?This
has been a normal law drafting process. The statement must be prepared within a reasonable time limit.
The situation concerning paternity
has been problematic for some time
and it?s good to get some clarity on
it,. HT
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not mirrored in every school. Citizens over 80 are being ignored.
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fInland?S Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson (Swedish
People?s Party) wants to give the
Constitutional Law Committee time
to submit its report on the proposed
paternity law.
Legal experts criticised the government?s proposal for new paternity law in no uncertain terms
in Helsingin Sanomat on Monday,
claiming it went against the constitution and the provisions set forth
in inheritance law, besides being
discriminatory and placing people
on unequal footing depending on
whether they were born to parents
who were married or not. This debate has been ongoing for some decades and now
that the court of human rights has
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Turun kauppakorkeakoulu . How did the government decide on such a proposal?
?Lawyers who carried out the preparation completed their work thoroughly,. explains Henriksson.
She does not want to go into the
rationale behind the proposal in
more detail. A lot
would depend on judicial policy that
would be made up as we go along,?
explains Koskinen.
?After the paternity law has been
settled on, we can focus on developing the legislation on material
rights,. The Constitutional Law
Committee will give a final assessment of the proposal.?
The Constitutional Law Committee has not drawn up the proposal,
so why should it carry the final responsibility. I
am certain the Constitutional Law
Committee will consider the matter thoroughly before submitting
a report. Henriksson explains. The first of october in 1976 is when the current paternity law
came into effect.
Let?s look at a case where a 65-year-old man has two children with his wife
when he dies on 1 November 2014, after which it emerges he has another child
born outside of marriage in 1975. Helsinki Times is also available for sale in more than 140 kiosks across Finland.
PIIa ElonEn . ?We?ll see
when the report is ready.?
There are three possible outcomes: the law will be passed as it
currently stands, the government
will be requested to make changes
to it or it will go through a more vigorous drafting procedure before approval by the parliament.
?We will assess the law as a
whole. We will respect the committee?s view, even if it proves to go
against the government proposal.?
The minister of justice says the
government was prepared for some
criticism of the proposal but that
the vocal and strong opposition to
the proposed reform had come as a
surprise.
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has now been submitted to parliament and it?ll proceed via that route.?
Three possibilities
Parliament?s Constitutional Law
Committee has received most reports from legal experts and the
committee?s final statement on
the proposal is set to be completed
within the next few weeks.
Johannes Koskinen (SDP), the
committee chairman, declined to
comment on the fate of the government proposal before the final decision has been reached. It is, however, not
unheard of for a draft law prepared
by another ministry to be met with
such vocal opposition.
Koskinen believes that the uproar
has partly been sparked by the battle
between different legal traditions.
?It?s also a question of what interpretation of law to follow: the
tradition of family law or human
rights law. says Koskinen.
The government proposal has
taken a stab at addressing the situation where new siblings emerge
years after the death of a father and
the division of inheritance.
?What to do about an inheritance which has been divided years
or even decades earlier. Turku School of Economics. ?3 . 15 OCTOBER 2014 . There are always several options
you have to choose from and this was
considered the best route to take.?
When asked why she believes that
legal experts have used words such as
?tragic. They used
words such as ?mistake?, ?tragic?
and ?beyond comprehension?.
?This is now a matter for the Constitutional Law Committee to handle as the Legal Affairs Committee
has asked them to comment on it. Supporters of different viewpoints have been involved
in the drafting of the law and now
one side is criticising the outcome.?
One day determines right to inheritance
Under the government proposal, children who were born outside of marriage before 1 october 1976 would not have a right to the inheritance left
by their father if the father died before the court case concerning paternity was filed. 9 . and ?mistake?, Henrikkson
replied that ?I wouldn?t like to comment on these claims made by individual law professors. There is no
ready-made solution for that. ISSUE 41 (375) . he says, adding that it is unusual for a law proposal by the Ministry of Justice to come under such
strong criticism. Legal experts slam the proposal for going against the current
legislation on inheritance and abolishing a person?s right to inheritance
if they are born outside of marriage.
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new paternity law
evokes strong criticism
DOMesTiC
Henriksson remarked that she will respect the committee?s view, even if it
proves to go against the government proposal.
?When preparing the law proposal, we settled on this option as the
least harmful,. ?The reasons behind the
proposed law have been recorded in
the proposal. A new book details secret talks between US and Cuba.
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peOpLe & LifesTyLe
decision a
result of thorough work
Under the proposed law, children
born outside of marriage before October 1976 would not be entitled to
the inheritance left by their father
even if paternity was confirmed by
a court. HS
nIIna woollE y
This type
of patents provide an effective means of ever-greening,
because protection can be
extended for the full length
of a new patent, i.e. nor
how such requirements need
to be interpreted.
THuS, national laws may differentiate inventions and
discoveries, and require that
the former result from an inventive activity, thereby excluding pre-existing subject
matter that is merely found,
such as natural substances.
While some patent offic-
was actually lost when such
items were first disclosed.
WHILE some large patent offices, such as the US Patent
and Trademark Office, the
European Patent Office and
the Chinese Patent Office,
seem to apply a lax inventive
step standard, thereby allowing for the granting of a large
number of ?low quality. The proliferation of
?secondary. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. For instance, Nokia
is reported to hold around
30,000 patents relating to
mobile phones, a large part
of which are likely to be invalid, while Samsung holds
more than 31,000 patent
families. 15 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. These ever-greening strategies allow
them to keep generic producers out of the market and
charge prices higher than
those that would otherwise
exist in a competitive scenario.
fOR ExaMPLE , the basic patent for paroxetine, an antidepressant, expired in the
late 1990s, whereas ?secondary. A good example
is provided by the guidelines
on the patentability of pharmaceutical products and
processes adopted by the Argentine government in 2012
to limit the ever-greening of
pharmaceutical patents.
fINaLLy, it is worth noting
that in applying patentability standards, patent offices can differentiate, in line
with the TRIPS agreement,
among fields of technology
in order to take into account
particular features of specific sectors and public policies
objectives, for instance in relation to the promotion of generic drugs.
MEaSuRES to accommodate these differences constitute a necessary response
to the diversity of technologies and, consequently, a
condition sine qua non for an
intrinsically balanced system of protection that remains neutral in its effects
on competition.
THIS COLuMN is taken from
the author?s research paper
on ?Tackling the Proliferation
of Patents: How to Avoid Undue Limitations to Competition and the Public Domain?,
published by the South Centre.. It
points instead to a major deviation of the patent system
away from its intended objective: to reward those who
contribute to technological progress by creating new
and inventive products and
processes.
THE INCREaSE in the number
of patents reflects, to a large
extent, the low requirements
of patentability applied by patent offices and courts. A study covering
various fields of clean energy
technologies, including solar photovoltaic, geothermal,
wind and carbon capture,
found nearly 400,000 patent
documents.
of patents is particularly high and
problematic in the pharmaceutical sector, where large
companies actively seek to acquire broad portfolios of patents in order to extend patent
THE PROLIfERaTION
proach. patents will extend up to
2018.
EVER-GREENING strategies
by one company often force
others to follow the same
pattern as a defensive ap-
THE MOST important policy
that governments may implement is the rigorous application of the requirements
of patentability, based on a
thorough examination of patent applications. or ?spurious. He calls for an intrinsically balanced system of protection of innovation that remains neutral in its effects on competition.
Tacklingt hep roliferation of patents
to avoid limitations to competition
C a R L OS M . own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
In this column, Carlos Correa, the South Centre?s special adviser on trade and intellectual property issues, argues that the global increase in the number of patents does not indicate the strength of innovation but a weakening in the standards of what can be considered
patentable. patents can impose significant
costs on patients and public
health systems.
es grant patents on the
basis of legal fictions on novelty, there is no reason to follow such practices in other
jurisdictions.
SEVERaL measures can be
applied at the national level to avoid the proliferation
of patents on trivial developments in full consistency with the Agreement on
Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
(TRIPS), because they fall
within the policy space that
World Trade Organisation
(WTO) members have retained to design and apply
their patent laws.
aN ExaMPLE
of this practice
by some patent offices is to
admit what are known as ?selection patents?, whereby one
of more items that were previously disclosed are independently claimed. C O R R E a . The TRIPS
agreement neither defines
the concept of ?invention. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. normally twenty additional years,
despite the fact that novelty
Ever-greening strategies by one company often force others to
follow the same pattern as a defensive approach.
protection beyond the expiry of the original patents on
new compounds. 2
VIEWPOINT
9 . patents, there are strong public
interest arguments to follow
a different approach, particularly in developing countries.
application of the
industrial applicability/usefulness requirement, when
provided for by the national
a STRICT
law, may also contribute to
prevent the grant of unwarranted patent rights.
is the case, in particular, for claims on new medical
uses, which are equivalent to
claims over methods of treatment that have no industrial
application or technical effect.
The lack of industrial applicability may be a sufficient
ground to reject such claims.
THIS
the policy space left
by the TRIPS agreement to
adopt their own definitions
of the patentability standards, and to do so consistently with their legal systems
and practices, governments
can follow different methods
to ensure that patents are
granted only when there are
sufficient merits under the
applicable law.
GIVEN
GOVERNMENTS may introduce specific standards in
the patent laws themselves.
A notable case is the Indian
Patent Act, as amended in
2005, which incorporated in
section 3(d) specific standards to assess patent applications in the field of chemicals
and pharmaceuticals.
IN a CaSE brought by
Novartis (a Swiss pharmaceutical company) against
the rejection of its patent application relating to a beta
crystalline form of imatinib mesylate, the Indian Supreme Court held that the
claimed invention failed in
both the tests of invention
and patentability.
The definition of the standards of patentability can also
be made through regulations,
including patent offices?
guidelines. IP S
P H IL H a R R I S
THE STEady increase in patent
applications and grants that is
taking place in developed and
some developing countries
(notably in China) is sometimes hailed as evidence of the
strength of global innovation
and of the role of the patent
system in encouraging it.
HOWEVER , such an increase
does not correspond to a genuine rise in innovation. Patents
granted despite the absence
of a genuine invention detract
knowledge from the public domain and can unduly restrain
legitimate competition.
LOW standards of patentability encourage a large number
of applications that would
not otherwise be made, leading to a world backlog estimated at over 10 million
unexamined patents.
THIS problem affects various
sectors
H T
HELSINKI is a city with a rich
linguistic landscape, but it is
not apparent everywhere.
The Finnish capital is
home to both schools with
no foreign language-speaking children, as well as
schools where the majority
of children speak other than
Finnish or Swedish as their
mother tongue.
For example, 63 per cent
of pupils at Soininen School
in Malmi are non-Finnish or
Swedish speakers, whereas in Munkkiniemi, Pakila,
Paloheinä and Suomenlinna,
the corresponding share is
no more than 2 per cent.
The explanation lies in regional demographic differences, says Outi Salo, a head
of division at the Education
Department of Helsinki. ?The
school admission areas produce distinct sets of pupils.
Schools develop as the areas
develop,. The projections drawn up by Akava,
he also argued, are misguidedly founded on the assumption
that people will stay in working life until the age of 68.
?The example they cite
of the current scheme is the
schemes provide at the lower
age limit or after a few years
in retirement. In the southern districts, in turn, the situation
has hardly changed over the
past six years, despite the
fact that the foreign population of the city has grown
sharply.
Own schools
of preference
On the other hand, the differences may also be attributable to the fact that immigrant
families have their own
schools of preference. explains Mirja
Talib, an adjunct professor
of education at the University of Helsinki.
Talib has witnessed the
development first-hand, having worked at Meri-Rastila School, where over half of
Heinäluoma praises
Swedish government?s Nato policy
a NN a - L IIN a K auH a N E N . Bernelius reminds us. H T
THE GOvERNMENT concluded
on Friday that the agreement
on a reform of the national
pension system thrashed out
by labour market representatives fulfils the two requirements imposed on it: the
average retirement age will
increase to 62.4 years and,
as a result, the sustainability
deficit of the national economy will decrease by roughly 1
per cent in proportion to the
national output.
The criteria laid out by
the Government in advance
left little wiggle room for
Carl Haglund (SFP), the Minister of Defence, who had
called for revisions to the
agreement.
?Today, I brought to light
our need for improvements.
I will re-address the issue in
the government session early next week, but I regrettably doubt that I will receive
too much support,. Perhaps, she views.
?A certain amount of foreign language speakers promotes diversity. H T
of Parliament Eero
Heinäluoma (SDP) says that
Finland should also remain
outside Nato during the next
government term.
Heinäluoma praises the announcement by the new Swedish government, led by the
Social Democratic Party, that
Sweden would not seek NATO
membership in the near future.
The policy decision by
Prime Minister Stefan
Löfven?s government helps
bring some clarity to the situation in the Nordic countries,
L E H T I K U VA / T I M o J A A Ko n A H o
SpEaKER
said Heinäluoma, speaking in
a conference on foreign policy organised by the Social
Democratic Party in Espoo
on Tuesday.
?The decision by the
Swedish government is beneficial to the stability in the
Nordic countries,. ?It is
not expedient for learning
Finnish to have pupils with
a weak command of Finnish
make up the majority of the
classes,. ?Local
schools connect children to
their social surroundings.
Schools should strengthen
their local presence, become
the heart of their district.?
Row over winners and losers
of pension deal rumbles on
J u H a RO p p O L a . ?If a
school has shown respect to
the ways of life of families,
they will continue to prefer
the school,. Haglund lamented to Helsingin
Sanomat.
The Government is consequently expected to commence preparatory work on
new pension regulations on
one that provides the highest pension. This is an utterly
misguided premise because
people today retire when
reaching the lower age limit
for old-age pensions.?
Its assessment of the new
system, in turn, concentrates
on the proposed lower age
limit for old-age pensions.
?They are comparing the
maximum and the minimum.
That is not how you carry out
an impact assessment,. Allegations that we have taken
up with Akava are inaccurate.
Our critical approach to the
supposed tripartite [negotiations] and the promotion of
education are not new issues
for us. H S
a L E K S I T E I va INE N . it
doesn?t bode well,. stated Eero Heinäluoma.
Multicultural diversity in schools is more apparent in some areas than others.
the pupils come from foreign
language-speaking families.
Should responsibility for
multilingualism be distributed more evenly among
schools. The malaise
mounting on certain schools
is the problem, not the cultural background of pupils,. stated Rantahalvari.
Instead, one should
compare the pensions the
the basis of the agreement of
labour market organisations.
At present, the objective is to
present the bills to the Parliament for consideration after
the 2015 parliamentary elections and thereby to implement the reform in 2017.
Criticism unfounded
On Friday Vesa Rantahalvari, a senior adviser at the
Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK), dismissed the
criticism expressed by Haglund as ill-founded.
Haglund, along with the
Confederation of Trade Unions for Professional and
Managerial Staff (Akava),
have voiced their concerns
that the agreement is disadvantageous to the highly-educated and fails to encourage
the extension of careers.
According to Rantahalvari,
calculations made by the Finnish Centre for Pensions (ETK)
indicate that such concerns
are unsubstantiated. Neighbourhoods with
a prevalence of rental apartments differ from neighbourhoods with detached
houses,. she underlines.
A decline in pupil numbers recently saw the board
of Soininen School vote in favour of merging its administrative functions with those
of Pukinmäki School. H S
NIIN a W OO L L E y . ?If you ask
the schools, every penny is
certainly welcome,. replied Haglund.
L E H T I K U VA / M A r K K U U L A n dE r
Exacerbating
socio-economic
inequalities reflected
in schools?
development.
L E H T I K U VA / PAT r I c I A G A b r I E L- ro b E z
Multiculturalism hasn?t reached every school
Vesa Rantahalvari dismissed the criticism expressed by Haglund
as ill-founded.. says Venla Bernelius, a researcher at the
University of Helsinki.
She characterises Helsinki as a mosaic: the social
structure of the city is ?cast
in cement?.
The change has been particularly sudden in certain
schools, with the number of
foreign language-speaking
pupils increasing by up to 20
per cent from 2008.
Today, children who don't
speak Finnish or Swedish as
their mother tongue are especially common in the eastern and central districts of
Helsinki. H S
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . 15 OCTOBER 2014
3
p Ip S a pa LT Ta L a . In both cases,
pensions would increase, he
highlighted.
?For EK to criticise my
views is quite expected, it being part of the agreement. Heinäluoma commented.
?The decision by Sweden
and Finland to continue on
the path of neutrality means
that the situation in the Nordic region will remain stable.
The decision also paves the
way for the development of
collaboration between Finland and Sweden.?
?The decision by the Swedish government is beneficial to the
stability in the Nordic countries,. Researchers
have encouraged schools to use
multiculturalism as an asset.
Finns, Bernelius estimates, no longer recognise the significance of local
schools for children. she explains.
The development of
schools also reflects exacerbating
socio-economic
inequalities.
?Increasing
inequality
and flat prices in Helsinki are
at the heart of the phenom-
enon. she says,
commenting on the significance of the subsidies.
Multiculturalism
an asset
There is no evidence that linguistic diversity alone would
result in parents shunning a
particular school.
?It?s funny that you talk
about immigrant schools and
international schools in the
same breath. However, no
school should have to shoulder too heavy a burden . DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . she says,
also cautioning against obsessing over percentages.
?It boils down to the motivation and professional skills
of teachers,. In addition, schools are entitled
to a special grant for each
foreign language-speaking
child.
According to Salo, Helsinki is poised to cut the annual subsidies by as much as
450,000 euros, but has yet
to take a decision on the targets of the cuts. Calling attention to the
position of educated women is
only natural,. the board states in
its decision.
The City of Helsinki disburses subsidies to schools
with a high proportion of
immigrant pupils, to enable the schools to hire additional resource teachers and
classroom assistants
And once, Koskinen almost got interviewed
by a market researcher.
?But then they heard how
old I was and that was that,?
Koskinen laughs.
?But I think they should
also interview older people.?
Laakkonen says she will
participate in any survey
that is forthcoming.
?We?d be happy to participate in the discussion concerning our everyday lives
and future matters as well.?
the city?s streetlights will be
LED lamps.
By last autumn, only 650
out of the 86,000 light points
in Helsinki were LED lights
but the city is planning to increase the number rapidly.
Experiences of LED lights
have been encouraging: only a couple of the lamps have
been botched pieces and the
lights use 80 per cent less energy than HBO lights.
Zuzana Kyppö was taking some exercise on Turku?s
Sirkkalankatu which is lit
with LED lights.
?You can see better in
white light but I haven?t quite
got used to lighting being this
cold in tone,. Setting some limits is always a
workable compromise,. says
Päivi Pösö, the information
services manager at the Population Register Centre.
