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Yle political journalist Hannu Tikkala told APN that the main takeaway from the protracted negotiations was that the government did not collapse over issues like phasing out peat burning or weakening income-related unemployment benefits, which would have led to a full-blown political crisis. "We can say that the biggest impact of these talks on the average person is that we still have a cabinet, and this is a big thing if you think about what kind of world we live in now and what kind of measu...

Audio: Yle News Pulliainens top piece of advice for workers during the pandemic is to not sign any document they dont fully understand, as it could entail a weakening of terms and conditions of employment. We also spoke to UK Ambassador in Helsinki Tom Dodd, who is concerned about British citizens who might not have registered their presence yet and need to do so to safeguard their rights after Brexit. "In order to guarantee their rights in perpetuity they need to register for a new EU resid...

$7.00 per person Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain  us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Join Pickering Creek as Dr. Doug Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and m...

Congrats to Tom Brady, Michigan sophomore who placed 12th in the indoor track NCAA championship 3000 m in a personal best  7:57.92. 2nd team All American.  Junior Tom Dodd placed 7th in the mile at 3:58.65. 1st team All American. Senior Devin Meyrer took 11th in the 5000 m with a personal best 13:40.66. 2nd team All American. Also set the UM indoor school record.  In the woman's 5000 m, Ericka VanderLende earned Second-Team All-American honors with a 15th-place 16:37.36. The Woman&#039...

NCAA Indoors Day 1 Super Men’s Recap: Wesley Kiptoo & Oregon Break Meet Records as JuVaughn Harrison Makes History with HJ/LJ Sweep March 12, 2021 The first full day of men’s action at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships saw some remarkable times in the distance events and a historic double victory by LSU’s JuVaughn Harrison in the long jump and high jump. Iowa State’s Wesley Kiptoo (13:23.77) and Oregon (9:19.98) both broke meet records to claim the 5,000 and distance me...

RRW: Wesley Kiptoo, Joyce Kimeli Win NCAA 5000m Titles By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2021 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (12-Mar) — Iowa State’s Wesley Kiptoo and Auburn’s Joyce Kimeli won the 5000m titles on the penultimate day of the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center at the University of Arkansas today, while the men of Oregon and women of Brigham Young took the distance medley relay titles with superb anchor-leg runs. Wesley Ki...

Cole Hocker competes in the mile at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Andy Hancock/NCAA Photos The last day of the meet started with a dominant win from Oregon sophomore Cole Hocker and continued with a historic double victory in Saturday’s distance events. Related Story After breaking the previous collegiate record with his teammate Cooper Teare in February, Hocker didn’t leave anything on the table in his quest to win the NCAA mile crown. By the bell lap, the race w...

Welcome to Day 2 of the 2021 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. We saw a collegiate record in the pentathlon from Tyra Gittens of Texas A&M on Day 1. What will Day 2 bring? Stay tuned. Harrison Jumps Into The Record Book … Again Remember back in 2019 when JuVaughn Harrison of LSU became the first man in the near 100-year history of the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships to sweep the high jump and l...

Kal Lewis best college freshman miler in Big 10 Kal Lewis stalks Michigan’s Nick Foster and Tom Dodd in last lap of Big 10 mile (Darren Miller/hawkeyesports.com) Last weekend the University of Iowa won the Big 10 Indoor Track & Field Championships at the SPIRE Institute Indoor Sports Complex in Geneva, Ohio. The last time the Hawkeyes won the Big 10 Indoors was in 1929. Kal Lewis’ “Gram” and former Shelter Island Councilwoman Christine Lewis was no...

Gay man has too much to drink and legally changes name to Celine Dion Celine Dion and Celine Dion. (Twitter/ ThomasDodd1 and Getty/ Frazer Harrison) A 30-year-old gay man from Staffordshire drank so much one night during the festive period that he legally changed his name to Celine Dion. On 30 December, the man formerly known as Thomas Dodd posted a photo on Twitter of a pile of paper work and wrote: “Tier 4 is the least of my worries – I’ve just got home to some post. “Apparently at so...