ISSUE 14 (348) . 3 . ?Minister of
Finance Jutta Urpilainen and Prime
Minister Jyrki Katainen (NCP) owe
at least an explanation,. The
greatest risks are related to the disruption of food production,. he said.
In fact, Finland has already begun revising its strategy for adaptation to climate change, reveals
Jaana Husu-Kallio, a permanent
secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
?Severe weather phenomena will
intensify also in Finland. H S
A l e k si Tei va i n e n . Such a point
could be, for example, the irreversible melting of the Greenland ice
sheet.?
?In Europe, climate change has
a number of effects. she emphasises.
Tim Carter, a professor at the
Finnish Environment Institute and
one of the authors of the IPCC re-
the Government is counting on the
public outrage [?] over child benefit
cuts shrouding the other decisions
taken and not taken in the framework session,. lists Carter.
In Finland, climate change has
already affected the migratory
movements of birds.. Instead, the three
parties would have preferred to increase child benefits and then subject them to tax. in the final
stretch of the framework talks.
Meanwhile, the opposition has
continued its attack against the
Government, with Jari Leppä (Centre) suggesting on Sunday that the
decision to slash child benefits is essentially a smokescreen. If changes are adopted, naturally the objective should be to
generate the same savings [?] of
110 million euros,. H S
A l e k si Tei va i n e n . The growth of forests will intensify on the northern coniferous forest biome, also in Finland,
and some forest species will thrive
while others will wither. she viewed.
port, hopes that lawmakers take
the information produced by researchers seriously.
?Unless sufficient reduction
measures are introduced, the underlying fear is that some changes may tip us over a point whereon
it would no longer be possible to reverse the development. In the aftermath of
the session, the Government had two
L e ht i k u va / M i k ko S t i g
domestic
Oras Tynkkynen (Greens) has urged the Government to revisit its decision on child benefits.
divergent interpretations of the conclusions, with the Greens under the
impression that no definite decisions
on child benefits had yet been taken.
Eventually, however, it was confirmed
that child benefits would be cut by
roughly eight per cent, while the single
parent increases would not be revised.
At present, the child benefit
amounts to 104 euros for the first
and 190 euros for the fifth child.
The proposed cut would therefore
dent the finances of a family with
five children by nearly 700 euros
per year.
Ville Niinistö (Greens), the Minister of the Environment, wrote in his
blog on Sunday that the cut was lowered to a ?tolerable level. Hakala
explains.
The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday
published its most recent report
on the impacts of climate change,
calling attention to the substantial
risks the development poses to the
well-being of both the environment
and people across the world.
Also Finland must step up its effort to adapt to the repercussions
of climate change, underlined Petteri Taalas, the director general at
the Finnish Meteorological Institute, while speaking at the publication event of the IPCC report in
Helsinki.
?The availability of water re-
sources will change, and the growth
of food plants will change. Oras Tynkkynen (Greens) has
proposed that instead of a direct cut,
the Government at least consider the
option of bumping the benefits and
subjecting them to tax.
?If the ruling parties all agree
on the matter, of course it would
be possible to revise an earlier decision. ?3 . H T
A four-degree increase in mean
temperatures in Finland would have
an adverse effect on the country
and especially on its food industry,
estimates Kaija Hakala, a principal researcher at Agrifood Research
Finland.
At present, the most aggressive
projections indicate that temperatures in the country may rise by up
to six degrees, if the use of fossil fuels continues at its current rate.
An increase of no more than
a couple of degrees, on the other hand, could promote agricultural activities in Finland. We must
guarantee the ability of the Finnish
society to manage the risks associated with climate change and integrate adaptation measures across
sectors,. In Southern Europe, the risk of forest fires
will increase,. ?It appears
Researcher: Finland could not adapt
to a 4-degree rise in temperatures
He l i S a ava l a i n e n . The glaciers of
the Alps and other mountains will
diminish, and the permafrost will
thaw. w w w.helsinkitimes.fi
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Finland is investing
in energy self-sufficiency
?Finland would need to build one
or two nuclear power plants to
achieve energy self-sufficiency?,
writes Janne Sankelo (NCP)
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EU-US free
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friction within Government
M a r t ta Nie m i n e n . 9 APRIL 2014 . ?At first,
warmer temperatures would ben-
efit northern regions by extending the vegetation period,. Leppä interpreted.
Annika Saarikko, the deputy
chairperson of the Centre, asked
how it is possible that the impact of
the decisions is only assessed after
the framework session. Tynkkynen told
Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday.
On Saturday, Jutta Urpilainen
(SDP), the Minister of Finance, assured that an impact assessment
of the decisions will be conducted
to enable the Government to revisit its decisions if necessary.
In the framework session, the
Greens, the Social Democrats and the
Left Alliance all opposed the direct
cuts in child benefits endorsed by the
National Coalition. H T
The Finnish Government remains
divided over the planned cuts in child
benefits, with the Greens in particular uncomfortable with the decision
taken in last week?s framework session
and create more jobs in
terms of people associated
with agriculture, farming,
transportation, etc. The corresponding figure for Finland is
USD 35,800
Total global oil production
is approximately 75 million
bbl/d (barrels per day) while
the total refining capacity
is approximately 90 million
bbl/d. As a comparison, energy demand in 2030 will be
60 per cent higher than that
in 2000. We do not
realise the complexity behind
the dynamics of oil, which severely impacts our economy
and national security.
Historically,
every spike
in oil price rise has been followed by an economic recession. As per studies conducted by various IOC
(International Oil Companies) and the IEA (International Energy Agency), heavy
crude oil will form 50 per
2013 to boost oil and gas output, but production is declining and they?re having a hard
time justifying these costs.
For example, Shell, which
had issued a significant profit
warning, saw a major decline
in its earnings for quarter
four, 2013, as compared to
the same quarter in 2012,
and attributed this to very
high oil exploration cost.
Shell?s oil production was
down 5 per cent in 2013 to
3.25 million barrels per day,
Creation of economic activities arising out of
biofuel production could not only help Finland
be more resilient towards economic recession
following another spike in oil price, but also
help Finland become a net exporter of biofuels and technology.
cent of the total world crude
production in 2030. The
higher the NCI, the greater
the cost of a refinery, and the
higher the value of its refined
products.
a gap of almost three
decades, the US too has enhanced and added new refining capacity. This refining surplus
could partly be attributed to
80-90 per cent global refining utilisation. Hence, it depends on the oil it produces for almost all its energy
needs, like electricity. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). This
is one industry which is capable of either shaping or ruining the economy of countries.
Norway is a classic example.
?Oil is
The International Energy
Agency (IEA) predicts global demand for energy to increase by 30 to 40 per cent
by 2030, with China already
having overtaken the US as
the largest consumer of en-
ergy. A slowing economy on account of Chinese
exports facing competition from emerging markets
could encourage China to
adopt a variety of measures
in the next 5-6 years to keep
out imports during a down-
turn, like providing government subsidies in the form
of low retail price of petroleum products to domestic producers, reducing both
manufacturing and transportation costs . As
a practice, most IOCs use the
price of crude as of 31 Dec of
the year as the basis of FID.
Finding
According to the Wall
Street Journal, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Shell spent
more than USD 120 billion in
largely because of overall
natural decline in its mature
oil fields and also because of
issues in Nigeria. Biodiesel vehicles get
30 per cent better fuel economy than petrol-powered
vehicles. The
biggest asset a small nation
like Finland has is its innovation- and technology-crazy
people. The number of
FID (Final Investment Decision) made globally by major
IOC, often called ?supermajors?, has gone down during
past 5-6 years, while the absolute investment has gone
up. So what can Finland do
to absorb the shock of the
economic recession arising
out of the oil price hike. 9 APRIL 2014
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Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. FID is the go or no-go decision when a company commits to recovering the oil. At a national level, the loss of Nokia can be
offset by companies such as
Neste Oil, UPM, StoraEnso,
Fortum, Valmet etc.. Changing the price of
oil will change the speed of
economic growth. The price of diesel in Saudi Arabia is 15 cents
per litre, Mexico 69 cents,
Russia 83 cents, and China 99
cents. As a result,
amongst other things, Shell
is suspending its Arctic drilling program in Alaska. This could not only help
Finland be more resilient towards economic recession
arising as a result of another spike in oil price, but also help Finland become a
net exporter of biofuels and
technology.
There are, as always, counter
arguments, and the detractors claim that biofuel production poses a major threat
to global food systems and
the natural environment.
Policy makers from Finland
could push the EU to set higher targets and a clear roadmap for the percentage of
biofuel for the transport sector. He is
certified in Global Oil and Gas Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA.
Green is great, robust economy is better
One
single commodity
which affects the life and behaviour of every human is oil.
Living in a developed nation
like Finland, we often forget
that the petrol and diesel at
the retail outlet is not something which will keep coming
on its own forever. Here is why
I believe the oil price will rise,
sooner or later.
like a wild animal.
Whoever captures it, has it.?
These were the words of John
Paul Getty, founder of Getty
Oil. European countries will do well by
investing in innovation and
technology for securing energy needs from unconventional sources. Enhancing or
adding new refining capacity
requires a lot of investment.
Refineries in China, India,
Brazil, and Russia, among
others, are currently not
paying any carbon emission
tax, which makes the cost of
the final value added product
cheaper. although
many of these possible steps
would violate China?s commitments to the World Trade
Organisation.
the above facts it is
easy to conclude that less oil
will be available at the current price for years to come.
As per the supply curve, the
higher the price, more of
something will be supplied.
This means that even heavy
and sour crude, which is
cheap today, will become expensive tomorrow. The EU is focusing on
lowering carbon emissions.
While being green is great,
lowering carbon emissions
cannot be the only and the
biggest reason for adopting
an EU-wide biofuel roadmap.
The long-term vision could be
gaining economic advantage
through creation of economic activities arising out of biofuel production.
For Finland,
this could act
as an ?upstream. Rising
costs of oil projects has also
been a major topic of discussion at the World Economic
Forum in Davos.
Many oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Russia, as well as
the OPEC, have become large
consumers of oil themselves.
For example, Saudi Arabia
has neither hydro energy nor
nuclear energy. Biofuels are made from living
things, or the waste that living things produce. A big portion of this
demand is met by oil and gas.
Currently,
approximately
25 per cent of the proven reserves of world crude oil is
heavy and sour. Inability to adopt such
targets would leave European/Finnish economic resilience completely vulnerable
to unavoidable future spikes
in oil price. activity getting closer to the raw material, for Finland?s already
existing Neste, one of the
world?s largest independent downstream oil and gas
companies based on market
capitalisation. We are still reeling
in the economic recession
which followed the largest spike in oil price in July 2008, when oil reached a
whopping USD 147 per barrel. Heavy
crude is cheaper but requires
more refining capacity. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. Not only
will the biofuels tremendously reduce carbon emission
but they will also somewhat
reduce dependence on fossil fuel like petroleum and
coal. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. Rising oil
demand will lead to rising oil
prices. Perhaps the recent
changes in EU energy policy,
especially those related to biofuels, could take a broader
view. 2
VIEWPOINT
3 . In other
words, crude is getting heavier. For
example, the world?s largest
refinery, the Reliance refinery in India, is able to process 1.24 million barrels per
day and has an NCI (Nelsons
Complexity Index) of 14. There are
discussions that the shale
boom in the US could ease up
the demand situation with
the US not remaining a net
oil and gas importer as it is
today. The same enthusiasm in technology can make
Finland contribute its two
cents in putting Finland and
the EU on the path of diminishing the effects of future
economic recessions due to
rises in oil price. own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
Kavilesh Gupta is Vice President at Atos IT Services
and Solutions, as well as in charge of Nordic Sales. Just as a comparison, the average NCI for US
refineries is 10.9 whereas the
average NCI for refineries in
Western Europe is 7.8.
After
China is aggressively acquiring oil exploration rights
and adding complex refining capacity in an attempt to
secure the energy needs of
the future. Most of the refining capacity that is being
added is in China and India.
This new refining capacity
being added is very complex,
with the aim in being able
to process even heavy and
sour crudes, and get a higher yield per barrel. Also,
these countries have subsidised petrol and diesel for
their people. Today the oil and gas industry is one of the largest,
most complex and important
industries in the world. On the contrary, the
demand in China and India
is too steep to be offset like
this.
From
Biofuel is one such alternative energy source. This will increase the ?velocity of money. (For example, the US Department of
Agriculture estimated that a
100-million-gallon/year ethanol biofuel production facility would create 2,250
local jobs in their community). Saudi Arabia subsidises oil despite having a huge
GDP per capita (PPP), which
is USD 30,500. Heavy and sour crude,
which has low API gravity (the higher the API gravity, lighter the crude) and has
a higher sulfur content, requires complex refining capacity to produce a greater
percentage of value added
products such as petrol, diesel and aviation fuel.
new oil at the right
cost, meaning today?s cost
or lower, is getting more and
more difficult
Mikael
Hed, the CEO at Rovio, asserted in a bulletin.
Yet, the most recent version of Angry Birds, launched
on Google Play in early March,
continues to collect personal information about its users, FireEye reports. Under
the proposal hammered out
by the Government and opposition earlier this month,
half of municipal costs would
disappear.
Aro and Mari Vaattovaara, a professor of urban
geography, acknowledge the
benefits of the settlement.
?Municipalities in the region should come out from
age-old foxholes and explore
bold joint measures to resolve issues related to housing and movement within the
region,. ?It?s
daydreaming. is the ideal profiling tool from the viewpoint
of cyber-attackers,. H S
A leksi T ei vainen . Support for the opposition party
peaked at 23 per cent in December, when voter support
for the main ruling party, the
NCP, contrastively slid to a
four-year low of 18 per cent.
In addition, the most recent poll indicates that the
Finns Party has clung to its
position as the third largest
party in Finland with a support rating of 17.2 per cent.
The Social Democratic Party,
in turn, ranked fourth with a
rating of 16.3 per cent.. without encryption . The
details are then collected and
stored in a cloud service by
Burstly, and thereon accessed
by third-party ad platforms.
The fact that the shared
details are not encrypted is
a data security risk in itself,
making users particularly vulnerable to attacks by hackers.
?The sharing of user data
?in clear text. ?I
reckon it?s only normal variation,. ?I doubt
it. H S
A leksi T ei vainen . ?We
must start looking for practical solutions.?
l e ht i k u va / H e i k k i S a u k ko m a a
L a u ra H alminen . Meanwhile,
the amount of arable land will
decrease as the world?s population continues to grow.
?We must think how to produce enough food to be able to
feed the earth,. 9 APRIL 2014
3
L e ht i k u va / H e i k k i S a u k ko m a a
Angry Birds still leaking
user details, data
security firm reports
Rovio, the creator of the mobile game hit Angry Birds,
has continued its co-operation with an ad platform believed to have been hacked by
the British intelligence agency, data security firm FireEye
reveals in its blog.
The Guardian reported in
January, citing documents provided by Edward Snowden,
that the Government Communications Headquarters
(GCHQ) can snatch user?s data
through ad platforms, prompting the Finnish game studio to
pledge that it would re-consider its co-operation with Millennial Media, an ad platform
identified in the report. Such devastating
natural disasters are omens
of things to come, as extreme
meteorological phenomena
are projected to increase further due to climate change.
Finns should therefore
prepare for temperate winters, heavy rains, floods,
droughts and periods of sweltering heat.
?Uncertainty grows. . In addition to
the capital, Espoo, Järvenpää
and Kerava lost tax revenue
due to migration.
Aro has evaluated the
economic impact of migration in 2000-2011 at the
behest of a task force appointed by the Ministry of
Finance to contemplate the
organisation of metropolitan
administration.
Whereas Helsinki draws
low-income
households,
young people outside the labour force, students and increasingly also immigrants,
the commuter belt draws middle- and high-income households. DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
3 . the good-humoured
Sipilä said.
In addition, Sipilä rejected
the view that the dip is due to
his recent sick leave. It?s crucial
for the climate and water systems to identify other measures as effective as reducing
animal source foods,. At the
time, Rovio also denied having
had any previous knowledge
of the alleged links between
ad platforms and intelligence
agencies.
?In order to protect our
end users, we will [?] have
to re-evaluate working with
these networks,. Aro urges.
Vapaavuori is not, however, an advocate of metropolitan governance. H T
Extreme
meteorological phenomena are becoming more common all over
the world. assures Jan Vapaavuori (NCP), the Minister
of Economic Affairs. ?Of course I?m
pleased,. highlights Jari Salomaa, a director of product management
at FireEye, in an e-mail to
Helsingin Sanomat.
?By knowing details about
the users, you can specifically target certain people, networks, companies or groups,?
Salomaa adds.
Helsingin Sanomat was
on Saturday unable to reach
a spokesperson at Rovio for a
comment.
cent. We need more
powerful tools, such as the
consolidation of municipalities in the capital region.?
Vaattovaara similarly is
not convinced that a new
metropolitan administration
would resolve the issues. Precipitation, in turn,
may have increased by 20 per
panies, including Angry Birds
Cloud, the ad mediation network Burstly, and ad platforms
Jumptap and Millennial Media.
The details shared include
age, gender, Android user ID,
device information and in
some cases the IP address.
In January last year, Rovio
had an estimated 263 active
users worldwide.
Having analysed the code
paths, researchers at FireEye
discovered that the personal
information collected by Angry Birds is aggregated with
the accounts of the users. estimates regional researcher Timo Aro. In
the future, food will be distributed more equally than
today, Kahiluoto believes.
?That is inevitable.?
Sources: The Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Ministry of the Environment, the
Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry, Agrifood Research
Finland, a draft of the National Strategy for Adaptation to
Climate Change 2022.
Sipoo is among the municipalities where people with middle- and high-income households migrate to from the Capital Region in
search of better homes in more affordable localities.
Migration to rob
Helsinki of tax revenue
M ar j a S almela . As a result, millions in
tax revenue move across municipal borders.
For Helsinki, this does not
bode well, with tax-payers
NCP gains
on Centre
in new poll
M artta N ieminen . explains
Heikki A. H T
Bottles of champagne were
cracked open at the office of
the National Coalition (NCP)
parliamentary group on Thursday afternoon, as members of
the group celebrated the 50th
birthday of MP Harri Jaskari.
The mood was not dampened
one bit by a poll conducted
by Helsingin Sanomat, which
shows that voter support for
the NCP has crept up by 1.5 percentage points from December,
to 19.5 per cent.
The bump in the rating
was pleasant news also to
Prime Minister Jyrki Katai-
of new residents was 3,0004,000 euros higher than the
average income of those who
moved out.
The economic disparity
will only aggravate in the future, Aro predicts.
Immigrants already account for half of the net migration gain of Helsinki and
in addition to the capital continue to concentrate in Espoo
and Vantaa, where the share of
non-Finnish speakers has risen
to 13 per cent of the population.
Elsewhere in the Uusimaa region, the corresponding share
is only four per cent.
Loikkanen consequently
urges the state to shoulder a
share of the economic burden
on Helsinki and other municipalities struggling with the
repercussions of migration.
The state, he says, should at
least fund the organisation
of language and employment
training for immigrants.
yet again poised to seek better homes in more affordable
localities.
?In the municipal roulette
of the 2000s, Helsinki lost
5,600 euros per migrant,. They took care of things so
well,. he said, referring to the
Centre leadership.
Helsingin Sanomat conducted the poll between 25
February and 22 March . emphasises
Helena Kahiluoto, a principal
research scientist at Agrifood
Research Finland (MTT).