Taru Miettinen pushing her bike along Vartiovuorenkatu in Turku
lit with high-pressure sodium lamps.. The cut-off point
used to be 74 years, and still is
in some countries,. H S
L e H T i k u VA
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
Who:
Pekka Jaatinen
From:
Finland
Famous for:
awyer overseeing the
reorganisation of Talvivaara
and its subsidiaries
Talvivaara Mining Company Plc, known colloquially as Talvivaara,
along with its operating subsidiary Talvivaara Sotkamo Ltd, are
currently going through a reorganisation period. 4
DOMESTIC
9 . Not many
are willing to act as guinea pigs for pricey products
that are still going through
teething problems,. time. A proposal for
how the organisation will take place has been submitted. Possibilities around bond and share issues and the involvement of other cornerstone investors are being considered.
Challenging
Internet connectivity
The Central Union for the
Welfare of the Aged sent an
open letter to the Minister of
Education and Communications Krista Kiuru (SDP) in
August, concerning a news
release by the ministry that
stated that 89 per cent of
Finns have access to an Internet connection.
The union regarded the
study as misleading because
all of the participants were
between the ages of 15 and
79. Kyppö says.
LEDs produce white light,
which makes colours easier
to distinguish. The group also
includes many people suffering from memory problems,
and companies carrying out
surveys want to avoid situations where they interview
people with dementia, according to Rahkonen.
The Central Union for the
Welfare of the Aged understands the reasons behind
research companies. 15 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
P e n T T i Vä n S k ä
Over-80s not allowed to have their say in surveys
Marja Laakkonen and Elina Koskinen say they are happy pensioners and culture vultures. age is restrict-
Question of the week
Online grocery sales are proving more popular than ever.
Do you buy your groceries via the Internet?
ed to 15-79 years, excluding
anyone who is 80 or older.
According to Statistics
Finland, there are nearly
273,000 people in their 80s in
Finland, equalling the number of residents in Espoo and
accounting for around six per
cent of the whole population.
?We had to set the limit
somewhere. ?In extreme
cases, such as an accident,
white light can be beneficial
because in yellow light it?s
difficult to tell oil and blood
apart,. The duo
may be unable to come up with anything they would like to moan and groan about but they think
the older age groups should be included in surveys.
The upper age limit for opinion polls and surveys is often set at 79
years even though there are a growing number of active older people.
network must
be maintained. The results may be skewed as there
can be vast differences between the views and opinions
of an 85-year-old pensioner and a 65-year-old who has
just reached the retirement
age.
?You gain a more reliable
view if you interview also the
older age groups,. Jaatinen
proposes that 97 per cent of the 429 million euros Talvivaara has
in unsecured debt, and 99 per cent of the 900 million euros Talvivaara Sotkamo has in unsecured debt be written off. says Tomi Toivonen,
a director at the Turku Energy company.
V e S A - M AT T i Vä ä r ä
M INN a P ö L K K I . The
administrator in charge of the reorganisation is Pekka Jaatinen.
Jaatinen views that the value of the Group?s restructuring debt
secured by collateral is a maximum of 56 million euro. says Kalevi Luoma, an energy engineer at the Association of
Finnish Local and Regional
Authorities.
SOME FINNISH
Besides being a new and
untested technology in street
lighting, LED lights also come
with a hefty price tag, which
in part explains why municipalities have been dragging
their feet. views and analyse
their consumer behaviour
but in reality the voice of
people in Laakkonen and
Koskinen?s age group is not
heard in most of the studies.
In the majority of market
surveys and opinion polls,
participants. Some studies have no age restrictions.
The Population Register Centre releases people?s contact
information for the purposes
of scientific study, market research and direct marketing.
?These practices have
been formed with time, and
the Data Protection Ombudsman has assessed them. explains
T O NI L E H T INE N . Project manager Marika Nordlund says
that conclusions concerning all elderly people can be
drawn on the basis of these
surveys, even though a large
proportion of the age group
has been excluded. It is people older than this
that have fewer Internet connections than the population
on average, and even if they
have one, they may not use it
for accessing online services.
Despite this, authorities
and companies may use this
and other similar studies as
a foundation when they start
planning changes to their
electronic services.
Satu Helin, from the Central Union for the Welfare
of the Aged, emphasises the
importance of maintaining
Municipalities hoarding
streetlights facing EU ban
Yes . Next year, 90 per cent of
services that the elderly are
used to using.
According to organisations that conduct surveys,
the older age groups often
pose a challenge for researchers as they may be difficult
to reach, leading to a low response rate. One
reason stopping the city
from converting its lighting
to energy-saving technology
has been the condition of its
street light network.
?It?s not enough that we
change just the lamps and attachments but we?d have to
overhaul the whole system,?
explains Mika Heikkilä, a
development engineer at the
City of Tampere.
The vast majority of the
city?s lights are high-pressure sodium lights but the situation is set to change by the
end of the decade as Tampere
is already planning to buy
more LED lamps than any other lighting type next year.
Heikkilä says that municipalities were right to put
off changing their lighting
systems as the price of LED
lights has been going down
steadily over the last few
years. It?s only now that
LED lamps are becoming the
most cost-efficient solution.?
Illuminating Turku
Turku converted to LED technology in one fell swoop last
year. H S
NIIN a W O O L L E Y . Of the city?s streets
lights, 10,000 are HBO lights,
accounting for 25 per cent of
the lamps.
Currently, only three per
cent of the city?s streetlights
employ LED technology. cautious attitudes, but believes
that if they put their minds to
it, the companies could find
ways of including also the
older age groups.
Elina Koskinen and Marja
Laakkonen would be happy to
answer survey questions, given a chance. 90.5%
Concerning opinions
The Central Union for the Welfare of the Aged finds it concerning that the opinions of
the elderly are ignored in so
many surveys. 9.5%
No . ?We look at the costs
through the product?s whole
service life. says Nordlund, who works for a technology project run by The
Central Union for the Welfare of the Aged and the Union of Senior Services.
municipalities have stocked up on energy-hogging mercury-arc
HBO street lights in preparation for the EU ban on their
sale and manufacture set to
be implemented next spring.
After the ban, the EU countries must light their streets
with energy-efficient lights,
such as high-pressure sodium
lamps, which produce yellow
light or white LED lights.
Some municipalities are
planning to use HBO lamps
for years to come, partly because they are not yet
convinced that LED technology will perform as well as a
street lighting solution.
Espoo was one of the municipalities to test LED street
lights last year but the City
authorities were not convinced of their lighting
efficiency.
?Many municipalities are
putting off converting their
street lights to LED technology as they don?t believe the
models currently on the market will also be available in
a few years. According to Jaatinen, the reorganisation has shown that the operatiosn of Talvivaara Sotkamo can become profitable.
Talvivaara Sotkamo?s business operations and assets are
to be sold to a new entity owned chiefly by Talvivaara. A LED lamp may
cost three times as much as
another type of energy-efficient streetlight.
Municipalities still have
up to half a million HBO
lamps in use and converting them to LED lights would
cost a whopping 250 million
euros.
?The worst-case scenario
would be for municipalities
not to replace the lights when
they run out of HBO lamps,?
Luoma explains.
Lighting Tampere
Tampere has accumulated a five-year supply of HBO
lamps. Newspapers
should publish paper editions also in the future. H T
Juho Rahkonen, a research
manager at market research
company Taloustutkimus.
Market research companies agree on the age limit
with the organisation commissioning a study, with the
upper limit varying depending on the topic. H T
N IIN a W O O L L E Y . The
funds obtained from the sale are planned to be used to pay
off or purchase restructuring debts.
The implementation of the programme remains dependent on
sufficient creditor support and an adequate long term financing
solution. The
elderly must be found places
in nursing homes nearby to
allow family members to visit more easily.
These are just a few examples of opinions on today?s soci-
THE LIBRaRY
ety that Marja Laakkonen, 80,
and Elina Koskinen, 82, from
Kuopio, would like to share.
Various surveys report
Finns
It isn?t used habitually like amphetamine but
more randomly, as a temporary mood enhancement,?
describes Jukka Paasio, a detective chief inspector at the
Helsinki Police Department.
?It is, of course, also an
extremely dangerous intoxicant,. It?s clearly a party drug
that is easy to get and use undetected. As a result,
the officer was also ordered
to pay several thousand euros in damages to a family
member of the woman.
Earlier, the woman had
received a court order to pay
120,000 euros to the family member for selling a coowned property without
their consent, and keeping
the proceeds for herself.
A customs official holding a vacuum-packed batch of marijuana at the postal customs office in Vantaa in late 2012.
amphetamine
and ecstasy
seizures rise sharply
Hashish is being replaced by marijuana
in the Finnish drug
market.
L a SSE KERKEL ä
Customs have
registered a surge in the seizures of amphetamine, ecstasy and marijuana this year.
In particular, the amounts
of amphetamine and ecstasy intercepted by customs
THE FINNISH
officials have increased in
comparison to the previous
year. he adds.
The growth registered in
marijuana seizures, in turn,
is believed to be an indication
of hashish being replaced by
marijuana in the domestic
drug market. corroborates
Paasio. In
addition, he was charged
with imperilment for jeopardising the health of the
woman by having unprotected sex with her despite being
aware of his infection, the
prosecutor explained.
The perpetrator alleged
in court that no sexual intercourse had taken place, estimating that the DNA traces
found on the victim may have
come from the toilet seat or
the bed linen. ?We are experiencing a
record year,. In addition
to revealing details about the
report to the man, she sent
out a message to the officer
in charge of the investigation
and the investigator assigned
to it in defence of him.
By doing so, the prosecution argued, she compromised the pre-trial
investigation.
In the other incident under consideration, Kiukkonen is believed to have
accessed the database to
look up two traffic violation
reports filed against the expartner of her ex-boyfriend.
She explained her actions
in court by saying that she
wanted to find out the phone
number of the woman.
Her defence counsel also pointed out in court that
practices related to the use
of the database were more
relaxed at the time . The Finnish Police
have yet to publish their own
drug seizure statistics for the
ongoing year.
Practices related to the use of police databases were more
relaxed at the time of the alleged wrongdoings, the defence argues.
L a SSE KERKEL ä . she
explained in court.
Her defence counsel argued
that Kiukkonen has already
been punished sufficiently for
her actions by the publicity
surrounding the case.
Kiukkonen is first believed to have accessed the
database at the request of
a friend of her now ex-boyfriend to determine whether an assault report had been
filed against him. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . The friend, a
55-year-old woman, was sentenced to a suspended prison
term of 18 months for aggravated fraud by a debtor.
The woman had declared
in 2011 that she only had 60
euros in cash in distrainable
assets, despite being in possession of over 120,000 euros
in concealed assets. She, for
example, pretended to sell
her car to the police officer,
who later transferred it into
the ownership of the woman?s unlicensed daughter.
Although the police officer pleaded not guilty to the
charge of aiding and abetting
fraud by a debtor, the District
Court of Helsinki concluded
that the officer must have realised that they were in fact
taking part in the concealment of assets. Experts, however, concluded that such a scenario was extremely unlikely.
The victim was deemed
entitled to recover 5,000
euros in compensation for
pain and suffering from the
perpetrator.
Officer found guilty of
aiding and abetting fraud
L a SSE KERKEL ä . The largest single
seizure was made at the Vuosaari Harbour in Helsinki in
January, when over 50 kilos
of amphetamine was discovered under the floor of a vehicle driven by two women.
Recently, the amount of
amphetamine intercepted by
the Finnish Customs in the
first half of the year has varied between 2 and 12 kilos.
The amount of ecstasy confiscated has similarly
grown substantially in comparison to previous years.
?[Ecstasy] is used in nightclubs. before
dozens of police officers had
been caught snooping into
the death of cross-country
skiing legend Mika Myllylä.
In addition, Kiukkonen is
HS / jUHAnI nIIr AnEn
Celebrity police officer accused of disclosing classified information
senior detective inspector marianne kiukkonen appeared before the district court of Helsinki last Friday to deny the criminal
charges brought against her.
suspected of violating her
official duties for appearing
unannounced at the Helsinki
Prison in May and demanding that she be allowed in to
visit a prisoner.. Not all of the drugs
seized, however, are necessarily destined to the domestic drug market but may be
en route to Russia, Norway or
Sweden, for example.
The Finnish Customs intercepted a total of 72 kilos of amphetamine between
January and June, signalling
a year-on-year surge of over
70 kilos. confirms Hannu Sinkkonen, the chief of
crime prevention at the Finnish Customs.
Sinkkonen estimates that
the surge in seizures is an indication of effective enforcement efforts and an increase
in drug abuse.
In general, authorities detect only a fraction of the illegal drugs smuggled into
Finland. The post-exposure
medication she was prescribed
in an attempt to prevent an infection caused her nausea and
vomiting for four weeks.
Six months later, it was
confirmed that she had not
been infected with HIV.
The woman told the court
that the suspected infection had caused her fear and
anxiety.
The perpetrator was
charged with rape on
grounds of the current legislation stipulating that the
sexual battery of a person
who has passed out or is otherwise in a helpless state
shall be considered rape. The same trend
has been observed by the police: ?Hashish is still out there,
that?s for sure, but in smaller amounts than before. HS
a SENIOR detective constable
at the Helsinki Police Department has been sentenced to a
suspended prison term of 60
days for aiding and abetting
fraud by a debtor.
The District Court of Helsinki, in its verdict, determined that the officer, who
is under 40 years old, had
helped a friend subject to
a distraint action conceal
her assets by means of a bogus car sale. H S
THE HELSINKI Court of Appeal
has found a 34-year-old HIVpositive man guilty of rape
and imperilment for raping a
passed-out woman.
The incident occurred in
a flat in Helsinki in the summer of 2012, after the heavily intoxicated woman had
gone to the bedroom to rest.
She awoke to the 34-year-old
man having unprotected intercourse with her.
She told the court that
although the perpetrator
used no physical force she
was unable to fight him off
immediately.
The woman was informed
of the HIV status of the man
after he had been brought in-
to custody. HS
THE PROSECuTION demanded last Thursday that Marianne Kiukkonen, a senior
detective constable at the
Helsinki Police Department,
be handed a fine for accessing a police database twice
without legitimate grounds,
and disclosing classified information to a third party.
Kiukkonen, who is known
to the public for her role in
the reality show Poliisit, has
rejected the criminal allegations, insisting that she had
the requisite grounds to access the database. The
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HIVpositive
man
jailed
for rape
SuS a NN a R E INB O T H . ?I did what
I was told in police school and
what my heart told me,
bills up to
thousands
of euros
of the details
of the lawsuit last Friday got
investors scraping for Nokia
shares at the Helsinki stock
market on Monday. as they
like to call it. tells Mika Karala from Turbotech.
Endeavouring to discover
additional horsepower has become popular in people?s own
garages, too. orthopedics, eye laser and lens surgery, plastic surgery, gynecology and urology.
Also laboratory and X-ray services are available. The army cannot even afford to buy modern weaponry. Appointments (09) 1620 570.
www.eirahospital.fi
Laivurinkatu 29, 00150 Helsinki
NOwadayS, only computers are used for tuning cars.
Many motors pumped with
additional power remain undiscovered by authorities.
The price is decided by the
level of tuning and can easily climb up to thousands of
euros. I am no longer against Finland joining NATO. A long time ago, in some Facebook conversations, my sarcastic remarks were taken out of context
and reported to Russia. 6
9 . Excuse me but I
immigration, joining
cannot trust
naTo would increase simply
Spain, Belgium or,
the risk of Finland
for example Turkey,
any interest
becoming a target for having
in protecting any
Islamic terrorists.
of the small Baltic
countries in a war
against Russia. Jefferies believes
that these new contracts are
valuable for Nokia, reasoning that sharing funds for
five billion euro reflects the
company?s confidence over
making profits in the future.
Jefferies therefore improved
Nokia?s investment recommendation, lifting it to the
?buy. The second
option would be commissioning the kilometre tax,
and the third raising the petrol taxation. Fourth, a
slightly more coltish idea,
would be to maintain the
automobile tax at its current state but alter it to hire
purchase.
KAUPPALEHTI 6 October
TALOUSSANOMAT 6 October
Investors make a bolt for
Nokia?s patent portfolio
Cars fiddled
by coders
. Germany and Britain might send a formal complaint to Russia . His hobbies include singing and writing lyrics in the band Suuri Tuntematon.
In his spare time, Eerola also likes reading and exercising.
Something about
military co-operation
I HavE always supported military non-alignment of Fin-
land. It is the only imaginable instance . For the state
to receive the same amount
of tax revenues, the price of
the petrol per litre should
be increased by 30 per cent,
Kallio calculates. We offer also surgical, medical
and geriatric ward services, physiotherapy and occupational health.
Do not hesitate to contact us. OptimoiAutosi
and Turbotech tell Taloussanomat that they?re definitely
not lacking in customers.
?The majority of customers want their car individualised, and want additional
comfort in driving,. Another
serious consequence of NATO membership would be the
deterioration of our good trade relationship with Russia.
RuSSIa and the US know each other?s military capabilities. I do not believe that there could ever be a fullscale war between NATO and Russia. We ratified the Ottawa Treaty, which
bans the use of anti-personnel landmines. If Russia were to
decide to acquire land in connection with the Kaliningrad region, then it would do so regardless of the Baltic countries being
Because of muslim
members of NATO. and there might even be a possibility of negotiating for the return of Karelia, Petsamo and the islands in
Gulf of Finland. level, and raised the
desired price of the share by
50 per cent to 7,41 euro.
WELCOME TO
EIRA MEDICAL CENTRE.
Our versatile medical centre in southern Helsinki offers you medical services in
several care areas. The alliance would guarantee us a stable supply of Russian natural
resources . Garrisons have
also been shut down and military drills have been significantly decreased in both number and scale. They sell
devices providing additional power and tuning services, or ?optimisations. He is the third
vice-chair of the party and a member of the Grand Committee. 15 OCTOBER 2014
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Juho Eerola is a True Finns member of parliament. I have turned my
coat. Nyby tells.. We have received cars here with their
controller systems broken
from tuning,. motors and controller systems are fiddled by domestic
computers, the results might
not always be as expected.
Vesa Nyby from OptimoiAutosi sees such cars that
have been ruined by domestic tuning attempts monthly.
?Instructions for tuning
are studied from different
web forums but the results
are often poor. We must ensure all neighbouring countries that
no third party could freely attack them through Finland.
I HavE always been against joining NATO. There is a risk
that it would take us into wars waged by the US around
the world. We would not have to worry about whether
Valio can or cannot sell dairy products to Russia, or whether we can fly to Asia across Russian airspace.
IN INTERNET
Of COuRSE , I am not seriously suggesting an alliance
with Russia. If Finland were to join NATO, then we might
make unnecessary enemies of those people whose countries are involved in such conflict. However, when
cars. Jefferies believes that
Nokia, having sold their mobile phones, has a possibility
to invoice license payments
approximately 1.4-1.5 per
cent for the usage of pivotal
patents.
The percentage, characteristic to the sector, shows
the size that the patent and
license payments form in
the price of a mobile phone.
Nokia is believed to have
asked royalties of only 0.3
per cent of the mobile phone
prices. There, the remarks regarding an imaginary alliance with Russia were taken seriously and have even been published in the Pravda
newspaper.
