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w w w.helsinkitimes.fi Available by subscription, on board more than 350 Finnair flights, on Allegro trains and in all top-quality hotels in Finland. H S A l e k si Tei va i n e n . H T Knowledge economy & ocean The pros and cons of a knowledgebased economy. Articles on parents? phone usage, children?s clothes and good food. Pages 13,15 NO ONE had on Sunday expressed their interest in running for the chairperson?s position of the National Coalition Party (NCP). The natural resources of the Arctic ocean are still an object of international dispute. Pages 8,9 people & technology Batteries & English An app that helps keep track of a cell phone?s battery usage. Speaking English in Finland: a new necessity? Pages 11,12 lifestyle & family Training & parents A new style of exhausting and effective fitness training that takes 16 minutes. 16 APRIL 2014 . The weeks between 8 May and 15 June will not only determine who will succeed Katainen as the Prime Minister of Finland, but also whether the Minister of Finance will change and who will represent Finland in the European Parliament. Ultimately, the five weeks will decide whether the Finnish Government can withstand the tumult. Five candidates At present, the candidates touted to take over the reins of the NCP include ministers Paula Risikko, Alexander Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen has downplayed the affect of his shock announcement over the weekend, stating that he is not irreplaceable. Stubb, Jan Vapaavuori and Henna Virkkunen, as well as Petteri Orpo, the chairperson of the NCP parliamentary group. The newspaper has applied for funding from the Pravfond Foundation that protects the rights of Russian expatriates and disperses financial support for publications reporting on the treatment of Russian citizens. However, an executive editor of Novosti Helsinki, Irina Tabakova, says that the co-operation only extends to the translation of articles for publication in both news outlets and that it has concerned merely a few articles. ?We are not in any way responsible for Finnbay,. Helsinki Times is also available for sale in more than 140 kiosks across Finland. Poll reveals people?s thoughts on wage distribution A survey questioning thousands about the distribution of wages shows that people want more equality. he asserted. Both Jutta Urpilainen, the chairperson of the SDP, and her rival candidate Antti Rinne similarly estimated on Sunday that the government programme can withstand personnel changes. Shady Finnbay news outlet cited by the Economist and NBC news P E KKA HAKALA , T OMMI HANNULA , MATT I KOSK INE N, T UOMO P IE T IL Ä INE N . ?Finland would not be cast adrift if I left. I?m not irreplaceable,. Tabakova stresses. Continued on page 4.. The article, together with the uncertainties related to the publisher has raised questions over Finnbay?s possible affiliations with Russia. Suspicions were further heightened by an announcement on the Finnbay website that the news outlet is set to launch a print newspaper in co-operation with Novosti Helsinki, Change of power ? On 14 June, the NCP party conference appoints a successor to chairperson Jyrki Katainen. ? Katainen is on 20 June expected to submit his formal letter of resignation to President Sauli Niinistö. ? The ruling parties then initiate negotiations on a new government programme. ? The administrative bodies of the parties consider the conclusions of the negotiations. ? The Parliament elects the new prime minister. ? After the vote, the President officially appoints the new government. a Russian-language newspaper. HS MARI S T ORP E LL INE N . ?3 . he reminds. Crippled Government? In addition, the announcement by Katainen has kindled speculation about the future of the already belligerent five-party coalition Government. But there are other matters to consider. Page 3 National Coalition undecided on replacement for Katainen The ranks of the National Coalition still appear to be gathering their thoughts after chairperson Jyrki Katainen announced his decision to step down this summer. L eht i k u va / M i k ko S t i g domestic business & culture O l l i P o h j a n pa l o, M a r k Au t io . In an interview with YLE on Sunday, the Prime Minister viewed that snap elections would only become necessary if the Government was unable to carry out its duties. In fact, Katainen deemed the suggestions that the entire Government should step down due to his decision somewhat flattering. on Twitter. In his tweet, Himanen referred to a news piece by Finnbay on Finland?s policy towards Russia. H T A website that publishes Finlandrelated news in English, Finnbay has been thrust into the eye of a media storm after its credibility has been called into question. Rumours surrounding Finnbay first started to circulate last Saturday when the Finnish ambassador to Russia, Hannu Himanen, referred to the website as ?a fake news site. Thus far, only Orpo, Stubb and Virkkunen have confirmed that they are considering running for the chairperson?s position. Ben Zyskowicz, a seasoned NCP representative, views that previous experience as a cabinet minister will be beneficial with respect to the position of Prime Minister. ?Then again, we?ve seen Prime Ministers such as Paavo Lipponen and Esko Aho who assumed the office without a day of ministerial experience,. The ranks of the NCP did, however, gradually begin to gather their thoughts after the shocking announcement of Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen (NCP) a day earlier to not seek re-election in the looming NCP party conference. The announcement surely prompted many to contemplate canvassing support among their party comrades. Overall, early summer may prove a critical juncture for domestic politics. ISSUE 15 (349) . 10
You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. The Afghan people accepted a fraudulent presidential election last time for the sake of keeping the peace, but this time, that will not likely happen. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long (maximum length 10,000). If these elections have been marred by corruption and fraud, the stage will be set for deteriorating conditions. from the ISI, Pakistan?s main intelligence service. He is the author of Turbulence: The Tumultuous Journey of One Man?s Quest for Change in Afghanistan. Afghanistan again at a crossroads the ma r k n e w s AS the United States and NA- TO are preparing to significantly reduce their troops in Afghanistan by the end of this year, Afghans have been focused on the 5 April presidential elections that were just held. The public meetings that the candidates have launched in different corners of the country have provided opportunities for public engagement. The legitimacy of the elections is crucial for Afghanistan?s path to stability. That requires more diplomatic pressure than the last election process, as the independence of the Independent Election Commission may be in question. If the election results appear to be engineered or affected by high levels of fraud and the Independent Election Commission does not take action, the United States and NATO should not recognise the outcome of the election. As we saw with the previous The legitimacy of the elections is crucial for Afghanistan?s path to stability. vantage of the situation in order to promote their agenda of taking control of the Afghan government yet again. The future of the country will be bleak, and the efforts of the United States and NATO countries, as well as those of Afghans . In the 1980s, when the Afghan insurgent groups known collectively as the ?mujahideen? fought against the Afghan Communist government, which received support from the Soviet Union, Pakistan received greater economic and military benefits from The problem Start your weekend with news in English Why not add Helsinki Times to your morning coffee? Stay informed about news and current affairs in Finland by subscribing to the weekly Helsinki Times. To subscribe, e-mail subscribe@helsinkitimes.fi Visit www.helsinkitimes.fi for a daily Finnish news update in English. the United States. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. 16 APRIL 2014 HELSINKI TIMES Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. People will lose further confidence in the government, and insurgent groups will consequently gain support. States and NATO should focus on post-Karzai Afghanistan and how to assist the country to ensure continued progress and stability. based on the country?s stability, security, and corruption levels ? after the majority of foreign forces withdraw. Whether Afghanistan can break out of its cycle of conflict and use its resources wisely will determine whether it has a real shot at long-term stability.. The recent attacks on Kabul?s Lebanese Taverna restaurant and Serena Hotel exhibit the Taliban and their supporters. With Russia advancing in Crimea and Pakistan?s state divided by military and civilian powers, stability in Afghanistan is even more important for regional and world security. The United States and NATO should work with legitimate Afghan leaders and require accountability for the use of funds, including when spent by US or European contractors, to reduce corruption. As the foreign military presence becomes lighter, economic assistance should be increased to strengthen Afghan civil society and the private sector, and training and support should be given to the Afghan National Security Forces when benchmarks for accountability and human rights are met. The NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan was necessary, but its success will be judged . violence and lack of respect for civilians, whether foreign or Afghan. is across the border in Pakistan, where militant groups continue to plan attacks on sites in Afghanistan with support ? whether direct or indirect . A complex interaction of three critical factors will determine the future of Afghanistan and the outcome of US and NATO involvement in the country since the fall of the Taliban. Afghanistan will be able to preserve the gains of the past 12 years or face chaos and instability will largely depend on (1) credible and transparent presidential and provincial elections, (2) the ability of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) to protect Afghanistan from terrorists and insurgents, and (3) whether Afghanistan receives sufficient and effective economic and military aid beyond 2014 based on meeting anti-corruption and human-rights benchmarks. Whether The Afghan people have taken democracy to heart and were actively engaged in the processes of the presidential elections. They should not dwell on President Karzai?s refusal to sign the negotiated Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), as most prominent presidential candidates have publicly declared that they will sign the BSA once they are elected and take office. The United The majority of Afghans have time and again shown their support for US and NATO assistance, even when those parties have made grave mistakes, such as basing their strategy on an individual (Karzai) instead of on Afghan institutions and representative bodies. When a body of representatives that President Karzai recently convened voted in favour of Afghanistan entering into the BSA with the United States, President Karzai walked out of the meeting and has since gone against the wishes of that majority. Reactions to Karzai?s statements have caused the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan to appear strained. He was a Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Transportation in Afghanistan and President of Ariana Airlines, and co-founded the Afghanistan Advocacy Group and the AfghanAmerican Chamber of Commerce. 2 VIEWPOINT 10 . many of whom election, accepting illegitimacy for expediency may lead to gains in the short term, but it will lead to greater loss and damage later. In reality, the Afghan people want cooper- ation with the United States and NATO as long as their rights are respected, humanrights violators are not rewarded, and the number of civilian casualties is reduced. At this critical crossroads, the United States and NATO need to focus not on troop numbers and withdrawal dates, but on benchmarks for a transition that leaves Afghanistan in a situation that will not allow for terrorists and insurgents to take over again. The mass me- dia and social media, two important gains of the past 12 years, are abundantly utilised to inform the public on the candidates. agendas and increase public interest in the process. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. Terrorist and insurgent groups will take ad- have sacrificed their lives ? will be compromised. The United States and NATO should be proactive and demand non-interference in the election process from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his administration. Candidates should abide by election rules or be disqualified. own and do not represent the official policy of the Helsinki Times. Nadir Atash is an Afghan-American educator, author, and entrepreneur
What is more important is that employees understand how the pay is formed and that they can earn more by working harder. Statistically speaking Let?s look at some statistics then. People at work would pay 203 euros more to a chief finan- cial officer, 129 euros more to an R&D expert and 111 euros more to a healthcare centre doctor than those not in working life. There was one point that respondents were unanimous on: they themselves deserved a couple of hundred euros more a month than what they were currently earning. In general, the respondents earned slightly more than the average pay in Finland, which is 3,100 euros a month, compared with the 3,470 euros earned by the respondents. says Virtanen. ?If they realise that people are treated unequally they lose trust in the company and become less efficient.? What can you do if the pay does not seem fair but a pay rise doesn?t materialise despite requests? According to Virtanen, the simple answer is to change jobs but this is not always possible. ?Work contribution and pay must be in balance. view on justified pay for around half of the professions was within a hundred euros of the actual average earnings. The wages at both ends of the pay spectrum were considered the most unfair. The respondents would give farmers the biggest pay rise, up to 700 euros, while chief financial officers would be the most out of pocket, with the readers of the newspaper happy to subject them to a hefty 3,000-euro pay cut. The respondents believe that the gap between high and low earnings should be smaller than it currently is. In the Soviet Union, the ideal country was seen as one where everyone would work according to their ability and get paid as much as they needed. Women thought that fair pay for lower-ranking army officers was 201 euros more than what men would pay, while men would pay 227 euros more to a researcher, 199 euros more to a healthcare centre doctor and 148 euros more to a chief financial officer than women. Whether the respondent was in working life or not did not influence the answers to a great extent either. The model is best-suited to fields where results are easy to measure. The third way, which is rare, and partly illegal, in Finland is to determine the pay on the basis of need. 16 APRIL 2014 3 l e ht i k u va / m i l l a ta k a l a Results of HS poll on wages . Basic salary 2359 euros. **Gross earnings with compensations. According to the answers, a fair average pay would be around 3,900 euros a month. But what do we mean when we talk about fair pay? In some cases there are objective ways of assessing the fairness of pay, with, for example, wages that do not comply with a collective agreement being unfair. But often fairness is judged subjectively, and what is deemed justified depends on the person and the situation. When do we then think our pay is fair. If there is good chance that the pay may go up in the future there is no reason not to make an extra effort. Does the colleague have more experience or more demanding duties? If the feeling of injustice really stems from the factors the researchers list then many Finnish workplaces are getting things badly wrong. First of all, the studies showed that employees are more productive if they feel that their pay is fair. Secondly, it is known that the actual figure at the bottom of the pay slip does not determine how well treated employees feel. On the basis of the answers, the gap should not exceed 1,789 euros, while in reality the top earners make 4,937 euros more a month that employees on the lowest average wage. The respondents think that a cashier should be on the lowest pay, 2,320 euros, while in reality cleaners are the bottom of the pile at 1,963 euros a month on average. According to the answers, the fair top pay would total 4,109 euros, earned by a doctor at an outpatient clinic. The results are unambiguous: the pay gap between the lowest pay and the top wages should not stretch to thousands of euros per month. Readers would give a pay cut to doctors and business leaders whereas hairdressers and cleaners should be on better pay. The results reveal that employees in many fields are receiving pay that is generally considered to be fair, as the readers. The 2012 working condition barometer by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy shows that per- formance-related pay concerned the majority of Finns, with 78 per cent of women and 65 per cent of men earning wages based on work performance. Jenni Ervasti, a researcher from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, who has studied pay issues, can shed some light on the question. According to Ervasti, employees feel that they are being treated fairly when their contribution, including workload, qualifications and experience, are in balance with the pay, benefits and esteem they receive. work performance is measured just for the sake of it . There are still countries where employees with families are paid better wages than single people. Feeling the difference But does it matter whether an employee feels they are being paid fair wages? It matters a great deal, according to Satu Koivisto, a post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University specialising in leadership and group dynamics. If people do not think that everyone is treated equally they start to believe that ?there but for the grace of god go I?. ?Employees are always keeping an eye on how their colleagues are being treated,. H T 13,000 readers gave their opinions in an online survey on fair pay for different jobs organised by Helsingin Sanomat. Are the bosses not interested in how well the more junior employees carry out their tasks? When looked at more closely, something even stranger emerges from the statistics: in many workplaces employees. In Finland, there are some professions in which performance-related pay is the norm, such as telephone sales people and estate agents for whom the main chunk of the pay may be determined on the basis of the results. doctors? pay should be cut Respondents were given the chance to air their views on fair pay for different jobs. My work is valuable . But if this does not result in a pay raise, an employee can start putting less work in.? Before this, it is a good idea to take a long hard look in the mirror and consider if you have really been that conscientious and productive. Another point worth remembering is that the yardstick for pay comparisons must be selected correctly. Numerous studies conducted in different parts of the world show that employees who feel that they are being treated fairly are more productive. Constantly feeling underpaid can even lead to an employee becoming ill. ?If there is a big gap between the amount of work put in and rewards gained, the employee can become very stressed,. H S N iina W oolle y . I live in the capital region where everything is expensive ? shouldn?t I be paid better wages than someone living in a cheaper area? The amount of work carried out also affects the subjective sense of fairness. In Ervasti?s study, people were asked to assess how productive their work was. Employees who did not regard their work as very pro- ductive were happier with their pay while people who thought they were delivering good results on a regular basis thought they did not get wages they deserved. On principle, there are three ways of determining wages in a just manner. The first way is to pay wages following the principle of equality: the same pay for the same work, regardless of how well the employee carries out the duties. The second way is to decide the pay according to the performance, paying higher wages to employees who carried out their job just that little bit better. why do I get paid less than people whose work does not benefit society as much. Basic salary 4376 euros. Compiled by Maria Pettersson hs, graphic by Miikka Holopainen hs. So it seems that only a third of lower level employees can earn better wages by working harder. Does this seem fair? What would be the just pay for these professions? Non-commissioned officer -79 How much respondants Difference feel they in euros should be paid Lawyer (private) -2215 Hairdresser +356 Library worker +122 Nanny (municipal) +425 Sheet metal worker -97 Class teacher -93 Farmer +695 Cashier +227 Actor +155 Firefighter +189 Reverend -470 Driver of heavy vehicles +372 Nurse (municipal) Newspaper reporter -4 -695 Cleaner +371 Electrician -139 Builder Director of finance (state) Product development specialist Doctor at outpatient clinic** Researcher (municipal) Actual average wage +76 -3023 -25 -2074 -11 0 2000 4000 6000 *Gross earnings with compensations. For state employees the pay was determined on the basis of work performance in almost all the cases while municipalities paid 80 per cent of their employees performance-related wages. For some reason, whitecollar workers were on performance-related pay more often than blue-collar workers, of whom only 49 per cent were paid based on results, compared with 80 per cent of white-collar workers. says Professor Marianna Virtanen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Studies have shown that a feeling of injustice can be a contributing factor in depression and heart and coronary diseases. People feel hard done by when they believe that someone else is receiving the same benefits and advantages with a lesser contribution. People always judge fairness through comparisons. Why is my colleague earning more than I do. Almost every respondent also believed they should be earning more themselves than they currently are. The public seems to think that doctors deserve a pay cut in order to make wages more equal. M aria P ettersson . DOMESTIC HELSINKI TIMES 10 . the results do not really bear any relevance to the pay. Municipal workers undergo constant assessments but only 29 per cent of the employees say that the evaluation affects the pay. Roughly 47 per cent of men and 38 per cent of women said that the work performance mattered when their wages were determined. Women?s work performance is therefore assessed more often but these evaluations have less impact on their pay. The employee?s position in the company made a difference to how often the performance figure affected the pay with 55 per cent of more senior employees getting paid based on the work performance compared with around 30 per cent of junior employees. Is the managing director really so productive that he deserves to be paid 30 times more than I. Directors of finance actually have the highest income, earning 6,900 euros a month on average. Almost A matter of gender The sex of the respondents did not have a major impact on the answers. The belief that a colleague is being treated unfairly can have a detrimental effect on work morale and dent the trust felt for the employer. Employees who suffer from such feelings of being unfairly treated take 20 to 30 per cent more sick leave than other employees. Employees are not only interested in their own pay