Reducing the consumption of meat is one effective
measure. We
must prepare for not really knowing what to prepare
for,. before the health care settlement hammered out by the
Government and the opposi-
?If anything, the health
care settlement will even
out the economic burden on
municipalities and prevent
disparity,. Kahiluoto points out.
In order to manage the uncertainty, adaptability and
resilience are both needed. H T
?Of course I?m pleased,. H S
A leksi T ei vainen . ?The share of animal
source foods in our diet will
definitely decrease. commented Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen.
tion, and this week?s framework session.
The Centre has held on
to its berth at the top of the
rankings since last June,
when its support rating crept
up to over 20 per cent. Rising sea levels, floods,
the depletion of water resources and droughts may prompt
people to search for more benign surroundings. In recent years,
we have witnessed record
temperatures, rainfall and
droughts. he admitted.
In contrast, voter support
for the Centre slipped by 1.5
percentage points from December, to 21.5 per cent. The
details provided by the users
upon registration may ultimately end up in the hands of
several ad platforms and com-
Severe
weather
phenomena
to increase
in Finland
H eli S aavalainen . Globally, temperatures
are projected to rise by 3.7
degrees.
In addition to the changes in
local weather conditions, Finns
also have to adapt to phenomena occurring elsewhere in the
world. H T
The migration of middle-income households from Helsinki to other parts of the
Uusimaa region has abated
only temporarily, views Pasi Holm, the managing director at Pellervo Economic
Research Institute.
?Families have stayed in
Helsinki, because they are
afraid to buy a single-family detached house,. admits Mikael Hildén, a
professor at the Finnish Environment Institute.
At the end of the century, mean temperatures in the
country may be up to six degrees Celsius higher than at
present, if the use of fossil
fuels continues at its current
rate. Juha Sipilä, the chairperson of
the opposition party, nonetheless insisted that he is not
concerned about the moderate dip in the rating. In Sipoo, Pornainen and
Mäntsälä, the average income
nen (NCP), who deviated from
his usual habits by commenting on the poll. Loikkanen, a professor emeritus of urban
economics.
Both of the researchers expect west and northbound migration from the
Finnish capital to increase as
soon as the economy picks up
steam. H S
A leksi T ei vainen
The state is
now giving up its ownership
in the airport while Helsinki is
drawing up a new urban plan
that also applies to Malmi.
Broadly speaking, city
authorities and most politicians are in favour of constructing new houses in the
area, while aviation enthu-
Finns have concerns over
Russian nuclear power plant
Yes . The City of Helsinki
designs for the area have ballooned, with the latest plans
containing new housing for
20,000 to 30,000 people. 75.4%
siasts and businesses, along
with a high number of local
residents, are against the
building plans. 24.6%
No . This is a very
low rate, which raises the
question of how they will be
able to do it.?
He compares the partnership between Fennovoima and Rosatom to TVO?s
deal with Areva in Olkiluoto,
where Areva agreed to supply the reactor at a reasonable price, being keen to build
a prototype of its new power
plant. H T
Who:
Pekka Vauramo
From:
Finland
Famous for:
The CEO at Finnair
Since accepting the CEO post at Finnair in June last year,
Vauramo has been forced to implement painful reforms within the airline. Now Rosatom has set
its sights on gaining a foothold in the Western energy
market.
On the other hand, policy-makers must bear in mind
that Finland will need new
nuclear power even after the
work on the third Olkiluoto reactor has been completed in order to avoid energy
shortages in the 2030s.
In HS?s opinion poll, the
National Coalition Party
supporters viewed nuclear power produced by Russian technology in a more
favourable light than other
respondents.
Nearly half of the National
Coalition Party voters were
in favour of granting permission to Fennovoima?s plan.
Among the Finns Party, SDP
and Centre Party supporters,
more people were opposed
to the application than in favour of it.
The application garnered
the least support among the
Left Alliance supporters and
the Green Party supporters.. The outsourcing of our flight crew is clearly a secondary option for us,. He hopes that the woods surrounding the airport will be conserved.
Area to be transformed into housing for up to 30,000 people.
nomat, the decision was made
in the framework budget talks
last week. 9 APRIL 2014
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Kimmo R äisänen
Malmi Airport to be closed down in 2016
A number of attractions
Even before trees have started sprouting their leaves, the
area attracts walkers.
?The area is covered in
anemones on Mother?s Day,?
exclaims Joonas Eklund, who
is in favour of saving the
airport.
?Rather the airport than
rental housing,. Now, a Russian company is becoming a supplier,
shareholder and a funder in
the project.
Railo estimates that the
updated application will also be passed at parliament
as the Centre Party has decided to give its backing to
it but the votes are likely to
be more evenly divided this
time.
A difficult decision
Professor Jarmo Partanen,
energy market expert from
the Lappeenranta University of Technology, declined to
comment on the survey, saying that deciding on Fenno-
?Malmi Airport is the only airport for light aircrafts
in the Capital Region,. he says.
Jaana Huuhtanen is enjoying the view while making
use of the exercise equipment by the track.
For her, the closing down
of the airport has only cons
with the local services being
adequate for her as they are.
?Just pack a picnic with
you and that?s it,. H T
Malmi Airport, used by light
aircrafts , will be closed down
in 2016 to make way for new
houses. The majority state-owned company previously
announced that it will launch extensive consultative negotiations with its staff, facing the need to lay off up to 680 employees unless other solutions are found.
According to Helsingin Sanomat, Finnair?s board of directors are currently considering merging with another airline.
With consolidation, Finnair could keep its name, its head office and Helsinki airport.
?We still hope to reach in the negotiations the kind of result that would allow us to continue flying with our current
crew. H S
N iina W oolley . described Jutta Urpilainen, SDP?s leader, in regards to the
government?s ?2.8-billion austerity package.
Do you agree?
residents are not adequate in
view of the need for new houses, according to city planners.
?We will push hard to
make this a town-like area.
The goal is to create an urban garden town,. says Crista Toivola, an architect at the
City Planning Department.
H eikki A rola . states Vauramo.
The current Crimean crisis in Ukraine has resulted in Finns having second
thoughts about the construction of a nuclear power plant
with Russian technology.
Almost half of Finns are
opposed to granting a nuclear power plant permit to
Fennovoima, which is planning to order the reactor unit
from the Russian energy giant Rosatom.
Growing concerns felt by
Finns on the issue came out in
a TNS Gallup survey commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat.
Only a third of the respondents said that Fennovoima?s application for
permission to build a new nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki
should be accepted.
The respondents were told
that Fennovoima has submitted a supplementary application as in the original
application Rosatom was not
given as the supplier of the
reactor.
The survey revealed that
Rosatom?s involvement is
the factor that sparks negative reactions to the project
among Finns.
Respondents expressed
much more positive attitudes towards building a new
nuclear power plant in general, with just over half in favour of it, while 45 per cent
were opposed.
The interviews for the study
were carried out between 11
and 12 March, the two weeks
after the crisis in Ukraine broke
out, giving the respondents
plenty of time to have formed
an opinion on the situation.
L E H T IK U VA / Martt i Ka i n u l a i n e n
l eht i k uva / k i m m o m ä n t y l ä
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
The future of the Malmi
Airport has been one of the
longest running building disputes in Helsinki. According to information received by Helsingin Sa-
Question of the week
?We?ve managed to put together a good package,. 4
DOMESTIC
3 . explains Timo Hyvönen, the
chair of a local airport advocacy association.
The nearest airports that
can be used by amateur pilots
instead of Malmi are in Nummela and Hyvinkää.
Other air traffic organisations and companies operating at the Malmi Airport
would transfer to smaller state-owned airports or
close down their operations.
According to Finavia, responsible for running the airports, there is no shortage of
space with most of the airports having capacity to double their volume of air traffic.
The Finnish Border Guard
currently operates at Malmi
Airport and may transfer to
the Vantaa Airport, according
to Matti Lallukka, Deputy Commander of Air Patrol Squadron
at Finnish Border Guard.
Regardless of their future
location, the Border Guard
will need more space in 2016
when they obtain their new
Super Puma helicopters.
The plans to build 10,000
new houses in the area were
thwarted in 2006, when the
Supreme
Administrative
Court ruled that Helsinki?s
Mayor, Jussi Pajunen, had a
conflict of interest when decisions were made on the urban plan for the area.
voima?s application will be a
tricky task for Parliament.
?Fennovoima and Rosatom have promised to supply electricity to their clients
at the price of 50 euros per
megawatt-hour. she comments, pointing at a nearby
picnic table.
The biggest losers, however, will be the amateur aviators in the Capital Region.
Joonas Eklund comes to the airport almost daily either with his dog Arthur or for a jog. The
earlier plans of building a new
residential area with 10,000
K aisa H akkarainen ,
K alle S ilf v er b erg . The respondent is almost directed towards taking a certain standpoint.?
Railo believes that that
the general public may feel
slightly confused about Fennovoima?s application.
When permission to build
a nuclear power plant was
granted on the basis of the
original application, it was
partly on the grounds of
making Finland less dependent on energy imported from
Russia. Of the political parties, mainly the National Coalition Party has
backed the supporters of the
airport.
Nature conservational issues are one of the concerns,
as while the actual airstrip
is concrete, the surroundings are woodlands that have
been left unbuilt, with a 5 km
recreational path running
around the airport.
Protestors air their views during a march along Aleksanterinkatu
in Helsinki on 11 March.
The findings of the survey
do not come as a surprise to
Erkka Railo, the executive
director at Turku University?s Centre for Parliamentary Studies.
?The results are not surprising, particularly as the
questions are somewhat
leading. H S
N iina W oolley
he
reminds.
The district courts concluded the defendants should
have recognised that the database is only to be used for
carrying out official duties.
?The regulations in question are not particularly ambiguous,. Similarly to the
courts, Haavisto rejects the
argument, pointing out that
making every case secret
would hinder standard police
operations. Some of the buyers
also use other illegal drugs.?
?Some have been surprised at how small an
amount is required for the
case to be treated as an ag-
gravated drug offence,. the court admitted.
Both of the defendants
rejected all criminal allegations in court.
had been left open on the
workplace computer.
The victims. she
adds.
Before its categorisation
as an illegal drug at the turn of
the year, the imports of alphaPVP were investigated as medicine and smuggling offences.
Altogether, the Finnish Customs filed nearly one
hundred reports of illegal alpha-PVP imports last year.
This year, ten such reports
have been filed.
?New compounds surface
as soon as old ones are added
into the national medicine or
narcotics categories,. H S
THE FINNISH Customs, over
the past six months, has confiscated over 3.5 kilos of the
extremely dangerous designer drug alpha-PVP, an
amount that would have sufficed for tens of thousands of
doses. the District Court
of Helsinki highlighted in a
ruling.
The courts also pointed
out that the activities of the
officials may have dented
the public?s confidence in the
lawfulness and appropriateness of public officials.
Investigators discovered
no evidence to suggest that
the details were also shared
with people unaffiliated with
the police.
The majority of the verdicts will enter into force,
with only a handful of appeals having been filed.
5
Customs reports jump in
seizures of new designer drug
M inna Passi . ?You wouldn?t be
able to access the information even if you had a jobrelated reason to do so,. Instead, he underlined that the
employee had acted inappropriately by accessing her Facebook account at work. points
out Sarahete.
Alpha-PVP is a floury substance similar to amphetamine and the more common
designer drug MDPV.
The effects of alpha-PVP
are similar to those of MDPV,
says Kaarlo Simojoki, a senior physician at the A-Clinic
Foundation. H S
Mika Myllylä won six Olympic medals during his career.
Selected explanations
? A sergeant at the National Bureau of Investigation said
that they had considered the likelihood of foul play in case
an international arrest warrant would have to be filed.
? A senior officer at the Helsinki Police Department said that
they had reason to believe the safety of a member of Myllylä?s family was threatened.
? A senior officer at the Pirkanmaa Police Department said
that they wanted to determine whether foul play was involved in the death of Myllylä.
? A senior officer at the Päijät-Häme Police Department said
that they wanted to know whether the reports of Myllylä?s
death were true.
? A senior inspector at the Helsinki Police Department said
that they wanted to know how reports of death investigation are drawn up elsewhere.
were on Friday handed 30-day
fines for message interception,
with the District Court of Helsinki ruling that the female defendant . had broken into the
Facebook account of an employee roughly 18 months ago.
The male defendant had
similarly read messages
from the account and forwarded them to the personnel manager of Hesburger,
the court also ruled.
According to the court,
the messages in question
were private in nature.
The defendants, the court
highlighted, had to have broken the encryption of the Facebook account, because the
victim had logged out of her
account. he notes.
k a l l e pa r kk i n e n
Curiosity
In their defence, several officers also argued that
details related to the death
of Myllylä should have been
made secret to prevent
snooping. He admitted, however, that the shift supervisor had
read the pages and had been offended by some of the content.
The male defendant had
then asked the shift supervisor to send him the messages in question and forwarded
them later to the personnel
manager of the fast food chain.
S u sanna R ein b oth . The
maximum penalty handed
down for the data protection
offences and violations of official duty was a 15-day fine.
Jukka Haavisto, the
lead prosecutor in the case,
points out that acquittals
were handed down especially in Myllylä?s home region: Central Finland and
North Ostrobothnia. he argued.
The shift supervisor similarly denied breaking into
the account, admitting only
to reading the messages that
One of the defendants fined for message interception was employed as a shift supervisor at the Munkkiniemi Hesburger.. legal counsel, Juha-Pekka Hippi, believes the act may have been
motivated by the strained
workplace climate. There have
also been cases in which substance ordered as alpha-PVP
has turned out to be something else entirely,. ?The
further geographically the
people who accessed the information were based, the
less grounds they were
deemed to have to access the
information,. This, he
viewed, explains the desire
of the defendants to find out
what the employees thought
about the situation.
The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of
1,300 euros in compensation
to the victims.
HS / Sa mi K ilpiö
Two employees of Hesburger
He emphasised that it
never occurred to him that
reading and forwarding the
messages was illegal. ?The
guidelines of the chain state
that Facebook should not be
used at work,. Simojoki reveals.
According to Sarahete,
the majority of the people caught ordering the new
designer drug to Finland
last year were roughly 30
years old. Sarahete says.
Hesburger supervisors
fined for message interceptio
The male defendant said
that the Facebook account of
an employee had been left open
on a workplace computer but
denied having read any of its
content. 9 APRIL 2014
Alpha-PVP is a white floury substance similar to amphetamine.
of the substance. The drug can induce psychosis, aggression
and strong anxiety. ?Some of the people caught had ordered [the
drugs] to experiment and
had no previous history of
drug use. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
S u sanna R ein b oth . ?Reports
from abroad indicate that the
psychological symptoms have
resulted in some accidental
deaths,. Previously, only small
batches of the new drug have
been found in Finland.
Last year, the customs
confiscated six 150-1,000
gram shipments of alphaPVP and has thus far this
year intercepted three 40500 gram shipments.
In addition to the intercepted mail and freight items,
alpha-PVP has been smuggled
into Finland by passengers in
intra-corporeal containers
and under the clothes.
Mari Sarahete, the customs inspector in charge
of the investigation, says
that small batches are typically intended for personal use and larger batches for
distribution.
Alpha-PVP, she also says,
is manufactured in industrial-like laboratories in China
and transported to Finland
also through other countries.
The batches confiscated by
the Finnish Customs have
been exceptionally pure,
whereas the drugs available
on the streets are typically
adulterated.
?[The drug] may be dangerous for users if they cannot be certain of the potency
F i n n i sh C u s t o m s
Officers snooped
into death of
cross-country great
out of curiosity
3 . employed as a shift
supervisor at the fast food
chain . ?How exactly they
were able to break the encryption and gain access to
the username and especially
to the password remains unclear,. In contrast,
roughly half of the officers
charged admitted in court
that they had no legitimate
grounds to search for details
about the late Olympian.
Altogether, Finnish district courts convicted 72
and acquitted 13 people for
searching details about the
six-time Olympic medallist
from a police database following his death in 2011. H S
and professional
development were the most
common excuses cited by
police officers in defence of
the charges brought against
them for snooping into the
death of cross-country great
Mika Myllylä
PERTTU KOISTINEN
Urpilainen:
there is
nothing
fantastic
in our time
of the Social
Democratic Party, Minister
of Finance Jutta Urpilainen
explained the government?s
journey and decisions during
the party council meeting. From the perspective
of self-sufficiency, Fennovoima?s supplementary application is a clear-cut issue, when we are faced with
choosing between imported energy and self-sufficiency. Mäntynen
reminds.?
?INCREASING
party has achieved a lot despite the highly difficult times.
?We have wanted to reaffirm our trust towards Finland and confidence in its
economy. The parliament will make
its decision on the matter in the autumn on the basis of
the government report.
According
are lured into Finland by experiences such as sauna and
igloos.
Senior Consultant Heli
Mende from Finpro laments
the fact that Chinese travel-
Chair of Social Democratic Party and Minister of Finance Jutta
Urpilainen believes that current political decisions are difficult
due to hard times.0
ers have not been lured into
Finland. The global price of coal is in decline, which
has dented the competitiveness of the domestic energy sources. Travelers often fly
into Helsinki and then continue onto other European
destinations.
?It would be good if we
were able to get them to stop
at Helsinki for a couple of
days on their Europe trip and
maybe take them on a day
trip elsewhere in Finland.
Perhaps next time they will
stay for a longer period.??
VERKKOSANOMAT 29 March. Our country aims
to become more renowned in
China through a venture whose
exportation and investments
are advanced by Finpro.
Last year, Chinese tourists spent over 100,000
nights in Finland. Decisions are hard.??. In addition, networking
companies compete on long
distance routes. The recent events in Ukraine have put
a spotlight on the changes in Fennovoima?s ownership
and Finland?s energy self-sufficiency.
Finland?s affluence
is still partly based on the heavy
industry, which requires an adequate supply of energy at competitive rates. Now it seems that it will yet again
turn into an issue that divides the political arena with
some believing that the application concerns the construction of a new nuclear power plant. This government period
was also about management of
change. Now he claims
that Putin wishes to reclaim
Russia?s borders from the
Czarist era. ?There is nothing
fantastic about our time. The future of Finns?
jobs relies on this confidence.?
According to Urpilainen,
the government period has
consisted primarily of crisis
management. ?This does not
correspond to the way I perceive the current state of the
world?, Kanerva states.
He does highlight that he
has not acquainted himself
with Putin?s advisor?s words,
nor does he know him.
?This could somehow
be the result of a hyperactive imagination?, he states.
?This is certainly not a way
of thinking that is part of responsible politics?, he adds.?
L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R
Finland is investing in
energy self-sufficiency
competition
between airlines has heavily decreased prices of flight
tickets.
According to Statistics
Finland, ticket prices for
international flights have
dropped by 24 per cent,
i.e. He is a member of the Agricultural and Forestry committee and the Transport and Communications committee. He
is currently on leave from his work as a principal of special education.
In recent political debate in Finland, the limelight has
been taken by security policy and the forthcoming decisions on energy policy. Mr. Sankelo has a strong background in education. Being energy self-sufficient is also part of our internal security policy.
Nuclear power arouses strong opinions and emotions
in people and has proven a difficult issue for some government parties. In February
last year a ticket cost 13 per
cent more than this year.
In terms of domestic
flights, the situation appears
to be highly different from
international flights. According to an estimate by Finpro,
the number could be doubled
within ten years. nearly a quarter, since
2003.