I waNT to make something clear: I do not advocate an
alliance with Russia but I do want Russia to return the
territories that were wrongly taken from us by force.
THE fINNISH Defence Forces have been scaled down by our
recent governments. By the
evening, the exchange rate
had risen by three per cent,
at 6,850 euro.
Based on the information
obtained from the argument
between Microsoft and Samsung Electronics, the global
investment banking firm Jefferies estimated that Nokia?s
patent portfolio holds considerable profit potential.
According to Jefferies, it
is possible that the license
payment profits may grow
PuBLICaTION
considerably in the near future. In recent years, several new companies have been
founded in the sector. In order to discourage anyone from
invading Finland, the Finnish Defence Forces must be
strong enough to cause serious casualties to any invading
forces. No referral is required.
Under the same roof you can find a wide range of surgical services in i.a. Eerola is also the third vice-chair of the city council of Kotka. You can choose your own general practitioner or specialist
doctor and book appointments flexibly, without queues. The defence of Finland must be based on Finnish patriotic spirit. Unless
our independent and neutral defence is scaled up to the appropriate levels in number and quality, I might even be willing to actively support NATO membership.
The issue of Finnish automobile taxation was raised by the EU.
ILTA-SANOMAT 6 October
finland?s automobile tax on
the list of official Eu notifications
ON THE wEBSITE of the cabinet of the state, a list of official notifications mentions
automobile tax.
The notification, sent
from the EU to the state of
Finland, concerns the taxation of a rented vehicle with
leasing from another member state.
The issue of abolishing the
automobile tax has been on
the table for a long time now.
The executive director of Autotuojat ry, Tero Kallio, has
recently introduced four different models for substituting
the current automobile tax.
None of them are completely flawless, although accord-
ing to him, they are all better
than the current model.
In practice, the automobile tax could be halved and
the yearly vehicle tax simultaneously raised. Because of muslim
immigration, joining NATO would increase the risk of
Finland becoming a target for Islamic terrorists. together with Islamic terrorists . Who
would ever consider attacking Finland if the only imaginable enemy was the one with whom we just allied. but that?s all.
forums I have joked with NATO-supporters that, what if we were instead allied with Russia. The market estimates
that Nokia will be able to
raise its payments consider-
ably with renewed and new
contracts.
Nokia is currently preparing a large contract with
Samsung for 2015 and will
renew its contract with Apple in 2016. of an entity that could
attack us
The area where they are
known to be weak is in marketing. Just over a year later,
she was gone.
So here?s a question: Why
doesn?t the Finnish government do what the Japanese
government did with MITI?
Why doesn?t it find and recruit a team of really good
marketing people (the marketing equivalents of W. 15 OCTOBER 2014
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XiNhUA NewS AgeNcy 30 September. The
additional funding would
gradually increase and reach
150 million euros in 2020, according to the plan.
Finland?s current funding for equipment purchases
is 500 million euros per year.
The total defence budget for
2015 is slightly under 2,700
million euros. Talking to Xinhua, Chairman of the working group
Ilkka Kanerva said the important international message of
the decision is that ?Finland
takes care of its defence, be it
in an alliance or not??
FiNANciAL TiMeS 29 September. During the autumn
of 2013, the Helsinki-based
IT services company Reaktor
stumbled upon a model for
teaching youngsters how to
code when one employee, Juha Paananen, began blogging
about teaching his then fouryear-old daughter to code.
The one-on-one project
soon caught on among other staff members who wanted their children to try their
hand at coding. That?s my two
cents.?
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all that is needed is the missing ingredient . JUhANi NiiNiSTO
Finland to increase
military spending after
years of major cutbacks
?FINNISH political parties
have reached a consensus on
increasing the country?s military spending, with a parliamentary working group
proposing annual increases
in Defence Forces appropriations for arms purchases.
Six parties have agreed
that the army will get an extra 50 million euros (63.46
million US dollars) for equip-
ment purchases in 2016. DeNiSe wALL
Feature: Finland playing
catch up with school
kids. said Reaktor?s Ville Valtonen.
The company made its
training materials freely
available to the public and
anyone else interested in
coding or teaching, and challenged other IT companies
to also provide free ?lasten
koodikoulut. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . Edwards Deming) and give
them the task to market Fin-
Olli Rehn, the Finnish MEP
and former EU economics
commissioner, said the plan
for the new nuclear plant was
now ?economically uncertain
and politically crippled?.
?Finland has a history of
large industrial policy mistakes that have become politically and economically costly,?
Mr Rehn wrote on his blog.
Mr Rehn is a leading member of Finland?s opposition
Centre party, running neckand-neck with Mr Stubb?s National Coalition party in polling
for national elections in April.
He told the Financial
Times his objections to the
nuclear plant were based on
his belief that the EU needed to show unity towards the
Kremlin, noting the European parliament has called for a
reduction of energy reliance
on Russia and a cancellation
of any newly-planned energy
projects with Russia...?
land and serve as a resource
to help Finnish companies
with their marketing?
It is certainly worth a try,
and if it pays off, it will not be
an expense, but a very worthwhile investment in Finnish
businesses and its economy. So reports of school
students taking baby steps
in the adult world of coding
come as no surprise?
The National Board of Education has been working
towards comprehensive curriculum reform that includes
information and communications technology (ICT)
competence.
But that national core
curriculum won?t be fully outlined before the end of
2014, and will only receive final approval in August 2016,
barely in time for the start of
the academic year.
Some Finnish schools
aren?t waiting to play catch
up, however. (children?s coding classes) for youngsters
between the ages of four and
nine years.
?So far there have been 30
such sessions that we know
of, so there?s been a great demand for this kind of project,. Eskelinen remarked.
He said that after a successful first year, the project
has now received funding for
an additional two years.
Public programs to introduce young children to
the joys of coding are being
matched by private sector initiatives. coding programs
sinki launched its own gamebased learning project in
2013, involving 15 different
schools.
According to the chief
consultant of Helsinki?s education department, Petri Eskelinen, students involved in
the program are between the
ages of seven and 13. irA KALB
Finland needs to start
advertising how great it is
??FINNISH companies already produce quality products. Rather than be dependent on one company, Finland
can hopefully create lots of
Nokias. or to
use visual computer programing languages . world-class
marketing. More
than 300 applications came
in for a class offering spaces
for just 15 kids, so there was
a huge response,. Valtonen added??
The Finnish military trains at Upinniemi.
ShANghAi DAiLy 30 September. working with platforms such as
Scratch, Kodu, KerbalEdu
and MinecraftEdu.
Their work with code is
accomplished as part of Finnish education?s integrated
learning principle.
?Coding is introduced as
part of different educational phenomena, for example
as part of history, where stu-
L E H T I K U VA / ro N I r E Ko m A A
?FINLAND has long been recognised as an innovative and
technologically-advanced
country. Olli Mäenpää, professor of law at Helsinki
University, told Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. Soon the program went public and viral.
?Our first public sessions
began in January 2014. Mr Vapaavuori called the accusations
?far-fetched?.
BUSiNeSS iNSiDer 3 October. It is five percent of the state budget.
The working group however has not made it clear as
to whether Finland should remain outside the NATO or
apply to enter the military alliance. DAviD crOUch AND PeTer SPiegeL
Row
deepens
over
Finland?s
nuclear
plant
government has
come under renewed pressure
over its decision to approve a
Russian-built nuclear reactor amid rising tensions over
energy and foreign policy
that have threatened to bring
down the ruling coalition.
The row over the Fennovoima nuclear plant erupted earlier this month after
?FINLAND?S
the leader of Finland?s Green
party demanded the government reject the deal,
under which Rosatom, a
state-owned Russian energy company, would build the
new plant.
The dispute intensified
on Monday after Finnish legal scholars claimed there
was a conflict of interest after Jan Vapaavuori, economy
minister, signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with
Rosatom before going on to
lobby for the new power station from Rosatom.
?The agreement is a textbook example of the improper influence of authority,
in this case the Ministry of
Employment and Economy,. They
are learning to code . The city of Hel-
Upcoming curricular reform will include information and
communications technology competence.
L E H T I K U VA / J U s s I N U K A r I
dents may use code to build
a Minotaur?s labyrinth,. Even though it has
been in business since 1985,
Nokia hired its first Chief
Marketing Officer in January
of 2011
The public?s goal is to create
the most jobs in a sustainable manner. After analysis,
capital should go to where it will be most useful. Still,
these cryptocurrencies remain small compared to traditional currencies backed
by central banks. 8
BUSINESS
9 . This
is true even for the State. Hed wrote in a blog post
titled ?Towards a simplified
organisation?. Nickel and zinc production are up, sales are up,
and their losses are down. A cryptocurrency can also be bought or sold
using traditional currency at
various marketplaces.
In January of this year the
Bank of Finland said Bitcoin
at present does not meet the
definition of money. The fine might be moot in any case, because
the company is only clinging to life via the razor-thin
credit offered by Nyrstar. Lehtinen
continues. At that time I wrote ?I can?t imagine how
this story can have a happy ending.. It is
called FIMKrypto, or FIMK.
Soon after its introduction, FIMKrypto jumped up
the cryptocurrencies ranks.
Although merchant acceptance is still slow, it is currently the 37th largest
cryptocurrency in terms of
market capitalisation, according to coinmarketcap.
com. The
central bankers said that as a
medium of exchange Bitcoin
depends upon mutual agreement of buyer and seller, and
its purchasing power and stability were not dependent on
any responsible authority. They have ?6 million in cash
and about ?10 million in available credit, which isn?t going to last very long.
IT IS pOSSIBLE for Talvivaara to survive, but it won?t be
easy. Nyrstar is Talvivaara?s largest creditor, and they must have some hope
of getting their money
I find it impossible back or else credit wouldn?t
have been extended. estimated Koopee
Hiltunen of Neogames, a nonprofit organisation promoting
the development of the industry in Finland.
?When you start to expand so rapidly and beyond
your previous business areas, it?s difficult to estimate
the demands of growth. Practically all the ?1.4 billion in debt will have to
be written off, but even that is not enough. The supply is regulated
by a predetermined technical
protocol instead of via open
market operations by a central bank. he pointed out.
person, regardless of need.
Using a cryptocurrency to
administer such a program
is a novel approach. Lehtinen
says that since the very conception of FIMKrypto in the
autumn of 2013, they had the
idea of including a basic income. H T
David J. of Bitcoin or its
derivatives with little, if
any, fresh innovation,. It hasn?t been
achieved yet, so we took it as
our mission to test out how it
would work through the new
cryptocurrency paradigm.
?FIMKrypto is a community project. C O R D
HEL SINK I TIMES
missing the old Finnish markka abbreviation FIM
now have a 21st century replacement. Bitcoin is the largest,
with a market cap of about
3.8 billion euros, but FIMKrypto comes in at a respectable 513,000 euros. says
Svante Lehtinen, president
of the association Krypto
FIN ry. A new digital cryptocurrency administered by
a Finnish non-profit association began trading in July. ?Decisions
must therefore be made fast.?
Hiltunen also emphasised
that the lay-offs should not be
interpreted as an indication
of the decline of the Finnish
game industry. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Talvivaara?s
search for capital
THE MININg company Talvivaara has belatedly released
their financial report for the first six months of the year.
They simultaneously announced a restructuring plan in
an attempt to survive as a going concern. ?Basic income is
a structural reform that the
Finnish citizens have waited for dozens of years to
come through. HS
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . Additionally, I suspect
there will be significant environmental costs. The essence of
that is you can make a difference. ?The majority
of [major Finnish game studios] are looking for new employees,. The new organisation, he added, will be
established on three key business areas: games, media and
consumer products.
Still
significant numbers
Earlier last week, the Guardian reported that although
Angry Birds has lost as many
as 63 million players since
2012, it continues to have
more than 200 million active
monthly players.
Overall, the Angry Birds
games have been downloaded
more than two billion times
HS / VESA OJA
Rovio to lay off over 100
Last year, 47 per cent of the revenues of Rovio were derived from
consumer products, such as toys and books.
? Finland is believed to be the home of roughly 200 game
studios, 11 of which generated more than 1,000,000 euros
in revenue last year, according to a Talouselämä study.
? Finnish game development and services generated revenues of 900 million euros last year, according to Neogames.
? The game industry provided employment to 2,200 people
last year and contributes increasingly to the cultural exports of Finland.
since 2009, while videos on
Toons TV have been watched
more than three billion times
since Rovio launched the animation channel in March
2013.
Last year, 47 per cent of
the revenues of Rovio were
derived from consumer products, such as toys and books.
In 2012, they accounted for
45 per cent of the revenues.
New finnish digital
currency unveiled
The FIMKrypto cryptocurrency includes
a number of innovations, such as a basic
income for all residents of Finland.
DAV I D J . Lehtinen says.
?Every Finnish resident who
can use the online identification facility of any Finnish
bank can authenticate herself and begin to receive an
amount starting from 500
FIMK monthly, paid without
obligation for approximately
three to four years.?
A basic income is a payment made to every eligible
Competition in the global game industry is fierce, reminded Hiltunen. need to make
a decision to either cut their losses or raise the stakes.
THIS wILL be the third article I?ve written about Talvivaara. Now investors
and creditors . tweeted Peter Vesterbacka, the chief
marketing officer at Rovio,
declining to comment on the
matter further.
The Finnish offices of
Rovio are located in Espoo
and Tampere.
?The lay-off announcement of Rovio is an indication
that Rovio has grown extremely rapidly and expanded its operations also beyond the game
industry,. In November 2012 I used them as an example of unexpected risk in value investing. I find it impossible to believe that throwing more money at Talvivaara
. Four individuals have been charged
with aggravated environmental impairment and the operating subsidiary Talvivaara Sotkamo may be fined for the infamous gypsum
pond leak. It includes
encrypted messaging and decentralised chat, but it is also
has a social welfare element.
Basic income
?The main innovation of
FIMKrypto is the national
basic income, paid in internationally acclaimed cryptocurrency,. The money
supply of euros is 9.3 trillion
euros and there is the equivalent of 260 billion Swedish
krona in circulation.
THOSE
Cryptocurrency
?There are hundreds of cryptocurrencies, most of which
are ?clones. after we have already lost several hundred million
euros . Money
has historically performed
three main functions: a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a store of value. The company
also owes the Finnish export financing agency Finnvera
and bank partners ?130 million. The Finnish taxpayer will lose almost all of this, and yet Minister
Jan Vapaavuori says he is still open to the possibility of
investing in a restructured Talvivaara.
EVERY investor
needs to carefully consider the potential risk and returns of any investment. A better idea would be to spread capital widely over
dozens of SMEs looking for venture funding.
ROVIO has grown from a
game studio with roughly a
dozen employees into a global entertainment company
with 814 employees in a mere
five years since the launch of
its vastly successful Angry
Birds in 2009.
Last Thursday, its chief
executive, Mikael Hed, announced that the company
is mulling over shedding up
to 130 positions in Finland, a
number representing 16 per
cent of its entire staff.
?A sad day,. All
of the business areas Rovio
has ventured into may not
have proven as profitable [as
expected].?
Rovio also refused to
specify which divisions the
lay-offs would affect.
?We have been building our
team on assumptions of faster growth than have materialised,. A year later,
in December 2013, I recommended the company be allowed to die a bankrupt death instead of being kept on
life support. 313 million FIMK out
of an eventual total supply of
1 billion FIMK have been reserved for the program.
?Having grown up and
lived in Finland most of our
lives, we wanted to do our
part to give something back
to the Fatherland,. The
to believe that
Belgians originally dethrowing more
clined Talvivaara?s attempt
to restructure, but later
money at
changed their minds.
Talvivaara is the
best use they can
find for taxpayer
money.
ALL Of THAT is good news,
but they have plenty of bad
news as well. The company is
still alive, but my opinion hasn?t changed.
finances have improved over the past
year. Instead, the bank considers Bitcoin as like a commodity.
Yet as regulators and authorities struggle to define cryptocurrencies, the
next generation, like FIMKrypto, has already evolved.
FIMKrypto has a number of
features that extends far beyond a traditional currency or even a first generation
digital currency. Cord (david@helsinkitimes.fi) is a writer, journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. and maybe taxpayers . ?FIMKrypto is cryptocurrency evolved, based
on the second generation of
crypto platforms that are
not just currencies but consist of a number of extended
functionalities.?
At its heart, a cryptocurrency is a medium of
exchange which uses cryptography to secure transactions and the creation of new
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Angry Birds has lost
tens of millions of
players in two years.
ANU NOUSIAINEN . is the best use they can find for taxpayer money. With euro or Bitcoin it?s difficult to make a
difference or see how you
could affect the success or
failure of these mammoth
currencies.?
fIMKrypto
www.fimk.fi
?FIMKrypto is a community project," explains Svante Lehtinen.
"The essence of that is you can make a difference.". The company needs still more capital to continue operations.
Where that money might come from is the big question.
ACCORDINg to Arvopaperi, the Finnish state has already
invested over ?101 million in Talvivaara. Best of all, the company actually had positive cash flow during the second quarter. Most of that was due to eating up inventory, but
still: positive cash flow is positive cash flow.
TALVIVAARA?S
THEY EVEN managed to receive bridge financing of sorts
from Nyrstar, a Belgian mining company
Today, Nokia is rebuilding itself and has been hiring, but the numbers are far
from the peak years. that is, other than reduced prices, points
and loyalty benefits,. Altogether, Tieto provides employment to some
Sharpening
the market focus
Ari Peltoniemi, a senior researcher at the National Consumer Research Centre,
agrees: ?Loyalty card schemes
are a goldmine for retail
chains. he says.
Loyalty programmes are
so prevalent in Finland that
they generate a wealth of
information on consumer
behaviour.
A new milestone was
reached in late September
when Pins, a loyalty programme launched by Suomen
Lähikauppa in May, received
its one-millionth member. he foresees.
Retail chains, he summarises, have plenty of room for
improvement.
?Services are nowhere
near as personal and detailed
as they could be,. she
acknowledges.
Regardless, it has yet to
influence her consumption
habits dramatically. 15 OCTOBER 2014
able to develop its other fashion chain, Lindex, into a global brand.
?There are regional and
global brands. Traditionally, there
has been an undersupply of ICT workers in Finland but
now the situation is quite different.
hand, due to the current global situation, a new opportunity is clearly emerging; an opportunity to build a more robust structure to the ICT
industry by enhancing and developing the already existing talent base and ecosystem.
ON THE OTHER
foreign ICT companies to use this situation
to their advantage would create an important win-win
for both Finland and the foreign companies. H T
on Thursday
announced that it will offload its mail-order subsidiary, Hobby Hall, in order to
concentrate its resources
on developing its own webshop, Stockmann.com. Loyalty
points, he suggests, could be
redeemed for home deliveries or other helpful benefits.
?Today, you must have a novel understanding of the customer?s world and be present
wherever the customer is,?
he stresses.
