Stubb opened his speech by
referring to the accession of Finland
Stubb was in the Berlin on Monday to meet Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of
Germany.
to the European Union in 1995, reminding that at the time the EU was
optimistic that Russia would develop
into a nation not dissimilar to its European neighbours. said Stubb.
He also reminded that movements driven by historical and
national identity, nostalgia, xenophobia and the longing for a
strong leader have recently taken
root not only in Russia but also in
Europe.
?They defend traditional family values and shun liberal ideas.
They undermine the significance of
the EU,. Fledgling Finnish
airline delayed by obstacles.
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Urpilainen pursues big business'
tax evaders. alcohol purchase behaviour is dramatic. ?It tells
us how much damage those drinks can
cause to health,. 2 . Finnish phone startup Jolla takes to India.
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Stubb summarised the realities of
Russo-Finnish relations, reminding that Finland shares 1,300 kilometres of land border with Russia,
more than other EU countries
combined.
leading to a decrease in the volume of
alcohol bought abroad, measured in
pure alcohol, since last spring.
The latest statistics by THL concern the amount of alcohol brought
from abroad between the beginning
of September 2013 and the end of
August this year.
During that period, Finns brought
77.3 million litres of alcoholic beverages from abroad, which is 2.8 per
cent more than the year before.
Österberg says that from the perspective of national health, reporting
the volume as pure alcohol provides a
much more informative figure. University of Turku
set to teach controversial minor.
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people & lifestyle
Stubb: It?s premature to
abandon hope on Russia
PM delivers biting
assessment of
Russo-Finnish relations.
JUha-PEkk a R aES TE . Europeans, refuse to accept our rules.
But in China, you?re dealing with an
entity that can play just as hard,
and is in fact even stronger.?
?Neighbours are quite like relatives . 8 OC TOBER 2014 . HS
a l E k S I T E I va I n E n . Stubb continued listing the
similarities.
With respect to the attempts of
Russia to shift its political focus to
Asia, Stubb commented: ?In fact,
I think Russia would do wisely to
take better advantage of the fact
that it is geographically such a part
of Asia.?
By turning to China, however,
the country has hardly selected the
most straightforward path. Such was Finns?
enthusiasm for booze cruises, that it
sparked the government?s decision
to raise the alcohol tax only by half of
what had been planned in the budget
frame talks in the spring.
In the light of research results
published last week, the trend in
Finns. ISSUE 40 (374) . The Angelina Jolie effect
is being felt across Finland.
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DoMestic
whIlE Finns are bringing in more
beer, cider and wine from abroad,
stocking up on strong spirits is on
the decline.
?What is significant in the
change is that the quantity of alcohol brought from abroad is not skyrocketing, instead it seems that the
situation has reached a plateau,?
explains Esa Österberg, a chief specialist at the National Institute of
Health and Welfare (THL).
The shift in Finns. H T
alThOUGh it has become apparent
that the policy toward Russia pursued by Finland and the European
Union is ill-founded, it is premature
to abandon hope on Russia, Prime
Minister Alexander Stubb (NCP)
suggested in a biting assessment of
Russo-Finnish relations in Berlin on
Monday.
According to Stubb, Russian aggression must be taken seriously
without compromising our values
and Russia evaluated in a composed
manner while reviewing the objectives of our relationship.
Long-term, persistent diplomatic
efforts are required for this end, he
added. HS
n IIn a w OO l l E y . ?3 . Last
year, the amount of alcohol bought
abroad went up by 15 per cent, measured in pure alcohol. H T
Appreciation & celebrity
An Estonian yoga teacher reminds us to live each day as if it's
our last. Because these youngsters had not experienced the
finns bringing less alcohol from abroad
The steep increase in the amount of alcohol purchased abroad has slowed down ?
the overall volume measured in pure alcohol is even in slight decline.
l a SSE kERkEl ä . This assumption
was based partly on idealism, partly on the failure to fully understand
Russia, according to Stubb.
Russia, he characterised, wanted to be a country that gives orders,
not one that takes them.
a post-Soviet generation
In addition, the Prime Minister estimated that the European Union expected the generation of Russians
born in the post-Soviet era to willingly develop Russia toward a democracy, free from the shackles of
the Soviet Union.
?However, also this story has another side. ?You
can play a bit hard with us ?soft. Helsinki Times is also available for sale in more than 140 kiosks across Finland.
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Commitee cuts will hurt education in Espoo. alcohol purchase behaviour
is twofold.
While the quantity of alcoholic
beverages brought back from foreign
trips is still on a slight increase, milder beverages have gained popularity,
Soviet regime, they could be enticed
with patriotic fervour and utter
nostalgic propaganda,. he remarks.
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the height of folly to dismiss
or underestimate this movement as a local uprising that
will disappear by itself, and
to ignore its appeal to a large
number of marginalised and
disillusioned Sunni militants.
IN VIEW of its ideology, fanaticism, ruthlessness, the territories that it has already
occupied, and its regional
and perhaps even global ambitions, ISIS can be regarded
as the greatest threat since
the Second World War and
one that could change the
map of the Middle East and
the post-First World War geography of the entire region,
challenging Western interests in the Persian Gulf and
beyond.
Islam appeared in
the deserts of Arabia some
1,400 years ago, with an uncompromising message of
monotheism and the mantra ?There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the
Prophet of God?, it changed
the plight of the Arabs in
the Arabian Peninsula and
formed a religion and a civilisation that even now claims
WHEN
ing their own lifetime, not
only did Muhammad manage to unite the Arabs in the
name of Islam in the entire
Arabian Peninsula, but he
even managed to form a state
and ruled over the converted
Muslims both as their prophet and ruler. 8 OCTOBER 2014
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Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. 2
VIEWPOINT
2 . examines the historical background to the emergence of ISIS
and argues that it is basing its appeal on reinstatement of the caliphate.
IP S
WHEN,
ISIS (Islamic State
in Iraq and Syria) suddenly emerged on the scene and
in a matter of days occupied
large swathes of mainly Sunni-inhabited parts of Iraq
and Syria, including Iraq?s
second city Mosul and Tikrit,
birthplace of Saddam Hussein, and called itself the Islamic State, many people, not
least Western politicians and
intelligence services, were
taken by surprise.
UNLIKE in the Western world,
religion still plays a dominant role in people?s lives in
the Middle East region. The terrorist
group ISIS is making use of
this situation and is basing
its appeal on the reinstatement of the caliphate.
Edited by Phil Harris. former professor and Dean of the
Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan, who has taught in the
Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford for 28
years . At
the least, various groups use
religion as an excuse and
the a rallying call to mobilise their forces against their
opponents.
JUST
US encouragement of
Saudi and Pakistani authorities to organise and use jihadi
fighters following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in
1979, to the rise of Al Qaeda
and the terrorist attacks on
11 September 2001, followed
by the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003,
and military involvement in
FROM
Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia,
Libya, Syria and elsewhere, it
seems that the United States
has had the reverse effect of
the Midas touch, in the sense
that whichever crisis it has
touched has turned to dust.
upward of 1.5 billion adherents in all parts of the world,
and forms the majority faith
in 57 countries that are members of the Islamic Cooperation Organisation.
NOW,
prophets who did not see the
success of their mission dur-
with the rise of ISIS
and other terrorist organ-
CONTRaRy to many previous
a Salafi is a call to Muslims
to reject the modern world
and to follow the example
of the Prophet and the early
caliphs.
WHEN,
in 1516-17, the armies
of Ottoman Sultan Selim I
captured Syria, Palestine,
Egypt and Muslim holy places in Arabia, the sultan assumed the title of caliph, and
therefore the Ottoman Empire was also regarded a Sunni caliphate.
aLTHOUgH not all Muslims, especially many Arabs, recognise Ottoman rule
as a caliphate, it neverthe-
Now, with the rise of ISIS and other terrorist organisations, the entire Middle East is on fire. To have an idea, they
should imagine that a mighty
Christian empire that had
lasted for many centuries had
fallen as the result of Muslim
conquest and that, in addition
to the loss of the empire, the
papacy had also been abolished at the same time.
IT IS VERy
WITH the end of the caliphate,
Sunni countries were left rudderless, to be divided among
various foreign powers which
imposed their economic, military and cultural domination, as well as their beliefs
and their way of life, on them.
The feeling of hurt and humiliation that many Muslims have
felt since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the strong
longing for its reinstatement,
still continues.
insult to injury, before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Western
powers, especially Great
Britain, had promised the
Arabs that if they would rise
up against the Ottomans, after the war they would be allowed to form an Islamic
caliphate in the area comprising all the Arab lands ruled by
the Ottoman Empire.
TO add
were these promises not fulfilled, but as part
of the Sykes-Picot Agreement on 16 May 1916, Britain
and France secretly plotted
to divide the Arab lands between them and they even
promised Istanbul to Russia.
Not only was a unified Arab caliphate not formed, but
the Balfour Declaration generously offered a part of Arab territory that Britain did
not possess to the Zionists, to
form a ?national home for the
Jewish people?.
NOT ONLy
IN WINSTON CHURCHILL?S
words, Britain sold one piece
of real estate (to which it had
no claim in the first place) to
two people at the same time.
THE agE of colonialism came
to an end almost uniformly
through military coups involving officers who had the ability
to fight against foreign occupation. Being
less continued in name until
the fall of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War
when the caliphate was officially abolished in 1922.
THE FaLL of the last powerful Islamic empire was not
only traumatic from a political and military point of view
but, with the end of the caliphate, the Sunnis lost a unifying religious authority as
well.
difficult for many
Westerners to understand
the feeling of hurt and humiliation that many Sunni Muslims feel as the result of what
they have suffered in the past
century. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. When
talking about Sunni and Shia
divisions, we should not be
thinking of the differences
between Catholics and Protestants in the contemporary
West, but should throw our
mind back to Europe?s wars
of religion (1524-1648) which
proved to be among the most
vicious and deadly wars in
history.
as the Hundred Years?
War in Europe was not based
only on religion, the SunniShia conflicts in the Middle
East too have diverse causes, but are often intensified
by religious differences. It would be the height of folly to dismiss or
underestimate this movement as a local uprising that will disappear
by itself, and to ignore its appeal to a large number of marginalised
and disillusioned Sunni militants.
isations, the entire Middle
East is on fire. From the campaigns
of Kemal Ataturk in Turkey, to
the rise of Reza Khan in Iran,
Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt,
Muammar Gaddafi in Libya,
the military coups in Iraq and
Syria that later led to the establishment of the Baâthist
governments of Hafiz al-Assad in Syria and Abd al-Karim Qasim, Abdul Salam Arif
and Saddam Hussein in Iraq,
and so on, practically all Middle Eastern countries achieved
their independence as the result of military coups.
the new military
leaders managed to estab-
WHILE
lish some order through the
barrel of the gun, they were
completely ignorant of the
historical, religious and cultural backgrounds of their
nations and totally alien to
any concept of democracy
and human rights.
IN THE absence of any civil society, democratic traditions and social freedom,
the only path that was open
to the masses that wished
to mobilise against the rule
of their military dictators
was to turn to religion and
use the mosques as their
headquarters.
THE RISE of religious movements, such as the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt, Ennahda Movement in Tunisia,
FIS in Algeria and Al-Dawah
in Iraq, were seen as a major threat by the military
rulers and were ruthlessly
suppressed.
THE MaIN tragedy of modern Middle Eastern regimes
has been that they have been
unable not only to involve the
Islamist movements in government, but they have even
failed to involve them in the
society in any meaningful
way.
THIS is why after repeated
defeats, divisions and humiliation, there has always
been a longing among militant Sunni Muslims, especially Arabs whose countries
were artificially divided and
dominated by Western colonialism and later by military
dictators, for the revival of
the caliphate. Even mere utterance of ?Islamic caliphate?
brings a burst of adrenaline
to many secular Sunnis.
THE FaILURE of military dictatorships and the marginalisation and even the
elimination of religiouslyoriented groups have led to
the rise of vicious extremism
and terrorism. S A L- r A q qA S I T E
An image grab taken from a video released by Islamic State
group?s official Al-Raqqa site via YouTube on 23 September allegedly shows Islamic State (ISIS) group recruits riding in armed
trucks in an unknown location.
ISIS appeals to a longing for the caliphate
In this column, Farhang Jahanpour . as a future aspiration, Muslims look back
at the period of Muhammad?s rule in Arabia as the
ideal state. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. Therefore, what
a pious Muslim wishes to do
is to look back at the life and
teachings of the Prophet, and
especially his rule in Arabia, and take it as the highest
standard of an ideal religious
government.
THIS is why the Salafis, name-
ly those who turn to salaf or
the early fathers and ancestors, have always proved so
attractive to many fundamentalist Muslims. own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / H O / I S L A M I C S TAT E g rO U P . Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). The creation of
the Islamic umma, or community, during Muhammad?s
lifetime in Medina and later
on in the whole of Arabia is a
unique occurrence in the history of religion.
CONSEqUENTLy,
while most
religions look forward to an
ideal state or to the ?Kingdom of God
Bringing in
snus for others is also prohibited but using is not. HT
Continued from page 1.
WHEN converted to pure alcohol, the quantity of alcoholic beverages brought from
abroad amounts to 8.6 million litres, which is down by
3 per cent compared with the
year before.
According to Österberg,
the changes made to legislation in July, giving clear
guidelines on the amount of
duty-free alcohol that can
be legally brought through
customs, has partly curbed
Finns. Selling snus was prohibited in Finland in 1995,
excluding Åland, as Finland
joined the EU. One fifth
were bought in Estonia, another fifth in Russia. Of these
people, 2,600 had travelled abroad during the period in
question and participated in the survey.
cent to 12.7 litres.
By contrast, the amount
of spirits brought from
abroad went down by 9 per
cent to 8.5million litres.
On Wednesday, the customs is set to launch a campaign to provide information
on the regulations on the
quantities of alcohol that
can be brought from abroad
legally. 8 OCTOBER 2014
Snus is being imported to Finland in growing amounts.
Cigarettes a
different story
In comparison, the importing of cigarettes by travellers
has continuously decreased
since 2006, declining by nearly 10 per cent between 2013
and 2014. Between August 2013 and August 2014, the amount of
imported snus cartons imported reached 8.4 million.
Based on weekly interviews conducted by TNS Gallup, 60 per cent of travellers
arriving in Finland said they
had brought the snus cartons for their own personal
use whereas 23 per cent had
brought them for the use of
THIS yEaR,
someone else and the rest for
both. Every third traveller
brought over 30 cartons.
?For some reason, the fact
that snus is only allowed for
personal use hasn?t reached
everyone,. zeal for shopping trips.
Under the new law, there
are no restrictions on the
amount of alcohol that can
be brought for personal consumption, as long as the passenger transports the load
themselves. HS
NIINa WOOLLE y . H S
a L E K S I T E I va INE N . says Senior Inspector Reetta Honkanen
from Valvira (National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health).
The tobacco law was
changed in 2010, making importing snus legal exclusively for personal use. The Customs
may, however, ask the traveller to give some proof of
the alcohol being intended
for personal consumption if
the quantity is high enough
to arouse suspicions that
there may be plans to sell the
beverages.
Österberg says that the
new guidelines may be one
factor behind the decrease in
the amount of alcohol brought
from abroad, but does not believe they are the main cause.
?The decrease may reflect a shift in the alcohol cul-
A male passenger pushing a trolley loaded with alcoholic beverages purchased in Tallinn to his car
at the Helsinki harbour in October 2013.
ture as people are starting
to think that stocking up on
booze abroad does not make
sense. After
the law passed, the import
of snus decreased, but has
now increased again. Sweden
has made an agreement with
the EU that it can keep snus
in its market, which is why
snus is still sold on cruise
boats in Sweden?s territorial
waters.
Importing snus
increased by 40
per cent in a year
HS
M a R I S T O R P E L L INE N . One third of the imported cigarettes were bought
on cruise boats. Every
third traveller said they had
brought more than one carton
of cigarettes, and 59 per cent
of the travellers said the cigarettes they had imported were
for their own personal use.
The research on importing snus and cigarettes by
travellers has been conducted by Philip Morris Finland
Oy, the Finnish Tobacco Industries. The results of the
monitoring period are based
on over 26,000 interviews.. H T
Programme
can offer much more than
language skills and education, the European Commission estimates.
A study published last
week indicates that more
than one-quarter, or 27 per
cent, of Erasmus students
m aRkuS JOk eL a
THE ERaSMUS
HS /
27 per cent of Erasmus students meet their long-term partner
while studying abroad.
Booze cruises begin to dry up
L a SSE KERKEL ä . The amount
of cider brought from abroad
grew by 15 per cent, now totalling 8.6 per cent, while the
amount of wine went up 5 per
Regular monitoring
The statistics on the amount of alcohol brought from
abroad published by the National Institute of Health and
Welfare are based on a survey carried out by TNS Gallup.
In the survey, 500 randomly chosen volunteers were
asked about the amount of alcohol they had bought abroad
over the last two weeks.
For the survey, 26,000 people were contacted. And wondering what
the neighbours would think,?
says Österberg, adding that a
similar phenomenon can be
observed in domestic purchase behaviour, with people
now favouring mild alcoholic
drinks.
?It?s a long-term trend.?
Finns brought 33.1 million
litres of beer from abroad last
year, amounting to a 5-per
cent increase compared with
the year before. Starring actor Krista Kosonen, the campaign
is aimed at rectifying some
common misconceptions on
the legal limits and to curb illegal purchases from abroad.
ticular reason for the recent
increase in imports.
The import of snus by
travellers was first studied in
2009. H T
Finns brought 41
per cent more snus in to the
country in comparison to the
previous twelve months. Most commonly,
the participant is a higher
education student spending
an academic term or year
in an education institution
abroad.
By 2020, the European Union will offer financial support for an additional four
million students for studying
or training abroad.
Anne Siltala, an adviser
at the Centre for International Mobility (CIMO), laughs at
the estimate of one million
children but admits that it
is entirely possible that over
one-quarter of exchange students get into a new relationship while studying abroad.
3
L e H T I k u va / RO N I R e kO m a a
Erasmus
offers
more than
education
2 . Honkanen can?t identify a parm aR T TI k aINuL aINeN
The long-running
student exchange
programme is responsible for one
million babies.
meet their long-term partner while studying abroad.
?On this basis, the commission estimates that around
one million babies are likely to have been born to Erasmus couples since 1987,. Since then, the amount
of imports has nearly doubled. the
report summarises.
Approximately 3,000,000
students and 350,000 teachers have participated in the
long-running exchange programme since its inauguration in 1987. DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
H E IK K I a I T T O KOS K I . Federation, the
Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health, and Valvira.
Data is gathered by interviewing 500 people weekly
by phone
Students in vocational or general upper secondary education
cannot be required to attend
religious events or exercises,
regardless of their own beliefs.
The new guidelines are established on comments by
the Constitutional Law Committee, high-powered legality supervisors and the
National Board of Education,
and concern pre-primary, basic, vocational and general
upper secondary education.
Events organised by
schools and education institutions, the Board of Education
points out, can contain religious elements; a hymn will
not make an event into a religious exercise but is often simply a part of Finnish traditions.
However,
guardians
must be informed of the programme of such events, with
due notice to allow them to
decide whether or not their
ward should attend the event.
In addition, the Board of
Education reminds us that
such events and ceremonies
remain a part of teaching and
school activities, which principally require attendance.
Schools and education institutions must therefore organise
alternative activities for pupils
and students not attending a
religious event or exercise.
?Thereby, the school is also responsible for safety,. That requires excellent media literacy skills, which Finns do possess. ?They sold tickets directly to consumers through
their website and, according
to our interpretation of the
law, they are a virtual airline.
Until the permit has been received, we have asked for a
temporary guarantee, which
all companies selling trips to
consumers are required to
pay,. says Tom Vihonen, an
inspector at KKV.
The guarantee would be
returned to Snowbird Airlines once it has been granted the status of an airline and
l E I F RO S a S
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
moved from the purview of
KKV to that of Trafi.