?Low cost airlines have
entered the European markets for shorter distances. These have been replaced by a reactor unit
supplied by Rosatom, which has also become a partner
in the project. Energy policy is something that concerns the whole nation and it is good that
all parties are aware of this. Before that, the government will face some other big decisions. This, however,
is a misguided view. Preliminary estimates support the view that Fennovoima?s
application will be backed by the majority of MPs. EMMA GRÜNN
Members of the Foreign
Affairs Committee: the words
of Putin?s former advisor
are no cause for alarm
?THE former economic policy advisor of Russian President Vladimir Putin warned
on the Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet that Putin is also after Finland.
Ilkka Kanerva and Jussi Niinistö of the Foreign
Affairs Committee are not
concerned despite the former advisor?s warnings.
?It is not on Putin?s agenda
today or tomorrow, but if he is
not stopped earlier, the matter will surface sooner or later?,
Putin?s former advisor Andrei
Illiaronov warned of Finland?s
fate on Svenska Dagbladet.
Illiaronov worked previously as Putin?s close advisor
for six years. It poses a
strict situation for competition, and competition rules
prices,. ?We have had to
deal with the euro crisis as well
as the crisis of the public economy. The Chinese
to the schedule, the work on the supplementary application will continue until the beginning
of the summer, after which the government report on
the matter is set to be completed. Based on these facts, it
seems that nuclear power will continue to provide energy for Finland in the future. she outlined.
Urpilainen states that Finland?s interest is SDP?s interest. ?There
is really not much competition here,. It is
also worth bearing in mind that the eldest of our nuclear power plants will come towards the end of their life
cycles at the end of the 2020s. According to Statistics Finland, the
prices of domestic flights
cost more than in 2013 on
average.
Mäntynen believes that
the reason is obvious. We have been forced to
create tools for succeeding in
the breaking point of the world
economy and change in the age
structure,. On
the other, the optimal operating conditions for the industry can be ensured by guaranteeing the supply of
reasonably priced energy also in the future.
member Jussi Niinistö are not
particularly concerned about
the statements. Fennovoima is applying for an update to a decision-in-principle granted by the previous
government and no additional permits are under consideration on this occasion.
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Ilkka Kanerva does not consider Russian President
Vladimir Putin?s former advisor?s warnings realistic.
ILTASANOMAT 30 March. Finland?s main energy sources are nuclear power, water power, coal, natural gas,
wood fuels and peat, with nuclear power currently accounting for nearly a third of the electricity produced
in Finland. says Jorma Mäntynen, Professor of Logistics at Tampere University of
Technology.
In light of statistics, the
prices of international flights
appear to have dropped as
well last year. 9 APRIL 2014
FROM FINNISH PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
YLE NEWS 30 March.
VILLE KOLARI
Decrease
in ticket
prices for
international
flights
Janne Sankelo is a member of the Finnish parliament and the vice
chairman of the National Coalition Party. The
opposition parties have announced that there will not
be juxtaposition between the opposition and the government parties on the matter. Despite increasing its share of the energy
market, wind power cannot meet the industry?s need
for energy.
Currently exporting a significant amount of its ener-
gy, Finland would need to build at least one or two nuclear reactors to achieve energy self-sufficiency. 6
3 . According to her, the role of the
Social Democratic Party is
that of a reformer and honest
bearer of responsibility.
Urpilainen encouraged the
party to proceed with their
journey in the government.
According to Urpilainen, the
?CHAIRPERSON
In the current economic climate, Finland needs differ-
ent kinds of sources of growth, with high expertise levels continuing to be a prerequisite for our success. Fennovoima?s supplementary
application concerning the nuclear power plant project
in Pyhäjoki has sparked wide-spread interest. Back then Russia?s territories included Finland and the Baltic countries.
Illiaronov claims that Putin
considers these territories to
still belong to Russia.
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Ilkka Kanerva and supplementary
AAMULEHTI 29 March
Finland seeks more Chinese
tourists with tempting experiences
?FINLAND wishes for more Chinese tourists. Fennovoima has undergone changes in its ownership and the
supplier of the reactor unit and the unit?s size have also changed since the original application, in which Areva?s and Toshiba?s more efficient reactors were listed as
the options
that a minority can influence the majority?s activities so strongly.
He said that laws on religious
freedoms must work both
ways, stating that in Finland
there is the right to practice
religion and the right to not
practice religion. With no
solution in site, URHOtv cancelled all planned forward
production and said it would
suspend its signal as of the
beginning of April.
The channel?s backers
?Finnish sports channel
said they would continue to
URHOtv will cease broad- look for ways to continue to
casting from tomorrow after operate. He explained that after
a final decision on whether
Ukraine will continue as hosts,
they will make a decision.
Walden went on to say
that they would also need to
clarify hosting requirements
with Fiba, particularly regarding arenas, accommodation and transportation??
will look into the matter; however, it noted that it is permitted to practice religion.
Education
Chancellor
Pekka Iivonen described it
as ?curious. URHO Play, the comfailing to put its finances on a pany?s online offering, will
viable footing.
also be suspended.?
Finland?s
URHOtv
goes off air
The Belfast Telegraph, 30 March, Adam Withnall
Who?s next. Belarus, the
Baltic states and Finland, one
of his closest former advisers
has said.
According to Andrej Illarionov, the President?s chief
economic adviser from 2000
to 2005, Mr Putin seeks to
create ?historical justice?
with a return to the days of
the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and
the Soviet Union under Stalin.
Due to ukraines political problems Finland could replace ukraine as hosts for eurobasket 2015.
IceNews, 31 March, Malcom
Finland could replace Ukraine
as Eurobasket 2015 hosts
basketball association is considering taking
advantage of the popularity of its men?s team and putting in a bid to host next year?s
European Championships if
Ukraine has to pull out.
With the likelihood Ukraine
will have to give up hosting the
?Finland?s
association, has denied reports that Ukraine is close to
withdrawing from hosting the
event because of the political
and economic crisis it is currently faced with. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
3 . Fiba,
the international basketball
Vesa Wallden, the managing director of the Finnish
Basketball Association, said
they are currently considering
whether offering to co-host
the championships is an option, but insisted nothing was
final. But the organisation will be discussing
the situation at an upcoming
meeting in Munich.
Mikko Puumalainen has urged an investigation over the hymn as it
has strong religious overtones which has strong religious overtones
that could be against finnish guidelines on relglious freedom.
IceNews, 30 March, Malcom
Finland could ban
schools from summer
hymn singing
National Board
of Education is considering
whether or not the summer
hymn, known in Finland as
suvivirsi, should continue
to be allowed to be sung at
school ceremonies.
Deputy Chancellor of Justice Mikko Puumalainen has
urged the Education Board to
investigate the issue as the
hymn has strong religious
overtones and therefore may
be against Finnish guidelines
on religious freedom, neutrality and equality. He pointed
out that most people in the
country are from the Lutheran church??
www.6d.fi
SixDegrees
is on stands now!
Grab a copy from your
nearest pick-up point!. Mr Illarionov said.
?Parts
of
Georgia,
Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic
States and Finland are states
where Putin claims to have
ownership??
L E H T I K U VA / a f p p h o t o / o l g a m alt s eva
with troops massed on the
border of Ukraine, Vladimir
Putin will not stop trying to
expand Russia until he has
?conquered. 9 APRIL 2014
7
L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K KOM A A
RTT News, 31 March
Stora Enso To Shut
Down Coated Magazine
Paper Machine In
Finland By End Of April
?Stora Enso said last Monday that paper machine 1 at
Veitsiluoto Mill in Finland
will be permanently shut
down by the end of April
2014. The shutdown will affect 88 employees.
In January 2014, Stora Enso announced that it planned
to permanently shut down
paper machine 1 or PM 1 at
Veitsiluoto Mill in Finland,
due to structural weakening
of magazine paper demand in
Europe.
The company stated that
PM 1 has an annual capacity
of 190 000 tonnes of coated
magazine paper. Vladimir
Putin ?wants to regain
Finland and won?t stop
trying to expand Russia?
?After annexing Crimea and
Speaking to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Mr Illarionov warned
that Russia will argue that
the granting of independence
to Finland in 1917 was an act
of ?treason against national
interests?
?Putin?s view is that he
protects what belongs to him
and his predecessors,. The board
has responded by saying it
?Finland?s
Russian soldiers unload trainload of their modified T-72 tanks after their arrival in Gvardeyskoe railway station near the Crimean
capital Simferopol.
basketball European Championships next year because
of the current political problems increasing by the week,
Finland is believed to be considering stepping in, although
only if it can find a country to
co-host the event with. The shutdown will decrease Stora Enso?s coated mechanical paper
capacity by about 15 per cetn
which represents about 2 per
cetn of total European coated
mechanical paper capacity.
Stora Enso said it will be
able to serve its NovaPress
customers from Veitsiluoto
Mill PM 5 and from Kabel Mill
in Germany??
DigitalTVEuorpe.net, 31 March
The channel first revealed
that it was in financial difficulty last autumn
This is good, but it doesn?t go far enough.
I BELIEVE we need significant structural reforms, not
only in the labour market and pension system, but also in the public sector. Yet there are significant non-tariff barriers
to trade, like rules on public procurement and antidumping measures. Sweden, in contrast, had
a ?6.7 billion surplus.
International
competition and
the welfare state
are not mutually
exclusive.
industrial production took an
extremely nasty hit
during the recent recession, but it stabilised in the next few
years. ISDS clauses are
common in free trade agreements, but under some situations it is conceivable that
foreign investors could inhibit the right of domestic governments to regulate their
economies and businesses.
A foreign mining company,
for example, could invest in
Finland and take the State to
arbitration, seeking compensation for environmental or
labour rules they deem detrimental to their business.
Free trade
generally beneficial
Generally, a free trade agreement between the EU and
United States would benefit Europe. It is Finland?s second biggest partner when it
comes to both import and export of services. C O R D
HEL SINK I TIMES
FORMAL negotiations between
the European Union and United States on a proposed free
trade agreement have begun,
but a proposed clause in the
pact is causing concern. Often
specific rules about quality standards or bureaucracy
people claim that globilisation will destroy the
welfare state that Finland worked so long and hard to
build. Reducing these barriers is a main
goal of the agreement.
There are a few sticking
points in the negotiations,
with agriculture being a major point of contention. 9 APRIL 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
L ehtiku va / J a r n o M el a
David J. The Spanish oil company
Repsol wanted compensation
from Argentina after its local
operations were seized. EU Trade
Commissioner Karel De Gucht
said in a January press release.
?Some existing arrangements
have caused problems in practice, allowing companies to
exploit loopholes where the
legal text has been vague. In the fourth quarter of 2013 our GDP shrank
1.4%, even worse than the 1.1% drop we had in the third
quarter. The writer is a journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. One
part of the deal was designed
to help protect foreign investors, but it could also be used
to coerce local governments.
The investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an
instrument that grants a
foreign investor the right to
take a host government to
arbitration. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Finland?s crossroads
THERE are few things worse than unexpected bad
news. We lost our decades-long surplus during the
financial crisis, but the situation had started to gradually improve. Exports
to America would increase by
28 per cent.
There would be little disruption in the labour market,
too: the study guessed between 0.2 and 0.5 per cent of
the workforce would have to
change jobs and move to another sector. The time has come to make some serious
decisions about Finland?s future and place in the world.
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht underlined people?s concerns in Europe regarding companies exploiting loopholes in legal
text regarding the EU-US deal.?
disquieting surprise is that Finland?s economic growth is not returning. 8
BUSINESS
3 . Our government can?t get a handle on our
persistent short-term budget deficits and aren?t showing the political backbone to make long-term reforms.
ALMOST everyone agrees on Finland?s problems. In almost two
decades we have made virtually no progress in the productivity of our public sector.
Under a proposed clause, foreign investors could sue Finland if local laws harmed their investment.
DAV I D J . Finland has received some unpleasant economic news recently, and we are doing much worse than we
had realised. During that time we
had a ?1.6 billion trade deficit. Now Germany has signalled they plan to
fight to exclude the provisions
in the free trade agreement.
Finland and the US
It is possible that scrapping
the ISDS provisions could
Finland?s trade
balance with America
? Services exported:
?1.147 billion
? Services imported:
?1.706 billion
? Services balance:
?0.559 billion deficit
?
?
?
Goods exported:
?3.580 billion
Goods imported:
?1.970 billion
Goods balance:
?1.61 billion surplus
Finland?s top
exports to America
1) Petroleum products
2) Paper and paperboard
3) Medical instruments
4) Electro-medical, x-ray
equipment
5) Nickel
Finland?s top
imports from America
1) Aircraft
2) Chemicals
3) Medicine
4) Telecommunications
equipment
5) Medical instruments
Source: Statistics Finland, Tulli
hurt Finland to some extent.
Finland has made a serious effort to attract foreign direct
investment, and if investors
believe they are not adequately protected under existing
laws they could be loath to
invest here. A
number of important industries are in trouble, including metals, forestry and especially electronics. Economists had expected things would begin to improve, but this is not
the case. There would be
few downsides, such as harm
to third parties or damage to
the environment.
Currently there are few
traditional trade barriers,
such as tariffs, between the
EU and US. +358-9-616 621, info@hotelanna.fi
www.hotelanna.fi
standards are used to indirectly hamper trade. According to Statistics Finland,
the total productivity in government agencies and institutions is 0.4% higher than in 1995. Our production is 4.7% below
what it was in 2010, but our nearest competitors of Estonia, Sweden and Germany all have levels of production above 2010 levels.
FINLAND?S
WE HAVE probably entered into our third recession in
six years and are still about 5% below our 2008 production peak. I believe that international competition and the welfare state are not mutually exclusive, but we must improve our public sector
as well as our private sector. I
know some people in Europe
have genuine concerns about
this part of the EU-US deal.?
Early this year the European Commission temporarily suspended negotiations to
allow public consultations on
the ISDS issue. They are correct, but only if we don?t develop our
public processes and systems. Sweden,
Russia and Germany are much
larger export markets, and we
import almost twice as much
from China than we do from
the United States.
America is particularly important in services,
however. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi. America is still a
small investor in Finland, only
making up 1.8 per cent of the
stock of foreign direct investment as of 2013, according to
the Bank of Finland.
Yet lowering other barriers
to trade should help the Finnish economy. We still have some financial leeway in our budget, so we should begin studying
significant capital investments and reforms.
SOME
Cosy hotel in the heart of Helsinki
Annankatu 1, 00120 Helsinki
tel. As Finland
gradually moves to a more
knowledge-intensive economy, the trade in services will
become more crucial.. A study commissioned by the European
Commission estimated that
it could bring the EU economic gains of up to 119 euros billion annually. Unfortunately Finland seems to have
lost its forward momentum, and exports fell 2% during the first 11 months of last year. The
American tobacco behemoth
Philip Morris went after Australia because of cigarette
plain-packaging laws.
?Governments must always be free to regulate so
they can protect people and
the environment,. Our
wages have risen too high and we are no longer competitive. Tiny incremental steps have been taken to fix
the situation, like holding wages down via the most recent collective bargaining agreement, making small
adjustments to the budget and tinkering with retirement ages. The EU
doesn?t want American genetically modified food and wants
to protect domestic farmers.
Another possible problem is
the ISDS mechanism.
ISDS
ISDS cases have increased in
importance in recent years.
The Swedish energy company Vattenfall is seeking compensation from Germany for
phasing out nuclear power. We are now falling farther behind our peers.
The only European countries to have a worse fourth
quarter than us were Greece and Cyprus, which should
tell us a thing or two.
EU-US free trade
agreement hits snag
THE first
MEANWHILE, our trade balance has started to deterio-
rate again. Now it is on the
downward slope again. America is one
of Finland?s relatively smaller trading partners
9 APRIL 2014
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L e ht i k u va / M a r tt i K a i n u l a i n e n
Supercell?s new title
is winning over gamers
load for free, gamers can
spend real money on in-app
purchases to advance faster.
The game has been available
in Canada and Australia for
several months as Supercell
tested and refined the game
for its global launch.
Ilkka Paananen, the CEO
at Supercell, admits that
the popularity of the game
has been a positive surprise.
?We?re maybe surprised that
it ranked so high,. Heinemann stated.
Eero Heliövaara, the director of the Government?s
ownership steering department, has proposed that
Finland reduce its stake in
Finnair to 30 per cent.
Technology exports plummet
decrease in both Finnish imports and exports.
The Finnish Customs also
highlights that the exports of
other apparatuses and, especially, pharmaceutical technology grew last year.
The statistics also indicate that Finland?s hightechnology trade deficit has
widened rapidly since 2010.
The country currently imports considerably more high
technology than it exports.
Meanwhile, Finnish imports
have increased especially due
to a rise in the imports of pharmaceuticals. that is, essentially, from a
partial sale to or an exchange
of shares with another airline.
Another option would be for
Finnair to establish a joint air
venture with another airline.
?Companies such as Finnair
have become a dying breed of
air transport. H T
Nokia unveiled the Nokia N77 mobile phone at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona in 2007, when the value of Finnish hightech exports was nearly 12 billion euros.
Want to know if you should compliment
your girlfriend on being plösö or paksuna?
Sick of not knowing your Kossu from your skumppa?
Not sure whether to käydä vieraissa or to käydä vierailulla?
Finnish After Dark is here to help, with everything from cool
slang to chat up lines, tips on how to avoid being beaten up in
taxi queues and the latest excuses for why you are late for work.
Finnish After Dark is a humoristic look at various Finnish-language terms and phrases that are almost impossible to translate. This means domestic air
traffic and Asian operations,?
Haavisto told Helsingin Sanomat on Friday evening.
YLE was the first to write
about his change of heart.
The major Finnish investors, Haavisto suggested,
could be pension companies
and agencies. Although Boom
Beach is available for down-
Minister Pekka Haavisto (Greens).
Finland could sell
majority stake in
Finnair, Haavisto says
T u o m o P ietil ä inen . Finland currently owns 55.8 per
cent of the shares in Finnair
through the state-owned investment firm Solidium.
Pekka Haavisto
Employees at Supercell are pleased with the favorable reception the game studio?s new game, Boom Beach, has been reviewed with.
No more than two months
ago, Haavisto insisted that
the shares cannot be sold.
?The holdings of the state
could be sold to major Finnish
investors that agree with the
state on the strategy of Finnair. he says.
On the other hand,
Paananen reminds that early rankings are not as decisive
for free-to-play games as they
can be for traditional video
and computer games, which
generally strive to generate
their profits early. The series continues to receive excellent feedback from readers.
Buy online:
www.6d.fi/fad
or in major bookstores.. Of such organisations, Keva and Ilmarinen
are already among the largest
shareholders in Finnair. Paananen explains.
Employees at Supercell
are particularly pleased with
the user reviews of Boom
Beach, he adds.
J uhani S aarinen . It is clear that
consolidations will continue in
Europe,. H S
A leksi T ei vainen . H S
A leksi T ei vainen . Similarly to the preceding year, the decline in
the trade of mobile phones
and other communication
systems was the most significant factor behind the
sitions by Finnair as the airline
has modernised its fleet.
Although the exports of
high-technology products to
Russia fell by 20 per cent last
year, the country remains
Finland?s most important export destination with a share
of 15 per cent of Finnish exports. These are the spices of late night conversation among Finns,
which are almost always missed by foreigners.
The book is based on the Finnish After Dark series published in SixDegrees over the past few years. On the
other hand, Haavisto viewed
that the acquisition of a majority stake in Finnair by a foreign
company, such as a rival airline, could bring about changes
in the strategy of Finnair.
Klaus Heinemann and
Pekka Vauramo, respectively the board chairman and
CEO at Finnair, commented
on the possible re-organisation during the airline?s general meeting on Thursday.