Tieto to shed
up to 900 jobs
PE TRI Sa jaRI . The work often happens in informal circumstances. They were simply amazed about the available talent in Finland stating that it would have been impossible
for them to hire as qualified people in London.
at hand is not easy. The question
is how do we make our potential known to the world?
THE CHaLLENgE
THE aNSwER lies in people. HS
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . While Seppälä
is a solid regional brand, Lindex has the potential to become a global one,. explained
Kaj-Gustaf Bergh, the board
chairman and interim chief
executive at Stockmann.
Market research, he said,
indicates that although Seppälä has failed to secure its
foothold in Russia, it remains
a good brand in Finland and
the Baltic countries.
The 16 Seppälä stores in
Russia will be shut down
gradually by the end of next
year to avoid incurring any
excessive one-off costs.
dURINg the Nokia era, there were a huge number of per-
sonal relationships built, which still can be utilised today
to help open doors to international companies. H S
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . H T
9 . ?The
prices of stores are more significant than whatever loyalty card I happen to have.?
Retail chains are doing whatever they can to
make their loyalty cards
worthwhile.
The holders of the K-Plussa and S-Etukortti cards can
earn loyalty points and receive special benefits from
a wide variety of stores. What we
need to acknowledge, however, is that a new situation
calls for new remedies.
HELPINg
FINLaNd needs to recognise its sweet spot in the international ICT market place. We excel especially in high value-add
areas where end-to-end solutions are also implemented.
comes from finding the right market
channels to help foreign companies discover the opportunities Finland has to offer. time.
?One of our customers has
changed its product development processes and will consequently buy fewer product
development services from
us in the future. He currently
manages kAATO community?s activities in Greater Helsinki.
L E H T I k U vA / M A R k k U U L A n dE R
3,000 product development
professionals across the
world.
Last week, the company
said that it expects to wrap
up the consultative negotiations in six months. Its
established rivals, the S-Etukortti and K-Plussa cards, are
respectively used by 3.6 mil-
RETaILERS
Competition is becoming fierce between local loyalty cards.
lion and 3.8 million people in
the country.
A Helsinki-based student,
Aino Kalmbach, states that
she has yet to benefit greatly from her S-Etukortti, nor
is she considering joining another loyalty programme.
?Sure, the card comes with
some decent discounts,. That?s
what KAATO is all about. ?Lidl has done exceptionally well to change the market
situation. Those of us who worked for Nokia witnessed
an incredible rise to a globally dominant market position, owning that peak position for over 10 years and
then, a fast and painful collapse. A good example case is a lunch
discussion in the UK that resulted in a software company setting up two teams in Finland only three months
later. Marketing will definitely become more focused.
Families with children, for
example, will receive diaper
samples or special offers on
children?s foods,. KAATO is a
strong network of over 250 senior ICT professionals
working in Finland and abroad, who all use their personal networks to solve the market channel problem.
Hobby Hall introduced Finns to mail-order shopping as early as
1962.
Stockmann
to offload
Hobby Hall
H E I K K I a RO L a . First, you enter with
low prices, then [you offer] a
better customer experience
and at some point surely also
a loyalty programme.?
New light
ahead for Finland?s ICT
TOday, Finland?s ICT industry is going through the
worst of times and the best of times.
THE SITUaTION is very tough as almost 20,000 ICT jobs
have been lost after Nokia fell from its once dominating global market leader position in the mobile handset
business. It?s time
to look ahead.
This article is provided by Helsinki Business Hub
www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi. The
points are accrued monthly on the basis of purchases and redeemable for cash
rewards.
The loyalty points earned
in the Pins programme, in
contrast, can be used immediately or spent on large purchases, such as flight tickets,
but not redeemed for cash rewards. H S
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . BUSINESS
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TOMI AUREM A A
Loyalty schemes are a
goldmine for retailers
Retailers are at a loss
at how to tap into the
wealth of data generated by their loyalty
programmes.
Pa av O T E I T T I N E N . Perhaps, while the world becomes seemingly more transparent, in fact, strong
personal connections increase in importance.
ONE wORKINg model utilising the power of personal connections is the KAATO community. There is a large demand for
ICT professionals in Europe and in places like Silicon Valley, so the market potential certainly exists. The fact that there
are options is very positive.?
The competition is set to
become even fiercer in the
years to come, with the German retailer Lidl set to launch
its loyalty programme in Finland. ?I?d say that it?ll at
least get the major players on
their toes. Can we really trust
a mere CV on a webpage. On the other hand, big names like
Intel, Samsung, Google and Nvidia have set up operations in Finland, and last spring in a period of couple of
weeks, Facebook acquired two Finnish startups.
THE TaSK
THESE cases make it is easy to believe in Finnish sisu.
When the going gets tough, we Finns get going. he states.
Rytkönen is enthusiastic about the introduction of
Pins, pointing out that a lack
of competition can result in
stagnation. In
addition, the traditional retailer will close its Seppälä
stores in Russia in order to be
STOCKMaNN
Tieto continues to employ roughly 5,000 people in Finland, despite
streamlining its organisation a number of times in recent years.
janne Kari has had a long career at nokia working with device &
business development and real time Internet services. In terms of salaries Finland
is a lot more cost-efficient than for example Germany or
the United States. H T
fail to take full
advantage of the data generated by their customer loyalty programmes, states Mika
Rytkönen, a senior partner
at Talent Vectia with twenty
years of experience in developing loyalty concepts.
?It?s obvious that retailers
have been extremely unimaginative about offering benefits
to customers . [?] We are
naturally
disappointed,?
commented Antti Vasara,
the director of product development services at Tieto.
He declined to identify
the customer in question but
revealed that it accounts for
roughly five per cent of the
revenue of Tieto.
9
ety of benefits they offer
to loyal customers. Social networks have
gained a foothold in recruiting but they also bring
along an element of superficiality. At present, the loyalty programme incorporates
over 400 online shops as well
as several shops abroad.
Rytkönen is hopeful that
retailers expand the vari-
H S / O U T I P y H ä R A n TA
TIETO is set to reduce a maximum of 900 positions worldwide due to what Helsingin
Sanomat understands is a
decision by Nokia to reduce
its reliance on the product
development services provided by the information
technology firm.
The former mobile phone
giant confirms that it has
gradually sought to insource
functions performed by Tieto.
Roughly 300 of the positions to be cut are based in
Finland and the remaining
600 in Asia and Central Europe
In fact, every single president has used these
intermediaries since the revolution in 1959.
The authors are convinced that there are positive steps that could be taken
to open formal channels with
the Caribbean island. Cutting
through bureaucratic red
tape has been attractive to
both countries. Carter negotiated the numbers of immigrants who would legally be
allowed to remain in the US.
It was during Carter?s tenure that the US and Cuba established Interest Sections in their
respective capitals. 10
9 . Forests are important in terms
of slowing global climate
change, but also have a major
impact on the economies and
survival of local communities.
Years of inaction
?So much time has been lost
due to inaction that we are
now at a point where a 2030
voluntary deadline is simply
not sufficient to address the
urgency of the problem. This is
dangerous,. Much of today?s deforestation is fuelled
by large-scale agricultural production to supply commodities to other countries.
Overall, some 40 percent
of all globally traded palm
oil and 14 percent of all beef
likely comes from illegally
cleared lands, Forest Trends,
a watchdog group, estimates.
As part of the New York
Declaration, five European
countries pledged to develop new procurement policies
aimed at cutting down on
the consumption of products
linked to deforestation. Havana in 1976 in
response to Cuba?s military
intervention in defence of the
Angola?s MPLA government.
The new book, ?Back Channel to Cuba?, was launched
Wednesday at New York?s
Pierre Hotel by co-authors Peter Kornbluh, a Cuba expert
at the non-governmental National Security Archive, and
William LeoGrande, a veteran Cuba foreign-policy specialist at American University
in Washington, DC.
The book is filled with a
cast of secret intermediaries
who have shuttled back and
forth between the two countries even during times of
intense hostility. In
addition to halting deforestation, the agreement aims
to restore some 350 million
hectares of degraded lands
by 2030.
The accord was also formally backed by 40 multinational companies and
financial firms, and seeks to
?help meet. Despite Nix-
on?s opening to China in 1972
followed by the end of the
Cold War and the dissolution
of the Soviet Union in 1991, US
relations with Havana, which
has been subject to a US trade
embargo since 1960, have remained antagonistic.
One of the book?s novel
revelations is the role of Jimmy Carter in acting as a secret
intermediary between Washington and Havana during the
1994 Balseros crisis. the Nigerian development group Rainforest
Resource and Development
Centre said in a statement.. The
initiative was taken through
the Cuban representative at
the United Nations to reopen
relations.
?At the same time, if you
read some of President Kennedy?s speeches on Cuba, it?s
as hard-line Cold War as ever. ?Companies
and communities are asking
governments to show strong
leadership in reaching a new
climate agreement in Paris
next year.?
WRI, a prominent think
tank, has called the declaration ?the clearest statement
to date by world leaders that
forests can be a major force
in tackling the climate challenge.. explained Susanne
Breitkopf, a senior political
advisor with Greenpeace.
documents detail secret talks
between Washington and Havana
WASHINgTON dC
RO g E R H A M I LT O N - M A R T I N
K I T T Y S TA p p,
JIM LOBE CONTRIBuTEd . That,
in turn, set the stage for the
meeting at the Pierre Hotel six
months later.
But Cuba?s intervention in
Angola, as various foreignbacked factions jostled for
power in the run-up to that
country?s independence from
Portugal in November 1975
,put paid to that effort.
Wide discrepancies between public and private relations between Cuba and the
United States have long characterised bilateral ties, LeoGrande explained.
?At the tail end of the Kennedy administration, there
were secret initiatives to
open up a dialogue with Cuba
in the aftermath of the [October 1962] missile crisis. Separately, the Consumer Goods Forum
(CGF), consisting of 400 large
companies with global sales
of three trillion dollars, has
pledged to remove deforesta-
tion from its supply chains by
2020.
?A powerful alliance of business, governments and civil society has come together to sign
the New York Declaration,. ?Presidents
will always use some kind of
channel,. she says, referring to the
1992 treaty. and
?determine whether there exists an equal determination to
settle our differences.. to
tackle deforestation
NEW YORK
C A R E Y L . I P S
HEAdS of state, civil society groups and the leaders of
some of the world?s largest
companies this week urged
their peers to sign on to a
landmark new global agreement aimed at halting deforestation by 2030, even as
others are warning the accord is too lax.
The New York Declaration on Forests was signed
last week by some 150 parties at a United Nations-organised climate summit.
Outlining pledges and goals
for both the public and private sectors, the declaration
set a global ?deadline. for deforestation: to ?At least halve
the rate of loss of natural
forest globally by 2020 and
strive to end natural forest
loss by 2030.?
The declaration offered
one of the most concrete outcomes of the UN summit, and
underscored new global interest in the climate-related potential of conserving
the world?s forest cover. The
New York Declaration threatens to undermine previous
commitments.?
resolve the crisis, and to prepare for a future resolution
of long-term differences.?
With his support, an
agreement was forged between the Clinton and Castro administrations of a ?wet
feet, dry feet. The institute estimates that a restoration of
just 150 million hectares of
degraded lands could help to
feed an additional 200 million people by 2030.
According to UN statistics, some 13 million hectares
of forest are disappearing,
on average, each year. IP S
IN A NEW book cataloguing
the recent history of clandestine exchanges between the
US and Cuba, the reliance on
secret intermediaries belies
the common perception that
the two governments rarely communicated during the
decades that followed the Cuban revolution in 1959.
Documents detail how
Jimmy Carter acted as a secret intermediary for the
Clinton administration dur-
ing the 1994 Balseros immigration crisis and how
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered contingency plans drawn up to
?clobber. ?If we
didn?t have the embargo, and
the democracy promotion
programmes, we could have
a normal and productive relationship with Cuba,. B I RO N ,
E d I T E d B Y K I T T Y S TA p p . In addition, the declaration was
backed by a second agreement
between three of the world?s
largest palm oil companies, to
help protect forests in Indonesia, a major producer.
powerful alliance
The declaration was initially
endorsed by 32 national governments, though Brazil remains a notable holdout. But the intensification of Cold War tensions during the latter half of
his term significantly reduced
his room for manoeuvre.
Even before Carter, Kissinger had tried to promote a détente with Havana, in January
1975, sending representatives
to ?explore the possibilities for
a more normal relationship between our two countries,. 15 OCTOBER 2014
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In many places, illegal
forest clearing is closely related to poor governance
and corruption. said
Helen Clark, the administrator
of the United Nations Development Programme. The crisis
saw a flood of so-called Cuban
?rafters. policy whereby
Cubans who fled to the United States would be allowed
to pursue residency if they
reached shore. said LeoGrande.
Successive presidents have
preferred to use a personal envoy rather than go through the
layers of the diplomatic process that increased the risks of
press leaks. Breitkopf
points out that the agreement is weaker than existing
deforestation accords, and
thus could even dampen forward momentum.
?Most
governments
signed up to the Convention on Biological Diversity,. The agreement
is legally binding on neither
states nor companies.
?The 2030 timeline would
allow deforestation to continue for a decade and a half.
By then the declaration could
be self-fulfilling, as there
might not be much forest left
to save,. The
fact is, deforestation rates in
Indonesia are continuing to
rise, conflicts between companies and communities are
escalating, and reports of labour abuses are increasing,?
said Laurel Sutherlin, a communications strategist at the
Rainforest Action Network,
an advocacy group that is not
planning to endorse the New
York Declaration.
Greenpeace, too, has publicly declined to back the New
York Declaration. private-sector
goals of halting deforestation
linked to commodities by the
end of the decade. said
LeoGrande.
Settlers inspect a forest clearing in Serbajadi, near the Leuser ecosystem forest conservation area in Indonesia?s Sumatra island on 25 August. Just the president and a
handful of people knew about
[the secret initiative], so you
didn?t see any reflection of it
in the public dialogue.?
A key theme of the book
is the common use of these
back channels. ?That agreement
obliges them to halt biodiversity loss and manage forests sustainably by 2020. traverse the dangerous route to Florida in what
the US administration saw as
a politically fraught replay of
the 1980 Mariel boatlift that
helped defeat Carter?s reelection bid.
The former president,
writing to Fidel Castro,
talked of his ?hope of finding
common ground on which to
?The declaration seems to
make those who have the capacities for massive destruction of forests to think that
they have up to 2020 to continue destruction unchecked,
and unencumbered. The
agreement?s text estimates
that achieving the goals set
out in the accord could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 8.8 billion
tonnes per year by 2030.
Yet since the agreement?s
unveiling, some groups have
voiced concerns regarding the
declaration?s extended timeline and weak enforcement
mechanisms. Swathes of rainforest have
been destroyed in recent years to make way for palm oil plantations in Indonesia.
New global declaration
?Insufficient
Juuso Kummala, a head of unit at the
Finnish Transport Agency,
told Helsingin Sanomat.
?From these data, we can
calculate traffic speed and
identify congestions, which
will be shown on the Traffic
Agency website as green and
red routes on a map,. Sonera will be responsible for encrypting the data
before handing it over to the
Transport Agency.
?Encryption will be carried out three times at different stages of the data
transfer,. Starting treatment had a positive
effect on their well-being,?
Kaukinen explains.
Now, a research team at
the University of Tampere is
studying the safety of a new
coeliac disease treatment.
The treatment involves the
use of a polymer swallowed
by the patient, which remains
in the gut, trapping gluten ingested by the patient and removing it from the system.
The novel treatment
method is not meant to replace gluten-free diet but to
complement it by removing
any accidentally eaten gluten from the gut and boosting the healing process in the
intestine.
Patients participating in
the study, which is now in its
final stages, have not suffered
from serious side effects.
H S / M A r k uS Jo k e l A
Wide range of symptoms
? Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disorder characterised
by intestinal inflammation and damage to villi, tube-like
structures on the intestinal surface, which help the body to
absorb nutrients more easily.
? Coeliac disease causes a wide range of symptoms, which
vary between patients. With
every step, we unconsciously
adjust our foot placement to
maintain our balance.
The pelvis, located between our upper bodies and
legs, acts as a command centre determining where we
place our foot on each step.
The researchers could predict the participants. HT
IN THE FuTuRE,
a coeliac disease diagnosis may become
much easier. HS
NIINa WOOLLE Y . HS
NIINa WOOLLE Y . People place their
foot slightly differently on
each step, with the foot landing a little to the left or right
of the previous step.
To see if steps in normal
walking follow any regular pattern, the researchers
applied a mathematical algorithm to their data. Attitudes among
healthcare professionals also need to change,. with motion sensors
attached to their feet and
pelvis.
The participants were
asked to walk on a treadmill
at various paces with a camera recording every step they
took.
The results reveal that in
normal walking, every step
EvERY
is different from the previous one. Sonera currently holds
a 35-per cent market share of
the mobile phone market.
?The Transport Agency
will have access to data con-
cerning how long it has taken
a mobile phone to move from
one mobile phone base station to another,. HT
THE FINNISH Transport Agency is planning to monitor traffic speed on the road network
with the help of GSM localisation data from the phone operator Sonera. The symptoms usually include various gut and bowel symptoms but patients with a less common form of the disease may also develop an itchy skin
condition with small blisters.
? The only treatment available for coeliac disease is a lifelong gluten-free diet.
? If left untreated, coeliac disease may result in additional
conditions, such as osteoporosis.
Gluten-free products suited to coeliac disease patients.
The Finnish Transport Agency will monitor traffic speed with the help of mobile phone localisation data.
Million-euro deal with Sonera
Transport Agency
to be given access
to mobile phone
localisation data.
L auR a HaL MINEN . They
found that the position of
the pelvis was linked to the
placement of the foot.
A slight movement of the
pelvis can change the way we
position our foot on the next
step.
So, if our upper body falls
slightly to the right before
taking a step we compensate
for the imbalance by placing
our foot further out to the
left. According to
Helsingin Sanomat, Sonera
will use at least two 128-bit
encryption keys.
?The keys will be changed
at regular intervals.?
The Finnish Transport
Agency will receive the data
as a large mass of material,
allowing it to filter out statistical noise, explains Kummala from the agency.
?For example, a motorist
having a two-hour break over
a coffee and a snack or a pedestrian travelling at a slow
speed compared to a car will
not affect the results.?
According to Kummala,
the Transport Agency will
store the data for five years
and use it as material for statistics and a tool for projects
to improve the road network.
?We can tell from the material if there are stretches of road
that regularly get congested,
which will allow us to plan improvements, such as changes to
the timing of traffic lights.?
Research: People put their best foot
forward to maintain balance when walking
J a N I K a a RO . An early intervention prevents serious damage to the intestinal
surface.
?Even though these people didn?t have any symptoms or they had got used to
mild symptoms, they clearly suffered from the early
stages of the disease. next
foot position by watching tiny changes in the movement
of their pelvis.
The study was published
in the journal Biology Letters
h s / O u T I P y h ä r a n Ta
A new study shows
that an endoscopy
is not needed to
confirm a coeliac
disease diagnosis.