?The passengers are already safe because all revenue from tickets will remain
in an escrow account until
the flights have been operated. ?It seems that
all mistakes are taken out
from education,. ?Because we haven?t
received the guarantee, we
can?t assure that passengers
are protected in the fashion
defined in the law,. ?Although the discussion is somewhat premature,
it would certainly difficult to
approve these cuts,. H T
SCHOOLS and education institutions must inform
guardians of religious events
in more detail than before,
the Finnish National Board
of Education declared on 22
September.
?Education institutions will
have the obligation to provide
detailed information in order
to present guardians a genuine opportunity to consider attendance,. H S
A L E K S I T E I vA INE N . Snowbird Airlines, she says, has fallen into a loophole due to the fact
that the status of a fledgling
airline has not been defined
sufficiently in the law.
?A virtual company is a
company that has no intention of obtaining its own fleet
and operating permits. H S
A L E K S I T E I vA IN E N . ?It would be impossible
to operate those flights with
only a couple of passengers.
This is the last thing we needed, having just launched our
operations,. Any unexpected costs arising, for example, from temporary facilities
will therefore be shouldered
by the Education and Cultural
Services. H S
A L E K S I T E I vA INE N . she says.
Schools
must
inform
guardians
of religious
events
prayers and morning assemblies, such events will henceforth be regarded as religious
exercises and must not take
guardians by surprise. We
will become a real airline as
soon as the issue is resolved,?
she affirms.
KKV, in contrast, considers Snowbird Airlines a
travel agency until Trafi has
granted the necessary permits. I nonetheless believe most Finns continue to trust in the veracity of
the information circulating in the media,. Haglund views.
The methods of hybrid warfare include influencing through
information, military coercion, stripping soldiers of identifying insignia and cyber warfare.
In particular, attempts to influence with information have
stirred up a debate in recent months. she says.
Inka Hopsu (Greens), the
deputy chairperson of the
committee, has revealed that
she will call for changes to
the proposed cuts in special
education, assistant services
and after-school activities.
This autumn alone, 332
pupils in their second year of
Finnish-language basic education had to be left outside
of after-school activities.
?The committee will probably pass my proposal for changes, but we?ll see in the further
discussion how many other
groups get on board,. 8 OCTOBER 2014
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HS / M aRkUS JOk El a
Proposed cuts would hit education in Espoo
Students attend Perkkaanpuisto School in Espoo, 2012.
Quality of teaching may be compromised, says the chairperson of
the Education and Early Education Committee.
v IR v E R I S S A N E N . On the
other hand, false messages have also been disseminated in
Finland, either deliberately or unknowingly.
A vARIETY of factors can
get in the way of fledgling
airlines.
Snowbird Airlines has
been robbed of its Russian
passengers by the faltering
rouble, just as it was about to
spread its wings for its maiden voyage. 4
DOMESTIC
2 . It can?t be
that core services are crippled by cuts,. stated Marja Aalto, the CEO at Snowbird
Airlines.. Its flights from
Helsinki to Málaga, in turn,
will be operated as scheduled, twice a week starting in
November.
Passengers affected by
the delays will be compensated in full or arranged an
alternate flight, if possible.
Dispute over status
Snowbird Airlines filed a
complaint with the Administrative Court of Helsinki in
July, over a 10,000 euro guarantee deposit demanded by
KKV to protect the funds of
passengers in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy.
Snowbird Airlines refused
to lodge the guarantee because it considers itself an
airline rather than a travel agency or a virtual airline, despite the fact that it
has yet to receive the requisite operating permit from
the Finnish Transport Safety
Agency (Trafi).
The airline can continue
selling flights to consumers
until the complaint has been
considered.
Aalto is confident that the
permit issue can be resolved
by next spring. The airline
was set to begin operations
on a route from Oulu via Lappeenranta to Alicante in October, expecting Russian
passengers to account for
50-80 per cent of the passengers boarding its flights in
Lappeenranta.
Russian travel agencies,
however, have cancelled
their charter bookings in
the face of the faltering rouble and political uncertainty
in Russia, leaving Snowbird
grasping at thin air.
While the airline will operate its fully-booked flights
from Oulu via Helsinki to
Málaga, it has put its route
to Alicante on hold until next
year. reminds
Aalto, adding that passengers who paid with major
credit cards are also protected by their card issuer.
KKV conversely emphasises that the statutory
guarantee cannot be supplanted by other collateral
arrangements.
The flights operated by
Snowbird Airlines, Vihonen
estimates, pose a risk to consumers. 23.5%
Take-off of Snowbird delayed
l E H T I k U Va
OU T I S A L O vA A R A . states Pekka
Iivonen, an education counsellor at the Board of Education, said while shedding light
on new guidelines for religious
events and exercises in schools
and education institutions.
Although schools are allowed to organise religious
events, such as services,
No . H T
WHO:
Carl Haglund
FROM:
Espoo
FAMOUS FOR:
Minister of Defence
The Ministry of Defence is regularly approached by citizens
with concerns based on inaccurate information circulating in
the Russian media, Haglund reveals.
The armed conflict in Ukraine has awoken many to the realities of modern-day hybrid warfare, a military strategy that
blends conventional warfare with a variety of other methods.
?Ukraine is unlikely to be the last conflict where new methods are applied,. H T
THE AUSTERITY regime of
Espoo may also sweep over
schools. We can?t declare it as
profits until then,. explains Iivonen. According to Hopsu, the pressure
for facility costs to increase in
comparison to other teaching
costs is mounting. In addition, its
take-off has been hindered
by a dispute with the Finnish
Competition and Consumer
Authority (KKV).
Established in 2013,
Snowbird Airlines is the first
new airline operating overseas flights with a fleet of
large aircraft in Finland since
Finnair and the now-bankrupt Air Finland. Hopsu
estimated before a committee
meeting on 23 September.
Not a single political group,
however, is prepared to postpone addressing the indoor air
quality problems reported by
several schools in Espoo. she says.
Premature discussion
Hannele Kerola (SDP), the
representative of the City
Board on the committee, explains that the mayor will not
present his budget draft until later. estimates Haglund.
In Russia, he points out, most people do not realise that the
information provided by the media may be inaccurate. ?Schools can?t
give students a free pass for
the duration of the event.?
The National Board
of Education has
unveiled new guidelines for religious
exercise in schools.
JUS S I NIE M E L ä INE N . Last week, the Education and Early Education Com-
mittee considered a proposal
that identifies classroom assistant services, after-school
activities and the development of an electronic matriculation examination as
targets for cost reduction.
Question of the week
The pension age is set to be increased to 65.
Do you agree?
Yes . 76.5%
Hit by growing unemployment and dwindling tax revenue, Espoo decided to cut
allocations for elderly care by
2.5 million euros a couple of
weeks .
Sanna Lauslahti (NCP),
the chairperson of the Education and Early Education
Committee, admits that if all
the proposed cuts are carried
out, it would affect the daily
routines of children as well
as the quality of teaching.
?It would be justifiable
to ask is this what a childfriendly city does. Lauslahti is similarly concerned. ?Information circulates
ever faster, both real and false information. he says.
?This is the last thing we
needed, having just launched
our operations,. explains Marja
Aalto, the CEO at Snowbird
Airlines.
The airline has also postponed the start of operations
on a route from London to
Enontekiö by one month, to
December
The identity of the mule
remains unknown, although
the briefcase used in the operation was later discovered
in the storage facilities of one
of the other suspects. In
this sense, the case is exceptional,. The suspects are primarily from the Vantaa and
Helsinki region.
The main suspects in the
case, two Somali men, have
stayed abroad since the
launch of the pre-trial investigation and remain at large.
They are believed to be the
owners of the drugs and responsible for orchestrating
the smuggling and distribution operations. H S
THE ITä-UUSIMaa Police Department has uncovered a
drug ring that is believed to
have smuggled substantial
amounts of heroin and cocaine into Finland.
An inquiry into the activities of the ring was opened in
the aftermath of a fatal heroin overdose in Vantaa last
October, after various sources had indicated to the investigators that a tight-knit
gang was trafficking heroin
in the city.
Some of the sources estimated that as much as
several kilos of heroin was
available on the streets at
The young man
boasts an unrivalled
rap sheet of internet
fraud convictions.
L a SSE KERKEL ä . H S
SMUggLINg and distribution rings with ties to Africa
have gained a foothold in the
Finnish drug market in recent years. said Risu.
Overall, 40 people are
suspected of involvement in
the phishing campaign.
Up to four kilos of heroin and two kilos of
cocaine are believed to have been smuggled
into Finland in a one-off operation in the
summer of 2013.
M IN N a Pa S S I . CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
2 . At the moment, the situation looks
good,. he views.
24-year-old man found guilty
of a slew of online frauds
of indifference toward the
boundaries of the law.
Kivi is also the main suspect in an investigation conducted at the Helsinki Police
Department into a widespread phishing campaign.
He and his accomplices are
suspected of obtaining well
over 500,000 euros by circulating e-mails and text messages while masquerading as
collection agencies, Itella and
the Finnish Customs.
The phishing campaign is
likely to be the biggest scam
ever masterminded by a
Finn.
It appears that the detainments of Kivi and another suspect have stemmed
the flow of phishing attacks.
?No new cases have emerged
in over a month. International warrants for their arrest
have been filed.
The case was referred to a
prosecutor for consideration
of charges last week. confirmed Jukkapekka Risu, a detective superintendent at the
Helsinki Police Department.
Kivi was found guilty on
22 September, of a total of
280 counts of fraud, 51 counts
of computer break-in and 8
counts of attempted fraud for
selling non-existent items on
Huuto.net, a Finnish online
auction website, in 2011-2012.
He was shown to have
been involved in frauds worth
roughly 110,000 euros, the District Court of Helsinki ruled.
The fraudulent activity began after Kivi was released
from remand detention in
June 2011, with him and three
other men infiltrating the accounts of other Huuto.net users and using the accounts to
list a variety of items that in
reality did not exist. The defendant has
laid on the guilt for the child
to bear and caused the life of
the child to collapse with his
crimes,. In addition, Kivi recruited roughly a
dozen young men to provide
their bank details for routing the proceeds of the auction sales.
The other suspects were
already convicted in May, but
Kivi managed to evade the
grasp of the law until early
August.
The District Court of Helsinki in its verdict cited the
prior convictions of Kivi as
aggravating circumstances,
deeming them an indication. ?Earlier, the cases
have revolved largely around
marijuana, but recently also
hard drugs have emerged,?
tells Rauno Jämsä, a detective inspector at the Itä-Uusimaa Police Department.
The National Bureau of
Investigation, Finnish Customs and local drug-enforcement units have all
encountered and looked into
cases in which people of African background are suspected of drug offences.
The phenomenon has expanded over the past couple
of years.
Statistics compiled by the
Police College of Finland indicate that drug allegations
against Gambian nationals have particularly surged
over the past three years.
While over 60 Gambian nationals were suspected of aggravated drug offences last
year, the number for this year
stood at nearly 50 already by
late August.
Somalis, in turn, have only been suspected of drug offences in a handful of cases
annually, but this year they
have already been suspected
in 25 cases.
In contrast, nearly 500
Finns have been suspected
of aggravated drug offences
thus far this year.
Nursery school
owner convicted of
child sexual abuse
?The defendant
had threatened to
turn the life of the
child upside-down,
if the child discussed
the matter with
anyone.. What is
significant is the expectation
of silence that follows,. she
says.
On the other hand, she
adds, it is rare for a court to
call attention to the matter
in a public statement in the
fashion done by the District
Court of Espoo last Thursday.
The perpetrator was ordered to pay 41,000 euros in
compensation to his victim.
The District Court of Espoo also underscored in its
ruling that the abuse is in
no way related to the operations of the nursing school
business owned by the man.
When the sexual abuse allegations were brought to the
attention of the Social Services of Helsinki in 2011, the
city suspended its co-operation with two nursing schools
affiliated with the man and
transferred the children affected by the closures to other nursing schools. The majority of the incidents are
believed to have taken place
in Espoo.
Typically, the perpetrator
asked the child for forgiveness for his actions before
continuing the sexual abuse,
thus denying the child the opportunity to report the abuse
due to Laestadian teachings
prohibiting discussion on the
sins of a repentant wrongdoer, the court highlighted.
?The defendant had
threatened to turn the life of
the child upside-down, if the
child discussed the matter
with anyone. At the
time, the city underlined that
the children had been in no
danger.
The man denied all accusations in court.
The heroin and cocaine was smuggled into Finland in packages weighing roughly seven grams.
Police uncover major heroin ring
The first arrests in the
investigation were made in
May and resulted in the confiscation of a notable amount
of heroine. laestadian
man abused
the doctrine
of forgiveness.
L a SSE KERKEL ä . The investigators
have refrained from disclosing the total number of drug
seizures.
Overall, the case consists
of 18 suspects, 9 of whom
have been arrested or detained in the course of the
pre-trial investigation and
11 of whom are set to face
charges of aggravated drug
offence. The child has
been left without protection
and has had to live in constant fear. HS
THE DISTRICT Court of Helsinki has sentenced Viljar Kivi,
probably the most active online fraudster in Finland, to
three years and two months?
imprisonment for yet another slew of offences.
The 24-year-old Kivi has
continued his fraudulent activities regardless of sever-
the time, reveals Rauno Jämsä, the officer in charge of the
investigation.
He also reveals that a pretrial investigation launched
in March has confirmed that
a substantial amount of heroin and cocaine was smuggled into Finland in a one-off
operation in the summer of
2013.
Apparently, the drug mule
only spent one night in Finland. HS
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poliiSi
african
rings
gaining
foothold
in drug
market
M INN a Pa S S I . ?Heroin has popped up only rarely
in Finland in recent years. imprisonment for child sexual
abuse on 26 September.
The District Court of Espoo estimated in its ruling
that the man, who is over
60 years old, had taken advantage of the Laestadian
doctrine of forgiveness and
silence in order to continue his illegal activities for
over a decade, since the late
1980s.
The man was ruled to have
repeatedly sexually abused a
child by, for example, fondling their genitals. ?The confiscated
heroin was exceptionally potent,. the District Court
of Espoo explains in a public
statement.
Johanna Hurtig, a researcher specialising in
sexual abuse in the Conservative Laestadian community, says that forgiveness
is a common feature in the
abuse reports.
?Forgiveness may have
been taken advantage of during or after the acts [?] either by the perpetrator or
a relative of the victim who
is aware of the acts. he highlights.
Only a few heroin seizures
have occurred in Finland in
recent years. It is believed to have contained a total
of three to four kilos of heroin
and one to two kilos of cocaine.
al criminal investigations and
boasts an unrivalled rap sheet
of online fraud convictions.
?He probably holds the Finnish
record for online frauds,. The crime laboratory of the Finnish Police
did not analyse a single heroin
sample in 2010-2012, and only
two in 2013, tells Jämsä.
The Finnish Customs, in
turn, occasionally intercepts
small batches of heroin.
Jämsä estimates that the
objective of the smuggling
ring under investigation was
to take control of the heroin market across the entire
Southern Finland. According to Jämsä, it remains possible that the heroin that caused
the fatal overdose is somehow
related to the case under investigation
The creation process has been described as a real
mess by many, while some have gone as far as calling
it a melee. As soon as the new legislation has been
passed, its implementation will kick off and the guilty
can be rewarded and the innocent punished.
There has, however, been a general consensus on
the basics: the reform is necessary. Urpilainen blogs.
According to Urpilainen,
the G20-meeting held a week
ago did not garner enough attention in Finland. Urpilain-
en hopes for discussion on the
transparency of capital, profit and tax liabilities held by international companies. says digital health
technologist expert Don Jones.
The US has the highest number of digital health
technology startups, but Finland catches up as a close
second. Of these,
approximately 300 are from
Finland,. 6
FROM FINNISH PRESS
2 . We have all seen it necessary to knock down bureaucratic boundaries horizontally as well as vertically, and we all have concerns over
the erosion of primary healthcare.
But if there is such a wide-spread consensus, why is
it so difficult to find solutions. 8 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
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L E H T I K U VA / M I K Ko S T I g
Urpilainen emphasizes that
the political action should
lead to effective measures
such as that of the automatic
exchange of information.
Erkki Virtanen is a Member of Parliament for the Left Alliance from
North Savo. According to him, in
practice this means taking
measures to promote walking and biking, promoting
advice on exercise and health
as a part of social and healthcare services, promoting
conditions for exercise and
recreation, as well as physical education in schools and
all points of physical activity
in institutions.
L E H T I K U VA / S A r I gU S TA f S S o N
Brave new social
and health services
Finland as
a role model state
Urpilainen wishes that Finland
would serve as an international example of transparency.
She presented her hopes on
the issue to the new Development Minister Sirpa Paatero.
?We could set an example
by taking up a simplistic and
clear model of reporting taxes to the state.?
This initiative could be led
by the new corporate governance minister, Urpilainen
writes.
In addition, Urpilainen
emphasises the role of the EU
in taxation matters, and especially targets her message
for Jean-Claude Juncker.
?All eyes turn to the new
Commission chair, who will
take leadership in the issue.
We cannot expect that as
the former prime minister of
Luxembourg he will take up
the issue as his own, but we
want to believe that exactly for that reason the former
chairman of the Euro group
wishes to prove that he represents the will of the entire
EU in inhibiting tax evasion.?
Urpilainen has previously called for more transparency in corporate ownership,
inter-state secrets and relations between banks, as the
Minister of Finance.
Rantala would like to see a larger government effort to promote
exercise, such as walking and biking.. have the ability to work together. These are enormous problems, you must
solve them.?
The health care field is
considered to be the field of
the future.
?The global digital health
market is estimated to be
worth 47 billion by 2018. says
Jones, an expert in the field.
?Elsewhere in Europe
you find more of a focus on
internal markets,. The schedule for
the reform is so tight that we have to get cracking straight
away. According
to Urpilainen, Finland should
serve as an international example and introduce a model for reporting taxes to the
state. Decision-makers and rapporteurs must now be bold, show good judgment, possess
nerves of steel and - first and foremost . But municipalities that would have large
enough populations in respect to healthcare and social
services remained a pipe dream when the government
would not allow forced municipal mergers.
Thanks to this, the process stalled for two years,
while the political fray raged over the superiority of
the reform models, even though there were only minor
differences between them. This year,
1.7 billion was reached in the
summer,. Jones calculates.
In digital health technology, the most important
things are cooperation partners, device manufacturers
and mobile operators.
VERKKOUUTISET 28 October. According to him, inactivity is
strongly linked to the national economy, national health,
mental health, length of employment, alienation and the
capacity of the elderly population to function.
?Inactivity is a phenomenon, for which a solution
requires the participation
of the whole of Finnish so-
ciety," Rantala said in his
statement.
The impact on the national economy of inactivity is
in the billions, according to
Rantala. PERTTU KOISTINEN
Inactivity costs the economy billions
THE RECENT Minister of Sport
calls upon the whole Finnish
society to prevent immobility.
The RKP Minister of Sport
Carl Haglund?s State Secretary, Marcus Rantala, has
asked for a common will
to prevent inactivity. He is also a member of the Social Affairs and Health
Committee and a member of the parliamentary steering group on
the social and health care reform. You have many
early pioneers, such as Suunto, Polar and Nokia,. She
finds that the shortcomings
are not only the result of illegal activities, but are also due
to deficiencies in tax treaties
and laws.
Urpilainen is of the opinion that a political will to
handle tax evasion exists.
KAUPPALEHTI 28 October
Health technologist: ?Finland
has a productive atmosphere?
TECHNOLOgy, has swiftly
become a part of exercise.
?There are approximately 5 000 wellbeing and health
technology startups. The leaders of all political parties came to an agreement, based on
which the parliamentary steering group was able to draft
a law proposal, currently under review by municipalities.
The proposed healthcare and social service model is
both a great threat and an unprecedented opportunity.
Our social welfare and healthcare system is facing the
greatest reform and overhaul of its history. notes
well-travelled Jones, who
has made several trips to
Finland.
?Finland is such a small
market, that the businesses
understand the necessity to
orient towards international
markets. People have agreed
unanimously that because of their small population sizes, many municipalities are unable to organise their
services in an efficient manner. Government negotiations
led to an agreement under which the social welfare and
healthcare system would be built around strong municipalities. The social and healthcare systems in municipalities and joint municipal authorities wield considerable
economic, professional and especially political power.
