says Sari Aalto-Matturi, the executive director of the preventive substance
abuse work organisation EHYT.
The Finnish alcohol policy, AaltoMatturi stresses, cannot be dictated by the retail and brewing
industries. Everything is still on the table,. W W W.HELSINKITIMES.FI
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Huovinen yet to declare her stance
on proposal to restrict beer sales
K AT J A B OX B E RG . says General Director
Aulis Pitkälä from the Board of Education, leader of a working group
for the project.
The aim of the working group
is to come up with solutions for
improving pupils. In
the memorandum, the of?cials call
attention to the fact that the volume of alcohol sold by retailers has
nearly doubled since 1995, when an
amendment allowed the sale of ciders and long drinks at grocery
shops.
?Mid-strength beer is still the
drink of choice for Finns,. H S
M A R I S T O R P E L L IN E N . The ministry would restrict the late-night
sales of alcohol in pubs and restaurants. ?Regular consumers
should be allowed to shop like other Europeans. Adolescents. In an effort to improve matters, the Minister of
L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I N U K A R I
DOMESTIC
Although Huovinen has yet to declare her position on the contents of the law,
the bill is still scheduled for presentation to the Parliament during the first half
of the year.
indeed present a solution to alcohol
issues in Finland.
Similarly to Luoto, he believes
the restrictions would especially hit
corner shops, which are presently
allowed more latitude in determining their opening hours.
?This could encourage the centralisation of retail trade in Finland,. A list of common mistakes made in amateur car
maintenance.
Pages 11, 12
LIFESTYLE & SPORT
Festivals & hockey
Festival tickets are available and
pricey. The
equipment and networks, on the
other hand, are generally good and
up to date.. Despite these efforts, Finland?s most recent Pisa
ranking, measuring learning results in the OECD countries, fell
drastically.
The ranking re?ects the decline in
the ability to read and perform mathematical calculations, with an increase in the number of weak pupils.
The result has startled state
authorities. In addition, the restrictions
would incur costs across the retail
sector.
Suomen Lähikauppa, the third
largest grocery shop operator in
Finland, estimates that alcohol
sales account for 13-15 per cent of
the sales of its corner shops, reveals
CEO Ralf Holmlund.
Holmlund also questions whether restrictions to beer sales would
EAT & DRINK
Reducing class pupil numbers
won?t improve Pisa ranking
P IP S A PA LT TA L A . ?Ultimately, we are only talking about minor restrictions,?
she reminds.
However, the merits of the mooted restrictions are yet to convince
Kari Luoto, the managing director of
the Finnish Grocery Trade Association (PTY). af?rms
Rajakangas.
The Ministry of Social Affairs
and Health was initially scheduled to ?nalise the bill by the turn
of the year and more recently by
early March. The
most effective measure according to the ministry would be to dilute mid-strength beer from 4.7 to
3.5 per cent alcohol by volume. The revamping of Jokerit and Hartwall Arena is about to
commence.
Pages 13, 14
reform of the Finnish
Alcohol Act may yet beget restrictions to the retail sales of beer, with
the Ministry of Social Affairs and
Health proposing that beer sales at
grocery shops, kiosks and service
stations be prohibited after 6 pm on
Fridays and Saturdays, as well as on
Sunday mornings.
At present, retailers are allowed
to sell beer between 9 am and 9 pm
every day.
Although no decisions on the
matter have yet been taken, the
proposal alone has stirred disgruntlement within the retail sector. ?3 . ISSUE 11 (345) . The
restrictions, retailers caution, could
spell the end of several corner shops
and induce a jump in food prices. Patricks Day & wine
Annual Irish celebration offers
something to go with the Guinness.
A look at wine culture in Finland.
Pages 15, 16
HUNDREDS of millions of euros
have been distributed to elementary schooling in order to reduce the
number of pupils per class. 19 MARCH . The
aim of the project is to improve the
learning abilities of pupils and to
get them thrive at school.
?I don?t believe that solely reducing the number of pupils in a class
is enough to improve the results in
learning,. ?No decisions on the restrictions have yet been made. H T
St. he cautions.
Ilkka Alarotu, the director of
pricing and assortments at S Group,
is even more pessimistic, insisting
that the restrictions would incur
costs to retailers and hence result
in a jump in food prices.
The Finnish alcohol policy, he
emphasises, should eschew further
restrictions. Wines should be released to grocery shops.?
According to Alarotu, alcohol
sales account for roughly eight per
cent of the sales of daily consumer
goods of S Group.
Proposal to dilute mid-strength
beer was shot down
The Ministry of Social Affairs and
Health has laid out several measures to curb alcohol consumption
in Finland.
1) Weaker mid-strength beer. motivation at
school. In
addition, thousands of jobs would
consequently be at risk.
Susanna Huovinen (SDP), the
Minister of Health and Social Services, and state secretary Ulla-Maija Rajakangas dispel the retailers?
concerns. 13 . H T
Seatbelt usage & shoplifting
Regardless of safety, people are
still driving without seatbelts. The proposal has been
rebutted by the restaurant sector,
which has steadily lost its share of
alcohol sales to retailers.
Education Krista Kiuru (SDP) recently launched an extensive
project, School of Future, for developing elementary schooling. Last
year, 60 million euros were allocated for this. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . The ministry recommends that the tax rate on alcohol be raised gradually every couple of years.
3) Sales restriction. However, the project, Rajakangas explains, has
been overshadowed by the reform
of social welfare and health care
services to the extent that the Government has yet to even discuss it.
Although also Huovinen has
yet to declare her position on the
contents of the law, the bill is still
scheduled for presentation to the
Parliament during the ?rst half of
the year.
THE MOOTED
Make it a double
The restrictions to the retail sales
of beer have been laid out in a preliminary memorandum drafted by
of?cials at the Ministry of Social
Affairs and Health last autumn to
support the legislative process. Another group concentrates
on improving the test results.
The teaching of information and
communications technologies is in
need of reform, Pitkälä believes.
?Teachers and headmasters often not only lack in skills, but also
hold negative attitudes.?
Pitkälä stresses that he does not
mean the recreational use of IT but
the altering of a teacher?s role as a
mere informant to a mentor. ?There is no evidence that
they would reduce consumption.?
Instead, the restrictions would
hit especially corner shops and kiosks, Luoto argues, pointing out
that alcohol sales account for 1220 per cent of the sales of grocery
shops smaller than 400 square metres. The
measure is unlikely to be resorted to
due to vehement public opposition.
2) Tax hike. temptation to steal is
addressed on the spot.
Pages 3,4
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Mars & cars
The authenticity of a jelly donut
on Mars is disputed
As every politician uses populist rhetoric to
win votes, one should examine and question how such
groups differ from far-left
parties (like Germany?s Die
Linke), or, for that matter, the
political mainstream.
populist parties
?rst visibly emerged in Europe . speci?cally in Austria . Hungarian, Brit, or Austrian, for
instance, against everyone
else.
populism to a ?frivolity of
form, pose and style,. (Neue Kronenzeitung, January 1990).
RIGHT-WING
WHILE the 40,000 Romanians, frequently described
as ?waves of migrants. Some restrict
their propaganda to a perceived threat to their national
identities from ethnic minorities (e.g., in Hungary, Greece,
Italy, and the United Kingdom). Currently, however, opinion polls
show that having more rightwing populist members of
European Parliament won?t
change European policies. The rightwing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) won 27
per cent of the popular vote
in the 1999 national election.
also won 20.5 per
cent of the popular vote in
last year?s election.
THE FPO
TODAY, voters are concerned
about a variety of socio-political challenges. after the fall of the
Iron Curtain, when fear of
foreigners and of losing jobs
to immigrants became salient. Meanwhile, real divisions within a society such
as class, caste, religion, and
gender are neglected . The series continues to receive excellent feedback from readers.
YET,
the recent rise of rightwing populist parties cannot be explained only as a
consequence of the ?nancial
crisis. They claim to
speak for the nation and its
people. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. They arbitrarily de?ne or construct a homogenous in-group and demonise
In EU member states, the financial crisis of
2008 certainly played a role in the (re)emergence of neo-Nazi, fascist organisations
such as the Golden Dawn party in Greece
and the Jobbik in Hungary.
ing jobs to immigrants, of
losing national autonomy,
and of losing old traditions
and values, combined with a
disappointment with mainstream politics, government
accountability, and economic inequality, all help push
populations to a state of fear.
Satisfaction with the EU is
also at an all-time low . and ?authentic. These are the spices of late night conversation among
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The book is based on the Finnish After Dark series published in SixDegrees over the past few
years. The tabloids fueled this
fear with exaggerated statistics, printing headlines like
?40,000 Romanians at Austria?s borders. or
a ?tsunami,. Such an explanation
is too simplistic. They can be capitalists, socialists, women,
non-governmental organisations, the European Union,
the United Nations, the United States, Communists, governing parties, members of
the elite, or the media.
and prejudices differ depending on historical traditions and the
national, regional, and even
local contexts they?re used
in. A dynamic mix
of rhetorical style and rightwing content is what drives
such political entities to electoral success.
RIGHT-WING populist parties offer simple and clearcut answers to people?s fears
by constructing scapegoats
and enemies that they blame
for society?s problems. But in these
early days, it?s hard to tell
what will happen.. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. He
owns most of the Italian media, which then represents
his policies positively on a
daily basis.
SOCIOLOGIST Dick Pels says
that it would be dangerous
to reduce modern right-wing
IT IS Important to stress that
apart from endorsing a chauvinist, nativist view, and
an anti-elitist, revisionist,
and anti-intellectual stance
against the EU, right-wing
parties differ in their focus.
Some parties gain support via
an ambivalent relationship
with fascist and Nazi pasts
(e.g., in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Romania, and France).
OTHERS focus primarily on a
perceived threat from Islam
(e.g., in the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, and
Switzerland). They can be foreigners de?ned by race, religion,
or language. or,
when brought up, are interpreted as the result of ?elitist
conspiracies.?
STEREOTYPES
FORMER Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi?s media
empire is a case in point. They frequently portray
themselves as victims of conspiracies and campaigns, and
as saviors of the ?men and
women on the street.. The
scapegoats can be Jews, Muslims, Roma, or other minority
groups. and to
downplay its messages and
resonance. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. She is co-director of the Austrian National Focal Point (NFP) of the European
Monitoring Centre for Racism, Xenophobia and Anti Semitism.
Re/Inventing scapegoats ?
Right-wing Populism across Europe
T HE M A R K NE W S
HEL SINKI TIMES
THE RISE of right-wing populist movements across Europe has started to concern
not only European governments but also other countries around the world.
Analogies with other rightwing populist parties such as
the American Tea Party are
being made. They
cast themselves as modern
Robin Hoods. They
RIGHT-WING
pluralism, pitting the ?real. never arrived,
the public representation
and construction of fear was
highly successful. After all,
Switzerland, Austria, Norway, and Denmark are some
of the richest countries in the
world, but have some of the
most successful right-wing
populist parties in Europe.
(Switzerland?s
right-wing
Swiss People?s Party, for instance, won more than 26
per cent of the national vote
in 2011.)
IN MANY countries, national
causes have been combined
with xenophobic, anti-Semitic, or Islamophobic overtones, or (for member states)
a strong skepticism towards
the European Union.
THE ELECTIONS for the European Parliament in May 2014
will probably re?ect the recent success of right-wing
populist movements. own and do not represent
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VIEWPOINT
13 . Indeed, a victory of the centerleft is predicted. only
about a quarter of European
citizens say they are satis?ed
with current EU policies.
populist politicians are media-savvy. Fear of los-
are strategically provocative, and thus succeed in
setting the agenda in the media. Such parties also employ
physical violence against migrants like the Roma.
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Children under the age of
three should be seated in a rear-facing safety seat.
former employees of the National Traf?c Police. Children
who are roughly ten years old can use seatbelts like adults.
. allergy sufferers may be affected already in two weeks. he estimates.
The police disagree, pointing out that the recorded cases of causing a serious traf?c
hazard increased by eight and
all speeding cases by nine per
cent last year. ?The pussy willows bloom when they turn
yellow,. She?s been in the
patrol car for some time now,?
says the driver, Jorma Leipivaara. ?We continue
traf?c surveillance operations with Koskela despite the
organisational changes. ?We
remove gravel from cycleand walkways,. including Vu Long?s daughter . This
spring, the limits set for airborne dust particles have only
been breached twice in Hyvinkää, although high concentrations have also been
measured on the ring roads
and in downtown Helsinki.
With the roads still relatively wet, most of the dust
is likely to remain on the
ground, although last weekend?s sunshine allowed the
wind to blow some dust into
the air in Helsinki.
Myllynen estimates that
the spring is arriving one
month ahead of schedule.
Police at the turn of the year
has not affected traf?c surveillance operations, the police also stress. Pessi explains.
In northern parts of the
country, alder trees have yet
to start blooming.
Allergy sufferers in
southern regions may also
experience symptoms when
near common hazel shrubs.
Although the birch is not
expected to begin blooming
until mid-April . ?The swings between
colder and warmer temperatures encourage alder trees
to bloom gradually, and some
pollen will remain in the air
until early, even mid-April,?
says Anna-Mari Pessi, a senior scientist at the aerobiol-
Spring is arriving one month
ahead of schedule, bringing
with it allergy season.
ogy unit of the University of
Turku.
In southern Finland, the
concentration of airborne
pollen grains has spiked especially in the evenings and
nights, when air currents
transport more pollen into the region. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . he
af?rms.. reminds
superintendent
Heikki
TRAN
V E S A - M AT T I VÄ Ä R Ä
Up to 13 per cent of motorists flout seatbelt laws
Jorma Leipivaara waits for his girlfriend, after police caught her not wearing a seatbelt while in the passenger seat.
several police patrols. The
street dust will not be rinsed
away until night temperatures are almost certain to
remain above the freezing
point . for
their failure to use seatbelts.
A study conducted by the
Finnish Road Safety Council ?nds that 90 per cent of all
motorists and front-seat occupants used seatbelts in 2012.
On highways, the seatbelt use
rate jumped to 94 per cent.
However, only 87 per cent
of the motorists surveyed last
year indicated that they wear
seatbelts also in slow zones.
?Speeding and not wearing a seatbelt is a dangerous
combination. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . some two
weeks ahead of schedule . he
explains.
Typically, Alatyppö reveals, the spring cleaning
efforts do not begin until
mid- to late March.
At present, there are only
few dust particles in the air,
reveals Maria Myllynen, an
air quality expert at the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority. Also children are required by law to wear seatbelts. ?In our
region, we can maintain
traf?c surveillance operations at the levels of 2012,. The discontinuation of the National Traf?c
Spring allergy season looms
Another sign of
spring is that Helsinki has begun
cleaning its cycleand walkways.
K AT R I K A L L I O N PÄ Ä . A loose seatbelt may damage internal organs. ?My
girlfriend didn?t put on the
seatbelt when we left the supermarket. I think extreme speeding on the main roads has decreased,. Niiranen tells.
Sauli Kuha, the chief
of the Oulu Police Department, similarly views that
the organisational revamp
has been carried out successfully. ?I work here and there
as a pipe welder, so I drive a
lot. reminds Pessi.
Other signs of the spring
are also in the air, as Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa have
all begun their annual spring
street cleaning efforts. time,
when the tree is forecast to
begin blooming in Germany.
The willow is similarly
not expected to bloom until
mid-April although the ?rst
pussy willows have already
appeared. he explains to senior
of?cer Markku Niiranen.
Inside the patrol car, senior of?cer Kati Koskela issues Vu Long a petty ?ne of
35 euros, as she would later
do to several motorists and
vehicle occupants . ?During the campaign, we monitor
whether a certain age group is
more inclined to drive without a seatbelt than others,?
Ihalainen reveals.
A court of inquiry estimates that every-?fth road
accident death in 2012 could
have been avoided by wearing seatbelts. ?not a moment earlier,. I left the supermarket in such a hurry that I forgot,. 19 MARCH
3
The recent discontinuation of the National
Traffic Police has not limited the police?s
capacity to carry out traffic surveillance
operations.
Ihalainen from the National
Police Board.
This week, the Finnish Police have cracked down on
motorists who ?out seatbelt
and other safety regulations
as part of a Europe-wide enforcement campaign. says Niiranen.
The crackdown in central Oulu was carried out by
TA P I O M A I N I O . The risk of injury grows notably even at
residential speeds,. In addition, estimates suggest that the use
of seatbelts would have reduced injuries suffered in
road traf?c accidents by as
much as 90 per cent.
Some of the motorists
penalised during Sunday?s
crackdown in Oulu were talking on a mobile phone while
driving and were consequently issued a 50-euro ?ne.
?If you are talking on a mobile phone and driving without a seatbelt, you will only
be ?ned for the mobile phone
use. The mass of a
passenger may increase over ten-fold in sudden braking situations even at low speeds.
. Other police tasks have increased
moderately,. Children under 150 centimetres tall must primarily use a
safety seat or other safety devices designed specifically for
children.
. There are no compound
petty ?nes,. says Ville
Alatyppö, the director of the
maintenance unit of Stara,
which is responsible for the
management of Helsinki?s
streets and parks.
For the present, it remains too early to rinse away
the dust from the roads, because the mercury may yet
tumble at nighttime, causing the roads to freeze. ?The particles
tend to come down at night
time,. ?I
should have remembered to
belt up. A booster seat is used to ensure that the seatbelt is positioned properly over the child. H T
Vu Long waits for his
turn to sit in a patrol car
parked by the Kajaanintie
road in Oulu on Sunday. H T
L E H T I K U VA / M AT T I B J Ö R K M A N
ALDER trees in southern regions of Finland have already
started blooming due to the
unusually mild spring weather. stresses Alatyppö.
?Even now, we are taking a small risk by cleaning
the roads, because if the road
surfaces freeze, we would
have to grit them again,. Currently, traf?c surveillance operations
are conducted jointly by local traf?c police units and
Also children are required to wear seatbelts
. DOMESTIC
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HS
N IIN A W OO L L E Y . H S
NIINA WOOLLE Y . When I realised
how easy it was to slip sweets
into my pocket, the temptation to do it again just grew,?
S AT U PA J U R I U T TA . Temonen explained.
explains one of the youngsters
caught red-handed.
After the adolescents
were caught, the police proposed an on-the-spot mediation process among the
youngsters, their parents
and the shop owner.
In Helsinki, trial runs of
immediate mediation out of
court have mainly been carried out in the Kamppi shopping centre since last year.
The number of incidents of
vandalism by minors has
gone down after the implementation of the on-the-spot
mediation process.
The main idea behind mediation is to intervene in minor offences committed
by adolescents immediately. Usually this means that
security guards have to wait
with the offender for some
hours for the police to turn up.
If on-the-spot mediation
is agreed on, security guards
only need to inform the police.