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A new study found that in normal walking, every step is different from the previous one.. In a similar manner, if
our body falls forward a little,
we move our foot slightly forward with the next step. H S
NIINa WOOLLE Y . A new study by
the University of Tampere
shows that a simple blood
test is a reliable indicator of
the disease and no endoscopy
and small intestinal biopsy are
needed to confirm the result.
The blood test allows doctors
to see whether the person has
antibodies that are the hallmark of coeliac disease.
?Our study provides clear
additional evidence on the
reliability of the blood test,?
says Professor Katri Kaukinen from the University of
Tampere.
Giving up the performance of endoscopies and
biopsies would not only create savings for healthcare
services but also be a relief
to many coeliac disease patients who often find the procedure unpleasant.
?For the practice to
change, we also need changes in the regulations of the
Social Insurance Institution
(Kela) and the current care
guidelines. Kummala describes the graphics
that will be made available in
the agency online service.
The information in the
system is updated every
minute but the Transport
Agency receives data with a
median interval of five minutes, leading to a slight delay
in the reports provided by its
online service.
The Transport Agency
will be given information on
the number of mobile phones
travelling between base sta-
tions and the time they spend
in the area of each station
but it will not have access to
phone-specific data, such as
phones. According
to the Ombudsman?s report,
the data involved is localisation data, not personal identification data, and therefore it
can be released in a protected
form. The results may lead to scientists
being able to design better
walking robots and assistive
exo-skeletons to help injured
people to relearn to walk.
Conducted at the Ohio
State University?s Movement
Laboratory, the new research
is one of the most thorough
studies ever carried out on
the mechanics of walking.
The research team fitted volunteers. HT
step we take is a balancing act where our bodies
initiate a fall, stopped by our
foot landing on the ground,
found a new study. explains Jouni Sintonen, a development director at Sonera. 15 OCTOBER 2014
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Coeliac disease can
be diagnosed without
endoscopy and biopsy
MaRKE HaRK a S . IMEI codes or call or
message information.
Data to be encrypted
The Data Protection Ombudsman assessed the project at
the request of Sonera and the
Transport Agency. says
Kaukinen.
In addition, the study
found that compliance with
gluten-free diet brings health
benefits also to patients with
asymptomatic coeliac disease.
The
research
team
screened close relatives of
coeliac disease patients for
antibodies as it is known that
the disease tends to run in
families.
Early intervention
prevents serious damage
All the people who tested
positive for coeliac disease
antibodies started a glutenfree diet, whether they had
any symptoms or not. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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9 . The service is
set to be launched this month.
The newspaper Kaleva was
the first to report the fiveyear deal with an estimated
annual value of one million
euros
75 per
cent of which were brought
on by US and EU investors.?
Christopher Black and David Holie spoke of the corruption, bias and racism of
the International Criminal
Court (ICC), with examples of
how witnesses and lawyers
had been intimidated and
how the court is riddled with
western intelligence agents.
But what about the sanctions and the Ukraine conflict, how have these affected
the Forum and its organisers. Kelsey?s
presentation shed light on
the little known rising trend
of using investment treaties as legal weapons, and
how Western states, the US
in particular, establish rules
to enforce private-capital
agreements with other sovereign states. . Our world has
had more swipes of the sword
and less dialogue since then.
But the notion of a dialogue among civilisations did
start an undercurrent for the
violent mainstream of the
new century. ?We have had over 1,000
applicants from which we selected and invited 400. So the
interest to participate has
been much higher because of
the present situation,. Investors won seven out of eight of those cases. says Walter Schwimmer, former secretary-general of the Council of
Europe and co-chair of the Forum, ?and that is the so-called
autism of the governments ?
where they are unable to listen or communicate properly
with each other.?
Critical voices
coming together
The Forum is a refreshing
gathering of critical voices.
The status quo of the world?s
politics, the hegemony of the
United States, the obedient
role of the EU, the role of the
US and Arab states in the development of the ISIS, as well
as the debt-powered raw capitalism; these are all challenged and criticised.
The four plenary sessions
covered an array of topics
from, ?Ghandi?s and Tolstoy?s
culture of non-violence. So we
selected Rhodes as the site of
the forum. in his 1999 UN
speech, he could not have
imagined how accurate his
prophecy about the other option, a ?double-edged sword?,
would become. Prof. Dialogue of Civilizations,
which has been held on the
Greek island of Rhodes since
2003.
But why Rhodes. Plenary sessions were
followed by several workshops
on related and current topics,
from social media to Christianity in the MENA region.
One of the most interesting sessions, ?World Order and the Politics of Regime
Change?, brought together
the following keynote speakers: Richard Falk, emeritus
professor, Princeton University; Alexander Meziaev,
head of department, International Law, University of
Management TISBI, Russia;
Lyal S Sunga, visiting professor, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law; John
Laughland, director of stud-
ies, Institute of Democracy
and Cooperation; Tu?rkkaya
Atao?v, emeritus professor,
University of Ankara; Jane
Elizabeth Kelsey, professor
of law, University of Auckland; Christopher Black, an
international criminal lawyer from Canada; and David Hoile, director of the
Africa Research Centre and
research professor at the Sudan International University.
The session was moderated by Dr Hans Ko?chler, professor of the University of
Innsbruck and the president
of the International Progress
Organization. ?Back in 1997,
there were almost no investment disputes, while there
were 274 cases concluded
in 2013. and we
were thinking where to hold
the first forum, Papanicolau
told us a legend that in ancient Greece people believed
that the gravity of Rhodes
was less than the gravity of
entire Greece. this is a direct consequence of globalisation.. ?
From swords to dialogue
For the past 12 years the Rhodes Forum has brought together scholars, political and
spiritual leaders, civil society organisations, scientists
and the media to discuss their
worries and concerns about
our global destiny and try
to steer the axis away from
swords and towards dialogue.
In addition to the main
World Public Forum arranged
in Rhodes once a year, a youth
forum began in 2010 and sev-
The opening ceremony of the forum, which was held in the picturesque old castle of Rhodes.
eral regional sessions and
conferences are arranged in
different countries. if the axis of the 20th century was the force of the sword,
and with each sweep of the blade some won and some lost, the main axis of the coming century has to be that of dialogue. This year?s speakers included Milos Zaman,
the President of the Czech
Republic
?I am a father of two, a
grandfather of four and I
was brought up with the concepts of rights and responsibilities,. 12
FORUM
9 . Argentina, Venezuela, the
Czech Republic and Egypt
were the main targets and
losers of these cases . ?When
the four of us, (founders of
the forum) were sitting together . explains Vladimir Yakunin,
the founder-president of the
World Public Forum (WPF).
?So we thought, that if it was
true for physical elevation,
why not intellectual. ?So
this idea was very natural for
a responsible person, if you
want to make this world better for kids.?
?I believe there should be
a unification of efforts by different players and intellectu-
als in order to introduce solid
and practical instruments to
influence political layers of
different countries in order
to stand firmly against any
attempts to ruin the peace ?
like it happened in the First
and the Second World Wars,?
explains Yakunin.
?There is one similarity between now and the time before the start of the First World
War 100 years ago,. concludes Vladimir Yakunin.
Videos of all of the Forum?s
presentations are available
online at wpfdc.org.. So they were
holding jumping championships here in Rhodes,. mohammad khatami, president
of iran, in his statement to the Un General Assembly on 29 October 1999
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WHEN Iran?s President Mohammad Khatami coined
the term ?dialogue among
civilisations. WPF has
had special consultative status with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council
since 2013. 15 OCTOBER 2014
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The traditional group picture of the participants and organizers has been taken every year in the pool area of hotel Aldemar Paradise.
"Dialogue of Civilizations" at Rhodes forum
?On the threshold of the third millennium, the destiny of our world is shared by all. One of the initiatives has been the conference, The World Public Forum
. to
?Peace and Security in Europe
and Asia in the context of US
power?. says Yakunin. Otherwise, the sword will become a double-edged weapon,
sparing no one; and it is not inconceivable that the mighty warmongers would be among its
first victims. in order
for this destiny to be a just and prosperous one, there exists no choice but a dialogue among
various cultures and civilisations. that was former Indian Prime Minister Gujral,
the late Jagdish Kapur, myself and the Greek American Papanicolau
Divide the mornings into smaller sections. H S
NIINa WOOLLE Y . For example,
presenting the volunteers
with ripe raspberries and red
roses made them favour red
more than they would have
done otherwise.?
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The golden legacy of
Finnish architecture
9 . Of
course you can urge them to
get their skates on but talking about the clock ticking
doesn?t mean anything to
small children under school
age as they only learn to understand time at a later age,?
explains neuropsychologist
Heli Isomäki from Ludus, a
company offering neuropsychological services.
To have a sense of time,
a child needs to have developed spatial awareness,
which refers to the ability to
consciously understand objects. 15 OCTOBER 2014
The colour brown divides opinions.. Clocks should show the right time. an old-fashioned watch makes time
more concrete for a child. And a ReCretion installation, which
showcases the work of Anssi
Lassila is being showcased at
La Biennale di Venezia."
All year-round, the museum presents various events,
lectures and guided tours,
available in both English and
Finnish.
The museum collections are comprised of about 500,000 drawings,
some 85,000 photos, 30,000 slides, models and other documents.
Curb chaos in morning ?tips for
teaching your child sense of time
MERvI JuuSOL a . HS
NIINa WOOLLE Y . How can children learn to keep to a schedule if they cannot trust the clocks?
7. Legos and other toys that
involve building constructions on the basis of a model improve
a child?s spatial awareness and the ability to understand time.
Legos teach children to understand shapes, dimensions and
numbers and to follow instructions.
5. With a watch, they get to practise telling
the time using an analogue clock.
8. ?Decades of
Finnish Architecture explores
the history of building in the
20th century against a background of the Finnish society,
taking into account economic,
political and technological developments,. It is easy to while away hours in front of the
internet or a video game but children are particularly susceptible
to developing a media addiction between the ages of 10 and 17.
Why do some people hate the colour brown?
J u H a M aT I a S L E H T O N E N . shapes and sizes, their
relationships to and distances from each other, time,
components and the entities these components form.
Children develop this ability
at the age of four or five and
learn to tell time between ages eight and ten.
Children under the age
of three live in the moment,
without fully understanding
what is the past, the future
or the present. Some
learning difficulties along
with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD
can also cause problems in a
child?s perception of time.
4. ?This
exhibition, co-hosted by the
Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Aalto University Wood Studio, tells the story
of Finnish wood architecture
over the past two decades and
celebrates the Studio?s 20th
anniversary,. Children of all ages benefit from the mornings being divided into sections. Explaining causes and consequences and
sticking to daily routines help the child to understand what is
going on and improves their sense of time.
2. Granny
will come after we?ve slept for three nights.
you can also use a timer or an hourglass to help the child to
keep track of time if they tend to daydream over their breakfast.
3. HT
of breath to
ask little children to hurry
up in the morning, and tell
them to look at the time. concludes Nivari. explains Nivari.
?These factors have always influenced not only the volume
of buildings, but also their architectural shapes.?
In Decades of Finnish Architecture, the phenomena
connected with construction
are presented from a broad
perspective, as well as from
larger to smaller. ?We are an
information centre for topical architectural practice,
research and critique, orientated toward the future even
as we record history.?
IN HELSINKI
a unique archive
Additionally, the Museum of
Finnish Architecture features
an archive open to all. At that age,
children are not capable of
estimating or understanding
?IT?S a WaSTE
Around four per cent of children under school age have problems with their spatial awareness.
how much time is involved in
eating breakfast or getting
dressed.
Around four per cent of
children under school age
have problems with their
spatial awareness, which
Neuropsychologist Heli Isomäki
gives eight tips for improving a child?s sense of time:
1. Different
aspects of urban planning
and interior decoration are
also illustrated here.
Until 25 January, architecture enthusiasts will have
the opportunity to learn
more about Finnish wood architecture through the special exhibition Annual Rings
1994-2014: A New Generation
of Wood Architecture. It is a
good idea to keep telling the child what you have just done,
what you are doing now and what will happen next amidst
everyday tasks. Teach the child what 'before', 'now' and 'next' mean. adds Nivari.
Finland is a nation with
long-established woodworking traditions and widespread
appreciation for craftsman-
ship. In order to keep these
alive, Aalto University founded the Wood Studio as part of
its Department of Architecture back in 1994.
?Modern Finnish wood architecture evolved between
1920 and 1990 as part of the
young nation?s growth,. Legos improve perception of time. HT
PEOPLE tend to like colours
they associate with pleasant things and dislike colours
that bring to mind unpleasant things, says Karen B.
Schloss, an associate professor at the Department of
Cognitive, Linguistic, and
Psychological Sciences of
Brown University.
?Based on this principle,
we can predict accurately
people?s colour preferences.
People often like blue and
blue-green because they are
the colours of clear skies and
sea. Hobbies that take place at a certain time teach children time
management skills. To explain schedules, you
can use other concepts and measures of time the child is familiar with, such as television shows and nights: We need to
go to nursery as soon as Pikku Kakkonen is finished. Set limits for screen time. ?Annual Rings
provides a timeline that features a rich assortment of
new projects and works from
the early 1900s, including the
wooden residential district of
Käpylä and houses built for
war veterans in the 1940s.?
?International
exhibitions and events for children
are part of the museum activities too,. By contrast, many peo-
ple dislike brown and dark
yellow because they are associated with unpleasant
things, such as faeces, vomit
and rotten food.
Colour preferences are
usually very culture-specific but these likes and dislikes
are shared all over the world.
In one test we carried out,
we exposed people to things
that are usually considered
pleasant and managed to manipulate their colour preferences this way. LIFESTYLE
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there?s a venue that presents the past and
present of Finnish architecture: the Museum of Finnish
Architecture. ?At the moment, the collection includes
about 500,000 drawings. ?We
are going to host a miniature
city made of gingerbread, illustrating how pre-schoolers
envision Helsinki in 2025. Do the clocks in the child?s
school or nursery show the right time. The
tasks that need to be carried out in the morning can be presented as picture cards: getting up, breakfast, brushing teeth
and getting dressed.
makes it more difficult for
them to grasp time, with fine
motor skills and coordination
also often lagging behind.
If a child has problems
with skills related to spatial awareness, understand-
ing time can be difficult even
in secondary school. One of the oldest museums of its kind in the
world, it displays a series of
exhibitions, impressive collections and a library, situated in a 19th Century building.
The venue that houses the
Museum of Finnish Architecture was built in 1899 for the
Learned Societies. buy your child a watch. The
ribbon-cutting ceremony is
scheduled for 29 November.?
Museum of
Finnish architecture
Kasarmikatu 24
Helsinki
www.mfa.fi
free for visitors under 18
MUSEUM oF FINNISH a RC HI T EC T URE
Decades of Finnish
architecture and
Wood architecture
The museum presents the
world of Finnish architecture
through a series of exhibitions
and collections. They can check the time with a
quick glance at their wrist instead of digging into their pockets for their phone. The
photographic collection, on
the other hand, features some
85,000 photos from medieval
to contemporary architecture.?
The library of the Museum of Finnish Architecture is
open also on weekends and
provides information on topics related to architecture.
?We host events for children,
too,. Use of media stimulates the brain in
people of any age. explains Nivari.
?The exhibition Suomi Seven, which showcases the new
generation of Finnish architects, is being featured at the
Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt. Don?t talk about the clock but the children?s programme Pikku Kakkonen. It was in
1981, after it had been used for
different purposes, that the
museum relocated there due
to repairs needed to the old
location.
?Today, the Museum of
Finnish Architecture is one of
the world?s oldest museums
dedicated to architecture,?
says Director of Development
Kristiina Nivari. For example in ice hockey children have
to learn to pack their own gear, put them on within a certain
time limit, use their powers of deduction during games and
take care of having a shower and getting dressed.
6. The collections of this archive, which
specialises in modern Finnish
architecture, are comprised of
black and white photographs,
slides, drawings, models and
other documents.
?The drawings collection
includes original drawings,
primarily from the 20th century, which have mainly been
acquired through donations,?
explains Nivari. continues Nivari. There is no point in telling a small child that you
will need to go in fifteen minutes. Neuropsychologist Heli
Isomäki has noticed that clocks in schools and nurseries are often either fast or slow or have stopped altogether
Studies
have shown that in the short
term people are able to cope
with even highly stressful situations if they get support
from their work community.
Nowadays there are no informal occasions for sharing
information the way there
used to be as people do not
have chats or talk about their
jobs to a similar extent.
?There used to be a lot
more chatting in workplaces. People self-medicate with alcohol to cope
with insomnia and work
stress. Work
meetings often take place
when I?m away and decisions
are made without me having a chance to have a say.
And I?m not given any duties with a higher level of
responsibility.?
Riitta, who feels she is being discriminated against,
has tried to stop taking medication for depression several times but finds it difficult.
When her boss is around
Riitta feels anxious and
tense.
?I have contacted the
health and safety officer several times but they have not
done much to help. Jani explains.
Work and support
Jukka Vuori, a research professor at the Finnish Institute
of Occupational Health, says
that how well employees cope
at work is directly linked to the
work community and the support network it offers. Headphones can also be used to
block out noise in an openplan office.
Another means of minimising stress is to have clear
ending and starting points
for projects.
?For example, a wrapup meeting for a project can
work as a way for employees
to put that particular task
behind them.?
People often say that halffinished ideas can develop further if left to mature
somewhere at the back of the
mind. The
person feels under pressure
and the results suffer as a
consequence.
?If a person is interrupted
in the middle of something
that requires concentration,
the interruption takes up resources in the person?s memory capacity.?
That is why Valtonen says
it is better to finish a de-
MuLTITaSKING
manding task before embarking on another one.
In working life, employees
need to have multitasking
skills as work is often made
up of shorter assignments
and projects that overlap.
Continuous interruptions
that are difficult to avoid in
open-plan offices also put an
extra strain on employees.
Valtonen calls for quiet office spaces where people can
go to work when they need to
deal with something that requires concentration. She left
her previous job because of
workplace bullying but feels
she does not receive enough
support from her supervisor
in her current job.
?I told my current boss
about my depression but I
think they are taking advantage of my illness. They turn to
medication as a quick fix because in many workplaces
duties have been divided in
a way that means there is no
one who is capable of helping
a person drowning under an
ever-increasing work load.
People may also expect
more of themselves . Changing working conditions is the route we should
be taking,. They turn to
medication for temporary relief.
I da RO I va I N E N . HT
is a skill that
employers are constantly calling for from their employees but they are asking
for too much, says Teppo Valtonen, the head of development at the Finnish Institute
of Occupational Health.
Valtonen has looked at
how people?s brains function and the effects of heavy
workloads.
?When you analyse more
closely how people carry out
tasks, you can see that they
perform demanding tasks
one at a time, shifting from
one thing to another, not
simultaneously.?
When a person has to
manage several tasks simultaneously, carrying out the
jobs comes at a price. Jani sums up.