That is why radical changes to the foundations of the
system are bound to be met with vocal opposition.
The main stumbling block, however, has been structural: many wanted to use the social welfare and healthcare reform to ease the way for a municipal reform to
streamline local governance. According to him,
the question is whether inactivity is such a significant
issue in society that its prevention should be a top objective in the future.
According to Rantala, it
is not enough for the Minister of Sport to work on the
issue, when nearly all ministers have a means to impact
the ways in which people exercise. Soon it looked as if we were
going to have a real disaster on our hands.
And then something surprising occurred. You have a good productive atmosphere and excellent opportunities to build
businesses in the future?, says
Jones.
and the challenges?
?Finns have yet to understand that in the United
States, political decisions
come before business in the
health industry. By education, he is a Master of
Social Sciences.
The nation has been presented with a showpiece: the
structural reform of the social and healthcare services. Our nation is at the
top when the number of businesses is considered relative
to the population.
?Finland has a high level
of expertise and understand-
ing for programs and mobile
technology. This
provides us with an opportunity to knock down and redefine the rigid barriers and structures that have been
in place for decades and build more equal, efficient, effective and overall better services.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and while the
new law creates a framework for services, its implementation will take place in the social and health care districts
where the theory will be put to the test. Urpilainen has put the
issue into the hands of the
JUTTa
new Development Minister
Sirpa Paatero.
?According to the Tax Office,
transfer pricing abuses by corporate entities alone causes an
estimated 320 million euros in
losses to the Finnish state each
year,. Many had hoped that the reform
would open the doors for more extensive competition
in social and healthcare services, which led to a great
sense of disappointment when the majority of the parliamentary steering group was not willing to rely on
market-driven provision of services, preferring to retain the strong and primary role of the public sector.
Political stumbling blocks are rooted in questions of
power. There are
thousands of players, and
each has a different motive.
Keeping track of cash flow is
extremely challenging.?
?Solve the issues of
medical prescriptions and
appointments.?
According to Jones, Finns
are extremely skilled at inno-
vation in clinical decisions.
There is room to learn in
broadening the perspective,
and addressing more issues.
?The toughest processes
in the health care industry
are prescriptions and appointments. If they can show they have all these
characteristics, they can make history.
Urpilainen speaks at an event dealing with economic policy.
YLE NEWS 28 October
Urpilainen on tax havens:
Paatero could take the lead in
the fight against tax evasion
URPILaINEN wrote
in her blog on 27 September
that the tax evasion of multinational companies serves
to erode the foundation of
the welfare state. What are the stumbling
blocks stopping us from reaching decisions?
There are ideological stumbling blocks, which are
related to the roles of the public and private sectors in
service production. The decisions on the new social and health care
districts must be made in May. The provision of services will be shifted from individual municipalities to larger districts with more resources. Last
year, 1.6 billion euros of venture capital funding was invested in the field
In most of Europe
it sells its handsets direct, via
shop.jolla.com.
Cumulative sales are an
unknown at this point, as Jolla is not disclosing any sales
figures for the handset.
While Jolla has set itself
up as a refreshing alternative
to the dominant smartphone
GLOBAL POST /
XINHUA NEWS AGENCY
26 September
Finland
to raise
retirement
age from
63 to 65
?REPRESENTATIvES of government, unions and pension funds of Finland agreed
to raise the retirement age
from the current 63 to 65.
The negotiations over Finland?s state pension system
have lasted for weeks, and
agreement on the retirement
age was finally settled.
According to the proposed pension reform, Finnish employees, both men
and women, born in or af-
JOLL A
india is the second non-european market that jolla has launched
its eponymous debut smartphone into . It will
be ready to accept waste in
2022 and take 120 years to
reach capacity.
Spent nuclear fuel refers
to depleted uranium rods,
and they are classified as
high-level radioactive waste.
They have a half-life of tens of
thousands of years and generate heat at the rate of 10 kilowatts per hour for 100 years.
?I?m proud of this facility and its safety level,. via a partnership
with the 3 carrier. said
Janne Laihonen, investigation and research manager
at the underground facility.
?I?m sure the government will
grant the construction permit for the repository, because I believe the facility
successful.?
Laihonen said the holes,
about eight meters deep, will
hold waste-filled canisters
and then be filled with ben-
tonite clay. with a distinct, gesture-focused interface and smartphone hardware with a twist
(thanks to a removable backplate that links via NFC to the
phone?s software interface)
. NERIJUS ADOMAITUS, JANE BAIRD
11 terawatt-hours (TWh) in
2011 to about 4 TWh in 2013.
Fingrid initially planned
to start exports from April
2014, but talks with Russian
partners took longer.
?We still have to sign
some documents, but technically all is ready. Elsewhere,
it says it has local operator/
distribution partners in Finland, Estonia, Kazakhstan
and Italy. In 2001, it was the
first country in the world to
choose a final disposal site
for nuclear waste.
A 9.5-kilometer road leads
to where tunnels and burial
holes will be built 437 metres
below the surface. Posiva, a
private company founded by
the nation?s two largest nuclear power plant operators,
held the groundbreaking for
Finland plans to start
exporting power to
Russia from January
plans to start exporting electricity to Russia
from the start of next year,
its grid operator said, after
a change in the Russian market has made its prices more
expensive and Finnish prices
more competitive.
Russia introduced a capacity market in 2011, which
rewards producers for keeping plants available for times
when they are needed.
With the cost of capacity
payments in addition to ener?FINLAND
gy prices, Russian electricity
has become too expensive to
sell in Finland at peak times,
opening up market possibilities for Finnish power.
?From 1 January we will
start a two-way trade between Finland and Russia.
There will be 350 megawatts
of capacity available for exports,. The clay swells
with the moisture, preventing
water and radiation leaks.
A 12-centimeter (4.7-inch)
thick layer of shotcrete, concrete pneumatically projected through a hose at high
velocity onto a surface, covers the ceiling and walls.
In relation to the 2022
time frame, about 10 per cent
of the disposal plan has been
completed.
Because spent rods are hot,
they first need to spend about
30 years in cooling pools inside
reactors and then 40 years to
60 years in interim storage,
usually outside the reactor but
within in the complex.
Of 31 nuclear nations,
France, the United States and
20 others already operate interim storage facilities, but
no country has entered the
final disposal stage...?
REUTERS 24 September. has now expanded availability of the phone to India.
Jolla?s handset is priced at
Rs. and which last November released its first
handset in its home market
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KOREA JOONJANG DAILY 24 September
TECHCRUNCH 23 September. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
2 . Risto Lindroos, a corporate adviser at Fingrid, told
Reuters on Wednesday.
Finland?s imports from Russia have dropped from around
MUSIC WEEK 22 September. 16,499 in India (around
210 euros), and is selling exclusively via local ecommerce giant Snapdeal.
India is the second nonEuropean market that Jolla
has launched its eponymous
debut smartphone into, after adding Hong Kong back
in August . RHIAN JONES
Finland is first focus country for
Reeperbahn Festival 2015
?FINLAND will be the first focus country of next year?s
Reeperbahn Festival, as part
of a two-year initiative to
bring Finnish music to Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Titled Aus Finnland, the
music export project aims to
increase opportunities for
artists hailing from the Nordic country and create a sustainable base for the future of
music exports.
Targeted at music fans
and professionals, the pro-
ject will be documented online at www.ausfinnland.de.
The website launches on 1
January 2015.
Announcing the news at a
press conference at the end
of this year?s Reeperbahn
Festival in Hamburg on Saturday 20 September, executive director of Music Finland
Tuomo Tähtinen said: ?Finnish music is currently on a
fast rise towards international recognition on a large
scale.
?There are already some
artists that have garnered
major success, such as Sunrise Avenue or Nightwish,
along with the renowned
Finnish conductors and composers like Esa-Pekka Salonen, but at the same time
there?s a big group of exciting new acts that are on the
verge of an international
breakthrough. the task of standing out in
emerging markets with high
growth potential, such as India, is getting harder because
of increasingly fierce competition in the lower end of the
Android space??
L E H T I K U VA / T I m O J A A KO n A H O
Finland firmly at forefront
of nuclear waste disposal
Tourists do nordic walking with sticks on a beach in playa del
ingles.
ter 1955 will retire two years
later than the current age of
63, Finnish broadcaster YLE
reported.
From 2017, the pensionable age will be gradually increased by three months
every year. NATASHA LOMAS
the repository in 2004. via a partnership with
the 3 carrier.
platforms of Android and iOS
. I expect
it will happen this time,?
Lindroos said.
Russian importer Inter RAO wants to buy power from Finnish producers
based on bilateral contracts,
he added.
?Whether that will be bilateral contracts or power
trade through the exchange
remains to be seen.?
Finland will continue to
import power from Russia
mostly during night hours
and weekends, with little
change expected..."
?OLKILUOTO, Finland . This applies
to all genres from pop to indie, electronic to urban, classical to jazz??
Finland?s Jolla takes
its Sailfish-powered
smartphone to
India, via Snapdeal
?JOLLA , the Finnish smartphone startup that used the
MeeGo open source OS as a
jumping off point for its own
Android-app compatible Sailfish OS . Amid
a dense forest on Olkiluoto Island, part of the Eurajoki municipality and about
a four-hour drive from Finland?s capital Helsinki, there
is a six-square-kilometre
(2.3-square-mile) site where
9,000 tonnes of highly toxic
nuclear waste will be buried
deep underground.
Finland operates four nuclear reactors, which supply
30 per cent of the nation?s
electricity. This means that
employees born in 1962 will
be the first group who retire
at the age of 65.
In addition, the proposal
claimed that employees doing physically or mentally
demanding works will have
possibility to retire earlier,
but their career will be no
shorter than 38 years??
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One is cyclical: our economy is in one of those periodic downswings. Disraeli?s admonition may be especially relevant when it comes
to Finland?s unemployment
rate.
Markus Lahtinen, research director of the Pellervo Economic Research
Institute, warned the national broadcaster YLE that
Finland had many people
seeking work who did not fall
under the official statistics.
A MORE serious issue is the decline of the workforce. Additionally, this disguised unemployment rate is growing faster
in Finland than in any other
Euro country besides Italy.
Underemployed
Another category of hidden
unemployment are those jobless people who are seeking
Unemployment in Finland 2004-2014
THE OTHER problem
RECENTLY some progress has been made at putting our
pension system on a more stable footing. This quote, attributed to the 19th Century
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, warns of the
dangers of using statistics to
prove a point. Unfortunately, fiscal stimulus measures are
almost impossible in the current political climate in
Europe, but this may change.
we face is structural. This is by
far the highest percentage in
the European Union. They say our score
on governance indicators
is higher than even the average among AAA countries.
Our strong track record of prudent fiscal management
is cited as one of our strengths, as well as the robust financial position of our pension plans. Finland is one of
only six OECD countries to have a government net asset position.
FITCH
FINLAND has two different problems, according to
Fitch. 8 OCTOBER 2014
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David J. These might
be people who had to take a
part-time job because no fulltime work was available, or
people who had their working week reduced by their
employers.
According to Eurostat 3.5
per cent of the Finnish work
force are underemployed. Currently
the collective bargaining process is pointing towards
an increase in the retirement age to 65, to be followed
by slow increases starting in 2017. Other structural reforms to the labour market are on hold until the next
election.
?It?s a serious problem
because otherwise those
people wouldn?t be ?hidden unemployed. but unemployed jobseekers and the
unemployment rate would
be around 12 per cent,. They are independent, private, forprofit corporations who are hired by debt issuers. This could push our public finances out of control so we have engaged in the standard
operating procedure of increasing taxes and cutting
spending. We have an
aging population, and our labour force has been declining since 2010. For instance, central banks will only accept debt as collateral if they are given certain ratings
and some investors will only purchase debt if it is of a
specific quality.
to love credit ratings companies when they
give us good grades: witness the many articles which
come out whenever we get a good rating. This will
result in a higher up-front cost, but eventually these
refugees and their descendants will work and contribute to our economy and society.
Disguised
unemployment
Officially, a person has to
meet three criteria to be
classified as unemployed. Statistics Finland
terms this as disguised unemployment, and claims the
labour market is so weak
that people aren?t encour-
aged to try and find jobs. Adding these to the
official figures would push
Finland?s
unemployment
rate up to 12.3 per cent, just
as PTT?s Lahtinen claimed.
According to Eurostat
some 5.1 per cent of the Finnish workforce is in this category of unemployed but not
searching for a job. If
these were to be included in
the official statistics, Finland?s unemployment rate
would be 19.1 per cent.
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There were 1,434,000 persons in the inactive population in August 2014, which was 24,000
more than in August 2013. The average rate in the Euro area
is 4.4 per cent. The company?s statement seems strangely
rosy compared to the grim reality of living day-to-day
in Finland, but Fitch does have some good points which
should give us hope for the future.
IT IS important to remember what these credit ratings
companies are. Although despair at finding a
job might be the main reason
for people to give up their job
search, Statistics Finland also cites studies, caring for
children and ill health.
There are currently
149,000 people in disguised
unemployment, up 28 per
cent from last year. They
give opinions on our credit worthiness. We also get
very angry if the ratings companies give us poor marks
or make a mistake. He
must neither be an employee or self-employed. These ratings
are only opinions, but have acquired a pseudo-regulatory blessing. It is important to remember our relationship with these credit
ratings companies.
WE TEND
Fitch praised
Finland for a
high-value-added
economy.
praised Finland
for a high-value-added
economy and strong political and social institutions. Some European politicians were
furious that Fitch, Moody?s and S&P gave some countries bad grades but missed the poor finances of those
investment vehicles which went bankrupt. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Still AAA
FITCH has once again given Finland the best credit rat-
ing possible. Typically
there are very few people that
fit this criterion, because if
someone needs work they are
willing to start immediately.
While the average rate in the
Euro area is 0.9 per cent, Finland has 4.5 per cent of the
workforce who need jobs but
aren?t willing to start within fourteen days. If
any of these are not met then
the person is not considered
unemployed.
A large category of people who are not caught in official statistics are those who
are not actively seeking employment. This is serious, because over the
long term the only methods for an economy to grow
is from population growth and productivity increases. Of the inactive population, 149,000 persons were in disguised unemployment, which was 32,000 more than in the corresponding period of 2013.
+ those not seeking work:
12.3%
+ those not available
to immediately start work:
15.9%
+ those underemployed:
19.1%. He must
have actively sought employment in the past four weeks.
Finally, he must be available
to work within two weeks. The next
worst country is Sweden with
only 2.4 per cent of the population unable to immediately
begin working.
If these people who are
without work but unable to
immediately start a job are included in the statistics, Finland?s unemployment rate
would be 15.9 per cent, more
than double the official rate.
The final group of people
who fall outside of the official unemployment statistics are the underemployed.
These are individuals who
have a job but would like to
do more work. I
believe that Finland should liberalise its immigration
policy, including by taking in more refugees. By the way, Fitch says our productivity growth has
slowed, too, so this puts us into a particularly difficult
situation.
There are currently 149,000 people in disguised unemployment, up 28 per cent from last year.
Finland?s official unemployment
rate hides deeper problems
The official unemployment rate is
7.4%, but including all
those who fall outside
statistics would push
the rate up to 19.1%.
DAV I D J . C O R D
HEL SINK I TIMES
?THERE are three kinds of
lies: lies, damned lies, and
statistics.. This is
a remarkably high number,
as the total number of officially unemployed persons is
197,000. 8
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2 . Cord (david@helsinkitimes.fi) is a writer, journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. YLE
quoted Lahtinen as saying.
?That?s in a totally different
class from the 7.4 per cent reported by Statistics Finland.?
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work but aren?t able to start
within two weeks
technical skills. 3) Sadly in tough times, the job
market sucks and skilled people become unemployed
or take a job which does not use their skills. The more
skilled or labour intensive the operation will be, the
greater the importance of having the right talent.
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Cosy hotel in the heart of Helsinki
Michel Lemagnen has 28 years of experience working in the field
of business intelligence. The issue here in Finland, as is the case elsewhere across Europe, is that the technical skills base is
not utilised to its full potential.
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no profit to be made on the
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THE fINaNCIaL world received a shock recently
when CalPERS, a Californian
pension fund with assets
amounting to more than 200
billion euros, announced it
would eliminate its hedge
fund programme, taking 4
billion euros out of the game.
Hedge funds are portfolios of investments managed aggressively to generate
high returns regardless of the
market situation. So out of every extra euro they earn, the investors
pay 20 cents to the fund.
Varma alone has paid
hedge funds hundreds of billions of euros in fees over the
past decade.
?This of course makes for
a juicy topic for the media but
Returns, on average
Over the last five years, hedge
funds have generated returns
of 10.5 per cent on average for
Varma, after the costs, while
CalPERS achieved returns of
around 5.6 per cent over the
same period.
On average, pension
funds gained returns of 8.1
per cent for their investments in hedge funds, 19.5
per cent for investments in
shares and 2.1 per cent for
investments in the interest
rate markets.
Funds are expensive because they provide investors
with a pivotal service. Therefore Oxford Intelligence was commissioned to do Location Skills Audit?
and Talent Map. for Finland. Well, actually you can.
Helsinki?s got talent but it?s not used to its full potential.
?yOU jUST
BOTH Finland and the Helsinki region have that talent,
but no existing studies really dug down to the really
?hard to find. Of
the Finnish pension companies, Varma has the highest
amount of money invested in
hedge funds, around 6.6 billion euros.
CalPERS is not the only
company to bemoan the high
costs of hedge funds. says Rytsölä.
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afTER seven years of active researching I?ve finally got
the proof that the Finns really do have talented, highly skilled people. Because of four factors: 1) Good technical people almost inevitably get promoted to managerial,
non-technical roles. investments
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can?t get the staff.. explains Rytsölä.
The head of the tactical asset allocation at the Ilmarinen insurance company,
Staffan Sevón ,says that investments with high returns
and moderate risks are extremely hard to come by at
the moment.
?The low expected rates
of return make it inevitable
that we?d turn to other investments, for example hedge
funds.. 2) Parents take a career break or
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NIINa WOOLLE y . In relation to
price fluctuations, the returns have been extremely
good,. The bottom line is that whilst Finland is a relatively small country, there really is a large
enough, sustainable skills base of technical professionals. Despite the high
cost of these funds, Finnish pension companies are
not planning to follow in the
footsteps of the Californian
pension giant.
?We?ve been happy with
the returns. While Ilmarinen has
invested more than 400 million euros in hedge funds, it
also manages its own hedge
fund, Ilmarinen Alfa.
Stable returns
When the financial crisis hit
the markets, the value of
Although things have
changed since the times
when funds were only for
the rich, it is still easy to regard hedge funds as top money earners managed by the
superstars of the financial
world.
And it is not difficult
to understand why people might have this notion:
last year the earnings of the
25 best-paid fund managers totalled 19 billion euros,
according to the financial
newspaper Forbes. An expected rate of return of 3.5
per cent after inflation has
been set as the goal for Finnish pension companies. The top
funds give returns of up to
30 per cent year in, year out.
Sevón says that these figures do not reveal the whole
picture.
?Some of the fund managers do behave like rock stars
of the investment sector but
if you make investments expecting huge returns you either get disappointed or take
huge risks.?
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offering high returns
in relation to risks,
hedge funds are a
major investment target for pension funds.
hedge funds did not drop as
dramatically as stock prices,
and since then they have generated stable returns, while
profits from stocks have
fluctuated.
?I?m not saying we
shouldn?t discuss the costs
but we must also look at the
returns in relation to risks.
And based on our figures,
these returns are good,?
Rytsölä explains, summing
up the benefits.
According to The Financial
Times, capital from pension
funds accounts for 36 per cent
of around 2,400 billion euros
invested in hedge funds.
the costs must be discussed
in relation to returns. Oxford Intelligence research in
other countries found that around half of the Latent
Talent Pool would like to work in a technical role again.
These people might need some additional training to
refresh their skills, but this has to be a good option for
employers to consider.
Compiled by: Paavo Teittinen HS, graphics: Minttu Linjala, Source: The Finnish Pension Alliance TELA
CaN?T gET the staff. Yes you can, and it?s here for you in
Background
? Hedge funds offer better returns than the credit market,
at a lower risk than the stock market.