Yacintas opens up in the interview about the struggles of launching the news outlet, as Finnbay first relied on local bloggers who soon The reasons for the failure are multi-form, says professor Riitta Pyykkö, the chairperson of the task force. The greatest challenges, she says, stemmed from the voluntary and short-term nature of the trial, which saw fewer-than-expected universities participate. Due to recent events, it has been published on the website. In the interview, Yalcintas recounts having lived previously in New Zealand, as well as working in China. H T Krista Kiuru (SDP), the Minister of Education and Science, has expressed her hope that a decision on the adoption of tuition fees for foreign students is reached by the end of the year. was responsible for the trial?s launch. Tuition fees are a hot potato proved to be too unreliable. In its response to Ambassador Himanen, the blog is written by ?a group of volunteers. and ?Since FINNBAY is not making at least 8,000 euros a year, we are not obliged to pay taxes. place of residence on Monday. Though, if you know someone who can help us to register and not to lose our unemployment or social benefits, we would like to register FINNBAY in Finland with you. Iltalehti reported to have found Yalcintas. According to an executive editor of Novosti Helsinki, and writer of the article, Aleksei Tabakov, the article based on the interview had been written already a couple of months ago to be published solely in print. Vantaa has 1,352 immigrant cleaners Pä ivi P u nkka . 35.7% No . 16 APRIL 2014 L ehti k uva / M a r tti Kai n ulai n e n HELSINKI TIMES Finnbay controversy Continued from page 1. PEKK A HAK AL A , TOMMI HANNUL A , M AT T I KO S K I N E N , TUOMO PIE TIL ÄINEN . Altogether, roughly 20,000 foreign students are enrolled at Finnish higher education institutions every year. Kiuru was on Monday presented the conclusions of a four-year trial, in which tuition fees were introduced for nonEuropean students at certain Finnish universities. uses press releases and other sources to amalgamate its own ?news?. Under Finnish law, however, news sites operating online must identify their editor-in-chief. ?In principle, all regularly updated blogs should provide the required contact information, but the matter is not of particular relevance if the operations are not commercial,. HT Immigrants most often find work in cleaning services. Immigrants find work in cleaning services . Seriously.? Yet, the volunteers reached by Helsingin Sanomat were unable to shed light on the nature of the editorial staff or organisation of the news outlet. No suspicious affiliations Helsingin Sanomat recently looked into the records of Finnbay and the persons involved on the Finnish Trade Register up until the year 2008, but found no suspicious affiliations. According to Tabakova, Yalcintas has also asked his phone number not to be passed on to anyone. The phone number given on the page for Finnbay is similarly not in use. In a public statement, the board of Verkkokauppa.com points out that the interest of both domestic and foreign institutional investors in the public offering was high. Ultimately, shares in the retailer were bought for a subscription price of 23 euros per share, close to the top end of the offered price range of 20-24 euros. with foreign background, worked as cleaners in hotels, offices or in other commercial cleaning jobs in 2011. Immigrants in Vantaa are also often employed as cargo handlers, warehouse workers and workers in restaurant and institutional catering services. In Helsinki, common jobs included sales assistants, nursing assistants and waiters, while in Espoo a high number of immigrants found work as builders or bus drivers. Even though employment figures among immigrants has improved over that last decade, Vantaa still has more unemployed job-seekers with foreign background than the neighbouring cities. At the end of 2011, the unemployment rate among immigrants in Vantaa was 19.1 per cent, compared with 17.4 per cent in Helsinki, 12.7 per cent in Espoo and Kauniainen and 12.9 per cent elsewhere in the metropolitan area. On the national level, 19.3 per cent of working-age immigrants were out of work. ?The figures reflect the unemployment situation in general, with Vantaa having higher unemployment rates than the neighbouring cities,. The trial, the report summarises, failed to live up to its expectations. More concrete information concerning the people behind Finnbay has been less forthcoming. E-mails sent to the addresses provided have not been responded to. That is why we are not registered in Finland as corporate. H S A leksi T eivainen . Articles published by Finnbay have been cited a few times by international news outlets, including The Economist in Britain and NBC News in the United States. Ultimately, tuition fees were only trialled in 40 degree programmes. ?The only conclusion to be drawn from the trial is how not to conduct trials,. H T living in the capital regions, as well as elsewhere in the country, are Immigrants most likely to find employment in cleaning services. According to recently published statistics, 1,352 immigrants, equalling 13 per cent of the Vantaa population Question of the week The Deputy Chancellor of Justice has suggested that religious events in schools should be abandoned as they offend the rights of non-religious students. Do you agree? Yes . says Hannu Kyttälä, the head of statistics and research in Vantaa. Immigrants are twice as likely to be unemployed as native Finns, but, depending on the country of origin, the unemployment rate among immigrants varies from a couple of per cent to 37 per cent, with the highest figures seen among people from Africa and the Middle East. The lower unemployment rate among immigrants living in Espoo is due to Otaniemi and the IT sector attracting people with a high level of education from Western countries, according to Kyttälä. ?They move to Espoo because of work,. The website?s acting spokesman, Onur Yalcintas, is believed to be of Turkish background and has also been quoted as an economist in reports published by Finnbay. Some lawmakers have voiced their concerns that the adoption of tuition fees for foreign students would ultimately lead to the adoption of fees also for Finnish students. Kiuru has said that she is not an advocate of the so-called gateway theory but is leaning in favour of the adoption. Even if the tuition fees were introduced, few foreign students would have to pay them out of their own pockets. According to her, it is vital that Finnish universities guarantee the availability of courses in the domestic languages for foreign students. ?It?s impossible that language studies cannot be fixed,. Seppälä, who established Verkkokauppa.com in 1992 at the age of 16, retains 49.9 per cent of the shares in the company. After the share issue, Verkkokauppa.com announced that it received nearly the maximum price attainable as demand for the shares exceeded supply. On the other hand, Verkkokauppa.com also reveals that the issue failed to mobilise small private investors, who only acquired 46,000 shares. explains Kyttälä. Kyttälä stresses that language skills are often the key to finding work in Finland. Tuition fee trial flops K at j a B ox berg . The alleged editor refused to speak to the tabloid, threatening the visitors with police intervention if they did not leave. On Tuesday, Ilta-Sanomat reported an interview with Yalcintas that was published on the Novosti Helsinki website. Larger institutional investors, in turn, acquired nearly 2.4 million shares in the retailer. spearheaded by its Minister of Education Henna Virkkunen (NCP) . 4 DOMESTIC 10 . summarises Pyykkö. Her criticism is targeted at the previous Government, which . 64.3% View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi Who: Samuli Seppälä From: Espoo Famous for: Founder of Verkkokauppa.com The share issue of Verkkokauppa.com on Thursday was a success for both the retailer and its founder and CEO, Samuli Seppälä, who pocketed roughly nine million euros through the sale of his own shares. Kiuru said on Monday. Finland, she stressed, must hold on to its foreign students, who at present struggle to find employment after graduation due to insufficient language skills. The Ministry of Education has estimated that the costs arising from the education of foreign students in Finland amount to 12 million euros per annum. After coming to Finland he sought to set up a news site about Finland in English as he felt that Finland needs an independent source of news in the current age of globalisation. HS M ARI S TORPELLINEN . H S N iina W oolley . In Russia, Finnbay was relatively unknown prior to last weekend?s events. Finnbay also claims to have offices in Tampere, Turku, Oulu and other Finnish cities. The news portal makes no mention of its editor-inchief on its webpage despite a legal requirement to do so. The street address given on the contact page, Esplanadi 35, does not exist, and according to Iltalehti, the blog is written from Yalcintas?s flat in Meri-Rastila, Helsinki. Instead, the plan is to oblige universities to introduce scholarship programmes that would enable them to extract the most promising applicants.. The news site which also claims to be ?a news agency. Finnbay mentions on its website about cooperation with Italian news agency Ansa, and the majority of Finnbay?s international news are indeed of Ansa production. points out Ville Oksanen, an expert in technology law at the Electronic Frontier Finland Association. The operations of Finnbay, however, are explicitly commercial, its articles being behind a pay-wall. in Finland, because the right to a free university education is widely considered all but a basic right
In addition, however, the conspiracy is believed to have included a number of financial backers, whose identity is yet to be determined. ?Although gold-related value-added tax frauds have been investigated previously also in cases connected to the two main suspects, they remain relatively rare in Finland. In late March, Helsingin Sanomat reported that a quarter of the bicycles stolen in Helsinki last year were Jopo bicycles. Thus far, three suspects have been questioned M inna Passi . Sinkkonen says. HS / Sa mi K ilpiö The Finnish Gang charges against Hell?s Angels dismissed 5 F i n n i sh C u s t o m s Bicycle thefts increase in early 2014 10 . H S Customs and the National Bureau of Investigation have uncovered a tax fraud scheme involving a Helsinki-based company that is suspected of smuggling 255 kilos of gold bars to Norway. The company, investigating officials believe, bought the investment gold bars from a Belgian dealer for roughly ten million euros in 2011-2012. After their arrival in Finland, the gold bars were loaded into the trunk of a car at the Helsinki Airport. imprisonment; and second, a criminal organisation would no longer be defined as an organisation established specifically for criminal purposes. The second aspect has been subject to considerable deliberation particularly in cases associated with organisations that indisputably also engage in noncriminal activities, such as biker gangs. would no longer have to be members of a criminal organisation for their offences to be considered part of the activities of the organisation. Such cases, however, are relatively uncommon, the task force acknowledges. On the other hand, an offence committed by a member of a criminal organisation would no longer be automatically considered part of the organisation?s activities. Although the proposed revisions in the wording of the section may at a glance appear insignificant, they have at least two considerable ef- Helsinki company suspected of smuggling gold bars The gold was later shipped back to Central Europe. The Norwegian Police Service are looking into the actions of the precious metals dealer. Altogether, authorities have determined, roughly two dozen such journeys have taken place. were suspected of stealing several bicycles over a short period of time. Some of the people caught were young, even under 15 years old. The Finnish Tax Administration estimates that the dealings have resulted in the loss of over 2.3 million euros in tax revenue. The Finnish Customs is investigating the actions as aggravated tax fraud and aggravated accounting offence, and is set to turn over the case to a prosecutor for consideration of charges later this spring. H S The District Court of EteläKarjala has dismissed the charges of participation in the activities of a criminal organisation brought against four members of the Lappeenranta chapter of Hell?s Angels, ruling that there was no evidence to suggest that the biker gang had in concert committed any serious offences. The ruling thereby rejects the interpretation that anyone participating in the activities of the organisation can be held accountable for a crime they may not have even been aware of. On the other hand, the district court found several members of the biker gang guilty of lesser offences committed on behalf of the gang. Eight members were convicted of narcotics offences, tax frauds and tobacco sales offence for operating an unlicensed bar in the facilities of the gang. H S Bicycle thefts in Helsinki have in early 2014 increased by roughly 50 per cent from the corresponding period last year, with some 300 bicycles already going missing. Last year, nearly 4,000 bicycles were stolen in the Finnish capital, representing an increase of some 500 thefts from the previous year. The thefts have similarly increased elsewhere in Finland, with insurance companies receiving over 16,000 claims for missing bicycles last year, approximately 5,000 more than in 2012. Juha Laaksonen, an inspector at the Helsinki Police Department, estimates that the jump in the thefts is due to the ease of trafficking stolen bicycles, which typically takes place through online auctions and marketplaces. ?Stealing bicycles is easy. Pre-trial investigations also suggest that it?s easy to sell them on and thereby to benefit financially from the thefts,. H S Source: The Helsinki Police Department S u sanna R einb o th . he explains. In addition to the Internet, stolen bicycles are sold on the streets and to thrift shops. The thieves may also have other motives for their actions, some lifting bicycles for temporary personal need, such as for returning home after a night out. CRIME HELSINKI TIMES L asse K erkel ä . The bicycles abandoned outdoors or by roadsides have likely been stolen by such perpetrators. Others, in turn, lift bicycles for personal, more permanent use. Last year, police officers looked into a number of cases in which individuals . The dealer hid the bars in a car and transported them to Norway, not declaring them to the Norwegian Customs to evade value-added tax. M inna Passi . The bicycle should be fastened from its frame to a fixed object, such as a stand or pole. ? Also lock your bicycle indoors. ? Write down the make, model, colour, serial number and any special characteristics of your bicycle. For example, the Finnish main suspect has several prior fraud and smuggling convictions in Germany, Spain and Finland, reveals Sinkkonen. The suspects have denied violating Finnish laws in interrogations. Sinkkonen also reveals that the illicit profits were shared by the Finnish and Norwegian suspects. Take a photo of your bicycle. ? Report theft to the police immediately. Finnish task force proposes a re-definition of organised crime M inna Passi . ?The suspicions arose after officials at the Helsinki Airport began looking into where the gold is destined,. typically men . Lawmakers have proposed that members of criminal organisations be excluded from public procurement procedures and that their eligibility in certain permit procedures be restricted. Moreover, the divergent interpretations of organised crime may result in unexpected and arbitrary official rulings, not only in courtrooms but also in the commercial sector. and two detained in the course of the pre-trial investigation. According to Sinkkonen, two of the suspects have a history of similar misdeeds. reveals Hannu Sinkkonen, the head of the Crime Prevention Unit at the Finnish Customs. Thereon, the gold bars were transported through Sweden to the Norwegian border, where they were handed over to their suspected recipient, a Norwegian precious metals dealer. 16 APRIL 2014 A Helsinki company is suspected of acquiring 255 kilos of investment gold from Belgium and smuggling it to Norway.. They were also found guilty of drug offences in relation to the discovery of drugs on the premises. In sentencing four defendants of another drug offence, the court cited their affiliations with the biker gang as aggravating circumstances. One of the defendants was also found guilty of attempted aggravated extortion for his attempts to claim ownership over a motorcycle owned by his former spouse. This offence, the court ruled, was not committed on behalf of the Hell?s Angels. One of the defendants was imposed a seven-month prison term and the others suspended prison terms. Court of Helsinki has rejected nearly every claim for damages filed against the Equestrian Federation of Finland by a riding instructor convicted of the sexual abuse of his students. The court did, however, repeal the suspension handed down to the man due to the failure of the federation to hear him before enforcing the suspension. The Equestrian Federation would have as a result been liable to compensate for any damages incurred by the man. Despite the prevalence of the phenomenon, the police do not believe bicycle thefts to be associated with organised crime. Generally, the thieves are drawn to the most popular bicycle brands. H S THE CURRENT legislation on organised crime is ambiguous and in need of revisions, concludes a task force at the Ministry of Justice in its memorandum. In addition, the thieves tend to look for bicycles worth less than one thousand euros, because the owners of more valuable bicycles usually lock and store their bicycles properly. Although the thefts recorded in Helsinki last year concentrated moderately in the downtown area, they also occur elsewhere. Most commonly, bicycles are lifted near public transport hubs, shopping centres and the yards of residential buildings. How to protect your bicycle ? Ensure that your bicycle has a lock approved by insurance companies. Elsewhere in Europe, the phenomenon is more common,. imprisonment may be imposed?. In its memorandum, the task force refers expressly to the offences of ethnic agitation and threatening a person to be heard in the administration of justice. In addition, the proposed section refers consistently to participation in the activities of a criminal organisation rather than a membership. Therefore, perpetrators Court rejects riding instructor?s claim for damages Police and customs officers conducted a raid on the facilities of the Lappeenranta chapter of Hell?s Angels in late February last year. fects: first, ties with a criminal organisation could only be cited as aggravating circumstances for offences the maximum penalty for which is at least four years. Using both a fixed and a portable lock is recommended. ? Always lock your bicycle, even when leaving it out only for a moment. However, the court concluded that the instructing duties of the man did not decrease due to the suspension but rather due to the fact that he had been found guilty of the sexual abuse of four young girls in 2011. Ultimately, the instructor was deemed entitled to damages of 3,600 euros and to recover 22,000 euros in compensation for legal costs from the Equestrian Federation. The District The amplification of the concept of organised crime is crucial also for the efforts of the Government to inhibit the operations of criminal organisations with a variety of administrative measures. Due to the ambiguity, Finnish authorities have divergent interpretations of the very nature of organised crime, the task force highlights, pointing out that such conflicts have surfaced even within the Finnish Police. The concept of organised crime should as a result be re-defined in a dedicated section of the Criminal Code of Finland to be referred to in other sections. A criminal organisation, the task force suggests, could be refined as ?the structured union of a minimum of three people who over a certain period of time work in concert to commit offences for which a maximum penalty of at least four years
6 April Online sales of liquor to proceed to the Court of Justice of the European Union . Forsius states.? and whether it should be interpreted in the light of rules on monopolies and free mobility. If the court overrules the ban on distance selling, this will likely result in a significant increase in the consumption of imported alcohol. The court will also address the discriminatory practices of the Finnish package tax system. The so-called Alkotaxi case involved a banning of the distance sales of alcohol. These days we easily get the impression that our economy thrives through numbers and money alone. KATRI RAUSKA Researcher: institutional living for seniors calls for a dustup ?THE apartment of a senior is a home in an institution too, a nurse visits it. There is a widespread assumption that this will again be the case. Perhaps, but this is quite uncertain since the causes of the crisis seem not to have really been addressed. In my opinion the economic crisis is a moral crisis, a crisis of trust and a crisis of ownership. One should be able to sleep in the morning if sleepy and not get up for porridge immediately at seven. Higher GDP numbers are proudly announced as ?economic growth. The greed in the financial capital markets has been a major cause of the crisis. while at the same time there is no prospect for millions of jobless people, a number that is still increasing. The erosion of nutrients is also increasing,. It cannot and should not be treated as an illness. ?If old age is disregarded as such, the whole notion of humanity changes,. initiative needs to get much more emphasis and when preparing new initiatives and EU-regulations, an assessment of planned actions. Nurses and residents have brainstormed together on how to make living for seniors more pleasant and humane.? ILTASANOMAT. The dominance of capital markets has also led to a crisis in ownership. The Finnish alcohol legislation has traditionally been interpreted so that distance purchases of alcohol have been allowed, whereas distance sales have been banned as a crime. Distance sales refer to situations where the seller organises the transportation of alcohol drinks, whereas in distance purchases a buyer or an agent authorised by the purchaser is in charge of organising transportation. In distance sales paying taxes is the obligation of the seller, and in distance purchases it lies with the buyer.?. Attitudes should be refreshed, says researcher on long-term care of the elderly Jari Pirhonen. According to Pirhonen, senior care should strictly follow the notion of old age being a part of life. impacts on small enterprises should be carried out. But we also need to encourage the renewal of entrepreneurial spirit and an inclusive economy. Senior care should be made more humane, states researcher. YLE 6 April. He is also Chairman of the Christian Democratic Parliamentary Group and a President of The European Christian Political Movement (ECPM), which is a political association of Christian-democratic parties and organisations in Europe. 