In his opening address,
Heinemann argued that maintaining the current ownership
structure of Finnair may not
ultimately be in the best interests of the airline. The United States has
contrastively increased its
share and currently accounts
for 12 per cent of the exports.
In terms of imports, China remains Finland?s most significant trade partner, despite
the fact that its share of Finnish imports declined from the
30 per cent recorded in 2012 to
roughly 20 per cent last year.
L e ht i k u va / K i mm o M ä n t y l ä
A nni L assila . marginally below the value recorded in the
aftermath of the early 1990s
recession in 1995. BUSINESS
HELSINKI TIMES
3 . On Thursday, the
strategy game ranked as one
of the ten most popular iPhone applications in 22 countries, according to app store
data analyst App Annie.
In the United States and
Germany, Boom Beach was
the fourth most popular iPhone app.
On the iPad, the new title fared even better, ranking not only among the most
popular but also among the
top-grossing apps in five
countries.
Boom Beach is a free-toplay strategy game not entirely dissimilar to Clash of
Clans, the previous hit title
of Supercell. Instead, he
suggested, Finnair could benefit from an equity partnership
. Technology imports, in turn, have increased
due a number of aircraft acqui-
Statistics published
by
the Finnish Customs indicate that the value of Finnish high-technology exports
plummeted to 3.5 billion euros last year . Free-toplay games, in contrast, have
a substantially longer lifespan.
?The objective is to create
games for years and years to
come,. As a result, the high technology sector only accounted for six per
cent of the value of all Finnish exports in 2013.
The value of Finland?s
technology exports increased
steadily when Nokia was at
the height of its powers, peaking at nearly 12 billion euros in
2007 and at most representing over 20 per cent of the value of Finnish exports.
Last year, however, the
value of high-technology exports slipped by 20 per cent
as Nokia ramped down its
manufacturing operations in
Finland. H T
(Greens),
the minister responsible for
ownership steering, is willing to consider selling Finland?s majority stake in
Finnair, if the majority of
the shares in the airline remain in Finnish hands. H S
A leksi T ei vainen . H T
L e ht i k u va / Ro n i R e ko m a a
Boom Beach, the most recent game launched by the
Finnish mobile game studio Supercell, is surging
through apps charts following its release on iOS earlier
this week
according to a
recent study.
?The covers of public drains have been lifted, leaving holes in which at
least two motorcyclists have
died,. When Osama bin
Laden was killed in Pakistan
in May 2011, the streets of
Cairo were silent. De Volkskrant, another major newspaper, led with a
story about President Barack
Obama?s visit this week . The rest
. and beyond, say the violence in Venezuela is neither
democratic nor spontaneous,
but a carefully orchestrated
effort by the middle- and upper-classes to destabilise the
revolutionary process set in
motion by former President
Hugo Chávez, which has long
been a thorn in the side of the
wealthy.
Silence in the barrios
A 25 March statement signed
by over 30 independent Venezuelan human rights activists says protests have
largely been confined to affluent sectors in eight of the
country?s 335 municipalities.
These neighbourhoods,
home to mostly upper- and
middle-class Venezuelans
who constitute an electoral
minority, are now the sites of
makeshift barricades where
?cables, barbed wire, felled
trees, rocks, and spilt grease
oil. Other European newspapers were equally blase.
Three agents were sent
home by the Secret Service
this week after one of them
was found passed out drunk
in the hallway outside his
room hours before he was
set to go on duty. It
happens,. The incident was another black eye
for an agency struggling to
move beyond a 2012 drinking-and-prostitution scandal
in Colombia, and it prompted sharp condemnation from
lawmakers in Washington.
But Dutch citizens on
Thursday hardly batted an
eye, taking advantage of a
lovely spring day to partake
of the city?s pleasures, which
famously include coffee along
the canals and marijuana in
the coffee shops.
De Telegraaf, the largest newspaper in the Netherlands, splashed an article
across its front page about a
local controversy over early
parole. Some agents
wanted to see the Anne Frank
House in Amsterdam, the driver said. added the study.
Contrary to news reports
that most of the 33 deaths
have occurred at the hands
of security forces, the study
found that 17 of the victims
died at the street barricades,
including a pregnant woman who was shot Monday
when the bus she was riding
in was halted by protesters
and its passengers forced to
disembark.
?The people you are seeing on the streets constitute
the hard-line of the rightwing opposition who decided that they did not want to
wait till the next election to
get rid of the government,?
Mark Weisbrot, co-director
of the Washington DC-based
Centre for Economic and Policy Research, told IPS over
the phone from Lima.
Regardless of their political affiliation, the protesters. 9 APRIL 2014
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Secret Service flap creates
barely a ripple among
Amsterdam?s residents
Netherlands
MICHAEL BIRNBAUM
THE WA SHING TON POS T
relaxed canal city
famous for its tolerant approach to drinking, sex and
drugs, the notion that three
Americans went out drinking on a Saturday night barely rated as news this week.
Even if the Americans were
US Secret Service agents.
Dutch readers woke
Thursday to barely a whisper about the ongoing Secret
Service behaviour scandal in
their morning newspapers,
with most local media repackaging a squib of American reporting, if they mentioned it
at all. but
it went with the local angle,
focusing on Obama telling the
European Union to be more
self-reliant in a Wednesday
speech in Brussels.
Earlier this week, one Amsterdam television station
asked a Washington Post reporter for an interview after the Secret Service story
broke but lost interest after it was revealed that the
agents were actually staying
Thousands of Venezuelans demonstrate in eastern Caracas on 27 February to denounce alleged dictatorial actions of the government.
In Venezuela: a popular
uprising, or class warfare?
Venezuela
K A N YA D ?A L M E I DA
IN TER PRESS SERVICE
THIS much is known: at least
33 people are dead and 461
have been wounded. questions of who, why and
what next for Venezuela ?
has largely been a matter of
speculation.
Earlier this month, a group
of United Nations independent experts asked the government of Nicolás Maduro
to clarify allegations of arbitrary arrests, intimidation of
journalists and the abuse of
dissidents in what experts say
is the country?s worst political
turmoil in over 10 years.
Beginning in early February as sporadic student
demonstrations,
protests
are now a daily occurrence,
drawing anywhere from 500
to 5,000 people who say they
have taken to the streets
against perennial food shortages, soaring inflation and
a steep rise in crime, including 21,000 homicides in 2012
alone according to the Venezuela Violence Observatory,
representing one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Although initially peaceful, the protests recently
turned deadly, with civilians
firing bullets from behind
their barricades and the National Guard dispatching
units decked out in full riot
gear to meet them.
For several weeks the
media has portrayed the
situation as a democratic
struggle for human rights,
including the rights to freedom of speech and political
assembly.
In an 18 March statement
to the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva, Human
Rights Watch (HRW) urged
Maduro?s government to ?uphold its international legal
obligations to respect human rights, and, specifically, to end abuses against
demonstrators.?
Daniel Wilkinson, managing director of the Americas division at HRW, told
IPS the situation is ?grave?,
particularly the ?abuses being committed by
security forces, including excessive use of force against
demonstrators.?
But other rights groups in
and around Caracas, as well
as some commentators in the
U.S. demands seem perfectly
reasonable on paper: a reduction of the inflation rate that
has nearly doubled to 57.3 per
cent since Maduro took the
helm last April, and access to
basic supplies and groceries.
Economic growth slowed
from 5.6 per cent in 2012
to one per cent in 2013, according to the International
Monetary Fund, partly accounting for the bare shelves
around the country.
But Weisbrot says the protesters are more sheltered
from such scarcities than
their counterparts in the
sprawling barrios of Caracas,
home to 50 per cent of the
city?s 3.8 million inhabitants.
Indeed, economic analysts have suggested that
the protesters are more aggrieved by the 4.1 per cent
jump in monthly recreational costs, and the 3.9 per cent
spike in hotel and restaurant prices, than by inflated
healthcare expenses or the
cost of flour.
Some sources say the
above analysis is borne out
by protesters. said one driver who
had been contracted to help
hundreds of Secret Service
agents get around the Netherlands during the logistically
complicated presidential trip.
?You take them to a place like
Amsterdam and they have a
good time,. 10
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3 . Other agents wanted
to see the technically complex
system of dams and locks that
protect low-lying Netherlands
from the open sea. he said, speaking
on the condition of anonymity because his employer had
not granted him permission
to talk to the news media.
The driver said he had ferried teams of Secret Service
agents on sightseeing trips
around the Netherlands, a
postage-stamp nation the
size of Maryland . James Petras, professor emeritus of sociology at
the Binghamton University in
New York, told IPS.
A few nights ago demonstrators torched an experimental university in the
western city of San Cristobal,
cradle of the protest movement, where several hundred
low-income Venezuelan students were receiving subsidised education.
The government, meanwhile, is sandwiched between international pressure
to release the roughly 1,800
jailed protesters and rein
in its security forces, and a
growing movement in and
outside of Venezuela calling for swift action against
what they say is a wave of
fascism, in which a privileged minority is threatening
to destabilise a government
that has won 18 of the last 19
elections.
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / J O H N T H Y S
IN THIS
in a hotel in Noordwijk, about
30 miles away.
US foreign correspondents take the same approach.
Among the many local kerfuffles here that most American
journalists avoided in recent
years were a bribery scandal
engulfing Germany?s president,
a paternity scandal involving Belgium?s former king and
countless smaller political affairs ranging from plagiarism
to adultery to corruption.
Even truly epochal events
don?t always resonate across
borders. One
of the men was found the next
morning passed out in the hallway and was helped to bed by
three hotel employees.
?These are young guys. What they
didn?t care about, the driver
said, was the acres and acres
of red, yellow and white flowers that are blooming across
acres of Dutch countryside.
?Big guys,. mix with disused furniture, tires and rubbish that
are lit on fire,. the driver said,
?don?t want to see the tulip
fields.?
US President Barack Obama (L) chats with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as they pose for a family picture with other world
leaders in The Hague on 25 March.. but not to
the tulip fields. systematic
targeting of public welfare
institutions, utilised by the
country?s most destitute and
marginalised groups, in a deliberate attempt to weaken
the nerve centre of the Socialist state.
?There have been attacks
on government supermarkets
that sell food at subsidised
prices, on clinics where Cuban
doctors provide free medical
care, and on educational facilities,. Most people hadn?t heard the news;
those who had were more
preoccupied with their own
country?s political tumult.
At the Huis Ter Duin, the
luxury coastal hotel near The
Hague where Obama stayed
Monday night, few people
were impressed by the Secret
Service flap.
The three agents went out
drinking Saturday night after
being warned by their supervisor not to get into trouble, according to two officials with
knowledge of the events
at least in theory
cupcakes nestle in
a box on the counter of the
bakery. H S
N iina W oolley . Bitcoins
can be sent via email or online application.
Bitcoin is a rare thing
among financial innovations: a novel currency. says Mika Jussila, master engineer
at Finnvox.
In many recording studios, the resolution used is lower than the one produced by
the Pono files.
Some critics have also speculated that the advertised high
resolution is a gimmick that allows the sale of old classics in a
new package with minimal extra costs to the seller.
?Yes and no,. he said.. I am
hoping to find a simpler way
of making payments and
transferring money.
The cashier turns a device placed on the counter towards me and says: ?You can
scan the QR code there.. By
Monday, the campaign had
produced funds totalling 4.7
million dollars, or 3.4 million
euros.
In October, the company,
which has announced that
its PonoPlayer will cost 399
dollars, will bring out a vast
selection of downloadable
music, including Finnish artists, in its own Pono format.
According to preliminary
information, albums will cost
15 to 25 dollars (11 to 18 euros) to download. I managed to
get my hands on some bitcoins after a lengthy process
involving my American bank
account and credit card.
I return to the bakery in
the afternoon, only to find
that the QR code is still not
working, but at least I manage to email bitcoins to the
bakery owner to pay for my
cakes. ?I?ll pay with bitcoins,. But the opponents
believe that e-cigarettes can
serve to promote smoking
and make it more difficult
come over nicotine addiction.
The science community does not see eye to eye
on whether cutting back on
smoking is enough or is quitting altogether always the
only acceptable goal.
Of course, what is at stake
here is legislation on the advertising of e-cigarettes and
big money. H S
N iina W oolley . In
recent years, mainly new
methods of payment, such
as Square or Google Wallet, have emerged, providing
a hassle-free way of paying
for services or products. says Wemppa Koivumäki, the managing director of Sony Music
Finland.
?My guess is that this will
not become a product for
the masses. The situation is
a perfect illustration of the
turmoil that has surrounded
bitcoin in recent months: the
bitcoin exchange teetering
on the verge of a bankruptcy, stolen money, the volatility of the currency and huge
investments in the bitcoin
ecosystem.
Adding fuel to the fire,
Apple has closed down all of
its bitcoin wallet apps amid
rumours that the company is planning to launch its
own payment system. The study also lacked
more detailed information
on the characteristics of the
smoking, such as frequency or motivation, but the researchers still argue that the
ton John to producer Rick
Rubin praising the superiority of Pono?s playback sound
quality.
Despite the enthusiasm of
other artists and small-time
investors, Pono has been met
with a lukewarm reception
from other quarters.
Sound experts have been
quick to point out that the
playback quality produced by
CDs covers pretty much the
entire human hearing range.
The high data rates of the Pono
files do not improve the quality
of the sound that come within
the range of human ear.
Such high-resolution recording technology is used
in recording studios to prevent any disturbances in the
sound quality from becoming
audible to the human ear during the production process.
?The high playback resolution will only bring any
benefits if a similarly high
resolution was used for recording the tracks,. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
HELSINKI TIMES
3 . H T
Do the MP3 music files stored
on your computer or mobile phone have a low-quality sound. Perhaps not. Could
they sound better. I say to the cashier.
Bitcoin, a virtual currency
that has recently been in the
news in Finland, is accepted as an instrument of payment in a growing number
of online shops. Perhaps if Pink
Floyd?s Dark Side of the Moon
has been a special album for
you, you might want to listen to it the way it sounded
on the original master tape.?
findings support previous research data indicating that
e-cigarettes may not help
smokers kick the habit.
E-cigarette is an electronic device that is used to
inhale vapours that may contain nicotine.
In e-cigarettes, there is
no combustion and no tobacco, and therefore it does not
produce tar, smoke or carbon
monoxide, which is why many
researchers consider them to
be safer than conventional
cigarettes. H T
11
Liquid inside the e-cigarette
that produces vapour may
contain nicotine.
give such a low hit of nicotine that they do not work as
a replacement for ordinary
cigarettes.
?People should be warned
of e-cigarettes. But can you
hear a difference?
Next autumn, music fans can buy their
favourite albums as giant files that only work
with the PonoPlayer, marketed by the Canadian music legend.
I lkka M attila . I am
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / Yo shika z u T su n o
A dozen
supposed to pay for my cupcakes using my bitcoin wallet,
a mobile phone app, which allows me to transfer anywhere
the 0.05 bitcoins, translating into around 20 euros, I
bought on an online bitcoin
exchange the night before.
Easy . There
are, however, plenty of apps
available for Android phones.
I have to leave my treats on
the counter and rush off to a
meeting.
A currency revolution and
smooth transactions are not
here quite yet. 9 APRIL 2014
L E H T I K U VA / Ro n i R eko m aa
Paying with bitcoins is
easy . In contrast to
credit cards, bitcoin transactions are almost as untraceable as payments made with
cash, a feature that also appeals to criminals. at least in theory.
But it turns out that,
thanks to a database error, the application does not
work today. In San Francisco, where I live, bitcoins
can also be used to pay for a
latte in a café or a sushi in a
restaurant.
Advocates of this cryptocurrency praise its lack
of restrictions: Unlike official currencies controlled by
central banks, Bitcoin is a
peer-to-peer system, which
does not recognise borders
between countries or banking systems. Why not.
Canadian rock legend Neil
Young has, for several years,
lambasted the way ?the magic has been squeezed out of
digital music?.
Now the 68-year-old musician has put his money
where his mouth is and has
founded a company called
PonoMusic, planning to
launch a new PonoPlayer and
a download service selling
files of higher resolution to
go with the portable device.
The name of the product
comes from a Hawaiin word
for justice.
Young recently introduced his new service at
South by Southwest, the
largest music industry con-
ference in the US, to more interest than any other recent
technical innovation in the
field has received.
PonoMusic launched a
Kickstarter
crowdfunding campaign to raise money to finalise the design,
with the 800,000-dollar goal
smashed in just one day. The US authorities
are set to issue regulations on
the marketing and sale of the
products, so fierce lobbying
battles are underway, as The
Unlike MP3s or CDs, which
lose sonic information when
the files are compressed, Pono recordings contain all the
original data, making them
much larger than files in other formats.
The PonoPlayer has a
128GB memory capable of
storing up to 500 albums,
which would require a 32GB
memory as MP3 files.
Because of the large file
size, Pono tracks cannot be
streamed from services such as
Spotify but must be purchased
from a download service.
The way
music was intended
Young has said that he wanted to bring this product to
the market to allow music
fans to hear albums the way
the artists had always wanted them to be heard.
To date, the digital formats on the market have left
out part of the spectrum and
dynamicity of the sound, in
order to compress them into
a smaller file size.
Young has recruited a
staggering line-up of American super stars to appear on
the Pono promotional video, with music legends from
Bruce Springsteen and ElWashington Post commented
in its report on the study and
the debate it has sparked.
Peter Hajek, director of
the tobacco dependence research unit at Barts and the
London School of Medicine
and Dentistry, reviewed the
study for the journal Nature,
arguing that e-cigarettes offered ?the best hope ever of
eliminating deaths and diseases caused by smoking by
replacing lethal cigarettes
with a safer alternative?.
On the other hand, the
deputy director of the Harvard School of Public Health,
Vaughan Rees, claimed in Nature that many e-cigarettes
H S / S a m i K ero
Tanja A itam u rto . H S
N iina W oolley . limitations in
helping with quitting smoking,. H T
Debate on the benefits of
electronic cigarettes in helping people quit smoking is
heating up again, according to
the US science journal Nature.
This time it was a study
carried out at the University
of California that added fuel to the fire, claiming that
smokers who also use e-cigarettes are no more likely to
quit smoking than others.
In their study published at
the journal JAMA Internal
Medicine, the research team
monitored 949 people who
recorded their smoking habits on an online application.
Pamela Ling, Rachel Grana and Lucy Popova, the researchers responsible for the
study, also expressed some
reservations about the results.
With only 88 users of ecigarettes, the sample was
small. The cupcakes are now
mine, but my bitcoin wallet
is almost empty, leaving me
wondering whether to invest
in the freedom of currency,
or is Bitcoin still too idealistic to withstand the real life
problems?
Bitcoins becoming the norm James MacWhyte, a member of bitcoin trading club poses with bitcoin medals at the club?s meeting
in Tokyo in February.
Neil Young believes that Pono will gain a similar market share to vinyl in the US, amounting to a couple of per cent of the sales.
Neil Young launches
a high-end music
player . The music
industry giants Sony, Warner
and Universal have said they
would also bring out albums
by their artists in the format.
E-cigarettes may not help people quit smoking
J u ssi N iemel ä inen . It
is surprising that cryptocurrency has gained this much
popularity.
I too want to have a taste
of currency freedom
Artturi put his
bunny in his sister?s small
coffin.
The same psalms were
sung at the funeral as last
time. Artturi said for
weeks after his little brother
was born.. The
doctor explained that the
placenta, the organ responsible for transporting oxygen
for the baby, had nearly come
Laura and Tero Mäkelä are grateful for the midwives of Seinäjoki central hospital, who made cards
that tell of the dead babies.