? Of the 157-billion-euro investments of Finnish pension
funds, 11 billion euros are in hedge funds.
? Varma has invested 6.6 billion euros in hedge funds,
while both Keva and Elo hold 1.9-billion-euro investments in them.
This article is provided by Helsinki Business Hub
www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi
Helsinki and across Finland.. Essentially, companies want to be confident they can find
people with the right skills for business today and for
tomorrow (and of course at the right price!). investments
in hedge funds
. With
hedge funds, we are looking
for lower risks than those involved in the stock market,
and they also give higher returns than the credit market,. BUSINESS
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Pension funds shun
high-risk investments
Pa av O T E I T T I N E N . 4) Some
people train to do one thing but find they really don?t
enjoy it as a job.
THE 50-60% who don?t use their skills are called the Latent Talent Pool. There is a huge opportunity here accessing its potential. The research only focuses on those that work now (or previously) in a technical or analytical role in the following skills sets: ICT,
Advanced Engineering, Life Science & Medical Technologies, Environmental Technologies & Renewable
Energy, Food Science and Financial Services.
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tel. They are
expensive, and reducing costs
was one reason behind CalPERS?s decision to ditch them.
Finnish pension funds had
more than 11 million euros invested in hedge funds at the
end of June. Over
the same period, the funds
have made us billions of euros,. investments, a target which
has become increasingly difficult to achieve as central
banks have been injecting
new money into the economy to the tune of thousands
of billions of euros.
?Hedge funds are extremely important because
we must get returns for our
investments from somewhere. whilst children are young and no longer
have the opportunities. The conclusion many empirical studies categorically show is
that availability of the right workforce skills is invariably a (often the most) critical location driver. Rytsölä
admits that investing in
hedge funds does not come
cheap, as the funds take a 1520 per cent cut of all returns
exceeding the target, plus a
two-or-three-per cent fixed
fee. He has been involved in workforce skills
research for 10 years.
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LähiTapiola Eläkeyhtiö merged).
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is a high quality, very well educated talent pool offering a great blend of experienced staff, coupled with upand-coming younger talent. +358-9-616 621, info@hotelanna.fi
you just can?t get the staff
business owner what one of their biggest issues are about running their business in Location ?X?,
and I can pretty much guarantee they will be moaning about how hard it is to find the ?right people?. says Reima Rytsölä,
the chief investment officer at Varma pension fund. This is supplemented by a
pipeline of the next generation talent currently studying in Finland?s globally recognised education system.
THE BIggEST challenge is that only 40-50% of those
with technical skills currently work in a technical role.
Why
The
international outcry that followed eventually led to a pardon, but it underlined how
much more progress the UAE
still has to make, despite alMansouri?s bravery and skill.
Tharoor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. And extramarital sex
can land you in legal trouble. efforts were in the air campaign against the Islamic
State, which is entrenched
over a vast swath of territory
in Syria and Iraq. ?Urbanisation, plotting,
building . she told Deraa Al Watan, a UAE magazine.
It?s not clear how vital
her and her compatriots. she
added. ?Everyone is required to have the same
high level of combat competence,. Griffiths added.
It is crucial to protect public space, as well as public
ownership of building plans.
The local government has to
ensure that services exist in
the public space, something
that does not happen in slums,
where there is no regulation or
investment by the public.
Griffiths meets every
month with the women in
her organisation: they share
their issues and needs and
ensure they are raised with
local authorities.
Griffiths also sits on the
advisory board of UN-Habitat, to voice the needs of her
people at the global level and
then bring the knowledge
back to the communities, she
explained.
These battles are bringing some results, especially in the urban environment.
Sosa said that women are
slowly achieving wider participation, while in rural areas the mindset is still very
conservative.
Maruxa Cardama, executive project coordinator at
Communitas, Coalition for
Sustainable Cities & Regions,
told IPS that an inclusive plan
is needed with regards to the
relationship between urban
and rural areas.
Cities are dependent on
the natural resources that
rural areas provide, so urban planning should not stop
where high rise buildings
end, she explained, adding
that this would also ensure
rural areas are provided with
the necessary services and
are not isolated.
Although they will not be
finalised until 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) currently include a
standalone goal dedicated to
making ?cities and human
settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable.?
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A view from Mato Alto shantytown, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MAj. In one notorious case last
year, a Norwegian woman received a 16-month prison sentence after she reported being
raped to the police, who did
not believe her claim that the
act was non-consensual. 8 OCTOBER 2014
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uAE?s first female
fighter pilot
dropped bombs on
the Islamic State
SyRIA
I S H A A N T H A RO O R
The Wa shing Ton Pos T
urban population to
reach 3.9 billion by year end
NAIROBI
G L O R I A S C H I Av I . Sosa told IPS.
?Despite their position,
women are often invisible
due to the macho culture that
exists in Latin America,. MARIAM AL-MANSOuRI,
the first female fighter pilot
in the history of the United
Arab Emirates, led the Gulf
state?s bombing raids over
Syria last week. They run a number
of public kitchens to ensure
food security, map the city to
identify issues that may create problems, and work on
disaster prevention.
?Due to the configuration
of the society, women are the
ones who spend most time
with the families and in the
community, therefore they
know it better than men who
often only sleep in the area and then go to work far
away,. ?This is why we are
working to ensure they are
involved in the planning process, because of the data and
knowledge they have.?
The link between the public and elected leaders is crucial, and Sosa?s organisation
tries to bring them together
through the participation of
grassroots women.
Carmen Griffiths, a leader of GROOTS Jamaica, an organisation that is part of the
same network as Sosa?s, told
IPS, ?When access to basic
services is lacking, women
are the ones who have to face
these situations first.
?We look at settlement
patterns in the cities, we
talk about densification in
the city, people living in the
periphery, in informal settlements, in housing that
is not regular, have no water, no sanitation in some
cases, without proper electricity. We talk about what
causes violence to women in
the city,. ?While Arab participation in the strikes is of
more symbolic than military
value,. he
added.
Clos thinks that a vision is
needed to build healthy, sustainable communities.
Relinda Sosa is the president of the National Confederation of Women Organised
for Life and Integrated Development in Peru, an association with 120,000 grassroots
members who work on issues
directly affecting their own
communities to make them
more inclusive, safe and resilient. writes the Wall Street
Journal?s Ahmed Al Omran,
?analysts described it as a
bold move for a group of coun-
tries that for long preferred to
act via proxies instead of any
direct involvement.?
The symbolism of a female
fighter pilot bringing the heat
to the women-enslaving Islamic State ought be lost on no
one and is useful propaganda
for the Emiratis. clad head
to toe in conservative garb ?
who was filmed riding a horse
while waving a Saudi flag.
The UAE is no paragon of
women?s rights either. Clos said.
?We have seen in multiple
cases that spontaneous urbanisation doesn?t take care
of the public space and its
relationship with buildable
plots, which is the essence of
the art of building cities,. Photos of alMansouri, beaming from her
cockpit, that were released
by the country?s state news
agency have taken social
media by storm.
The 35-year-old squadron commander was likely
part of sorties that dropped
bombs on Islamic State positions in Syria?s Idlib, Aleppo
and Raqqa provinces. i P s
e d i T e d b y K i T T y s Ta P P
PEOPLE LIvING in cities already outnumber those in rural areas and the trend does
not appear to be reversing,
according to UN-Habitat, the
Nairobi-based agency for human settlements, which has
warned that planning is crucial to achieve sustainable
urban growth.
?In the hierarchy of the
ideas, urban design comes
first,. Some
reports suggest that she
even spearheaded her country?s mission, which complemented the parallel efforts of
four other Arab states backing the US: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar.
According to a profile in
the UAE National, the Abu
Dhabi-born al-Mansouri harbored an ambition to join
the air force since her teenage years, but had to bide her
time until women were permitted to enlist. in this order,. Long blamed for their
listlessness and inaction, the
kingdoms of the Gulf may try
to change their image in the
ongoing campaign.
In terms of gender equality, the UAE stands in relative contrast to Saudi Arabia,
where women are not permitted to drive cars, don?t have
voting rights (more enlightened rules come into effect in
2015), and cope with a whole
regime of draconian, religious
laws that circumscribe all aspects of their lives. he
said, explaining that in many
cities the order is reversed
and it is difficult to solve
problems afterwards.
According to the UN Department for Economic and
Social Affairs (DESA), the urban population grew from
746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014 and is expected
to surpass six billion by 2045.
Today there are 28 mega-cities worldwide and by 2030 at
least 10 million people will
live in 41 mega-cities.
A UN report shows that
urban settlements are facing unprecedented demographic,
environmental,
economic, social and spatial
challenges, and spontane-
ous urbanisation often results in slums.
Although the proportion
of the urban population living
in slums has decreased over
the years, and one of the Millennium Development Goals
achieved its aim of improving
the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers, the absolute number has continued to
grow, with 863 million urban
residents estimated to be living in slum conditions in 2012.
This is due in part to the fast
pace of urbanisation.
?In the past, urbanisation was a slow-cooking
dish rather than a fast food
thing,. Joan Clos, executive
director of UN-Habitat, told
IPS. Men also have license
to discipline their wives and
children through physical violence. 10
2 . To that end,
Saudi Arabia also released
pictures of its pilots who took
part in airstrikes, including
Prince Khaled bin Salman, the
son of the kingdom?s crown
prince. More important was the sheer fact of her
presence. Female migrant workers in the
country face harrowing conditions and abuse, while Emirati laws still don?t provide
legal recourse for marital
rape. He previously was a
senior editor at TIME, based
first in Hong Kong and later
in New York.
A picture dated on 13 June and made available by UAE?s official news agency WAM on 25 September shows Major Mariam alMansouri, the first female pilot to join the Emirates Air Forces,
gesturing as she sits in the cockpit of her F-16 fighter jet.. She graduated Khalifa bin Zayed Air
College in 2007 and is now a
veteran F-16 pilot.
In earlier interviews,
al-Mansouri has insisted
that she received no special treatment because of
her gender. On the
same day al-Mansouri won
plaudits for her role in the airstrikes, debate broke out in
Saudi Arabia over the propriety of a woman
bacteria are extremely effective, thanks to the
wide variety of anti-bacterial compounds they produce.
?Antibiotics mostly contain
one active substance, effective
against only a narrow spectrum of bacteria. People who experienced a mystical sensation of being at one
with the whole universe during their hallucinations were
the most likely to succeed in
quitting smoking.
?On the other, if an inherited characteristic is strongly linked to reproductive
success, evolutionary forces
can mould it very quickly.?
Human mind
without great changes
Rantala says that the image of
the modern human as a caveman stems from the fact that
the human mind has not undergone great changes over
the past few millennia. 8 OCTOBER 2014
V e S a - M aT T i Vä ä r ä
Bacteria from
bees. All of the horses improved with the mixture.
a solution
of millions of years
The researchers say that
bees. The interpretation of the results was
complicated because all the
volunteers also received cognitive behavioural therapy,
making it impossible to distinguish between the effects
of different forms of treatment. We
share many of our human
characteristics, sexual selection included, with other animals. Rantala
included . Lund University reported the identification of
the bacteria in bees in the online version of the scientific journal Plos One two years
ago, but now the research
team have studied the effects of the bacteria in a laboratory environment.
Honey obtained from
nests of wild bees has been
used to treat infection for a
long time.
The 13 different strains
of lactic acid bacteria found
in honeybees produce a myriad of compounds that kill
bacteria.
Besides MRSA, the Lund
University research team
also tested the bacteria on
another severe pathogen,
vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE)
Previously, studies on the
effect of bacteria from bees
on human pathogens had
only been carried out in laboratory conditions, but for
the new study, the researchers also tested the bacteria
mixed with honey on difficult wounds in horses, which
had already been treated
with different methods to
no avail. It seems to have worked
well for millions of years in protecting bees. Just two or three doses of
the psychoactive compound
helped reduce cravings for
cigarettes to the extent that
12 of the volunteers were
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sticking to the smoking abstinence six months later.
These results are promising, especially in comparison
with success rates of around
35 per cent achieved by other pharmacological therapies.
The abstinence rates achieved
with magic mushrooms outstripped those of convention-
of interested students than
the lecture halls can hold.
Rantala believes that evolutionary psychology can be
applied in almost all fields of
science, saying that the evolutionary viewpoint will make
a final breakthrough as an interdisciplinary approach also
in Finland as it has done in top
universities elsewhere.
Economics, anthropology,
sociology and medicine have
already integrated ideas and
theories stemming from research into evolutionary psychology, a discipline which can
shed new light on phenomena
ranging from family dynamics
to inheritance systems.
Reporting holding back
When listening to Rantala, it
is easy to envisage the discipline, which has now gained
a position as a minor subject
at university, as a real super
science. In
the West, shop-bought honey does not contain live bacteria, whereas in developing
countries honey from wild
bees is widely available.
?We have lost many of
honey?s unique properties,?
explains Olofsson.
The research team will
conduct further studies to
investigate whether bees?
bacteria will work against
a wider range of current infections. H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . HT
HaLLuCINOGENIC Psilocybe
mushrooms can offer effective help to smokers wanting
to kick the habit.
Researchers at Johns
Hopkins University in the
United States recruited 15
volunteers, who were given
psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient found in the mushrooms, in connection with
cognitive behavioural therapy. According to him,
the only thing holding back
the new and emerging field
are reporters.
The media has often presented evolutionary psychology as a science studying
sexual selection. H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . And this
is the root cause for many
problems plaguing modern
humans.
Rantala says evolutionary psychology does not play
down the influence of the environment and culture or
learning as the critics of the
discipline often claim.
?None of our characteristics is solely a product of our
genes. have carried out
numerous studies on how we
choose our partners but also because reporters find the
topic fascinating.
?Unfortunately studies
on other topics do not get reported. In July
2010, Faseb Journal reported
the discovery of defensin-1
protein in honey, originating
from bees.
Honeycomb in a bee nest.
Markus J. bacterial cocktail was effective in battling
even the antibiotic-resistant
bacteria MRSA . Our environment affects both our physical and
mental characteristics and
for humans culture is part of
that environment.?
Feminists often accuse
the field of perpetuating
male chauvinistic views but
Rantala refutes these claims
by saying that according to
evolutionary psychology, the
sexes are equal.
?The shift to an agricultural society led to inequality between sexes. stomachs
kill super bugs
M aT T I M I E L O N E N . HT
PERHaPS the first university in the world to do so, the
University of Turku is set to
introduce evolutionary psychology as a minor subject,
available to all the students
of the university.
Evolutionary psychology
is a field of study, which focuses on the effects of natural selection on the human
mind and behaviour.
?The idea is to introduce
evolutionary psychology as
a tool in as many academic
disciplines as possible,. Rantala says
this is not only because scial medical therapies by more
than fifty per cent.
On par for a study on experimental therapies, the
number of volunteers was
small but thanks to the promising results, further studies in a larger study group
are being planned. In Finland, the
collection and possession
of Psilocybe mushrooms is
forbidden.. Rantala, a lecturer at the University of Turku.
The courses in the subject
have attracted larger numbers
Research: Magic mushrooms
help smokers beat the habit
J a N I K a a RO . Reporters also try
to write sensational articles
that sell at the expense of the
scientific content, which does
nothing to improve the public
image of the discipline.?
Some theories presented
by evolutionary psychology
have also received vocal criticism, such as the idea that the
modern human mind is that
of a stone-age caveman, often
seen as one of the assumptions prevalent in the field.
Rantala says that the image many people hold of
evolutionary psychology is
lagging 20 years behind the
reality.
?There is no reason to assume that the human mind
evolved in the Stone Age. When used
alive, these 13 lactic acid bacteria produce the right kind
of antimicrobial compounds
as needed, depending on the
threat. These features have
evolved dozens or hundreds
of millions of years ago.?
up a control group, which is
not given psilocybin at all, for
the next stage of the study.
Mystical success
In the study, the volunteers
took the psychedelic substance in home-like surroundings, after which they
lay on a sofa with their eyes
closed until the effects of the
substance had worn off. health and honey
against other harmful microorganisms?, explains researcher Tobias Olofsson on the Lund
University website.
In an article published on
the website, the researchers
emphasise the importance
of live bacteria in honey. All
the volunteers were offered an
opportunity to participate in a
third treatment session, which
many of them turned down.
All the participants were
more interested in quitting
smoking than in trying a psychedelic substance.
The study was published
in The Journal of Psychopharmacology. HT
M i l l a V o n Ko n o w
LaCTIC aCId bacteria found
in the honey stomach of bees
have been successful in beating super bugs in a series of
tests carried out at Lund University in Sweden.
The bees. Even
though we live in huge cities,
surrounded by modern technology, we possess similar
brains to the ones our stoneage ancestors had. To address this, the researchers are planning to set
entists in the field . H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . New treatments
are sorely needed as antibiotic-resistant bacteria are
becoming a serious threat
particularly in western countries. says
Markus J. Rantala, a lecturer at the University of Turku, is preparing to give lectures in evolutionary psychology to lecture halls
brimming with listeners.
Finnish university to
teach controversial
evolutionary psychology
evolutionary psychologists want to
turn their discipline
into a super science
that crosses boundaries between
scientific fields.
H E Ta M u u R I N E N . SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGy
HELSINKI TIMES
2 . Inequality
is a cultural phenomenon, not
a result of our evolutionary
past.?
Two weeks later, the volunteers came back for a second treatment session with a
higher dose of psilocybin. at least in
laboratory conditions.
Until now, scientists have
thought that bacteria found
in bees mainly protect the
bee community against pathogens. On the other hand,
fresh honey is much more
readily available in developing countries.
An antimicrobial protein
has been identified in honey
in previous studies
A year went past, and
it seemed like the kilos were
there to stay.
So, Kukk decided that she
had to learn to like her new
state of being. But sometimes one
needs to do something else
besides talk.
When she was under 30,
Kukk had everything: a pleasant job as a physiotherapist,
a home on a lake and on the
shore a canoe, in which one
could go on canoeing trips.
There was a lovely and sensitive man, who remembered to
tell you how much he loves you.
But the weekends were
from a different world.
That is when Kukk sat in a
bar looking at how the man
would start an argument
with everyone while drunk.
Kukk was ashamed and kept
on apologising, even though
the man?s friends reassured
her that tomorrow everything would be forgotten.
?First it was a rollercoaster. This year, she published a guide to life together
with journalist Virpi Melleri.
In it, she uses nicer words,
but the message is the same.
?Whoring around means
that you beat yourself up
with thoughts and chain
yourself to situations where
you feel bad,. 12
pEOpLE
2 . After yoga classes, when i stay
alone at the gym, i turn the
music up loud and dance
wildly to disco music.?
Three of the best
amma: ?i respect women
gurus, Mother Teresa and
Amma. During the weekdays, I
was living my dream life, and
Friday to Sunday morning
was terrible. You start to
feel beautiful, if you keep on
saying it again and again every day.
These days, Kukk laments
women who bemoan their
widened thighs, for example.
Badmouthing yourself is everyday small talk that no one
wonders about.
?If we?d scold others in the
same way, we wouldn?t have
any more friends!?
Kukk has a talking to with
women who say nasty things.
?I say that ?look dear what
lovely eyes you have. You have to do that work
yourself.?
Because of MS Estonia,
Kukk does not own a coffee
maker. i dive, surf and
climb the volcanoes. i?ve met Amma at
least ten times.?
Colours: ?There was nothing colourful in Soviet estonia, especially not on
athletes. The atmosphere can be lifted
with colours. Every
time you got hungry, it was
then that sour milk.?
Wrenching around did not
help. Estonia had
not yet gained independence when Kukk?s father was
hired as a coach by a Finnish
volleyball team. But mother doesn?t call
me to say, Kylli, make sure
you?re being sunny and happy. My
parents have not fought. Every morning
began with a two-hour workout, and the evening ended
with another workout. if the
boss makes you stay overtime. As a child in Pärnu,
cookies tasted like flour, and
her favourite delicacy was
kogelmogel, egg yolk with
sugar mixed into it.
Gaining in Finland
In Finland, Kukk gorged on
food and gained around 20
kilos in a short time. even in rainy
weather, i?m wearing at
least pink rubber boots.?