Jani?s and Riitta?s names
have been changed.
Expert: Multitasking
is one job too many ?
employees feel under
pressure and work
performance suffers
people are not capable of carrying out
several demanding tasks simultaneously.
T u u L I vaT T u L a I N E N . HT
OCCupaTIONaL health doctor and father to small children, Jani, 37, has suffered
from depression, concentration problems and insomnia
for several years. H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . We don?t
have a shop steward.?
Riitta believes that the
situation in her workplace
would improve if the employees were offered more guidance, whereas at the moment
all the stabs at improving
working conditions seem to
be directed at making the supervisor?s work load lighter.
Jukka Vuori agrees that it
is unfortunately very common
for bosses to get support while
employees are left to cope as
best they can even though
everyone is under a similar
amount of pressure. People coming
to see Lähteenmäki also often
ask for sleeping pills, to her
surprise as these medicines
should not be taken unless absolutely necessary.
?People come in expecting the doctor to prescribe
strong medicines that work.?
Jani has also come across
this phenomenon, seeing every day at least one employee
who suffers from depression,
burn-out or insomnia.
?I renew at least one prescription for these problems
every day. Shutting your office door may serve as signal telling others that
you do not want to be interrupted. Use of drugs has also increased, particularly
among young people.?
According to Lähteenmäki, many employees say they
use sleeping pills daily even
though in light of some recent
statistics use of sleep aids is
on the decline. Vuori explains.
Other factors explaining
why people continue to work
even when ill are shame and
fear. If a colleague turns
up for a chat, you may gain a new idea for a different project
or make progress with some other task.
agree on rules
If your work gets interrupted too often, agree on rules. In
some cases, working can be
beneficial to recuperation as
long as the tasks are not too
demanding.
Work should not leave
employees feeling constantly tired, causing them to be
forgetful, have concentration problems and view the
future in bleak light.
?In the worst case scenario, burn-out can lead to longterm mental health problems
and loss of ability to work.
People often misguidedly
think that an employee who
needs to take long sick leaves
cannot be fired,. T ro S Da H l
Getting through the day with
a little help from medication
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Employees are often expected to have multitasking skills even
though doing one thing at a time can produce better results.. After
every stretch of holiday I have,
I think I will cut my working
hours but that never happens.?
While he is usually able to
offer employees who come
to his office a chance to see
a psychologist or to get some
other form of medicationfree therapy, Jani himself
feels trapped.
?I?ve stopped taking medicines because they didn?t
help but I?m not really feeling
any better.?
When looked at over a
longer period of time, working life and illnesses related to it have undergone a sea
change. People self-medicate and
hide their problems out of fear
of being shunned in the work
community or even being fired.
Leena
Kaila-Kangas,
an expert from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, who has studied
the connection between depression and musculoskeletal symptoms, says that
prejudices against and faulty
notions about mental illnesses are still common even
though, along with musculoskeletal illnesses, mental
problems are the most common cause of long sick leaves.
Kaila-Kangas says that
there is also a strong link between the two causes: prolonged physical discomfort
causes depression and, on
the other hand, people suffering from depression are
more sensitive to pain, while
having no resources to look
for treatment or manage the
physical symptoms.
?Patients with depression
or some other illness are often so tired that they have
no energy left to try to make
changes,. Valtonen agrees with
this to a certain extent.
?There shouldn?t be too
many half-finished things on
an employee?s mind.?
How to cope with multitasking
divide a job into smaller stages
If you know you will not be able to finish a task in one sitting,
divide it into smaller parts. He has been
to see a psychiatrist and tried
depression medicines in various combinations to help him
get through the day.
A couple of years ago he
ended up misusing medicines
usually prescribed for the
treatment of ADHD because
they were suggested to him
by a private psychiatrist. putting on headphones
may be used to send a similar message in an open-plan office.
l e H T I K u va / T ro n D H . says Kaila-Kangas.
Because of this, workplaces should foster an atmosphere that encourages people
to get involved and intervene
in problems instead of employees with depression being
left to their own devices.
Lack of support
Riitta, who has worked in
the care sector for a number
of years, suffers from longterm depression. My work is affecting my whole life but
when you have a hefty mortgage and a job you like it?s
difficult to make changes.?
Usually the best way to
improve wellbeing at work
is to make changes to the
job so that it is not too taxing to allow a normal life. they
want to carry out their job to
perfection.
Many feel they are irreplaceable at work, making
it difficult for them to take
a long sick leave as the long-
er they are away, the more
daunting the idea of going
back to work becomes.
?I often come across defensive behaviour and tendency to play down the
problems when people talk to
me about their duties and how
demanding these duties are.
They think that if they could
cope in their 20s they have to
cope now too,. The risk
of burn-out skyrockets if employees feel they have been
caught between demands
from both clients and bosses.
Occupational health doctor Jani also feels under pressure for several reasons.
Resources at his workplace
do not allow the company to hire extra employees,
and having high work ethics, Jani does all his work
conscientiously.
?Of course it?s ironic that
I treat my patients and give
them advice but don?t look
after myself. But the work does
not change with the help of
pills. Usually ADHD medication is used
to manage hyperactivity and
concentration problems but
for people who do not suffer
from these, the medicines act
as pick-me-ups.
So the psychiatrist prescribed Jani ADHD medicines
to help him cope with work, instead of giving him sick leave.
?I can get through the day
at work without anyone being none the wiser but when I
get home I?m all done in. Don?t read your emails or do anything else distracting during the time allocated to a particular task.
Make the most of interruptions
Interruptions are not always a bad thing. H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . Now work communities
with active social interaction are few and far between.
Problems with exhaustion are
prominent among self-employed people as they?ve got
no one to turn to when tasks
start piling up,. Employees need to
have much more varied skills
than in the past and their
duties may be almost as demanding as those of their
supervisors.
different struggles
A specialist in occupational
healthcare from themedical
centre Aava, Marja-Terttu
Lähteenmäki, says that
while in the past people used
to suffer from heart illnesses
and physical strain caused by
work, they now struggle with
stress, mental health problems and substance abuse.
?Substance abuse has
been on the increase in recent years. 14
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Overworked employees are increasingly relying on prescription
drugs to keep their jobs.
Many employees drag themselves to work
even though they are feeling under the
weather, suffer from insomnia and have
aches and pains everywhere. When you can finish one stage,
the task will not linger on your mind the way unfinished jobs
usually do.
allocate time for different tasks in your calendar
If you have to take care of several different tasks during the
same working day, set aside some time for each task in your
calendar. says Jani.
One reason why so many
people use medicines as a
crutch to help them through
the day is that employees are
often left alone to cope with
their problems
?I want to be a threat [in
front of goal].?
?I tried to work hard this
summer to make my shot
more dangerous,. H T
TWO IMPRESSIvE runs came
to an end at the Hartwall
Arena on Monday as Jokerit Helsinki suffered an unexpected 2-3 defeat at the
hands of Medvescak Zagreb: goaltender Riku Helenius tasted his first defeat
in the Kontinental Hockey
League (KHL) and Juhamatti Aaltonen failed to extend
his points streak to 14 games.
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The hat-trick brought his
goal tally for the season to
six, enough for a shared second place in the goal-scoring
charts.
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Granlund hungry
for more goals
JAN vILéN . HS
A L E K S I T E I vA I N E N . H S
A L E K S I T E I vA I N E N . The Croatian visitors, in turn, pounced ruthlessly on every mistake.
Helenius was but a shadow of his usual assured self,
the forwards surprisingly sloppy in possession and
the defencemen unable to
mark the opponent obstructing the view of Helenius. he admitted in
a pre-season interview with
the Minnesota Star Tribune. 15 OCTOBER 2014
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rovaniemi
Jokerit Helsinki?s Riku Hahl (left) scores the team?s first goal past Medvescak Zagreb goalkeeper
Barry Brusti.
Jokerit stylish in defeat
Jokerit were left to rue missed chances as
Medvescak Zagreb snatched the points at
Hartwall Arena on Monday.
A R N O S E I RO . H T
9 . ?I still have
a lot of work to do with that,
and a lot of work to do with
my mentality to shoot more.?
Granlund has scored once
and set up three goals for his
team-mates for the Wild in
three exhibition games. HS
A L E K S I T E I vA I N E N . he added.
?I tried to shoot as much as I
could and as often as I could.?
Although the rigorous
training regime has yielded
some results, Granlund estimates that there is still room
for improvement. Aaltonen
summarised.
Indeed, the Jokerit enjoyed the majority of possession and produced some
nifty moves but struggled to
convert their scoring opportunities from the opening
whistle. On
the other hand, he has only
recorded three shots on goal.
?I just need to read the
game better and recognise
what I have to do next,. H T
has enjoyed a prolific goal-scoring
form of late in the Bundesliga
2, inspiring on Sunday Fortu-
JOEL POHJANPALO
na Düsseldorf to a comfortable 4-1 victory over Darmstadt
with a clinical hat-trick.
The 20-year-old forward
broke the deadlock in the 12th
minute, scored his second 14
minutes later and capped off
of 33 assists but only found
the back of the net 8 times
and is eager to rectify this.
?I didn?t score a lot of goals
last season,. analysed
Erkka Westerlund, the head
coach of Jokerit.
Jokerit will begin their
three-game road trip on Friday, with a mouthwatering
match-up against SKA St. Petersburg, the leader of the
Western Conference.
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Helsinki Times. Maybe the bright lights
and the presence of the media distract us,. ?We
shouldn?t have gifted them
three goals in the first place,
but when you do you had better score one more yourself,?
bemoaned Aaltonen.
Instead, the opportunities
created by Jokerit were denied
by goaltender Barry Brust, the
goal frames and sheer luck.
?We need to be more willing to play as a team on home
ice. SPORT
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tional Hockey League (NHL),
despite coming off his best
season to date for the Minnesota Wild.
Last season, the 22-yearold forward recorded a total
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H o T o / H A n n A H F o S L I E n
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GRANLuNd has
vowed to improve his goalscoring record in the Na-
Erik Haula #56 and Mikael Granlund #64 of the Minnesota Wild
celebrate a win against the Colorado Avalanche in Game Three of
the First Round of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs back in April.
Pohjanpalo ecstatic
after hat-trick
JAN vILéN . he
analysed.
his hat-trick with a deftly-executed header from an acute angle midway into the second half.
?I can?t put my feelings
to words! A fantastic victory
[?] and of course my first hattrick in Germany,
Cover and cook until the broccoli loses a little firmness, a few minutes.
? Stir in the kale and cook, uncovered, until it is wilted and all of the vegetables are just tender but not mushy, 5 minutes. Add a little more water if needed for a moist but not soupy
consistency.
? Stir in the cilantro, salt and pepper. Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed. Serve in
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A spicy stew that makes my case
Healthier bars an
up-and-coming trend
T u u L I VAT T u L A I N E N . For a relatively new vegetarian like myself . 16
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9 . Now, health claims can be controversial, especially because of the seemingly ever-changing nature of nutrition research, so I?ll just report that I feel much better now
than I did when I ate meat. and even
for more experienced ones . White, processed sugar
is banned from the premises,
with organic honey used to
sweeten the smoothies. Wellness
Bar also serves as a café or
a lunch restaurant. She does not
expect the poor economic
situation to dampen consumers. Adapted from Plant Power, by Nava Atlas (HarperOne, 2014).
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Ingredients
1½ tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 large red onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 cm dice (about 4 grams)
One 425-450 gram can no-salt-added diced tomatoes, with juices
2 teaspoons peeled and grated fresh ginger root, or more as needed
3 cups water, or more as needed
3 cups small broccoli florets
1 or 2 small Thai chilli peppers, seeded and finely chopped
(may substitute other small peppers or ½ to 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes)
½ cup smooth almond butter (may substitute peanut or cashew butter)
3 cups lightly packed lacinato kale leaves (about 225 grams),
thick stems discarded, thinly sliced
½ cup chopped cilantro leaves
½ teaspoon fine sea salt, or more as needed
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or more as needed
½ cup dry-roasted, unsalted peanuts, chopped, for garnish (optional)
3 scallions, trimmed and thinly sliced, for garnish (optional)
Steps
? Pour the oil into a soup pot over medium heat. Stir in the onion and garlic; cook until the
onion has lightly browned, 4 to 6 minutes.
? Add the sweet potatoes, the tomatoes and their juices, the ginger (using more if you want
the dish to be spicier) and the 3 cups of water. The latter is so useful that I was tempted to copy those pages and tape them to my fridge.
Ultimately, recipes make the best case of all for vegetarianism, and I put one of Atlas. enthusiasm for healthier
lifestyles.
On the bandwagon
Ordinary cafés have also
jumped on the bandwagon,
increasing their selection of
healthy options.
?Many ordinary cafés
serve healthy products, such
as fruit, berries and yoghurts
these days. It?s got plenty of options: Feel free to use butternut or acorn squash instead of sweet potato, cauliflower instead of broccoli, cabbage or collards instead of kale.
Serve it over rice. The
menu offers treats made of
super foods, such as goji berries, chaga mushrooms and
pineapple.
The owner wants to provide his clients with healthier options but also serves the
likes of organic beer to those
who prefer a pint to accompany an ice-hockey match.
Lindberg believes that
interest in a healthy lifestyle will prove to be a longterm trend, saying that in
the future cafés focusing on
healthy food may specialise
further. His clients may also
be offered training tips to go
with the healthy snacks and
beverages in the future.
Snacks such as energy bars often prove a stumbling block for
people wanting to eat a more healthy diet.
?I find new things interesting. When it comes to the environment, there are many complicating
factors, but I view vegetarianism as just one more way in which I try to go easy on the planet.
(Others include recycling, composting and not owning a car.) And as it concerns those animals,
I?m more comfortable than ever stating that my lifelong love for dogs and cats has made me
want to extend that compassion to beings that used to show up on my dinner table.
If anyone is looking for a primer, a good new source is Plant Power by Nava Atlas, the prolific author of such books as Wild About Greens and the creator of VegKitchen.com.
The most helpful information might be the front matter. to the
test: How would it go over at a dinner party table occupied almost entirely by carnivores. Also a regular
at Jungle Juice Bar cafés, Niemelä says that there is room
for more entrepreneurs in
the health food market.
Mari Niva, a senior researcher at the National Consumer Research Centre, says
that shops and cafés offering healthy foods and ingredients are an up-and-coming
trend in Finland. I
chose a slightly spicy stew that uses almond (or another nut) butter for creaminess and packs
sweet potatoes, broccoli and kale into a tomato-based broth. T H E W A S H I N G T O N P O S T
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Katja Niemelä enjoys a smoothie in BeGood . H S
NIINA WOOLLE y . T rO S DA H L
SpORTS BARS are not usually associated with a healthy
lifestyle but a bar that promises to offer the best of both
worlds opened its doors
in the centre of Helsinki
recently.
The founder of the bar,
Ray Lindberg, got his business idea when he and his
friends got into a habit of
dropping into a sports bar after sports training.
?I thought it would be a
great idea to have a healthy
alternative to sports bars.?
Depending on the time of
day, the BeGood . Wellness Bar in Helsinki.
Sometimes I like to go back to basics. Just a few bites in, our conversation turned not to the fact that there wasn?t any meat in sight, but to the kind of stories I
like best: about our favourite vegetables.
Southeast Asian-style vegetable and nut butter stew: turning the topic of conversation to
vegetables.. Many also want
to avoid ready-made meals,
preferring to prepare their
meals from scratch using basic ingredients.?
Southeast Asian-style vegetable and nut butter stew
6 to 8 servings (makes about 9 cups)
This spicy-as-you-like-it stew binds a medley of vegetables in a broth made creamy with your
favourite nut butter. I think it?s helpful every so often to remember why we made this
transition in the first place.
For me, the reasons included (and still include) health, environmental concerns and, though
I haven?t talked about this next piece of the puzzle so much, a sense of ethical obligation to the
animals of the world. She says that specialist
shops, such as ecoshop Ruohonjuuri, are part of the
phenomenon.
?People want healthy food
that is quick, for example
different dried and ground
products. I?m also interested in
health and wellbeing.?
Wanting to pay attention
to her diet, Niemelä is always
on the lookout for healthy alternatives to ordinary cafés.
?It?s a shame that smoothies
are often packed with sugar.
You could as well buy a chocolate bar in a shop for a snack.?
Niemelä believes she is
not alone wishing for a wider
variety of healthy options for
a quick snack. HT
Investing in wellbeing
Sipping a smoothie in the bar,
Katja Niemelä says that people have started to invest
more in their wellbeing.
L E H T I K U VA / T rO N D H . Let it slowly come to a boil, then reduce the
heat so the water is barely bubbling; cover and cook until the sweet potatoes are nearly
tender, 12 to 15 minutes.
? Add the broccoli and chilli pepper (or peppers, if you want the dish to be spicier). Stir in the
almond butter a little at a time until it melts into the broth. MAKE AHEAD: The stew can be refrigerated for up to 1 week and frozen for
up to 3 months. Besides recounting her own journey, Atlas busts common myths about plant-based eating (it?s not filling enough, you can?t get
enough protein, you?ll get weak and sickly) and covers important nutritional considerations
(which leafy greens are good sources of calcium and iron, which foods have the most protein and
more). Clients
can watch sports on two giant screens, while enjoying
a healthy fruit smoothie or
a slice of raw chocolate cake
instead of the usual pint of
beer. If desired, garnish each serving with peanuts and/or scallions.
Nutrition per serving (stew only, based on 8): 250 calories, 6 g protein, 33 g carbohy drates,
12 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 320 mg sodium, 6 g dietary fibre, 7 g sugar
J O E yO N A N . Super foods are
more commonly available at
specialist shops and cafés.?
Niva says that specialist
cafés come into their own as
an alternative to unhealthy
snacks, such as cakes and
protein bars, often considered mass produced.
?Snacks often prove a
stumbling block for people
wanting to eat a healthy diet as many find pieces of fruit
difficult to carry around.?
According to Niva, future
café trends are difficult to
predict as the health product range changes quickly
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The broader theme of life and how one wants to spend it
shines through like a palimpsest, both with its timeless nature
and in the subtle way it is approached.
Saivosalmi is a performer and a choreographer, and has
worked as a freelancer and with Helsinki Dance Company as
well as the Helsinki City Theater. It is part of
an art installation by Japanese
artist Tatzu Nishi. throwing tantrums and
holding balloons.
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
Open:
Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/2/8/10
www.amosanderson.fi
Until Sun 2 November
Jaakko Mattila
Modern art.
eMMA . Their exhibition
aims to demonstrate how
beauty can be evoked through
different senses.
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat 11:00-17:00
Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?10/7
www.taidehalli.fi
Until Sun 7 December
FOCUS: Angel
The exhibition is meant
for the blind and people with
weaker eyesight. espoo Museum
of Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.emma.museum
Until Sun 16 Nov
Kiasma goes Taidehalli
The exhibition is a collaboration
between eija Aarnio from
Kiasma, and Hanna
Mamia-Walther from
Kunsthalle. What do I want to leave
behind me when I go?
