
Euro Weekly News
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July 7, 2025
Helsinki Cathedral, symbol of Finland’s welfare shift. Credit: Sylwia Bartyzel from Pexels via Canva.com From August, around 150,000 Finnish students will see their monthly housing support cut. Under the new rules, the students living away from...
Mark Lipsitz, CEO of Bar/None Records and Veteran Music Executive, Dies at 61
Variety
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July 7, 2025
Mark Lipsitz, who was recently appointed CEO of Bar/None Records and worked with bands including Ivy and the Feelies, has died. He was 61. Lipsitz died after suffering a heart attack on July 5, according to a representative. In a statement shared...
Finland in discussions with US over sale of used icebreaker
Janes
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Finnish multi-purpose icebreaker Fennica , operated by Arctia. (Arctia) Finland's Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has confirmed to Janes that discussions with the US are ongoing about the possible sale of at least one Finnish...
A limit at last on how unreasonable public agencies can be with media
Newsroom
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July 7, 2025
MediaRoom column: Public drug-buying agency Pharmac has conceded to the Chief Ombudsman that its conduct towards the former Today FM station and journalist Rachel Smalley “fell below the standard expected of a public sector agency” and has...
Finland stabbing suspect says chose victims randomly: police
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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Finland stabbing suspect says chose victims randomly: police HELSINKI, July 4, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The suspect in a stabbing attack that wounded four near a Finnish shopping centre this week said he chose his victims randomly and believed he was...
Sting puts fans' safety over music concert
GEO TV
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July 7, 2025
Sting, a popular musician, was set to have a concert in Italy’s city of Bassano del Grappa. However, reports of a severe thunderstorm in the area where his performance was due — as part of his Sting 3.0 tour — led him to cancel the gig. Taking to...