Bali: ?i go to Bali every
november. If
you have wallowed in negative feelings, new connections are hard to make.
?When parents taught us
to brush our teeth, they reminded us of it every single
day. Kylli wanted a
different kind of future and
chose physiotherapy studies.
Secondly: in Finland, one
could get anything from the
stores. Her voice is soft
and carries only a trace of an
Estonian accent.
Kukk founded a yoga
school in Helsinki 12 years
ago. Bali?s
nature, noisiness and lusciousness are wonderful.?
task is to make the meeting
pastries go down easier.
?Many people rush around
all year, first they have a full
day at school and work and
then practice their hobby
with a frown. H T
TOday, KyLLI KuKK eats a
pastry and enjoys life. Some always remember that in funerals, but
then forget about it. She
likes getting older, as what
she calls the ?spiritual whoring around. HS
M E R I R a N Ta M a . lived in Pärnu as a child
and moved to Finland at the
age of 19.
Known for?
Founded the Helsinki-based
yoga school Shanti in 2002.
This year published the ?kyllin hyvä. She
has left behind the Soviet-era
Estonia, heptathlon and an
alcoholic man.
She thinks back to a day
from her youth: her foot
was aching so much that
tears clouded her eyes. When i was able
to travel, i was faced with
a world of colour. She wants to drink
her coffee with a pastry in a
café, because every day is a
festive day.
Rollercoaster
levels out
It is easy to fly as a messenger of positivity when all
is well. The
desire to please and stress
disappear. Especially not if
one studied in a Tallinn high
school for sports where the
aim was to be on top.
Kukk?s sport was the
heptathlon. She started using all of
her prettiest fancy dresses.
Why should they be stored, if
the next day is your last one.
?I decided that as long as
I?m above ground, every day
is a gift. Hard training
may cause a stress reaction
in the body.?
Kukk believes that already at school there should
be more talk about what we
are made of besides muscles
and bones.
?We should think that we
are primarily a soul, which
has this wonderful body.
We greatly identify with our
body, but the truth is that
it will become decrepit and
wrinkled. There, the women always told the same story:
their own parents drank, and
now the husband did the
same thing.
?There is a saying that
says that a familiar hell is
better for most people than
an unknown paradise. wellness book together with journalist Virpi
Melleri.
Not known for?
?i?m not always serene. The news
was on teletext: a ferry, the
MS Estonia, had sunk.
?I thought to myself,
how could something like
that even happen in modern
times. She did
not need her eyesight, as the
many years. I
was an exception in there.?
Kukk lasted a year. The doctor said that he died from the
grief caused by MS Estonia.?
Kukk grieved, but a
thought sprouted in her
mind. Still, you only
talk about thighs!??
Making the most
You should treat your body
and core well, because they
may be taken away at any
time.
In the small hours of a
September morning, a twen-
tysomething student rose to
study for an exam. You can?t always just say ?yes yes. The space has expanded
from one hall to two floors,
and there are over a dozen
employees.
The sunny Estonian is also
known outside the yoga hall.
Kukk is sought for interviews
and lectures to talk about
wellness. She had seen
such fates when her father
coached the national team
in volleyball. decreases year
after year.
?Aging directs one to wisdom and tranquillity. You must know how to
be both an angel and a lion.?
Therapy,
not punishment
She still has the rhythm of
the hurdles in her spine, but
Kukk does not run anymore.
Every now and then she runs
around Töölönlahti, leisurely and breathing deeply. tough training
had ingrained the rhythm of
the jumps.
In Soviet Estonia, a stress
fracture was no reason to
skip a track and field competition. However, they
lack the joy of exercising.?
Excessive toiling is not a
good counterbalance for a
stressful work life, Kukk says.
Exercise should be therapy
and not punishment, whose
Who?
kylli kukk, 43, is a physiotherapist and yoga instructor. She
does not force herself to do
anything.
Many passers-by have a
frown on their face.
?They are dressed up in
fancy sports clothes, exaggerate with superfoods and
have expensive Hästens in
the bedroom. 8 OCTOBER 2014
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H S / V i l l e M ä n n i k kö
don?t whore around, says the yoga teacher
Yoga teacher Kylli Kukk shows you three easy moves, which increase the mobility of the back.
ESSI LEHTO . And
hopes that the woman knows
when it is time to leave.
Gentleness is important,
but firmness is needed just
as much.
?It?s no use being a victim
and a martyr. Still,
18-year-old Kukk jumped
over every hurdle. Onboard were
five Estonian athlete friends
and her best friend?s mother.
The captain of the ship was a
neighbour from Pärnu.
Three days later, Kukk?s
grandfather collapsed in a
bus on the way home from
the Pärnu market place.
?Grandfather was a completely healthy man. And
a womb, which has produced
three children. Then
she rented a van and drove
many hours to Helsinki.
?I tried to change him
with gentle talks, at times I
pounded my fist on the table.
I thought that love would fix
everything.?
Sometimes in the yoga
class, Kukk sees a student
with a black eye. Then she
asks if she could help. I?ve acquired my
wrinkles by laughing and
surfing in Bali.?
Maybe in forty years,
some teenage girl will come
to Kukk crying about a man
cheating on her and leaving
her.
Kukk hopes that she could
then take the girl into her
arms. i give a yoga
course and then spend two
weeks there. This
was followed by remorse, exercise episodes and strange
diets.
?In Estonia at the time,
people favoured mono diets,
in which only one foodstuff,
such as sour milk, was eaten during that one day. But after a few
months had gone by, I didn?t
know how to be happy even
during the week.?
Kukk sought help from a
group for relatives of alcoholics. Trying your best was a duty ?
after all, in return the state
offered food, sporting equipment and a place to study.
But when the coach forced
her to run on a fractured leg,
Kukk realised she was breaking something else besides
her bones.
?Don?t whore around.?
Yoga teacher Kukk, 43, delivers the slogan at the same
time as she asks her students
to arch their backs in a Töölö
yoga hall. That is why the
life of many aging people is
somewhat hellish.?
Kukk is in her forties, single and without children. And
a heart that has not rested
even for half a minute. The move
felt like a lottery win to the
19-year-old Kylli.
Firstly: she would not
become a top athlete who
would fall on nothing after
getting injured. And tell her in a serene
voice that everything will
end well one day.. Kukk explains.
Kukk wants to see people have the courage to leave
cages such as neurotically
monitoring calories, running
with the taste of blood in your
mouth or a bad relationship.
Kukk knows it is not easy.
The promising athlete did
not turn into a wellness guru
overnight either.
It was 1990. Instead of the
balance, she stood in front of
the mirror and started to repeat: there you are now, my
new, lovely curves.
First it felt like silly nonsense, but slowly the words
started to sound more and
more authentic. I will
never forget this realisation.?
Learning happiness is
brainwashing, Kukk says. And nobody monitored your snacks, as in the
sports high school.
Kukk carried yogurt, ice
cream and cookies, Carnevals and Dominos, to the cash
register. That a ship can just
sink like that!?
When grandfather called,
the scale of the atrocity became clear
For a long
time, even in Finland, menus were printed in French. Getting the blues may, however,
change the way a person perceives the surrounding world:
Dutch researchers found that
melancholy music makes people more likely to notice sad
faces than happy ones.
3. The Hotel
and Restaurant Museum, located in Ruoholahti, presents
the history of hotels, restaurants and tourism in Finland
through a series of exhibitions and a unique collection.
?It is the only museum in
the country, which concentrates on Finnish culinary culture?, says museum educator
Merja Nummi. ?At that time, food became a hobby for the whole
family. 8 OCTOBER 2014
song and emotional listeners when they did not like the
background music.. ?We?ll draw a pedigree and decide based on that
whether there is cause for
further tests,. explains Nummi. explains Pylkkänen, saying that in Fin-
land around 500 women have
tested positive for a fault in
one of the known breast cancer genes.
According to her estimates, this number will grow
in the near future.
Genetics feel impact
The department of clinical
genetics at the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) also experienced
a knock-on effect from the
Jolie announcement.
?But the increase was
small enough to fit within the
normal range of variation,?
says Kristiina Aittomäki,
the chief medical officer of
the department.
She says that the number
of preventative surgical operations in Finland is similar
to other European countries.
?An operation is called for
if the woman faces a high lifelong risk of breast cancer and
wants to have the operation
herself. HS
NIINa WOOLLE Y . HT
IN THE UK, referrals to gene
tests at breast cancer clinics
more than doubled after actress Angelina Jolie revealed
she had had a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer.
Last May, Jolie announced
that she had decided to have
the operation after learning
that she had an 87 per cent
risk of developing the disease
because of a high-risk gene
?The Angelina Jolie effect
has been long-lasting and
global, and appears to have
increased referrals to centres
appropriately,. According to a new study by US researchers particularly strong
bass sounds give an athlete an
energy boost. When
tested on the things they had
learned, the outcome was the
opposite: analytical listeners performed better while
listening to their favourite
or TP53, which increases their
risk of developing the disease.
Oscar prize-winning actress, Angelina Jolie, 38, revealed in an article she wrote
for The New York Times in
May 2013 that she had undergone a double mastectomy because of her increased
risk of breast cancer risk. She says that in Finland the medical professionals have never been overly
enthusiastic about preventative operations.
?Women, however, want
to find out their breast cancer risk and if the risk is high,
the possibility of a preventative operation is discussed.
Some patients opt for it,?
says Aittomäki.
She explains that there
are no statistics on the number of carriers of a faulty
breast cancer gene in Finland. Her
own mother had died of the
illness at the age of 56.
Jolie said that she decided to go for the operation after learning that she had an
87 per cent risk of getting
breast cancer and a 50 per
cent risk of ovarian cancer.
After the operation, the risk
dropped to five per cent.
Jolie had breast tissue
removed from both of her
breasts and replaced with
implants. This procedure is not
recommended in most cases
because a double mastectomy is a bigger operation than
a removal of a tumour,. H S
NIINa WOOLLE Y . LIFESTYLE
HELSINKI TIMES
Ya N N I C K I L U N G a
HEL SINK I TIMES
IN HELSINKI,
there is a place
that leaves all those interested in Finnish culinary culture, hotels, restaurants and
cafés astonished. ?The museum
is for anyone, but especially for those who are interested in the development of
the Finnish culinary culture.
And even though the name of
the museum doesn?t indicate
it, we have a few interesting
things to see for children too,
like the Scent bar and a miniature model of an old hotel.?
The museum gives people
an overview of the Finnish
culinary culture, the history
of hotels and restaurant and
even illustrates how society
has changed. fears
about a loss of sexual identity post-preventative surgery
and encouraged those who
had not previously engaged
with health services to consider genetic testing.?
The Jolie effect has also
been seen in Finland.
The genetic counselling
services of the Cancer Society of Finland have received a
considerably higher number
of enquiries since last May,
says Liisa Pylkkänen, the
chief medical officer at the
Cancer Society.
According to her, an upward trend was, however,
seen in the number of enquiries even before Jolie?s
announcement.
The counselling services
of the Cancer Society mainly
receive enquiries from women who fear they may have
an increased risk of breast
cancer because of a highrisk gene. When
3-11-year-old patients were
played calming music during
a procedure to insert a drip
needle, they felt less pain.
Patients undergoing an operation felt less stress when
they listened to cheery instrumental tunes.
4. She said she wanted to share her experience
with readers to help women struggling with the same
issue. adds
Nummi. Aittomäki explains.
The British researchers
studied referrals to more
than 20 genetic centres in
the UK after the Jolie story
hit the press in May last year.
In June and July, the number of referrals by doctors for
genetic counselling and DNA
tests for breast cancer mutations more than doubled
compared with the same period the year before.
Published in the journal
Breast Cancer Research, the
study found that the number
of referrals remained twice
as high as year before from
August to October.
Five per cent possibility
For most cases of breast cancer, a cause cannot be identified but around five per cent
of people diagnosed with the
disease have inherited a fault
in one of the known breast
cancer genes; BRCA1, BRCA2
Music helps both athlete and student
aNNa TOMMOL a . Sad tunes
give rise to real but pleasurable
feelings of melancholy, found
1 FaST-paCEd
a study carried out by the
University of Jyväskylä. Music acts as pain relief
and helps people relax. HT
music boosts
sports performance. says
Aittomäki.
According to her, preventative surgery is usually only considered after a tumour
has been found in the other
breast. Professor Gareth Evans of the University
of Manchester told the BBC.
He speculated that Angelina Jolie?s announcement
may had had such a huge impact because of her image
as a ?glamorous and strong
woman?, adding: ?This may
have lessened patients. she said.
S AT U K E T T U N E N
Finnish culinary
culture, 1800s
menus and the
gingerbread battle.
there?s Taste of 80s. It was a new dawn for
both domestic kitchens and
restaurants.?
Taste of 80s, which is on
display until October next
year, also illustrates how,
during the 1980s, the skill
of cooking traditional Finnish food was revived through
various campaigns.
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L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / RO B Y N B E C K
a closer look at Finnish
hotels and restaurants
2 . She also thanked her
husband Brad Pitt for the
support she had received
throughout the process.
?We knew this was the
right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us
closer. Melancholic music can be
a source of pleasure. ?Among other
incredible items, the collection
features more than 90,000
menus, with the oldest ones
dating back to the 1860s.?
At the Hotel and Restaurant Museum, the history of
Finnish restaurants and cafés lives through this unique
display of menus. And it has,. It
wasn?t until the 1920s that
menus started to be written
in Finnish more often.
Hotel and Restaurant
Museum
Kaapelitehdas
Tallberginkatu 1G
Helsinki
hotellijaravintolamuseo.fi
Open
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?4-7
H A N NE GR A NL UN D / HO T E L A ND R E S TAUR A N T M US E U M
at Your Service
and Taste of 80s
In addition to the menu collection, the museum features a series of exhibitions.
The permanent exhibition At
Your Service tells about the
Finnish food and drink culture and also takes visitors
back in time into the world of
restaurant and hotel staff.
?Here, you have the opportunity to see a hotel room and
kitchen from the 1950s and a
1970 English-styled bar,. Of the 31 songs
included in the study, Queen?s
We Will Rock You and Get
Ready For This by 2 Unlimited worked best at raising the
atmosphere. ?It?s in the region of 1 in
500 or 1 in 1,000,. From 15 November, people can compete
in this fun-filled competition,
open to everyone, that looks
for the best and cutest decorated gingerbread.?
The Hotel and Restaurant Museum gives an overview of the
Finnish culinary culture, the history of hotels and restaurants.
angelina Jolie?s
mastectomy encouraged
Finns to go for gene tests
K aT R I K a L L I O N pä ä . she says.
?But what I can say is that
anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer is
unlikely to have one of these
Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arriving for the world premiere of Disney?s Maleficent, at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood,
California, on 28 May.
mutations, with the probability being around a couple
of per cent. Previous studies have shown that music can
improve a runner?s endurance
by 15 per cent.
2. Music with strong
rhythm alleviates the symp-
toms of Parkinson?s disease
and helps patients in their
daily tasks, such as getting
dressed and cutting bread.
5. concludes Nummi.
?The Hotel and Restaurant
Museum presents various
exhibitions and collections
and hosts special events like
the PipariBattle. ?With At Your Service, you will get a peek at a
speakeasy, a liquor store from
the 1930s and you also get the
chance to sing karaoke and
dance to the old classics!?
This exhibition takes museum-goers behind the scenes
of hotels, kitchens, restaurants and bars and provides
information on Finland?s favorite meals. ?For instance,
visitors will get a better understanding of why it might
be hard to believe that until the 1980s, if you ordered
alcohol in a restaurant you
had to order something to eat
as well,. A Finnish study found
that people who approach
music on an emotional level
learn better when they like
the background music. Music improves learning but the choice of the right
music depends on the person. Analytical listeners, on the other hand, found it easier to
learn new things when they
did not like the music. Here visitors
can learn about these delights?
first appearances on Finnish
dining tables and dive into the
world of spices and herbs.
For those who would
like to go back to the 1980s,
a fun place
for everyone
The doors of the Hotel and
Restaurant Museum are
open to visitors of all ages.
?We have all been in a restaurant and/or stayed at a hotel
at some point in our lives,?
says Nummi. It?s a different
matter if you get breast cancer at a very young age or
your family has several people with breast or ovarian
cancer,. ?This
temporary exhibition takes
visitors to the time of the
economic boom and consumption-centred
yuppy
culture, when Finland?s internationalisation and food
culture were affected by new
influences,
Standing alone in the
shade of the precarious bell
tower, I couldn?t help thinking that if this place were
home to a saint . Worshippers were still flooding
into the Basílica do Bom Jesus as I left Old Goa for a final day on the coast. My friends and family
believe in his powers, too.?
I asked why.
?Because you go to Old
Goa, and your dreams are
fulfilled.?
uNESCO
World Heritage Site
Born at the start of the 16th
century in what is now a part
of Spain, Francis Xavier was
sent to Goa to help restore
Christian values, which were
declining across the Portuguese colony. OCTOBER
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A lifeguard stands on patrol at Baga Beach in Baga in the India state of Goa; the western state?s stunning beaches are a hub of tourism.
STE vE vICKERS
The Wa shing Ton Pos T
YOu COuLd call it a kind
of pilgrimage: a journey
through the misty coconut
groves at sunrise, just as the
holy cows start looking for
pastures new.
Each morning, buses and
auto-rickshaws heave tourists away from the sugarsoft beaches of India?s Goa
state and inland toward Old
Goa . he
confided, lowering his voice
slightly, ?I?m a Hindu, and I believe. ?You know,. The remains will be
brought down from their
lofty home in the basilica and
carried across the road to
Old Goa?s cavernous Sé, one
of the largest cathedrals in
Asia, where they will remain
on display for 44 days.
The last time there was an
event like this, more than 1
million people came to gaze
at the relics. It?s claimed that he
consumed a special Ayurvedic remedy before his death,
which would keep his body
The city of Old Goa in India?s
Goa state was once the seat
of Portugal?s eastern empire
and is still home to more than
a dozen Catholic churches,
chapels and convents.. and for as long as the
mystery of Saint Francis Xavier continues . The
same cows that had seemed
so sprightly in the cool of the
early morning now fanned
themselves with lazy tails,
chewing serenely at the cud.
And all the while, the eagles
kept circling.
As the birds climbed higher and the sun sank ever lower, one thing felt certain. she said, bobbing her
head from side to side.
In November, when the
saint?s body will be displayed
at ground level for the first
time in a decade, believers
will be able to take a closer look. Warm waves
kept sloshing at the sand, and
tourists strolled along the
shoreline holding hands. News
of this strange fact began to
spread, and the Society of Jesus ordered that the remains
be sent to Old Goa, where
they have been ever since.
It?s hard to imagine today,
but in 1553, when the body
eventually arrived, Old Goa
was fast becoming one of the
wealthiest and most magnificent cities in all Asia. Stately
mansions housed rich traders, church spires scraped
the skies, and the population
swelled to 200,000. I followed the hypnotic
chirps of birds uphill as wafts
of warm coconut oil spilled
out from hidden cooking pots.
At the Museum of Christian
Art, partway along, I found
gilt reliquaries, processional
banners and ivory carvings ?
works of art that had been salvaged from some of the city?s
old churches. But Francis Xavier, a missionary who arrived
in Goa during the early days
of Portuguese rule, remains a
strangely unifying figure.
?All Goans believe in the
power of Saint Francis,. But there?s still flesh on
the bones.
For the pilgrims who flock
here from around the world,
and for many Goans, there?s
no question: This is the miraculously well-preserved
body of Saint Francis Xavier, a Roman Catholic European missionary who died more
than 450 years ago. Modern scholars
have described him as a misogynist and a racist with little respect for the Indians he
so desperately wanted to convert. Eagles spiralled upward on thermals,
their wing-tips feeling the air
like outstretched fingers, and
glassy waves dumped noisily
onto the sand. the city that was once
the seat of Portugal?s eastern
empire and that?s still home
to more than a dozen Catholic churches, chapels and
convents. As
long as there are places like
this . Today, only a few
of the stone monuments from
the city?s heyday still survive,
separated by parched lawns
and palm trees that rustle
gently in the hot air. Apart
from missing one arm, which
is sometimes sent on tour
around the world, and one
toe (supposedly bitten off by
an overzealous worshipper in
the 16th century), the Jesuit?s
body is surprisingly intact.