6 April Decrease in ticket prices for international flights ?UP to half of Finns have metabolic syndrome, i.e. a disorder of the metabolism. Pirhonen says. Sheltered accommodation cannot aim at treating old age, as it cannot be cured. The EU?s ?Small Business Act. The majority of the new job opportunities that arise in Europe are created by small- and mediumsized businesses, nearly four million jobs each year. Everything that can be done to encourage entrepreneurial spirit and the involvement of SMEs needs to be done. 6 10 . The National Institute for Health and Welfare is conducting an extensive national study with FINRISKI that aims to expose risk factors of chronic, non-contagious diseases.? Peter Östman is a Member of Parliament and comes from Larsmo, Ostrobothnia. For all young people who have entrepreneurial potential, there needs to be support and encouragement in that direction. It is time for an economy in which the free market is complemented by important fundamentals of our economic life like ecological sustainability and inclusive economic growth. The concentration of carbon di- oxide is increasing and it is used in greenhouses too,? says Professor Martin Forsius from the Finnish Environment Institute. Forsius was in charge of the VACCIA venture funded by the EU, which aimed to study the VERKKOUUTISET. TARJA KUITTINEN Winter threatens to disappear ? this is how Finland benefits ?A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a picture of a warming globe with extreme phenomena, such as floods and drought weakening the possibilities of large areas for agriculture. Finland is not exempt from disadvantages, but climate warming can also have positive effects. ?In practice the possible advantages are visible in agriculture and forestry. If people feel that they relate to their work, their company, their managers, their colleagues, then that creates a long-term sustainable economy. Europe needs to go back to the real business, with citizens at the centre. This means, first and foremost, that SMEs have to be front and centre in economic policy. This is what research professor Pekka Jousilahti from the National Institute of Health and Welfare evaluates. Over 40 per cent have the syndrome. According to the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, the genetic condition is common. Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases by two- or threefold. Our economy is a whole that is based on relations and improves if these relations are just and fair. What causes metabolic syndrome is abdominal obesity. This can range from seasoned craftsmen to expert technicians. He is a candidate in the European Parliamentary election 2014. Is the economy about numbers or about people. Only if we are able to include as many young people as possible in our economy we will have an economic future. His doctoral dissertation included a workshop that aims to improve contents for sheltered accommodation. The workshop includes units of intensified sheltered accommodation of the city of Tampere in Jukola and Impivaara. People feel disempowered, they have the strong feeling that they have no real influence over the economy in which they are working and living. The overemphasis on the People feel disem- stock markets has givpowered, they have en the message that the economy is indeed about the strong feeling numbers and money and that they have no that people can only follow the developments. real influence over the economy in which they are working and living. How do we change direction? Our economy cannot exist independently from people and culture. Besides abdominal obesity, metabolic syndrome also often includes high blood pressure, problems with concentrations of fat in blood and a higher level of sugar or diabetes. Over half of Finns are overweight: two-thirds are men and nearly half are women. Also at the same time poverty has risen in Europe to levels unprecedented post-war. Of course, often job growth lags behind and follows after growth in production and investment. It is time for a system that allows no reward without responsibility, no investment without involvement and no profit without participation. If the ban on distance sales of alcohol is removed, the consumption of imported alcohol will likely increase. effects of climate change on Finnish agriculture, forestry and fishery as well as tourism and the diversity of nature. Although the growing season for fields and forests will become longer and larger crops are to be expected, climate change will also result in challenges. ?New varieties should be developed so that new conditions can be cultivated. 6 April. The actual treatment should be perceived as simply one part of welfare in long-term care. Pirhonen is a doctoral student of the Gerontology Re- search Center of the University of Tampere. We cannot put our economy in a separate box. 16 APRIL 2014 FROM FINNISH PRESS HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / a n tti aimo - koivi s to AAMULEHTI. SMEs are the main employer and the best guarantee for long-term employment. the monopoly of Alko wavers to information obtained by Verkkouutiset, the Helsinki Court of Appeal has decided to take the socalled Alkotaxi case to the ?ACCORDING Court of Justice of the European Union. The lawyer of the Alkotaxi entrepreneur Petteri Snell said that the Court of Appeal will present the court with questions of preliminary ruling on whether the online sales of alcohol conflicts with the court of the European Union, L E H T I K U VA / kimmo m ä n t y l ä Europe needs to go back to the real business, with citizens at the centre Investing in education We need an approach that connects young people to experts and professionals in any field
2 April. But Japan does better too. In Russia there is also the possibility of continuing escalation of political uncertainty, which would affect the Finnish economy.? Three years of recession in the past five years have eroded Finland?s public finances at the same time as papermaking and technology have struggled with competition and falling demand. So does Hong Kong. Now, maybe those are cherry-picked examples that owe their success to government authorities who game the tests, and therefore deserve to be ignored. The average number of attendees to a congress was 108. According to the ?Delegaattitutkimus 2013. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS HELSINKI TIMES 10 . Why do we hear endless tributes to Finland instead. We should have an answer by [Friday].?...? Will US sanctions stop Miley Cyrus twerking in Finland? against Russia did not prevent the annexation of Crimea, but they could have the unlikely side effect of preventing Miley Cyrus from performing in Finland, her promoters said Thursday. ?US sanctions Congress tourism in Finland has increased, with the Helsinki region accounting for most of the profits. Travel Daily News. Cevian continues to own a 13.4pc stake...? NBC News. So why have they fallen out of vogue lately in the popular press. Bath makes a few suggestons on ordinary-gentlemen.com...? L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R ?Vikram Bath takes on the cult of Finland today. And Taiwan. Tatiana Rokou Tourism income increases by 63 per cent in Finland Convention Bureau (FCB) monitors the experiences of people attending international conferences in Finland every three years. and concerts by other US artists including Justin Timberlake . This has been implemented in co-operation with Taloustutkimus since ?The Finland Mother Jones. survey, implemented in co-operation with Taloustutkimus, each conference attendee spent 356 euros per day, including trips. the Helsinki-based Finance Ministry said in a statement today. Well, it does in the education community, where Finland?s consistently high scores on the international PISA test make it the go-to destination for education writers looking for agreeable junkets they can turn Finnish schoolchildren?s performance on PISA tests is lauded, but the Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese are doing just as well. 1986. In total, congress tourism provided Finland with 117 million euros in 2013. This was the best year ever in terms of the number of conferences held. ?Russia?s growth prospects are weak and depend quite heavily on natural resource extraction. What?s that. 1 April. Shanghai does better. 3 April. Kasper Vitta Finland cuts economic forecast as Russian growth pull falters ?Finland cut its economic growth forecast for 2014 to 0.5 per cent from the 0.8 percent estimated in December as prospects of an export-driven recovery waver as sanctions are imposed on Russia. ?The single biggest driver of economic growth is foreign trade,. In the previous survey (2010), this figure was 72 million euros. This marks an increase of 63 per cent The Helsinki region is the location for more than half of international congresses in Finland, but major events also take place all year round in all of Finland?s largest towns. The ski resort of Levi was a surprise last year: its number of attendees was close to those of the big towns?.? Bloomberg Business Week. said Nina Castren, chief executive of Live Nation Finland. ?We do not know yet if they will have to be cancelled but our lawyers are investigating what it means for us and the venues. General government debt will breach the 60 per cent Maastricht treaty threshold next year, after reaching 59.8 per cent in 2014, the ministry estimates...? www.6d.fi SixDegrees is on stands now! Grab a copy from your nearest pick-up point!. 16 APRIL 2014 7 L E H T I K U VA / M A R T T I K A I N U L A I N E N The Telegraph. Kevin Drum Is it time to replace the cult of Finland with the cult of New Jersey? into long-form thumbsuckers about how American schools are doing everything wrong. But Bath points out that Finland isn?t actually the world?s top performer on the PISA test. 3 April. And South Korea. 3 April. Alexander Smith Booking agent for Live Nation Finland told NBC News that its lawyers are investigating whether it will have to cancel Cyrus. concert . You didn?t realise Finland had a cult. Ashley Armstrong Finland opposes Metso merger with Weir Group ?Scottish engineering business Weir Group has had its merger plans with Metso thrown into disarray after the Finnish government warned it was not keen on the deal. Weir Group said on Tuesday morning that it had proposed an all-share merger with its peer and extolled the ?strong strategic rationale for bringing the two companies together?. However, Metso?s chief executive Matti Kähkönen told The Telegraph that his group was in the process of considering ?a list of our own alternative M&A targets?. Separately Finland?s state investment fund Solidium, which manages the Finnish government?s 11pc stake in Metso, dampened hopes by saying it did not think it was the right time to do the deal. Metso earlier this year completed a transformative spin-off of its paper business, almost nine years after activist Cevian Capital, backed by veteran agitator Carl Icahn, urged for the business to split. In 2013, a total of 662 international conferences took place in Finland, garnering a combined total of 71,761 attendees. because the planned venue is part-owned by three of the Russian tycoons named in the White House sanctions. ?We are examining the possibility whether this could have an impact on the shows by American artists at this venue,
C O R D HEL SINK I TIMES FINNISH policy-makers have a goal of moving the economy towards knowledge-based activity. A simple retail store has to store and analyse enormous amounts of information about consumer behaviour in order to anticipate and fulfil their needs. Benefits and challenges Developed nations are becoming more interested in Länsituulentie 10, 02100 Espoo + 358 (0) 9 4157 4700 info.finland@rlglobal.com Finnish communiction pattern Agree? WORD BASE minimal speech increase succinctness CLARITY Contact Richard Lewis Communications for more information knowledge-based economies because of globalisation. An economy is hurt less by fiscal expenditure cuts than tax increases, so the majority of the savings comes from cuts. but I do admire their political courage. According to some macroeconomic theories the next logical progression is to intellectual activity. Definitions There is no set definition of a knowledge economy. Finland can?t compete against China in most manufacturing sectors, for instance, because of higher labour costs. Finland does have strengths which developing countries don?t have, though, which makes knowledge-intensive sectors more advantageous. Finland has high educational standards and a robust infrastructure which allows it to compete in these high-tech industries. which isn?t realistic . Opposition MP Juha Sipilä of the Centre Party has wondered why the governing coalition does not plan to sell off more state-owned companies. 8 BUSINESS 10 . Some organisations use the information and communications technology (ICT) sector as a proxy. By this, Finland would be able to leverage top educational standards, hightech know-how and strong infrastructure. The key component of a knowledge economy is a greater reliance on intellectual capabilities than on physical inputs or natural resources.? Walter W. Other cuts will come from administrative savings, cuts in infrastructure and health care, and lowering subsidies for companies. The revised budget covers 2015-2018. beneath the radar screen, because no statistical agency constructs a set of knowledge capital accounts.? Because of this rapid depreciation of knowledge capital such economies need to continually reinvent themselves via innovation, as well as diversity. The reason, of course, is that the coalition simply wants to raise some funds, not change how they interfere with private enterprise via public ownership. BUT ALSO lacking are any plans to reform the labour and pension systems, our two most pressing problems. The rigid and expensive labour system is holding back companies from hiring, and the pension imbalance is weighing heavily upon our long-term stability. In this, the country is ranked fifth in the world. Where tax increases are necessary, many of them are aimed at consumption, not income. Income taxes discourage work much more than consumption taxes. THE Government working group says the budget adjustments are a permanent feature and won?t be rolled back when and if the economy improves. Mandel wrote on his blog. Fostering innovation through research and development is a prime pillar of Finland?s strategy. 16 APRIL 2014 HELSINKI TIMES L ehtik u va / A F P ph o t o / J o sh E d els o n David J. Financial services have evolved from mere deposit banking into a field that attracts winners of the Nobel Prize in mathematics. The OECD uses several ICT-related measures to track how knowledge-intensive an economy is. Despite all their other failings, Finnish political parties have historically been quite competent at our long-term fiscal policy. This new budget is no exception. IN TOTAL , the plan is to strengthen the budget by ?2.3 billion, about 55% of which will come from spending cuts and the remainder from tax increases. Finland?s long and ultimately failed attempt to specialise in mobile device technology is a reminder of the need for reinvention.. Companies rely upon relatively few workers. Unemployment payments and child allowances will be cut, although after public outcry some politicians seem to be wavering about reducing child benefits. Social benefits take the majority of the national budget and they cannot be left to grow uncontrollably. It has now become a lesson about how an information economy can fail. Finland struggles to transition to a knowledge-based economy The benefits of a high-tech information-based economy are clear, but so are the dangers. DAV I D J . Yet becoming a knowledge-based economy has its risks as well. An economy based upon knowledge and information seems the rational step as a country matures. In the share of ICT value added to the total business sector Finland is number one, with ICT making up almost 14 per cent of the economy. In practice, though, a knowledge-based economy is more complicated than the ICT sector. They refused to sacrifice their ideals A fundamental for a few ministerial change in our think- appointments. ing about budget matters is underway, and it is necessary. YET the Left Alliance?s position is increasingly untenable. Additionally, many breakthroughs come from small enterprises, so entrepreneurship is emphasised. Yet there is a significant problem with knowledgebased sectors, in that it is not labour-intensive. There are intellectual property rights, which are becoming more and more important. The Left Alliance withdrew from the Government coalition, protesting against reductions in support to those dependent upon public assistance. A new car seems like a product of old 20th century manufacturing, but today?s automobiles are smart machines with highly sophisticated hardware and software. Nokia was Finland?s great success story in the knowledge economy, but the once-mighty corporation went from industry leader to near-bankruptcy in only five years. This has built up national ?human capital? and given them the tools in which to compete in these sectors. Policy-makers try to encourage an information economy through education in high-tech fields and engineering. A key point, which the Finance Ministry emphasised in its press release, is to put public finances on a sustainable basis. The writer is a journalist and columnist for Helsinki Times. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi. Alcohol, tobacco, electricity, fuel and sweets will all have higher excise taxes. SO FAR, the budget adjustments are taking the right ap- proach. Powell, Kaisa Snellman, Stanford University Share of ICT value added in business sector 1) Finland 13.9% 2) Ireland 13.0% 3) Korea 12.2% 19) EU 15 avg. 7.8% 23) Germany 7.1% Source: OECD, 2008 Share of ICT occupations in total economy 1) Luxembourg 35.3% 2) UK 28.1% 5) Finland 26.5% 6) Germany 22.5% 17) EU 15 avg. 22.4% Source: OECD, 2010 ?Over the past 10-15 years, the strengthening of information flows into developing countries meant that knowledge capital was being distributed much more quickly around the world,. Preindustrial moves to industrial, which in turn advances to services-based. By these yardsticks Finland is already relatively well advanced in its attempt to move to an information economy. Using a broad measure of ICT-intensive occupations, over 25 per cent of all Finnish jobs are now knowledge- based. He is also a private investor with over ten years of experience. Budgetary framework is a good first step THE Government has published their plans to get the national budget deficit under control. A fundamental change in our thinking about budget matters is underway, and it is necessary. it is only the first step. So while I?m delighted the coalition is beginning to act, they need to do a whole lot more. Nokia was Finland?s great success story in the knowledge economy, but the once-mighty corporation went from industry leader to near-bankruptcy in only five years. R&D. ON THE revenue side, the Government wants to increase inheritance and pension taxes, but quite many of the new taxes will be on consumption. It has now become a lesson about how an information economy can fail. Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, points to the increasingly rapid distribution of knowledge as one reason why knowledge capital quickly becomes obsolete. What is a knowledge economy? ?We define the knowledge economy as production and services based on knowledge-intensive activities that contributed to an accelerated pace of technical and scientific advance, as well as rapid obsolescence. I don?t agree with the Left Alliance?s position . Even success stories like Rovio Entertainment hire dozens of specialists, not tens of thousands of factory workers to build their products. Rapid obsolescence Another difficulty with information economies is that their products and services, almost by definition, quickly become obsolete. During its term the Government has planned for almost ?6.6 billion in savings. ALREADY the new budget framework has resulted in a casualty. These are not normally considered in the ICT field, but they are certainly based upon knowledge and information. Additionally, traditional manufacturing and services can be highly dependent upon knowledge-intensive activities. Notably, real reform has been virtually non-existent in the Government programme. ?As a result, the normal process of knowledge capital depreciation greatly accelerated in the US and Europe
When they meet as persons, as colleagues, as fellow-scientists, as astronauts, they find each other blunt, friendly, congenial, even jolly. Unfortunately, a Cold War mentality has lingered both in Moscow and Washington. a regrettable aspect of the Zeitgeist has been the persistent friction between them and the West (and also between each other) due to a variety of causes since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Four seem inevitable: which are almost always missed by foreigners. depending on her affinity with Asia or the US. These are the spices of late night conversation among Finns, for instance, would add substantial weight to East or West, which are the likely ?super-blocs?. 10 . Korea, the Philippines and possiof emerging mini-giants such as Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangsureallwhether to käydä vieraissa orblytoother käydä vierailulla? states in S.E. Brazil, Russia, India and China (with South Africa tagging along) ? accounted for 51-52 per cent. Apart from the resolute pursuit of more control of the world?s financial institutions (IMF, World Bank etc.) by the ?emerging superpowers,. Assuming the BRICS will eventually disband, late. His company, Richard Lewis Communications, provides cross-cultural communication training, as well as language training for international executives. The Quiet Colossus (part one) The Arctic Ocean is the new frontier for developing the world?s natural resources. How its surrounding lands approach this venture may have a significant impact on two of the major stakeholders. The first decade of the 21st century heralded an era of challenge among the actual and wannabe superpowers girdling the globe . Japan, as China or the US. attachment with the EU, though rica leaning With so many contenders for pre-eminence, substantial China and putFinnish-lanout feelers there where they can. 16 APRIL 2014 HELSINKI TIMES Cultural viewpoint Richard Donald Lewis is a British linguist, cross-cultural communication consultant and author. but the dominant feature of conflict since 2000 has been the sharpening rivalry between Russia and the United States. One might ask oneself why this antagonism should be so renewable, for it is easy to see how cooperation between these two nations would lead to mutual benefit. In Asia, China, Russia and India have traditionally been uneasy bedfellows . a contest of increasing intensity as the second decade gets under way. The United States, China, the Russian Federation and the European Union vie for influence in their respective hemispheres. While ancient European nations such as France, Spain and Sweden (formerly superpowers in their own right) recognise such sensitivity, the young, pragmatic American republic is less delicate in her foreign relations, especially with authoritarian regimes. The future alignment of powers is by no means certain or settled for the coming decades. Humans have a poor record in forecasting even cataclysmic political, military and economic swings and developments. Their peoples are not so unalike as they first may seem. Angela Stent, in her recent book, The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian relations in the 21st century, points out that what Russians crave most is not complete agreement on important issues, but respect from representatives of other nations in conformity with Russia?s land area, economic assets and, above all, her rich and resplendent historical record. is indeed CANADA, whose unostentatious comportment disguises the probability that she is likely to be the world?s next superpower and, interestingly, a key country for cooperating effectively with Russia in their joint Arctic environment. Want to know if you should compliment your girlfriend on being plösö or paksuna? ship isskumppa? likely to be cloned by a Transpacific one which would and face-offs. The Russian Revolution, the First World War and the Depression played havoc with the map of Europe. He speaks 10 languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Japanese) besides his mother tongue. The somewhat astonishing growth of the BRICS countries in the 1990s has fostered no little self-confidence and something approaching unity in their stance vis-à-vis the West, but China has never promoted an enduring alliance with any other country during her long history. Eventual Russo-Chinese rivalry along the Sino-Siberian border is highly probable; Russian economic clout is precariously perched on a wobbly platform of oil-and-gas supply. Japan?s econ The book is based on the Finnish After Dark seriesaround pub- $6,000 billion, is greater than omy, albeit stagnating China (1.3 billion inhabitants) thepast whole of Latin America?s India (1.3 billion inhabitants) lished in SixDegrees over the few years. The series con- though her population is 20% landfrom areareaders. 