The ?rst meeting between the
youngster, the parents and
the victim should be organised within a week.
L E H T I K U VA / J A R N O M E L A
CONTROVERSIAL
guage other than Finnish or
Swedish.
Besides income, the implementation of tuition fees
is also likely to create savings because, at least to start
with, the number of applications from foreign students
will go down as happened in
Sweden and Denmark.
According to statistics
presented in the report, if the
number of international students accepted on courses
went down by half, universities of applied sciences would
save around 20 million euros
a year and universities only
slightly less.
Currently there are
around 20,000 international degree students in Finnish
institutions of higher education, three quarters of whom
are from outside the EU and
the European Economic Area.
The working group led by
Päivi Lipponen (SDP) proposed last autumn that the
number of international students should be tripled to
60,000 by 2025, with fees
charged from students from
non-EU countries attending
degree courses organised in
a foreign language.
The working group led by Lipponen proposed that the number of
international students should be tripled to 60,000 in 2025.
Stolen Finnish passports
used for illegal travel
L A SSE KERKEL Ä . New passports
make this much more dif?cult,. 19 MARCH
HELSINKI TIMES
H S / R I O G A N DA R A
Tuition fees for foreign
students to be discussed
in budget talks
M A R JUK K A L II T E N . 40.1%
No . I feel embarrassed
now,. The outcome may,
for example, be that young
offenders scrub illegal tags
painted by them off the walls.
?The grapevine has been
effective as last autumn we
suddenly realised that there
was much less vandalism
than before,. time.
The goal is for the tuition
fees to cover the costs caused
by organising tuition, which
would mean a ballpark ?gure
of 2,000 euros for a year.
University fees did not
make the list of structural reforms proposed by the
government last November
but were included in the preliminary report drawn up by
a working group headed by
Martti Hetemäki, secretary
of state.
According to the working group?s report, students
coming from outside the European Economic Area will
be charged a fee for degree
courses organised in a lan-
Shop manager Kaisa Höysti checks the sweets shelves in the Lauttasaari K-supermarket.
On-the-spot mediation
can help youngsters back
on straight and narrow
When sweets disappeared into the pockets of two youngsters in their
early teens in a K-supermarket in Lauttasaari it did not go undetected.
curity camera images con?rmed her suspicions.
?I nicked the sweets because I wanted some but didn?t
have any cash. 4
DOMESTIC
13 . explains Heli Vainio, manager of the
Kamppi shopping centre.
In Kamppi, cases with
damages ranging from 30 to
700 euros have come under
mediation. According to
Kuivalainen, Finnish embas-
sies do not compile statistics
on Finnish passports reported lost or stolen overseas but
he believes that the number
is on the increase as people
travel more than before.
?I?m sure Finnish passports have also been used for
illegal travel. H T
tuition fees
for foreign students that have
been on the cards for some
time may come under debate
in the government soon.
According to information
received by Helsingin Sanomat, the Ministry of Education and Culture is preparing
a report to be handled in the
framework budget talks set
to kick off in a couple of
weeks. H T
PASSPORTS stolen from Finn-
ish tourists have also been
used for illegal travel, according to Kim Kuivalainen,
Deputy Head of Passport and
Visa Unit of the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs. H S
N IIN A W OO L L E Y . Se-
Who:
Tuukka Temonen
From:
Nastola
Famous for:
Director of the
documentary film
Presidentintekijät
Directed by Tuukka Temonen, Presidentintekijät offers a behind-the-scenes look at the successful election campaign of
incumbent President Sauli Niinistö in late 2011 and early 2012.
The film was shown to a full house in its first public screening
at the Tampere Film Festival on Thursday but it is also scheduled for its national première on 14 March.
The festival audience, which was hardly ordinary but also included a number of professionals of the firlm industry,
burst out laughing a number of times, especially when the
campaign staff commented on the appearance of Niinistö
and voiced their concerns about the outcome of the elections.
Temonen emphasised the message of the filmmakers while
answering questions from the audience. how big a
story lies behind those short utterances. says Vainio.
The mother of the youngster caught pinching sweets in
Lauttasaari is full of praise for
the mediation process. HT
KIMMO MÄNT YL Ä
THE SHOP manager Kaisa
Höysti had kept tabs on the
duo for some time as their
visit to the shop was taking
an inordinately long time. 59.9%
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi. she explains.
The shop manager made
the youngsters work out the
value of the stolen items and
then presented them with
her calculations on the hours
she had spent on the inventory of the sweets and drinks
shelves, going through the
security camera recordings
and dealing with the police.
?I didn?t realise how much
a minor theft could cost the
shop. ?The
shop manager was strict but
sympathetic,. says the youngster.
The parents were also taken by surprise by the thousandeuro sum quoted to them.
The shop manager Höysti wanted the youngsters to
make up for the damages by
working and, unable to offer
them work because of their
young age, she organised
them places in a local daycare
centre where both youngsters will put in 30 hours of
work in April and May.
Under law, a suspect
caught committing an offence
must be handed over to the
police. You must be able to
extract that,. ?It?s very important
that voters understand how much consideration goes into a
brief statement they see on the evening news . The process aims at getting offenders to understand
the consequences of their
actions and giving them a
chance to compensate for
the damage and to leave the
problem behaviour behind.
?We have wanted to give
youngsters a chance to get
back on the rails without further trouble,. he says.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Jussi Niinistö (PS), the chair of the Parliament?s Defence
Committee, believes that the conflict in Crimea demonstrates that Finland must increase its defence spending.
Is this necessary?
Yes
Aarnio,
in turn, is suspected of four
counts of aggravated drug
offence in relation to the
same case but has contested
all criminal accusations.
In addition, the crime
boss is suspected of aiding
and abetting fraud for misleading authorities by failing
to disclose his ties with Trevoc, which has supplied surveillance equipment to the
Helsinki Police Department
and the Finnish Customs.
In its ruling, the Amsterdam court views that the
authorities would not have
signed off on the equipment
acquisitions had they known
that the crime boss was one
of the funders of the supplier.
Helsingin Sanomat has
reported earlier that Trevoc is partly owned by a com-
pany founded by a sister of a
crime boss.
Helsinki court
overturns seizure
Meanwhile, the District
Court of Helsinki has overturned a seizure carried out
by the investigators, viewing that they had no legal
grounds to seize the personal mobile phone of inspector
Petri Rainiala, a member of
the Helsinki drug squad.
In particular, the court
reprimands the investigators for discrepancies in documenting the seizures, which
make it dif?cult to deter-
mine when the decision to
carry out the raids was made
and by whom. H S
THE FINNISH Security Intelligence Service (Supo) has
recently initiated several
pre-trial investigations into
suspected cyber-espionage attacks against Finnish entities.
According to Supo, the attacks
are believed to have been carried out by foreign nations and
some of them were successful.
The attacks were discovered with the help of national and international allies,
the intelligence service also
reveals.
The most signi?cant case
is the data security breach at
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs that has received considerable media attention
since last autumn. Instead, the leak was a consequence of the negligence of
the employees.
The spill is believed to
have caused substantial, albeit temporary damage to
the ?sh populations in the
Mätäjoki river by either killing or relocating all the ?sh
downstream from the plant.
The recovery of the environment has been facilitated
by the river?s residence time
. The
court ordered the suspect extradited on both charges.
The crime boss is suspected of ?ve counts of aggravated drug offence in relation
to the smuggling of roughly
800 kilos of hashish. and the
subsequent dissolution of the
toxin. The country suspected
of carrying out the attack remains unknown or has yet to
be disclosed to the public.
Supo has similarly refrained from commenting on
identity of the other authorities subjected to cyber-espionage attacks and on whether
the in?ltrators managed to obtain any con?dential information. Päivi Räsänen (Christian
Democrats), the Minister of the Interior, filed a request for inquiry about the matter after Helsingin Sanomat wrote that the police department does not enter its informants into a register.
5) The investigation has also come under notable criticism. Rainiala was
also deemed eligible for 500
euros in compensation.
Two other seizures of
property belonging to Rainiala were deemed lawful.
A complex case
1) At the epicentre of the extensive probe is Jari Aarnio, the chief of the Helsinki Police Department?s
drug squad, who is suspected of aggravated drug offences and aggravated acceptance of bribes.
The suspected drug offences are linked to a batch of roughly 800 kilos of hashish smuggled
into Finland and the suspected bribery to the surveillance equipment maker Trevoc. The defence counsel of Aarnio believes
the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) is ineligible to investigate the alleged drug offences,
because the suspicions stem from an operation conducted jointly by the KRP and the drug squad
led by Aarnio.
The investigators have also been criticised for the use of forcible measures, with the District
Court of Helsinki concluding last week that one raid carried out in the office of a member of the
drug squad was unlawful.. 19 MARCH
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Supo investigating
several suspected
cyber-espionage attacks
M IN N A PA S S I . CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
13 . ?The actions of
the of?cers in charge of the
investigation have compromised the legal protection
of the appellant,. Only some of the attacks
were detected and thwarted in
their embryonic stages.
Jari Aarnio (left) attended his detention hearing at the District Court of Helsinki on 15 November.
Negligence caused
toxic solvent leak,
police conclude
HS
THREE employees of the paints
L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I N U K A R I
manufacturer Teknos are suspected of aggravated impairment of the environment and
one of negligent impairment of
the environment over the leak
of an estimated 500-1,000 litres of toxic solvent into the
Mätäjoki river in Pitäjänmäki,
Helsinki, last May.
The leak occurred when
the employees were draining rain and meltwater from
the protective, underground
pools sited below the solvent
containers. In addition to Aarnio, two officers at the Helsinki Police Department have been suspended, one of them
being re-assigned to other duties within the organisation. In addition, the
man is believed to have funded the operations of Trevoc, which has supplied intelligence gathering solutions to the Helsinki Police Department and the Finnish Customs.
3) The ongoing probe has thrust the practices of the Finnish Police under the microscope. the mean amount water
spends in the river . Having wrapped
up their pre-trial investigation, investigators at the
Helsinki Police Department
concluded there is no evidence to suggest that the tox-
ic liquid had been released
into the river deliberately. It is currently investigated as aggravated espionage.
The Ministry for Foreign
Affairs has con?rmed that the
cyber-espionage campaign
continued for several years
and that numerous methods
were used to in?ltrate the network. The officers are suspected of aggravated abuse of public office for using forcible measures against telecommunications on insufficient grounds.
Moreover, three subordinates of Aarnio are suspected in relation to the information leaks.
4) Investigators also seek to determine whether the Helsinki Police Department has complied with
the guidelines governing the use of informants in police operations. Recent measurements
indicate that the solvent has
disappeared entirely from
the river and the ?sh populations are already beginning
to recover.
Dead fish in the Mätäjoki river in May last year.
Prosecutor to consider
charges in two cases
linked to Cannonball
HS
THE POLICE have wrapped up
their pre-trial investigations
into two drug cases linked
to the Heinola chapter of the
biker gang Cannonball, which
is suspected of involvement in
growing notable quantities of
cannabis for sale last year.
The other investigation
linked to the biker gang was
launched after one of its members was caught traf?cking performance-enhancing
drugs at a Lahti service station. H S
THE NETHERLANDS will extradite the crime boss wanted in relation to the ongoing
investigation into the actions
of Jari Aarnio, the chief of
the Helsinki Police Department?s drug squad, upon a
decision by the district court
of Amsterdam.
The crime boss ?ed Finland
in November after Helsingin
Sanomat wrote about his ties
with both Aarnio and Trevoc,
the surveillance equipment
manufacturer at the epicentre of the suspicions.The
suspect was detained in his
absence by the District Court
of Helsinki in early December
and apprehended by Dutch
law enforcement of?cials before Christmas.
The Amsterdam court delivered two rulings on his extradition, the ?rst regarding
the suspected drug offences
and the second the suspected
frauds related to Trevoc. In the subsequent house
searches, large amounts of
drugs, performance-enhancing drugs and erectile dysfunction drugs were uncovered.
Altogether, eleven people,
including two members of the
Heinola-based biker gang, are
suspected in the cases.
Netherlands surrenders
crime boss wanted in
relation to Aarnio case
The extradition
decision was made
by the district court
of Amsterdam.
M IN N A PA S S I ,
SUS A NN A R E INB O T H . the court
concluded.
Accordingly, the Helsinki court ordered the investigators to delete any
information obtained from
Rainiala?s mobile phone and
its SIM card. Investigators
also continue to look into the origin of hundreds of thousands of euros spent by Aarnio.
In addition, Aarnio is suspected of malfeasance and leaking confidential information to third
parties. He has firmly denied all criminal allegations.
2) The crime boss is suspected of involvement in the same drug offences as Aarnio
Children with immigrant backgrounds are 2-3 years behind
others on average in their
school success, the Pisa study
of 2012 reveals. NIKO RANTA
Greetings from a Helsinki
hospital: Welcome, sick tourists!
?THE PRIVATE Helsinki-based
hospital Helsinki Hospital
has begun operating under a
huge magnifying glass. The ?rst goal
should be that every person would move enough and
would ?nd a way to express themselves.
level is always the most important. Henttinen says.?
for 25 years does not automatically signify 25 years of
working experience.
?If one has 25 years of experience, is that the actual
length or does the experience
only correspond to one year
that has been repeated for 25
years?. For me as a former basketball player and as a big fan of volleyball, it has
been a huge thing that we will play in World Championship games in both these sports this autumn.
I THINK there is a lot to learn from both of these teams.
When we play well as a team we are bigger and better than
our individuals. Pälvimäki operated on a
Finnish male patient?s back
because of an intervertebral
disc protrusion.
?The surgery was successful and the patient was able
to go home the same day?,
Pälvimäki comments.
geries altogether, and up to a
thousand next year.
?One can speak of a health
tourism phenomenon. It at least
indicates that violence towards women is somehow a
more pressing problem to be
taken care of,. It is, nevertheless, something that is familiar,. It was more like an unbelievable
story which brought people together. We can do the same also as a society.
also brings together people in each country.
All nations are built on the base of culture. If the runners Hannes Kolehmainen and Paavo Nurmi ran us to the world map, our
own athletes, musicians and artists have kept us there.
Following generations should also have the right to feel
something like this.
CULTURE
Studies that focus solely on violence towards women displace attention from violence towards men or children.
?When addressing the issue
of violence towards women
while emphasising its nature
as a human rights issue, it intentionally or unintentionally
indicates that violence towards men or children is not a
human rights issue. It is also expecting patients from abroad. says Chair of Miesten Tasa-arvo ry (Association of equality for men).
The association highlights the fact that neglecting men?s experiences is
highly problematic, as violence towards men is easily
obscured, and men also tend
not to report their experiences with violence.?
Frustration with long
waiting times was one the
factors that produced the idea
of a private surgical hospital. ARNO RYDMAN
?Violence towards women cannot
be privileged in an equal society?
?MIESTEN tasa-arvo ry demands more versatile and
gender-neutral studies on violence. It is
the ?rst private hospital that
provides demanding surgical
care outside university hospitals. Managing Director and neurosurgeon
Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki states.
YLE 8 MARCH. More than two million Finns watched the television when Finland beat the
many times bigger USA in the ice hockey bronze medal
game and Teemu Selänne scored his last goals for the national team. It would be stupid to cut from precautionary work. The signi?cance of ethnic
background on learning is researched in a study that will
be completed by summer. During the big games, I try to plan my schedules
so that I can watch as many events as possible.
and Sport have a very important function.
In addition to public health it is a question of identity
and sense of community. We cannot
forget that culture can give us the same kind of relaxing experiences as sports. Top sports and
culture are of course extreme examples. My principle is
that every euro for sport and culture pays itself back
as a smaller cost in the social and healthcare budget.
Private hospitals in Helsinki are now expecting patients from abroad for all kinds of surgeries.
ILTA-SANOMAT 9 MARCH. ?. ?The number of immigrants at schools
has signi?cantly increased in
the last years. Those will have an effect for the rest of the life.
Still, there is not any con?ict between the professionals and the others. Researcher
Heidi Harju-Luukkanen has
studied the reasons for this
with a research group from
the University of Jyväskylä. In
turn, professionals need us who are ready to spend our
euros to watch their performances.
THE BASIC
WE HAVE many
public health problems in Finland. One may question whether teachers have
correspondingly received additional cultural training.. Even the toughest guys started to cry. I am one of those people who are crazy about
sport. It
is a widespread notion that
remaining informed is ad-
VERKKOUUTISET 7 MARCH. Fear
and laziness prevent new learning
?MANY MAY have careers spanning 25 years, yet only have
one year of working experience, says athlete whisperer
Matti Hentinen. According to the
Pisa study this does not seem
to apply to those with immigrant backgrounds,. Helsinki Hospital focuses
on the most dif?cult surgical
operations. They help us to ?nd ways to strengthen the
physical and psychical welfare of people. The
study is the ?rst of its kind in
Pisa countries.
?Finland has traditionally
been perceived as a country
that is able to support weak
students. The 43-year-old legend ended his career in
the Finnish national team after his sixth Olympics.
IT WAS not just a game. Outside the
bigger events we can follow games of our favourite local
team. It takes
place even if the old routine
does not work. Continuing to work
with old habits and outdated
information often leads to inef?ciency, which puts extra
strain on coping with work.
?All human action is guided by fear of losing control.
If one has to acquire new information and know-how, it
easily leads one to return to
what is old and safe. HarjuLuukkainen says.
The researcher believes
that the results indicate that
immigrants could be more ef?ciently supported. Young
people should have a chance to ?nd appropriate hobbies. Patients
may arrive from Russia or other European countries. MARCUS ZIEMANN
Dangerous old information . In both it is possible to feel
a positive sense of community and forget one?s problems, at least for a while.
CULTURE
AS A POLITICIAN I see Culture and Sport as a very important thing. Henttinen asks.
Continuous
additional
training, seeking new information and modes of operating do not suit everyone. Information and skills
quickly become outdated.
Henttinen has worked as
the coach of over 300 athletes and worked in the
business for over 25 years.
According to him, working
equate. For example neurosurgical operations, spinal
surgery, head and neck surgery are provided.?
AAMULEHTI 9 MARCH.
HEIDI HAKALA/STT
Immigrants
feel that
teachers are
not demanding
enough
?THE PISA results of the majority population and immigrants differ more in Finland
than elsewhere in Europe despite the fact that Finland has
been praised for its ability to
support those with the most
problems in school. For
example we can count the cost of immobility in billions. Professionals are role models for
young people and encourage them to try harder. A concert by your favourite
artist, a play or a nice book brings joy to everyday life.
For example there is much in common between a good
concert and a sports event. These numbers show that there is something
wrong in our society.