Her teaser shows an air of casual wondering in the quotidian. She has collaborated as a
choreographer with artists such as Andrius Katinas.
Until Sun 12 October
Zodiak . Performed
and choreographed by Vera
Nevanlinna.
Zodiak . Saivosalmi recounts her own history of productions, beginning with a backdrop of the entertainment world
and gradually diving in to the deeper themes of time, repetition and significance.
What are the things that are important to me. His typical pieces
are clay works of boys being
boys . Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
MUSIC
Thu 9 October
Drifter?s Collective
Alternative Hip-hop.
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
www.lebonk.fi
Thu 9 October
Tuure Kilpeläinen and Kaivon
Karavaani . 18
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9 . How do I
want to spend my time in this world. The multisensory
exhibition is created by
Croatian Nata?a Jovi?i?, where
you can learn about the artwork
through touch and sound.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat 11:00-17:00
Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
Until Sun 18 January
#snapshot
Photographs taken by ordinary
people, images sourced
from the Internet, historic
snapshots and selfies as
well as an overview of the
history of the selfie.
The Finnish Museum
of Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
Helsinki
Tickets ?0/6/8
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi. The aim is to
inspire the audience to see urban
environment with new eyes.
Kauppatori
Helsinki
Opening hours to public
11:30-17:30
Tickets ?0-3
www.visithelsinki.fi
Until Sun 19 October
Janne Martola: Breathing
exhibition
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets TBA
www.korjaamo.fi
Until Sun 19 October
Sami Havia: Lines,
forms and earworms
exhibition
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Helsinki
Tickets TBA
www.korjaamo.fi
Until 27 October
Tommi Toija
Toija is most famous for his
sculpture of a boy peeing in the
river of Örebro, Sweden, called
BadBad Boy. Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
Tue 14 October
Martti Suosalo: a madman?s diary
Comic monologue
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Tickets ?26.50/29.50
www.lebonk.fi
Wed 15 October
Ismo Leikola
Stand up show
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Tickets ?18.50/16.50
www.lebonk.fi
Sat 11-Wed 22 October
Pelléas and Mélisande
One of Claude Debussy?s
most important works.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?17.50-60.50
www.opera.fi
Until Sat 18 October
Horecna-Godani-Robbins
The Finnish National Ballet?s new
performance combines energy,
brilliant movement, and
macabre humour.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?21.50-108.50
www.opera.fi
EXHIBITIONS
Until Sun 12 October
Hotel Manta
The hotel is part of the Helsinki
Festival, built around the fountain
in the heart of Helsinki. It considers how the individual fits in to the
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I Do My Part
I Do My Part is a contemporary dance solo piece performed by
Maria Saivosalmi. album release
Singer/songwriter
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Tue 14 October
Duke Robillard with Wentus
Blues Band
Blues
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
Tickets ?35
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Wed 15 October
Vera Fey
Pop, rock and soul.
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Free entry
www.lebonk.fi
Wed 15 October
Ile Kallio Big Rock Band
Rock
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?16.50/17
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 15 October
Singing Pohjola
Progressive rock, jazz fusion
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Tickets ?34/38
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Wed 15 October
Cannibal Corpse (USA),
Revocation (USA), Aeon (SWE)
Death metal
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
www.elmu.fi
Saivosalmi poses with baby.
Fri 10 October
Cosmique Presents
Kitkatone and Hannu Ikola live
DJ: Boy Jorge, VJ: Klaustrofobia
Mbar Terrace
Mannerheimintie 22-24
Free entry
www.mbar.fi
Fri 10 October
JVG
Rap
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?15.50/16
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 10 October
Pepe Willberg
Pop, rock
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?21.50-27
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 10 October
Janne Ordén
Rap
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki
Tickets ?8
www.lebonk.fi
Fri 10 October
Amorphis
Heavy Metal.
Virgin Oil Co.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?25
www.virginoil.fi
Fri 10 October
Uni, Ylona and a short film
Uni on Ikuinen
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?4.50-5
www.korjaamo.fi
The InTernaTIonal TheaTre of fInland
Sat 11 October
Boris Kozlow (USA)
Boris Kozlow in cooperation
with Sibelius Academy?s Jazz
department
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/15
www.kokojazz.fi
Sat 11 October
Janna
Pop/soul
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Helsinki
Tickets ?17.50/18
www.sellosali.fi
Sat 11 October
Michael Monroe
Rock
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?29.50/30
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 11 October
Boston Promenade
Jazz.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?8/10/12
www.virginoil.fi
Sat 11 October
Kurtis Blow (USA)
Hip-hop, old school.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?11-15
www.korjaamo.fi
Sat 11 October
Kid Ink (USA)
Hip-hop
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Helsinki
Tickets ?20
www.elmu.fi
Sun 12 October
Kolme Urkuria ?
Kolme Bachia
Classical
Finlandia Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
www.finlandiatalo.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 9 and Sat 11 October
FNB Youth Company
presents R&J
FNB Youth Company will present
a fresh perspective on Romeo and
Juliet.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
www.opera.fi
Until Sun 12 October
I Do My Part
Solo dance piece, created and
performed by Maria Saivosalmi
Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
Until Sun 12 October
Just
Just is a piece praising the quality
of everyday reality, and a cry for
help for those who don?t have time
to appreciate it
S U L L I va N
heL sinK i TiMes
J a M E S O . the voices of: Maria sid,
alma Pöysti
Elsewhere on screens
Richard Linklater?s latest, Boyhood arrives this week, after wowing audiences at hiFF towards
the end of last month. a coming-of-age drama, here we follow
youngster Mason as he develops from the age of six to 18. After
stumbling across a mysterious castle, soon she has fallen in love with the young
Pelléas. JO'S
Michael Monroe brings his high-kicking antics to Tavastia once again, as part of a 13-gig jaunt
around Finland, Sweden and Norway.
Back to rock
behind a saxophone, Monroe
eventually made the switch to
vocals. Well, given that this is an
opera, no prizes for guessing
that things soon take a turn
for the tragic.
RaRELy
One of Claude Debussy?s most important works, Pelléas et Mélisande is being performed at Finnish National Opera.
Embracing Marco Arturo
Marelli?s visionary staging, that includes a huge
pool of water, Pelléas et Mélisande is one of the most renowned productions ever to
be staged at the Finnish National Opera.
Length of the performance is 3 h 15 min, with one
intermission. here two friends head off to a fancy dress party clad in police officer uniforms. It?s not exactly a movie-ready story, given that it?s
about a mildly misanthropic
woman marching for kilometres, day after day, under the
scorching sun. Director John Curran (The Painted
Veil) captures the stark allure
of the landscape so well, there
are moments you might almost understand why Davidson chose to go there.
Tracks (K12)
Release Date: 10 october
Director: John Curran
starring: Mia Wasikowska,
adam Driver
Boyhood (K12)
Release Date: 10 october
Director: Richard Linklater
starring: Patricia arquette,
ethan hawke
Let?s Be Cops (K12)
Release Date: 10 october
Director: Luke greenfield
starring: Damon Wayans Jr.,
Jake Johnson
a Most Wanted Man (K12)
Release Date: 10 october
Director: anton Corbijn
starring: Philip seymour
hoffman, Rachel Mcadams
Muumit Rivieralla (S)
Release Date: 10 october
Director: Xavier Picard
Feat. hijinks ensue once they are mistaken for the real fuzz, and are thrown headfirst into various set pieces that promise to tickle funny bones.
elsewhere, the late Philip seymour hoffman gives his final screen performance in A Most Wanted Man, anton Corbijn?s adaptation of John le Carré?s 2008 spy novel.
Finally Muumit Rivieralla takes everyone?s favourite characters to the south of France. But the
setting is spectacular. Alongside these,
a range of short films highlight
numerous stories and issues
can be found, as the diversity of
the region is explored.
MEFA Festival will also be
screening films for the first
Jehane Noujaim?s acclaimed
documentary The Square depicts the heart of the Arab
Spring uprising in Egypt.
MEFa Festival
9-12 october
www.mefahelsinki.com
performed, Pelléas
et Mélisande is one of Claude
Debussy?s most important
and acclaimed works. On
stage from Saturday 11 until Wednesday 22 October, local audiences are privy to a
quartet of performances at
the Finnish National Opera.
An opera in five acts,
the narrative is interwoven
with the music in a memorable manner, accentuating
the dreamlike quality of the
production. Previews
and posters for the movie
make it seem as if a romance
between the two is a central
theme, but that isn?t the case,
even if they did have a fling.
If Tracks is a love story at
all, it?s one between Davidson and the often unforgiving land, or perhaps between
Davidson and her cherished
dog. S U L L I va N
heL sinK i TiMes
his scissor-kicking
scaling the same heights as
his shock of peroxide hair, local rock hero Michael Monroe is performing a duo of
gigs at Tavastia on Saturday
11 October.
The first of the perfromances kicks off at 4 pm, allowing youngsters to enjoy
the antics of one of the country?s best live acts. some 12 years on the making, the director, cast and crew set aside a few
days each year to chart the growth of a family in real time. After meeting guitarist Andy McCoy, together the
two formed the hugely influential rock band Hanoi Rocks.
Debut full-length Bangkok
Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks made an impact
and by 1984, the band was on
the cusp of a major US breakthrough, having pioneered
the glam rock movement that
was also about the explode in
the States.
History robbed them of
that chance in 1985, as the
death of drummer Razzle in
an alcohol-fuelled car crash
saw the band struggle to
pick up the pieces, eventually disbanding.
J a M E S O . She explains that the only time she feels free is when
she?s away from society, somewhere remote with her animals. And so, are the lovebirds to live happily ever after. 15 OCTOBER 2014
19
ViLLe aK seLi JuuRiK K aL a
Film
?Tracks?: Robyn Davidson
takes on the australian desert
IN 1975, ROByN DavIDSON
came up with a plan that was
almost universally ridiculed.
The 20-something Australian decided she would walk
across the Australian desert.
The 2,720-kilometre trek from
Alice Springs to the Indian
Ocean would take six months
and, with the exception of four
camels and her dog, Davidson
would go it alone.
Davidson wrote about the
experience in her memoir,
Tracks. stumbling across various coming-of-age
scenarios familiar to many, the film has been subject to almost universal acclaim around the globe.
Let´s Be Cops sees the Wayans family clan extending another generation, as Damon Wayans Jr.
takes the starring role. But for all its simplicity,
Tracks the movie is a poignant, deeply emotional story.
Casting was key for the role
of Davidson, who spends so
much time alone on screen, and
Mia Wasikowska is a perfect
fit. Following
this up at 9 pm with an 18+
gig, Monroe?s rock ?n. He?s a nice guy,
but Smolan inevitably annoys
Davidson, asking her to pose
in all sorts of ways during his
monthly drop-ins. When Davidson
tries to refuse offers for a radio or gun . Dropping the wellreceived Horns And Halos last
year, Monroe continues to
prove his mettle as one of the
world?s enduring rock greats.
Michael Monroe
11 october, 16:00 & 21:00
Tickets ?29.50/30
Tavastia
urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
helsinki
heiK K i TuuLi
S TEpHaNIE MERRy
The Wa shing Ton Pos T
J a M E S O . CULTURE
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . roll expertise will be on show until
late in the night.
First appearing in a variety of Finnish bands throughout the late ?70s, typically
WITH
a dream
of opera
Not to be outdone, Monroe
re-emerged as a solo artist,
but was never able to attract
the wider success his considerable talent deserved. Those photos appear during the closing credits
and convey how detail-oriented the filmmakers were.
Adam Driver plays Smolan as Davidson?s foil. Here we find the
maiden Mélisande wandering through the forest. She?s well-suited to playing outsiders, whether it?s Alice in Wonderland or Jane Eyre,
because her sweet, sad eyes
make her so utterly sympathetic. Reforming Hanoi Rocks earlier
this century saw him regain
some traction, along with the
release of a number of solo albums that have helped to draw
crowds around the globe.
Now as a permanent fixture on TV?s The Voice of Finland, Monroe hasn?t given up
his day job. We see how she arrived
at this point through a mix of
lovely, unobtrusive narration
and affecting flashbacks.
There are some unnerving
moments during Davidson?s
trip, but the movie doesn?t
milk any incident for more
drama than it needs. S U L L I va N
heL sinK i TiMes
SEEKING to contradict the media?s overwhelmingly negative
perception of the region, the
inaugural Middle Eastern Film
& Arts Festival is being staged
in Helsinki from Thursday 9
until Sunday 12 October.
Using art to shine a spotlight on the story of a modern and a diverse Middle
East, the festival presents
a rich programme of events
that highlights the region?s
long history and rich artistic
culture.
time at a mosque in Helsinki
on Sunday 12 October. She doesn?t do
a lot of talking, and no zombies appear to liven things
up. And
there?s power in its understated approach. two things she
ends up taking and needing ?
Smolan responds with a simple yet potent line: ?Do you
want to die out there??
That question hangs over
Davidson?s journey while the
audience tries to decipher
why a person would give away
almost all of her possessions
and march across the desert in sandals and a sarong.
It all looks appropriately unglamorous, with Wasikowska wearing a layer of grime,
her hair matted as she swats
at ever-present flies. Where
she?s quiet and enigmatic,
he?s aggressively chatty and
openhearted. Performed in
French, the opera?s surtitles
are in Finnish, Swedish and
English.
pelléas and Mélisande
11-22 october
Tickets ?17.50-94.50
Finnish national opera
helsinginkatu 58
helsinki. Alongside full-length offerings from
Iran and Iraq, and Q&A sessions, the interesting and diverse programme at Resalat
Islamic Centre also includes a
short documentary about the
Iraqi painter Yassin Atia.
FiL MiK a M aRi
Celebrating
the Middle
East
Four days offer four different locations for the festival, with events staged at
Gloria, Kino Engel, K13 and
Resalat Islamic Centre.
Things kick off on Thursday 9 October at Gloria, with
an exhibition by Iranian photographer Shahriar Khonsari that seeks to give voiceless
Afghan refugees in Iran a
chance to be seen and heard.
Aside from the exhibition, a
range of foods from the Middle East is on offer.
Elsewhere during the four
days, full-length films from
Morocco, Turkey, Algeria and
Egypt, to name but a handful,
are screening. She?s also a great physical match for Davidson, who
was photographed by National
Geographic?s Rick Smolan during her trip
When Harry discovers
that his bored housewife might
be having an affair with a used
car salesman, he uses all the resources at his disposal to find out
what is going on. With Children
19.00 Nick and Norah?s Infinite
Playlist FILM
Directed by: Peter Sollett.
Starring: Michael Cera,
Kat Dennings, Aaron Yoo.
USA/2008.
21.00 The Dilemma FILM
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Channing Tatum,
Jennifer Connelly, Kevin
James. USA/2011.
02.10 Weeds
03.20 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
TV5
06.00 Must Love Cats
06.50 Your Style in His Hands
07.45 Top 20 Funniest
12.10 The Invention of Lying
FILM
Directed by: Matthew
Robinson, Ricky Gervais.
Starring: Jeffrey Tambor,
Jennifer Garner,
Jonah Hill.
USA/2009.
14.00 Dawson?s Creek
15.00 Your Style in His Hands
16.00 Keasha?s Perfect Dress
16.30 Lindsay
17.25 My Crazy Obsession
18.00 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 American Pie: Reunion
FILM
Directed by: Hayden
Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz.
Starring: Alyson Hannigan,
Chris Klein,
Eddie Kaye Thomas.
USA/2012.
23.15 Sexcetera (K18)
00.35 Naked Secrets (K18)
Directed by: Copper Headly.
Starring: PaizleyAdams,
Frank Mercuri,
Molinee Green.
USA/2005.
02.20 Knight Rider
03.20 Nick & Norah Infinite
Playlist FILM
04.45 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
14.55 Jamie?s Food Escapes
15.55 Grand Designs Australia
20.00 Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
21.00 A Beautiful Mind FILM
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed
Harris, Jennifer Connelly.
USA/2001.
23.30 Modern Family
00.30 Ladies of London
True Lies
The Invention of Lying
True Lies is an American
action film starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger as a fearless
top secret agent Harry Tasker.
Harry?s wife Helen (Jamie Lee
Curtis) has not discovered that
Harry is a secret agent and to
her he is just a boring computer
salesman. USA/2011.
23.00 C.S.I. However, when
their two secret lives unexpectedly collide, Harry and Helen find
themselves in the clutches of
international terrorists, fighting
to save not only their marriage
but their lives as well. Everyone from
politicians to advertisers speaks
the truth and nothing but the
truth with no thought of the
consequences. USA/1994.
This romantic comedy film takes
place in a fantasy universe
where no one knows how to
lie . USA/2009.
MTV3 22.35
Friday 10.10.2014
TV5 12.10
Saturday 11.10.2014. However, when
a desperate unemployed writer
Mark (Ricky Gervais) suddenly
develops the ability to lie, he
finds out that dishonesty has
its rewards. USA/2011.
23.15 The Blacklist (K16)
00.20 Wild Things 2: The Glades
(K16) FILM
02.10 Overhaulin
03.00 Operation Repo
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 It?s a Brad, Brad World
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
23.00 First Dates
An interactive dating
experiment in which real
dates are filmed and then
viewers get the chance
to apply to date the
unsuccessful participants
the following week.
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
11.10.
MTV3
Friends with Kids
Sub 20.00
08.05 Children?s Programming
21.00 Amazing Race
This is a reality television
show in which teams of
two people race around the
world in competition with
other teams.
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.25 Southland
SUB
11.00 Suburgatory
Suburgatory follows a
teenage girl who moves
from the city to the suburbs.
12.00 Two and a Half Men
13.55 Undercover Boss UK
15.45 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
16.45 X Factor UK
19.05 Formula 1: Russian Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
20.00 Friends with Kids FILM
Two best friends decide to
have a child together while
keeping their relationship
platonic, so they can avoid
the toll kids can take on
romantic relationships.
Directed by: Jennifer
Westfeldt. USA/1992.
01.30 Frasier
02.00 Castle
03.00 Ice Road Truckers
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.25 Long Island Medium
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. They
make it their business to
battle crime in Dallas and all
around the State of Texas.
18.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
23.00 Cheaters
The surveillance team
follows a suspected cheater
and collects video and
audio evidence of their illicit
affairs.
00.00 Supernatural (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.05 Crocodileman
12.05 American Pickers
Mike and Frank are pickers
that travel the country and
literally would go anywhere
for the prospect of finding
antique gold.
14.00 Shark Tank Canada
Shark Tank features business
pitches from aspiring
entrepreneurs to a panel of
potential investors.
15.00 MasterChef Australia
16.00 New York Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
20.00 Talent USA
21.00 Undercover Boss
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.30 Guinness World Records
02.30 Counting Cars
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Wizards of Waverly Place
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Hoarders
17.20 Frasier
Niles does not believe
Daphne is psychic, so she
calls a spookologist.