5%. of defeated Germany and Japan and the collapse of the Soviet Union were unforeseen, as were the 9/11 shock, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and the massive ubiquitous investment of Chinese capital in the United States, Africa and elsewhere. A world population of 7 billion people unleashes unimaginably powerful currents of growth, development, alliances Arctic region Our next issue will feature the second half of this article, revealing that the ?Quiet Colossus. Also discussed has been a ?second division? Finnish After Dark is hereEurasian to help, with everything from cool Customs Union. Japan and Australia would remain close to [Statistics from Economist Pocket World 2014] the US. What is generally referred to as the West hung on to more than 50 per cent of world production (GDP) until 2013, when a tipping point was reached and the newly-formed BRICS union claimed that the four major members . Asia. ladesh, Nigeria andNot Mexico, with burgeoning 100 million Russia will need to join somebody, building on her own plus populations. The Transatlantic Trade and Development Partner- Buy online: www.6d.fi/fad in majorcourses, bookstores. For information regarding this piece, or about ourortraining please contact: caroline.lewis@rlcglobal.com 9. Proximity favours Afpartner than being China, India ippines, Turkey and post-mullah Iran. taxi queues and the latest excuses for why youtowards are late forsome work. Have we forgotten anybody. India, with her Western connections, is hardly the most reliable partner in growth as she grapples with near-insoluble problems of societal and physical infrastructure while Brazil, already struggling, seems out on a limb geographically and a somewhat incongruous partner for her Eastern hemisphere associates. Shifts in alliances or economic unions could be multiple, even kaleidoscopic, in the long run. The attack on Pearl Harbour, the economic ?miracles. It is first one thing and then another: NATO expansion; the war in Iraq; ?colour. revolutions in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan; differing views about Iran, Libya and Syria; the Edward Snowden affair; now Ukraine and Crimea. With all power and influence can only be guaranteed if groupings Finnish Afterare Dark is a humoristic look India at various these considerations mind, what kind of balance emerges sufficiently large to resist domination by a true superpower guage termssuch and phrases that are almost impossible tointransbetween East and West. such as South Korea, Vietnam, Philslang to chat up lines, tips on how to avoid beaten upand in the US. Japan?s current relations with China sugEU (500 million inhabitants) tinues to receive excellent and feedback gest that she would favour a Transpacific trading pact before NAFTA (400 million inhabitants) an Asian one. Who else is there. 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The process generates large amounts of waste fluids, which contain dissolved chemicals and other contaminants that require treatment before recycling or disposal, according to the environmental watchdog Greenpeace. The study ?Sismicidad en el Estrada de Nuevo León?, published in January on seismic activity in that state, concluded that the quakes in northeast Mexico are associated with both natural structures and human actions that modify the rock layer and the pressure in the fluids near the surface. The report, by academics at the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, attributes several earthquakes that have occurred since 2004 to activities such as the extraction of unconventional natural gas in the Burgos basin. The total number of water wells drilled in the basin has risen from just under 5,000 in 2004 to 7,000 today. A study on the environmental impact of the Poza Ri- ca Altamira y Aceite Terciario del Golfo 2013-2035 regional oil project, which extends across the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo (in the centre) and Puebla (in the south), anticipates a rise in demand for water for fracking in the north of the country, where water is scarce. The study states that over 12,700 cubic metres of water are needed for every 10 multi-stage fracking jobs. By 2026, non-associated natural gas will represent 55 percent of total gas production. Bush in 2002 as part of a larger effort to reform campaign finance laws. ?The Supreme Court majority overrode the Legislative and Executive branches to empower a miniscule number of millionaires and bil- lionaires to use their wealth to exercise extraordinary distortive influence over federal officeholders, government decisions and elections,. The rest will come from unconventional deposits in the north of the country, whose production is projected to grow at a rate of 8.6 percent per year up to then. Production of unconventional gas is expected to be in the hands of private companies, since the energy reform approved in December opened up the oil and electric industry to foreign investment. ?Earthquakes will increase as a result of the higher-scale shale gas production. The government is misguided. Fracking should be banned,? de la Garza argued.. he said. But those are exactly the people our elected officials will now be answering to,? said Robert Weissman. ?That is not democracy. most estimates place the amount at well over six billion dollars. wrote Justice Stephen Breyer for the minority. ?The result. he said. With the notable exception of Sen. said Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21 and a leading voice for taking money out of politics since the 1970s. The ruling, which comes just as the 2014 Congressional campaigns are getting underway, is almost certain to fuel the growing debate over increasing economic inequality . It is plutocracy,. In the 1960 election, by contrast, the comparable total was just over 100 million dollars adjusted for inflation. While the majority upheld FEC limits on individual contributions to specific candidates (2,600 dollars) and party organisations (5,000 dollars), it declared that the FEC?s aggregate limit (currently123,200 dollars) on any one individual?s contributions to political campaigns and parties during an election cycle violated the First Amendment. ?There is no right more basic than the right to participate in electing our political leaders,. 10 10 . ?If the court in Citizens United opened a door, today?s decision may well open a floodgate,. he said in a statement. Fracking, seismic activity grow hand in hand in Mexico Mexico E milio Go d oy In ter Press Service and sand at high pressure into the well, opening and extending fractures in the shale rock to release the natural gas. ?The final result is the dislocation of the geological structure which, when it is pulverised, allows the trapped gas to escape,. and its effects on the political system. Similar concerns surfaced when four potential Republi- can 2016 presidential candidates, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (George W.?s brother), trooped to Las Vegas last weekend for a convention of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), a right-wing, strongly pro-Israel group chaired by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Adelson contributed nearly 100 million dollars of his 39-billion-dollar fortune to so-called super-PACS (political action committees) during the last political cycle in an ultimately vain effort to defeat President Barack Obama re-election bid in 2012. The McCutcheon decision, which drew a strong dissent from four of the justices on the nine-member court, complements the equally controversial ?Citizens United? decision which the same majority handed down in 2010. That decision found that limits to political contributions by corporations and unions violated the free speech rights guaranteed by the Constitution?s First Amendment. ?I predict as a result of recent Court decisions, there will be scandals involving corrupt public officials and unlimited, anonymous campaign contributions that will force the system to be reformed once again,. said J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Legal Center here. The head of Public Citizen, another Washington-based civic group, called the ruling a victory for ?plutocrat rights.. the expert with the environmental and risk consultancy Gestoría Ambiental y de Riesgos told IPS from Saltillo, the capital of the northern state of Coahuila. When the chemicals are injected ?and the lutite parL E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / Dav id M c N e w SCIENTISTS warn that largescale fracking for shale gas planned by Mexico?s oil company Pemex will cause a surge in seismic activity in northern Mexico, an area already prone to quakes. Experts link a 2013 swarm of earthquakes in the northern states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo León to hydraulic fracturing or fracking in the Burgos and Eagle Ford shale deposits . House Speaker John Boehner told reporters. he argued. His arguments were echoed by democracy advocates. ?The First Amendment was intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among all of us and thereby encourage our informed participation in our government,. Donors ought to have the freedom to give what they want to give.? For his part, McCain denounced the ruling. 16 APRIL 2014 INTERNATIONAL NEWS HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / M a r k Wil s o n Supreme court further empowers wealthy political campaign donors House Speaker John Boehner feels freedom of speech will be upheld by donors being forced to give high donations. washington B y J im L obe In ter Press Service IN a decision with major implications for the US political system, a bare majority of the Supreme Wednesday ruled that the government cannot limit total spending by individuals on federal elections. The highly anticipated judgement, rendered by the Court?s five right-wing justices, declared unconstitutional the legal cap on aggregate contributions individual donors can make to political candidates and party committees during the two-year election campaign cycle. That limit, which was 123,200 dollars for the current cycle, was enacted by Congress and signed into law by former President George W. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate who had co-sponsored the 2002 campaign finance reform law, Republicans expressed satisfaction with the ruling. ?What I think this means is that freedom of speech is being upheld,. ?There are literally only a few hundred people who can and will take advantage of this horrendous ruling. ?It?s not surprising that the earth has been settling.? De la Garza drew up an exhaustive map of the seismic movements in 2013 and the gas-producing areas. Statistics from Mexico?s National Seismological Service show an increase in intensity and frequency of seismic activity in Nuevo León, where at least 31 quakes between 3.1 and 4.3 on the Richter scale were registered. De la Garza said the number of quakes in that state increased in 2013 and the first few months of this year. Since 2011, PEMEX has drilled at least six wells for shale gas in the states of Nuevo León and Coahuila. So long as those contributions were made to an entity that was not directly co-ordinating its advocacy work with a specific candidate?s political campaign or party, they were permissible, according to the majority. As a substantial result of that decision, the 2012 election was the most expensive in US history by far . ?You all have the freedom to write what you want to write. the latter of which is shared with the US state of Texas. Researcher Ruperto de la Garza found a link between seismic activity and fracking, a technique that involves pumping water, chemicals Large-scale fracking for shale gas planned by Mexico?s oil company Pemex will cause a surge in seismic activity in northern Mexico, meanwhile, fracking being done in Lost Hills, California. ticles [sedimentary rock] break down, the earth shifts,. wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion that drew heavily on the four-year-old Citizens United decision to establish precedent for its ruling. The majority opinion provoked a strong retort by the four more-liberal justices. is a decision that substitutes judges? understandings of how the political process works for the understanding of Congress; that fails to recognise the difference between influence resting upon public opinion and influence bought by money alone; that overturns key precedent; that creates huge loopholes in the law; and that undermines, perhaps devastates, what remains of campaign finance reform,. It is also preparing for further exploration in the southeastern state of Veracruz. The company has identified five regions with potential unconventional gas resources from the north of Veracruz to Chihuahua, on the US border. The recovery of shale gas requires enormous quan- tities of water and a broad range of chemicals. ignited two-and-ahalf years ago by the Occupy Movement
The planning app Klutch is designed to take the back and forth out of scheduling by making it immediate, easy and fluid so you can spend more time hanging out and less time planning to hang out. Organisers can propose a variety of plans and keep a running total of votes from other friends who download the app . Believing that they make getting started on Twitter too much of a learning curve Twitter for beginners, the company wants to push these features often considered an essential part of Twitter to the background. A day after the announcement on the picture feature, the company revealed that it would also experiment with replacing its retweet button with a share function, used by Facebook. Twitter becoming a listed company at the end of last year has boosted investors. perhaps ironically . At the request of Helsingin Sanomat, the research team based in Helsinki compiled a list of some well-known applications and their energy consumption. Carat works by collecting information from a huge community of mobile phones it has been installed on. The program takes measurements about the mobile phone, including the percentage of battery remaining and applications being used. From the data, Carat calculates the applications that unnecessarily gorge on the phone?s battery. Carat is not able to change the functioning of an application, but it can tell the user which applications are the real energy hogs. The applications that use up most of the battery power can be broadly divided into three groups. It sometimes seems that you could just as well have a landline . Not every application belonging to one of these categories is necessarily a big energy user, but they all contain some features that increase the risk. First to drain The first group comprises the widgets operating on Android phones. Carat reveals the culprit O lli S u lop u isto . H S N iina W oolley . Apple Maps or Google Maps . SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY App review: Klutch Planning with less of the back-and-forth. H ayley T s u kayama T h e W a sh i n g t o n P o st Setting up plans is never an easy thing when you have to wade through screens and The planning app Klutch is designed to take the back-andforth out of scheduling by making it immediate. screens of emails or text messages to figure out who?s in and who?s out. The program may leave the screen on for too long or download information from the Internet unnecessarily. Carat spotting such bugs can benefit everyone, as us- ers who have noticed that an application they use often tops the list of programs draining the battery power they have informed the developer which may have led to the bug getting fixed. Occasionally the research team has looked into the reasons behind a particular program?s high energy consumption but, having to be done manually, this detective work is a laborious process. This might, however, change in the near future as Eemil Lagerspetz, one of the developers of Carat, says that a start-up is currently working on a version that will make it easier to identify energy bugs. Perhaps in the future, an energy hog can figure out the problem under its own steam. OPENING ON 12 APRIL 2014 CHILDREN?S HEUREKA ACTION-FILLED EXHIBITION. and there?s a chat function, as well, just in case you want to hash out the details. The app can automatically add events to your calendar, and it even gives you the option to use the mapping app of your choice . Free, for iOS. Twitter taking steps towards becoming a new Facebook ? planning to ditch @-reply, # and retweet J u ssi P u llinen . What is more, they are usually played for prolonged periods of time, draining the battery even faster. Checking your inbox for emails only takes a few seconds but a 15-minute session playing a game takes the battery down a notch or two straightaway. The researchers explain that sometimes applications sap the phone?s energy as a result of a design mistake. But this app can tell you which apps are the battery hogs. have not been optimised, the program is active even when it is not necessary. if you have a strong preference. The unpredictability has been the service?s main attraction, allowing the user to dive into a stream of information: Twitter offers a deluge of content, from which the user can either grab hold of bits of interesting flotsam or let it all flow past. As a Twitter fan I hope the market forces will not nudge Twitter to the direction of Facebook in this respect as well. information on the battery remaining. This group also includes the background animations on Android phones, which look great but steadily drain the phone?s battery. The second group of energy hogs includes programs that use GPS tracking, for example map and navigation services, but also various events and restaurant guides that allow the user to search for services nearby. GPS tracking gorges on the phone?s battery particularly when it is constantly running in the background, which is the case for applications that keep tabs on the user?s physical activity. The risk is that if the settings on a GPS application h e l s i n g i n s a n o m at HELSINKI TIMES Some cell phones feel like they are not portable since they are on the charger all the time. In addition, the new feature will allow the user to tag up to ten people in a photo. It is not a revolutionary reform, but it signals Twitter?s intentions of developing the service to the direction that has worked well enough for Facebook to turn it into a multi-billion business. They are small homescreen applications that are updated constantly and provide services such as weather updates, calendar notations and . Retweet sends a tweet to all the followers of the sender. One essential difference between Twitter and Facebook is Twitter?s unfiltered stream of messages, with Twitter users seeing in real time anything tweeted by users they follow. H S N iina W oolley . It is a little like opening all the windows while cleaning the house and then leaving them wide open for the rest of the day. The third group comprises Internet radios and phones and video streaming services, which constantly upload information from the web. Messaging services, such as WhatsApp and Kik also belong to this group of energy hogs. Media and messaging services drain the phone?s battery because needing to update information regularly they are constantly connected to the network, using up as much power as making a call does. Game and drain Another category of mobile applications that use plenty of battery power are games. Much more complicated than the early versions of Tetris, mobile games use 3D graphics and contain complex functions that test the limits of the phone?s capacity. the phone is plugged in a lot of the time anyway. How can you then improve the battery life of your mobile phone? One way is to install Carat, a free mobile app, which measures how much power different applications use. Carat gives the user personalised recommendations, helping to make batteries last up to dozens of per cent longer. The program was developed as a joint project by researchers from California?s UC Berkeley and the University of Helsinki. As an investor, I would follow the money. 10 . In contrast, Facebook has for some time used an algorithm to select the content that a Facebook user sees, calculating that users who are shown content they are really interested in are more likely to come back to the service. You can bet your bottom dollar that Twitter bosses are pondering this question too. Would Twitter users come back to the service more frequently if they were shown older tweets on topics they are especially interested in instead of the latest content? This may be the case, but somehow Twitter taking the route of Facebook seems like a loss. H T Smartphone batteries can lose juice at rates that make the owner grit their teeth. expectations of windfall profits that they became accustomed to with Google and Facebook. Signs of Twitter turning into another Facebook have trickled in recently: earlier in March it was reported that Twitter is considering getting rid of the @-reply used as a way of mentioning other users in messages along with hashtags denoting topics. 16 APRIL 2014 11 What is draining my phone battery. H T is introducing a growing number of features familiar from Facebook into its service. The latest of these features was announced at the end of March when the company revealed its plan to make it possible to add up to four pictures to tweets