DURING the rough economic times we need to be brave
enough to invest in Culture and Sport. The previous
employee of Nokia thought
that he had been a pioneer for
19 years, until he changed profession. The same happened when Sami
Jauhojärvi crossed the line in the cross country skiing
as the Olympic gold medallist.
SPORT can give us signi?cant experiences. This year
it aims to perform 500 sur-
The company?s ?rst surgery was performed on Tuesday. He is also a member of Grand Committee and a
member of Education and Culture Committee.
The Power of Sports
THE POWER of
sports is incredible. According to the NGO,
blatantly one-sided studies must be discontinued,
as they provide a misleading image that easily leads to
more unequal policies.
In a recent study on violence by the European Union
Agency for Fundamental Rights
(FRA), only women?s experiences with violence were surveyed.
Men?s experiences were not addressed, which is a serious setback for advancing equality and
common equality policies.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R J A A I R I O
IN FEBRUARY I spent all my free time watching the Olympic Games. 19 MARCH
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Tuomo Puumala is the Vice President of the parliamentary group
of the Centre Party. I would
believe that the majority of our
patients are Finnish,. 6
13 . We all have our own favourites
But, says Kiuru, the
key to Finland?s universal preschool system is quality...?
game products Clash of Clans
and Hay Day, and Rovio?s Angry Birds. 6 MARCH
Wine may reduce
CVD risk in diabetics
alcohol intake,
particularly wine consumption, is associated with reduced risks of cardiovascular
events in patients with type
2 diabetes, according to research published online in
Diabetes Care.
?MODERATE
Juuso I. The premiere
Nordic power metal ensem-
?SONATA ARCTICA
ble, the quintet dropped
jaws with 1999?s Eliptica and
2001?s Silence, and 2003?s
Winterheart?s Guild and became Finland?s answer to
Dream Theater.
The 2000?s saw Sonata promote the expansive albums
For the Sake of Revenge, Unia,
and Days of Grays with global
tours. 9 MARCH
The secret of Finnish
game industry success
?ALTHOUGH Finland is undergoing an economic recession,
the Finnish game industry has
witnessed dramatic growth
in recent years and become
phenomenally popular, both
within the Nordic country and
beyond the borders.
The secret behind the success has sparked curiosity
among industrial observers.
Following the decline of
Nokia, Finland again attracts
worldwide attention for being
home of such top downloaded Apps, such as Supercell?s
RENAL&UROLOGYNEWS. 8 MARCH CLAUDIO SÁNCHEZ
What the US can learn from
Finland, where school starts at age 7
?FINLAND,
a country the size
of Minnesota, beats the US
in math, reading and science,
even though Finnish children
don?t start school until age 7.
Despite the late start, the
vast majority arrive with solid reading and math skills.
By age 15, Finnish students
outperform all but a few
countries on international
assessments.
Krista Kiuru, Finland?s
minister of education and science who met with education
of?cials in Washington recently, chalks success up to what
she calls the ?Finnish way.. study
author Jenni Kulmala, a
postdoctoral
researcher
from the Gerontology Research Center at the University of Jyväskylä, said in an
Academy of Finland news
release??
Poor fitness
in middle
age tied to
higher risk
of dementia
middle-aged people
rate their own physical ?tness could provide clues
about their risk for future
dementia, Finnish researchers report.
?HOW
Sonata Arctica?s frontman Tony Kakko (left) and keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg photographed in Helsinki, 15 May 2012.
EXAMINER. Eve-
XINHUANET. 7 MARCH SAKARI SUONINEN
Finnish banks say
loan demand falls
at slower pace
?DEMAND for corporate bank
loans in Finland fell in the
?rst three months of this
year at a slower pace than the
previous quarter, the Nordic
country?s main banking association said on Friday.
Demand is expected to
fall again in the next three
months, The Federation of
Finnish Financial Services
said in its quarterly report.
The economy in Finland,
one of the world?s few triple-A rated countries, is
expected to make a mod-
est recovery this year after
shrinking 1.4 percent in 2013
as investments slumped and
domestic demand fell.
The banking association
said a net 4 percent of banks
reported a fall in demand for
loans from companies in the
?rst quarter compared with
the same period in 2013.
That means 4 percent more
banks saw demand falling
than rising compared with
a net 27 percent in the previous survey three months
earlier...?
WOWKTV. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
13 . Blomster, M.D.,
of the University of Turku in
Finland, and colleagues investigated the effects of alcohol use on cardiovascular
health for participants in the
Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and
ry child in Finland under age
7 has the right to child care
and preschool by law, regardless of family income. This programme comprises 90 ECTS
credits and typically lasts 1.5 to 2.5 years. 19 MARCH
7
L E H T I K U VA / J A R N O M E L A
REUTERS. The band even
snaked through the United
States a couple times...?
NPR. The programme is offered in
English and can be completed alongside a full-time job.
To ?nd out more please check our web pages:
www.laurea.?/en/leppavaara
The application period is from 3 March to 1 April, 2014.. Over 97
percent of 3- to 6-year-olds attend a program of one type or
another. 7 MARCH PETER ROCHE
Finland?s Sonata Arctica deliver
more melodic metal on Pariah?s Child
have long
melded the art-rock esthetic
of the late ?60s and ?70s with
the acrobatic instrumentation of the ?80s. The Finnish game
industry consists of more
than 200 companies so far,
according to Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation.
More than half of the game
companies were established
over the last couple of years.
A signi?cant part of them develop mobile games, which
are applicable to almost all
existing platforms...?
Diamicron Modi?ed-Release
Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial.
The researchers found
that, during a median follow-up of ?ve years, patients
with diabetes who reported
moderate alcohol consumption, compared with those
who reported no alcohol consumption, had fewer cardiovascular events, including
cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction and
stroke...?
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Among people aged about
50, those who self-rate their
level of ?tness as poor are
four times more likely to develop dementia within 30
years than those who say
they have a good level of ?tness, the study suggests.
?Previous research has
shown that self-rated health
is a strong indicator of adverse health events,. The guys became veterans of the festival circuit,
notching key stops at Wacken Open Air, Tavastia, Noisegate, Ankkarock, and Metal
Fest Hungary
The combined net
sales of Finnish loudspeaker
manufacturers are an estimated 30 million euros, most
of which is accounted for by
the Iisalmi-based Genelec.
Genelec is a success story. to listen,
not only to speak,. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Russia, Ukraine and
economic sanctions
Arto Niiranen (L) and Rauno Kyngäs assemble Amphion speakers at the company?s Kuopio factory.
THE WEST is not pleased about what Russia is doing in
CRIMEA is well on its way to rejoining Russia. he views.
Hyvönen views that Finland lags considerably behind Sweden and Denmark
in the commercialisation of
consumer products but also recognises that the necessary sales skills cannot
be obtained overnight. I have doubts this is a good idea.
1) Genelec
With an annual revenue of roughly 20 million euros,
Genelec is by far the most significant Finnish loudspeaker manufacturer. he muses.
At least ten loudspeaker manufacturers vie
for the attention of consumers in Finland.
JUHANI SA ARINEN . The
New York Times is reporting that commercial ?ights
from the Crimean regional capital to Kiev are already
leaving from the international terminal, as if it is no
longer part of Ukraine. And diplomacy is the
best way to solve our problems.
The Amphion factory is located on the site of a former service
station.
Similarly to other manufacturers in Finland, Amphion
offer only few budget-friendly loudspeakers. The
most recent entry into the
competitive sector is Unmonday, which announced
in February that its wireless
multi-channel speakers will
soon hit the shelves of the
Apple Online Store and select
stores across Europe.
In light of sheer numbers,
however, the sector remains
SO IF the military option is out, and economic sanctions
won?t work, what can be done. Diplomacy. This is why I
favour closer economic ties even with troublesome and
rogue nations. He is the proprietor of the loudspeaker manufacturer Amphion.
The Amphion headquarters is located in a former Esso service station by the old
main road 5. Its most recent
result climbed moderately
into the black ink.
Overall, roughly a dozen
Finnish speaker manufacturers vie for the attention
of consumers alongside the
Kuopio-based company. On the other side of the success spectrum is Iran. A referendum is planned within weeks, while Russian and proRussian troops have taken control of the region. ?Our
opportunities lie in products that feature technological innovations but are not
only about branding,. 19 MARCH
HELSINKI TIMES
A R T T U KO K KO N E N
David J. Companies like Fortum,
Nokian Tyres and Stockmann have invested heavily across the eastern border. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi. Assembly, similarly, takes place
in Kuopio despite the high
cost of labour in comparison
to low-cost countries.
?Heads are cheap here,
hands expensive,. comments
Hyvönen.
Founded in 1998, Amphion
currently has six full-time
employees and has posted
annual net sales of nearly 1.5
million euros. Any con?ict that results in mutually assured destruction . Some
analysts have suggested Europe target Russian oligarchs and politicians in this manner, but they would
obviously retaliate similarly. says
Hyvönen.
?You must have a sound
understanding of your sector.
I therefore believe in what we
are doing wholeheartedly.?
Examples of Finnish speaker manufacturers
A R T T U KO K KO N E N
Ukraine. Economic sanctions have driven Iran to
the negotiating table,
which will hopefully
If anyone holds
end with Iran?s abanthe power in an
donment of what I am
economic showdown certain is a nuclear
weapons programme.
between Europe
ECONOMIC
and Russia, it isn?t
Europe.
RUSSIA,
though, is a
different story. Russians are one of the
most lucrative tourist segments. H T
IN THE QUEST for answers to
the Finnish economic gloom,
the same excuses have been
heard over and over again:
that the descent of Nokia has
crumbled the foundation of
the electronics industry, that
the forest industry is an industry in its twilight, or that
Finns are simply incapable of
creating consumer products
for export.
It may therefore be
worthwhile to take to heart
what Anssi Hyvönen and his
roughly one dozen employees
are up to in Kuopio.
Hyvönen?s
company
melds together wood and
electronics into products
that ornament living rooms
across the world, ?lling them
with sound. Annually, the
workshop despatches thousands of loudspeakers to destinations across the world for
prices ranging from 600 to
over 15,000 euros per pair.
The loudspeakers are
chie?y designed and manufactured in Finland. (As a
side note, this is precisely why I favour additional nuclear power plants. For 44
years, America?s trade blockade on Cuba has been a
dismal failure. A tenth of all Finnish
exports go to Russia.
THE MOST important economic issue is energy. is
likely to need diplomacy to solve. Military options are
out, thankfully, but they are instead thinking of economic sanctions. Some commentators are saying the only way to convince Russia is to withdraw is
sanctions.
sanctions have a mixed history. The majority of the products churned
out by the Iisalmi-based company are exported.
2) Amphion
Having gained recognition as a manufacturer of consumer loudspeakers, Amphion is now poised to unveil a speaker for professional use. Finland has played with
this new tool, even putting Vladimir Putin on a watch
list due to supposed ties with a motorcycle gang. Half of the net sales of the Kuopio-based company come from abroad.
3) OR
Having contract manufactured as many as 200,000
speakers per year in the 1970-80s, the Mikkeli-based
company Olavi Räsänen currently puts out speakers under its own brands OR and Chorus.
4) Gradient
The first pair of Gradient loudspeakers were built three
decades ago for the Sibelius Academy.
5) Aurelia
Founded by a former Amphion employee in 2007.
6) Penaudio
Founded in 1999 by a musician and an engineer who were
unable to find a pair of loudspeakers to their liking.
7) Harrin Kaiutin
A prime example of a one-man speaker workshop, Harri
Isoniemi has made speakers for over 30 years . Russia is an economic powerhouse
in their own fashion. Already the United States has put together a list of individuals who are under ?nancial sanctions and have had
their visas revoked or denied. The company has expanded by selling speakers
to recording studios and for
other professional use, and
today generates one-?fth of
its revenue from home audio
systems.
Ilpo Martikainen, the
chairman of the Genelec
board, views that the relatively high number of speaker manufacturers in Finland
is attributable to the low
threshold for entry into the
market.
Hyvönen, in turn, suggests
that the manufacturers may
draw inspiration from the silent landscape. A contract manufacturer based in
Karttula, Kuopio, is responsible for the enclosures. Why exactly should consumers fork out
one thousand euros for a pair
of speakers?
High-?delity sound reproduction, Hyvönen insists,
can bring joy to the lives of
everyone . professionally since 1995.. 8
BUSINESS
13 . HS
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . If economic sanctions are
put upon North Korea, for example, they really can?t do
anything about it. If anyone holds the power in an
economic showdown between Europe and Russia, it
isn?t Europe.
FINLAND has many economic ties to Russia, which is
undoubtedly one reason why Prime Minister Jyrki
Katainen is against sanctions. not only to enthusiastic hobbyists and audiophiles, who tend to lose
themselves in a blur of technical jargon.
Although Hyvönen also refers to concepts such as frequency response and room
mode, he insists that sound reproduction takes precedent.
?It has been a thing for
technically-oriented men,
but that?s not how it should
be,. The workshop is
unpolished, but the products
are far from it. We im-
port some ?10 billion annually from Russia, 83% of
which is petroleum, natural gas, electricity and coal.
Russia can in?ict much more damage upon us than we
can upon them if an economic war breaks out. ?Maybe it?s our
national character . Many Western countries want to ?nd ways to
coerce Russia into backing down. either via war or economics . I don?t think this would be
effective.
Finnish loudspeakers
are taking over living
rooms across the globe
relatively insigni?cant for
Finland. It would be prudent to reduce reliance upon a potentially belligerent trading partner.)
A NEW fashionable weapon is targeted sanctions. The writer is a journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times
According
to the results, 46 per cent had
postponed paying back a debt,
43 per cent buying a house,
38 per cent making some other major purchase and 38 per
cent starting saving while 16
per cent had put off starting a
family and 8 per cent getting
married.
Commissioned by Genworth, the study was conducted by YouGov Finland at
the end of 2013.
According to the survey,
26 per cent of Finns in general are worse off ?nancially than their parents were
at the same age. HT
LAST year, pension assets
exceeded 160 billion euros
for the ?rst time in the pension fund?s history, with the
investment returns accumulated over the year approaching 13 billion euros,
according to the Finnish Pension Alliance (Tela).
Tela states that their investment returns increased
more rapidly than on average
in the last decade.
The total yield from pension companies. The London-based company came up
with their new product, a mobile engagement platform, as
a response to the massive
consumer shift to mobile.
?The titans of the tech industry, such as Facebook and
Google, all struggle to ?gure
out how to work in mobile,?
Gunter points out.
The company was born
from the realisation that
customer service as we know
it does not correspond to the
current demand. This, according
to Telrock, boosts customer engagement, loyalty and
propensity to spend, whilst
delivering signi?cant cost
reductions.
?Imagine
a
scenario where your credit card is
blocked and instead of making phone calls, talking to
an IVR system and getting
through to a customer service agent, you can take your
phone and ?x that problem
by tapping straight into the
bank system. Despite the
increasing pension costs, pension providers are not dipping
into their capital yet as there
are still left-over returns that
can be reinvested, according to
Rissanen. By using Telrock?s
technology, customers can
manage their accounts using
the channels they prefer, at
any time of the day, without
the need to speak to someone
on the phone. They are cooperating with KAATO, a Finnish
business community initiative that offers international
companies help in their attempts to quickly establish
and expand operations in
Finland. KAATO has provided Telrock a fast-track to the
Finnish world class talent of
technology.
?Via our platform, we provide connectivity. They also want to be
in charge of their data, help
themselves online, and take
action in their immediate
moments of need.
Strong customer
engagement
The current competitive
landscape is fragmented between management consultancies, digital agencies,
mobile and product development specialists, telcos and
system integrators.
Telrock has reduced the
complexity and cost of the
transition by moving the entire engagement, service creation and integration process
to a single cloud-based mobile engagement platform.
The platform powers customer engagement with tools
and strategies to combine
and optimise mobile, social,
biometric and customer data
held in legacy systems.
Telrock?s clients utilise
the solution to automate and
hand over control for various
services to their connected
consumers. investments
went up to 8 per cent.
Survey:
economic
reasons
forcing
a delay
for major
decisions
HS
NIINA WOOLLE Y . HS
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . Exports
to EU member states, in contrast, only fell by three per
cent.
Exports to Canada and
the Netherlands decreased
particularly, whereas exports to the United Kingdom
and Spain increased.
The decline in the value
imports is similarly attributable to several major aircraft and vessel acquisitions
carried out in early 2013 but
also, to an extent, to the decrease in the imports of
crude oil, ore concentrate,
iron and steel. pensions now as pension
expenditures in the private
sector already exceed pension
contributions,. Innovative
companies can come along
and create customer service
solutions, put it on our platforms, and gain access to our
global network. Currently,
we have ten thousand enterprises on our network who
can give us access to two
billion consumers,. coffers. BUSINESS
HELSINKI TIMES
9
13 . As Telrock
puts it, it?s time to stop bombarding customers from all
angles and instead let them
talk to you.
EXECUTIVE
Empowered customer
The explosive adoption of
mobile and smart devices
has empowered consumers
and changed the way that
services and content are delivered. Gunter explains.
An empowered customer tends to be less loyal to
brands. This connected consumer trend, powered
by advances in biometrics,
cloud and social software, is
now forcing all industries to
adopt new business models.
?Consumers these days
feel that they can get informa-
tion wherever they are, whenever they?re in need. With the value
of imports only slipping by
seven per cent to 4.8 billion
euros, the Finnish trade deficit widened by roughly 80
million euros from 2013 to
465 million euros in January.
Finland?s trade de?cit for
the whole of last year was 2.3
billion euros.
In particular, the decline
in the value of exports is attributable to the delivery
of two major vessels in last
year?s January. That?s the kind
of service that we?re about,?
Gunter clari?es.
Great access
Recently, Telrock decided to
move a substantial part of
their development work to
Finland. So we?re
in a situation now where consumers feel that when they
want something from their
brand, they should be able to
get it,. HT
survey commissioned
by the ?nancial security company Genworth Financial reveals that Finns are putting
off major decisions because
of economic uncertainty.
According to the results,
almost half of Finns are
A NEW
Finnish
exports
plunge in
January
PIIA ELONEN . In Southern
Finland the ?gure was 30 per
cent.
Excluding the two major
vessel deliveries, however,
the value of Finnish exports
increased moderately from
the previous year, with the
exports of transport equipment, pulp and wood products especially growing.
Overall, the decline in the
value of exports is attributable to the 17 per cent plunge
recorded in exports beyond
the European Union. Pension companies
mainly invest in shares, commercial papers and property.
forced to leave making major life decisions, including
marriage, starting a family,
buying a house or some other
major purchase, or paying off
debts, until a further date.
The online survey was targeted at young adults between
the ages of 18 and 34 and it had
1,011 respondents. Imports from
non-EU countries fell by 13
per cent and from EU member states by 2 per cent.