Surely it must have been
embalmed?
?They scientifically proved
that nothing has been done
to that body,. And that?s why the
Basílica do Bom Jesus, completed in 1605 and gnarled by
the baking sun ever since, is
often filled to bursting.
Crowds congregate in one
darkened corner near the altar, where stone cherubs surround a jewel-studded casket.
This glass-sided box is kept
so high up that it?s difficult to
peek inside. the pilgrims
will keep on coming.
Vickers is a guidebook author based in Sweden. and not
just named after one . Others accuse him of ushering in a bloody inquisition
that led to the widespread destruction of temples and the
torture of non-believers.
And then there are those
who say that the whole holy relics thing is made up;
that the remains aren?t really those of the saint at all.
One theory doing the rounds
is that the bones belong to
a Buddhist monk from Sri
Lanka. they shout, at no one
in particular. one man told
me outside the church, smiling proudly. ?It?s a miracle,. They?re so close to
one another that you could
see the lot in one day.
Many people do.
But the true pilgrims visiting Old Goa, in India?s tropical
west, have only one church in
their sights. ?Possible!?
intact until the year 4230.
Supporters of that theory
want a DNA test to prove that
the body is that of an Asian,
not a European.
None of those discussions
seem to bother locals. In the
museum?s upper gallery, portraits show the bearded viceroys posing in wardrobe after
wardrobe of consistently unsuitable clothes, from long
socks and frilly neck ruffs to
heavily embroidered gowns.
For many Indians, these
portly Europeans, who
brought their strange fashions and beliefs to Goa, changing the religious landscape in
the process, are little more
than historical curiosities,
people from another place
and time. It
wasn?t as crowded as the
church, but the galleries were
stifling hot. It was as
big and as busy as London.
But within 200 years, recurrent outbreaks of malaria and cholera had wreaked
havoc, and the city was all but
abandoned. ?No chemicals.
Nothing.?
At that moment, a woman in a satsuma-colored sari swished past and couldn?t
resist joining in. The face is a rusty
shade of orange and contorted by the passage of too much
time. This time, rumours in the Indian press
suggest that another Jesuit
called Francis . It?s said that
he performed miracles, converting thousands to Christianity in the process, and then
continued traveling east.
In 1552, when he died
on an island outside China, he was buried hastily on
the beach. the Pope ?
could also be in attendance.
Historical curiosities
I crossed the road from the
basilica to Old Goa?s dusty
archaeological museum. Follow
him on Twitter at @StevenJVickers or visit his website,
www.stevevickers.co.uk.
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In India?s Old Goa, a saint?s
relics raise mysterious questions
Lasting memories
There?s less hustle on Holy
Hill, a short walk from the basilica. Rock forward onto your tiptoes, though, and
you might catch a glimpse of
a corpse. ?Ice
cream!. I?d met
the 27-year-old bartender
the day before on the beach
in Agonda, a two-hour drive
south of Old Goa, just as the
sun was setting. then
perhaps it would still be busy.
Or at least still have a roof.
People need something to put
their faith in.
But even Francis Xavier,
the patron saint of this tiny Indian state, has his fair share of
detractors. 2014
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14 2 ?2 8. And by
the time I reached Agonda?s
beach, passing tiny temples
and churches along the way,
the basilica?s crowds were a
fading memory. When I left the
museum and approached the
top of the hill, the remains of
a vast, ruined bell tower slowly came into view.
This weed-wrapped complex dedicated to Saint Augustine is the largest of all
the religious buildings left
to crumble when the Portuguese packed their bags.
Broken stones and cracked
azulejo tiles still trace the
outline of the old convent,
and stray dogs keep cool in
the shade of cracked chapel
walls. The place
is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but in parts of town,
shrivelled nuns are forced to
share the roads with tour buses and too many ice-cream
sellers, who jostle with one
another for customers. It?s said that his
body was exhumed several
times after that initial burial, as people deliberated over
where it should be kept, and
every time it was found to
be inexplicably intact. explained Sandy, placing a cold
beer in front of me. Ancient electric fans pushed the stale air
through the former convent,
and I soon discovered that by
standing completely still and
feigning interest in a couple
of 13th-century sculptures, I
could cool off pretty quickly.
The Portuguese men who
ruled Goa for more than 450
years must have had a harder
time with the climate
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during the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest University on 20
September in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
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dominated possession, but
possession doesn?t guarantee points. First,
he was sacked from the hot
seat of Bayer Leverkusen after enjoying a brilliant start
to the 2013-2014 Bundesliga
campaign with his co-manager Sascha Lewandowski.
However, the team endured
a patchy second half of the
season that culminated in a
dismal run of 12 games with
only one win and, ultimately,
in the sacking of Hyypiä.
difficult start
The first weeks of tenure in
the second division of English football have similarly
been shadowed by difficulty.
Regardless, Hyypiä does
not sound like a manager
amid a loss streak. I have to
work hard and see where it
takes me.?. H T
L E H T I K U VA / J A r E d C . Wins feed
more wins. What I
know is that I won?t make up
my mind in a week or two.?
Sami Hyypiä at a press conference in Brighton in June.
Hyypiä endures difficult
start to tenure in Brighton
Club?s owners nonetheless committed
to long-term
development.
JOHaNNES L aITIL a . He
seems like a very nice man,?
the taxi driver says while continuing toward the training
centre of Brighton Hove & Albion, sited on a greenfield
some 16 kilometres west from
the centre of the town.
The Seagulls may currently rank as the 38th best team
in English football, their lavish training facilities and
30,000-seater stadium are
both indications of their
stature.
It is the morning of 23
September, and Hyypiä arrives 30 minutes late to face
the press ahead of a League
Cup match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Burton
due to an accident on the A27.
Four local journalists place
their recorders on a table in
the press centre, and Hyypiä
bemoans the morning traffic.
The Finn is one of the most
well-known managers in the
English Championship ?
particularly after the recent
sackings of Felix Magath and
Ole Gunnar Solsjær . the 40-year-old
manager summarises.
?I?m confident that once
the pieces fall into place, the
results will come,. he explains.
?But as I said, I have no
dreams or goals. We haven?t been
as clinical in the final third as
I had hoped,. ?My game
felt really good. SPORT
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2 . as are his wife and
children who followed him
from Germany to England.
?I?ve always thought that
home is where the house
is,. The team has dominated proceedings on the pitch
but struggled to turn their
possession into goals.
Yet, Hyypiä has not been
subjected to intense press
scrutiny.
?It hasn?t gone as I envisioned or how it should have,?
Hyypiä admits after the cordial press conference.
In fact, results indicate
that the Finn has gone from
bad to worse this year. I hope that
his team fails miserably,?
the taxi driver, a Manchester United fan, replies before
bursting out laughing.
Although Hyypiä took
over the reins at Brighton &
Hove Albion at the start of
the season, he remains widely associated with Liverpool,
for it was there that the towering centre-back enjoyed
the best years of his professional career.
?I have nothing against him
as a person, only Liverpool. Nieminen commented
to Helsingin Sanomat over
the phone.
His match against the Japanese prodigy was over in
one hour and 37 minutes.
Overall, the 33-year-old
Finn enjoyed a successful
week on the ATP World Tour,
beating world number-25
Leonard Mayer en route to
the semi-finals. Beyond that,
I honestly haven?t thought
about things,. he says.
Held in Melbourne in January, the Australian Open is
the first of the four annual
Grand Slam tournaments of
the year.
?As for next year, I really can?t say for sure. ?I
have decided to play the Australian Open. H S
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Nieminen
contemplating
his future
J a R M O Fä R d I g . I was constantly under
pressure also as a player,. T I LT o n
JaRKKO NIEMINEN, arguably
the best tennis player Finland has ever produced, advanced to the semi-finals of
the Malaysian Open in Kuala
Lumpur last weekend to extend his recent rich vein of
form.
Nieminen on Saturday lost
to top-seeded Kei Nishikori
3-6, 6-4, 2-6, but forced the
world number to fight for every point.
?I did well to challenge a
world-class player who recently featured in the final
of the US Open. said Nieminen, who is currently ranked
50th in the ATP Rankings.
The win over Mayer,
Nieminen added, was his best
match of the year.
Nieminen has been a regular feature on the ATP circuit
for almost 15 years and surely has more tournaments behind than ahead of him. ?The national team because it is the
biggest job you can have in
Finland, and Liverpool because it was such a big part of
my career,. he
points out.
Hyypiä has lived abroad
for nearly 19 years. and
his arrival in Brighton received widespread attention
in the British media.
Brighton & Hove Albion,
however, have endured a dismal start to the 2014-2015
season, only winning two of
their eight games and standing 18th in the Championship
table. When he
moved from Liverpool to Leverkusen in 2009 for the final
few seasons of his footballing career, it was supposed to
be his last stop abroad before
returning to Finland.
Five years later, he is still
abroad . I believed
I could win throughout the
match, but Nishikori was
slightly better in the third
set,. HS
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . he says, insisting that
he feels no urge to return to
Finland.
He enjoys Brighton and its
seaside, elevations and ?several good restaurants?.
The only thing missing are
results on the pitch. I don?t fret over
my ranking, but it?s certainly
much nicer to progress to the
semi-finals than to the second
or third round,. ?If you
work well and diligently, you
will always find new work,?
he states.
While Brighton & Hove
Albion are expected to challenge for a promotion to the
Premier League in the near
future, Hyypiä insists that he
is unfazed by the pressure.
?I knew there would always
be pressure when I started
this. he adds,
estimating that the Seagulls
continue to have a great opportunity to finish in the top
six and clinch a spot in the
Championship play-offs.
His recipe for success is to
dominate possession while
relying on solid defence and
sharp attacking movement.
Sharpness is precisely what
the Seagulls have lacked this
season, despite it being the
main focus of the pre-season.
Understanding
amid disappointment
The team has undergone a
major transformation, with
Hyypiä introducing seven new players to the squad
since the start of the season.
There were other transfer
targets as well, Hyypiä says,
but Brighton do not have the
financial clout to compete
against certain other Championship clubs.
The owners of Brighton
& Hove Albion are committed to the long-term development of the club and have
been understanding amid
the disappointing early results, Hyypiä highlights.
On the other hand, he recognises that any managerial
career, especially in England,
may come to an abrupt end.
?You can?t plan for the long
term in this line of work. I
have prepared subconsciously for the fact that all this may
change in the blink of an eye.?
That is not to say Hyypiä
does not have a few special
places in his heart: Team Finland and Liverpool
The restaurant is closed
on Sunday and Monday.
As a final note, Italo
warned me that Il Bucatino is
not a place for calorie-counters. 16
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to me that the dishes . Gradually
ladle about ½ cup of the broth mixture into the egg-lemon mixture, whisking to incorporate and temper it. In all
a L I C I a J e n S e n
THE 40-SEAT Italian Restaurant Il Bucatino has held its
place in the heart of the Eira district for two-and-a-half
years, offering robust servings of simple but authentic
Italian food. The soup tastes
bright and light, yet is filling enough for a weeknight meal.
We pass along advice from cookbook author Jenny Rosenstratch: be sure to follow the blending directions precisely
to avoid ending up with scrambled eggs.
The original recipe calls for chicken; we found a good
market deal on roasted turkey breast, so we used that and
liked the results.
Serve with a fresh asparagus salad and warm bread.
Adapted from Rosenstratch?s Dinner: The Playbook (Ballantine, 2014).
3 or 4 servings (makes 6 cups)
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Ingredients
1 large carrot
½ small onion
2 tablespoons olive oil
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
4 cups homemade or no-salt-added chicken broth
1 cup thin dried egg noodles
(sometimes called soup noodles)
1 lemon
2 large eggs
One 110-170 g chunk cooked boneless,
skinless turkey breast (may substitute cooked chicken)
Handful fresh dill
Steps
? Cut the carrot and onion into small dice; piling them together is okay.
? Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Once
the oil shimmers, stir in the vegetables. The products are also sold directly to
stores in the S and K groups.
A suitable finish
We finished our meal with Tiramisu and a digestive-enhancing tidbit of Sorbet ice
cream. In the evening, catering to the requests of Finnish customers, the candles at
each table create an earnest,
relaxed atmosphere.
True to their efforts, the
food at Il Bucatino is simple
and good. 046 600 1000
The interior is that of a trattoria setting, replicative of home-style Italian restaurants.
Score! It always feels that way when a dish described as
?creamy. An
Italian musician occasionally
performs at Il Bucatino, and
when this luxury is unavailable, the staff plays an Italian radio channel spanning
all genres and ages . I
concluded that the restaurant was moulded by a strong
touch of home.
Furthermore, Il Bucatino was careful to add in Italian staples such as excellent
fresh in-house baked bread.
In true Italian fashion, this
white bread served as a delicious edible sponge for any
remaining sauce on my plate.
Similarly, Italians are
drawn to a particular blend
of music, which was also evidenced during my visit. like
the owners . Upon my visit,
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Dinner in 25
minutes: Creamy
Greek noodle soup
(Left) Caprese is a simple combination of milky soft Buffalo mozzarella pressed between slices of fresh tomato and seasoned with a
light sting of black pepper. She has found the
restaurant to serve as an excellent place for entertaining
business guests, as well as a
place to have family meals.
One of the notable differences between Il Bucatino
and other Italian restaurants
in Finland, Benko also noted, is that other restaurants
prepare food ?geared to what
was perceived to be the Finnish palate?, while Il Bucatino
strived to preserve Italian
tradition.
other aspects, this dish of Rigatoni pasta, gorgonzola blue
cheese, parmesan and red salad was otherwise well crafted, and boasted a particularly
good blend of cheese.
On a general level, I was
impressed by the creativity and authenticity invested
in the menu. involves no dairy. (Right) Rigatoni Con Gorgonzola E Radicchio is set to appear on the restaurant?s new menu.
A touch of Italian
simplicity in the
heart of Eira
Taste the home-style
trattoria.
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Favourite to follow up
The second dish, Vitello Tonato, was my favourite of
the evening. The service throughout our meal was
impeccable, and the owners
and waiters were charming
and eager to please.
On a more technical note,
it is best to make a reservation
on Fridays and Saturdays, between 6-8 pm. The Tiramisu was
standard good quality, cool
to the tongue with a nice juicy
bite at the bottom. came from diverse range of regions in Italy. Caprese . B E N w I C K / t H e W a S H I n g t O n P O S t
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Creamy Greek noodle soup.. That aside, it is an excellent place to exercise skills
in the Italian language ?
throughout the years, Italo and Gino have found that a
surprising number of middleaged Finnish women speak
the language with great ease,
suggesting that Italy lies close
to the hearts of many Finns.
Il Bucatino
Open:
tue-Fri 16:00-23:00
Sat: 14:00-23:00
Sun, Mon: Closed
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tel. Here, the texture is created with a mixture of egg and lemon juice. The sorbet
was a tangy, cold refreshment
. A soft and natural saltiness came from the anchovies
blended into the sauce.
The night at Il Bucatino
was slightly marred by the
saltiness of the Rigatoni Con
Gorgonzola E Radicchio, a
new pasta which will be available to customers after the
new menu is confirmed. The dish would
appeal to the palate of any
Finnish diner due to the simplicity of its its taste. was
an excellent example of the
simplicity of authentic Italian food. In the winter, reservations are recommended as
the restaurant is often overbooked particularly on weekends. Sandra Benko praised Il Bucatino, finding
that the menu offers a ?tour
of Italy?. For instance, he explained,
Caprese originates in the Capri/Naples landscape, while
Vitello Tonato originates in
the regions further north. Whisk in the eggs
until the mixture is smooth and well blended. a nice finish to a tasteful
dining experience. The dish with which
I began . The owners aimed to create a trattoria setting, replicative of the
home-style Italian restaurants in which hungry workers seek hearty food in lavish
portions, but with the dishes
and services more cured.
Yet unlike the stereotypical Italian joint, the layout
of the Helsinki restaurant
is clean and tidy, with white
tablecloths and white walls
that keep any daytime visitor
awake. (It?s
okay if a few noodles sneak in.) Gradually ladle in another ½ cup.
?Remove the saucepan from the heat.
? Drizzle the tempered egg-lemon mixture into the saucepan of broth and noodles, whisking constantly for 2 minutes. from
Pausini to Bocelli to Baglioni.
Much of the food used by Il
Bucatino is directly imported
from Italy through Casa Gusto, an import firm owned by
Italo. Taste, and add a final
pinch each of salt and pepper as needed.
? Divide among individual bowls. Serve warm.
Nutrition Per serving (based on 4): 200 calories, 15 g protein, 12 g carbohydrates, 10 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 125 mg
cholesterol, 310 mg sodium, 1 g dietary fibre, 3 g sugar.
B O N N I E S . Add both to the soup. In the summer,
the restaurant is less busy
as Finns spend time at their
summer cabins and on beach
holidays. Taste, and season lightly
with salt and pepper.
? Cut the lemon in half. Squeeze the juice, without any
seeds, into a medium heatproof bowl. These imports include
pasta, flour, cheeses, wines,
hams and salamis. made sure that I had a
tasteful and highly relaxing
dining experience.
The setting is clean and
open, with large windows
maximising natural light, allowing the diner to clearly
see what is served. The
dish boasted sheets of veal,
glazed in a creamy sauce with
just enough tang of warm tuna. Season lightly
with salt and pepper. Cook for 2 minutes or until the carrots have softened.
? Increase the heat to medium-high; add the broth and
bring to a boil, then stir in the noodles. Cook for 3 or 4
minutes, until the noodles are almost done (al dente),
then reduce the heat to low. The soup should come together and look creamy.
? Shred the turkey or cut it into bite-size chunks. Finely
chop the dill. The dish was a simple combination of milky soft
Buffalo mozarella, pressed
between slices of fresh tomato, and seasoned with a light
sting of black pepper.
It also felt like a good idea
to ask a regular
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The
aim is to inspire the audience to see
urban environment with new eyes.
Kauppatori
Opening hours to public
11:30-17:30
Tickets ?0-3
www.visithelsinki.fi
Until Sun 19 October
Janne Martola: Breathing
Exhibition.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets TBA
www.korjaamo.fi
Until Sun 19 October
Sami Havia: Lines,
forms and earworms
Exhibition.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets TBA
www.korjaamo.fi
Until 27 October
Tommi Toija
Toija is most famous for his
sculpture of a boy peeing in the
river of Örebro, Sweden, called
BadBad Boy. The 18th
Century Observed
Hilleström is a Swedish artist from
the 18th century, with a style as
miniscul and precise as if his paintings were photographs. It?s Not Who
I Am Underneath But What I
Do That Defines Me
Until 26 October
The Finnish
Museum of Photography
Cable Factory
Tallberginkatu 1 G
00180 Helsinki
Until Sun 12 October
Hotel Manta
The hotel is part of the Helsinki
Festival, built around the
fountain in the heart of Helsinki.
It is part of an art installation
by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. If you?re a fan
of the happy mélange of pop and reggae, the somewhat unlikely
trend that has in recent years won over Finnish hearts, then you
have your Thursday night sorted.
Kasmir released his first single ?Vadelmavene. S U L L I VA N
HEL SINK I TIMES
WE ALL have memories of our
childhood, but how can we be
so sure that what we recall is
a crystal clear recollection
of the realities that we lived
through?
Arttu Merimaa?s It?s Not
Who I Am Underneath But
What I Do That Defines Me
challenges the notion of memory. His artwork
is shown for the first time in Sinebrychoff Art Museum
Bulevardi 40
Tickets ?0/8/10
www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi. The piece also
explores social issues about nobility
and servants.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?26.50-125.50
www.opera.fi
Until Wed 8 October
John Cranko: Onegin
One of the finest full-length
narrative ballets of the 20th
century.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?17.50-87.50
www.opera.fi
Wed 8 October
Magic and Stand Up
You?ll be surprised . in April which
with its feel good melody easily became the song to listen to as
summer nights faded in to morning. He has also been working
on his debut album, which in addition to pop also carries some
soul influences. His typical pieces
are clay works of boys being boysthrowing tantrums and holding
balloons.