Far from normal
Laura found it shocking that
she had to give birth to the
dead baby in the normal way.
She was given powerful pain
medication, and it turned out
to be a relatively easy labour.
What was hard was to comprehend that the washed and
swaddled baby in her arms
was not asleep but dead,
gone for good.
Tero rushed home from
the hospital and carried the
waiting crib to the attic. There
was no warm newborn the
parents could hold in their
arms like a sleeping baby.
There was only a small, cold
body in the hospital?s cold
room.
?In a sleep stupor, I
thought I would steal someone?s baby. It made him
feel better.
Laura called Artturi?s daycare from the hospital and
told them that Artturi would
stay under care. Artturi and Oliver are alive, but their sisters died before
they were born.
The daughter of Laura and Tero Mäkelä died in the womb a month
before the due date. When father
worked and mother just
cried, Artturi said that he
would take a ladder to heaven and bring the baby back
home so that mother would
no longer have to be sad.
At the funeral, the child
was blessed by the priest
they had asked to conduct
the baptism. When I enter a
boxing ring I am scared, but
it is a different kind of fear.
Now I felt that there was
nothing I could do about the
matter.?
Then Oliver was born,
alive and healthy. Everything
had been alright then. Back then no one would have thought that the
family would have to experience the same thing again.
A N N A K A I S A M Ä N T TÄ R I . The doctor was
present from beginning to
end, and the operating theatre was next door.
Tero could not come near
Laura. H T
?Listen, madam. It was difficult to breathe.
Even during the funeral, it
was clear that Laura and Tero
wanted to have another baby
soon. How
could the baby be dead when
it was about to be born?
Laura had heard her
child?s heartbeat at the maternity clinic. Doctors and nurses told them
that lightning would not
strike twice. They
had received a living child,
and nothing else mattered in
comparison.
Laura?s roommate in the
ward also had a child who
was in intensive care for the
same reason as Laura?s child.
The woman cried and wept
for the situation, but on the
other side of the curtain Laura thought of her baby and
smiled happily.
Laura and Tero got to tell
Artturi that this time the baby would be coming home.
The older brother thought it
was miraculous.
?Thank God this baby
did not die,. He
thought that Laura would
not be able to bear the sight
of the empty bed when she
came home. Laura realised that her pregnancy was
where her previous pregnancy had been, to the day.
After all the sorrow, it felt
wonderful to be able to give
birth to a new, living baby.
She returned from the fair
and began reading Dumbon
junamatka to Artturi as a
bedtime story. Once
the contractions became
more potent, she should go
to the hospital immediately.
The bedtime story was not
finished, and Laura rushed
Artturi to change from his
pyjamas to regular clothes.
Before they went to the
car, Laura noticed that there
were no more breaks between contractions. Even though they
had not discovered a reason
for the previous stillbirths,
Laura was encouraged to
take a blood thinner.
When the pregnancy had
lasted two days less than the
two previous ones, labour
was initiated. This child
is dead.?
The chief physician who
performed the ultrasound
appeared sombre. When the coffin was
placed in the grave, Laura
felt as if her heart had been
torn from her chest and
placed into the ground along
with the coffin. Laura did not smoke,
she had not fallen or otherwise
suffered any trauma and she
did not have high blood pressure. Laura and
Tero were pleased to hear
that they would be expecting
a girl again.
Born before her time
In mid-July the due date was
only a few weeks away. It had simply happened.
Laura and Tero Mäkelä have four children. They would be
more likely to win the lottery
than to go through the same
thing again. The same priest blessed
the child. The pregnancy was, nevertheless, monitored more closely. After that Tero
went for a run, and he ran until he vomited. Laura
Korkonen-Mäkelä was lying
in the labour ward of Seinäjoki central hospital, and
could not comprehend what
the doctor was saying. The situation was different from last time. 12
PEOPLE
3 . Laura and Tero had
lost another baby.
When Laura awoke during
the night, she did not know
what had happened to the baby. This is why
Laura and her husband Tero
were only excited when her
contractions intensified during the day.
Finally Laura felt that the
last contraction had not end-
ed before a new one began.
The pain was terrible, and
they left for the hospital. The nurses would not answer her questions but told
her to wait for a doctor. Before anyone said
anything, Laura could see
from Tero?s face that the baby had died.
According to Tero, the
hospital chaplain could not
face Laura, but stayed outside in the hallway. Due to his
small size, Oliver was placed
in intensive care for two
weeks, but the parents were
not upset in the least. In his anger,
Tero had thrown the crib into
a dumpster: a new one would
be bought if they were to
have a living child again.
The doctors had promised
Laura that the pregnancy
would not be allowed to proceed to the phase in which
the two previous children
had died. Then
Tero entered the room with
a doctor. ?I did not want to
speak or even see anyone.?
There was still one person Laura absolutely wanted
to see. 9 APRIL 2014
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Inexplicable stillbirths took
two babies from a family in a year
off, and this is why the baby
had died of asphyxiation.
The doctor could not give
a reason for the loosened placenta. The nurse pushed her
bed into the cold room where
the baby had already been
taken. It felt
exactly as it had during the
last time and she panicked.
With their son, Tero and
Laura began to drive for the
hospital.
The ultrasound revealed
that the placenta had come
entirely off. Laura and her mother went to
Vaasa home fair for a day.
As she circled between the
homes, she felt contractions
slowly begin. Two months after the
girl?s death, Laura was pregnant again.
Laura and Tero were not
afraid for the new baby. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . Just pick up someone?s baby from the ward and
go home.?
No flaw in the baby or placenta could be found this
time either, that could have
explained the occurrence
to Laura or Tero. Even the
priest did not know what to
say to a mother who had gone
through the same nightmare
twice.
All the anger, bitterness
and rage that Laura had
avoided the first time came
over her. The child?s heartbeat was monitored once a
week, and every day towards
the end. The contractions intensified and became
more painful.
Laura remembered the
doctor?s instructions. He sat in the corner of
the birthing room and was so
scared that he was shaking.
?I have never been so
frightened. Tero
says.
He tried to work as much
as possible so that he would
not have time to think about
the pregnancy. She
had felt contractions but
that was not a cause for worry with the due date only a
month away and the baby
ready to be born. The
two-year-old Artturi stayed
at home with grandma to
await the birth of his sister.
Tero looked at the doctor and thought he was mad.
Neither of them had ever
heard that a baby could just
die within the womb. Laura felt that she
was ready to enter the grave
with her child.
Final resting place
A new name was engraved on
the tombstone that had been
purchased the previous year.
Half a kilometre away from
the Mäkelä home, a tombstone stands on the graveyard with the names of two
daughters: Lumi and Laina.
Both have one day for a birthday and date of death.
When Artturi was four,
Laura was expecting again.
This time they were so afraid
that they were not even able
to rejoice at the pregnancy.
?I was certain that the
same thing would happen to
us for the third time,. Once Laura
was released from the hospital, she immediately went
to a mortician and began to
make arrangements.
The parents told Artturi that his sister had gone
straight to heaven instead,
and that is why she did not
come home. The threeyear-old Artturi was told
once again by his parents
that the baby sister did not
come home but went straight
to heaven. His crying sounded so wonderful to
Laura and Tero that they began to cry as well. The escorting crowd sang psalms that
were usually sung at a baptism. Laura, was
anaesthetised and a Caesarean section was performed.
After the surgery the doctor attempted to revive the
child for 50 minutes, but to
no avail
that is,
when you hold something in
one hand, but not the other . We carry
water bottles, music players,
phones and activity trackers.
And although we use them to
make our runs easier, here?s
the bad news: They could be
slowing us down.
To understand why an
MP3 player or a water bottle
might hinder your progress, a
brief lesson in biomechanics
is in order. a water bottle, an iPod, a set of
keys . ?What happens above
the waist impacts on what
happens below. ?People always
underestimate the role of
arms in running,. But
if you stay hydrated throughout the day, you shouldn?t
need that water bottle in the
first place. ?That slight
feeling of thirst is not a major factor when you?re out on
a training run, so long as you
can readily rehydrate soon
after.?
Still worried about dehydration. If
you?re holding something,
you?ll create tension and imbalance in your upper body.
No matter the object . If this
can be done, then drinking in
moderation is a feasible goal.?
Simojoki, however, stresses that if the addiction is severe learning to drink in a
controlled manner is difficult, with even milder cases
of addiction carrying a risk
of relapse.
?Addiction doesn?t always
mean that social drinking is
out of the question, but it?s
good to consider whether it?s
worth taking the risk.?
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Jogging without carrying anything lessens the chance of form imbalance.
Why you?re better off
running empty-handed
B en O pipari
The Wa shing ton Pos t
Running used to be a simple endeavour. Although
the ideal amount of excess
weight during exercise would
be zero, Smoliga says that
if you run with water, make
sure it?s as close to the body
as possible, like the hydration systems that you strap
to your waist or the center of
your back. When one arm has
less motion than the other, one stride will be shorter than the other, hence the
asymmetry. There are exceptions,
of course, depending on the
length and intensity of your
run or training session. HS
N iina W oolley . ?The average healthy
person can probably exercise
for an hour without worrying about fluid replacement,?
Smoliga says. It leaves a permanent mark, but it is possible
to keep the addiction under
control. The lower any mass is
distributed down your arm,
the more impact it will have.
This is why an iPod strapped
to your upper arm won?t affect form as much as an iPod
in your hand.
Smoliga, a former collegiate runner who researches
the effects of biomechanics
and the neuromuscular system on endurance sports,
says that the farther from
your body you carry an object, the more force your
muscles will need to generate
to carry it. (That?s why the bad guys
never get far when they escape from police custody in
handcuffs.) Both the arms
and the torso come into play,
helping the legs lift the body
and working together to create a smooth stride.
Good running form starts
in the hands. holding something
alters your form and makes
you exert more energy. You
can also take steps to minimize dehydration by starting
your run hydrated, staying
in the shade as much as possible, going out during the
cooler parts of the day and
wearing breathable clothing. It?s
easy to see how even an empty water bottle or an iPod
could have a detrimental effect on your gait.
Hogging the flow
On a physiological level,
when you run, your blood
gets redistributed to the areas of your body that need
it. says James Smoliga, associate professor of
physiology at High Point University in North Carolina.
That?s the problem with your
hands: They are far from your
torso. Personally, I believe it?s the only
way for a minority of people.?
Kaarlo Simojoki, the
medical director of the Aclinic alcohol addiction service, confirms that studies
have shown that 60 to 80 per
cent of problem drinkers can
get their drinking under control with willpower and help
from friends and family.
For most problem drinkers,
the most feasible, and also the
most pleasant, way of getting
their life back on tracks is to
moderate their drinking, says
Mikko Salasuo from the Finnish Youth Research Society.
No way back
Myllyhoitoyhdistys, an addiction treatment organisation
employing the Minnesota
model, takes an unambiguous standpoint on the matter,
says Raila Taipale, director at
the organisation.
?Once people have developed an addiction there is no
going back to moderation.
People may entertain an idea
that they can start using alcohol in limited amounts and
this may even work out to begin with. To the
casual runner, this diverted
blood flow means a less enjoyable run (or a more painful one).
The bigger problem, however, is that these objects
make your form asymmetrical. To become
more relaxed, hold a saltine
cracker between your thumb
and forefinger, and try not to
break it while running. Here?s how to tell
whether you need to carry
water: Assuming you start
off hydrated, weigh yourself
before and after your run.
A difference of more than 2
percent means carrying water is a good idea in the future
. The level at which
we perceive thirst is still a
safe one unless you?re competing. A three-
pound weight strapped to
your waist might slow you a
little, but strap that weight
to your shoes or your hands
and you?re a sloth. Jonathan Cane, founder
of City Coach Multisport in
New York City and co-author
of The Complete Idiot?s Guide
to Weight Training, says he
can always spot people holding something. ?Mass distribution is one of the most important elements when it comes
to biomechanics. The closer the object is to your torso,
the less effect it will have on
your form,. But the addiction
has changed the brain structures and processes permanently so that the addiction
will rear its ugly head again,?
explains Taipale.
Simojoki does not deny the existence of permanent neurological changes
brought on by addiction.
?If an addiction has developed, it will never totally
disappear. Even without the bottle, your forearm
muscles contract. One side
of your body might fatigue
sooner than the other, and
this fatigue and muscle imbalance could lead to injury
in the long term.
Good distribution
A good, efficient running
form, then, starts with proper
distribution of weight across
your body. Your upper body
plays a critical role when you
run. everything about your
form is unbalanced. As your hand and forearm
muscles contract, blood flow
to those places increases.
But as you power up that hill,
your blood has better places
to be . 9 APRIL 2014
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Addiction
experts: Total
abstinence not
only solution for
problem drinking
He says there are people
who need medication as a
treatment for problem drinking, being unable to achieve
a change under their own
steam.
?But even in these cases the goal is moderate
drinking rather than total
abstinence.?
According to him, a third
group of alcoholics constitutes problem drinkers
who will not be able to limit
their drinking even with the
help of medicines, but need
to aim at giving up alcohol
altogether.
Simojoki does not know
the details of Valtonen?s case,
but has given it some thought
after reading the interview,
commenting on Twitter that
everyone?s story and route to
rehabilitation is different.
Experts hold differing
opinions on how well cutting
back on alcohol works for
heavy drinkers whose drinking has developed into an
addiction.
I isakki H ä rm ä . You
might end up putting more
stress than usual on a muscle
group. We are now accessorisers,
even in our exercise. just not in your hands. Translation: It will
tire you out faster. ?These people
have what I call ?iPod arms.?
One arm moves less than the
other.. says Cane,
who has been training endurance athletes for two decades. As long as the clothing is
light, of course.. This might not seem like
a big deal, but multiply that
one stride by the thousands
you take over the course of a
run, and it adds up. When your arms
are unbalanced . Still, he cautions,
any excess weight will alter
your biomechanics, especially over a long run.
But here?s some good
news: You most likely don?t
even need water on your run.
Although hydration is important, there?s a good chance
you?re probably already hydrated before you start running. And
the more effort you expend,
the faster you?ll tire.
To see how this happens,
pretend to grip a bottle and
move your arms as you would
while running. HS
L e h t i kuva / P e kk a S a kk i
People who misuse alcohol can learn to drink in
moderation, argue numerous experts interviewed by
Helsingin Sanomat after the
Finnish actor Puntti Valtonen told the newspaper
he had overcome his alcohol
problem by limiting himself
to a drink or two these days.
For the majority of problem drinkers, the most feasible, and also the most
pleasant, way of getting their
life back on tracks is to moderate their drinking, says
Mikko Salasuo from the Finnish Youth Research Society.
?But the person still has to
want to turn things around.
Things won?t change if you
go to the bar every evening
and then wonder why cutting
back is not working.?
He claims that the notion that total abstinence is
the only treatment for alcohol addiction, an idea originating from the ideology of
the AA movement, is outdated in light of the current
knowledge.
?It is an unsound generalisation to say that becoming teetotal is the only way to
treat alcohol addiction. They should be
relaxed and comfortable. Or try running with your fists clenched.
That tension in your hands
creeps to your forearms,
then your upper arms. This
makes shoulder rotation
more difficult, which inhib-
its your leg drive. Or you might stress
one side more than the other. A poor stride
is often the result of minimal
shoulder flexibility.?
Form imbalance is not only inefficient, it could lead
to injury. The question is how
severe is the problem and
whether it can be managed
with psychosocial support
and rehabilitation, which are
the be all and end all of all
forms of treatment. All you needed
was a shirt, shorts and shoes.
Now, it?s far more complicated. like your legs. LIFESTYLE
HELSINKI TIMES
3
All of my
dinner partners talked about
locking their office doors for
short or sometimes longer
postprandial snoozes.
In recent years, the nap
has become better accepted
. of companies with facilities for napping
found that these were unused,
and some have changed the
nap rooms back into workrooms. Bush.
Art Collection, it includes over
2,500 items that have been
accumulated since the 1950s.
It became the EMMA Collection in 2002, with the founding of the Espoo Art Museum
Foundation, which runs the
museum opened in 2006.?
A considerable part of the
EMMA Collection?s works
are constantly on display in
public spaces in Espoo, either in outdoor spaces like
monuments or in the lobbies of schools, hospitals,
day centres and other public
buildings.
?During the weekends we
also offer non-stop workshops, events and guided
tours,. said Helene Emsellem, medical director of
the Center for Sleep and Wake
Disorders in Chevy Chase, Md.
?The length of a nap is very
personal. When focused,
someone who is severely
sleep-deprived can deliver
the same results as someone
EMMA: Finland?s largest art museum
Design, modern and contemporary art showcased in a 5,000 square-metre space.
YA N N I C K I L U N G A
HEL SINK I TIMES
Designer of the
Everyday, the spirit
and collections
?Currently, we are hosting
two art and design exhibitions with the themes of today?s society, spirituality
and wellbeing: Designer of
the Everyday . As a result,
the hippocampus is cleared
of recent learning to make
room for more. spent the
entire meal discussing naps.
For example, the napping
habits of Albert Einstein,
who, after lunch, sat with
his heavy wristwatch in one
hand, which he dangled over
the edge of his chair. ?You?ve heard
the phrase, ?You should sleep
on it.. Housed
in a unique building designed
by modernist architect Aarno
Ruusuvuori in 1965, it presents
design, modern and contemporary art in an impressive 5,000
square-metre space.
The Espoo Museum of
Modern Art is a versatile venue located in the WeeGee
House, about 10 kilometres
away from the Helsinki city
centre. It showcases the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, as well as a series of
changing exhibitions that focuses on contemporary and
20th century art, both Finnish and international.
?EMMA is for everyone,?
says Museum Director Pilvi Kalhama. She suggests the
best napping hours are from
2 to 4 pm.
How best to nap. because that amount of
time includes ?slow wave?
sleep. Open to the public until 11 May as well, it gives
visitors an overview of the
works of Swedish pioneer of
abstract art Hilma af Klint
(1862-1944).
Af Klint painted her first
abstract works in 1906 and
made a living by creating traditional portraits, plants and
landscapes, all while keeping her esoteric art hidden.
Af Klint?s talent is now recognised worldwide due to last
summer?s Venice Biennale and
a comprehensive retrospective touring exhibition organised by the Moderna Museet.
In addition to af Klint,
Feel the Spirit! also features
works by Joseph Beuys,
Olafur Eliasson, Jussi Niva
and Silja Rantanen.
?Alongside the changing
exhibitions we permanently show unique art collections combining both Finnish
and International contemporary art,. Research on people who do not
nap shows that these individuals move more quickly into deeper sleep stages when
compared with experienced
nappers, who are better at
keeping their nap sleep light.
The latter also show greater improvements in performance after napping than
non-nappers.
The nap stigma still exists:
Some people believe naps indicate laziness or low standards. she said.
?But attitudinal changes take
time.?
Nappers are in good company: In addition to Einstein,
nappers have included Winston Churchill, John F. Kalhama continues.
?The EMMA Collection is the
largest and oldest of the collections we present. When
the watch fell, the noise woke
Einstein . Emsellem described ?the edge
we live on: It?s the in-between
zone of 45 minutes to an hour
that can make you feel poorly.. For some a five-to10-minute nap can provide
improvement for the next few
hours. Ninety minutes is what makes up
a full sleep cycle, which has
been shown to bolster creativity as well as memory.
But long naps come with
greater risk of grogginess ?
what?s called sleep inertia
or ?sleep drunkenness.. And a nap in the 20to 30-minute range can reset
you.?