Imports from Sweden and
Poland increased particularly,
whereas imports from Russia
and the United States fell.
Executive Chairman of Telrock, Roy Gunter, advocates an approach to customer service that he believes responds to demand.
Customer service revolution
about to take over Finland
A British software company has introduced an
enterprise-grade software solution that delivers self-serve customer service applications.
M ARI S TORPELLINEN
HEL SINKI TIMES
Chairman of Telrock, Roy Gunter, visited
Helsinki recently to introduce their latest innovation
in customer service. Gunter
sums up.
In Finland, Telrock has
recruited ex-Nokia executives and the team is about
to grow.
The basis of the software is a cloud-based application designed to empower the customer.. H T
PRELIMINARY statistics released by the Finnish Customs indicate. In addition,
the value of exported oil,
fur skin and pharmaceutical
products as well as machinery and appliances fell short
of the levels of 2013.
?Returns from pension fund
investments play an especially important role in funding
Finns. 19 MARCH
Y C AT G H P
Pension assets
exceed record
160 billion euros
ST T
NIINA WOOLLE Y . explains Maria
Rissanen, analyst from Tela.
The aging population is the
main drain on pension companies
His analysis on Iran?s missile strategy is
worth quoting at length.
Rubin questions the claim that the Iranian missile program is designed to deliver a nuclear warhead.
?From a western point of view, long range ballistic missiles make sense only when they carry a nuclear weapon. In 2001, with American
support, he helped topple
the Taliban as leader of the
Northern Alliance.
Chinese officials
debate why
China can?t make
good soap operas
CHINA
GU JIN GL U A N D W IL L I A M W A N
T HE W A S HIN G T O N P O S T
THERE IS no shortage of prob-
lems facing China these days:
a terrorist attack that recently left 29 people killed and 143
injured; corruption in government; a worrisome slowdown
in economic growth.
So when the country?s two
highest governing bodies met
in Beijing this week, what was
the burning issue on the delegates. They assert that in order to
?deter American or Israeli military action. It
has garnered more than 25
billion views online and has
shot up to the top of the country?s viewership.
Its premise may seem a
bit bizarre to Western soap
watchers. Since the 1990s, Iran
has moved towards missile-based deterrence.
The threats against Iran are not just theoretical nitpicking. His commentaries and analyses on international affairs are regularly published in the Finnish, Swedish
and English-language media.
Karzai on Sunday called
Fahim?s death ?a huge loss for
Afghanistan.?
While Fahim?s battle?eld
experience inspired respect
in many, to others he symbolised a new generation of Afghan warlords who pro?ted
immensely from his proximity to power and foreign aid.
By many accounts, Fahim
grew enormously wealthy
in the years after 2002, ?rst
during his stint as defense
minister and then as vice
president.
As he ascended the country?s political ranks, Afghans
and foreign diplomats alike
grumbled that they were
empowering a man with a
shadowy record. INTERNATIONAL NEWS
13 . The talks build
on the foundation of the interim agreement signed
last November. Iran has
?developed increasingly robust capabilities for asymmetric defense and deterrence?. According to Rubin, the ?Iranians believe in conventional
missiles?, which comprise their ?main striking power?.
Echoing the analysis of US intelligence, Rubin asserts that Iran will use its missiles if attacked and says
their main purpose is ?to deter any U.S. a legacy he would parlay into a
formal position of power under President Hamid Karzai. in
the Middle East after the end of the cold war enabling
it ?not just to ?preempt. perceived threats but to ?prevent. Missiles are for them what both
tactical and strategic air power are for the West.. Because of his sizable following
and ethnic clout, Fahim could
have been a force for unity or
instability, depending on how
he instructed his men to behave. It hurts our
culture dignity,. for his role during the various wars.
AFGHANISTAN
KEVIN SIEFF AND SAYED SAL AHUDDIN
THE WASHINGTON POST
?rst vice
president, Marshal Mohammed Fahim, a polarising leader whose political and military
career spanned the Soviet War
and the American invasion,
died Sunday. for
his role during the various
wars. them from arising in the ?rst place?by striking
?rst, with overwhelming force, whenever and wherever it deemed necessary.?
In January, US Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated that the US is ready to use of force against Iran
if diplomacy fails. 19 MARCH
A GLANCE AT INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Johannes Hautaviita is a journalist and a columnist for Helsinki Times. He specialises in international politics, in particular
the Middle East. Washington views this missile
program as an integral part of Iran?s nuclear ?threat?.
Three days later in a press-conference, Iran?s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif countered by
saying, ?[n]othing except Iran?s nuclear activities will
be discussed in the talks with the six powers and we
have agreed on it.. He was
long plagued by allegations
of drug traf?cking and corruption, which many say
helped enrich a growing circle of devotees, mostly from
his own Tajik ethnicity.
He built large homes and
held private games of Buzkashi, where men on horseback ?ght for control of a
goat carcass. It?s about an alien
who accidentally arrives on
Earth 400 years ago, meets
an arrogant female pop star
and falls in love.
Well aware of the craze
the drama has caused in Chi-. lips. The Iranians
don?t see it that way. Referring to the interim agreement,
he stated: ?We took the initiative and led the effort to
try to ?gure out if, before we go to war, there actually
might be a peaceful solution.. This is a legacy of Cold War thinking. Wang is head of the
Central Discipline Inspection
Commission, in charge of an
ongoing wide-scale anti-corruption campaign. But many
recognised that plucking Fahim from power would do
more harm than good, potentially upsetting a delicate
ethnic balance.
In 2002, when aid began ?owing to help create
a new Afghan army, Fahim
was thought to be one of the
main bene?ciaries. Restaurants cashed in
and started selling beer and
fried chicken meals.
One pregnant woman
from Jiangsu, a province in
eastern China, almost had
a miscarriage, according to
some news reports, after she
stayed up too many nights
binge-watching and eating
fried chicken and beer.
The show?s name in Chinese translates literally as:
?My Love from the Star.. Iran
can conduct limited offensive operations with its strategic ballistic missile program and naval forces.?
Uzi Rubin, former head of Israel?s Missile Defense
Organization and fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for
Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University is considered
among the leading analysts on missile systems in the
Middle East. (Wang, who
seems to keep a busy TV viewing schedule, is also reportedly one of the many ardent fans
within the party of the Net?ix
drama House of Cards.)
But he argued that the Korean soap opera also highlights how Chinese value
aspects of their traditional
culture that can be also seen
in the drama.
?The core and soul of the
Korean opera is a distillation
of traditional Chinese culture. one CPPCC
member said.
It?s not the ?rst time popular foreign entertainment has
led to handwringing in China.
In 2008 when Dreamworks?
?Kung Fu Panda. And while many foreign diplomats raised concerns about him privately,
Fahim was seen by many as
a man who had accrued too
much power to be dismissed
or marginalised.
On Sunday, a United Nations statement called him ?a
good and trusted partner of
the UN.?
It?s unclear precisely what
role Fahim would have played
in the country?s upcoming
presidential elections or the
subsequent political transition, but no one doubts that he
would have used his political
muscle to harness Tajik voters
5 April to secure his position
in the next administration.
Many believe he would have
supported Abdullah Abdullah, also a former Northern
Alliance commander. Wang Qishan said in surprising comments at one of
more important legislative
meetings, according to Beijing News. in
one episode, it became one of
the most invoked phrases online. at
the meeting by Feng Xiaogang,
a famous director and a CPPCC
member. This analysis is also supported by Flynt Leverett
and Hillary Mann Leverett, both former high-level foreign policy analysts at the US National Security Council and State Department. Russia
has also opposed the inclusion of Iran?s missile program in the nuclear talks.
From Iran?s point of view, its missile program is a
central component of its defensive security strategy.
According to the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),
Iran?s ?military strategy is designed to defend against
external threats, particularly from the US and Israel.
Its principles of military strategy include deterrence,
asymmetrical retaliation and attrition warfare. According to the Leverett?s, Israel consolidated a ?near-absolute freedom of military initiative. ?My heart trembles,?
he said, whenever waiting for a
movie to go through this rigorous censoring procedure.
?My wings and imagination are all broken,. He maintained
an enormous security detail,
which grew after a major Tal-
iban attack targeted his convoy in 2009.
Despite the allegations
against Fahim, he no doubt
played a crucial role in a multi-ethnic government that,
to some degree, helped unite
Tajiks and Pashtuns, the country?s two major ethnicities. It just propagates traditional Chinese culture in the
form of a TV drama.?
Mohammad Qasim Fahim,
Afghanistan?s first vice
president, dies at 57
US adopts hard
line on Iranian missiles
NEGOTIATIONS aimed at reaching a permanent settle-
ment of the nuclear dispute between Iran and the West
continued last week in Vienna, Austria. Iran?s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi emphasised that the issue of missiles is
?de?nitely among our red lines in any talks.. in the upcoming nuclear talks. said one
comedian delegate. Why
did it take American producers to ?nd the drama and hu-
mor in a fat panda learning
kung fu in China, many asked.
This time around, the
angst over the Korean drama
carries with it some bitterness with regional rivalries.
While China has long considered itself the source of East
Asian culture, the domination
of Japanese comics and Korean soap opera in Chinese pop
culture challenges that view.
One of China?s top seven
Communist Party leaders even
weighed in on the issue this
week.
?Korean drama is ahead of
us,. In contrast to the widespread condemnation of Russia?s illegal threats and
actions against Ukraine, illegal and routine US and Israeli threats and actions against Iran are a non-issue
in Western public discourse.
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Fahim Fahim was awarded the honorary title of ?Afghanistan?s
Marshal. He was 57. But she
didn?t go into further detail,
perhaps out of caution of offending those very censors.
Many viewed the massive
popularity of the Korean drama as a heavy blow to Chinese con?dence in their own
culture.
?It is more than just a Korean soap opera. or Israeli attack?. In that respect, he has
no clear successor.
The Afghan government
called for three days of national mourning, during
which the national ?ag will
be lowered to half-mast.
na, one committee of China?s political advisory body
(called the CPPCC) spent a
whole morning bemoaning
why China can?t make a show
as good and as big of a hit.
At a meeting of delegates
from the culture and entertainment industry, some
blamed it partly on China?s
censorship, euphemistically
referred to as the ?examination and approval system. The following rounds of talks will commence next week.
Although last week?s talks were hailed by both sides
as productive, serious disagreements still have to be
overcome before a ?nal agreement can be reached.
One such new issue is Iran?s ballistic missile program.
On 19 February, White House spokesperson Jay Carney
asserted that the Iranians ?have to deal with matters
related to their ballistic missile program. became a
runaway hit in China, it led to
similar soul-searching. A South Korean
soap opera that has taken the
country by storm.
To be fair, it?s hard to overstate just how popular this
show is these days. He
died of an undisclosed illness,
according to Afghanistan?s
presidential palace.
AFGHANISTAN?S
Fahim?s death leaves Afghanistan without one of its
most controversial ?gures,
who was expected to play an
in?uential role in the country?s security establishment
and its complicated ethnic politics after the American military withdrawal this
year.
Born in 1957, Fahim ?rst
gained notoriety as a young
commander during the Soviet occupation of the 1980s
and then as an anti-Taliban
leader in the 1990s . After the
show?s female lead mentioned
?beer and fried chicken. After he ran for of?ce as Karzai?s
vice president in 2009, photos
of his likeness were plastered
all over Kabul, where they remain today.
Karzai awarded Fahim
the honorary title of ?Afghanistan?s Marshal
Cars have
long been installed with so
many electronics that taking
out the battery may confuse
the vehicle computer or central locking and break controlling devices and electric
PERT TI JARL A
sensors. Doing so
adds an extra step to the pro-
The SwiftKey app helps avoid
those goofy auto corrections.
QuickOffice
One of Google?s lower-pro?le apps, this has a lot of value for those who do a lot of
work on mobile devices. In the worst case scenario an incorrectly fastened
tire comes off during driving.
Tires are often tightened too
much by hand, which is not
good for the rims. Too little or excessive pressure adds fuel
usage, weakens driving features, shortens the lifespan
of a tire, and may even cause
it to explode.
Headlights directed wrong
Installing light bulbs of headlights is very tricky in many
car repair shops. A
new fuse may be placed in the
wrong spot by an amateur or
be the wrong kind. Braking
with improperly maintained
brakes may cause the car to
pull severely to one side.
Questions were answered
by entrepreneur Erik Hellberg from Autoverkstad A &
A Hellberg, entrepreneur Jussi Lindholm from Loimaan
Autohuolto and entrepreneur Markku Salonen from
Roihupellon Autokorjaamo.
Taking out the battery may
confuse the vehicle computer
or central locking and break
controlling devices and electric sensors.. Free, for iOS and Android.
get a clear view of where it
had roved from, it was obvious . But
while using SwiftKey for your
iOS typing may lose you some
time, it may help you save face.
Free, for iOS.
Jelly doughnut
on Mars mystery
solved: broken rock
RICHARD A . H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . When lifting the car,
the jack may also give out,
posing a danger to people
while damaging the car.
Tires set incorrectly
Some tires are meant to roll
in a certain direction, i.e.
they should only be used on
a single side of the car. This may freeze during
cold weather, cutting the trip
short. that a rover wheel had rolled over a
rock, broken off a bit of it,
and sent the chip downhill to
where it was seen days later.
The dark red ??lling. The right ratio
of water and washing agent
can be found in the washing agent canister. There are
some, however, who will be
disappointed with QuickOf?ce . Neglecting either may lead to a bill
of thousands of euros that is
not covered by insurance or
warranty.
Brake pads
installed incorrectly
Most people do not attempt
to change brake pads, and
those who do often do it
wrong. Newer cars also
often require a programme
that identi?es a device that is
added to the car.
Owner has cut
back on maintenance
During unstable times many
cut back on maintenance
costs. Detaching
bolts that have been fastened
too tightly may even cause
the bolt to break.
Battery installed wrong
Changing the battery is not
usually dif?cult, but it causes
many problems that need to
be ?xed at garages. could
have formed geologically recently after erosion exposed
the rock at the surface, scientists said, or it could have
formed long ago deep within
Mars. Using Google Drive,
you can only read Of?ce documents, even if they?re stored
in your Google Drive.
QuickOf?ce also offers
you a little more ?exibility in
general . by
applying its algorithms to improve Apple?s AutoCorrect.
Rather than integrating into the keyboard, SwiftKey?s app is a note-taking app,
which offers users three options for each word they type
to increase speed. Changing the pads
can be done rather easily, but
often the brake caliper is left
unclean or a brake disc in bad
condition goes unnoticed.
This will call for a visit to
the car repair shop. The wheel track
helps tell the story: opportunity drove over the rock, broke it and
one of the pieces was knocked downhill.
Ratios, pressures, angles and other settings can go wrong when approaching car repair as a DIY project.
13 ways to ruin your car
PERT TI JARL A
According to mechanics there are fewer doit-yourself car tinkerers each year. Only oil and air ?lters may be changed during
a scheduled maintenance,
but for example changing
fuel ?lters may be left out.
Water condenses in old ?lters of diesel cars in particular. KERR
S C I E N C E /A A A S
11
This February image from the panoramic camera on NASA?s Mars
Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the location of the ?jelly
doughnut rock,. The wrong kind of oil may
block the exhaust system,
which may cost over a thousand euro.
Tow bar
installed independently
Installing new equipment
should be left to professionals. namely those who used
the product before Google acquired it. This, of
course, does not help if both
light patterns are wrong.
Being thrifty
with washing agent
Too mild a washing agent in
the container for windscreen
washing agent may freeze in
cold weather or even break.
Also, the pump motor that
pumps the liquid onto the
windscreen may break. The pattern may
be checked by driving the car
close to a wall and comparing light patterns. Yet car
repair shops have to constantly fix mistakes
made by car owners.
T U O M O TA M M I N E N . Since the acquisition, the app has lost some
features, namely integration
with services such as Dropbox. as mission scientists
had speculated . H T
Wrong air pressures in tires
Tire pressures should be
checked once a month but
many only do it when they
change tires. An attached cord
may remove plastic from the
front bumper if the plug is
connected to it.
Fuses in the wrong places
Fuses can burn out in cars
too, which means that some
part that is operating with
electricity, such as wipers
or lights, no longer works. The
app differs from Google?s other major of?ce productivity app, Google Drive, in some
small but key ways. 19 MARCH
App reviews:
SwiftKey, QuickOffice
H AY L E Y T S U K AYA M A
THE WA SHINGTON POS T
SwiftKey for iOS
Failures in predictive text algorithms may be great fodder
for humor websites, but those
goofy typos can be maddening. electric
systems. But the
show?s over, folks. SwiftKey has been one
of the most popular keyboard
apps for Android, as an app
that lets you swipe to type.
Apple, however, does not allow developers to modify
its keyboard. QuickOf?ce?s main appeal is that it
works with Microsoft Of?ce
?le formats, even if they?re
not stored on Google Drive. NASA announced late last month that,
once Opportunity turned to
PERT TI JARL A
cess, which understandably
may turn off some users. For example installing
the tow bar requires knowledge of newer cars. So SwiftKey is
looking to improve typing on
iDevices in another way . Winter tires that are set in the
wrong direction may easily lose their studs, while the
treads of summer tires are
set so that they do not propel water from under them.
In both cases traction becomes less effective and tires
deteriorate.
Bolts set too tightly
Many cars have different
bolts and knobs in the rims
of summer and winter tires.
They get easily mixed up,
though. It appeared in front of the Opportunity rover as if it had
fallen from the sky, and its
resemblance to a jelly-?lled
doughnut stoked the media?s
interest all the more. It also learns
your habits as you use it, so it
saves you time in the long run.
The app hooks into Evernote,
so you can type excellent constructed notes for yourself.
You can also share the notes
over email or text. it?s a stronger editor than Google Docs and has
an easy interface that makes
it simple to use. This is why transferring current from one car to
another may affect the electronics of both.
Heating cord not removed
It is good to pre-heat the car
in the winter, but the cord
should be removed before
driving. End of story. A light jack may not last
through normal summer and
winter tire changes for many
years. So
if you get an email with a Microsoft Of?ce ?le you want to
edit, you can open it in QuickOf?ce right from the attachment. People also leave out
changing distributor straps
and oil changes of automatic transmissions. This is not
too dangerous, though.
Wrong oil in the engine
Oil change is becoming increasingly challenging, as
engines are particular about
the kinds of oil they operate
on. lower left arrow, discovered in January, and the
bigger rock from which it broke off, center arrow. On to the
next rock.
N A S A / JP L-C A LT EC H / CORNEL L / A RI ZON A S TAT E
NO ONE HAD ever seen anything like it in the quartercentury of exploration on
the surface of Mars. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
HELSINKI TIMES
13 . It is also
worth keeping in mind that
the temperature may drop by
20 degrees in a week.