or ?credit?, in English. ?Don?t lose your protection, it will expire in 7 days,? your computer informs you. ?Hi, how can I help you?? an English-speaking voice on the other end of the line replies when you ring a restaurant in Helsinki to reserve a table. ?Nutritive solutions ? nourishing oil care. In countries like Spain and France, people speak with strong accents and limited vocabulary without feeling overly self-conscious. Anna Mauranen, professor of English philology and vicerector at Helsinki University, explains that the feelings of shame related to English language skills may have something to do with the focus of language teaching, which has shifted with time. ?According to studies carried out in the 1940s, a student with talent for languages was an introvert because learning was measured by grammar and translation skills. says Anne PitkänenHuhta, senior lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä. ?Usually I have a stab at figuring out the meaning of a word,. When all research and communications are carried out in English, experts find it difficult to talk about their own field in plain Finnish that also laymen can understand. ?Without any English skills, it can be difficult to understand what policy-mak- ers are saying. I had to, if I wanted to keep on working?, Pesu explains. She signed up for an English course in an adult learning centre. but that was some decades ago and even then she found it difficult to get her head, and tongue, around the language. ?If you mispronounced words you were lucky not to get rapped over the knuckles with a ruler. After I got over my initial shock, I managed to compose a reply. Pesu recalls. Good with her hands, Raija Heikkinen makes decorations for her grandchild?s party. English everywhere These days, when you pay for your shopping with a card, the machine asks ?debit. And they sent a thank-you back so they had understood what I said,. says Pesu.. One pupil would read a passage aloud while the teacher commented on any mistakes, often arousing mirth in other pupils,. Back then, one in two Finns did not understand some of the most common words in the English language, including ?soft?, ?shop?, ?high. On an international level, Finns usually have good English skills but the threshold for speaking is also high. explains Raija Heikkinen (62), who lives in Leppävirta. Once when on a holiday abroad, she tried to order eggs, only to have ice cream served to her. Back in the day, teaching methods may have focused on pointing out mistakes. This can serve to push people to margins. It is thoughtless not to take into consideration that not everyone understands English,. I have to google the names at home to see if they can cause an allergic reaction,. 12 PEOPLE 10 . Then I?m stumped. The teacher didn?t make any allowances for me not getting the hang of the language straightaway. Believing that you?re the only one who doesn?t speak the language is what makes it so embarrassing,. Heikkinen explains. Even though most people study English these days, it does not mean that every Finn speaks the language. According to a survey published by the University of Jyväskylä and Statistics Finland in 2009, 10-15 per cent of Finns said they did not have any English skills. Among the 15-24-yearolds, only less than one per cent of respondents reported not speaking English whereas for the 65-79-year-olds the figure jumped to 39 per cent while 16 per cent of the 45-64-year-olds lacked English skills. The popularity of the basiclevel English courses organised by adult learning centres attest to the picture painted by the statistics. That?s when I made up my mind to learn the language, whatever it took. A good atmosphere among students has provided encouragement. ?I can?t speak English ? and it?s a sore point for me? H ei d i Vä ä r ä m ä ki . everyday lives with the increasing availability of the Internet, which brought foreign papers, music and films within easy reach. Nokia, Nordea and many other corporate giants selected English as their working language. Suddenly a supermarket check-out and a plumber could come face-to-face with a customer speaking English. Pirkko Nuolijärvi says that English loan words are a natural part of the evolution of the Finnish language and do not give cause for concern as long as everyone understands their meaning. reads the text on a hair product bottle. When did it become the norm to expect everyone in Finland to speak English? In 1992, Ilkka Malmberg, a journalist for Helsingin Sanomat, wrote an article on what statistics revealed about an average Finn. Then in the 1980s, the approach underwent a sea change, with people starting to think that a good learner is an extrovert who can use the language in conversation.? This change has also affected the criteria for learning goals, according to Mauranen. ?The idea used to be that the discussion partner is a native English speaker and this was used as the yardstick for the learner?s skills. Today, English is a global language and we often talk to people who also speak English as a foreign language. What matters is being able to speak with all kinds of people, not speaking perfectly.? The basic-level English course at the Espoo Adult Education Centre has also taught Raija Pesu this, as became evident a little while ago when she received another work email in English, this time from Austria. ?My agents were on a trip and the email needed answering quickly. H T ten per cent of Finns do not speak any English. explains Pesu. She studied English at school for a couple of years, English more common Not only was the Helsinki incident repeated several times over the years, but Pesu also noticed that English cropped up daily at home or in a shop. ?I?ve got some medicine from the chemist?s that didn?t have information on the side effects or any instructions in Finnish. I started dreading everything to do with English,. She did not know any English. Pesu pointed her finger towards the hotel and the couple disappeared in that direction, but the feeling of embarrassment stayed with her. ?For years now, young people in Finland have spoken good English. Everything was in Estonian and English.? One day a couple of years ago, a work email pinged into Pesu?s inbox that she could not make head or tail of because it was in English. P e n tt i Vä n s k ä Around Pesu, who runs an interior design business in Espoo, used to receive information on the Italian fabric provider?s collections and schedules via a Finnish agent but now the company had started communicating with their clients directly. ?I suppose they assumed that anyone doing business could speak English. Raija Heikkinen has sometimes pretended to follow an English conversation because she has been too embarrassed to admit she does not understand the language. Raija Pesu (60) was on her way to a work meeting in Helsinki city centre when she was approached by Englishspeaking tourists, who asked her for directions to a hotel, with a map in hand. Pesu felt a flush creeping up her cheeks. says Tuominen. ?Once bitten, twice shy. After a bad experience, people may feel too intimidated to use the language again. Some students grew to think they have no talent for languages because it took them a bit longer to learn it.? But then something has happened to make them give learning English one more go: they have started needing the language at work, their child has moved abroad or they want to be able to have a chat with the locals when on a holiday. ?Most people feel extremely shy to start with. The number of participants remains high year after year, says Heini Tuominen, who teaches these courses at the Espoo Adult Education Centre. ?Many of the students have never studied English, but then there are those who have bad memories of language teaching. 16 APRIL 2014 HELSINKI TIMES L i i s a Ta k a l a Raija Pesu has realised on her English course that speaking English perfectly is not important. What is more alarming is the exclusive use of English in some spheres of life. There is a high risk of this happening in the worlds of business and science. and ?rokki?. ?It is partly because of loan words, that so many Finns understand at least some English, sometimes without even realising it,? explains Pirkko Nuolijärvi, the director of the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The change started taking place between 1972 and 1977 when the new comprehensive school replaced the older education system and it became compulsory to study at least one foreign language in addition to Swedish. But it was only in the early noughties that English invaded Finns. H S N iina W oolle y . Grammar was emphasised and speaking only played a minor part. Sorting out the misunderstanding with the waiter proved a rather comical process. Heikkinen has some English lessons under her belt, both from school and later as part of her studies in social work but she could never muster much enthusiasm for cramming the language. ?I?m a chatty person and when we?re on a holiday I?d like to talk to people but I don?t have the language skills. It?s frustrating sometimes,? comments Heikkinen. Her husband and children act as interpreters while she stands next to them, nodding along. ?There have been many occasions when I?ve been too embarrassed to admit I don?t understand English so I?ve ended up pretending,. and ?strong?. Today, at least two thirds of Finns can speak English and an even larger number understands basic words, thanks to loan words, such as ?shoppailla?, ?hengailla?, ?drinkki?, ?menu?, ?printata?, ?bisnes. You need the right psychological approach to draw them out and to kick-start the learning process,. she admits, laughing. ?It?s a sore point for me. I felt so embarrassed when my daughter?s foreign friend dropped by and wanted to have a chat and I couldn?t reply.? Bewildering language But most often English is a source of bewilderment when dealing with everyday things, such as shopping for cosmetics, packaging for which may have names and contents only in English. ?I?m allergic to many of the compounds, but often all texts on the products are only in English. explains Tuominen. Language comparison Why are poor English skills such a source of embarrassment then? Some of it is down to comparison, according to experts. Teaching style was very authoritarian and everything had to be done just so
A new study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland shows that men who consume alcohol more often than twice a week triple their risk of suffering a lethal stroke compared with men who are teetotal. Even if the amounts of alcohol consumed at one time were small, the risk of stroke mortality still increased, indicating that the effects of alcohol are dependent not only on the amounts consumed but also on the frequency of drinking. The results were published in the journal Acta Neurologica Scandinavica on 8 March. Alcohol consumption is associated with a wide range of conditions affecting the brain. The link between alcohol consumption and ischemic stroke, in which blood supply to part of the brain decreases, can be depicted with a Jshaped curve, meaning that the risk of stroke is smallest among men whose alcohol consumption is moderate but the risk increases rapidly as the consumption grows. The risk of brain haemorrhage, however, shows a clear linear correlation with the amount of alcohol consumed so that an extra bottle of beer increases the risk as much regardless of the base level consumption. According to the press release by the university, other significant risk factors for stroke include elevated blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, smoking, obesity, asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis, and elevated cholesterol levels. A total of 2,609 men participated in the study that lasted 20 years. The display includes paintings by Ivan Kramskoj and Carl Wenig, items from the Imperial porcelain factory and other objects from the collection of the State Russian Museum, some of which are being displayed in Finland for the first time. ?In addition to all this, the museum offers several interactive sections where visitors can test their sea rescue skills with a simulator, try dresses and accessories from the 1920s and 1950s, and participate virtually in the 1790 battle of Svensksund through a game console,. H S N iina W oolley . It passes by in an attempt to steady the puffing. The harsh method of exercise is made easier by the fact that each movement has an easier version that does not include a jump, for example. Their alcohol consumption was recorded using a Nordic alcohol survey charting the amount of alcohol consumed at one time and the average number of times alcohol had been consumed in the preceding 12 months. Information on stroke cases was obtained from hospital discharge registers, the Finnish Stroke Register and the National Cause of Death Register maintained by Statistics Finland. The effects of alcohol are dependent not only on the amounts consumed but also on the frequency of drinking. The jackknife, where legs and arms are lifted in the air, is one of the Hot fix power movements. Tropical power training that is over in a minute The Hot fix power class reminiscent of crossfit training includes a workout of only 16 minutes, yet even this is almost too much. RIIKK A HAIK AR AINEN . One then stands with hands lifted above the head and finally returning to a laying down position. The jackknife, which affects the abdominals, denotes a lifting of the legs and upper body simultaneously from a back first laying down position. Finally the pulse becomes frantic during jumps, during which the knees are squeezed against the chest. Each movement is repeated for 20 seconds as many ander III lived at the court in St. ?It offers various viewpoints and reflects on the identity of Kotka as a harbour town. Puukka concludes. Visitors can even learn more about mysterious clay idols, plootu copper coins, the Hietanen sawmill complex and the glorious history of the sports club Hallan Visa. The main exhibition of the Museum of Kymenlaakso also includes the Coast Guard Museum. International influences through sailors from all over the world, sawmills bringing prosperity and the livelihood of a growing population, but also tales of moving borders, wars and battles. The space, which celebrates the 95th anniversary of the Finnish Border Guard this year, houses the largest display of the Mar- itime Centre Vellamo. Movements are easy to learn, remember and repeat in accordance with the instructor. The step squat is performed by lifting the leg up in between. Petersburg and during his 31 trips to Finland. ?Children can play with toys and listen to stories and nursery rhymes, while adults can relax and find out more about the past and present of Kotka and the region Kymenlaakso.? times as possible. A similar and cheaper exercise is available at a swimming hall. The gym of Mäkelänrinne swimming hall is above the swimming pools with a view towards them. HS A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . Beaver and Sääski . and a guard motor boat VMV 11, as well as a duty room preserved in its original state, uniforms from different decades and a hydrocopter are all showcased here. ?The temporary display Alexander III and Finland ? Imperial Summer Holidays is available until 18 May,? Puukka continues. Two aircraft . Emmi Avela says. The daily dose of exercise is over at a quarter past seven. ?But that?s only one part of the story, as Flow also presents the counterbalance of all that: the joy of living, leisure and travelling.? All these subjects are approached from a number of different angles, giving museumgoers an interesting overview of the lifestyle of the inhabitants of Kymenlaakso. ?If you do not cross your tolerance limit you will not improve,. ?It tells about the life and leisure of Alexander III, who ruled Russia and served as the Grand Duke of Finland from 1881 to 1894, and his imperial family through paintings, watercolours and period items.? With a unique collection, history enthusiasts visiting the Museum of Kymenlaakso have the opportunity to learn more about the life that Alex- training. These are necessary as early as midway through the series. The instructor?s stopwatch shows that the training only takes 16 minutes. This is more than enough. Friends of hard workouts cannot appeal to the short duration of the workout. On Tuesday morning the class starts at 6.45 at the swimming hall. ?In the winter quite a few zombies wandered in here. Now with lighter mornings participants clearly put more effort into the sessions,. A person who works in the Helsinki city centre may even make it to the eight o? clock meeting. S A R I S A U K KO N E N A nni L assila . says Marja Puukka, Information Officer at the Maritime Centre Vellamo. This is why conditions at the gym are tropical: the temperature is 30 degrees and humidity 50 per cent. The burpee movement involves a squat from lying on the stomach. 6-8 free on Wednesdays after 18:00 and for people under 18 years. Or even office hours. H T 13 At the Museum of Kymenlaakso visitors can learn more about the region through dresses, simulators, games and audio. Museum of Kymenlaakso Maritime Centre Vellamo Tornatorintie 99, Kotka www.merikeskusvellamo.fi +358 (0)40 350 0497 Tickets . H T There are more incomers than there is space available. This appears to be the case at most crossfit gyms in the metropolitan area. Known as an extremely hard workout, crossfit denotes a form of exercise that trains strength, durability, stealth and mobility. It seeks the perfect athlete that develops all sections of their fitness evenly. And without boredom, this is how quickly the exercise program switches. Most crossfit gyms may be entered by completing a basic course that introduces movements and techniques. In Helsinki the next available introductory courses take place in May. explains Puukka. coordination and power training. If one easily becomes nauseous in heat and heavy The past and present history of Kymenlaakso Everyday work, the Finnish Border Guard and Alexander III. YA N N I C K I L U N G A HEL SINK I TIMES THE MUSEUM OF KYMENLAAKSO is dedicated to the recording, studying and preservation of the material and cultural heritage of Kotka and the region of Kymenlaakso. Located in the versatile Maritime Centre Vellamo, it welcomes visitors for a unique experience filled with intriguing exhibitions, collections and fun activities for children and grownups alike. ?The venue presents the past and present history of Kotka and the Kymenlaak- so region,. all these things are discussed at the museum.? Flow, coast guard and Alexander III The permanent exhibition Flow focuses on the efficiency and relationship between an individual and the community. ?Everyday work, scraping a livelihood by fishing on the frozen sea or by working in a factory are all featured topics,. LIFESTYLE HELSINKI TIMES 10 . the instructor of the class Emmi Avela says. The taste of metal in one?s mouth is produced by four movements. At the beginning of the study, the men were middle-aged. 16 APRIL 2014 L I I S A TA K A L A Drinking alcohol more often than twice a week increases stroke risk L ehtik u va / S a r i Gu sta f ss o n Drinking alcohol more than twice a week increases the risk of stroke leading to death in men. Then a ten second break is taken, until the ordeal begins again, eight times altogether. A minute?s break comes between different movements. This is what the name of the class Hot fix power refers to. Much like crossfit the theme of the class varies. This time the pulse is raised, at other times durability is practiced, i.e
Russo wrote on 2 April. In fact, Yeo was not even particularly vague in his comments to the daily. ?We?re losing a very talented player, an offensive guy that we count on,. Hyypiä was handed the sole managerial control at the beginning of the ongoing season. The long and difficult season eventually proved too much. for his recovery, but Granlund may be forced to sit out all the remaining games in the regular season. Michael Russo, a sports journalist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, estimates that Granlund will stay out of the line-up for some time. ?Mike Yeo was vague, but with six games left in the regular season, it certainly sounded Wednesday as if the Wild coach isn?t expecting center Mikael Granlund back soon,. At midday, Bayer Leverkusen issued a statement confirming the rumours that the club has relieved the Finn of his managerial duties. After yet another damaging loss in the German Bundesliga a day earlier, the announcement was expected. Rudi Völler, the director of sport at Bayer Leverkusen, said that the club simply had to take action. Recent results have not been good. H S A leksi T eivainen . Völler explained in the statement. Hyypiä will be replaced by Sascha Lewandowski, with whom he shared the managerial duties last season. Bayer Leverkusen have been woeful in the second half of the season, particularly in comparison to their dazzling autumn form. [?] The dramatic developments over the past few weeks leaves [sic] us no other choice but to part company.? ?We want and have to do all we can to save our season,. I have nothing to be ashamed of. 16 APRIL 2014 SPORT HELSINKI TIMES L e ht i k u va / A F P ph o t o / Ol i v e r H a r d t Granlund sidelined with suspected head injury T ero H akola . H S A leksi T eivainen . H T Mike Yeo, the head coach of Minnesota Wild, has expressed his concerns about the health of centre-forward Mikael Granlund, after the 22-year-old Finn appeared to suffer yet another head injury in a recent game against the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL. On 2 April, Granlund smacked his head into the shoulder of the Kings. The injury is particularly disconcerting in light of the several concussions the Finnish prodigy has suffered during his short career. The medical team have yet to offer a time estimate Leverkusen?s Finnish head coach Sami Hyypiä looks on prior to the German first division Bundesliga football match Hamburger SV vs Bayer Leverkusen in the northern German city of Hamburg on 4 April. A ri V irtanen . ?This was a really difficult decision for us as Sami has done a great job in the past two years.? ?What he and his fellow coaches achieved with the team in the first half of the season far exceeded expectations and earned great praise from all sides. Three blows to the head sustained earlier this season have kept him out of the line-up for several games. he commented to the Star Tribune. Granlund has only made 63 appearances for the Wild this season but is nonetheless among the top pointsscorers of his team with 8 goals and 33 assists. ?We?re going to lean on our other lines a little bit more, lean on our power play a little bit more,. 14 10 . H T SAMI HYYPIÄ surely knew what to expect when he walked to his workplace at the BayArena in the rain on Saturday morning. After the winter break, the team have recorded seven losses, two draws and three wins in the Bundesliga, and have been eliminated from both the UEFA Champions League (UCL) after a 6-1 aggregate thumping against PSG and the German Cup in the quarter-final stage. The team went into the winter break second in the Bundesliga. In addition, he was in the sidelines for several months after hitting his head when playing for the Helsinki IFK during the 2010-2011 SMLiiga season. Mikael Granlund of the Minnesota Wild reacts after a hit from Jarret Stoll of the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center in Los Angeles. L E H T IKUVA / A F P P H O T O / J u ss i N u k a r i Pitkämäki starts rehabilitation after going under the knife Tero Pitkämäki during men?s javelin at the IAAF athletics World Championships in Moscow in August last year. H e ls i n g i n S a n o m at H e ls i n k i T i m e s thrower Tero Pitkämäki has begun his rehabilitation after undergoing a successful endoscopic elbow surgery, performed by orthopaedist Harri Panula in Seinäjoki on 1 April. In the operation, Panula removed one large and two smaller pieces of cartilage tissue from the elbow of the one-time Olympic medallist. Without the operation, Panula estimates, Pitkämäki would have struggled in the forthcoming track and field season, as the large piece of cartilage was preventing the proper extension of the elbow. Pitkämäki began his rehabilitation already on 2 Javelin April with a number of light exercises and is expected to return to his regular training schedule relatively soon. He will not, however, be able to perform any throwing exercises until later this month. Regardless, Pitkämäki is scheduled to travel to Portugal for a training camp in late April and to participate in the IAAF Diamond League event in Shanghai, China, on 18 May. Panula viewed already on the basis of the pre-operative X-ray and MRI scans that the elbow of Pitkämäki is ?in astonishingly good condition. for an athlete with such a long and trying career behind him. In Finland, Pitkämäki is scheduled to open his season in Lappeenranta on 4 June.. I am naturally disappointed, but I am not bitter. Life goes on,. Jarret Stoll when attempting an open-ice hit. Although the medical team at Minnesota Wild have yet to confirm the nature of the injury, Granlund is believed to be suffering from a concussion. the Finn insisted. After replacing Robin Dutt in the hot seat in April 2012, Hyypiä and Lewandowski led Bayer Leverkusen first to fifth in the 2011-2012 Bundesliga season and then to third. he reminded. In his 69 games in charge at Bayer Leverkusen, Hyypiä led the team to 38 wins, 13 draws and 18 losses. ?I leave with my head held high. Hyypiä commented on his sacking on the web-page of the Football Association of Finland. The former Liverpool stalwart also emphasised that he understands the decision of the club. L E H T IKUVA / a fp ph o t o / H a r r y H o w Hyypiä and Bayer Leverkusen part ways ?The autumn went better than expected, the spring did not. I have been involved in professional football long enough to understand the thinking of the club management under such difficult circumstances. I myself assumed managerial duties under similar circumstances,. Yeo estimated. The young Finn already has a long history of head injuries. By Friday evening, they had dropped to fifth, with the coveted UCL spots slipping out of their reach. ?This is a part of football. I have learnt a lot and I am now stronger and more experienced,. I knew from the beginning that a day like this could come