As for how differentlength naps fit with sleep
cycles, the Wall Street Journal article explained that 60
minutes may be better for
?cognitive memory process-
Nap-free signs
Sleep deprivation can reduce
cognitive functions and impair memory. And a recent study
in the journal ?Sleep,. explains Rebecca Spencer, neuroscientist at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an advocate for reinstating naps
in pre-schools. In a multi-centre
study on the effectiveness
of naps and/or caffeine, the
combination of the two had
the most beneficial effect.
chitecture, industrial and
set design are all presented
here. Presented in collaboration with the Vitra Design
Museum, Kunstmuseum of
Wolfsburg and Stuttgart?s
Kunstmuseum and available
until 11 May, it displays some
400 items, from artworks to
furniture and scale models.
Anthroposophy,
Steiner?s works in visual arts, arEMMA
THE Espoo Museum Of Modern Art (EMMA) is the largest
art museum in Finland. Kalhama concludes.
?A lot is happening at EMMA
all the time. They also suggest
drinking a caffeinated drink
before napping to smooth the
transition back to a waking
state and to avoid the postnap inertia. Most experts advise finding a place
with limited noise and light,
and sleeping at least partially upright to reduce sleep
inertia. Rudolf Steiner is a
comprehensive study of the
thinking and works of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and
his wide-ranging cultural influence. is dreaming during a nap that lasts 20
minutes or less.
Naps are not for everyone.
People who take longer naps
and wake very groggy can
have trouble if they must perform immediately, and sleep
inertia can be worse and last
longer in people who are very
sleep-deprived. Welcome!?
Espoo Museum
of Modern Art . nap over. Well, that?s what we?re
talking about.. comparing the benefits of naps
of different lengths and no
naps, found that a 10-minute
nap produced the most benefit in reduced sleepiness and
improved cognitive benefit without causing post-nap
grogginess or interfering
with nighttime sleep.
?We use naps to compensate for sleep loss, although
you can?t make up for terrible nights,. Also, some
people have trouble sleeping
anywhere other than a bed,
or during the daytime. And, warning that long
naps too late in the day can
cause ?huge problems with
the sleep cycle, making it
hard to go to sleep and pushing you into the land of the
night owl.. Kennedy and Thomas Edison,
along with Ronald Reagan
and George W. performance by 34 per
cent and alertness by 100
per cent. The article described
a study in which learning a
task was followed by different-length naps and no nap
at all; tested one week later,
the 60-minute nappers performed far better on the task,
while the 10-minute nappers
performed as badly as those
who took no nap at all. ?When planning the programme, we
take all kinds of audiences
into account and we create
different layers and ways to
perceive the exhibitions.?
EMMA, Finland?s largest art museum, presents design, modern and contemporary art in an impressive 5,000 square-metre space.
ing. Emsellem noted that a
?startling number. EMMA
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Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat & Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets . Sleeping before learning also primes the
brain to absorb more.
Sharpening alertness
The National Sleep Foundation recommends a nap
of 20 to 30 minutes to improve short-term alertness.
A NASA study found that a
40-minute nap improved pilots. Naps
can improve mood, alertness and performance as
well as boost creativity, reduce stress and aid in weight
loss. The best napping hours are from 2 to 4 pm.
The benefits
of napping.
M ary C arpenter
M y L i ttl e B i r d
At a friend?s birthday dinner
in the mid-1990s, I was seated with several high-ranking
government officials, who ?
to my surprise and possibly as
a ploy to keep away from controversial topics . she
explains.
Designer of the Everyday . 14
LIFESTYLE
3 . ?A nap allows information to move from temporary
storage to more permanent
storage, from the hippocampus to the cortical areas of
the brain,. 10-12 (covers admission to all museums in
the WeeGee House); free on
Wed 18:00-20:00 and for
visitors under 18 years and
over 70. 9 APRIL 2014
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L E H T I K U VA / M i kko S t i g
Playing the brain game
Seeking motivation while at work. Originally known as the City of Espoo
who is not; but when the
brain starts to lose focus,
the healthy sleeper can compensate and increase attention; the sleep-deprived brain
has more trouble righting itself. ?The media and public
education can make napping
more acceptable,. In addition, Designer of
the Everyday . According to experts at
Stanford University School
of Medicine?s Sleep Center,
?a tell-tale sign of being very
sleep-deprived. Rudolf Stein-
er and Feel the Spirit!. and better studied. Rudolf Steiner also features pieces by artists from Steiner?s time.
Feel the Spirit! is the second temporary exhibition
currently hosted at EMMA
?The changes are
part of typical economic fluctuations. highlights Mäenpää.
Betting on harness racing, however, has not fallen as
steeply as the other indicators,
only by roughly eight per cent
from the peak year of 2008.
Fintoto, the body responsi-
situation has exacerbated,. On Saturday, she
expectedly dominated the
sprint race in Hämeenlinna,
leaving her closest rival Annukka Siltakorpi three minutes in her wake.
Before a deserved holiday, Mäkäräinen will travel
to Moscow on Friday to take
part in an invitational race.
?I?ll go there, because I made
the promise.?. ?That was the
fastest way to alleviate the
financial situation of tracks
in dire straits,. underlines Minna Mäenpää,
ble for developing horse betting operations, is nonetheless
keeping a close watch on the
entire sector, managing director Markku Breider says.
?Without horses, there
won?t be a single trotting
race. With the tracks
still forking out the same
prizes, it?s obvious that the
the director of breeding at
Hippos.
For the indigenous Finnhorse, the situation is even
more precarious. If the
breeding numbers continue to
decline in the years to come,
breeding activities in Finland
will not recover without special support measures,. Despite the win, reports in the British media
suggest that the former Liver-
pool defender can at best only
hope to remain at the helm of
the German club until the end
of the season, with the search
for his replacement reportedly already underway.
Kaisa Mäkäräinen added
two gold medals to her already bulging trophy cabinet at the Finnish Biathlon
Championships in Ahvenisto, Hämeenlinna, last weekend. Roughly
80 per cent of the Finnhorse
population are racehorses.
?I?m extremely concerned
about the situation of the
Finnhorse. says Sanna Heino, the
managing director of Hevostalous Oy, which manages the finances of the major
trotting tracks in Finland.
Fintoto decided in February to temporarily lift
the minimum prize requirements of daily trotting races, allowing trotting tracks
to determine their purses independently. 9 APRIL 2014
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L E H T I K U VA / M a r ia n n e P y k ä l ä i n e n
The trotting sector has been on the slide since 2008, with the number of races having declined, as well as the number of active horses and drivers.
Trotting tracks in dire strait
A number of factors make the entire trotting
sector particularly vulnerable to economic
fluctuations.
case,. Similarly, the number of
privately-owned racehorses
has fallen by over 20 per cent
over the said six-year period.
?The trotting sector relies on private ownership.
For most, however, owning
M intt u - M aaria Partanen . Last year,
the number of Finnhorse
mares bred fell below the nadir reached in the depths of
the 1990s recession. The number
of races organised has declined, as has the number of
active racehorses and drivers. Mäkäräinen exclaimed, huffing and puffing
after crossing the finish line
to beat silver-medallist Mari
Laukkanen by a margin of
over one minute.
Mäkäräinen had a long
and successful season,
capped by the second victory
in the biathlon World Cup she
clinched in Oslo a few weeks
ago by beating Norway?s Tora Berger in the season-end-
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / V E G A R D G RO E T T
H T- H S
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / PAT R I K S T O L L A R Z
Win over Augsburg gives Mäkäräinen glad to make
breathing space to Hyypiä it through the season alive
Kaisa Makarainen celebrates with her trophy after seeing off Mari
Laukkanen in the Finnish Biathlon Championships last weekend.
ing race. H S
A leksi T ei vainen . It is a breed that
does not exist elsewhere.
You cannot compensate for
the decline by importing. by over 35 per
cent . fewer than during
the worst year of the 1990s
recession.?We are still in a
remediable situation. SPORT
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3 . We must adapt to
the situation.?
Meanwhile, the breeding
of thoroughbred mares has
fallen sharply . H T
BREEDING numbers have already tumbled below the levels of the 1990s recession as
the economic down-turn continues to pummel the Finnish
trotting sector. The footing of domestic betting operations will
erode, if no horses take part
in the races,. explains Soini.
Regardless, the managing
director is not particularly
concerned. Domestic breeding therefore
determines the future of the
breed,. Last
year, only 1,897 mares were
bred . Breider adds.
Studies show that 80 per
cent of the people who bet on
harness racing are middle or
working class-men, who have
been hit particularly by the
recent belt-tightening efforts
and structural changes. Soini promises that the association will
do its utmost to avoid the closures of trotting tracks.
?Do we need to have over
20 separate organisations
responsible for the management of the trotting tracks?
What tracks organise races in the winter, what in the
summer?. Breider says.
Hippos, in turn, is set to review the structures of the entire trotting sector this spring
in a bid to identify possible
savings targets. During tough times, they will cut
back on it,. and already threatens
the sustainability of breeding activities in Finland. he speculates.
A rare 3-1 away victory over
Augsburg on 26 March gave
the under-fire manager of
Bayer Leverkusen, Sami Hyypiä, some breathing space, after
his team had lost eight of their
previous nine games.
Following yet another disappointing home draw against
bottom-placed
Eintracht
Braunschweig on Saturday,
however, Bayer Leverkusen
are only one point ahead of
fifth-placed Wolfsburg in the
German Bundesliga. Hyypiä?s
team was jeered off the field
by their own fans after they
were spared the blushes by a
second-half penalty converted
by Stefan Kiessling.
Already before the game
against Augsburg, the Daily Mail wrote that Hyypiä
J armo Fä r d i g . After the ten-kilometre
mass-start race, the 31-yearold athlete was exhausted.
?I?m glad I made it through
it alive,. The sums
used on betting have decreased,. H S
HT
Despite winning at the weekend, under-fire boss Sami Hyypia
could be sacked at the end of the season.
may have to step down sooner rather than later, if he appears to have lost the dressing
room. he explains.
?Last year was okay, but
the start of this year has
been below par. As a
result, the financial standing of
some regional trotting tracks
has deteriorated rapidly.
?As revenue from betting falls, the revenue of the
tracks falls. reminds Pekka Soini,
the managing director at the
Finnish Trotting and Breeding Association (Hippos).
Yet, since 2008 virtually every indicator of the
trotting sector has taken a
tumble due to the economic situation. The lingering
economic uncertainty has also reduced betting on harness
racing and the number of races
organised in the country.
In particular, the financial
standing of regional trotting
tracks has eroded.
?Economic fluctuations
affect the trotting sector.
That has always been the
a racehorse is a hobby
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H e l s i n g i n S a n o m at
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researchers found that the
number of bacteria on the
university floor was so low it
could not be measured.
The New York Times, however, recommended a new
version of the five-second
rule: ?pick the food up quickly, take five seconds to recall
that just a few bacteria can
make you sick, then take a few
more to think about where
you dropped it and whether or
not it?s worth eating.?
Would you eat a hamburger that has been dropped on the floor?
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period of time the food was
left on the floor for ranged
from 3 to 30 seconds.
The study showed a clear
link between the time on the
floor and the transfer of bacteria to moist foods, but the
type of the flooring surface
also mattered with laminate
and tiled surfaces transferring more bacteria than carpet flooring.
The research team leader,
Anthony Hilton, a professor
of microbiology, emphasises
that eating food dropped on
the floor always carries a risk
of infection.
?The risk very much depends on which bacteria are
present on the floor at the
time; however, the findings of
this study will bring some light
relief to those who have been
employing the five-second rule
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bologna and bread left for
five seconds on surfaces that
had been contaminated with
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Ingredients (4 servings)
? 8 ounces dried pasta, preferably campanelle, shells or
orecchiette
? 4 ounces apple wood smoked bacon, cut crosswise
into 1/4-inch pieces
? 3/4 cup finely diced red onion
? 1 1/2 cups homemade or canned, no-salt-added cannellini
beans (if using canned, drain and rinse them)
? 6 ounces Napa cabbage, cut into 2-inch-by-1/2-inch strips
? 3/4 cup homemade or no-salt-added chicken broth
? Kosher salt
? Freshly ground black pepper
? Extra-virgin olive oil, for garnish (optional)
? Grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, for garnish (optional)
Steps
? Cook the pasta according to the package directions.
? Meanwhile, heat a large nonstick braising pan or skillet over
medium-high heat. Remove
from the heat.
? Drain the pasta; add it to the bean and cabbage mixture,
stirring to incorporate.
? Serve warm, drizzled with a little oil, if desired. V o i s i n
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the wine?s flavour is pleasantly acidic with hints of red
berries. When left for a full
minute, the food picked up
several times more bacteria
than that, reported The New
York Times.
If food is picked off the
floor quickly it has fewer bacteria on it but is still not safe
to eat.
On the other hand, the
surfaces in the study were
contaminated with much
higher levels of bacteria than
is usually found on floors. Biology
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for years, despite a general consensus that it is purely a myth.?
The research team also
carried out a survey of 500
Brits, 87 per cent of whom
said that they would eat or
had eaten food dropped on
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Tue 8-Wed 16 April
Taneli Törmä: ZOOM, Mikko Hyvönen:
Organic synthetic & Carl Knif: Red
Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
MUSIC
Thu 3 April
AR Quartet
Jazz.
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/16.50
www.kokojazz.fi
Thu 3 April
Asta Kask (SWE), Stilett (SWE)
Punk rock.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Helsinki
www.barloose.com
Thu 3 April
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Payare, conductor & Paavali
Jumppanen, piano.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?6-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 3 April
KYPCK, Crib45
Metal.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Thu 3-Sat 5 April
20th Funky Elephant Festival
Omar Soleyman (SYR), Ebo Taylor
(GHA), Congo Natty (UK) etc.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Tickets ?11-50
www.thecircus.fi
Fri 4 April
Astor Piazzolla:
Maria de Buenos Aires
Martin Alvarado, Daniel Bonilla
Torres and Angelika Klas perform
the famous tango opera.
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Tickets ?25/29/32
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Fri 4 April
Niko Riippa Flying Circus
Roots music from Ostrobothnia.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 4 April
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven´s Rondino, J. 18
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Gustavson, Ilkka Rantamäki & The
Bluesbrokers.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?13.50/14
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Tue 8 April
Sick Puppies (AUS)
Rock.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Tickets ?29.50
www.elmu.fi
Wed 9 April
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marisol Montalvo, soprano &
Joonas Ahonen, piano.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?8.50-27.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Wed 9 April
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust (USA)
Sonic Youth guitarist with his new
band.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?29.50/30
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 9 April
Sanni
Pop.
Stoa
Turunlinnantie 1
Tickets ?9/13
www.stoa.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 3 April
Tervamäki & Pohjonen:
Bright Shadow
Piece combining dance and
accordion playing.
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Helsinki
Tickets ?27.50
www.sellosali.fi
Thu3-Sun 6 April
Alpo Aaltokoski Company:
Pyörteitä
Brilliant modern ballet.
Alexander Theatre
Albertinkatu 32
Helsinki
Tickets ?16/30/39
www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
Thu 3-Sun 13 April
Apinafest
Contemporary dance festival.
Stoa
Turunlinnantie 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?10-30
www.stoa.fi
Sat 5 April
Javier Torres: Beauty and the Beast
Ballet version of the charming fairy
tale.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?24-115
www.opera.fi
From Tue 8 April
Taneli Törmä: ZOOM, Mikko
Hyvönen: Organic synthetic &
Carl Knif: Red
Contemporary dance triple-bill
evening.
Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
www.zodiak.fi
Until Sun 11 May
Henrik Vibskov
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Danish fashion design and a
boundless inventor.
Design Museum
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
Tue 11:00-20:00
Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?0/5/8/10
www.designmuseum.fi
Until Sun 11 May
Designer of the
Everyday . Escape from the
Shadow Garden Tour 2014
Hard rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?32.50/33
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Mon 7 April
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EXHIBITIONS
S aara S almi
Triple bill of solo works
April at Zodiak starts with triple bill evenings comprising new solo works by
choreographers Taneli Törmä, Mikko Hyvönen ja Carl Knif.
In Taneli Törmä´s solo piece ZOOM, created in collaboration with lighting designer Petri Tuhkanen, a live performance merges with a light installation. The
work takes a fresh look at life from near and far, and from different perspectives, seeking to stop time.
First version of Organic synthetic by Mikko Hyvönen was performed at Forêt
de Soignes forest in Brussels in September 2013. The piece depicts the multifaceted interrelationship between humans, technology and environment. The
lighting for the piece is by Jani-Matti Salo, the sound design by Pauli Riikonen
and the costume design by Henna-Riikka Taskinen.
Red by Carl Knif, is an intimate portrait of an individual struggling with an inner red alert. The work combines unique language of movement with texts written by Knif himself. C. Bach´s
Sinfonia, Händel´s Concerto grosso
A-major & Beethoven´s
Oktetto.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?8.50-27.50
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The Hunters Group:
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Works by Heini Aho, Sirkku Ketola
and Tamara Piilola.
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Helsinki
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/7/10
www.taidehalli.fi
Until Sun 20 April
Ars Fennica 2014
Exhibition by the 2014 Ars Fennica
candidates - IC -98 (Patrik
Söderlund and Visa Suonpää),
Riitta Ikonen, Tellervo Kalleinen
and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Leena
Nio and Pauliina Turakka Purhonen.
Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2
Tue 10:00-17:00
Wed-Fri 10:00-20:30
Sat 10:00-18:00
Sun 10:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
www.kiasma.fi
Finnish National Opera / Javier Torres: Beauty and the Beast .
Fri 4 April
Trip To Goa: OT T (UK),
E-Mantra (ROM)
Goa trance.
Venue
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?21/22
www.clubvenue.fi
Fri 4 April
Kaija Koo
Pop.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?22/23
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 4 April
MONSP Club
Tykopaatti & dj Kridlokk.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Tickets ?10
www.kuudeslinja.com
Fri 4 & Tue 8 April
Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème
One of the world?s most beloved
operas.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?24-115
www.opera.fi
Sat 5 April
Gugi Kokljuschkin
Finnish musician.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Helsinki
Tickets ?22/23
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 5 April
Heavy Tiger (SWE)
Rock trio.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Tickets ?11.50
www.barloose.com
Sat 5 April
Disney in Concert
Magical music from the Disney
movies.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?29-54
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sat 5 April
The Bad Ass Brass Band
Unique brass experience.
Juttutupa
Säästöpankinranta 6
Free entry
www.juttutupa.com
Sat 5 April
Jätkäjätkät
Rap/folk/ska/punk.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?13.50/14
www.virginoil.fi
Sat 5 April
Risto, Death Hawks
Rock.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?13.50/14
www.korjaamo.fi
Sun 6 April
Help Jamaica Charity Dance 2014
Jukka Poika, Raappana, Ertsi Lion,
Komposti, Pouta Sound, Ceejay,
Antzah and dj Miami Mika. Rudolf Steiner
Nearly 400 objects, from artworks
to furniture and scale models.
EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
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 Mon 26 May
Jean Tinguely
Modernist known for his noisy,
spectacular, motorized machine
sculptures.
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
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 13 July
Chaplin in Pictures
The incredible life and career of the
mythic artist told through pictures.
Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace
Salomonkatu 15
Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
Until Sun 31 August
Beda Stjernschantz
One of the most foremost
(and overlooked) Finnish
symbolist artists.
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
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 7 September
Tove Jansson
Major centenary exhibition presenting Jansson?s impressive career
as an artist, illustrator, political caricaturist, author and creator of the
Moomin characters and stories.