22.00 Cellular (K16) FILM
Directed by: David R. Starring: Jeffrey
Tambor, Jennifer Garner, Jonah
Hill. New York (K16)
00.00 Grimm (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
09.15 MasterChef Australia
12.10 Crocodileman
14.10 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.
16.05 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
Anthony Bourdain arrives in
a new city each week with
only 24-48 hours to show
viewers the insider places,
people and foods.
18.00 Undercover Boss
19.00 Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant
in an attempt to revive the
business.
21.00 Guinness World Records
22.00 Ax Men
23.00 Rude Tube (K16)
00.00 The Deadliest Roads
NELONEN
07.40 Children?s Programming
08.30 Sea Rescue
12.10 Snoopy Come Home FILM
Directed by: Bill Melendez.
Voices: Chad Webber,
Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea.
USA/1972.
13.55 Good Luck Charlie
14.25 90210
17.55 Once Upon a Time
21.00 Twilight FILM
A teenage girl risks
everything when she falls
in love with a vampire.
Directed by: Catherine
Hardwicke. USA/2008.
23.25 Under the Dome
00.25 The Resident (K16) FILM
Directed by: Antti J. Starring: Kristen
Stewart, Robert Pattinson,
Billy Burke. 15 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
friday
9.10
MTV3
NELONEN
Hot Fuzz
T V5 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
14.35 Back in the Game
17.30 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Reckless
Jamie asks Roy for help
when she works to clear
the name of a pro bono
client wrongfully accused
of murder. Directed
by: James Cameron. Jokinen.
Starring: Hilary Swank,
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee
Pace. In the world ruled
by total honesty, Mark easily
lies his way to fame and fortune
but soon Mark begins to realize
that things are getting out of
control?
Directed by: Matthew Robinson,
Ricky Gervais. even the concept of a lie
does not exist. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Top 20 Funniest Home
Videos
21.00 Hot Fuzz (K16) FILM
A top London cop is promoted
to serve in the sleepy village
of Sandford where he finds
out a creepy secret.
Directed by: Edgar Wright.
Starring: Anne Reid, Billie
Whitelaw, Bill Nighy.
UK/2007.
01.05 Tough Love
02.00 Overhaulin
02.55 Coupling
03.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
03.55 Call Me Fitz
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
22.30 The Fashion Fund
Ten designers get a chance
to work alongside industry
luminaries to prove they
have what it takes to
be named Fashion Fund
Designer of the Year.
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
saturday
10.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
The Full Monty
Sub 20.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Four Rooms
14.35 Mike & Molly
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
The drama set in the
glamorous world of the Los
Angeles fashion scene and
focusing on the wealthy and
powerful Forrest family.
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 True Lies (K16) FILM
Directed by: James
Cameron. Starring: JeanClaude Van Damme, Dolph
Lundgren. Starring: Adam
Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt,
Kristen Wiig. 20
TV GUIDE
9 . Knox is faced
with a moral dilemma as he
considers the impact telling
the truth about the Lee Anne
Marcus case could have on
his mayoral campaign.
23.35 Those Who Kill (K16)
00.35 Terriers (K16)
SUB
14.00 Undercover Boss USA
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, a martial artist,
and his partner Trivette
are Texas Rangers. Ellis.
Starring: Kim Basinger,
Jason Statham, Chris Evans.
USA/Germany/2004.
00.00 NCIS
01.00 Frasier
01.30 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
02.30 Blue Bloods
03.30 Fear Factor
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.25 Long Island Medium
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.25 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee
Curtis, Tom Arnold. USA/1991.
23.20 Universal Soldier (K18)
FILM
Directed by: Roland
Emmerich. Starring: Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Jamie
Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold.
USA/1994.
01.25 24: Live Another Day (K16)
Jack and President Heller
put themselves through hell
in order to stop Margot AlHarazi from going through
with any more attacks.
SUB
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
19.05 Big Brother Extra
20.00 The Full Monty FILM
The film follows six
unemployed men who decide
to form a male striptease act
in order to gather enough
money to get somewhere
else.
Directed by: Peter
Cattaneo. Starring: Robert
Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson,
Mark Addy.
England/1997.
23.00 Cheaters
00.00 Catfish
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.10 Top Secret Recipes
12.05 American Pickers
14.00 Shark Tank Canada
15.00 MasterChef Australia
16.00 New York Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
20.00 MasterChef USA
21.00 Rude Tube (K16)
22.00 Pawn Stars UK
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 JIM D Crime: Gang Life
(K16)
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Gene Simmons Family
Jewels
02.00 JIM D: Massive
Destruction
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Fashion Star
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
17.50 The Hotel Inspector
21.30 Naked Gun 2 1/2: The
Smell of Fear FILM
Directed by: David Zucker.
Starring: Leslie Nielsen,
Priscilla Presley, George
Kennedy
New York (K16)
23.30 The Originals (K16)
The Original vampire family,
from The Vampire Diaries,
return and settle in the
city they helped build, New
Orleans.
00.30 The Simpsons
01.00 Cheaters
JIM
08.50 MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia
gives budding chefs the
ultimate once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to develop
their cooking skills, to be
mentored by the best.
12.10 Ice Road Truckers
14.05 Talent USA
15.00 Undercover Boss
In this hidden-camera
show an executive goes
undercover in his or her own
company to get a raw look at
how people really work.
16.00 Ax Men
18.00 Pawn Stars UK
20.00 Hotel Hell
22.00 Mountain Men
Eustace Conway lives on a
parcel of land in the Blue
Ridge Mountains and hosts
people to whom he teaches
basic wilderness survival
skills.
23.00 MasterChef USA
23.55 Rude Tube (K16)
00.55 Ink Master
07.40 Children?s Programming
09.00 Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition
13.00 Sea Rescue
13.30 The Hotel Inspector
15.30 Body of Proof
Body of Proof follows a
medical examiner Megan
Hunt whose unique approach
to solving crimes puts her at
odds with her superiors.
21.00 The Expendables 2 (K16)
FILM
Mr. USA/2006.
03.35 Obsessed FILM
Directed by: David
Loughery. Directed by: Beeban Kidron.
Starring: Colin Firth, Hugh Grant,
Renée Zellweger. Directed
by: Ron Howard. Starring: Sylvester
Stallone, Bruce Willis,
Jean-Claude Van Damme.
USA/2012.
01.10 NCIS
02.05 Fear Factor
03.05 Weeds
TV5
07.35 Overhaulin
08.25 Dawson?s Creek
15.10 Welcome to the Family
15.40 The Goldbergs
16.10 Monk
17.05 Knight Rider
18.10 House
19.10 Surf?s Up FILM
Directed by: Ash Brannon,
Chris Buck. scalps, Adalind
unexpectedly goes into
labor and Juliette maintains
contact with Nick?s mom.
00.00 Gang Related (K16)
The series follows the personal
and professional lives of the
members of the elite Los
Angeles Police Department?s
multi-agency Gang Task Force
as they take on the city?s most
dangerous gangs, including
one with which a task force
member has ties.
01.00 Shameless (K16)
02.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.05 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
Jeff Corwin travels around
the world taking viewers
below the surface to explore
the Earth?s least understood
resource, our oceans and
waterways, and the animals
which call them home.
12.05 American Pickers
The show follows antique
and collectible pickers
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz
as they travel around the
United States.
14.00 Shark Tank Canada
15.00 MasterChef Australia
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
20.00 Kitchen Nightmares
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 NCIS Los Angeles
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a historical docudrama film based on the true
story of the ill-fated Apollo 13
mission bound for the moon.
Stranded 205,000 miles from
Earth in a crippled spacecraft,
three astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom
Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton)
and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon)
realize that they may never see
home again. Sunshine
01.45 Fame
02.40 Tough Love
03.30 Chicago Fire
04.15 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Gallery Girls
Seven young women share
a passion for art, but are
divided amongst their
Manhattan and Brooklyn
lifestyles with vastly
different attitudes and
tastes towards fashion, art
and men.
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
22.30 First Dates
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Bridget Jones:
The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is back in this sequel to
the Bridget Jones story. Starring:
Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill
Paxton. Starring: Beyoncé
Knowles, Idris Elba,
Ali Larter.
USA/2009.
AVA
11.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
Building the Dream
Lucky Dog
Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
20.00 Ladies of London
21.00 Apollo 13 FILM
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Tom Hanks,
Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton.
USA/1995.
23.35 Modern Family
00.35 First Dates
tuesday
13.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
MacGyver
T V5 13.55
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Formula 1: Russian Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
13.45 Amazing Race
14.45 The Millers
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles
A killer uses online ads
to find murder victims.
Meanwhile, Jane discovers
it?s difficult to keep her
pregnancy a secret.
23.35 The Good Guys
00.35 Super Fun Night
SUB
14.00 X Factor UK
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 The Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
23.00 Grimm (K16)
While Nick and Hank
investigate a killer who takes
his victims. A desperate battle
to survive begins. Starring:
Diedrich Bader, James
Woods, Jeff Bridges.
USA/2007.
21.00 Eat Pray Love FILM
Directed by: Ryan Murphy.
Starring: James Franco,
Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts.
USA/2010.
23.55 Spartacus: Blood and Sand
(K18)
01.00 House
02.00 When a Stranger Calls
(K16) FILM
Directed by: Simon West.
Starring: Camilla Belle,
Tommy Flanagan, Katie
Cassidy. Can Bridget find
a way to make true love last forever. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . It has
been six wonderful weeks, four
fabulous days, and seven precious
hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
However, Bridget?s confidence in
her relationship is shattered when
she meets Mark?s colleague, the
beautiful Rebecca Gilles. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 Mr. Meanwhile,
at Mission Control, astronaut
Ken Mattingly (Sinise), flight
director Gene Kranz (Harris)
and a heroic ground crew work
around the clock to bring them
home. USA/1995.
AVA 21.00
Sunday 12.10.2014
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Once Upon a Time
In the fairy tale world, Snow
White meets the mermaid
Ariel, befriends her and
helps her with her true love,
Prince Eric.
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
23.00 Weeds
00.10 NCIS
01.10 Frasier
01.40 Bizarre Crimes
02.20 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.10 MacGyver
07.05 Matlock
08.00 The King of Queens
12.25 Long Island Medium
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
MacGyver follows the
adventures of a secret agent
armed with almost infinite
scientific resourcefulness.
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. Directed by: Simon
West. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 Mr. 15 OCTOBER 2014
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sunday
monday
12.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Body of Proof
Nelonen 15.30
08.00 Children?s Programming
09.35 The Amazing World of
Gumball
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
Obsessive cleaners team up
to clean some of Britain?s
dirty homes.
00.10 Those Who Kill (K16)
01.10 The Americans (K16)
Phillip asks Annelise for help
on his latest mission and
Stan discovers something
that could bring him closer
to the KGB illegals.
02.10 Political Animals
SUB
11.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
The Simpsons
Adventures of Merlin
The Face
Catfish
Pretty Little Liars
X Factor UK
Formula 1: Russian Grand
Prix SPORT
In Finnish.
20.00 Mythbusters
22.30 C.S.I. Sunshine
21.00 Big Daddy FILM
A lazy law school grad
adopts a kid to impress his
girlfriend, but everything
does not go as planned.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
Starring: Joey Lauren
Adams, Allan Covert,
Josh Mostel.
USA/1999.
22.55 Virgin Diaries
23.55 Eat Pray Love FILM
Directed by: Ryan Murphy.
Starring: James Franco,
Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts.
USA/2010.
02.35 Twin Peaks
03.30 Spartacus: Blood and Sand
(K18)
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Flipping Out
14.40 The Fashion Fund
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
19.00 Grand Designs Australia
This series follows people
building their dream houses
and all the dilemmas that
come with it.
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
14.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Mentalist
MT V3 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Undercover Boss
14.35 Modern Family
15.15 Jamie?s Chef
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Mentalist
Jane tries to get all the
remaining Red John
suspects in one place so,
with the final clue, the
killer?s identity is revealed.
22.35 Suits
Suits is a legal drama that
follows college drop-out
Mike Ross, who accidentally
lands a job with one of New
York?s best legal closers,
Harvey Specter.
23.35 The Glades
Jim?s old partner arrives from
Chicago to track a serial
killer, and there?s chemistry
between them that Callie
can?t help but notice.
00.35 Legit
SUB
14.00 United Bates of America
14.30 The Capones
The spirit of the infamous
gangster Al Capone still lives
on in Chicago in the form of
his drama-filled, lasagnaloving dysfunctional family,
the Capones.
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Catfish
00.00 Shameless (K16)
Paul Abbott?s critically
acclaimed, offbeat drama
about the rollercoaster
lives and loves of the
dysfunctional Gallagher clan.
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
12.05
14.00
15.00
16.00
American Pickers
Shark Tank Canada
MasterChef Australia
New York Ink
Miami Ink veteran Ami
James will be the center of
this Big Apple iteration of
the tattoo business.
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
Cooks to Market gives
amateur cooks the chance
to turn their homemade food
products into a life changing
business.
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Pregnant in Heels
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
23.30 NCIS
00.30 Weeds
02.20 NCIS
03.20 Elementary
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.15 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Long Island Medium
13.00 Kitchen Boss
In this cooking program
Buddy Valastro cooks various
Italian-American dishes from
his family?s recipes.
14.00 MacGyver
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. USA/2004.
TV5 21.00
Tuesday 14.10.2014. Church reunites the
Expendables for what should
be an easy paycheck, but
when one of their men is
murdered on the job, their
quest for revenge puts them
deep in enemy territory and
up against an unexpected
threat. Sunshine
20.00 Lindsay
21.00 Bridget Jones: The Edge of
Reason FILM
Directed by: Beeban Kidron.
Starring: Colin Firth, Hugh
Grant, Renée Zellweger.
USA/2004.
23.10 Chicago Fire
This drama explores the
complex and heroic men and
women of the Chicago Fire
Department.
01.10 Mr. The film is a breathtaking adventure that tells a story
of courage and faith. Things
get even more complicated
when Bridget?s mischievous and
devilishly charming ex-boyfriend
Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) arrives on the scene claiming to be
a reformed man
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wednesday
Finland inFo
8.15.
MTV3
United States of Bacon
T V5 19.30
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Untamed China with Nigel
Marven
Wildlife adventurer Nigel
Marven explores China and
unveils creatures, scenery
and customs never seen on
screen before.
14.35 How I Met Your Mother
15.15 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
23.15 Royal Pains
A down and out surgeon
has a chance to redeem
himself as a small town
physician in the wealthy
beach community of East
Hampton.
00.10 Revolution (K16)
SUB
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Catfish
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
When Leonard is offered
a trip to Switzerland on
Valentine?s Day to visit the
CERN laboratory, Sheldon
uses any and all means to be
his guest instead of Penny.
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant
in an attempt to revive the
business.
23.00 Sons of Anarchy (K16)
00.00 Star-Crossed
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.10 Extreme Fishing
Robson Green travels
around the world to some
of the greatest fishing
destinations, where he
challenges local masters of
their craft over five rounds
of competitive fishing.
12.05 American Pickers
14.00 Shark Tank Canada
15.00 MasterChef Australia
16.00 New York Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 Mountain Men
HELSINKI TIMES
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Dance Moms
This series follows the early
careers of children in dance
and show business, as well
as the participation of their
mothers.
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
21.00 Under the Dome
23.00 Castle
00.00 NCIS
01.00 Frasier
01.30 Brad Meltzer Decoded
02.30 Undercover Boss
03.30 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.30 Long Island Medium
13.25 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. 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. 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. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
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Telephone. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. 09 100 23.
Medical services. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
Post Offices. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
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. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. 09 3101 3300. Operator number 118. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. Single ticket
sudoku
The Chronicles of
Riddick
This American science fiction
film follows escaped convict
Richard B. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. Dial 112. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
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Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of
what to do) . Now, waging
incredible battles on deadly
worlds, this lone, reluctant hero
will emerge as humanity?s champion and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.
Powered by groudbreaking visual
effects and non stop action, this
film is a roller coaster ride that
will keep your pulse pounding.
Directed by: David Twohy. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. Starring: Vin Diesel, Alexa Davalos,
Colm Feore, Thandie Newton.
USA/2004.
TV5 21.00
Wednesday 15.10.2014
Airport buses.Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central
Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 minutes, ?6.
On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to
the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Households
paid nearly
?2.7 billion
in environmental
taxes in 2012
Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. 09 4711.
Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. See www.forex.fi for more
information.
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Grocery stores. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietaniemi Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. 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). 22
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9 . 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. Riddick (Vin Diesel)
who after years of outrunning
ruthless bounty hunters, finds
himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future
of the human race. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent medical treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health
centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital
(Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 United States of Bacon
SERIES BEGINS.
Todd Fisher travels around
the USA and visits some of
the most legendary bacon
restaurants.
20.30 Brooklyn 99
21.00 The Chronicles of Riddick
(K16) FILM
Directed by: David Twohy.
Starring: Alexa Davalos,
Colm Feore, Judi Dench.
USA/2004.
23.20 The Blacklist (K16)
00.25 Brooklyn 99
00.55 Big Daddy FILM
02.40 5D: My Crazy Obsession
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 All On The Line
14.40 Royal Inquest
An examination of the
circumstances surrounding
the death of Princess Grace
of Monaco following a
car crash in 1982, looking
at conspiracy theories
surrounding her final days.
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
22.30 Ladies of London
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Weather
Banks and Bureaux de Change. Public phones
are scarce. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16
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months to full-time studying
in order to gain acceptance to
university or even to devote
the time and be rejected in
the end. As
a result, degree inflation coupled with an already lacking
US job market has left many
of my fellow college students
with considerable personal debt and no employment
prospects. Whereas I studied
for one standardized test for
college admissions, Finnish
students complete both secondary and university matriculars. The Finnish economy is also facing a downturn but without diminishing
the value of an education in
the minds of Finnish youth.
With government subsidies for study-related expenses, it?s easy to see why
Finnish students opt to continue directly into their master?s studies after completing
their bachelor?s degree versus entering the labor force
directly.
The government?s financial blessing and the
respect given to those admitted into institutions of
higher education contrasts
the complacent attitude towards financial aid and college studies in American
society. And if that means
being there promptly when
the Helsinki University library opens its doors, you
will know where to find me.
www.6d.fi
SixDegrees
is on stands now!
Grab a copy from your
nearest pick-up point!. Finnish reverence
for those who spend the time
and effort to educate themselves celebrates education
as a necessary evil despite
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the amount of effort given to
university matriculation.
Back home in the States,
disillusionment with the
university system in addition to the considerable cost
of attendance has lead to
a diminishment in the value of a degree. It would
appear that Finnish students
take their education much
more seriously than I imagined, a change in perspective
for this Yankee who spent
the last two years ?studying?
at a university in the United
States. currently residing in Helsinki.
Adopting a Finnish perspective on education
THE CLOCK READS 10:30 on
a Saturday morning and I
am already too late to find
an open table at the Helsinki University library