HELSINKI TIMES HELSINKI TIMES Family . HT feel that you are on your phone or computer all the time. 45 per cent of the respondents lived in Southern Finland, 36 per cent in Western Finland, 11 per cent in Eastern Finland, 6 per cent in Oulu and 2 per cent in Lapland. The quotas have been divided according to the former province borders. The results of the survey were gathered from the children?s answers to the question: ?What is the most annoying factor in your every day life?? not spend all the money on sweets. 3. If the mother has been bullied for not having the right clothes, she may pay extra attention to her child?s clothes,. They might have some good ideas. 5. The sixth-graders from Kaisaniemi Primary School gave some advice to parents. 1. Kalavainen speculates. Heli Huttunen from Rovaniemi, who founded a Facebook group for trading used Polarn O. HT It was reported recently that 2. Cook good food Make some time for cooking, children don?t want to eat frozen food every day. H S M ARI S TORPELLINEN . 16 APRIL 2014 H S / Ri o G a n da r a Parents spend too much time on their phones J OO N A S L A I T I N E N . Are you busy and work long hours. says Tytti Kalavainen, a stay-at-home mum from Jyväskylä. She is a moderator on one of the most popular online sales sites for children?s clothes on Facebook, Muksujen Merkkituotekirppari, selling second-hand items by top clothing brands. A market for used clothes At a flea market in Kumpula in Helsinki, the clothing rails are chock-a-block with colourful outdoor suits and jackets, with prices on the labels ranging from a couple euros to 50 euros or even more. Marika Uitto is looking for a jacket and trousers for her six-year-old daughter. ?I?m prepared to pay around 60 euros for a goodquality set. H T The children?s outdoor suit has been through a couple of tiny tots, with marks of wear and tear on the knees and a little hole on one of the sleeves. Some of the groups focus on a particular manufacturer, while others may operate in certain towns or neighbourhoods. ? Second-hand children?s clothes are also available on Tori.fi and Huuto.net.. And of course some makes are more of a status symbol than others.? Hanne Isoaho goes along with this conclusion, saying that parents are conscious of the image their children?s clothing gives of them. This bothered three out of ten children participating in the survey. The results are based on a survey made by Taloustutkimus (Market Research) for the amusement park PowerPark located in South Ostrobothnia. 516 children participated in the survey. H S M ARI S TORPELLINEN . A quarter of them think that parents spend too much time at work. Take it easy Relax, you don?t always need to be so worried about everything. The advice were given by sixth-graders Lili Saarikivi, Tatu Tikka, Erik Huuskonen, Paavo Nurmi and Luukas Kotilainen from Kaisaniemi Primary School. 15 15 Marika Uitto looked for spring clothes for her six-year-old daughter in Kumpula. That?s why we buy all outdoor clothes from a shop even though we use flea markets a lot otherwise.? According to Tytti Kalavainen, one interesting aspect of the brand name craze is that all kinds of mothers get caught up in it, whether they are interested in highend fashion for themselves or not. ?Sometimes it can stem for the parent?s own childhood. She thinks that prices asked for used outerwear have crept up to unreasonable levels. ?You don?t get value for money any more. Listen to your child Pay attention to what your child wants to tell you. Encourage your child Spur your child on with their homework and hobbies. 6. Are you a parent to a 7-14 years old child? If you answered yes to all these questions, slow down L E H T I K U VA / a n tu ai m o - ko ivist o Do you for a minute: you are doing exactly those things that bother Finnish children. According to a new research, over half of 7-14 years old Finnish children would like to spend more time with their parents. Sellers were asking 15 euros for them, which is too much for trousers with a hole.? Uitto admits that the popularity of some makes is not all to do with their superior technical properties. ?There?s a little bit of mass hysteria involved. Make for example tortillas. Children value home made food and time spent with their parents. child also thinks that parents work too much at home. More than every fifth child is annoyed by their parents constantly being on the phone or on the computer. The same amount of children also views their parents being too busy. Generally, the children are nevertheless most annoyed by not having enough to do after school. She usually goes for a couple of brand names she has had good experiences with. Parents happy to pay good money for second ? hand children?s clothing J o hanna S j ö h o lm . 16 APRIL 2014 1010 . How much would you pay for it? Second-hand shops and flea markets are now swarming with parents rifling through clothing rails in search of water- and windproof outerwear for their offspring. At their cheapest, outdoor clothes may be available for free, but many parents are still prepared to fork out almost as much for a secondhand set as for a new one if the brand name and model are right. Currently, fashion savvy parents favour children?s clothing ranges by the Swedish manufacturers Polarn O. Pyret and Mini Rodin and the Danish Ticket to Heaven and Molo Kids. On popular online sales sites, the top of the range outdoor suits in good condition fetch anything from 50 euros upwards and a 100-euro sale price is not unheard of. ?The highest price I?ve come across was 189 euros, and the knees of the suit were worn! You could have bought a brand new suit for less,. There were an equal amount of respondents from each age group among the 7-14 years olds. Trust your child If you trust your child, it will motivate them to try their best. More than every tenth Children think that parents should spend less time on their phones and more with them. School kids? orders for parents: make good food A N N A K A I S A M Ä N T TÄ R I . I was just looking at trousers with a patched knee. Pyret clothes a couple of years ago, stresses that buying clothing by popular manufacturers is also practical. ?As children grow out of their outdoor suits quickly, you can get back a large chunk of the purchase price. An 80-euro suit can fetch almost the same price when sold on.? Second-hand spring fashion finds ? In the capital region there are several popular flea markets and second-hand shops selling children?s clothes: Vekarakirppis in Kumpula, Minipoppoo in Kannelmäki, Kirpputori Jane in Kaivoksela, Villa Lyhty in Rekola and Nella & Nuttu in Olari. ? Facebook also has several groups dedicated to children?s clothes, the most popular of which have tens of thousands of members. H S N iina W o o lle y . Spend time with your child Make sure you actually spend a lot of time with your child. That way they know that they are cared for. 4. For example, if you have given your child some money in order for them to bring a milk carton from the grocery store, they want to prove themselves and will L E H T I K U VA / j ussi n uka r i children think their parents spend too much time with their phones, work too long hours, and are overall too busy. A survey made by Taloustutkimus (Market Research) for amusement park PowerPark revealed that more than every fifth child thinks their parents are on the phone or on the computer all the time. We asked children what parents should be like
There is always too much food at hand that is spoiled at room temperature. (09) 611 217 Mon-Tue 10.30-23.00 Wed-Sat 10.30-24.00 Sun 12.00-23.00 Forum Mannerheimintie 20 tel. still delivers plenty of flavour.. Peel the ginger and garlic; coarsely chop (together is okay). ? Transfer one-third of the sauteed onion to a mini food processor; add the ginger, garlic and the 2 tablespoons of water; puree to a paste. H S A nnika R a u tako u ra . What shocked the 13-year-old was next shocked by her classmates. Discard the cinnamon stick. Divide among individual bowls; garnish with the cilantro, almonds and a dollop of the remaining yogurt. Once the oil is shimmering, add the onions and stir to coat. Shopping carts have become larger for the same reason. H T Helsinki-based restaurants Ask and Chef & Sommalier were recently awarded one Michelin star each, as the Nordic selection of the Michelin guide was published in Stockholm recently. The keepers of Ask, located in Kruunuhaka are Linda Stenman-Langhoff and Filip Langhoff. This version is lighter and quicker than a standard korma, yet it delivers plenty of flavour. Serve with basmati rice. Adapted from Make It Lighter: Healthier Versions of Your Favorite Recipes, by Angela Nilsen (Hamlyn, 2014). Makes 4 servings Ingredients ? 2 medium onions ? 2 tablespoons vegetable oil ? 5 cardamom pods ? 700 grams boneless, skinless chicken breasts ? 2.5 cm piece ginger root ? 3 cloves garlic ? 2 tablespoons plus 2/3 cup water ? One 6 cm cinnamon stick ? 2 teaspoons ground coriander ? 1 1/2 teaspoons garam masala ? 1/4 teaspoon ground mace ? 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper ? 2/3 cup plain low-fat yogurt, at room temperature ? 1/2 cup low-fat milk (2 percent) ? 1 or 2 small green chilies ? 3 tablespoons sliced almonds, for garnish ? Handful cilantro tender stems and leaves, for garnish Steps ? Coarsely chop the onions. ? Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a deep saute pan over medium-high heat. Once the liquid starts to bubble, reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the remaining 1/4 teaspoon garam masala. ? While the korma cooks, discard the seeds from the chilies, then mince the chilies and add (to taste) to the chicken korma. ? Toast the almonds in a small, dry skillet over medium-low heat until fragrant and lightly browned. ? Coarsely chop the cilantro and some tender stems. ? Remove the korma from the heat. This would have been out of the question in Juul?s family. Tommi Tuominen?s Demo maintained its one star, along with Pekka Terävä?s Olo, Samuli Wirgentius?s Postreus and Jouni Toivanen?s Luomo. Create a new morning routine: snatch a photo of the contents of your refrigerator with your smart phone. Discard the pods. ? Trim off and discard any visible fat from the chicken, then cut the meat into bite-size pieces. H T Five tips to reduce food spoilage. When Selina Juul moved from Russia to Denmark 20 years ago with her family, the selection at grocery stores made her gasp. Serve warm. Nutrition Per serving: 330 calories, 43 g protein, 13 g carbohydrates, 10 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 105 mg cholesterol, 160 mg sodium, 1 g dietary fiber, 6 g sugar D e b L i n ds e y Eteläesplanadi 24 tel. Copenhagen contains 13 one star restaurants and two restaurants with two stars. Stockholm has seven one star restaurants and two restaurants with two stars. Göteborg also contains four one star restaurants. Helsinki is almost even with Oslo, the former containing six one star restaurants, while the latter has four one star restaurants and one with two stars. Bake bread rolls out of porridge. Children with families often have leftover porridge. These can easily be put in dough. Choose smaller serving dishes. We want the table to appear bountiful at a party. which can clock in at 600 calories . Cook for about 12 minutes, stirring often, until the onions are golden. No two Michelin star restaurants are located in Finland this year, as the only two star restaurant, Hans Välimäki?s Chez Dominique closed its doors. The Bib Gourmand category of excellent qualityprice ratio includes two new restaurants this year, Emo and Boulevard Social. On the other hand two restaurants, Groteski and Solna lost the recognition. Farang, Gaijin and Pure Bistro maintained their marks from last year. f i A lighter version of Chicken Korma . Benwick / The Washington Post A serving of chicken korma can clock in at more than 600 calories and 34 grams of fat. At the store you can easily check what you need to buy. Carry your shopping basket. Moveable baskets are increasingly common, and customers put more food in them. (This can be done with a mortar and pestle, but it will take longer.) ? Add the remaining tablespoon of oil to the remaining onions in the saute pan; return to medium-high heat. ?09 694 0750 Mon-Fri 11-23, Sat 12-23, Sun 12-22 www.tandoor.fi Dinner in 40 minutes: chicken korma Bonnie S. Turn off the heat. ? Meanwhile, remove the seeds from the cardamom pods and lightly crush them. Add the cardamom seeds and cinnamon stick, then the chicken. 16 EAT & DRINK 10 . Finland has now six one-star Michelin restaurants. (09) 694 4207 2nd floor Mon-Fri 10.30-21.00 Sat 10.30-20.00 Sun 11.00-18.00 BEST STEAKS IN TOWN H E L S I N K I ? L A H T I Welcome! ? T A M P E R E w w w . Alogether five restaurants hold the recognition. The editor-in-chief of the guide that covers the European capitals Rebecca Burr thanks Helsinki for its excellent selection of restaurants despite its small size. ?Bib gourmand restaurants in Helsinki deserve a ?I was from a communist country. behaviour. Stir-fry for 2 minutes, then add the coriander, 1 1/4 teaspoons of the garam masala, the mace and black pepper; stir-fry for 2 minutes. ? Stir in all but 3 tablespoons of the yogurt, then the reserved onion-garlic paste. ? Stir-fry for 2 minutes, then add the 2/3 cup water and the milk. Leftovers from uneaten snacks were coldly cast in the bin. Baskets that can be carried and small carts should be used for moderation. special mention. Small serving dishes give an abundant appearance with smaller amounts of food. Salomonkatu 19, Helsinki Tel. We were careful not to waste any food.? Juul is currently in charge of the much-publicised Stop Spild af Mad movement, which aims to spread information on food spoilage, a plague in the Western countries in particular. Recently Juul gave a lecture in Helsinki during Nordic Day and gave Helsingin Sanomat the best tips on how to reduce wasting food. Anticipate holidays. During Easter and Christmas food is bound to be left over. Make space in the refrigerator in advance and eat the food that would otherwise be left in the back of the fridge. Photograph your refrigerator. Do you easily forget your shopping list at home. Chef & Sommalier at Ullanlinna includes chef Sasu Laukkonen and sommelier Johan Borgar. Photograph your refrigerator ESSI LEHTO . You have a wonderful range of different restaurants for different needs.? Burr believes that Helsinki is distinct on the Nordic level due to its pure raw materials and clear selection. ?Helsinki is a pioneer when it comes to seasonal food and acquiring raw materials.? Enthusiasm for raw materials may be extreme in some cases: it is always a case of exceptionally tasty food, not just a chef?s skills, Burr says. It was also reported in Stockholm that a separate Nordic Michelin guide will be published next year. Michelin?s International Director Michael Ellis praised the Nordic ascent into the culinary world map: Nordic restaurants are actively followed around the world. ?What young chefs are currently doing in the Nordic countries is completely astounding.? Copenhagen remains the Nordic capital with the most Michelin stars. HS A N N I K A R A U TA KOU R A . My family could afford food, but it was not always available at stores. 16 APRIL 2014 HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / A n tti A i m o - Ko ivist o Helsinki?s Chef & Sommalier was recently awarded with a Michelin star. Finland to have two new Michelin restaurants E lina K er v inen . m a n h a t t a n s t e a k h o u s e
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The album, with sweet indie hits such as Summertime and Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward, received warm welcomes and Wilson launched a solo tour. IC-98 (Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää), Riitta Ikonen, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Leena Nio and Pauliina Turakka Purhonen. Kiasma Mannerheiminaukio 2 Tue 10:00-17:00 Wed-Fri 10:00-20:30 Sat 10:00-18:00 Sun 10:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/8/10 www.kiasma.fi Until Sun 11 May Henrik Vibskov A pioneer of contemporary Danish fashion design and a boundless inventor. Design Museum Korkeavuorenkatu 23 Tue 11:00-20:00 Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00 Tickets ?0/5/8/10 www.designmuseum.fi Until Sun 11 May Designer of the Everyday ? Rudolf Steiner Nearly 400 objects, from artworks to furniture and scale models. EMMA . The play depicts the span of the human life, its dreams and its hopes, as well as its longing for home. With his version of Peer Gunt, Spoerli sought to get underneath the surface of the main character and channel the landscape of his soul. 16 APRIL 2014 HELSINKI TIMES Fri 11 & Sat 12 April Heinz Spoerli: Peer Gynt Ballet version of Henrik Ibsen´s classic play. Finnish National Opera Helsinginkatu 58 Tickets ?15-98 www.opera.fi Jenny Wilson Jenny Wilson, one of Sweden´s most well-known indie pop artists, will visit Helsinki on 10 April. Espoo Museum of Modern Art Ahertajantie 5 Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00 Wed 11:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/10/12 www.emma.museum Until Mon 26 May Jean Tinguely Modernist known for his noisy, spectacular, motorized machine sculptures. Amos Anderson Art Museum Yrjönkatu 27 Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00 Wed 10:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/2/8/10 www.amosanderson.fi Until Sun 13 July Chaplin in Pictures The incredible life and career of the mythic artist told through pictures. Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace Salomonkatu 15 Helsinki Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00 Tickets ?0/8/10 Until Sun 31 August Beda Stjernschantz One of the most foremost (and overlooked) Finnish symbolist artists. Amos Anderson Art Museum Yrjönkatu 27 Helsinki Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00 Wed 10:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/2/8/10 www.amosanderson.fi Until Sun 7 September Tove Jansson Major centenary exhibition presenting Jansson?s impressive career as an artist, illustrator, political caricaturist, author and creator of the Moomin characters and stories. Ateneum Art Museum Kaivokatu 2 Helsinki Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00 Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/10/12 www.ateneum.fi. On stage at Finnish National Opera from 11 April until 16 May, the story tells of a young man who travels the world only to return home decades later after having many real and imaginary adventures to his Solveig. This charismatic singer-songwriter has performed in Finland a few times before, at sold-out club gigs and twice at Flow festival as one of the festival highlights. Wilson started as a member of the Swedish pop group First Floor Power formed in 1997, but released her first solo album, Love & Youth in 2005. One of the most celebrated choreographers of our time, this follows a number of Spoerli?s works that have previously been presented by The Finnish National Ballet ACCLAIMED B allet Z ü rich MUSIC EXHIBITIONS Sat 12 April Club We Jazz Mopo, Olli Hirvonen Quartet. Kuudes Linja Hämeentie 13 Helsinki Tickets ?13.50 www.kuudeslinja.com Tue 15 April Saaga Ensemble Folk-oriented, unique compositions. Music Centre Black Box Mannerheimintie 13 Helsinki Tickets ?6.50-17.50 www.musiikkitalo.fi Wed 16 April Svart Night # 8 Kauko Röyhkä & The Boots. Bar Loose Annankatu 21 Helsinki Tickets ?14.50/15 www.barloose.com Wed 16 April Weeping Willows (SWE) Indie rock. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Helsinki Tickets ?27/28 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Wed 16 April Oireklubi Tero Hyväluoma Frost. Siltanen Hämeentie 13 B Helsinki www.siltanen.org Wed 16 April Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & CBSO Chorus John Storgårds, conductor & Mark Stone, baritone. Music Centre Concert Hall Mannerheimintie 13 Helsinki Tickets ?7.50-37.50 www.musiikkitalo.fi THEATRE & DANCE Spoerli?s Peer Gunt follows performances of his La Fille mal Gardée, La belle vie, and A Midsummer?s Night Dream at Finnish National Opera. including the ballets La Fille mal Gardée, La belle vie, and A Midsummer?s Night Dream. Peer Gynt 11 April . 18 WHERE TO GO 10 . The second solo album Hardships!, also accompanied with positive critics, was released in 2009. Last autumn, after having won a battle against breast cancer diagnosed in 2010, Wilson returned with her fourth album Demand The Impossible! The album, inspired by the graffiti painted by the student radicals in Paris in 1968, is a powerful homage to survival and to life itself. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Tickets ?20/21 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Thu 10 April Kasperi Sarikoski Nuance feat. Verneri Pohjola Jazz. Koko Jazz Club Hämeentie 3 Helsinki Tickets ?11.50/16.50 www.kokojazz.fi Thu 10 April Jenny Wilson (SWE) Indie pop. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Helsinki Tickets ?20/21 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Thu 10 April Hyvä Klubi The Wrecking Queens, Wedding Crashers, Retro Station. Le Bonk Yrjönkatu 24 Tickets ?6.50 www.lebonk.fi Thu 10 April Jarkko Martikainen Singer-songwriter. Bar Loose Annankatu 21 Helsinki Tickets ?13.50/14 www.barloose.com Jenny Wilson returns to Finland once again, on the strength of her latest release Demand The Impossible! Thu 10 April Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème One of the world?s most beloved operas. Finnish National Opera Helsinginkatu 58 Tickets ?24-115 www.opera.fi Fri 11 April Freedom Call (GER), Heavy Metal Perse Metal. Virgin Oil CO. Mannerheimintie 5 Helsinki Tickets ?24/25 www.virginoil.fi Fri 11 April Phønix (DNK) Danish folk music with exotic drumming and swinging melodies. Sello Hall Soittoniekanaukio 1A Helsinki Tickets ?8/11 www.sellosali.fi Fri 11 April Stompin´ @ Ghettobilly The Shockwave!, The Lo-Lites & The Firebugs. Juttutupa Säästöpankinranta 6 Helsinki Free entry www.juttutupa.com Fri 11 April Alvin Youngblood Hart (USA) & Fatboy (SWE) Blues and rockabilly. Savoy Theatre Kasarmikatu 46-48 Helsinki Tickets ?35 www.savoyteatteri.fi Fri 11 April Red Fang (USA), Demonic Death Judge Metal. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Helsinki Tickets ?22 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Helsinki Times can help you find international and motivated workforce In today?s labour market the most difficult task is attracting the best possible applicants for the vacancy on offer. www.helsinkitimes.fi Fri 11 April Jukka Ässä, Modernistit Pop. Bar Loose Annankatu 21 Helsinki Tickets ?7.50/8 www.barloose.com Fri 11 April Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor & Zandra McMaster, mezzosoprano. Music Centre Concert Hall Mannerheimintie 13 Helsinki Tickets ?7.50-27.50 www.musiikkitalo.fi Tap into untouched human potential To place recruitment adverts in Helsinki Times, please contact adv@helsinkitimes.fi or phone +358 9?689 7422 From Sat 12 April Heli Ryhänen: The Species of People The enormously sized surrealist works obscure the boundaries between good and evil, the familiar and the strange. Kunsthalle Helsinki Nervanderinkatu 3 Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00 Wed 11:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/7/10 www.taidehalli.fi Sat 12 April Mark Kozelek (USA) American singer-songwriter known from the bands Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon. Kuudes Linja Hämeentie 13 Helsinki Tickets ?20 www.kuudeslinja.com Sat 12 April Stompin. at The Savoy Eric Bibb & The North Country Far (USA/FIN), The Fried Okra Band (DNK), Jimmy Burns (USA) etc.. Savoy Theatre Kasarmikatu 46-48 Tickets ?15/35 www.savoyteatteri.fi Sat 12 April Cheek Award-winning Finnish hip hop. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Tickets ?26 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Sat 12 April Neljä Ruusua Rock. Virgin Oil CO. Mannerheimintie 5 Helsinki Tickets ?19 www.virginoil.fi Returning to the Opera S E A N R YA N HEL SINK I TIMES choreographer Heinz Spoerli has adapted the famous Norwegian play Peer Gynt into a modern ballet classic. 16 May Tickets ?17.50-?26.50 Finnish National Opera Helsinginkatu 58 Helsinki Thu 10-Wed 16 April Taneli Törmä: ZOOM, Mikko Hyvönen: Organic synthetic & Carl Knif: Red Contemporary dance triple-bill evening. Zodiak - Center for New Dance Tallberginkatu 1B Tickets ?14/22 www.zodiak.fi Fri 11 & Sat 12 April Joona Halonen: Kuka pelkää tappajahaita Contemporary dance. Helsinki City Theatre Studio Elsa Ensi linja 2 Helsinki Tickets ?18-24 www.hkt.fi Until Sun 20 April Ars Fennica 2014 Exhibition by the 2014 Ars Fennica candidates