Sill panel crushed by jack
Cars have their designated spots for setting the jack.
While changing tires some
may lift the car from the
wrong spot, which results
in creases in the sill panel.
Many use their own jack for
changing tires, which is usually meant for emergencies
only. Repair expenses may amount
to hundreds of euro in some
car models. The light
bulb easily gets stuck in the
wrong position, which results in the wrong kind of
light pattern. It?s not going
to replace your computer for
composing long documents,
but it is a great tool for when
you?re on the road. This, in turn,
weakens visibility, especially
in the dark
Anni was still so small.
FOR A LONG
He had the ?u as well.
Three weeks later he discovered he had once again been
diagnosed with leukemia.
An infection that spread
from a harmless haemorrhoid surgery resulted in a
burning pain in his back, and
Hagqvist went to the emergency room in the middle
of the night. 19 MARCH
HELSINKI TIMES
HS / K AI SINERVO
due to dehydration and a lack
of protein. Hagqvist lay in diapers in bed with a fever of 40
degrees and crawled to the
bathroom once in a while.
Chemotherapy was followed by a low-cell phase,
during which the body?s defence mechanism against infections was nonexistent. Hagqvist knew that.
?There are people who
have fought incredibly hard
and still died, and then
there are the biggest losers
who went home and started
drinking in between treatments and survived. As the researchers summed it up,
trolls just want to have fun.
Trolling
enjoyment
showed the strongest association with sadism, prompting the researchers to
conclude that ?the Internet is
a sadists. Even though the treatment of leukemia was de?ned
in detail, Hagqvist faced problems in the treatment of pain.
One thing does not call for
explanation. The ?rst phase of
chemotherapy had worked.
Hagqvist got to visit home.
?The fact that the treatment had been successful is
not in?uenced by what I had
done to be in shape myself. I decided that if there was even the
smallest chance of in?uencing whether I will make it or
not, I would do everything I
could,. It would be practice for
next summer?s triathlon in
Frankfurt: 3.8 kilometres of
swimming, 180 kilometres of
biking and 42 kilometres of
running.
Yet Hagqvist did not dare
leave. Involved in the writing of the Triatlon: voita itsesi book that
was published in January (Fitra). a competition that needs to be
won.
No one decides such a
thing. A
donor for the stem cells cannot be found within the family.
That had been learnt during the
previous cancer.
From that morning in August onwards Hagqvist spent
100 nights in the hospital.
During the ?rst treatment
period the membranes of the
mouth and of the oesophagus were broken by the cytostatics. The doctor had
even worse news. For two weeks he
slept sitting. It was the only
position that eased the headache that had ensued from
the treatment.
In February Hagqvist skiied 21 kilometres in Jämi.
?I believe that exercise
contributed to my healing.
Whether it in?uenced ?ve
per cent, ?ve or ten, I cannot
say, but small details make a
difference?, Hagqvist says.
Not doing it alone
Hagqvist does not claim that
being cured is up to oneself.
That would be a lie.
?I have given peer support
for many people who have
leukemia and all of them
have experienced my encouragement for exercising
as positive,. and ?the
more beautiful and pure a
thing is, the more satisfying
it is to corrupt?.
As expected, the respondents with the highest scores
for the darkest human character traits also enjoyed
trolling the most. The leukemia
had relapsed.
Hagqvist had never felt
such rage before. and ?hurting people is exciting?. playground where
they come to have fun?.. HT
A CANADIAN study has ?nally con?rmed what many have
suspected for a long time:
something is rotten in the
minds of trolls.
The results indicate that
sadistic, psychopathic, narcissistic and Machiavellian
characteristics are exceptionally strong among Internet trolls.
The researchers from
three Canadian universities
recruited volunteers online
and among the students of
their universities and posed
them questions designed
to assess the darker human
character traits.
The respondents were
requested to evaluate how
strongly they agreed with
statements such as ?it is
not wise to reveal your secrets?, ?revenge should be
swift and mean. Married to professional triathlete Tiina Boman. The body
has to have additional nutrition in case an appropriate
stem cell donor is found.
Hagqvist prepared for the
transplant as he would for
a sports accomplishment:
walks, running and dashes
on the sawdust track. Hagqvist drank until
the glass was empty. On the other
hand, stem cell transplantation involves signi?cant
risks.
What if he will not be able
to see his daughter grow up?
During St. The
body?s immune system had
broken down. Stephen?s
Day (Tapaninpäivä) 2011
Hagqvist received his ?rst
blood cells. How
could it take so long to get his
pain medication?
Hagqvist did not listen as
the doctor tried to explain.
Order the paperwork of the
previous treatment from
Kuopio University Hospital,
he demanded. Three
weeks after Anni?s birth he
was set to compete at Lanzarote?s Ironman competition. Hagqvist recalls.
The power of will
Losing control is frightening.
Working as a sports coach
and company management
trainer Hagqvist is accustomed to telling others how
to do things. The next day he began to work out.
The ?rst exercise consisted
of 50 metres on the hallway of
the hospital. 37-year-old company management coach and sports coach.
. The terminally ill deserve treatment, but
according to Hagqvist many
ailments could be cured by
adopting new life habits and
taking charge over oneself.
?I am a bohemian by nature and I have learnt selfdiscipline in order to achieve
my goals.?
In the spring that followed
the transplantation Hagqvist
had yet another goal: a full
triathlon in Barcelona. 12
PEOPLE
13 . Not now!
He had a small daughter, his
wife had just successfully returned to being a professional triathlete and his company
was doing well.
The doctor was on the receiving end of his anger. It
was damn good luck.?
At home Hagqvist ate pizza and hamburgers. You will
drink enough of this protein
drink to get you slowly back
on your feet,. I
must have been a rather infuriating patient.?
Hagqvist wanted exact information on the different
phases of the treatment and
justi?cations for the procedures. the nurse said.
The nurse calculated how
much protein powder has to
be mixed in the juice, and how
many glasses Hagqvist had
to drink to consume enough
calories. His stomach was
a mess. The
tight schedule of the company coach and triathlete
had to be reorganised. The
body gained 20 kilograms
Research: Internet trolls are
sadistic, narcissistic and psychopathic
J A N I K A A RO . Hagqvist walked
it leaning on the walker.
After a couple of days
Hagqvist walked for 400 metres, and soon 800.
After six weeks in the
hospital the doctor had good
news. I applied the teachings of everyday life to the
sickness and tried to be in
control as much as possible. These
questions are designed to
measure the strength of manipulative, or Machiavellian,
psychopathic and sadistic
character traits.
After completing the personality test, the volunteers
answered questions on their
Internet behaviour, including how frequently they commented online and whether
they preferred trolling.
The results showed that
most people only read online
The long road back
One night a familiar nurse
entered Hagqvist?s room and
looked at the man lying on
the bed in miserable shape.
?You will not die during
this shift, damn it. Finding a donor meant that it was possible to get better. He decided that leukemia is like
any other challenge . Then the nurse injected an analgesic intravenously. It
went on for three weeks.
Not giving up just yet, Hagqvist looks to the future.
Triathlete who has defeated two
cancers: There is no giving up!
When company coach and triathlete Antti Hagqvist was diagnosed with leukemia, he began
training for stem cell transplantation much like for a sports performance.
H E I D I VÄ Ä R Ä M Ä K I . Installing the central
artery catheter was not
successful, and eating and
drinking was painful. Hagqvist says.
He is aware that he sounds
tough, but he critiques it
when people place too much
responsibility for their welfare on society. The cancer
was cured with heavy chemotherapy, but it was possible that the treatments had
destroyed his reproductive
ability.
Then Anni?s arrival was
announced.
Naturally he went bonkers over her, the most adorable girl in the world. Earlier books include Bisnesatleetti (Johtajatiimi)and Aja Kovempaa (Fitra).
discussions without taking
part in them.
The ?ve per cent of the
respondents who were classi?ed as trolls also received
the highest scores for sadistic, psychopathic, narcissistic and Machiavellian
characteristics.
In another study, the researchers focused on trolls?
behaviour patterns and the
motivation behind trolling.
The volunteers were
again asked to assess various claims, including ?I enjoy
trolling people in online discussions?, ?I like making fun
of people in games. It tore
the broken esophagus.
More medication and another glass.
After two days Hagqvist?s
blood contained white cells
for the ?rst time in weeks.
The fever went down to 38
degrees. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . He
went on to ?nish with a time
of 12:04.
Antti Hagqvist
. Coached road bicycle racer Jussi Veikkanen and American
football player Michael Quarshie, triathlete Jarmo Hasti and
skier Ristomatti Hakola, among others.
. In order to defeat
the cancer, stem cell transplantation has to be performed in
addition to chemotherapy. To leaders he
said that half of the survival chances lie in one?s own
hands.
Now Hagqvist cannot decide to make it.
?I believe that being sick
is mentally more dif?cult for
people who are used to being
in charge. Then Hagqvist
took his laptop and cancelled
upcoming meetings. H S
NIINA WOOLLE Y . The couple has a daughter aged two.
. H T
time before his
daughter Anni was born in
May 2011, Antti Hagqvist
believed that he may never
be able to have a child.
Ten years earlier, at age
24, he had been diagnosed
with leukemia. A donor had been
found in Germany.
The crying would not stop.
The tears were mixed with
relief and fear. His haemoglobin was below 80 and
white cells under one. Often participate in the same triathlon competition.
. On the
top of the hill the heart rate
monitor shows 190.
In early December the
phone rang
?We dare not
do any more than that. The
?rst display focuses on the
Kokemäenjoki River area,
while the latter recounts the
life of the people of Satakunta
from the cradle to the grave.
With Satakunta Rises From
the Waters. At the Renovation Centre Toivo, visitors
can learn more about the
built heritage of the region
and get advice on how to preserve the historical value of
their houses.?
Satakunta Museum
Hallituskatu 11
Pori
Web: www.pori.fi
Tel.: +358 (0)2 621 1078
satakunnanmuseo@pori.fi
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?1.50-5
S ATA K U N TA M U S E U M / P E N T T I P E R E
The waters. LIFESTYLE
HELSINKI TIMES
Pori, Neanderthals and the biggest medieval money cache ever found.
YANNICK ILUNGA
HEL SINKI TIMES
THE
SATAKUNTA
MUSEUM
was established by the Pori
Finnish Society in 1888 and
has served as the central regional museum since 1980.
The venue is the leading expert authority on preservation and cultural heritage of
the province of Satakunta. The
most important thing is to
mobilise people,. The photo was taken during Kraftwerk?s
performance on 11 August 2013.
a festival boom that is taking
place, particularly in Central
Europe and Asia. And from 16 April
we will be hosting The Neanderthals, a temporary display
that presents the history of
Neanderthals and the world
they lived in.?
Pori?s Satakunta Museum presents both the prehistory and history of the Satakunta region.
13
Music festival ticket prices soar
Visitors to next
summer?s music
festivals will have
to pay higher ticket
prices than before.
According to the
organisers this is
not enough.
H E L S I N G I N S A N O M AT
The history and
culture of Satakunta
13 . adds Ruohonen.
?The Cultural-historical museum, for example, currently hosts Daamit ja plyymit,
an exhibition that presents
women?s fashion between
1860 and 1930. The odd
equation can be explained by
Flow will soon announce ticket prices and programmes. In addition to the
three hundred hired artists,
we have three thousand people performing for the pure
enjoyment of playing.?
Kuhmo?s ticket prices
are high due to its location,
which necessitates higher
prices for ?ights and lodging
for artists. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . Currently,
festival organisers are boding well, as they are negotiating with crucial artists.
Results will also determine
the upcoming summer?s ticket price, which is certain to
be higher.
?We will have to increase
prices, but we will make sure
to do so in moderation,. All festivals have increased prices, some by up to almost 50
per cent. It resides in a building designed
by architect Olaf Küttner in
1973 and is comprised of four
different units that give visitors a lively picture of the
past and present of the Satakunta region.
?The Cultural-historical
museum, for instance, tells
about the prehistory and history of the region,. lap and
the course of life
The permanent exhibitions
Satakunta Rises From the Waters. 19 MARCH
J U S S I L E H M U S V I R TA . ?While Finland is one
of the most expensive euro
countries, our festival ticket prices are close to Eastern
Eurospean levels.?
At least in terms of the
Gothenburg-based Way Out
Fest festival, which is similar to Flow, Kallio is right. In addition, muse-
umgoers get facts about Pori
in the 19th and 20th century,
about trades, sea and industry, as well as the nationally celebrated anthem The
March of the Pori Regiment
(Porilaisten marssi) and
Porirock.
The second ?oor of the exhibition highlights the rich
prehistory, later history and
cultural heritage of Satakunta through an extensive collection of objects recovered from
a Bronze Age tomb in Nakkila.
The collection includes a woman?s bronze comb, which is a
unique piece in Finland.
Furthermore, the ?oor
also displays the traditional country shop Pekkala
and the treasure of Ulvila,
the biggest medieval money
cache ever found in presentday Finland.
The second permanent
exhibition, The Course of
Life, is situated on the museum?s top ?oor. On the other hand,
Kaustinen has increased pric-
es by 40 per cent within ?ve
years, and Kuhmo only a ?fth.
Executive director of
Kaustinen Sini Keränen is
able to explain this. festival roulette ?nally springs into motion.
Which event has snagged the
most interesting artist?
Ilosaari or Provinssi?
Or is it Ruisrock?
Or even Kaustinen?
Are they all perhaps worth a
visit?
And what does this cost?
Many visitors to music festivals feel that ticket
prices tend to be higher each
year, but is this true?
In order to ?nd out, Helsingin Sanomat compiled a list
of the most important festivals and investigated how
their prices have evolved.
The result is clear. Last year
revenues had doubled but
pro?t amounted to only approximately 50,000 euros.
The pro?t marginal is truly insigni?cant.
?It does not take many unsold tickets for us to operate
at a loss?, Kallio says.
Other festival organisers
also con?rm that artist prices have strained margins.
Next summer, Ruisrock and
Provinssirock will no longer
have the same prices, as the
latter will become a two-day
festival.
NOW IS THE
Shifting importance
Ticket prices go up, yet organisers take the hit. If one were to visit
all locations on the map, the
entrance fee would be almost
a third higher than ?ve years
ago. Lap, visitors take
a look at the past and present
times of the Satakunta province and the city of Pori. Here, visitors can learn more about the
people of Satakunta through
a unique showcase: two
chambers from Fritz Arthur
Jusélius?s home.
?In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the museum features a series of
temporary ones across the
four units,. Raw competition
is not acknowledged within the ?eld of classical music
in the same way it is when it
comes to rock festivals.
?When other festivals
are doing well, so do we. The
Finns are used to low festival
prices.?
Prices
for festival
tickets have
risen 10%
in the past
five years
Ruisrock,
Turku
Ticket price
now: ?125
Provinssi,
Seinäjoki
Ticket price
now: ?95
+14%
+13%
Flow Festival,
Helsinki
Ticket price now:
?159
Ilosaarirock,
Joensuu
Ticket price now:
?95
+27%
+56%
Kuhmon
kamarimusiikki
Ticket price now:
?510*
+20%
Kaustinen Folk
Music Festival
Ticket price now:
?140*
+40%
*) Weekend
Compiled by: Jussi Lehmusvesi / HS
Graffic: Leila Nieminen / HS
Petri Salmén / HS. H T
exciting time
when even the ?nal summer
festivals are announcing their
programmes, and the music
lovers. significant discounts on food, for
example. What about
elsewhere. ?Every year
includes a small margin and a
huge risk.?
The claim sounds strange.
Flow has been the rising star
of festivals throughout its
history, praised by music reporters, loved by audiences
and often sold out. The
situation has since stabilised.?
The ticket prices of
Kaustinen are mostly affected by an increase in production costs, such as food.
?Additional expenses are
caused by musicians. Kallio
states. It can be
frustrating,. explains
Juhani Ruohonen, director
of the Satakunta Museum.
?The Rosenlew Museum presents the industrial heritage,
while the Ark Nature Centre
highlights the coastal natural environment. The
ground ?oor section of the
exhibition presents the history of Pori since its founding
in 1558. Executive
director Sari Rusanen says.
Let us return to Flow Festival and the Helsinki metropolitan area. At the Ark
Nature Centre, visitors can
learn more about how birds
and people live together with
Lennossa. Four
years ago Flow resulted in
125,000 euros in pro?t on sales
of a couple of million. ?Kaustinen started three years ago
with a brand new organisation, as Pro Kaustinen ry started to produce parties. roll. Some
artists wanted to help establish these celebrations by
playing for lower prices. Lap and Course of Life
take visitors for an exciting journey back in time. In
addition, it provides visitors
with an overview on the past
and present of the Satakunta region and its inhabitants.
Pori?s Satakunta Museum is a cultural-historical
museum located beside the
Kokemäenjoki River, near
the Kivi-Pori district. As record
sales have diminished, tickets have become more important sources of income, while
major international companies are operating in the industry. The
three-day ticket costs 250
euros.
The selection abroad is
naturally often more extensive, perhaps even more
satisfactory.
?For some reason concert prices have reached international levels, while the
festivals have not. You would
think that it yields a pro?t.
Figures prove, though, that
as Flow has grown its profits have become smaller. In the meantime the
cost-of-living index of Statistics Finland has increased by
only approximately eight per
cent, and the wages of Finnish people have become higher by the same amount.
Have festival organisers
become greedy?
?This is not a pro?table
business in Finland?, says Suvi Kallio, Managing Director
at Flow Festival. Helsingin Sanomat compared the week
prices of two music festivals
that have long histories, the
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival and the Kuhmo Chamber
Music Festival.
Price differences are remarkable: a week at Kuhmo
costs 500 euros, whereas
the price of Kaustinen is 140
euros. This often results in
artist prices that Finnish festivals cannot afford.
According to Kallio, Flow
has aimed at evolving from
a marginal project to a major
international event but this
has turned out to be hard.
?What little audience capacity is available is used
for cheaper tickets,. Suvi Kallio says. Kallio says.
In this sense the frustration is understandable, as
the price of one stadium concert may correspond to up to
a hundred different bands.
Comparative options
This is the case in the world
of rock n
?We?ll think of some music of something for the lad
from Kontula to hold on to.
We won?t shut out anyone,?
Rotenberg promises.
Although the union between Jokerit and the KHL
has stirred a number of
questions in Finland, Roten-
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / J O H N M A C D O U G A L L
Axe threat hangs over Hyypiä
Leverkusen players celebrate after Leverkusen?s midfielder Gonzalo Castro scored during the German division Bundesliga football match Hanover 96 vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen on 8 March.
HS
A L E K S I T E I VA IN E N . The atmosphere is
overwhelming.
This is the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)
. people in
Russia work a lot.?
What about the concerns
about the Jokerit budget?