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
OTHERS
Thu 3-Sun 6 April
Loikka ?Dance Film Festival
Various venues.
Tickets ?8-30
www.loikka.fi. Kaiku
Kaikukatu 4
Tickets ?16.50
www.clubkaiku.fi
Sun 6 April
Three centuries II
Paavali Jumppanen, piano.
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Tickets ?8/11
www.sellosali.fi
Sun 6 April
Tuliset Tenorit
Finnish top tenors Jyrki Anttila,
Pentti Hietanen ja Tomi Metsäketo.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?40.50-61.60
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Mon 7 April
Magnum (UK) . UMO
plays Bill Holman
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?15/18.50
www.kokojazz.fi
Mon 7 April
John Mayall (UK)
Blues giant.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Tickets ?46.50
www.thecircus.fi
Tue 8 April
British Blues Party
The British Standard feat
S U L L I VA N
HEL SINK I TIMES
Organised every two years
during the spring Helsinki
Photography Biennial is being held in the Capital Region until 14 May. it?s clear that
the filmmaker is far more interested in human agency.
He even seems to anticipate
the New Testament when
Naameh pleads with her husband . (We?ll chalk up
Noah?s surprisingly sophisticated wardrobe of primitivechic leathers and open-work
knits up to artistic license.)
The most distracting of
Aronofsky?s creations, by far,
are the Watchers . Other spaces be-
ing incorporated are Helsinki University Main Library
(Kaisa House), Helsinki Central Railway Station and Restaurant Hima & Sali at the
Cable Factory.
Helsinki Photography Biennial
Until 14 May
www.hpb.fi. won?t be surprised to learn that he?s at his
best with these fantastical,
mystically inclined sequences. 9 APRIL 2014
N iko Tav ernise
Film
Audacious adaptation of
one of Bible?s best-known,
but still enigmatic chapters
Old Testament fury has
rarely come to such spectacularly fearsome life than in
Noah, Darren Aronofsky?s
audacious adaptation of one
of the Bible?s best-known, but
still enigmatic chapters.
Be warned: Anyone familiar with the 500-year-old man
and his ark may need to check
some of their most cherished
visualisations of him at the
theater door. One
of the most delightful reshufflings is a central role for
Noah?s ancient forebear, Methusela, played by Anthony
Hopkins in a mischievous and
altogether convincing turn as
a white-haired figure of mystical, oracular wisdom.
So much of Noah is so
good, and so impressively executed, that when discordant
notes are sounded, they do
so with clanging dissonance.
Taking ill-advised pages from
both 1950s animator Ray
Harryhausen and the current big-studio predilection
for comic-book movies and
young-adult teen romances, Aronofsky creates characters and story lines that
feel wildly out of place . then finds the grown-up
protagonist . Conceived and
staged like a conventional superhero origin story, ?Noah. to reconsider his own dogmatism in favor of ideas like
mercy, forgiveness and simple goodness.
Those are fascinating passages, beautifully presented by Connelly as the movie?s
most steadfast moral voice.
As off-putting as Noah?s
juiced-up subplots and cinder-eyed Watchers can be,
it?s impossible not to be impressed, engaged and moved
by Aronofsky?s own passionate commitment to the Noah
story, which has reportedly
captivated him since he was
an adolescent.
Like interpreters through
the millennia, Aronofsky has
taken Noah?s journey sincerely to heart, processed it
through his own singular visual and moral imagination and
come up with a narrative that
feels deeply personal, broadly
mythical and cannily commercial all at the same time. ever more urgently
. Fans of the filmmaker?s work . But there?s no doubt that
Aronofsky has made an ambitious, serious, even visionary motion picture, whose
super-sized popcorn-movie
vernacular may occasionally submerge the story?s more
reflective implications, but
never drowns them entirely.
Appropriately
enough,
Aronofsky starts In the Beginning, and after a brief prologue revisiting Adam and
Eve, original sin and the fatal rivalry between Cain and
Abel, catches up with Noah as
The Funky
Elephant in
the room
J A M E S O . fallen angels who roam the broken
world like mournful, stiffjointed behemoths, seemingly hewn from desert stone
and resembling rock ?em, sock
?em robots when pressed into heavy-duty smiting. These include the Finnish Museum of
Photography, Photographic
Gallery Hippolyte, L3-building in Jätkäsaari, Galleria U
(Hungarian Cultural Centre
Helsinki). No cosy twoby-two images of beatific giraffes grace this Noah. and sadly, ?Noah. The Book Thief sees a youngster
stealing the tomes of the title and distributing them to those
who need distraction form the horrors of WWII around them.
Finally, local flick Muutoksi arrives to the big screen.
A snapshot every two years
J A M E S O . Charting this growth
and expansion has been the
Funky Elephant Festival.
Celebrating its second decade drawing to a close, the
festival is being staged at
The Circus and mbar from 3
to 6 April.
Joining a long list of impressive global talent previous seen in Helsinki this
time of year, the internation-
al names on offer this year
include the Afrobeat musings of Ebo Taylor and jungle music guru Congo Natty.
The Middle Eastern electro Afrofunk genre is amply
represented by Syria?s Omar
Souleyman, with the Brazilian sounds of Maria Gasolina
also on offer.
The domestic scene sees
regular festival cohort Paleface on the bill once again,
appearing with a number of
different acts. culminating
in a bizarre, deeply troubling passage involving the
Ark?s most vulnerable pair
of creatures . Curating the
event is curator and designer Ba?ak Senova from Istanbul, who is joined by Zagreb?s
Branko Franceschi.
B a rb a ro s K aya n
A nn H orna day
T he W a shin g t o n P o st
19
Barbaros Kayan, from the series Occupy Taksim, 2013.
Given the sheer number
of artists involved, the various events are being spread
across by a number of different host venues. not
because they don?t appear
in Scripture, but because
they?re so at odds with the
often brilliant aesthetic language that animates the rest
of the film. His role in Noah?s
mission and ensuing adventure on the Ark, as well as a
budding love story between
Shem (Logan Lerman) and
a young girl named Ila (Emma Watson), will surely give
some literalists exegetical
fits . living in
Canaan alongside his wife,
Naameh (Jennifer Connelly),
and their sons, Ham, Shem
and eventually Japeth.
Canaan is a desolate world
of arid deserts, ruthless tribal warfare and dead cities, but
also supernatural wonders.
When Noah begins to experience visions of the apocalyptic flood to come, Aronofsky
choreographs them not as
words-from-on-high messages from the divine, but as stylised, terrifying unconscious
visions. Viewers may not agree
about what they?ve seen
when they come out of Noah. CULTURE
HELSINKI TIMES
3 . He?s just as evocatively expressive with the most
technically challenging set
pieces of the story: the arduous construction of the enormous Ark (here produced
according to Biblical proportions, down to the last cubit),
the arrival of the animals and
that annihilating flood, which
Aronofsky stages as an awesome cascade of rainstorms,
geysers and terrifying waves.
Amidst such visual busyness, Crowe and Connelly
deliver impressively grounded, powerful performances, with Crowe playing Noah
first as a humble, divinely inspired servant and, eventually, as a wild-eyed zealot,
and Connelly brimming with
Ebo Taylor offers some Afrobeat sounds at Funky Elelphant.
Funky Elephant Festival
3-6 April
Helsinki
Tickets ?11-47
funkyamigos.fi/20
Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe as main characters in Noah.
bal-cain (Ray Winstone),
a bloodthirsty leader who
probably hasn?t made it into most Sunday morning
curricula. Aronofsky doesn?t necessarily give
that reading short shrift, but
as Noah becomes increasingly doctrinaire . S U L L I VA N
HEL SINK I TIMES
earthy rectitude as his far
more steady-eyed wife. Every
action film nowadays seems
to wind up being ?Transformers. from Requiem for
a Dream and The Fountain to
Black Swan . That
feels just about right for Noah,
which ultimately invites viewers to form their own meanings, whether they?re about
sacrifice and obedience, stewardship and service or the enduring entertainment value of
an epic adventure that, thousands of years on, still manages to astonish.
Noah (K12)
Release Date: 4 April
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Russell Crowe,
Jennifer Connelly
The Lunchbox (K7)
Release Date: 4 April
Director: Ritesh Batra
Starring: Irrfan Khan,
Nimrat Kaur
Muutoksi
Release Date: 4 April
Director: Sami Laitinen
Starring: Tiitus Rantala,
Sami Hussein
The Book Thief (K12)
Release Date: 4 April
Director: Brian Percival
Starring: Geoffrey Rush,
Emily Watson
Elsewhere on screens
Indian flick The Lunchbox offers a taste of modern life in bustling Mumbai, as an unlikely relationship develops via the
city?s tiffin delivery service. A series of
events involving photo/lensbased contemporary art, the
theme of this year?s biennial
takes a closer look at the various causal relations regarding
ecological issues.
Here 19 international artists discuss ecological
themes as divided by local
group Mustarinda Association into the sections of Archives, Architecture, Forests
and Energy. is no
different, especially when it
comes time for a final, grandiose showdown between the
Watchers and the oncoming
forces of evil.
Those forces, by the way,
are led by an otherwise marginal character named Tu-
Finland have changed immensely over the past 20
years. Like
any good artist, Aronofsky
has avoided predictable, literalist retellings of beloved Sunday school stories, inserting
new characters, bringing parenthetical figures to the fore
and making one of history?s
most enduring and universal
myths his very own.
The result is a movie that
is clearly deeply respectful of
its source material but also
at times startlingly revisionist, a go-for-broke throwback
to Hollywood biblical epics of
yore that combines grandeur
and grace, as well as a generous dollop of goofy overstatement. Meanwhile,
local soul and jazz great
Tuomo presents offerings
from his fourth album and
Yona and Orkesterin Liikkuvat Pilvet can also be found
during the anniversary
celebrations.
F unk y E leph a nt
THE local soul, funk, hiphop, jazz, reggae, Afrobeat
and world music scenes in
a boy who, by virtue of his lineage and an enchanted snakeskin bestowed on him by his
father, is clearly destined for
greater things. not least because Tubal-cain comes to be a proxy
for the kind of anti-conservationist theology that Aronofsky uses Noah to obliquely
critique.
Although it?s understandable that the filmmaker wanted to make ?Noah?
a parable of environmental
stewardship, for many believers the story is primarily
about hearing and responding to God?s voice. played by a
solemn,
haunted-looking
Russell Crowe
When he takes the
job and move to the Big Apple,
they quickly become friends.
Their friendship turns into a
friendship with benefits, but
with Jamie?s emotionally damaged past and Dylan?s history of
being emotionally unavailable,
they have to try to not fall for
each other the way Hollywood
romantic comedies dictate.
However, they soon finds things
getting unexpectedly complicated when emotions enter
the picture. Directed by: Ron
Howard. Food
18.05 Undercover Boss
21.00 Ice Road Truckers
22.00 Pawn Star
23.00 Hotel Hell
Gordon 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.
23.55 New York Ink
00.50 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
01.20 Beck
02.10 Bondi Rescue
07.40 Children?s Programming
10.00 Supernanny
13.10 Dogs in the City
14.10 Zoo
14.40 Animal ABC
15.55 Shake It Up
16.25 America?s Funniest Home
Videos
21.00 Octopussy (K16) FILM
This time James Bond is
lured to the Indian palace of
Octopussy where he learns
of a plot by a diabolical villain
that could destroy the world...
Directed by: John Glen.
Starring: Roger Moore,
Maud Adams, Louis Jordan.
UK/USA/1983.
00.10 The Oxford Murders FILM
Directed by: Alex de la
Iglesia. Volk.
USA/1992.
02.30 Cape Fear (K16) FILM
Directed by: Martin
Scorsese. (K16)
00.25 Sleepy Hollow
01.25 Grimm
02.20 Cops
JIM
11.45 Crocodileman
13.15 Top Secret Recipe
14.05 Man vs. USA 1991.
15.30 Top Gear USA
21.00 Survivor
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.35 Homeland (K16)
SERIES BEGINS. (K16)
00.35 Bones (K16)
01.30 Cops
JIM
11.35 Crocodileman
14.30 Man vs. Nick thinks his conman father is just in town to
pull another scheme. Food
14.55 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Shark Tank USA
16.45 The Voice of USA
18.30 Britain?s Best Bakery
19.30 The Voice of USA
21.00 Talent USA
22.00 Pawn Star
22.30 JIM D: Ancient Aliens
Ancient Aliens presents
theories of ancient
astronauts and proposes that
historical texts, archaeology
and legends contain
evidence of past humanextraterrestrial contact.
00.30 Trigger Happy T V
01.00 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
01.30 South Park
01.55 JIM D Crime: Hidden City
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.40 French Food at Home
10.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.50 4 Weddings
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
18.25 Frasier
20.00 Criss Angel Believe
21.00 Knight & Day FILM
A story of a girl who gets
mixed up with a spy trying to
clear his name. Directed by: Martin
Scorsese. The only desire
that fuels him now is the
chance to rise to the top so
that he will be able to look into
the eyes of the man who will
feel his revenge. In the
pilot of Homeland, CIA case
officer Carrie Matthison
makes contact with one of her
informants. Before his death, the
Emperor chooses Maximus
(Russel Crowe) to be his heir
over his own son, Commodus
(Joaquin Phoenix), and a power
struggle leaves Maximus and
his family condemned to death.
Maximus is unable to save
his family, and his loss of will
allows him to get captured and
put into the Gladiator games
until he dies. Before her cover is
blown, her informant whispers
to her that an American has
been turned into an al-Qaeda
double-agent.
SUB
11.00 Work It
11.30 1600 Penn
12.00 Whitney
12.30 The New Normal
13.00 How to Live with Your
Parents (for the Rest of
Your Life)
13.30 Middle
16.30 Beverly Hills Pawn
19.00 Top Gear
21.00 Die Hard 2 (K16) FILM
Directed by: Renny Harlin.
Starring: Bruce Willis,
Bonnie Bedelia, William
Atherton. With Children
17.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
21.00 Gladiator (K16) FILM
Directed by: Ridley Scott.
Starring: Russell Crowe,
Joaquin Phoenix ,Connie
Nielsen. Directed by: Will
Gluck. Starring:
Tom Cruise, Cameron
Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard.
USA/2010.
23.45 Blue Bloods
00.45 Frasier
01.15 Red Widow
02.15 Grey?s Anatomy
03.15 Excused
TV5
06.10 Coupling
06.45 Dogs vs Cats
07.40 Matlock
11.35 Kitchen Boss
12.10 Cake Boss
12.40 Dogs vs Cats
13.40 Coupling
14.20 Smack the Pony
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.55 Married. Starring: Elijah
Wood, John Hurt,
Leonor Watling.
Spain/UK/France/2008.
02.20 Dexter (K16)
TV5
07.10 Dog 101
08.05 Matlock
12.05 I Married Who. USA/2008.
23.25 C.S.I. 9 APRIL 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
friday
3.4.
MTV3
NELONEN
Knight & Day
Nelonen 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 The Great British Bake Off
Bakers take part in a ?bake off?,
which will test every aspect
of their baking skills as they
battle it out to be crowned the
Great British Bake Off?s Best
Amateur Baker.
15.20 Middle
15.45 Oliver?s Twist
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
23.20 Finder
When Walter is asked to find
a voodoo doll, he, along with
Willa, enlists the help of a
witch even though it annoys
her that Walter doesn?t take
witchcraft seriously.
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 One Born Every Minute
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 Project Runway
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Arrow
22.00 Revolution (K16)
A group of revolutionaries
confronts an authoritarian
regime 15 years after an
instantaneous global shutdown
of all electrical devices.
23.00 Entourage (K16)
23.36 C.S.I. Directed by:
Ridley Scott. USA/1990.
23.20 Formula 1: Bahrain Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
00.20 C.S.I. USA/1999.
23.45 The Americans (K16)
saturday
4.4.
MTV3
NELONEN
Cape Fear
T V5 22.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Farm Kings
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Dallas
This soap opera revolves
around a wealthy and
feuding Texan family,
the Ewings, who own the
independent oil company
Ewing Oil and the cattleranching land of Southfork.
23.35 Lights Out (K16)
This series follows the
struggles of a former
heavyweight boxing
champion, Patrick Leary, as
he tries to find his identity
and support his wife after
retiring from the ring.
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Model Employee
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 Don?t Trust the B**** in
Apartment 23
18.30 One Tree Hill
19.30 New Girl
Nick?s father visits and Nick
is upset. FILM
Directed by: Kevin Connor.
Starring: Kellie Martin,
Ethan Erickson,
Bess Armstrong.
USA/2012.
13.50 90 Day Fiancé
15.20 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
16.20 Long Island Medium
16.55 MacGyver
18.00 Monk
21.00 Friends with Benefits FILM
Directed by: Will Gluck.
Starring: Jenna Elfman,
Justin Timberlake,
Mila Kunis.
USA/2011.
23.10 Sexcetera (K18)
00.25 Sunset Strip (K18) FILM
Directed by: Paul G. USA/2000.
Jamie (Mila Kunis) is a young
executive recruiter for a leading
job agency in New York trying
to sign Los Angeles-based
Dylan (Justin Timberlake) for
her client. Directed by:
James Mangold. Food
22.00 American Pickers
23.00 Pawn Star
23.55 Splash! USA
00.50 Ball Boys
01.20 Speeders
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.40 French Food at Home
10.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.50 4 Weddings
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
18.25 Frasier
22.00 Meet the Spartans FILM
Directed by: Jason
Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer.
Starring: Sean Maguire,
Carmen Electra, Kevin
Sorbo. (K16)
01.20 Eureka
02.20 Cops
JIM
09.55 Britain?s Best Bakery
13.30 Chuck?s Day Off
14.00 Dinner: Impossible
14.55 Mountain Men
15.45 Anthony Bourdain:
Layover
16.35 Man vs. Starring: Seth Rogen,
James Franco, Gary Cole.
USA/2008.
02.45 Knight Rider
03.40 Just for Laughs
04.30 Deadliest Catch
05.20 MacGyver
AVA
08.10 Namaste
09.40 Doctors
10.35 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
11.50 Vanderpump Rules
Lisa Vanderpump opens the
salacious kitchen doors of
her exclusive Hollywood
restaurant and lounge.
13.05 Me, My Bump & I
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 Million Dollar Decorators
20.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
5.4.
MTV3
NELONEN
Hotel Hell
JIM 23.00
08.10 Children?s Programming
09.55 Cosmos
13.50 An American Tail: Fievel
Goes West FILM
Directed by: Phil Nibbelink,
Simon Wells. USA/2000.
00.05 The Blacklist
01.00 Gatwick Baby: Abandoned
At Birth
02.10 Jackie Brown (K16) FILM
Directed by: Quentin
Tarantino. Starring: Bridget
Fonda, Chris Tucker.
USA/1997.
AVA
08.10 Namaste
09.40 Doctors
10.35 Find My Family UK
11.50 You Deserve This House
13.00 Million Dollar Decorators
13.55 It?s a Brad, Brad World
14.50 Double Your House For
Half The Money
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
This series follows the
everyday lives of the
inhabitants of Albert Square
in the East-End of London.
18.00 Friends
19.00 Jamie?s Great Italian
Escape
21.30 Modern Family
22.00 The Love Letter FILM
Directed by: Peter Chan.
Starring: Kate Capshaw,
Blythe Danner, Ellen
DeGeneres. Jess
tries to find a way to repair
their relationship.
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Wild Child FILM
Directed by: Nick Moore.
Starring: Emma Roberts,
Natasha Richardson,
Georgia King. USA/1991.