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
Open:
Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/2/8/10
www.amosanderson.fi
Until Sun 2 November
Jaakko Mattila
Modern art.
EMMA . Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
Thomas Kirjonen, known by his stage name Kasmir, is currently Finland?s favourite beardy microphone wielder. If Kasmir won?t have you lacing up your dancing
shoes, then slip on your loafers instead.
EXHIBITIONS
Thu 2 October
Reggae/rap.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?13.50/14
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Thu 2 October
Gunu?s Thang
Gunu Karjalainen,
Teemu Viinikainen, Jori Huhtala,
Ville Pynssi.
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/15
www.kokojazz.fi
Thu 2 October
Kasmir
Reggae/rap
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?13.50/14
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Thu 2 October
Marijan Unet, Joonas
Lepistö Orchestra
Pop rock
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?5
www.ontherocks.fi
Fri 3 October
Poets of the Fall
Rock
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?20/21
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 3 October
Klamydia
Punk rock
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?15
www.virginoil.fi
Fri 3 October
Kap Kap + Kytäjä
Rock, psychrock, alternative.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?5-8
www.korjaamo.fi
HelsinkiBarbe-Q-Barbies, The
Voltas
Rock.
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50/10
www.ontherocks.fi
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Machine Supremacy (SWE),
Blind Channel
Alternative metal, power metal.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Helsinki
Tickets ?18
www.elmu.fi
Sat 4 October
Stratovarius
Power metal.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?27/29
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 4 October
Damn Seagulls, Antero Lindgren
Rock
Virgin Oil Co.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.virginoil.fi
Sat 4 October
Lars Winnerbäck
Singer-songwriter
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
Tickets ?38
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Sun 5 October
Terem Quartet
Russian style
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
Tickets ?20-30
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Tue 7 October
Raoul Björkenheim Ecstasy
Jazz.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Tickets ?10
www.barloose.com
Sat 4 October
Stöö & Aztra = MNT T T + Tuuttimörkö x Kube
Rap, Memphis rap.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?9-12
www.korjaamo.fi
Tue 7 October
Jake Hertzog Band (USA),
Ilkka Rantamäki &
The Bluesbrokers
Plays Tempest
Jazz-rock
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/12
www.ontherocks.fi
Sat 4 October
Amoral, I Saw Red, Dark Sarah
Progressive metal, melodic heavy
metal.
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50/10
www.ontherocks.fi
Wed 8 October
Markus Krunegård (SWE),
Retro Station
Indie
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?15.50/16
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 2 October
Stand Up Comedy
Performing: Krisse Salminen,
among friends including
Heli Sutela.
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Tickets ?17.50-22.50
www.lebonk.fi
Until Tue 7 October
Le Nozze di Figaro
A tangled web of relationships
set to Mozart?s scores creates a
timeless comedy of human desires
and emotions. Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
Until Sun 12 October
Just
Just is a piece praising the quality
of everyday reality, and a cry for
help for those who don?t have time
to appreciate it. laughing and
wondering . 8 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
Kasmir
Until Sun 12 October
I Do My Part
Solo dance piece, created and
performed by Maria Saivosalmi
Zodiak . Espoo Museum of
Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.emma.museum
Until Sun 7 December
FOCUS: Angel
The exhibition is meant for the blind
and people with weaker eyesight.
The multisensory exhibition is created by Croatian Nata?a Jovi?i?,
where you can learn about the artwork through touch and sound.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
Until 11 January
Pehr Hilleström . 18
WHERE TO GO
2 . On display until 26 October, here Merimaa draws on
what he can recall from those
formative years in order to
recreate a clay sculpture that
he first made when he was a
child, but that was later lost.
Using a hypnotist to restore his memories, Merimaa reconstructs his work
utilising 3D design software.
The sculpture depicts a cave,
acting as a metaphor that
reflects the interaction between the individual and the
surrounding world.
Keeping a video essay
throughout the process, Merimaa delves into the intertwined relationship shared
by artistic actions, objects
and the artist themselves.
Also keeping his mind ticking over is what aspects of the
creator are transferred into
the sculpture itself. Performed
and choreographed by Vera
Nevanlinna.
Zodiak . about the tricks on
the table this evening.
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki
Tickets ?22.50-24.50
www.lebonk.fi
Sculpting his childhood
J A M E S O . Is there
a difference in creative relationships when approaching
something digitally, as opposed to making it by hand?
Alongside having his various works acquired by the
collections of Kiasma and
Helsinki Art Museum, Merimaa also runs Alkovi Gallery
in the inner Helsinki suburb
of Kallio.
THE FINNISH MUSEUM OF PHOTOGR APHY
MUSIC
Wielding a beard and a mic, summer hit-maker Kasmir performs at Tavastia.
Arttu Merimaa?s latest challenges the notion of memory.
Arttu Merimaa
& Kid
Morgan Blues Band.
His 1992 album Ready To
Go brought him wider exposure and acclaim, and it was
followed by the acclaimed
Gonna Rock Tonight two
years later. It is British actress Pike, however, who
makes the greatest impact in
a memorable role. Hitting
the road once again to perform Discovery, the gig offers three hours of sublime
sounds charting the bulk of
JUST
Finland
gets the
blues
cle light show. But,
as with any of his films, the
world of cinema is undoubtedly a better place with another
addition to his oeuvre
Here Ben Affleck steps into the shoes of former New
York journalist Nick, a native
Missourian who has been
given the elbow due to the
economy and finds himself
back in his hometown, having brought his somewhat reluctant wife Amy (Rosamund
Pike) along with him. Voice-overs add to
the surreal edge, as the contents of Amy?s diary spill into
the narrative. CULTURE
HELSINKI TIMES
L I V E N AT I O N
Film
LAST seen trying to marry the
Gone Girl (K16)
Release Date: 3 October
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Ben Affleck,
Rosamund Pike
20,000 Days on Earth
Release Date: 3 October
Directors: Iain Forsythin,
Jane Pollard
Starring: Nick Cave,
Warren Ellis
Ulvilan Murhamysteeri (K16)
Release Date: 3 October
Director: Pekka Lehto
Starring: Anneli Auer,
Juha Manner
Vadelmavenepakolainen (K7)
Release Date: 3 October
Director: Leif Lindblom
Starring: Jonas Karlsson,
Josephine Bornebusch
2 0 1 4 . S U L L I VA N
HEL SINK I TIMES
proponent of the
classic sound of the Chicago
blues, R.J. Fincher
stages scenes like a bad soap
opera, as often staid and unrealistic flashbacks tell the
story of the couple?s fairytale
meeting. just the way Fincher
likes it. The truth of the mystery is soon revealed with a
jolt, finally snapping the film
to life. Relocating to San
Francisco in 1998, Mischo recorded a number of albums
with various line-ups, beNOTED
Ben Affleck (left) feels the heat when his wife disappears on their fifth wedding anniversary in
Gone Girl, the latest from director David Fincher.
Elsewhere on screens
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard?s 20,000 Days on Earth offers a fictionalised account of musician
Nick Cave?s 20,000th day of existence. However, given the
relatively subdued reaction to
Stieg Larsson?s Millenniumseries Hollywood kick-off a
few years ago, we now find the
auteur somewhat on the backfoot. The World?s Greatest Pink
Floyd Show rolls into town
on Wednesday 8 October at
Hartwall Areena.
A cover band that has
performed to over one million fans around the world
since its first show in Liverpool, England, in January 2011, Brit Floyd has done
better than most. Things unravel towards
their final reel, with the ending contains perhaps the biggest surprise of all.
Once again Fincher surrounds himself with staff of
a high calibre, with cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth
and composers Trent Reznor
and Atticus Ross back on
board. For a director so boldly
subversive, known for tweaking at the seams of the fabric of society, Dragon Tattoo
didn?t exactly set the word on
fire at the box office, as producers had hoped.
So, this week, with his latest effort, what sort of Fincher will we get for his 10th film?
Will the itchy auteur return,
he who wove together the
brilliance found in the likes of
Se7en and Fight Club. Mischo & Tomi Leino
Blues Band
7 October, 19:00
Tickets ?15
Malmitalo
Ala-Malmin tori 1
Helsinki. But stick
with it. The latter?s nauseating musical throb, similar to
their Oscar-winning score
for The Social Network, works
to grind down the moral imperfections of the leads, ac-
centuating growing dread.
However, keep in mind that
the film is not without its
humour, even with things
bookended by brutal musings
on marriage, highlighting the
deception residing behind
the veneer of a coupling.
The cast is uniformly excellent and both Affleck and Pike
shine in their corresponding
roles. It becomes an impossibility to
predict just what will happen
next. Playing with the
likes of Waters sideman Mojo
Buford, Percy Strother, and
Milwaukee Slim helped him
hone his approach over the
years, as he set about forming a number of bands such
as Blues Deluxe and R.J. A Floyd show
wouldn?t be such without a
great artwork, and thus various concoctions drawing inspiration from the late Storm
Thorgerson, the band?s longtime collaborator, will be present during the performance.
After fans enjoyed Roger Wall?s superb rendition of
The Wall at the same venue
in 2011, another dose of the
band?s classic sound is a welcome one.
Brit Floyd
8 October, 20:00
Tickets ?62.50-82.50
Hartwall Areena
Areenankuja 1
Helsinki
M A L M I TA L O
Fincher is found
J A M E S O . It becomes
clear that this Fincher experience is all about baiting his
audience . T W E N T I E T H C E N T u R y F Ox
chilly world of Stockholm to
his Hollywood smarts in The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
David Fincher returns to the
director?s chair this week with
Gone Girl. ?We are so cute,
I wanna punch us in the face,?
she proclaims during one particularly awkward scene.
At this stage of the film
it would be perfectly understandable if you want to
throw in the towel, resigned
to the fact that Fincher is
fresh out of tricks. Or will
we have another serving of
light froth that was the overlong and unbearable The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?
Well, the end result resides
somewhere in between. Having appeared recently in the likes of
Jack Reacher, as well as more
formal affairs such as Sense
and Sensibility, her performance reveals depths previously unseen. After sneaking into a Muddy
Waters gig when he was 16,
blues was always going to be
his destiny. S U L L I VA N
HEL SINK I TIMES
in case you can?t wait
until the next Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, drops
on 10 November, Brit Floyd
. They are joined
by the equally unexpected duo
of Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick
Harris, both playing against
type in ways that accentuate
the bonkers third act.
By the time the final credits roll, and you sit breathless
in your cinematic chair, what
lingers is an immensely enjoyable film that bathes in the
moral rot of its main characters . The brilliant auteur is
back. Exploring his actual creative process this quasi-documentary was a hit at the recent Love and Anarchy Film Festival.
Ulvilan Murhamysteeri takes a closer look at the ongoing local drama that is the Anneli Auer murder trial, with director Pekka Lehto gaining access to all players in the often farcical case,
laced with jaw-droppingly incredulous happenings.
Finally, based on the novel by Miika Nousiainen, Vadelmavenepakolainen follows the tale of
Mikko Virtanen, who believes he is a Swedish man forced to live in the body of a Finnish man. Mischo is bringing some authentic Chicago blues
to Finland, for a nine-date tour that stops off in Helsinki on
7 October.
fore again moving inland to
Arkansas.
Last seen laying down
tracks in 2012 with Make It
Good this performance is
part of a nine-date tour of
Finland that stretches all the
way north to Rovaniemi.
The backing band for Mischo?s tour is the Tomi Leino
Blues Band, made up of Tomi
Leino (guitar), Jonne Kullu-
vaara (guitar), Jaska Prepula (bass) and Mikko Peltola
(drums).
R.J. 8 OCTOBER 2014
J A M E S O . Fincher mines Affleck?s
easy-going manner; a sly intelligence masked by slouched
shoulders and a grin. So,
just what happens when he gets that opportunity?
Blues great R.J. S U L L I VA N
HEL SINK I TIMES
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2 . and he?s not letting us off the hook just yet.
The film?s twists and
turns never feel strained, only further heightening the
viewing pleasure, as the film
sails past the two-hour mark
without slowing down. Things
very promptly turn pearshaped for their domestic life
when Amy vanishes without
a trace on their fifth wedding
anniversary, leaving Nick as
the number one suspect.
Based on Gillian Flynn?s
bestseller (who also adapted
it for the screen) the film flipflops from one time period
to another, as various characters emerge and reveal
truths that peel back another
layer of the mystery.
Things kick off with an almost unreal edge. As the real film emerges from a thick fog, it picks up
pace tremenodously, grabbing a playful edge by the
scruff of the neck. Sit up and take notice.
As Pink Floyd readies their first album in 20 years, The Endless River, Brit Floyd offers the nextbest thing at Hartwall Areena, with a full-blown tribute.
In the Flesh, almost
the Floyd?s career, from the
years 1967-1994.
Named after the original
band?s box set of the same
name, the show draws first
from the Syd Barrett-led
?60s psychedelic pop of The
Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
The performance then moves
through their classic ?70s
output, when Dark Side of the
Moon, Wish You Were Here
and The Wall saw their popularity shoot to the stratosphere. Mischo is performing at Malmitalo on the evening of Tuesday 7 October.
A renowned singer and
harpist, Mischo first emerged
on the scene in the Minneapolis area in the late ?70s. Things round up with
choice cuts from the David
Gilmour-led era, that drew to
a close with 1994?s excellent
full-length The Division Bell.
For Floyd enthusiasts,
the stage features the trademark Pink Floyd arch and cir-
J A M E S O
USA/2010.
23.00 C.S.I. 20
TV GUIDE
2 . Starring: Arnold
Schwarzenegger, James
Earl Jones, Max von Sydow.
USA/1982.
01.10 24: Live Another Day (K16)
SUB
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, a martial artist,
and his partner Trivette
are Texas Rangers. Starring: Adam Sandler,
Joey Lauren Adams, Allan Covert.
USA/1999.
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon)
has abandoned his life as a CIA
assassin and has been traveling
beneath the agency?s radar,
eventually reconnecting with
Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente),
the woman he loves. one very
overweight and the other
severely underweight ?
swap diets in an attempt to
change the way they view
food and eating.
23.00 Gang Related (K16)
00.00 Supernatural (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.10 Crocodileman
14.05 Shark Tank Canada
15.00 MasterChef Australia
16.00 Crocodileman
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
20.00 Talent USA
This reality show features
singers, dancers, magicians,
comedians, and other
performers of all ages
competing for the advertised
top prize of one million dollars.
00.55 Shart Tank Canada
01.55 Ice Road Truckers
02.55 Counting Cars
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.25 Wizards of Waverly Place
08.55 Top Secret Recipes
09.50 Sibling Rivalry
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Sibling Rivalry
13.50 Top Secret Recipes
14.45 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Hoarders
17.20 Frasier
21.00 Taken 2 (K16) FILM
In Istanbul, retired CIA
operative Bryan Mills and
his wife are taken hostage.
Directed by:
OlivierMegaton.
Starring: Liam Neeson,
Maggie Grace,
Famke Janssen.
France/2012.
22.55 NCIS
Tony and Ziva travel to
Colombia, where they are
joined by Ziva?s longtime
mentor in the search for a
missing Marine Lieutenant
and Navy Chaplain.
23.55 Frasier
00.25 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
01.25 Blue Bloods
02.25 Fear Factor
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.15 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Say Yes to Dress
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. USA/Canada/2009.
21.00 Amazing Race
Amazing Race is a reality
television show in which
teams of two people
race around the world in
competition with other teams.
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.30 Southland (K16)
01.30 Reckless
SUB
07.30 Explorers
11.00 Suburgatory
This series follows a teenage
girl who moves from the city
to the suburbs.
12.00 Two and a Half Men
14.00 Undercover Boss UK
16.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
16.30 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
17.30 X Factor UK
19.05 Formula 1: Japanese Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
20.00 She?s Out of My League
FILM
Directed by: Jim Field Smith.
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Alice
Eve. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old
Julian (Dylan and Cole Sprouse)
to impress his girlfriend, but everything does not go as planned
and Sonny becomes the unlikely
foster father. When Bourne is led
out of hiding by circumstances
beyond his control, he must
reconcile his past and present as
he struggles to keep Marie out
of harm?s way and foil an international incident with dangerous
consequences. USA/
Germany/2004.
TV5 21.00
Thursday 2.10.2014
TV5 21.00
Friday 3.10.2014. They
make it their business to
battle crime in Dallas and all
around the State of Texas.
18.00 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
20.00 Revenge of the Nerds
FILM
At the Adams Coolege, a
group of bullied outcasts and
misfits resolve to fight back for
their peace and self respect.
Directed by: Jeff Kanew.
Starring: Robert Carradine,
Anthony Edwards,
Ted McGinley.
USA/1984.
23.00 Cheaters
00.00 Catfish
01.05 The Simpsons
JIM
11.10
14.05
15.00
16.00
18.00
19.00
Top Secret Recipes
Shark Tank Canada
MasterChef Australia
Crocodileman
MasterChef Australia
Shark Tank Canada
Shark Tank Canada features
business pitches from
aspiring entrepreneurs to a
panel of potential investors.
20.00 MasterChef USA
21.00 Rude Tube
22.00 Pawn Stars UK
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 JIM D Crime: Gang Life (K16)
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Gene Simmons Family
Jewels
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.25 Wizards of Waverly Place
08.55 Top Secret Recipes
09.50 Sibling Rivalry
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Sibling Rivalry
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Fashion Star
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
17.50 The Hotel Inspector
21.30 The Naked Gun: From the
Files of Police Squad
FILM
Directed by: Davind Zucker.
Starring: Leslie Nielsen,
George Kennedy,
Priscilla Presley.
USA/1988.
23.20 Drive (K18) FILM
01.25 Frasier
01.55 Castle
TV5
06.00 MacGyver
06.55 Matlock
07.45 The King of Queens
12.10 Long Island Medium
12.40 Kitchen Boss
13.40 MacGyver
14.45 Matlock
15.45 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.15 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.45 Married. New York (K16)
00.00 Grimm (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
09.00 MasterChef Australia
12.00 Crocodileman
14.00 Ice Road Truckers
16.00 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
Bourdain arrives in a new
city each week with only 2448 hours to show viewers
the insider places, people
and foods.
18.00 Undercover Boss
19.00 Kitchen Nightmares
22.00 Ax Men
This documentary
series follows a group
of hardworking loggers
who use both old and new
technology along with a
considerable amount of
muscle.
23.00 Rude Tube
00.00 The Deadliest Roads
02.00 NCIS Los Angeles (K16)
NELONEN
07.40 Children?s Programming
08.30 Sea Rescue
12.05 The Hotel Inspector
13.05 A Boy Named Charlie
Brown FILM
Directed by: Bill Melendez.
Voices: Peter Robbins,
Pamelyn Ferdin,
Glenn Gilger.
USA/1969.
14.55 Good Luck Charlie
15.25 90210
19.00 Once Upon a Time
21.00 Marley & Me FILM
Directed by: David Frankel.
Starring: Jennifer Aniston,
Owen Wilson, Eric Dane.
USA/2008.
23.20 Under the Dome
00.20 The Possession (K16) FILM
Directed by: Ole Bornedal.
USA/Canada/2012.
02.10 Weeds
03.50 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
TV5
06.05 Breaking Amish
06.55 Your Style in His Hands
07.50 Top 20 Funniest
11.40 I Dreamed of Africa FILM
Directed by: Hugh Hudson.
Starring: Kim Basinger,
Vincent Perez.
USA/2000.
13.50 Dawson?s Creek
14.50 Your Style in His Hands
15.45 Keasha?s Perfect Dress
16.20 Changing Lives: The Story
of Three Women
17.30 My Crazy Obsession
18.00 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 Safe House (K16) FILM
Directed by: Daniel
Espinosa. Starring: Renee
Zellweger, Mark Rengall,
Logan Lerman.
USA/2009.
23.00 Modern Family
00.00 Ladies of London
Big Daddy
The Bourne Supremacy
Big Daddy is a hilarious American
comedy-drama film starring
Adam Sandler as Sonny Koufaz,
a carefree and unmotivated law
school graduate who has spent
his whole life avoiding adult responsibilities. But Bourne
is haunted by vivid dreams and
troubling memories of his days
as a killer, and he is not certain
how much really happened and
how much is a product of his
imagination. Starring: Brian
Cox, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles.