?We will scrape together the budget, and a competitive team,. 12,500 spectators,. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA IN E N . Räty
commented on her ability to
succeed in Mestis in an interview with the radio station
YLE Puhe.
Räty, who is widely regarded as the best female
goaltender in the world, announced after the Sochi
Olympics that she will retire
unless she can claim a spot
on a men?s team, citing a lack
of sporting challenge and the
inadequate wages paid in
women?s leagues.
L E H T I K U VA / V E S A M O I L A N E N
Roman Rotenberg plans to bring excitement to the Hartwall Arena.
TOM WESTERHOL M
THE
coach of ToPo, is appalled by
the incident. We didn?t
have the time to discuss it as
she took off for the doctor?s.
Shocking is probably a good
word [to describe it] for players and spectators alike,?
Klinga estimates.
?Frustration
must?ve
been the main reason. There are
enough cheerleaders for every row and plenty to see both
on and off the rink.
If all this, and more, is
brought to Hartwall Arena,
the traditional Jokerit fan
from Kontula will surely be
?abbergasted.
Rotenberg is con?dent
that he can bring the metropolitan atmosphere, worldclass entertainment and
new light and sound systems
to Helsinki. ?It?s very
helpful to understand the
Finnish culture. The
audience not only consists of
rowdy die-hard fans but also of families with children
for the Ice Palace features
facilities for children, and a
little something for everyone. H T
the best female
puck-stopper in the world,
Noora Räty has reached a contract with Kiekko-Vantaa, a
men?s second-tier ice hockey
team, for the forthcoming season, YLE reports. H T
of the Helsinki-based
ice hockey club Jokerit have
no idea what they are in for, if
Roman Rotenberg is able to
re-create even a fraction of
the frenzy around SKA St. ?I go skating
three, four, maybe ?ve times
a week. ?She is
okay but in shock. He still spends time on
the ice regularly. 14
SPORT
13 . And
this is what Jokerit are in for.
FANS
Or at least, this is the goal
of the 32-year-old Rotenberg,
who alongside Russian businessman Gennady Timchenko owns the Hartwall Arena
and 49 per cent of Jokerit ?
the remaining slim majority
of which is still in the hands
of Harry Harkimo.
Already a man of many titles, Rotenberg is the man
whose name will be on fans?
lips when Jokerit begin their
adventure in the KHL next
autumn.
Rotenberg lives in Moscow due to his duties at
Gazprombank but travels
tirelessly to St. Thereon, however, the large venue hosted
countless ?ee markets and
exhibitions until the wheels
of the KHL began truly turning. I
haven?t seen such an incident
even in men?s basketball,?
says Klinga.
According to him, Laaksonen suffered no major injuries in the incident. I
have to work seven days a week
every now and then . H S
A L E K S I T E I VA IN E N . he says, listing
rock bands from Metallica to
Nirvana.
Functioning for all
At SKA games, everything
functions as it should. H T
Leverkusen managed
last Saturday to avoid defeat
for the ?rst time since early
February by hanging on to a 1-1
away draw against Hannover in
the 24th round of Bundesliga.
Head coach Sami Hyypiä made ?ve changes to the
starting-eleven that had succumbed to a 0-1 loss against
Mainz in the previous round,
fuelling speculation on the
Finn?s future with the Bundesliga team.
?Self-pity will get us nowhere, we will not panic,?
Hyypiä af?rmed after the
BAYER
berg remains con?dent, dismissing concerns about the
team?s budget, player acquisitions and success. If you bring
something from the States or
Russia, it doesn?t necessarily
work out,. Petersburg
to witness SKA?s games ?rst
hand.
The Ice Palace, the home
arena of SKA, was built for
the 2000 IIHF World Championship. he says,
touting their current roster.
team?s defeat against Mainz,
its third on the trot. The following season, she representPERHAPS
ed the Kirkkonummi-based
HC Salamat in ten appearances in Mestis but was unable to
get on the scoreboard.
?On the basis of training,
I?ll manage and will be okay
in game situations,. Otherwise, I couldn?t
keep on doing what I?m doing. She even plays hard
in practice,. ?There really is
no comparison, nothing like
this has happened before. the world?s second toughest ice hockey league after
the North American National Hockey League (NHL). Rotenberg says in ?uent Finnish.
At the Ice Palace, everything is new: fan merchandise
is on demand, the atmosphere has been resurrected,
LED lights illuminate the rink
and the sound system is as if
from a rock concert. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich continue unbeaten atop the table, following a
6-1 thrashing at Wolfsburg.
In addition to being eliminated from the national DFB
Cup, Bayer Leverkusen face
a near-impossible task in the
UEFA Champions League,
having conceded four goals
in the ?rst leg of their quarter-?nal game against PSG.
Still of the unsportsman-like conduct on the court.
YLE: Räty agrees
on contract with
second-tier
Kiekko-Vantaa
HS
A L E K S I T E I VA IN E N . H T
WOMEN?S basketball
league game between Honka
and ToPo on Saturday was interrupted by an appalling incident, when Honka?s Shanel
Harrison blatantly punched
her opponent, Niina Laaksonen, in the face as the two
were running side-by-side in
Honka?s half.
The punch left Laaksonen
lying ?at out by the free-shot
line for a long time.
The game ended in a 74-63
victory for ToPo.
After the game, Honka announced that it has terminated the contract of Harrison.
Kari-Pekka Klinga, a
trailblazer of Finnish basketball and the current head
The godfather of Jokerit
Roman Rotenberg
vows to deliver
world-class ice
hockey drama to
Helsinki.
H E IK K I M IE T T IN E N . Entire sections of the crowd dance,
while roughly a dozen massive SKA ?ags ?ap, covering
the rink. ?I?ve even chosen all the songs, lights and
other stuff,. If con?rmed,
Räty will follow in the footsteps of Hayley Wickenheiser
and becomes only the second
woman to play in Finland?s
second-tier league, Mestis.
In 2002-2003, Wickenheiser played in the third-tier
league, Suomi-sarja, scoring
once and providing three assist
in twelve appearances. Niina plays
hard but never tries to hurt
anyone. ?We will
work together to get wins,?
he said according to the news
agency AFP.
Despite their recent torrid
run of form, Leverkusen remain third in the Bundesliga
but are now tied with Schalke 04, which beat Hoffenheim in emphatic fashion last
Saturday. Petersburg at Hartwall Arena.
When the puck drops on
the ice to signal the start of
the play-off showdown between SKA and CSKA Moscow, the outbreak of roars
and cheers compel you to
cover your ears. I know
the feeling from my days as
an active player. 19 MARCH
HELSINKI TIMES
L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R
Player punches
opponent in
face in women?s
basketball game
JOUNI M UNUK K A . ?Three years ago, the average attendance was 6,000.
Now, every game is sold out
. Rotenberg
assures, reminding that success does not depend entirely
on the budget.
?Things are looking very
good for Jokerit,. reveals Klinga.
Noora Räty is widely regarded as the best female goaltender in
the world.. he recognises.
His plan for the revamped
Hartwall Arena is to organise
events, including ice hockey
games, that bear comparison
to anything the world has to
offer.
Born in Leningrad in 1981,
Rotenberg lived in Finland with
his family in 1991-1999 and
learnt to play ice hockey with
the Helsinki-based KarhuKissat
4 medium-sized carrots, chopped
. Ireland?s most important
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in a variety of ways to honour their saint, heritage and
history, and, to some, their
independence.
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What?s up with the oversized hat?
Also synonymous with St. Originally, Derby hats are hard and round-shaped
with stiff brims and were used by horseback riders to protect
themselves from tree branches.
However, taking inspiration from the Derby hat, the national drink has embellished the design to create the so-called
leprechaun hats. Place a lid on top and let it simmer at very low
heat for about 2 hours. What?s
more, these events are not
only for Irish people, but for
other nationalities that also wish to tip their hat to the
national Irish day.
IN THE HEART OF
HELSINKI
mon-fri 11.30 ?24, sat 14?24
So?ankatu 4, Helsinki . Patrick?s Day is mostly a day to celebrate and offers a
perfect excuse for many to drink to excess, what about a nice meal,
too. 1 tbsp curry powder
. Tacky for some and a right of passage for others, regardless Guinness is now the official beer
and sponsor for St Patrick?s Day.
St. Fresh parsley and thyme for garnish
Instructions
. Add the chopped onions, carrots and mushrooms and fry with
the meat for about 5 minutes.
. Patrick?s
Day grew in popularity, particularly in New York where
a great percentage of their
population is of Irish descent. 12 whole French mushrooms
. Strain the meat into a bowl (don?t throw away the juice!) and
fry the meat in a saucepan with oil and butter until brown.
. Taste for seasoning and if necessary, add a little more soy
sauce.
. Oil and butter for frying
. 2 cans of Guinness
. The meat should be well cooked at this
stage.
. Patrick?s Day is the oversized Derby hat. Such is their in?uence,
that every year the Empire
State building is decorated
in green lights. EAT & DRINK
HELSINKI TIMES
13 . Marinate the mean in the Guinness with the chopped garlic,
so sauce, curry, paprika, cumin and cayenne pepper. Patrick?s Day,. 1 tbsp paprika powder
. 4 tbsp of flour
. Elsewhere,
cities around the world con-
tinue to honour this day: Sydney?s Opera House lights up
in green, the Allianz Arena in
Munich also is illuminated in
the Irish colour and the Chicago River is dyed green.
While the Helsinki Cathedral may not be bathed in
green light for the day, there
is still plenty on offer around
the country.
?Everyone can be Irish on
St. Add the tomato puree and still well.
. 3 cloves of garlic
. As the story goes,
Saint Patrick (365-461 AC)
was born to a Romano-British family in Scotland. joining in the celebration.
Furthermore, on the of?cial level, the Irish Embassy
arranges cocktail parties for
the Irish community. Patrick?s Day!?
Ingredients
. 3 tbsp tomato puree
. Patrick?s
Day with shamrocks,
music, Guinness and stew
A great occasion
to raise a glass, but
also a chance to
share a meal.
VA L É R I E B RU N
HEL SINKI TIMES
SPAIN
FOR SOME folks, Ireland?s St.
Patrick?s Day on 17 March is
a chance to celebrate Christianity, go to mass and think of
the goodness of their Christian beliefs; for others, it?s
a time to gather up with
friends and drink some beer
dyed green. Patrick Dave Doughan, an Irish Chef who has worked for over
20 years at the Irish Embassy, Helsinki, suggests a recipe for a
Guinness Stew that can be prepared with beef or lamb.
Although there is no traditional dish for the day, here the Guinness brings out a unique aftertaste that, combined with the spices, makes it the perfect meal complement to the revelry.
Beannachtam na Feile Padraig ?Happy St. He travelled for 400 km
to the shore to ?nd indeed
a ship waiting, enabling his
escape.
Since then, Patrick dedicated his life to worshipping
God and following Christianity to become a priest. says Irishman Joe O?Reilly, a language
trainer resident in Helsinki.
Having lived here in Finland
for a number of years now,
O?Reilly points out that Irish
pubs in Helsinki and around
Finland are packed full of
people . Patrick?s Day has, in recent history, become the perfect
opportunity to drink plenty of beer.. 1 tbsp ground cumin
. 19 MARCH
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VA L É R I E B RU N
Guinness stew
While, St. When
he turned 16, however, Patrick was abducted by Irish
raiders and was sold to Ireland as a slave. Add the flour, mix well and cook for a further 5 minutes.
. 1 kg boneless lamb or beet cut into cubes
. 3 tbsp honey
. Irish or not . 2 large onions, chopped
. tel. Pinch of cayenne pepper
. With the Guinness brand printed on them as
well as the Irish shamrock, the hat is seen everywhere during
this important celebration. While for most
it is to enjoy copious pints of
Guinness and participate in
great parades disguised as
leprechauns.
All in all, Saint Patrick
is everywhere for one day
of the year, as shamrocks,
green beer and chiming
church bells are omnipresent. Soy sauce for seasoning
. Cover
and refrigerate for 4 hours or leave overnight.
. Before serving, sprinkle with some freshly chopped parsley
and thyme.
This recipe can be served with buttery mashed potatoes
sprinkled with spring onions fried in butter.
Made with either lamb or beef, the secret is in the marinade, consisting of a mixture of Guinness beer, soy sauce and spices.
Celebrating St. For six years,
Patrick worked for a cruel
lord tending sheep and lived
under miserable conditions.
One day, and according to his
own confession, he was told
by God in a dream to escape
captivity to the coast where
there would be a ship waiting
for him and return to Britain. Years
later, he was called back to
Ireland as a bishop to Christianise the Irish.
According to legend, Patrick used the three-leaf
shamrock to explain the holy trinity to Irish pagans.
Hence the use of the threeleave clover to represent this
holiday.
After nearly 36 years of
evangelism, Patrick died on
17 March 461.
Painting
the town green
Originally a low-key celebration in Ireland, St. Now add the marinade that the meat has been in and bring
to the boil
Veli-Matti Aittoniemi, the deputy manag-
The unspoken goal in the restaurant business is to achieve a 75 to 80 per cent profit margin on wine.
Something to wine about
50 euros for a bottle of wine at a restaurant is extortion.
ANNA M ARI SIPIL Ä . Neither
is she against reducing the
tax rate on alcohol sold in restaurants as long as the cuts
translate into cheaper consumer prices and some other alcohol regulations are
tightened.
Susanna Huovinen (SDP),
the Minister of Social and
Health Services, does not
slam the proposal on an alcohol tax cut. said Maurizio Battano, in charge of the study.
The research group has
previously observed that
strawberries prevent damage
caused by alcohol in the stomach membranes, strengthen red blood cells and protect
against the damage of ultraviolet radiation. 19 MARCH
HELSINKI TIMES
L E H T I K U VA / S A R I GU S TA F S S O N
in Helsinki, is inclined to disagree, saying that in general
customers do not opt for the
cheapest wine. The
unspoken goal in the business
is to achieve a 75 to 80 per
cent pro?t margin on wine.
At the same time, researchers and authorities
are concerned over citizens?
drinking habits. They only wish to enjoy a bottle of affordable wine
that the restaurant has selected with care and expertise.
Not the
cheapest drop
Kasperi Saari, managing director of the Royal Ravintolat
restaurant chain operating
ing director at MaRa, says
that restaurant owners believe customers are more
willing to pay high prices for
wine than for food. It will remain
the same as in Sandro: mainly
vegetarian buffet composed
of North African tastes.
The buffet offers a vide variety of spreads and pastes:
humus, tzatziki, different
types of fresh pestos, harissa
and tapenade.
The spreads go nicely together with spongy saffron
bread that is also available
gluten-free. In fact, without a
reservation, it is pretty much
A N N I KO P O N E N
WHATEVER
and around you people chatter away in French, Arabic
and English. N Y T
M ARI S TORPELLINEN . With all
the food on offer, the cheese
selection, with croissants and
jams at the end of our table
proves too much for us.
The newly renovated Café Stoa has been transformed
by Daoussi from a canteen to
a proper restaurant with a vivid multi-cultural atmosphere.
Families with children are very
welcome. Expensive, is the answer. Instead no changes were
reported in the amount of the
so-called good HDL cholesterol.
23 volunteers took part in
the study. At the beginning of the 1990s, Finns
consumed about eight litres
of pure alcohol per person a
year, compared with nearly
ten litres now.
Experts are in favour of
limiting drinking to controlled premises, preferably
dinner restaurants. The trendy
combination of breakfast
and lunch has become incredibly popular in Helsinki
in general. Speaking at a
press conference recently,
she said that she did not consider the idea heresy.
When it comes to wine
served at restaurants more is
at stake than just a bottle of
wine: the national health and
drinking culture. But they
are tilting at windmills as
restaurants make their profits from alcohol.
In any other European capital, restaurants consider it a
matter of honour to offer wines
also at the cheaper end of the
price spectrum, with even topnotch eateries selling bottles
for less than 25 euros.
Not all customers come
equipped with a company
credit card, nor do they want
to show off with their choice
of wine. Wouldn?t a
glass suf?ce. Drunks revelling on
the streets and restaurants
charging over the odds for
wine do nothing to polish
this image or to boost national competitiveness.
If Sandro?s brunch is too crowded, go east
The brunch front moves east: Sandro?s North African brunch is
now also available at Culture Centre Stoa.
PA U L I I N A S I N I A U E R . Only then
can one be seated at a new
restaurant in London.
Security measures are
strict, as the restaurant of
Clink Charity is located within Brixton prison. It also concerns consumer rights and
consumers. A DJ
plays laid-back ska music
rant Sandro, whose brunch
has often been ranked as
the best in town. In principle then, it should suit an ordinary Finn?s budget.
What does Nokka?s 20-page
wine list look like then. HT
the weather, Café Stoa in Helsinki welcomes
you with a warm Africaninspired atmosphere. The real competition over customers is being
fought between restaurants
and the retail sector, with
shops ?rmly in lead at the
moment.
Aalto-Matturi says that
she sees no reason why restaurants could not serve wine
at happy hour rates in connection with a meal. courage to refuse
to pay extortionate prices.
And it is as plain as the nose
on your face that 50 euros for
a 10-euro bottle is too much.
But what is also at stake
is Helsinki?s and Finland?s
image. This allows restaurants to make
huge pro?ts on drinks.
Restaurants and
retail head-to-head
Sari Aalto-Matturi from the
Finnish Association for Substance Abuse Prevention
(EHYT) argues that booze
cruises to Tallinn hog the
limelight in the public discussion on the Finnish drinking
culture. This
has led to more choice in dining places in Helsinki . H S
make up an
even healthier treat than has
been previously believed.
According to a recent study
strawberries appear to signi?cantly lower cholesterol.
In the Italian-Spanish study
volunteers ate half a kilo of
strawberries each day for one
month, Science Daily reports.
The aim of the study was to reveal how strawberry intake affects their blood counts.
Tests at the ends of the
strawberry diet revealed that
the amount of the unhealthy
LDL cholesterol and triglycerides had decreased signi?cantly. According to
him, there would be no demand for house wine.
Saari says that around 80
per cent of the wines on offer at the chain?s restaurants
cost 10 to 20 euros a bottle to
the restaurant, which is hard
to fathom when looking at
their wine lists.
The chain includes Restaurant Nokka, selected by
Nyt, the weekly supplement
of Helsingin Sanomat, as
the city?s best restaurant in
2012. The buffet is
so plentiful with different
foods that it would easily sat-
isfy your appetite even without the hot dishes.
The self-made baklava is
simply divine as a dessert, and
carrot cake ?ts nicely in the
taste repertoire, too. There
is only one wine that will set
a diner back less than 50 euros, a 47-euro wine that can be
bought in Alko for a tenner.
But let?s not point a ?nger
at the Royal chain as their
restaurants are not the only
ones with a wine list problem.