Crisólogo observes. She applied for a grant from Kone Foundation, and received it. Onko tämä suomalaista kirjallisuutta. Murray Abraham, Jude Law and Saoirse Ronan, and others such as Willem Dafoe, who previously appeared in Anderson?s 2004 film, The Aquatic Life of Steve Zissou. She dreamed about finding work in her field, although the advisors did not mince their words in informing her that there simply was no work available in the cultural sector. Are the shoeshine boy with the prosthetic leg and the bakery girl with ?a port wine stain the shape of Mexico. Crisólogo, however, was determined to stick to her beloved field, and eventually she did find a window of opportunity. ?I was very lucky to get the chance to do my internship at Taiteen Edistämiskeskus (Arts Promotion Centre) . Crisólogo, however, chose to follow her own path. That was the beginning for project Sivuvalo . Monsieur Gustave H., concierge at the Budapest, is a smooth, sinuously manipulative epitome of his craft, especially when it comes to his elderly female guests . They make for a gifted gaggle of players, each blessed with a great face, and Anderson choreographs them with the assured hand of a pro. like all of Anderson?s films . She is the eldest of the family?s six daughters and was encouraged by her mother to get good educa- tion, preferably that of either a doctor or a lawyer. Comparisons have been made to the wartime comedies of Ernst Lubitsch, but Anderson hasn?t created a playfully stinging satire as much as its softer mirror image. He convincingly mimics the gestures of the genre . I write about cultural encounters and misunderstandings, racism and prejudice in big cities where people arrive in search of better opportunities.? Since the beginning of Sivuvalo in May last year, Crisólogo has arranged numerous poetry reading opportunities, among other activities. ?Some of the artists read poems in their own languages, some in Finnish, and there have never been any problems. The idea is to provide visibility for writers and poets with immigrant backgrounds, as well as to make them more included in the local writing scene.? Crisólogo writes poetry herself, and has published four books in Spanish. ?I draw inspiration from my mother?s experiences as a young woman when she had to leave her home town in order to find work. (According to an epigraph, The Grand Budapest Hotel was inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig, an Austrian author who fled the country when Hitler came to power and later took his own life.) Fiennes brings a magnificent sense of detail but also withholding to Gustave, who remains a cryptic figure ? sexually omni-oriented, civi- lised, refined, but also prone to vulgarities and casual cruelties (especially regarding women he regularly beds). In fact, The Grand Budapest Hotel is shot through with startling images of violence, from a character off-handedly discarding a dead pet in a trash can to the sight of someone?s recently disembodied fingers. There?s also a brief glimpse of carnality that feels as shockingly out of place in a Wes Anderson film as a stop-motion fox might be in something by Michael Bay. For all of his commitment to the finer things in life, Anderson is willing if not eager to indulge a fancy for the crude and grotesque, a juxtaposition that comes into even more curious play when he treats characters. ?Also, I could not imagine living in a Latin American society anymore after having experienced the wonderfully equal Finnish system. Draped in extravagant shades of amber, rose and amethyst, as lovingly crafted and iced as the airy delicacies that Gustave eagerly devours from pink boxes tied with blue ribbons, The Grand Budapest Hotel bears Anderson?s now-unmistakable signature of bespoke, unapologetic devotion to craftily ordered prettiness. The film also features cameos from Anderson?s informal rep company, including Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Owen Wilson and an almost unrecognisable Tilda Swinton, as well as newcomers to the club F. the voices of: Andy Garcia, Bruno Mars Laulu (S) Release Date: 11 April Director: Selma Vilhunen Starring: Jussi Huovinen, Hanneriina Moisseinen Since the beginning of Sivuvalo in May last year, Crisólogo has arranged numerous poetry reading opportunities, among other activities. Cultural activist Roxana Crisólogo is bringing together writers and poets in Finland with immigrant backgrounds. M ARI S TORPELLINEN HEL SINK I TIMES From Peru to Finland, Roxana Crisólogo leaves her mark in the cultural circles in different corners of the world. Her latest project is bringing together writers and poets in Finland with immigrant backgrounds. Crisólogo came to Finland eight years ago for the usual reason: being married to a Finn. CULTURE HELSINKI TIMES 10 . she admits. As such, the film fully engages one of the fascinating tensions that have always animated Anderson?s fussily decorated cinematic jewel boxes, namely how one learns to become a man within a universe of characters so stylised and artfully concocted that they seem barely human. The great good fortune of The Grand Budapest Hotel is that the tutor in question is played by Ralph Fiennes, who lends a lambent sincerity to a character who can be charming and rather loathsome at the turn of a schilling. the gravitas and ambiguous soul . on her face supposed to convey Anderson?s humanism, or a more arch and sneakily contemptuous fetishistic tendency? Even though melancholy threads through The Grand Budapest Hotel, it?s not a particularly deep film. I wouldn?t be where I am now without it. Although love did not last, she decided to stay. ?Finland offers you so many possibilities in regard to education,. I could not do it because I have allergies, and being in my forties I thought I was too old for it anyway.? Words a window of opportunity Crisólogo studied hard to get a grasp of the Finnish language and was told to find an internship somewhere to intensify her learning of the language. but ultimately seems unable or unwilling to delve under the sumptuous surface and grapple with darker realities. Still, The Grand Budapest Hotel is as enchanting, wellappointed and smoothly run as its titular establishment, and Gustave earns the right to be called a genuinely tragic figure. I have a daughter and I did not want her to grow up in an environment where people are driven by money and looks.? In Peru, Crisólogo worked as a cultural producer, writer and poet. abhorrence of authoritarianism, not as a crime against humanity but as an affront to good taste and Old World etiquette . (Sidelight . People come to these events with an open mind and listen to poems being read in languages that they might not understand.? See Roxana Crisólogo with Sivuvalo at Lukuviikko on Saturday 12 April at Stoa Culture Centre, Helsinki.. She was, in her own words, a cultural activist and very happy with her job. ?I was very sceptical first about coming to Finland,. I worked there at Outi Korhonen?s office, and her job includes helping trans-cultural artists here in Finland. It?s outstanding how in this country people are not rated by money and possessions but by their actions and work. But it?s Fiennes who provides the ballast . who provide ample opportunity for Gustave to hone his gift for seduction and flattery. Those gifts are on view even when the recipient is dead, as we see when Gustave and a young lobby boy named Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori) embark on a fateful trip to honor a guest?s memory, and wind up embroiled in The Grand a zany murder mystery that will take them from a spooky, taxidermy-filled mansion to a cartoonish prison break to a vertiginous ski-and-sled chase from a mountaintop monastery. Enlivened by such antic set pieces, The Grand Budapest Hotel finds Anderson at his most spirited and stylish: The story, told as a series of flashbacks, actually spans three distinct eras, each defined by its own colour palette and aspect ratio (the 1930s sequences are set within the boxy, storybook-like frame of the time). Is this Finnish literature?) ?It has taken off really well. around a quirky middle-aged man and the precocious boy he takes under his wing. 16 APRIL 2014 19 Film An elegant mousetrap A nn H orna day T he W a shin g t o n P o st Budapest Hotel, by Wes Anderson, is a compulsively arranged sacher torte of a movie, an elegant mousetrap of stories-withinstories that invokes history with a temperament ranging from winsome to deeply mournful. As a carefully constructed miniaturised universe, The Grand Budapest Hotel is that most Andersonian of endeavours, evincing the deadpan drolleries, screwball action and dollhouse aesthetic that have alternately charmed and chagrined filmgoers for the past couple of decades. Set in a castlelike hotel in the fictional Mitteleuropean country of Zubrowka on the eve of World War II, The Grand Budapest Hotel revolves . physical blemishes and deformities as mere elements, visual one-liners. After arriving in Helsinki, I was advised to study to become a practical nurse for taking care of the elderly. Through my internship, I witnessed first-hand how difficult the situation was specifically for immigrant writers, as they work with words that don?t bear any meaning in this country.? Crisólogo decided to do something to help the immigrant writers, she herself being one of them. If Anderson buries relatively little moral substance under lavish dollops of rich cream, at least he, like his fascinating protagonist, sustains the illusion with a marvelous grace. The Grand Budapest Hotel (K12) Release Date: 11 April Director: Wes Anderson Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Toni Revolori Romanssi (S) Release Date: 11 April Director: Anssi Mänttäri Starring: Elina Reinikka, Juha Lagström Fiennes consoles Swinton?s character in The Grand Budapest Hotel. Elsewhere on screens Local romantic comedy Romanssi impresses with a sting in the tail, Rio 2 offers some more animated fare for the little ones and Laulu follows the tale of an aging poetic singer and his pupil over the course of three years. Rio 2 (S) Release Date: 11 April Director: Carlos Saldanha Feat. of an endeavor that otherwise makes a genteel, picturesque burlesque of Nazi-era anxieties. ?I was worried about finding work here, and rightly so
Italy/1983. 02.25 Fifty Pills FILM Directed by: TheoAvgerinos. Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Kristen Bell, John Hensley. USA/2006. AVA 08.05 Namaste 10.05 Royal Inquest 11.00 Inside the Actors Studio 12.00 Don?t Blame the Dog 13.00 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 14.00 It?s a Brad, Brad World 16.00 Find My Family UK 16.55 Grand Designs This series follows people building their dream houses and all the dilemmas that come with it. 20.00 American Idol 22.30 Royal Pains 23.30 Reign Law Abiding Citizen The Bounty Hunter Law Abiding Citizen is a thriller starring Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton, an ordinary family man whose life is blown apart when his wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. After a plea bargain sets his family?s killers free, Shelton sees no choice but to take the law into his own hands and in the name of justice he embarks on a killing spree that only Nick (Jamie Foxx), the prosecutor, can stop. (K16) 02.00 Cops JIM 11.50 Crocodileman 12.20 Top Secret Recipe 13.10 Meat Men 13.35 Cooks to Market 14.35 Britain?s Best Bakery Britain?s Best Bakery is a reality series which sees a national search for Britain?s best bakery. 15.35 Shark Tank USA 16.30 The Voice of USA 18.30 Hotel Hell Gordon Ramsay travels across the USA visiting hopeless hotels, mediocre motels and just plain bad B&Bs, attempting to fix their problems and turn around the struggling establishments. 19.30 Man vs. With Children 17.25 Everybody Loves Raymond 18.00 The King of Queens 19.00 C.S.I. 21.00 Priest FILM Directed by: Scott Stewart. Starring: Brad Dourif, Cam Gigandet, Christopher Plummer. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America?s computer infrastructure. Directed by: Len Wiseman. Starring: Bruce Willis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Timothy Olyphant. USA/2007. 23.25 C.S.I. Starring: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meaney. (K16) 00.25 Shameless (K16) 01.25 Eureka 02.25 Cops JIM 09.30 Britain?s Best Bakery 13.20 Chuck?s Day Off 13.50 Dinner: Impossible 14.45 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. 15.40 Anthony Bourdain: The Layover 16.30 Man vs. USA/2009. 02.10 Dexter (K16) TV5 06.50 Breaking Amish 07.40 Extreme Cheapskates 08.05 Matlock 12.00 Ice Castles FILM Directed by: Donald Wrye. Starring: Gillian Ferrier, Henry Czerny, Rob Mayes. USA/2010. 13.55 90 Day Fiancé 14.55 My Big Fat American Gipsy Wedding 15.55 Long Island Medium 16.30 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 21.00 The Bounty Hunter FILM Directed by: Andy Tennant. Starring: Christine Baranski, Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston. USA/2010. 23.10 Sexcetera (K18) 00.30 Nana (K18) FILM Directed by: Dan Wolman. Starring: Katya Berger, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yehuda Efroni. USA/2010. Nelonen 21.00 Thursday 10.4.2014 TV5 21.00 Saturday 12.4.2014. Voices: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez. USA/2004. 15.30 Top Gear USA 21.00 Survivor 22.15 Lottery and Joker 00.25 Homeland (K16) SUB 11.00 Work It 11.30 1600 Penn 12.00 Whitney 12.30 The New Normal 13.00 How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) 13.30 Middle 14.00 Partners 17.00 Beverly Hills Pawn 19.00 Top Gear 21.00 Live Free and Die Hard (K16) FILM John McClane is back and this time he is working for Homeland Security. USA/2011. 03.05 MacGyver AVA 08.05 Namaste 09.35 Doctors 10.30 Find My Family UK 11.50 You Deserve This House 12.45 Million Dollar Decorators 13.45 It?s a Brad, Brad World 14.45 Double Your House For Half The Money 15.45 Doctors 17.25 Eastenders 18.00 Friends 19.00 Jamie?s Great Italian Escape 21.30 Modern Family 22.00 Definitely, Maybe FILM Directed by: Adam Brooks. Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin. USA/2008. saturday 11.4. MTV3 NELONEN The Kingdom T V5 22.00 09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful 10.10 Two and a Half Men 10.40 Emmerdale 11.40 Doctors 14.10 Farm Kings 17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 22.35 Dallas 23.30 Lights Out (K16) This series follows the struggles of a former heavyweight boxing champion, Patrick Leary, as he tries to find his identity and support his wife after retiring from the ring. SUB 09.25 Eastenders 13.55 Mythbusters 14.55 Model Employee 15.55 Oliver?s Twist 16.25 Eastenders 18.00 Don?t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 18.30 One Tree Hill 19.30 New Girl 20.00 The Simpsons 20.30 Two and a Half Men 21.00 Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice FILM Directed by: Steve Boyum. Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Jessica Steen, Gary Busey. USA/2002. 23.05 C.S.I. In the Tudor court of Elizabeth I, Lord Edmund Blackadder strives to win Her Majesty?s favour while attempting to avoid a grisly fate should he offend her. 14.55 Matlock 15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun 16.55 Married... Directed by: Andy Tennant. With Children 17.20 Everybody Loves Raymond 17.55 The King of Queens 18.55 BASEketball FILM Directed by: David Zucker. Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar. USA/1998. 22.00 The Kingdom (K16) FILM A team of US government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East. Directed by: Peter Berg. Starring: Ashraf Barhom, Chris Cooper, Jamie Foxx. USA/2007. 00.10 Knight Rider 01.20 Priest FILM Directed by: Scott Stewart. Starring: Brad Dourif, Cam Gigandet. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough but staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher. Food 18.00 Undercover Boss 21.00 Ice Road Truckers 22.00 Pawn Stars 23.00 Hotel Hell 23.55 New York Ink 00.50 Border Security: Australia?s Front Line 01.20 Beck NELONEN 07.40 Children?s Programming 10.00 Supernanny 13.05 Dogs in the City 14.05 Zoo 14.35 Animal ABC 15.20 Shake It Up 15.50 America?s Funniest Home Videos 21.00 007: A View to Kill (K16) FILM An investigation of a horseracing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California?s Silicon Valley. Directed by: John Glen. Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts. UK/USA/1985. 00.05 Friday the 13th (K18) FILM Directed by: Marcus Nispel. Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti. USA/2011. 02.50 Just for Laughs 03.45 MacGyver AVA 08.05 Namaste 09.35 Doctors 10.30 Real Housewives of Beverly Hills This series follows five glamorous Manhattan housewives who balance envious social calendars, challenging careers, and motherhood, with the hustle and bustle of the big city all around. 11.50 Vanderpump Rules 12.50 Me, My Bump & I 15.45 Doctors 17.25 Eastenders 18.00 Friends The lives, loves, and laughs of six young friends living in New York. 20.00 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 12.4. MTV3 007: A View to Kill Nelonen 21.00 08.10 Children?s Programming 09.55 Cosmos 13.50 The Road to El Dorado FILM Directed by: Bibo Bergeron, Will Finn. Directed by: F. Gary Gray. 20 TV GUIDE 10 . (K16) 00.35 Bones (K16) 01.30 Cops JIM 11.15 Crocodileman 13.40 Cooks to Market 14.40 Britain?s Best Bakery 15.40 Shark Tank USA 16.35 The Voice of USA 18.30 Britain?s Best Bakery 19.30 The Voice of USA 21.00 Talent USA 22.00 Pawn Stars 22.30 JIM D: Ancient Aliens 00.30 Trigger Happy T V 01.00 Border Security: Australia?s Front Line 01.30 South Park 02.55 Shark Tank USA 03.50 The Voice of USA 07.00 Children?s Programming 08.40 French Food at Home 10.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.50 4 Weddings 15.50 Supernanny 16.55 Excused 18.25 Frasier 20.00 Criss Angel Believe 21.00 Law Abiding Citizen (K16) FILM Directed by: F. Starring: Christine Baranski, Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston. The former spouses play an escalating game of one-upmanship, until they suddenly find themselves on the run for their lives. Milo thinks that the job is an easy payday, but Nicole quickly escapes to chase a lead on a murder case. Food 22.00 American Pickers 23.00 Pawn Stars 00.00 Splash! USA 00.55 Ball Boys 01.55 Speeders 02.25 South Park 07.00 Children?s Programming 08.40 French Food at Home 10.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.50 4 Weddings 15.50 Supernanny 16.55 Excused 18.25 Frasier 22.00 Runaway Bride FILM A reporter is assigned to write a story about a woman who has left a string of fiances at the altar. Directed by: Garry Marshall. Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack. USA/1999. 02.30 Frasier 04.00 Excused TV5 06.05 Coupling 06.40 Dogs 101 07.35 Matlock 12.00 Say Yes to Dress 12.35 Dogs 101 13.30 Coupling 14.10 Blackadder II 14.50 Matlock 15.50 3rd Rock from the Sun 16.50 Married. This time there are obstacles that Walter may not be able to overcome. SUB 09.25 Eastenders 13.55 Mythbusters 14.55 One Born Every Minute 15.55 Oliver?s Twist 16.25 Eastenders 18.00 Don?t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 19.30 2 Broke Girls 20.00 The Simpsons 20.30 Two and a Half Men 21.00 Arrow This series follows billionaire Oliver Queen, who, after five years of being stranded on a hostile island, returns home and becomes a bow and arrow wielding vigilante. 22.00 Revolution (K16) A group of revolutionaries confronts an authoritarian regime 15 years after an instantaneous global shutdown of all electrical devices. 23.00 Entourage 23.36 C.S.I. USA/2009. Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) works as a bounty hunter and is assigned to track down his ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston), who is snooping the mysterious death of a man that was reported by the police as suicide. 16 APRIL 2014 HELSINKI TIMES Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television. thursday friday 10.4. MTV3 NELONEN Blackadder II T V5 14.10 09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful 10.10 Two and a Half Men 10.40 Emmerdale 11.40 Doctors 14.10 The Great British Bake Off 15.20 Middle 15.45 Oliver?s Twist Jamie Oliver invites friends and relatives over for mouthwatering food and travels around London. 17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 23.20 The Finder Walter?s dying father asks him to find his first love, Walter?s mother. However, to do so he must outwit the brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. USA/2011. 22.40 The Blacklist 23.45 5D: Laura Hall -My Battle with Booze 00.55 The Green Hornet FILM Directed by: Michel Gondry. Starring: Cameron Diaz, Chad Coleman, Edward Furlong. Gary Gray. Starring: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meaney. USA/2009. 23.45 Blue Bloods 00.45 Frasier 01.15 Red Widow 02.15 Excused 02.45 Grey?s Anatomy TV5 06.05 Coupling 06.40 Growing Up 07.30 Matlock 11.30 Cake Boss 12.00 Zoo Days 12.30 Growing Up 13.30 Coupling 14.10 Blackadder II SERIES BEGINS