00.40 Pineapple Express (K16)
FILM
Directed by: David Gordon
Green. Starring: Jenna Elfman,
Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis.
USA/2011.
TV5 21.00
Thursday 3.4.2014
TV5 21.00
Saturday 5.4.2014. Starring: Russell
Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen. Starring: Gregory
Peck, Illeana Douglas,
Robert De Niro. With Children
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.30 The King of Queens
18.40 Edtv FILM
Video store clerk Ed agrees
to have his life filmed by
a camera crew for a tv
network. Starring: Gregory
Peck, Juliette Lewis,
Robert De Niro.
USA/1991.
AVA
08.05 Namaste
10.05 Royal Inquest
11.00 Inside the Actors Studio
12.00 Don?t Blame the Dog
13.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
14.00 It?s a Brad, Brad World
This series follows a former
Rachel Zoe?s assistant,
Goreski, as he embarks on
his new business venture
and tries to maintain his
personal life.
16.00 Find My Family UK
This series follows how
family members who have
been separated are reunited.
16.55 Grand Designs
20.00 American Idol
22.30 Royal Pains
23.30 Reign
Gladiator
Friends with Benefits
In the year 180, the death
of emperor Marcus Aurelius
throws the Roman Empire into
chaos. Starring: Matthew
McConaughey, Jenna
Elfman, Woody Harrelson.
USA/1999.
22.00 Cape Fear (K16) FILM
A convicted rapist, released
from prison after serving
a 14 year sentence, stalks
the family of the lawyer
who originally defended
him. 20
TV GUIDE
3 . USA/2008.
01.30 Frasier
02.00 4D: One Meter Girl
TV5
06.20 Extraordinary Dogs
06.50 The King of Queens
07.15 Matlock
11.40 Say Yes to Dress
12.10 Dogs 101
13.05 Coupling
13.45 Smack the Pony
14.20 Matlock
15.20 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.25 Married. Food
14.30 Meat Men
15.00 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.55 Shark Tank USA
16.50 The Voice of USA
18.35 Hotel Hell
19.30 Man vs
J. Phil
TV5
06.10 Coupling
06.45 Little Bigfoot FILM
Directed by: Art Camacho.
Starring: Ross Malinger,
P.J. Goyer.
Starring: Odette Yustman,
Gary Oldman, Meagan
Good. UK/USA/2010.
00.20 Suburgatory
00.50 Chuck
01.50 Bones (K16)
02.45 Cops
JIM
11.25 Crocodileman
11.55 Ink Master
12.50 Dinner: Impossible
13.45 Mountain Men
14.40 Splash! USA
15.35 Anthony Bourdain:
Layover
17.30 American Pickers
18.30 Britain?s Best Backery
19.30 The Voice of USA
21.00 American Pickers
22.00 Pawn Stars
22.30 Ball Boys
23.30 Trigger Happy TV
00.00 Hotel Hell
00.55 South Park
01.25 JIM D: Super Hurricanes
02.20 Shark Tank USA
03.15 The Voice of USA
Did You Hear
About The Morgans?
Meryl and Paul Morgan are a
highly successful Manhattan
couple, who?s almost perfect lives
have only one notable failure:
their dissolving marriage. Starring: Elisabeth Moss,
Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Wilford Brimley. But the
turmoil of their romantic lives is
nothing compared to what they are
about to experience: they witness
a murder and become targets of a
contract killer. Soles, Kenneth Tigar.
USA/1997.
11.30 Married. USA/2008.
21.00 Revenge
When Daniel makes a
startling statement at a
party, Emily may be losing
control of her plan and her
groom; a new enemy forces
Jack to make a decision.
22.45 The Americans (K16)
23.50 Southland (K16)
SUB
11.00 The Simpsons
13.30 Farm Kings
14.30 Jamie?s Chef
15.30 Lying Game
17.00 Pretty Little Liars
18.00 Homes From Hell
19.00 Project Runway
20.00 Mythbusters
21.00 The Dark Knight
When Batman, Gordon and
Harvey Dent launch an
assault on the mob, they let
the clown out of the box,
the Joker, bent on turning
Gotham on itself and
bringing any heroes down to
his level.
Directed by: Christopher
Nolan. Starring: Christian
Bale, Heath Ledger,
Aaron Eckhart.
USA/2008.
23.56 Formula 1: Bahrain Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
00.55 Revolution (K16)
01.55 Supernatural (K16)
02.55 Cops
JIM
09.10 Britain?s Best Bakery
12.45 Top Secret Recipe
14.30 Splash! USA
15.25 Talent USA
16.15 Undercover Boss
17.10 Hotel Hell
19.05 Anthony Bourdain:
Layover
22.00 American Pickers
22.55 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
23.25 World?s Weirdest
Restaurants
23.55 Ice Road Truckers
00.50 JIM D: Ancient Aliens
01.45 Bondi Rescue
07.40 Children?s Programming
12.35 Animal ABC
13.05 Zoo
13.35 Dogs in the City
14.55 America?s Next Topmodel
15.55 Criss Angel Believe
21.00 Prince of Persia: The
Sands of Time FILM
A young fugitive prince and
princess must stop a villain
who unknowingly threatens
to destroy the world with a
special dagger that enables
the magic sand inside to
reverse time.
Directed by: Mike Newell.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,
Gemma Arterton,
Ben Kingsley. FILM
Directed by: Marc Lawrence.
Starring: Elisabeth Moss,
Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica
Parker, Wilford Brimley.
USA/2009.
23.05 Numb3rs
00.00 Call Me Fitz
01.15 Twin Peaks
02.15 Pineapple Express (K16)
FILM
Directed by: David Gordon
Green. The entertainment
is derived from the interaction
between the offender and the
police officer.
00.00 World?s Weirdest
Restaurants
00.30 South Park
01.00 Ax Men
01.55 Shark Tank USA
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.40 French Food at Home
10.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.50 4 Weddings
15.50 Supernanny
Supernanny Jo Frost is on a
mission to help desperate
parents deal with their badly
behaved children.
16.55 Excused
18.25 Frasier
21.00 Elementary
Elementary is based on
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s
Sherlock Holmes detective
stories with contemporary
twists.
22.30 Criminal Minds: Under
Suspicion
00.00 Californication
00.35 Frasier
01.05 Elementary
TV5
06.10 Coupling
06.45 Crocodile Hunter
07.40 Matlock
11.40 Crocodile Hunter
12.40 MacGyver
13.40 Coupling
14.20 Smack the Pony
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.55 Married. 9 APRIL 2014
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Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
sunday
monday
6.4.
MTV3
NELONEN
Peter Pan
TV5 17.50
08.10 Children?s Programming
10.20 Grand Designs
14.20 Oliver?s Twist
14.50 The Express FILM
A drama based on the life of
college football hero Ernie
Davis, the first AfricanAmerican to win the
Heisman Trophy. With Children
14.35 Matlock
15.40 MacGyver
16.45 Knight Rider
17.50 Peter Pan FILM
The Darling family children
receive a visit from Peter Pan,
who takes them to Never
Never Land where an ongoing
war with the evil Pirate
Captain Hook is taking place.
Directed by: P. Starring: Seth Rogen,
James Franco, Gary Cole.
USA/2008.
AVA
08.00 Namaste
Namaste provides Yoga
information for both
beginners and those who
are further along in their
practice.
10.30 American Idol
14.00 Jamie?s Kitchen
15.05 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
16.00 Double Your House For
Half The Money
20.00 Reign
23.00 Law & Order: Los Angeles
tuesday
7.4.
MTV3
NELONEN
Rizzoli & Isles
MT V3 22.35
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Formula 1: Bahrain Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
14.05 Survivor
In this reality game show
contestants are isolated in
the wilderness and compete
for cash and other prizes.
15.10 Whitney
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles
With the evidence piling up,
Jane tries to both protect
Maura and investigate
when Maura?s date turns
up dead and Maura cannot
remember anything about
their evening together.
23.35 Psych
00.35 Louie
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Beverly Hills Pawn
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
18.30 Beverly Hills Pawn
19.30 Suburgatory
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Big Bang Theory
21.00 The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader FILM
Directed by: Michael Apted.
Starring: Georgie Henley,
Skandar Keynes, Will
Poulter. USA/2009.
01.45 The Only Way is Essex
02.55 MacGyver
AVA
08.05 Namaste
09.35 Doctors
10.30 Undercover Boss USA
11.50 All On The Line
12.45 Perfect Party
13.45 Grand Designs
14.45 Famous Rich & Homeless
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 Jamie?s Kitchen
20.00 Double Your House For
Half The Money
21.30 Modern Family
During a yard sale for
Manny and Luke?s school,
the two uncover a secret
from Gloria?s past.
23.00 Rizzoli & Isles
Detective Jane Rizzoli and
Medical Examiner Dr. Hogan.
Starring: Rachel HurdWood, Jason Isaacs,
Olivia Williams.
USA/2003.
20.00 You Have Been Warned
21.00 Did You Hear About The
Morgans. With Children
17.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 Men at Work
SERIES BEGINS. Schiller is
amazed at Marta?s business
sense and as she dips in
deeper to his business, she
finds herself working with
a woman who has a long
history with Schiller.
23.30 Nurse Jackie
00.40 Frasier
02.10 Excused
TV5
06.25 Extreme Couponing
06.55 Dogs 101
07.45 Matlock
11.45 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
12.40 Dogs 101
13.40 Coupling
14.20 Smack the Pony
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.55 Married. Directed by: Marc
Lawrence. The FBI, protecting
their witnesses whisk away the
Morgans from their beloved New
York to a tiny town in Wyoming
and a relationship that was on the
rocks threatens to end completely
in the Rockies... fantasyadventure film series. This
hilarious sitcom is set in the
late 1980s and follows the
Goldberg family.
21.00 First Blood (K16) FILM
A Vietnam Veteran uses his
combat skills against the
lawman of a small
town when he arrests
and abuses him.
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone,
Brian Dennehy,
Richard Crenna.
USA/1982.
22.55 5D: Extreme Cougar Wives
00.30 Friends with Benefits FILM
Directed by: Will Gluck.
Starring: Justin Timberlake,
Mila Kunis,
Patricia Clarkson.
USA/2011.
03.25 MacGyver
AVA
08.05 Namaste
09.35 Doctors
11.50 Selling Spelling Manor
12.50 American Idol
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friend
20.00 Grand Designs
21.30 Modern Family
Phil decides to have an
Open House on Halloween
while Claire realizes that
kids are avoiding their house
due to last year?s fiasco.
23.00 Revenge
8.4.
MTV3
NELONEN
Men at Work
TV5 19.30
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Grand Designs
15.15 Modern Family
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
20.05 Undercover Boss
21.00 Person of Interest
22.35 Suits
23.35 666 Park Avenue (K16)
666 Park Avenue follows a
couple who are offered the
opportunity to manage the
historic building, The Drake.
But it is not what it seems.
00.35 Louie
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 The Face
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 Don?t Trust the B**** in
Apartment 23
18.30 Jamie?s Chef
19.30 Mom
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Big Bang Theory
This megahit comedy
revolves around four
intelligent physicists and
their beautiful neighbour
Penny who shows them how
little they know about life
outside of the laboratory.
23.00 Mom
23.30 Nikita (K16)
00.30 Bones (K16)
01.25 Cops
JIM
11.50 Crocodileman
13.45 Undercover Boss
14.40 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.40 Shark Tank USA
16.35 The Voice of USA
18.30 Britain?s Best Bakery
19.30 The Voice of USA
22.00 Pawn Stars
22.30 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
23.30 Speeders
This series consists of clips of
individuals being pulled over
for offences, most commonly
speeding. Maura
Isles team up to solve crimes
in Boston.
The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Voyage
of the Dawn Treader
This film is the third installment in
?The Chronicles of Narnia. Edmund and
Lucy Pevensie, along with their
cousin Eustace, are swallowed into
a painting and transported back
to Narnia where the meet up with
Prince Caspian and a warrior mouse
for a trip across the sea aboard the
royal ship The Dawn Treader. Aslan.
Directed by: Michael Apted.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar
Keynes, Will Poulter.
UK/USA/2010.
Sub 21.00
Monday 7.4.2014. USA/2009.
TV5 21.00
Sunday 6.4.2014
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.40 French Food at Home
10.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.50 4 Weddings
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
18.25 Frasier
20.00 America?s Next Topmodel
22.00 Red Widow
Marta agrees to wear a
wire to help build a case
against Schiller. With Children
17.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 The Goldbergs
SERIES BEGINS. Directed
by: Gary Fleder. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
3 . unless in their new
BlackBerry-free lives, the Morgans
can slow down the pace and rekindle the passion. USA/2010.
01.25 Elementary
02.25 Blue Bloods
03.20 Dr. Men at
Work is a comedy following
the misadventures of four
buddies who work together
at a magazine.
20.00 Naked and Afraid
21.00 The Blacklist
23.00 The Unborn (K16) FILM
Directed by: David S. The
courageous voyagers overcome their
own greatest temptations, as they
travel to mysterious islands; have
fateful confrontations with magical
creatures and sinister enemies; and
reunite with their friend and protector, the ?Great Lion
Now time
is running out, and he discovers
his only hope of survival is using
Simon?s special ability. See www.posti.fi
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Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
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Telephone. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietalahti Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. 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. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. code. eliminated,
but Kudrow has not counted on
Jeffries getting involved. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. 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. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. USA/1998.
AVA 22.00
Wednesday 9.4.2014
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 min., ?5.90
or ?3.80 with Helsinki Card. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. 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).
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Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. 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. 09 3101 3300. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
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what to do) . With Children
17.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 Guys with Kids
20.00 Breaking Amish
21.00 The Green Hornet FILM
Directed by: Michel Gondry.
Starring: CameronDiaz,
Chad Coleman,
Christoph Waltz.
USA/2011.
23.15 My Strange Addiction
00.25 Call Me Fitz
02.15 Numb3rs
03.05 Twin Peaks
AVA
08.05 Namaste
09.35 Doctors
10.30 Storage Hoarders
12.45 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
13.45 Jamie?s Kitchen
14.45 Double Your House For
Half The Money
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 It?s a Brad, Brad World
20.00 Double Your House For
Half The Money
21.30 Modern Family
22.00 Mercury Rising (K16) FILM
Directed by: Harold Becker.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alec
Baldwin, Miko Hughes.
USA/1998.
00.10 I Hate My Teenage
Daughter
Weather
Banks and Bureaux de Change. 22
TV GUIDE
3 . Operator number 118. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. New York (K16)
A spinoff of Crime Scene
Investigations set in New
York City.
23.10 Major Crimes
00.05 Secret Circle
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Flipping Out
Flipping Out takes a look
at a peculiar real estate
speculator, Jeff Lewis who
buys houses and ?flips?
them, selling them for a
profit after fixing them up.
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 Don?t Trust the B**** in
Apartment 23
19.30 Raising Hope
Raising Hope revolves
around Jimmy who has not
made the best decisions in
life but is trying his best to
raise his daughter with the
help of his family.
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
22.00 Shameless (K16)
23.00 Raising Hope
23.30 Vampire Diaries
00.30 Bones (K16)
JIM
11.15 Crocodileman
11.45 Man vs. Food
12.10 Chuck?s Day Off
14.40 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.40 Shark Tank USA
16.35 The Voice of USA
18.30 Britain?s Best Bakery
19.30 The Voice of USA
22.00 Pawn Stars
22.30 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.
00.00 Beck
00.55 South Park
01.25 Ax Men
02.20 Shark Tank USA
HELSINKI TIMES
Finland info
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.40 French Food at Home
10.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.20 Marriage Under
Construction
14.50 4 Weddings
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
17.25 Criss Angel Believe
18.25 Frasier
21.00 Grey?s Anatomy
On the day of April?s wedding,
the Grey Sloan Memorial
doctors are all preoccupied
with their own drama. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. Program chief Kudrow orders
the ?security threat. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. 09 4711.
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Emergency Numbers. 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.
sudoku
Retail trade sales
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Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
Medical services. Directed
by: Harold Becker. Starring:
Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko
Hughes. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. Bailey
comes clean to Ben about
her feelings regarding him
moving back to Seattle
and Meredith and Cristina
continue to argue about their
research and careers.
23.35 Dexter (K16)
00.40 Frasier
01.10 Criminal Minds: Under
Suspicion
02.10 Excused
TV5
06.10 Coupling
06.45 The Jeff Corwin
Experience
07.40 Matlock
11.40 Extreme Cheapskates
12.40 The Jeff Corwin
Experience
13.40 Coupling
14.20 Smack the Pony
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.55 Married. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. This skill
renders the new billion-dollar secret code vulnerable, especially if
enemies of the USA should learn
of Simon?s abilities and capture
him. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. 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). In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. 9 APRIL 2014
wednesday
tuesday 31.12.9.4.
MTV3
The Green Hornet
T V5 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Pensioners Behaving
Badly
15.20 Up All Night
16.15 Undercover Boss
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 C.S.I. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. As they
are trailed by deadly assassins,
Jeffries quickly realizes that no
one can be trusted. Dial 112. Single ticket
Mercury Rising
Jeffries (Bruce Wills), is an outcast
FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who
is the target for assassins after
cracking the government?s new
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That said,
taking seven years to complete a bachelors degree, as
some Finns do, seems to me
a little over the top and perhaps a little more effort could
be made within the system to
encourage students to graduate before the grey hairs
start appearing!
Admittedly Finland is no
Utopia; there are drinking
and gambling problems that
are plain to see and some of
the ?marvelous. on the list of possible Erasmus placements,
rather embarrassingly for a
geography student, I could
barely place it on a map. Sanna Rautavirta
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www.keradur.fi. Since then however, the weather has for the
most part been underwhelmingly grey and miserable (or
British as most describe it),
although I?ve noticed the
transition of the seasons
much more vividly than anywhere else I?ve ever lived. that sort
of thing. and ?What
do you think of Finland??
Until I read ?University of
Helsinki. With
a culture and language largely unknown to a humble British student, it was the option
that stood out from the list;
that and the fact that the
teaching is in English answer the first question. ?No one will smile, no one
will talk to you;. The flexibility within
the University here is wonderful, and the lack of pressure allows students to
flourish at their own pace,
not one dictated by a government committee. (69?) 50 min
Share your funny, memorable, frustrating or great experiences of Finland with our readers. However, in my experience I have
found the complete opposite,
and whilst some Finns take
a little time to break down,
once they open up, they are
kind, thoughtful and surprisingly funny (as long as you
like your humour as dry as a
sauna).
One thing that has struck
me over the past few months
is this country?s unending
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have found it endlessly fascinating to migrate my jogging
route onto the frozen Vantaa
river from alongside it!
Experiencing Finland?s
world famous education system has also been a real priv-
ilege. The
response to the second question is one that requires a little more thought.
Prior to taking the plunge
into Finland, friends told
me to expect not only cold
weather, but also cold people. architecture has failed to impress
me. Even a few kilometres from the city centre,
you can be totally immersed
in nature, and driving north
through the trees you meet a
deafening silence that is hard
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? Back and Neck Massage 32. However, I?ve loved living
in Helsinki thus far, and I?m
confident that the cold winters and warm people will
keep me returning for many
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tourists might get that idea
from some of the city?s shop
attendants and wonderfully
unhelpful bus drivers. Matching
that beauty is a wonderful
madness that is probably only natural when you spend so
long in the cold and dark!
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
As a Brit it seems only
appropriate to mention the
weather, and landing in Helsinki in September, suitcases
bursting with the warmest
of winter jackets, I far from
expected to be sunbathing
on Hietaniemi beach a few
days later