Owned by a different
group, Restaurant Kuu in
Töölö prides itself with its
high-quality food and extensive wine selection, but even
the cheapest wine on their
list costs over 40 euros.
You may wonder if it really is necessary to order
a whole bottle. HS
NIINA WOOLLE Y . The Moroccan
buffet is bursting with delicious-looking dishes: salads,
pastes, fruits and pastries.
The sight is already familiar from Kallio-based restau-
Stoa?s brunch repeats the Sandro concept: a mainly vegetarian buffet with North African tastes.
impossible to get a good
brunch these days.
One of Sandro?s owners,
Hitcham Daoussi, together
with restaurateur Kenneth
Granroth, wants to expand
their brunch concept to eastern Helsinki. Strawberries are also known to contain
plenty of useful antioxidants.
STRAWBERRIES
Public
restaurants
to be
established
in Britain?s
prisons
ESSI LEHTO . HS
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . and to
cheaper wines on lists.
According to the Finnish Hospitality Association
(MaRa), wine prices are not
discussed at the association
meetings. Savoury red cabbage-parsley-goat cheese salad and roasted carrots with
tahini sauce prove a pleasant
surprise.
There are three options
for hot foods: two vegetarian bakes, one with eggplant
and halloumi cheese, another
with apricots, as well as giant
kofta meatballs. H S
PHONE con?scated, ?ngerprints stored, have your
passport ready. A bottle of wine
carries such a hefty price tag
that an ordinary Finn can?t
afford to let it go to waste.
Just study the wine list of
any decent restaurant in Helsinki and the chances are the
list won?t boast many wines
that cost less than 50 euros
for a bottle and hardly any
below the 40-euro mark. When
a couple leaving a restaurant
have left a third of their wine
bottle untouched.
At the present, diners in a
Finnish restaurant will drink
every last drop of the wine
they ordered. HT
HOW do you know when the
drinking culture in Finland
has become healthy. They were not yet
able to identify which compounds were crucial in terms
of the health bene?ts.
?All signs point to anthocyanins, phytopigments that
give strawberries their red
colour,. Prisoners
work as chefs and waiters,
preparing themselves for life
outside of prison.
Ten public prison restaurants are set to be established in Britain, CNN
reports. In Nyt, the restaurant?s
head chef said that, ?Nokka
is not intended to be a ?ne
dining restaurant.. But ordered
by glass, the price works out
even more expensive.
In recent years, the restaurant scene has witnessed the
emergence of new restaurateurs who focus on volume instead of pro?t margins. So far three are currently in business: in addition
to Brixton also Cardiff prison
in Wales and High Down prison in Surrey.. They are currently
planning for the delicious saffron bread to be available for
purchase also in a bakery in
Eira where Sandro?s and Café
Stoa?s pastries are baked.
Café Stoa
Brunch on Saturday
from 10:30 to 15:00
(children cost one euro
for each year of age
until 14 years old)
Turunlinnantie 1
Helsinki
Study:
strawberries
lower
cholesterol
ESSI LEHTO - HS
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . 16
EAT & DRINK
13 . The blood counts
returned back to normal 15
days after their strawberry
diet ended.
According to researchers
this was the ?rst time that
strawberries have been proven to affect the risk factors
relating to cardiovascular
diseases
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London-based restaurant is
?high-class European. The Clink organisation
receives additional support
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Executive at Clink Charity
Chris Moore told CNN.
According to CNN the
business has yielded other
kinds of bene?ts.
Prison statistics from two
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signi?cantly reduced renewed criminal activity after release.
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by the dif?cult entry: the reservation had to be made at
least two days in advance
and upon entry identi?cation
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Income from the meals, 25
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after release.
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The six Helsinki Dance Company dancers featured in the piece are
Sofia Hilli, Heidi Naakka, Kai Lähdesmäki, Mikko Paloniemi, Eero Vesterinen and Sofia Ylinen.
Thu 13, Sat 15 & Wed 19 March
Joona Halonen:
Kuka pelkää tappajahaita
Helsinki City Theatre
MUSIC
Thu 13 March
Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven´s Symphony No. which is always present, at special times very
obvious and otherwise hidden in the mundane. 9.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?10-40
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Studio Elsa
Ensi linja 2
Tickets ?18-24
www.hkt.fi
Fri 14 March
Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra
Michael Francis,
conductor & Baiba Skride, violin.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?6-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 13 March
Eeppi Ursin
Jazz.
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/15
www.kokojazz.fi
Fri 14 March
Metsatöll (EST),
Kuolemanlaakso,
Soulthrower (EST)
Metal.
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?13.50
www.ontherocks.fi
Thu 13 & Sat 15 March
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos
Verdi at his finest.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?15-91
www.opera.fi
Fri 14 March
Egotrippi
Pop.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?15
www.virginoil.fi
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Finding the fear in dance for the first time on stage.
Fri 14 March
James Holden (UK)
Electronic.
Kaiku
Kaikukatu 4
Helsinki
Tickets ?15.50
www.clubkaiku.fi
Sat 15 March
Club Ghettoblues
Corey Harris (USA).
Juttutupa
Säästöpankinranta 6
Helsinki
Free entry
www.juttutupa.com
Fri 14 March
The Man, Oaklyn, Dolla Lova
Soul/pop.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?7
www.semifinal.fi
Sat 15 March
Ricky-Tick Big
Band & Julkinen Sana
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?24.90/27
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 14 March
Roope Salminen & Koirat
Hip hop.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?8/10
www.kuudeslinja.com
Tue 18 March
Anna Calvi (UK)
Interesting singer-songwriter.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?27/30
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 14 March
Kaveri Special,
Maria Gasolina
Interesting Finnish afrobeat and
South American rhythms.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.korjaamo.fi
Tue 18 March
Midlake (USA)
Indie rock/folk.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?34.50
www.thecircus.fi
Fri 14 March
Olavi Uusivirta
Pop/rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?14/16
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 14 March
Devin Townsend
Project (CAN)
Metal.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?47.50
www.thecircus.fi
Sat 15 March
Scandinavian Music Group
Pop.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?20/23
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 19 March
Nadja (CAN)
Unique Berlin-based duo.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?11/13
www.barloose.com
Wed 19 March
The Grammers, Deepwater
Rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?5
www.semifinal.fi
Wed 19 March
Toxic Holocaust (USA),
Exhumed (USA), Cantilena (EST)
Metal.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Helsinki
Tickets ?18
www.elmu.fi
Sat 15 March
Happoradio
Rock.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?16/18
www.virginoil.fi
Wed 19 March
Soundeja Solidaarisuudelle
(?Sounds for Solidarity?)
Samae Koskinen, Ville Leinonen &
Pikku Kukka live.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?13/18
www.kuudeslinja.com
Sat 15 March
Soul Kitchen Club
Lossi T & Juoksut, St.Rasta.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?8
www.kuudeslinja.com
Wed 19 March
Oh Land (DNK)
Pop.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?20
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 19 March
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
HPO with string quartet Meta4.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?6-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 13, Sat 15 & Wed 19 March
Joona Halonen: Kuka pelkää
tappajahaita
Contemporary dance.
Helsinki City Theatre
Studio Elsa
Ensi linja 2
Tickets ?18-24
www.hkt.fi
Thu 13-Thu 20 March
Clunker Circus: Wonderfully
Much of Everything
A van full of junk and surprises gets
a new life.
Cirko
Kaasutehtaankatu 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?17.50/22.50
www.cirko.fi
Thu 13-Sat 15 March
Haapalainen & Suutari-Jääskö:
Double
Dance double bill.
Alexander Theatre
Albertinkatu 32
Helsinki
Tickets ?29/38
www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
Fri 14 & Tue 18 March
Javier Torres:
Beauty and the Beast
Ballet version of the
charming fairy tale.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?24-115
www.opera.fi
Fri 14-Wed 19 March
Katariina Numminen & Co: Zoo
What sensations does a human convey when looking at an animal?
Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Helsinki
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
EXHIBITIONS
From Fri 14 March
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
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
Until Sun 6 April
The Hunters Group: Heart Side
Up
Works by Heini Aho, Sirkku Ketola
and Tamara Piilola.
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
Until Sun 20 April
Ars Fennica 2014
Exhibition by the 2014 Ars Fennica
candidates - IC -98 (Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää), Riitta
Ikonen, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Leena Nio
and Pauliina Turakka Purhonen.
Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2
Helsinki
Open:
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
Helsinki
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 . 19 MARCH
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COMPILED BY ANNA-MAIJA LAPPI
M A R KO M Ä K I N E N
Who´s afraid of the killer shark?
Joona Halonen´s new choreography Kuka pelkää tappajahaita (?Who´s
afraid of the killer shark?) will receive its premiere at Helsinki City
Theatre´s Studio Elsa on Thursday 13 March. Halonen is an upcoming top choreographer known for his powerful language of movement
and inventive explorations of humanity and the environment. His piece
Straight, a group piece for male dancers, garnered lots of positive attention last spring.
The latest piece depicts life and actions driven by fear and looks for
that elusive ?something. Instead of Who´s afraid
of the killer shark, the piece could have easily been titled Who´s afraid
of life, says choreographer Joona Halonen.
The costume design for the piece is by Minttu Vesala, the soundscape is created by Tuuli Kyttälä and the lighting design is by Vesa Ellilä. Rudolf Steiner
Nearly 400 objects, from artworks
to furniture and scale models.
EMMA - Espoo Museum
of Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
Helsinki
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.emma.museum
Until Mon 26 May
Jean Tinguely
Modernist known for his noisy,
spectacular, motorized machine
sculptures.
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/2/8/10
www.amosanderson.fi
Until Sun 13 July
Chaplin in Pictures
The incredible life and career of the
mythic artist told through pictures.
Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace
Salomonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00
Tickets ?0/8/10. 18
WHERE TO GO
13
Banks succeeds in
proving Disney?s point. A surprising choice maybe, it remains to be seen if
it was a wise one.
JO?S
Mary Poppins that Saving Mr.
Banks is really about. It?s a
self-serving moment, easily dismissed as studio-sanctioned mythmaking. In Saving Mr. Novak and Jason
Schwartzman) endure Travers?s constant stream of invective. she announces upon her arrival at the airport),
Travers is impervious to Disney?s cajoling and ?attery. Her paintings
were frequently landscapes,
interiors and still lifes, with
themes of the sea and islands
featuring prominently. address her as
?Mrs. See for yourself if the fuss was worth it. With
its dark, alternative textures
drawing comparisons to everyone from PJ Harvey, Nick
Cave and Leonard Cohen,
when Brian Eno pronounced
her to be ?the best thing since
Patti Smith. Meanwhile,
various costumes on loan
from the Theatre Museum
from 1974?s Moomin opera can
be found, alongside numerous previously unseen works
from private collections.
The exhibition at Ateneum forms part of the of?cial
programme of the Tove Jansson centenary year. To
paraphrase a ?inty sister-under-the-skin, albeit from another era, the lady?s not for
turning . even
Uncle Walt . Travers
wages a two-week war of attrition on the screenwriter and composers assigned
to bring the magical governess to the screen, wearing the
boys down with constant criticisms and suggestions, all
to keep her most cherished
creation from becoming yet
another casualty of Disney-?cation, ?cavorting, twinkling
. they tell her.
?Well, un-make it up,. which
John Lee Hancock directed
from a script by Kelly Marcel
and Sue Smith . is not a word.
?We made it up,. What
comes to light in the ?ashbacks that constitute their
own period-piece-within-aperiod-piece is that Poppins
was a product of Travers?s
own childhood in Australia,
where she grew up as Helen
Goff at the turn of the century, the favorite daughter
of an alcoholic bank manager
named Travers Goff (played
in a sad-eyed, sympathetic
turn by Colin Farrell).
Compulsively
toggling
back and forth between
1960s L.A. The irresistible force to her unmovable object is Tom Hanks,
whose Walt Disney is all softspoken Midwestern manipulation, unctuous and shrewd
in equal parts.
Unimpressed by the balloons and Mickey Mouse
plush toys that greet her at
the Beverly Hills Hotel, ?positively sickened. Meanwhile, Need for Speed sees
Breaking Bad?s Aaron Paul stepping into a starring role, in an
action-fest. please . never just
?Mary,. Furthermore, her satirical anti-war illustrations for the magazine
Garm are on display, as well
as her monumental paintings for public spaces. 7 September
Ateneum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
London
calling in
J A M E S O . (It?s revealing that the
person Travers is kindest to,
a chauffeur played by Paul
Giamatti, is the ?lm?s only
?ctional character.)
How on earth could this
marriage be saved. Catharsis is powerful medicine, whether it?s delivered
by way of a mouse with big
ears, a sharp-elbowed woman allowing bitterness to
melt into long-buried grief
or that dreaded, delightful
spoonful of sugar.
More than Moomins. S U L L I VA N
HEL SINKI TIMES
TO MARK the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tove
Jansson, Ateneum is hosting
a suitably signi?cant centenary exhibition presenting
her impressive career as an
artist, illustrator, political
caricaturist, author and creator of the Moomin characters and stories.
On display from Friday 14
March until Sunday 7 September, the exhibition covers all
of the periods that comprised
Jansson?s career, encompassing her surrealistic paintings
of the 1930s, modernist art
of the 1950s and the more abstract works of her oeuvre in
the 1960s and ?70s. . CULTURE
HELSINKI TIMES
13 . careening toward a happy
ending like a kamikaze.?
Thompson, her perfectly
powdered face topped with
a crown of angry curls, her
mouth carefully drawn into
a disapproving crimson grimace, tucks into such succulent dialogue with relish,
dousing every line with an
extra drop of vinegar for
acidic good measure. S U L L I VA N
HEL SINKI TIMES
LAST SEEN in Finland in the
autumn 2011, when she hit
the stage at Ruisrock and also Tavastia, singer-songwriter Anna Calvi is returning to
Finland on Tuesday 18 March,
with a much anticipated performance at Tavastia.
It?s been a busy few years
for the London-based artist.
2011 saw the release of her debut eponymous full-length,
produced by John Congletonin (Joanna Newsom, Antony and the Johnsons). Banks (K12)
Release Date: 14 March
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Emma Thompson,
Tom Han
sists that everyone . When the Shermans
try out a little ditty for Dick
Van Dyke that rhymes ?constable. Travers.?
Reluctant to hand over
Mary Poppins . . with ?responstable,?
she immediately notes that
?responstable. But the ?lm . Banks doesn?t always straddle its stories and
time periods with the utmost
grace. by the prospect of visiting Disneyland,
bored by California (Los Angeles smells of ?chlorine and
sweat,. Warming up
the Tavastia stage on Tuesday is the Swedish singersongwriter Alice Boman.
Anna Calvi, Alice Boman
18 March, 20:00
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki. and a Goff family farmhouse mired in addiction and ?nancial worries,
Saving Mr. Banks, it?s Disney
himself who comes to the
rescue, when the genial,
mustached Hanks delivers
a moving, if cloyingly selfrighteous, speech about
the role of storytelling
(read: Hollywood) in healing primal wounds. Still,
thanks to the particular story it tells and the marvelous
actors channeling it, Saving Mr. she
snaps. more than
makes up for its occasionally
unwieldy structure in telling
a fascinating and ultimately
deeply affecting story, along
the way giving viewers tantalizing glimpses of the beloved 1964 movie musical,
in both its creation and ?nal
form.
In addition to the evocative scenes of Travers?s simultaneously idyllic and
horrifying childhood, the
best moments of Saving Mr.
Banks occur in the Disney rehearsal room, where screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley
Whitford) and songwriters
Robert and Richard Sherman (B.J. Travers abhors in Saving
Mr. Naturally, her enormously popular
Moomin characters and stories feature prominently in
the exhibition.
Representing a complete
philosophy of life, these characters have leapt from the pages of Jansson?s original books,
to be embraced around the
world, becoming a series of
Japanese animated ?lms in the
?80s and ?90s along the way.
Alongside the diversity of
her output, Jansson was also
hard working. 19 MARCH
19
SUOMEN K ANSALLISGALLERIA / JENNI NURMINEN
Film
The affecting story of how ?Mary
Poppins. on one of Disney?s
carousels, or otherwise.
Even with Thompson?s delectably dyspeptic portrayal
of Travers, she?d be a dif?cult
protagonist to root for, were
it not for the back-story of
Emma Thompson is not amused in Saving Mr. Tove Jansson?s Liisa Ihmemaassa is one of many works on display at Ateneum.
Century for celebration
J A M E S O . Incorporating her own life, real events and people into her
work, Jansson was also renowned for her portraits and
self-portraiture.
With the exhibition drawing on the collections of other Finnish museums, major
works housed by Tampere Art
Museum are on offer, including paintings, drawings and
Moomin tableaus. reached the screen
A N N H O R N A DAY
THE WA SHINGTON POS T
A SPOONFUL of sugar and
all the cheap sentiment and
facile whimsy it represents
are precisely what author
P.L. Banks, a richly rendered,
engrossing dramatization
of Walt Disney?s efforts to
adapt Travers?s novel Mary
Poppins into one of his confectionery extravaganzas.
Played by Emma Thompson in a deliciously brittle
turn, Travers emerges in the
?lm as a humorless, imperious, unfailingly prim martinet, who when she arrives at
the Disney studios in 1961 to
collaborate on the script, in-
Presidentintekijät (S)
Release Date: 14 March
Director: Tuukka Temonen
Need for Speed (K12)
Release Date: 14 March
Director: Scott Waugh
Starring: Aaron Paul,
Dominic Cooper
Saving Mr. More information can be found at:
www.tove100.com
Tove Jansson
14 March . her reputation
was cemented.
Anna Calvi returns to Finland armed with her second album.
Sophomore effort One
Breath dropped towards the
end of last year, greeted with
considerable acclaim. Banks.
Elsewhere on screens
Local documentary Presidentintekijät arrives on screens, a couple of weeks after creating a ruckus in the media. Currently in the midst of a European tour that stretches
well into the summer, Calvi
has surrounded herself with
a full-size backing band this
time around
Starring: Steven
Seagal, Angus MacInnes,
Clara Payton. Food
22.00 American Pickers
Mike and Frank are pickers
that travel the country and
literally would go anywhere
just for the prospects of
finding antique gold.
23.00 Splash! USA
00.00 Container Wars
00.30 Ball Boys
01.00 Speeders
01.30 Gene Simmons Family
Jewels
02.30 South Park
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.15 Zoo Life
08.45 My Cypriot Kitchen
09.15 Supernanny
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 For Rent
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 For Rent
14.20 French Food at Home
14.50 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
18.25 Frasier
22.00 Hot Tub Time Machine
(K16) FILM
Directed by: Steve Pink.
Starring: John Cusack, Rob
Corddry, Craig Robinson.