UK/2004. 21.00 Revenge 22.35 The Americans (K16) The Americans follows two KGB agents posing as Americans in the suburbs of Washington D.C. 23.40 Southland SUB 11.00 The Simpsons 14.00 Farm Kings 15.00 Jamie?s Chef 16.00 Lying Game 17.00 Pretty Little Liars 18.00 Project Runway Heidi Klum hosts a reality series where aspiring fashion designers compete for a chance to break into the industry. 19.55 Mythbusters 21.00 Phone Booth (K16) FILM Directed by: Joel Schumacher. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris. USA/2001. 00.55 Suburgatory 01.25 Chuck 02.25 Bones (K16) 03.20 Cops JIM 11.20 Crocodileman 11.50 Ink Master 12.45 Dinner: Impossible 13.40 Mountain Men 14.40 Splash! USA 15.35 Anthony Bourdain: The Layover A travel and food show hosted by Anthony Bourdain. 17.30 American Pickers 18.30 Britain?s Best Bakery 19.30 The Voice of USA 21.00 American Pickers 22.00 Pawn Stars 22.30 Counting Cars Danny Koker runs a car customizing shop in Las Vegas. Starring: Johnny Morina, Katharine Isabelle, Timothy Dalton. Canada/1996. 14.00 Matlock 15.00 MacGyver MacGyver follows the adventures of a secret agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness. 16.05 Knight Rider 17.15 The Karate Kid (K16) FILM Directed by: Harald Zwart. Starrng: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P. USA/1997. 03.55 MacGyver 04.45 Flashpoint AVA 08.05 Namaste 09.35 Doctors 11.50 Jamie?s Great Britain Jamie Oliver tours the length and breadth of the Great Britain to explore the origins of its most popular dishes, and discovers how favourites from abroad were created. 12.50 American Idol 15.45 Doctors 17.25 Eastenders 20.00 Grand Designs Australia 21.30 Modern Family 23.00 Revenge 15.4. MTV3 We Have Your Husband TV5 23.00 09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful 10.10 Two and a Half Men 10.40 Emmerdale 11.40 Doctors 15.15 Modern Family 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 21.00 Person of Interest 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. 23.35 666 Park Avenue (K16) 00.35 Louie SUB 09.25 Eastenders 13.55 Mythbusters Two Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk urban legends by directly testing them. 14.55 The Face 15.55 Oliver?s Twist 16.25 Eastenders 18.00 Don?t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 18.30 Jamie?s Chef 19.30 Mom 20.00 The Simpsons 20.30 Big Bang Theory When Penny and the guys learn that Leonard has never had a birthday party, they decide to try to throw a surprise party for him. 23.00 Mom 23.30 Nikita (K16) 00.30 Bones (K16) 01.25 Cops JIM 11.20 Crocodileman 11.50 Container Wars 13.45 Undercover Boss 14.40 Britain?s Best Bakery 15.40 Shark Tank USA 16.35 The Voice of USA 18.30 Britain?s Best Bakery 19.30 The Voice of USA 21.00 MasterChef USA 23.00 Pawn Stars 23.30 Border Security: Australia?s Front Line 01.00 South Park 01.30 Ax Men 02.25 Shark Tank USA 03.20 The Voice of USA NELONEN 07.00 Children?s Programming 08.00 Transformers Rescue Bots 08.40 French Food at Home 10.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.20 Marriage Under Construction Marriage Under Construction follows all the stress and drama as newlyweds purchase, renovate and decorate their first home. 14.50 4 Weddings 16.45 Frasier 21.00 Elementary This series is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s Sherlock Holmes detective stories with contemporary twists. 22.30 Criminal Minds: Under Suspicion 23.30 Californication (K16) 00.05 Frasier 00.35 Elementary TV5 06.05 Coupling 06.40 Crocodile Hunter 07.35 Matlock 11.30 Crocodile Hunter 12.30 MacGyver 13.30 Coupling 14.10 Blackadder II 14.55 Matlock 15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun 16.55 Married. Henson. USA/2010. 21.00 As Good As It Gets FILM A single mother, a misanthropic author and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is in an accident. Directed by: James L. Brooks. Now it is a real-time race against the clock as Stuart must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry embarks on the adventure of a lifetime and meets his two best friends Ron Weasley, an expert at Wizard Chess, and Hermione Granger, a girl with non-magic parents. 16 APRIL 2014 21 Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television. sunday monday 13.4. MTV3 NELONEN Perfect Starngers MTV3 15.30 08.10 Children?s Programming 15.30 Perfect Strangers FILM When a man and a woman swap jobs and cities temporarily, they face many problems large and small, but their phone calls develop into romance. Directed by: Robin Shepperd. The story revolves around an ordinary 11-year-old boy who learns on his birthday that he is the orphaned first son of two powerful wizards and possesses magical powers of his own. Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker. USA/2002. 22.40 Grimm (K16) 23.40 Revolution (K16) 00.40 Supernatural (K16) 01.40 Cops JIM 08.35 Britain?s Best Bakery 12.25 Top Secret Recipe 14.15 Splash! USA 15.10 Talent USA 16.05 Undercover Boss 17.05 Hotel Hell 19.00 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. 22.00 American Pickers 23.00 Border Security: Australia?s Front Line The show follows the work of Border Security Officers as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws. 23.30 World?s Weirdest Restaurants 00.00 Ice Road Truckers 07.40 Children?s Programming 13.00 Animal ABC 13.30 Zoo 14.00 Dogs in the City 15.00 America?s Funniest Home Videos 16.00 Criss Angel Believe 21.35 The Sorcerer?s Apprentice FILM Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin?s descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana le Fey. Directed by: Jon Turteltaub. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina. USA/2010. 02.20 Elementary 03.20 Blue Bloods TV5 06.15 Salt Water Moose FILM Directed by: Stuart Margolin. Gabriel contemplates telling where Schiller?s missing cocaine is hidden. 00.00 Nurse Jackie (K16) 01.10 Frasier 01.40 4D: The Shortest Man in the World 02.40 Excused TV5 06.15 Extreme Couponing 06.45 Dogs 101 07.35 Matlock 11.35 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 12.35 Dogs 101 13.30 Coupling 14.10 Blackadder II 14.55 Matlock 15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun 16.55 Married. He does whatever he can to find the best cars for restoration, including pulling people over and offering them cash for their cars. 23.30 Trigger Happy TV 00.00 Hotel Hell 00.55 South Park 02.25 Shark Tank USA Phone Booth Phone Booth is a brilliant psychological thriller starring Colin Farrell as Stuart Shepard, a self-centered publicist who uses an outdoor phone booth to call his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) because his wife (Radha Mitchell) keeps tabs on his cell phone bills. Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Hunt, Jack Nicholson, Shirley Knight. However, his life is soon thrown into turmoil when he once picks up a telephone and a stranger on the other end informs him that if he hangs up the phone, he will be shot. USA/2001. Sub 21.00 Monday 14.4.2014. Starring: Colin Farrell, Radha Mitchell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker. USA/2002. Sub 21.00 Sunday 13.4.2014 NELONEN 07.00 Children?s Programming 08.00 Transformers Rescue Bots 08.40 French Food at Home 10.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.20 4 Weddings 15.20 Supernanny 16.20 Excused 18.25 Frasier 20.00 America?s Next Topmodel A reality television series in which a number of women compete for the title of America?s Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry. 23.00 Red Widow Against her family?s wishes, Marta goes to Schiller for help when Natalie goes missing. Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr, Helen Hunt, Jack Nicholson. USA/1997. 23.55 Numb3rs 00.50 Call Me Fitz 02.35 Twin Peaks 03.30 Invincible FILM Directed by: Jefery Levy. Starring: Billy Zane, Byron Mann, Stacy Oversier. USA/Canada/2001. AVA 08.00 Namaste 10.30 American Idol 13.55 Jamie?s Kitchen 14.55 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners Obsessive cleaners team up to clean some of Britain?s dirtiest homes. 16.00 Double Your House For Half The Money 19.00 Inside the Actors Studio Famous actors, directors and writers reminisce about their careers and the philosophy behind their careers. 20.00 Reign 23.00 Law & Order: Los Angeles tuesday 14.4. MTV3 Jamie?s Great Britain AVA 11.50 09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful 10.10 Two and a Half Men 10.40 Emmerdale 11.40 Doctors 14.10 Survivor In this reality game show contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. 15.10 Whitney 17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 22.35 Rizzoli & Isles (K16) 23.35 Psych 00.35 Louie SUB 09.25 Eastenders 13.55 Mythbusters 14.55 Beverly Hills Pawn 15.55 Oliver?s Twist 16.25 Eastenders 18.30 Beverly Hills Pawn 19.30 Suburgatory 20.00 The Simpsons 20.30 Big Bang Theory 21.00 Harry Potter and the Philosopher?s Stone FILM Directed by: Chris Columbus. With Children 17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 18.00 The King of Queens 19.30 The Goldbergs 21.00 Stargate FILM Directed by: Roland Emmerich. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris. Directed by: Joel Schumacher. Harry learns the game of Quiditch and Wizard Chess on his way to facing a Dark Arts teacher who is bent on destroying him. Directed by: Chris Columbus. Starring: Rob Lowe, Anna Friel, Sarah Alexander. Starring: Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, KurtRussell. USA/1994. 23.20 5D: Virgin Diaries 00.25 As Good As It Gets FILM Directed by: James L. Brooks. TV GUIDE HELSINKI TIMES 10 . With Children 17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 18.00 The King of Queens 19.30 Men at Work 20.00 Naked and Afraid 21.00 The Blacklist 23.00 We Have Your Husband FILM Jayne, Eduardo and their two children live an idyllic life on their ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. However, one summer their lives are turned into a reallife nightmare when Eduardo is ambushed and kidnapped by strangers. Directed by: Eric Bross. Starring: Teri Polo, Esai Morales, Nicholas Gonzalez. USA/2011. 01.55 The Only Way is Essex 03.00 MacGyver AVA 08.05 Namaste 09.35 Doctors 10.30 Undercover Boss USA 11.50 All On The Line 13.45 Grand Designs Australia 14.45 Famous Rich & Homeless Five famous volunteers agree to spend a week on the streets. 15.45 Doctors 17.25 Eastenders 18.00 Friends 19.00 Jamie?s Kitchen 20.00 Double Your House For Half The Money 21.30 Modern Family 23.00 Rizzoli & Isles (K16) Harry Potter and the Philosopher?s Stone This fantasy film is the first in the Harry Potter series based on the novel of the same name by J.K. Rowling
Phil TV5 06.05 Coupling 06.40 The Jeff Corwin Experience 07.35 Matlock 11.30 Extreme Cheapskates 12.00 Extreme Couponing 12.30 The Jeff Corwin Experience 13.30 Coupling 14.10 Blackadder II 14.55 Matlock 15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun 16.55 Married. 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. 09 100 23. Medical services. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?) are the most popular. 09 4711. +12 +9 +7 Tue 4/15 +4 +6 +10 +6 +9 +11 +10 +9 Wed 4/16 +2 +4 +4 +5 +4 +4 +4 +3 +29 +30 +32 +29 +25 +23 +26 +19 +19 +18 +18 +20 +19 +19 +19 +17 +18 +14 +19 +15 +22 +30 +31 +32 +31 +33 +32 +32 +7 +8 +13 +9 +12 +9 +9 +5 +8 +10 +13 +10 +9 +8 +6 +7 +7 +8 +8 +7 +7 +17 +18 +17 +19 +21 +19 +21 +16 +11 +14 +13 +14 +15 +15 +13 +13 +15 +18 +19 +13 +12 +13 +12 +14 +13 +15 +14 +11 +5 +10 +6 +9 Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. See www.posti.fi Sat 4/12 +13 +5 Grocery stores. New York (K16) 23.10 Major Crimes (K16) A 13 year old child with gender identity issues is killed after being bullied in a mall bathroom. 00.10 Secret Circle SUB 09.25 Eastenders 13.55 Mythbusters 14.55 Flipping Out 15.55 Oliver?s Twist 16.25 Eastenders 18.00 Don?t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 19.30 Raising Hope 20.00 The Simpsons 20.30 Two and a Half Men 22.00 Shameless (K16) Paul Abbott?s critically acclaimed, offbeat drama about the rollercoaster lives and loves of the dysfunctional Gallagher clan. 23.00 Raising Hope 23.30 The Vampire Diaries Elena wakes up the morning after the accident to discover that her greatest fear has come true. 00.30 Bones (K16) 01.25 Cops JIM 11.15 Crocodileman 11.45 Man vs. Food 12.15 Chuck?s Day Off 14.45 Britain?s Best Bakery 15.45 Shark Tank USA 16.40 The Voice of USA 18.35 Britain?s Best Bakery Britain?s Best Bakery is a reality series which sees a national search for Britain?s best bakery. 19.35 The Voice of USA 22.00 Pawn Stars 22.30 Ice Road Truckers This series features the activities of drivers who operate trucks on seasonal routes crossing frozen lakes and rivers in remote Arctic territories in Canada and Alaska. 00.00 Rude Tube 01.05 South Park 01.35 Ax Men 02.30 Shark Tank USA HELSINKI TIMES 07.00 Children?s Programming 08.40 French Food at Home 10.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.20 Marriage Under Construction 14.50 4 Weddings 15.55 Supernanny 16.55 Excused 17.25 Criss Angel Believe 18.25 Frasier 21.00 Grey?s Anatomy The doctors face the consequences of the events that took place at April?s wedding. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights. Pharmacies. 09 3101 3300. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22. Fri 4/11 +16 +12 +13 +11 Thursday 4/10 6:18 am 8:25 pm 6:02 am 8:37 pm 6:29 am 8:36 pm 5:56 am 8:42 pm 6:20 am 8:33 pm 5:36 am 8:52 pm Telephone. On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. sudoku 293 doctorate degrees were attained by foreigners in Finland in 2012 Statistics Finland SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. 16 APRIL 2014 wednesday tuesday 31.12.16.4. MTV3 Finland info NELONEN Breaking Amish T V5 20.00 09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful 10.10 Two and a Half Men 10.40 Emmerdale 11.40 Doctors 14.10 Undercover Boss UK 15.20 Up All Night 17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 21.00 C.S.I. Most hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General Post Office have a computer terminal. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat 7-18 and Sun 12-21. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. Operator number 118. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge. +6 +2 +2 +4 +3 Sat 4/12 +3 +3 +3 +5 +8 +9 +5 +9 Sun 4/13 +1 0 +1 +7 +4 +7 Mon 4/14 +3 +3 +6 +4 +6 Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of what to do) . Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5, tel. With Children 17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 18.00 The King of Queens 19.30 Guys with Kids 20.00 Breaking Amish 21.00 The Chronicles of Riddick FILM Directed by: David Twohy. Starring: Alexa Davalos, Colm Feore, Judi Dench. USA/2004. 23.10 5D: My Strange Addiction 00.20 Numb3rs 01.20 Twin Peaks 02.20 I Can?t Believe I?m Still Single 04.00 MacGyver AVA 08.05 Namaste 09.35 Doctors 10.30 Storage Hoarders 12.45 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 13.45 Jamie?s Kitchen 14.45 Double Your House For Half The Money 15.45 Doctors 17.25 Eastenders 18.00 Friends 19.00 It?s a Brad, Brad World 20.00 Double Your House For Half The Money 21.30 Modern Family 22.00 The Mexican (K16) FILM Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini. USA/2001. Weather Banks and Bureaux de Change. 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. 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 currency exchange counter at the harbour in Katajanokka, Helsinki is open everyday (Mon-Fri 15-17:30 Sat-Sun 10-11, 15-17:30). Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783 (between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and 6:00). Sun 4/13 Mon 4/14 Tue 4/15 Wed 4/16 +13 +2 Post Offices. 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. +12 +13 +11 +12 +20 +18 +18 +19 +19 +20 +20 +36 +36 +37 +36 +35 +32 +32 +21 +22 +21 +19 +21 +20 +20 +18 +19 +19 +19 +23 +24 +23 +8 +11 +11 +11 +11 +10 +10 +15 +13 +12 +13 +14 +11 +11 +12 +13 +15 +14 +15 +15 +13 +26 +28 +27 +26 +30 +30 +32 +9 +10 +10 +11 +10 +10 +10 +31 +33 +35 +34 +34 +34 +33 +31 +33 +32 +32 +33 +34 +34 +16 +16 +13 +14 +15 +13 +12 +17 +20 +17 +16 +18 +17 +16 +10 +10 +10 +10 +9 +8 +9 +24 +23 +25 +28 +25 +23 +22 +19 +11 +14 +15 +15 +15 +17 +20 +18 +20 +23 +23 +20 +18 +13 +12 +14 +12 +13 +12 +12 +28 +25 +17 +19 +23 +20 +21 +17 +18 +17 +19 +19 +19 +18 +23 +22 +21 +21 +21 +21 +20 +4 +20 +18 +19 +19 +19 +19 +20 +3 +34 +33 +33 +32 +31 +32 +29 +26 +27 +28 +28 +30 +20 +26 +13 +10 +12 +15 +23 +20 ?3 +4 +7 +9 +7 +11 +12 +11 +11 +16 +12 +14 +14 +12 +10 +13 +16 +16 +13 +18 +15 +7 +1 +8 +6 +11 +8 +8 +7 +16 +15 +13 +13 +15 +14 +14 +2 +7 Fri 4/11 +3 +6 Internet. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891. Market halls. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri 10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is open 6-22 daily. 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. However, at the same time Jerry?s girlfriend Samantha (Julia Roberts) wants him to get out of the business. Jerry figures that being alive, although in trouble with his girlfriend is the better alternative so he heads south of the border. Finding the pistol is easy but getting it home is a whole other matter. 09 471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. Finland?s international country code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. USA/2001. AVA 22.00 Wednesday 16.4.2014 Airport buses.Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 min., ?5.90 or ?3.80 with Helsinki Card. 22 TV GUIDE 10 . Health centres around the country are open Mon-Fri 8-16. Meredith feels betrayed when Derek goes back on a promise. 00.30 Dexter (K16) 01.35 Frasier 02.05 Criminal Minds: Under Suspicion 03.05 Excused 03.35 Dr. For more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietaniemi Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli. Restaurants. Dial 112. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. Night buses operate extensively at weekends. Night buses have an extra fee. The pistol supposedly carries a curse, a curse Jerry is given every reason to believe, especially when Samantha is held hostage by the gay hit man Leroy to ensure the safe return of the pistol. Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini. Single ticket The Mexican Jerry?s (Brad Pitt) mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called ?The Mexican. See www.forex.fi for more information. Thu 4/10 +1 +2 +6 +5 +3 Thu 4/10 Emergency Numbers. Public phones are scarce. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. or he will suffer the consequences. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but are closed on Sundays. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro
I remember a newspaper in Miami, Florida, where the headline was about an elderly lady who had fallen off a golf cart, followed by the shootings and the robberies, of course. Another survey/rating done just the other day listed Top Restaurants in the World. The names change, too through the times and the events. Other than that it could translate into something quite funny in another language. Then, of course there are the ferries to and from Tallinn. The food prices in the cartel stores seem unreasonably high. Well, the Lidl stores help a lot. Worked/working in international logistics. The huge loads of alcoholic beverages people bring back are simply head-spinning. The revenue source that the Finnish state is losing is hard to comprehend. Anyway, this complex and multifaceted Finnish word needs to be explained in several words such as well-versed, wellinformed, well-educated, worldly, articulate, sophisticated, not a country bumpkin. The general basis for an intelligent and informed conversation. It is expected to be a real Wheel of Fortune for the City, bringing native and tourist crowds to the area. London has one called The London Eye. Moved back to Finland May 2013. SERVICES Spring is in the air A recent survey, done in Scandinavia on our fellow Scandinavians, was not so flattering towards the Finns. We were the least desirable company to travel with. The drunkards are less visible in public places. As many as six Michelin 1-star restaurants are located right here in Helsinki. I actual- ly like the quietness on public transportation. Do we have a name for it yet. Finns, not being such good and pleasant company, according to this survey. Many Finns feel that Americans are artificially perky, positive, easy-going - and so very pleasant. Are we indeed too shy, reserved and closed-in with infamous low self-esteem issues . True, the name is two separate words, making it sound so much more appetising. Is it perhaps mainly due to the reputation of - or actual experiences with the heavy drinking associated with the Finns? It appears to me at least that the drinking culture here has been changing for the better through the years. Then again, it is, of course always the company that is the most important ingredient. A big Ferris Wheel will be coming to the South Harbor soon. Asking for a happy facial expression would be an intrusion on another person?s personal life. New York City still has several top restaurants listed. Moved to the US in the mid-?70s (New York City, Miami and Houston). (59?) 50 min ? Meridian Massage and other treatments 56. The Kremlin and the surrounding area are now also known as The Napoleon Complex. P.S. 16 APRIL 2014 23 WELLBEING To celebrate our 5th anniversary we are delighted to offer you SHopping solution sudoku 20% off Helsinki Times Helsinki Times iPad edition The offer is valid on 24 March-19 April 2014 You can also purchase several vouchers (valid for 2 years) ? Back and Neck Massage 32. Personally, I have scaled down the scope and style of dinner parties at home so that the cost does not take the fun out of it. (69?) 50 min ? Arkadiankatu 17 LH B, 00100 Helsinki Tel.: +358 9 4546301, info2@liangtse.fi ? Iso Roobertinkatu 8 LH 1, 00120 Helsinki Tel.: +358 9 2784201, info@liangtse.fi Open: Mon.-Sat. . In English, it means ?Common Knowledge?, or, as I prefer, ?General Knowledge?, since for instance, Common Sense is not very common. I remember having walked by it in Manhattan?s Upper East side and as a Finn, I could not help but be entertained by its name. Sanna Rautavirta Inquiries and orders e-mail: myynti@keradur.fi Suolakivenkatu 5, 00810 Helsinki www.keradur.fi. would be nice here and there. What about a smile. Who can afford to eat out in Helsinki if it comes out of your own pocket. They in turn must find us genuinely down in the dumps. What?s in the name? Nothing, per se. Private in public, in a nice way. Well, perhaps an ?Excuse me. and a ?Thank you. In Finland, we all In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland. watch the World News and are up-to-the-minute on all world events. One of the top 10 is called Per Se. An average Finn is more knowledgeable about the World affairs than an average American, I dare say. Perhaps another organic name, ?The Heart of Helsinki?. Just in case you are wondering about the lady who fell of the golf cart, she is just fine. Dusting herself and laughing it off... Households, companies, housing cooperatives. New cleaning deals now available! Also window cleaning! Service number: 045-8011 579 . CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES HELSINKI TIMES 10 . So many intoxicated people, mostly young. Their private behaviour in public is not the prettiest sight, which seems to continue on the trams off the port terminal . Hopefully we will get the Guggenheim right across the bay as a good cultural counterweight. I believe that overall we can be good and enjoyable company. There is that somewhat snobbish-sounding word in Finnish ?Yleissivistys. (39?) 30 min ? Foot Reflexology Massage 48. 10:00-21:00 www.liangtse.fi EXPAT VIEW Pekka Kauhanen is a native Finn
A US Navy ?black box. 035535-1415 ISSUE 15 (349) . Price ?3 (incl. 16 APRIL 2014 . www.helsinkitimes.fi . 10 . H enkle Ç SUNDAY Sauber driver Esteban Gutierrez of Mexico crashes ahead of Lotus driver Pastor Maldonado of Venezuela during the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir circuit in Manama on 6 April. MONDAY T UE SDAY w ednesday L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / J O E K L A M A R L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / A B I S C H R I S B E E R E N S L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / A L D O S O L I M A N O Activists simulate slaughtering of a seal in front of the Canadian Consulate in downtown Los Angeles on 31 March. ALV). ISSN 1796-8321. detector made its much-anticipated debut in the oceanic hunt for flight MH370. People look at a house affected by a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake that hit off Chile?s Pacific coast, in Iquique, northern Chile, on 2 April. An 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit Chile late Tuesday, killing at least six people and generating tsunami waves that might ripple as far as Indonesia. T HUR SDAY FRIDAY S AT URDAY L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / S E R G E I S U P I N S K Y L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / S H A H M A R A I L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / A D E M A LTA N A man wearing the outfit of iconic movie villain Darth Vader, who announced he was running for president as the official candidate of the Ukrainian Internet Party (UIP), speaks as he takes part to a protest action in front of the Central Election Commission building in Kiev on 3 April. A model wears a hat made from cheese biscuits on ?Ladies Day? at the Grand National horse race meeting at Aintree in Liverpool, northwest England, on 4 April. The opposition claimed AKP of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rigged the result in the symbolic race last on 30 March.. The annual three-day meeting culminates in the Grand National, which is run over a distance of four miles and four furlongs (7,242 metres), and is the biggest betting race in the United Kingdom. Supporters of newly elected mayor of Ankara, from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), cheer in Ankara on 5 April. Turkey?s secular opposition received a setback yesterday in a province-level ruling that rejected a vote recount in contested local elections in the capital Ankara. The demand for seal fur has plummeted to the point that Canada?s annual massacre of tens of thousands of baby harp seals is costing the Canadian government about $7 million a year in subsidies. This handout photo taken on 1 April shows HMAS Toowoomba (bottom) conducting replenishment at sea with HMAS Success (top) during the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. ?3 . +358 3 424 65 366 12-month continual subscription ?96 subscribe@helsinkitimes.fi www.helsinkitimes.fi Editor-in-chief Alexis Kouros Editorial team James O?Sullivan, Valérie Brun, David Cord, Pilar Díaz, Yannick Ilunga, Victoria Kulyabkina, Eva Peltonen, Anna-Maija Lappi, Annika Rautakoura, Mari Storpellinen, Aleksi Teivainen Proofreading Kenneth Quek, Tijana Stolic Layout & graphic design Andrei Kuzmin Webmaster Mahmoud Assiabi Translations Taru Laiho, Annika Rautakoura, Aleksi Teivainen, Niina Woolley Sales Bob Graham, Aiman Kaddoura, Ethan Shadabi, Kenneth Martin Printhouse Sanomapaino Forssa All articles, pictures, adverts and graphics are subject to copyright. Helsinki Times can also be read at www.lehtiluukku.fi Publisher Helsinki Times Oy Vilhonvuorenkatu 11 B 00500 Helsinki Finland tel. +358 9?689 67?426 info@helsinkitimes.fi Advertisement enquiries adv@helsinkitimes.fi Subscription and delivery enquiries: tel. No reproduction or reprinting is allowed without permission from ©Helsinki Times Inc. 441 895 Painotuote the week in pictures L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / D erek R