USA/Germany/2004.
23.10 The Blacklist
00.10 Big Daddy FILM
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
USA/1999.
02.00 Overhaulin
02.55 Operation Repo
03.45 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.45 Doctors
13.40 It?s a Brad, Brad World
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
23.00 First Dates
Interactive dating
experiment in which real
dates are filmed and then
viewers get the chance
to apply to date the
unsuccessful participants
the following week.
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
4.10.
MTV3
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Nelonen 13.05
08.05 Children?s Programming
14.20 Scooby-Doo! The Mystery
Begins FILM
This film is the story how
Mystery Inc was formed.
Directed by: Brian Levant.
Starring: Kate Melton,
Hayley Kiyoko, Robbie
Amell. Directed by: Paul
Greengrass. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 Big Daddy FILM
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Joey
Lauren Adams, Allan Covert.
USA/1999.
00.25 The Night Shift
01.20 Tough Love
02.15 Overhaulin
03.10 Coupling
04.15 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
This series features obese
people competing to win
a cash prize by losing
the highest percentage
of weight to their initial
weight.
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.45 Doctors
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
22.30 The Fashion Fund
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
saturday
3.10.
MTV3
Conan the Barbarian
MT V3 22.35
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Four Rooms
14.35 Mike & Molly
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.25 MTV Sport Uutiset
22.35 Conan the Barbarian (K16)
FILM
A vengeful barbarian warrior
sets off to get his revenge on
the evil warlord who attacked
his village and murdered his
father when he was a child.
Directed by: John
Milius. Starring: Brian Cox,
Joan Allen, Julia Stiles. Directed by: Dennis
Dugan. With Children
17.45 The King of Queens
18.50 Nutty Professor II: The
Klumps FILM
Directed by: Peter Segal.
Starring: Eddie Murphy,
Janet Jackson, John Ales.
USA/2000.
21.00 The Bourne Supremacy
FILM
Directed by: Paul
Greengrass. 8 OCTOBER 2014
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thursday
friday
2.10
MTV3
NELONEN
NCIS
Nelonen 22.55
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
14.35 Back in the Game
15.15 Save with Jamie
Jamie Oliver shows how
you do not need a massive
budget to make great,
delicious food.
17.30 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Reckless
When two football players are
accused of killing their coach,
Jamie and Roy put aside
their differences and work
together to clear their names.
23.35 Those Who Kill (K16)
00.35 Terriers
SUB
14.00 Undercover Boss USA
14.55 Mythbusters
Two Hollywood special
effects experts attempt to
debunk urban legends by
directly testing them.
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA
In Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay visits
struggling restaurants
across America and spends
one week trying to help
them become successful.
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
A series in which two
extreme eaters . Starring:
Brendan Gleeson, Denzel
Washington, Joel Kinnaman.
USA/2012.
23.10 Sexcetera (K18)
00.30 Naked Encounters (K18)
FILM
Directed by: Chance
Levore. Starring: Monique
Alexander, Dee, Lee Stone.
USA/2005.
02.10 Knight Rider
03.05 Safe House (K16) FILM
Directed by: Daniel
Espinosa. Starring:
Brendan Gleeson, Denzel
Washington, Joel Kinnaman.
USA/2012.
04.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
14.55 Jamie?s Food Escapes
15.55 Grand Designs Australia
20.00 Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
21.00 My One and Only FILM
Directed by: Richard
Loncraine. But when Sonny?s
girlfriend Vanessa (Kristy Swanson) indicates that she needs
some time off because she is sick
of being with a man who cannot
act like an adult, he has to find a
way to prove he is ready to grow
up
TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
2 . Starring: Natalie
Portman, Mila Kunis,
Vincent Cassel.
USA/2010.
23.00 Modern Family
00.00 First Dates
tuesday
6.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Rizzoli & Isles
MT V3 22.35
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Formula 1: Japanese Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
13.35 Amazing Race
14.35 The Millers
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles (K16)
Detective Jane Rizzoli and
Medical Examiner Dr. Can a wealthy
Republican politician find happiness with a chambermaid from
the Bronx. One fateful
day, hotel guest and senatorial
candidate Christopher Marshall
(Ralph Fiennes) meets Marisa
and mistakes her for a wealthy
socialite. 8 OCTOBER 2014
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sunday
monday
5.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Black Swan
AVA 21.00
08.00 Children?s Programming
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
15.00 Beethoven?s Second
FILM
Beethoven the St. But when Marisa?s
true identity is revealed, issues of
class and social status threaten
to separate them. Starring: Bob Hoskins, Jennifer Lopez, Natasha Richardson.
USA/2002.
This romantic comedy follows
Bridget Jones, an average woman
struggling against her age, her
weight, her job, her lack of a man,
and her many imperfections.
At the start of the New Year,
32-year-old Bridget decides it
is time to take control of her life
and start keeping a diary in which
she will always tell the complete
truth. Starring: Colin
Firth, Hugh Grant,
Renée Zellweger.
USA/2001.
23.00 Chicago Fire
01.00 Fame
02.00 Tough Love
02.55 Chicago
03.45 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Gallery Girls
Gallery Girls follows
the lives of 6 young,
20-something women that
work in New York City?s
hippest art galleries.
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
22.30 First Dates
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Maid in Manhattan
Bridget Jones?s Diary
Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez)
is a struggling single mom who
works as a housekeeper at the
exclusive Beresford Hotel in
Manhattan and dreams of a
better life for her and her young
son Ty (Tyler Posey). Megan investigates
the death alongside an FBI
agent assigned to the case.
19.00 Guinness World Records
21.00 Mission Impossible: Ghost
Protocol FILM
Directed by: Brad Bird.
Starring: Tom Cruise,
Paula Patton, Simon Pegg.
USA/2011.
01.45 NCIS
02.40 Fear Factor
03.40 Weeds
04.15 Bizarre Crimes
TV5
07.20
08.10
15.00
15.30
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
Northern Exposure
Dawson?s Creek
Welcome to the Family
The Goldbergs
Monk
Knight Rider
House
The Adventures of
Sharkboy and Lavagirl
FILM
Directed by: Robert
Rodriguez.
Starring: David Arquette,
Cayden Boyd, Taylor Dooley.
USA/2005.
21.00 Maid in Manhattan
FILM
Directed by: Wayne Wang.
Starring: Bob Hoskins,
Jennifer Lopez,
Natasha Richardson.
USA/2002.
23.10 Spartacus: Blood and Sand
(K18)
00.25 House
01.25 The Master of Disguise
FILM
Directed by: Perry
Andelin Blake. After an enchanting
evening together, the two fall
madly in love. Starring:
Dana Carvey, Brent
Spiner, Jennifer Esposito.
USA/2002.
02.55 The Adventures of
Sharkboy and Lavagirl
FILM
Directed by: Robert
Rodriguez.
USA/2005.
AVA
10.00 Double Your House For
Half The Money
11.00 Building the Dream
15.00 Lucky Dog
16.00 Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
17.00 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
20.00 Ladies of London
21.00 Black Swan (K16) FILM
Directed by: Darren
Aronofsky. The series
follows actress Lindsay
Lohan?s rehabilitation
recovery and return to the
entertainment industry
following a public period of
struggles in her personal life
and career.
21.00 Bridget Jones?s Diary FILM
Directed by: Sharon
Maguire. Bernard
dog becomes a father, but
his girlfriend Missy is dognapped, and his puppies are
in danger of the same fate.
Directed by: Rod Daniel.
Starring: Charles Grodin,
Bonnie Hunt, Nicholle
Tom, Christopher Castile.
USA/1993.
22.45 Those Who Kill (K16)
23.45 The Americans (K16)
The series follows two
KGB agents posing as
Americans in the suburbs of
Washington D.C.
00.45 Political Animals
SUB
11.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
The Simpsons
Adventures of Merlin
The Face
Catfish
Pretty Little Liars
X Factor UK
Formula 1: Japanese Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
20.00 Mythbusters
22.30 C.S.I. Directed by: Wayne
Wang. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
20.00 Lindsay
SERIES BEGINS. Starring: Colin Firth,
Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger.
USA/2001.
TV5 21.00
Sunday 5.10.2014
TV5 21.00
Tuesday 7.10.2014. New York (K16)
23.30 The Originals (K16)
00.30 The Simpsons
01.00 Cheaters
JIM
08.50 MasterChef Australia
12.20 Ice Road Truckers
This series features the
activities of drivers who
operate trucks on seasonal
routes crossing frozen lakes
and rivers in remote Arctic
territories in Canada and
Alaska.
14.20 Talent USA
16.00 Ax Men
18.00 Pawn Stars UK
20.00 Hotel Hell
Ramsay travels across
the USA visiting hopeless
hotels, mediocre motels
and just plain bad B&Bs,
attempting to fix their
problems and turn
around the struggling
establishments.
22.00 Mountain Men
23.00 MasterChef USA
00.00 Rude Tube
01.00 Ink Master
07.40 Children?s Programming
13.00 Sea Rescue
13.30 The Hotel Inspector
15.30 Body of Proof
A child is missing after his
nanny is the victim of a hit
and run. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
21.00 Spider-Man
FILM
Directed by: David Koepp.
Starring: Bill Nunn, Cliff
Robertson, James Franco.
USA/2002.
23.20 My Sex Robot
00.30 Maid in Manhattan
FILM
Directed by: Wayne Wang.
USA/2002.
02.35 Twin Peaks
03.25 Spartacus (K18)
04.20 Flashpoint
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Flipping Out
14.40 The Fashion Fund
10 designers get a chance
to work alongside industry
luminaries to prove they
have what it takes to
be named Fashion Fund
Designer of the Year.
15.45 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
19.00 Grand Designs Australia
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
7.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Lindsay
T V5 20.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Undercover Boss
14.35 Modern Family
Three different, but related
families face trials and
tribulations in their own
uniquely comedic ways.
15.15 Jamie?s Chef
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
Emmerdale is a British soap
opera set in Emmerdale,
a fictional village in the
Yorkshire Dales.
21.00 The Mentalist
This series revolves around
Patrick Jane, who is
employed as an independent
consultant working with
the California Bureau of
Investigation to solve crimes.
22.45 Suits
23.45 The Glades
Callie and Jeff get ready
for Ray?s release from
prison while Jim must solve
the death of a mobster?s
daughter.
00.45 Legit
SUB
14.00 United Bates of America
The series follows the Bates
family as they manage
everyday life in Tennessee.
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Supersize Vs Superskinny
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
Sheldon attempts to help
Penny understand physics
to impress Leonard, while
Howard becomes jealous
when Bernadette takes
an interest in Leonard?s
research.
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Catfish
00.00 Shameless
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.00 Crocodileman
12.00 American Pickers
14.00 Shark Tank Canada
15.00 MasterChef Australia
16.00 Crocodileman
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
22.00 MasterChef USA
00.00 Shark Tank Canada
01.00 Ice Road Truckers
02.00 The Squad: Prison Life
02.30 Ax Men
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.25 Wizards of Waverly Place
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Sibling Rivalry
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Sibling Rivalry
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Pregnant in Heels
This show follows Rosie
Pope, the owner and
designer of Rosie Pope
Maternity, a high-end
maternity brand.
17.20 Frasier
23.30 NCIS
00.30 Weeds
01.40 NCIS
02.40 Frasier
03.10 Elementary
04.10 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.15 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Long Island Medium
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
MacGyver follows the
adventures of a secret agent
armed with almost infinite
scientific resourcefulness.
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. Directed by: Sharon
Maguire. The fireworks begin when
her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the
quirky Miss Jones. Maura
Isles team up to solve crimes
in Boston.
23.35 The Good Guys (K16)
00.35 Super Fun Night
SUB
14.00 X Factor UK
16.05 Walker, Texas Ranger
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
This comedy revolves around
four intelligent physicists
and their beautiful
neighbour Penny who shows
them how little they know
about life outside of the
laboratory.
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Gang Related (K16) SPORT
The series follows the
personal and professional
lives of the members of the
elite Los Angeles Police
Department?s multi-agency
Gang Task Force as they
take on the city?s most
dangerous gangs, including
one with which a task force
member has ties.
23.00 Grimm (K16)
00.00 Shameless (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.00
14.00
15.00
18.00
Crocodileman
Shark Tank Canada
MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia
gives budding chefs the
ultimate once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to develop
their cooking skills, to be
mentored by the best.
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
20.00 Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant
in an attempt to revive the
business.
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 NCIS Los Angeles
02.00 JIM D Crime: Gang Life (K16)
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.25 Wizards of Waverly Place
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Sibling Rivalry
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Sibling Rivalry
13.50 Cooks to Market
Cooks to Market gives
amateur cooks the chance
to turn their homemade food
products into a life changing
business.
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Once Upon a Time
17.20 Frasier
20.00 America?s Next Topmodel
A reality television series in
which a number of women
compete for the title of
America?s Next Top Model
and a chance to start their
career in the modeling
industry.
23.10 Weeds
00.20 NCIS
01.20 Frasier
01.50 Bizarre Crimes
02.30 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.15 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Long Island Medium
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. Thrown into the
mix are Bridget?s band of slightly
eccentric friends and a rather
disagreeable acquaintance who
Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly
attractive
Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. With both Internal
Affairs and their main suspect on
their tails, Joe and K.C. Restaurants in the Helsinki area can be found from
the internet service www.eat.fi, which provides information on restaurants, their menus, opening hours and some user rating etc.
Internet. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
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Public Transport. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. New York (K16)
23.15 Royal Pains
A down and out surgeon has
a chance to redeem himself
as a small town physician
in the wealthy beach
community of East Hampton.
00.15 Revolution (K16)
SUB
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Catfish
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA
23.00 Sons of Anarchy (K16)
A man in his early 30s
struggles to find a balance
in his life between being a
new dad and his involvement
in a motorcycle club.
00.00 Star-Crossed
JIM
11.00 Extreme Fishing
Robson Green travels
around the world to some
of the greatest fishing
destinations, where he
challenges local masters of
their craft over five rounds
of competitive fishing.
12.00 American Pickers
Mike and Frank are pickers
that travel the country and
literally would go anywhere
just for the prospects of
finding antique gold.
14.00 Shark Tank Canada
15.00 MasterChef Australia
16.00 Crocodileman
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 Mountain Men
02.00 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
HELSINKI TIMES
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.25 Wizards of Waverly Place
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Sibling Rivalry
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Dance Moms
This series follows the early
careers of children in dance
and show business, as well
as the participation of their
mothers.
17.20 Frasier
17.50 The Hotel Inspector
21.00 Under the Dome
23.00 Castle
Castle and Beckett must
work together with
Agent Fallon to prevent a
momentous tragic event that
could affect the entire city.
00.00 NCIS
01.00 Frasier
01.30 Brad Meltzer Decoded
02.30 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.15 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Long Island Medium
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
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Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of
what to do) . Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. Operator number 118. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. Starring:
Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett,
Isaiah Washington. Public phones
are scarce. 8 OCTOBER 2014
wednesday
Finland inFo
8.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Castle
Nelonen 23.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Untamed China with Nigel
Marven
Wildlife adventurer Nigel
Marven explores China and
unveils creatures, scenery
and customs never seen on
screen before.
14.35 How I Met Your Mother
15.15 Double Your House For
Half The Money
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 C.S.I. Gavilan moonlights as a
real estate agent, while Calden
teaches yoga and aspires to
become an actor. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. desperate to stay alive long
enough to catch their big break.
Directed by: Ron Shelton. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
20.30 Brooklyn 99
21.00 Hollywood Homicide
FILM
Directed by: Ron Shelton.
Starring: Harrison Ford,
Josh Hartnett, Isaiah
Washington.
USA/2003.
23.10 The Blacklist (K16)
00.10 Deadly Affairs
01.10 Brooklyn 99
01.45 Spider-Man
FILM
Directed by: David Koepp.
USA/2002.
03.50 Overhaulin
04.40 Call Me Fitz
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 All On The Line
14.40 Royal Inquest
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
22.30 Ladies of London
Ladies of London follows a
group of elite British socialites
and American expats enjoying
the upper crust of the high
society world.
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Weather
Banks and Bureaux de Change. Dial 112. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. For more information, see www.hsl.fi.
Tourist Information.Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau
(Pohjoisesplanadi 19, Aleksanterinkatu 20) is open Mon-Fri 9-20
and Sat-Sun 9-18 between 15 May and 14 September; at other times
of the year, Mon-Fri 9-18 and Sat-Sun 10-16, tel. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. have to
infiltrate the dangerous world of
the hip-hop recording industry.
Juggling two careers proves to be
a comical adventure, with Joe and
K.C. 09 3101 3300. The currency exchange counter at the harbour in
Katajanokka, Helsinki is open everyday (Mon-Fri 15-17:30 Sat-Sun
10-11, 15-17:30). 09 100 23.
Medical services. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. USA/2003.
TV5 21.00
Wednesday 8.10.2014
Airport buses.Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central
Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 minutes, ?6.
On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to
the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Turnover
of large enterprises
contracted in July
this year by
1.6%
from one year earlier
Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. Both telephone cards and Finnish SIM cards for mobile
phones can be bought at R-kioski shops.
fares: Helsinki (one zone) ?2.80/?2.20 from ticket machine, Helsinki-Espoo or Helsinki-Vantaa (two zones) ?4.50 and whole area
(three zones) ?7.00. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent medical treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health
centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital
(Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietaniemi Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. Single ticket
sudoku
Hollywood Homicide
Hollywood Homicide stars Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as
LAPD homicide detectives Joe
Gavilan (Ford) and K.C. are called in to
handle the case. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
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Grocery stores. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. When an entire
hip-hop group is murdered onstage, Joe and K.C
In this case,
being around foreign students also made it possible to
be reminded of these things.
www.6d.fi
SixDegrees
is on stands now!
Grab a copy from your
nearest pick-up point!. At the
university, we are defined
by our two most obvious statuses: international and student. When I first arrived,
two years ago, my friends
and I were able to fully grasp
all the benefits that studying
in Finland implies. Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. It provides us with
a considerable degree of comfort in our individual lives,
such as university housing
and impeccably functioning transportation. Over time, however, as
my friendships and life have
routinised, I have noticed us
falling prey to the same lack
of appreciation of Finland
that locals are sometimes
accused of. I used to
be slightly appalled, even,
when I saw locals complain
or take such things as a given. Naturally, then, we
are grouped together (in the
same programs and classes), and largely separated
from our Finnish-speaking
counterparts. Experts describe
it as one of the stages of cul-
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
Send us your story to expatview@helsinkitimes.fi
tural adjustment, preceded
by an initial period of excitement, and sometimes even
utter discontent with the
new cultural environment.
There is not much unique to
the situation of international students, excepting, perhaps, the student qualifier
of our international status,
which arguably adds unique
anxieties to our lives.
And yet, it is useful to
sometimes be reminded of
the things we were once able
to prize so highly about studying in Finland, but that we
now take for granted. Our closeness
to one another has some advantages. We do not talk
as much about what we value about studying here. The country gives us the opportunity
to see egalitarianism firsthand, something nowadays
only visible in a handful of
countries. In
my experience, our constant
proximity to one another
leads our international student status to be normalized
to such a degree that, among
others, we start to take for
granted the things that we
as foreign students might
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EXPAT VIEW
Maarja Saar is a master?s student in sociology at Helsinki University who was
born in Estonia and grew up in the United States.
International students and taking for
granted the benefits of studying in Finland
For us international students, the university inevitably shapes how we
experience Finland. For me,
this happened most recently when seeing new swarms
of fresh-minded, excited international students start
roaming through the library
this September. even should ?
most appreciate about Finland. And for
the hard-working student,
it offers alluring profession-
al opportunities. Because our studies
are often stressful, and the
cultural context new, this
becomes invaluable for our
sense of comfort in Finland.
There is a pitfall to our
constantly being around foreign students, however. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES
HELSINKI TIMES
2 . We have almost
remarkably easy access to
people in the exact same situation as us, and the chance
to form friendships with
them. Instead, we take these things
as natural, and talk about
our individual lives, which
now unfold without our constantly thinking of all we
have here.
One could point out that
getting used to what we
have in Finland is a natural
process, something that all
people who have moved to
another country eventually
experience