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UNESCO recognises Finland’s sauna culture World December 29, 2020 HELSINKI: Finland must feel like it has won the lottery with a record-low jackpot. The country received a huge boost last week when UNESCO officially recognised the importance of its sauna culture. Yet it was a bittersweet moment for the Nordic country - the majority of its public saunas are closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.Nevertheless, campaigners are delighted that saunas are the first Finnish tradition to be added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. “The world is full of difficult news right now, so this beautiful news was just what we needed,” said Leena Marsio, a senior advisor at the Finnish Heritage Agency. “This gives our culture appreciation and visibility.” Among the many parties involved is the association that runs Finland’s oldest, still working public sauna, Rajaportti, in the western city of Tampere. ....
Just riding right up the coastline here. and meats where we re going to see the winds pick up and the dangerous storm surge as well. and the storm i understand is spreading out and getting bigger in size. what does that mean for the coast? yeah, more impacts. when these things spread out you start to get more impacts. it s interesting the fact the storm surge has to do with the size of the storms just pushing all that water. and also the rainfall, we start seeing rainfall amounts as well. 6 to 10 inland, but it s the storm surge we worry about so much. so know your zone, listen to the local officials and, john, we have to remind people it s not just the barrier island that get this surge. some places are vulnerable. some of that surge could push miles inland at times. so know your zone, listen to the local officials. it s the intercoastales and inlands that could be at such ....
They spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things. donald trump after the deadliest wildfire in california s history offering some helpful tips about how california can fix all that. more raking and cleaning and doing things. you can see the former around current governors of california, jerry brown and gavin newsom standing on either side of trump and you can almost hear the what the who, what s it on their face. almost immediately president of finlands said, no, we don t rely on raking of floors and they trolled trump posting selfies. the takeaway here, everybody is good at something but forest prevention and fire prevention is not in trump s white house. but that didn t top him from ringing his favorite dictator to offer up assistance fighting wildfires in siberia. ....
If you look at 15,000 people in shelters. more than 1,000 rescues already over the last four days. even 500 folks here in just jacksonville area in shelters alone. coast guard, national guard working around the clock because the big problem is with this rain, steve, with all this water, the river banks are bursting. you ve got the new river behind me flooding this street. we re about a block off of it it s really, really bad. the cape fear running all the way from fayetteville and lumber threatening the inlands. that s why governor cooper said we are far from over. tomorrow may be worse than today. listen. this storm has never been more dangerous than it is right now for areas from faithville in lumberton, across the san hills and southern piedmont to our mountains. griff: now, the water as you see behind me in jacksonville makes mobility impossible for recovery crews to come in as they continue to do rescues like they did all day yesterday. ....
Wednesday. it now friday night. 3.5 million american citizens in an increasingly dire and dangerous situation. joining us is a reporter with the miami herald that joins us from puerto rico. thank you for being with us. i realize it s not easy to get communications. thanks for having me, rachel. can you tell me what you ve seen and where you have been able to get out to and what s your assessment how bad the damage is and the danger people are in? we were in san juan in inlands and ocean side beach towns that got a lot of earlier flooding. this is a slow-moving event. then the west of the island. and really the water has been under. not everyone gets water high enough to have to be rescued from the roof and so they are not paying attention to them. they haven t had any help. that doesn t mean their lives are any less destroyed. ....