USA/2010.
00.10 Flight of Fury (K16) FILM
Directed by: Michael
Keusch. When
the worlds biggest cities are
subjected to a coordinated
surprise attack from a hostile
extraterrestrial invasion, it is
up to a Marine Staff Sergeant
Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) and his
newly-formed platoon to provide the first line of defence
against the alien intruders
as they strike Los Angeles.
Making up the rules as they
go along, the soldiers must
give it their all as they defend
their city against an unknown
enemy. Food
14.00 MasterChef Australia
15.25 Shark Tank USA
16.20 The Voice of USA
17.20 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
18.20 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Man vs. Starring: Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson.
USA/1992.
Battle: Los Angeles is an
exciting alien invasion sci-fi
action thriller directed by
Jonathan Liebesman. Jamie?s
undercover assignment
involves a crime family.
00.35 Frasier
01.05 Excused
01.35 Red Widow
02.35 Dr. Then, at
the bar, Nick meets a tough
and beautiful customer with
boyfriend troubles.
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Get Smart FILM
Maxwell Smart, analyst
for the secret spy agency
Control, alongside the
experienced Agent 99,
must prevent Kaos, an
enemy agency from Russia,
from bringing disaster to
America.
Directed by: Peter Segal.
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne
Hathaway, Alan Arkin.
USA/2008.
23.10 C.S.I. UK/Romania/
USA/2007.
02.15 Frasier
02.45 Excused
03.15 Falling Skies
TV5
06.10 Married. Starring: Aaron
Eckhart, Bridget Moynahan,
Michelle Rodriguez, Jim Parrack. Instead,
he finds himself accompanying
the landlord?s daughter, Shannon
(Nicole Kidman). USA/2007.
03.55 Dexter (K16)
SUB
TV5
07.30 Documentary:
Sebastian Vettel
11.00 Work It
11.30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter
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
17.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
18.00 Masterchef USA
21.00 Transporter 2 (K16) FILM
Mercenary Frank, who
specializes moving goods
of all kinds, surfaces again
this time in Miami, Florida
when he is implicated in the
kidnapping of the young son
of a powerful USA official.
Directed by: Louis Leterrier.
Starring: Jason Statham,
Amber Valletta.
USA/France/2005.
22.45 C.S.I. With Children
06.40 Absolutely Fabulous
07.15 Cats 101
08.05 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.25 Cake Boss
12.55 Cats 101
13.50 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Smack the Pony
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. The two run off
to America together where the
girl expects to claim a piece of
land for herself in the Oklahoma
Land Rush. 19 MARCH
HELSINKI TIMES
Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
MTV3
NELONEN
Criminal Minds
Nelonen 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 The Great British Bake Off
15.20 Middle
15.45 Oliver?s Twist
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
23.20 The Finder
Walter searches for the chef
of the now closed The Bella
Plata restaurant to help save
a marriage. With Children
06.40 Absolutely Fabulous
07.15 Extraordinary Dogs
07.40 The King of Queens
08.05 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.30 Say Yes to Dress
13.00 Dogs 101
14.00 Absolutely Fabulous
14.35 Smack the Pony
15.10 Matlock
16.10 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.15 Married. Food
MasterChef Australia
Shark Tank USA
The Voice of USA
Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
MasterChef Australia
The Voice of USA
Talent USA
This reality show
features singers, dancers,
magicians, comedians,
and other performers of
all ages competing for the
advertised top prize of one
million dollars.
23.45 Trigger Happy TV
00.15 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
00.45 South Park
01.15 JIM D Crime: Hidden City
(K16)
02.10 Shark Tank USA
03.05 The Voice of USA
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.15 Zoo Life
08.45 My Cypriot Kitchen
09.15 Supernanny
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 Building Bryks
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 For Rent
14.20 My Cypriot Kitchen
14.50 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
18.25 Frasier
20.00 Criss Angel Believe
21.00 Criminal Minds (K16)
The BAU are called to Utah
to investigate ritualistic
murders.
23.35 Blue Bloods
Even while on a case, Danny
tries to swing a romantic
weekend with Linda. Starring: Aaron
Eckhart, Bridget Moynahan,
Jim Parrack.
USA/2011.
00.20 Knight Rider
01.20 Just for Laughs
02.20 Deadliest Catch
AVA
08.05 Namaste
09.35 Doctors
10.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
11.50 Vanderpump Rules
12.50 Top Chef Masters
In the series, worldrenowned chefs compete
against each other in weekly
challenges.
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 Million Dollar Decorators
20.00 Storage Hoarders
21.00 American Idol
15.3.
MTV3
NELONEN
90 Day Fiancé
TV5 13.35
08.10 Children?s Programming
09.55 Cosmos
13.45 Monsters vs Aliens FILM
Directed by: Conrad Vernon,
Rob Letterman.
USA 2009.
15.35 Top Gear USA
21.00 Survivor
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.30 Broadchurch
08.05 Children?s Programming
10.00 Supernanny
13.05 Zoo
13.35 Sea Rescue
14.15 Shake It Up
22.00 007 Moonraker (K16)
FILM
James Bond investigates
the mid-air theft of a space
shuttle and discovers a plot
to commit global genocide.
Directed by: Lewis Gilber.
Starring: Roger Moore, Lois
Chiles, Michael Lonsdale.
UK/France/1979.
00.40 Under the Dome
01.40 30 Days of Night (K18)
FILM
Directed by: David Slade.
Starring: Josh Hartnett,
Melissa George, Danny
Huston. 20
TV GUIDE
13 . However, things are
not going well for either of them,
but the chance of better future
still beckons, and they head
out west, aiming to stake their
claim in the wide open spaces
of Oklahoma. (K16)
23.45 Shameless (K16)
00.45 Eureka
01.45 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
09.55 MasterChef Australia
14.15 Chuck?s Day Off
14.45 Dinner: Impossible
15.40 Invite Mr Wright
16.35 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
18.00 Undercover Boss
21.00 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.
23.00 New York Ink
23.55 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.
00.55 Bondi Rescue
06.25 Dogs 101
07.20 Matlock
11.50 Cake FILM
Directed by: Nisha Ganatra.
Starring: Heather Graham,
David Sutcliffe, Taye Diggs.
USA/Canada/2005.
13.35 90 Day Fiancé
SERIES BEGINS. (K16)
00.10 30 Rock
00.45 Sleepy Hollow
01.35 Grimm (K16)
JIM
11.35 Top Secret Recipe
12.30 Meat Men
13.00 Man vs. USA/2011.
AVA 21.00
Thursday 13.3.2014
TV5 21.00
Friday 14.3.2014. (K16)
00.35 Bones (K16)
01.30 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
13.10
14.10
15.15
16.10
17.05
18.05
19.30
21.00
friday
13.3.
Man vs. Phil
TV5
06.10 Married. Directed by: Ron
Howard. USA/2009.
23.05 The Blacklist (K16)
00.00 Extraordinary Weight Stories:
Living With Size Zero
01.00 5D: Male Hookers
Uncovered
02.00 Deadliest Catch
02.55 MacGyver
03.50 Defying Gravity
04.35 Resolutionaries
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 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
21.00 Far and Away (K16) FILM
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole
Kidman, Thomas Gibson.
USA/1992.
23.40 The Americans
saturday
14.3.
MTV3
NELONEN
New Girl
Sub 19.30
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
23.35 The Chicago Code (K16)
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Model Employee
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 One Tree Hill
19.30 New Girl
Tired of taking showers, Jess
and Winston scheme to get a
bathtub in the loft. USA/2009.
AVA
08.05 Namaste
10.05 American Idol
11.50 Million Dollar Decorators
12.45 Storage Hoarders
13.45 Breaking Pointe
15.30 It?s a Brad, Brad World
17.30 Find My Family UK
18.30 Save with Jamie
20.00 Grand Designs
This series covers unusual
architectural house-building
projects presented by Kevin
McCloud.
21.00 American Idol
22.00 Royal Pains
23.00 Reign
Far and Away
Battle: Los Angeles
Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an
impoverished 19th-century Irish
tenant farmer, whose father is
shot while protesting high rents.
Young Joseph is determined to
take his revenge and sets out to
kill the local landlord. With Children
17.50 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.20 The King of Queens
19.20 Deuce Bigalow: European
Gigolo FILM
Directed by: Mike Bigelow.
Starring: Eddie Griffin,
Hanna Verboom,
Jeroen Krabbe.
USA/2005.
21.00 Battle: Los Angeles FILM
Directed by: Jonathan
Liebesman. American
men meet women from other
countries and have 90 days
to decide if they want to get
married before their visas
expire.
15.00 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
16.00 Must Love Cats
17.00 MacGyver
18.00 Breaking Magic
19.00 Monk
20.00 30 Rock
21.00 Starsky & Hutch FILM
Directed by: Todd Phillips.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Fred
Williamson, Owen Wilson.
USA/2004.
23.00 Sexcetera (K18)
00.10 Bikini Summer 3: South
Beach Heat (K18) FILM
Directed by: Ken Blakey.
USA/1997.
01.55 The Last House on the Left
(K18) FILM
Directed by: Dennis Iliadis.
Starring: Garret Dillahunt,
Monica Potter. Directed by: Jonathan
Liebesman. After Willa gets
into a fight, she finds herself
back in jail.
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 One Born Every Minute
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Project Runway
19.30 2 Broke Girls
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Arrow (K16)
Diggle and Felicity go to
Lian Yu and convince Oliver
to return to Starling City.
Upon his return, he finds
out that Isabel Rochev
wants to take over Queen
Consolidated.
22.00 Revolution (K16)
23.00 Entourage (K16)
23.36 C.S.I. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 Fighting (K16) FILM
Directed by: Dito Montiel.
Starring: Channing Tatum,
Terrence Howard, Luis
Guzmán
USA/2011.
22.50 5D: Boys with Breasts
02.40 MacGyver
03.30 Flashpoint
AVA
08.05 Namaste
09.35 Doctors
11.50 Selling Spelling Manor
12.45 American Idol
15.50 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
The lives, loves, and laughs
of six young friends living in
Manhattan.
20.00 Grand Designs
21.30 Jamie Oliver Happy Days
Live
18.3.
MTV3
NELONEN
Person of Interest
MTV3 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Grand Designs
15.15 Modern Family
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Person of Interest
A software genius and an exCIA operative work together
to prevent violent crimes
before they can happen.
22.35 Suits
23.35 666 Park Avenue (K16)
00.35 Legit
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Gordon?s Ultimate
Cookery Course
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
Jamie Oliver invites friends
and relatives for some
mouthwatering food.
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Supersize Vs Superskinny
A series in which two
extreme eaters swap diets
in an attempt to change
the way they view food and
eating.
19.30 Mom
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Big Bang Theory
22.00 Sleepy Hollow (K16)
23.00 Mom
23.30 Nikita (K16)
00.30 Bones (K16)
01.25 48 Hour Mystery
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.15 Zoo
08.45 French Food at Home
09.15 Supernanny
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
Atlantassa
10.20 For Rent
13.50 For Rent
14.20 French Food at Home
14.50 Zoo
15.20 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
17.25 Hoarders
18.25 Frasier
21.00 Elementary
A modern take on the cases
of Sherlock Holmes, with the
detective now living in New
York City.
22.00 Criminal Minds: Suspect
Behaviour (K16)
Criminal Minds: Suspect
Behavior involves an elite
team of special agents who
work in the FBI?s Behavioral
Analysis Unit.
23.30 Californication
00.05 Frasier
00.35 Excused
01.05 Elementary
02.05 Dr. USA/1998.
21.00 Revenge
22.45 The Americans (K16)
When the KGB conducts a
hunt for moles within their
organisation, it results in a
breakdown in trust with allies,
as well as between Phillip and
Elizabeth. USA/1998.
A relentless government assassin (Robert Patrick) stalks
the Detroit S.W.A.T. Johnson.
USA/1986.
21.00 Knocked Up (K16) FILM
For fun loving party animal
Ben Stone, the last thing
he ever expected was for
his one night stand to show
up on his doorstep eight
weeks later to tell him she?s
pregnant.
Directed by: Judd Apatow.
Starring: Jason Segel,
Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill.
USA/2007.
23.40 Numb3rs
00.35 Call Me Fitz (K16)
01.50 Twin Peaks
02.45 Battle: Los Angeles FILM
Directed by: Jonathan
Liebesman.
USA/2011.
AVA
08.00 Namaste
10.30 American Idol
11.30 Inside the Actors Studio
14.00 Save with Jamie
16.00 Top Chef Masters
17.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
20.00 Reign
21.00 Up in the Air FILM
Directed by: Jason Reitman.
Starring: George Clooney,
Vera Farmiga, Anna
Kendrick.
USA/2009.
tuesday
17.3.
MTV3
America?s Next Topmodel
Nelonen 20.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
14.05 Survivor
15.10 Whitney
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 Hostages (K16)
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles (K16)
23.35 Psych
00.35 Louie
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.15 Zoo
08.45 French Food at Home
09.15 Supernanny
Supernanny is on a mission
to help desperate parents
deal with their badly
behaved children.
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 For Rent
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 For Rent
14.20 French Food at Home
14.50 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Heavy Texas
16.55 Excused
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.
22.00 Red Widow
23.30 Frasier
00.00 Excused
00.30 Medium (K16)
02.30 Mad Men
SUB
TV5
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Beverly Hills Pawn
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
Eastenders follows the
domestic and professional
lives of the people who live
and work in the fictional
London Borough of Walford
in the East of London.
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Beverly Hills Pawn
19.30 Suburgatory
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Big Bang Theory
This megahit comedy
revolves around four
intelligent physicists and
their beautiful neighbour
Penny who shows them how
little they know about life
outside of the laboratory.
23.50 Suburgatory
00.20 Bones (K16)
01.15 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
11.55
12.25
13.20
14.20
15.25
Chuck?s Day Off
Splash! USA
Dinner: Impossible
MasterChef Australia
Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
17.20 American Pickers
18.20 MasterChef Australia
19.30 The Voice of USA
21.00 American Pickers
22.30 Container Wars
23.00 Ball Boys
A reality series focusing on
the buying and selling of
sports memorabilia at a shop
in Baltimore.
23.30 Trigger Happy TV
00.00 Hotel Hell
01.00 South Park
01.30 Crimestories Around the
World
06.20 Married. Directed by: Benny Boom. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 The Blacklist (K16)
23.00 Motive
01.00 The Only Way is Essex
02.10 Karate Kid II FILM
Directed by: John G.
Avildsen. USA/1986.
JIM
AVA
13.05 Undercover Boss
14.00 MasterChef Australia
15.10 Shark Tank USA
16.05 The Voice of USA
17.05 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
18.05 MasterChef Australia
19.30 The Voice of USA
22.30 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
23.30 Speeders
Speeders consists of clips of
individuals being pulled over
for offences, most commonly
speeding. team is dead. When
a little bird with a big personality
sets out to find the loving girl who
raised him, he discovers his way
with words has a way of landing
him in big trouble. Starring: Pat
Morita, Ralph Macchio,
Pat E. 19 MARCH
21
Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
sunday
monday
16.3.
MTV3
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The Karate Kid II
TV5 17.45
08.05 Children?s Programming
14.20 Inside the Actors Studio
15.40 Paulie FILM
Directed by: John Roberts.
Starring: Gena Rowlands,
Tony Shalhoub, Cheech
Marin. The
film revolves around an intelligent
parrot named Paulie who learns
morals and values as he experiences different owners and travels
across America. Starring: Gena
Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech
Marin. Starring:
Robert Patrick, Carly Pope,
Gabriel Macht, Kristanna
Loken. An LAPD cop and antiterrorism expert who accepts
a job teaching hostage rescue
tactics in Detroit, Cutler finds
his reputation on the line after
responding to a domestic
dispute call black-ops hit man
Walter Hatch (Patrick) and
failing to save the hostage.
Now, Walter is back, and he
will not stop until the entire
S.W.A.T. USA/2011.
MTV3 15.40
Sunday 16.3.2014
TV5 21.00
Monday 17.3.2014. Phil
TV5
06.10 Married. Directed by:
John Roberts. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
13 . With Children
06.50 The King of Queens
07.15 Dogs 101
08.05 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
In this cooking program
Buddy Valastro cooks various
Italian-American dishes from
his family?s recipes.
12.25 DC Cupcakes
12.55 Dogs 101
13.50 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Smack the Pony
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. Paulie?s story
begins many years earlier when he
is given as a gift to a little girl who
stutters. team in
this explosive urban action
thriller. Eventually, he teaches the
girl to speak correctly but is taken
away by her father because he
believes the girl cannot distinguish
fantasy from reality because she
believes the bird can talk. Directed
by: Joel Schumacher.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Jim
Carrey, Nicole Kidman.
USA/1995.
23.20 Grimm
00.20 Revolution (K16)
01.20 Supernatural (K16)
02.20 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
09.30 MasterChef Australia
11.50 Top Secret Recipe
Food hacker Todd Wilbur
investigates an iconic
American recipe and tries
to make it better than the
original.
12.40 JIM D: Steve Jobs
13.40 Splash! USA
14.35 Talent USA
16.15 Undercover Boss
17.10 JIM D: Biography: Matt
Damon
19.05 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
22.00 American Pickers
23.00 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
00.00 World?s Weirdest
Restaurants
00.30 Ice Road Truckers
01.25 Bondi Rescue
01.55 Top Shot
08.05 Children?s Programming
11.30 Animal ABC
12.00 Zoo
12.30 Dog Rescue
14.55 America?s Next Topmodel
15.55 Criss Angel Believe
21.00 National Treasure FILM
A historian races to find
the legendary Templar
Treasure before a team of
mercenaries.
Directed by: Jon Turteltaub.
Starring: Nicolas Cage,
Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha.
USA/2004.
02.10 Elementary
04.05 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.05 Absolutely Fabulous
06.40 Happily N?Ever After FILM
Directed by: Paul Bolger,
Yvette Kaplan.
Starring: Andy Dick,
George Carlin, Jill Talley.
USA/2006.
11.35 Everybody Loves Raymond
13.35 Matlock
14.30 30 Rock
15.35 Zoo Days
16.35 Knight Rider
17.45 The Karate Kid II FILM
Daniel accompanies his
mentor to Okinawa who is
off to see his dying father
and confront his old rival,
while Daniel inadvertently
makes an enemy of his own.
Directed by: John G.
Avildsen. Stan comes up with
a plan to keep Nina safe, but
she ends up at greater risk.
23.50 Southland (K16)
SUB
11.00 The Simpsons
14.00 Farm Kings
15.00 The Face
16.00 Lying Game
17.00 Pretty Little Liars
18.00 Project Runway
20.00 Mythbusters
21.00 Batman Forever FILM
Batman must battle TwoFace and The Riddler
with help of an amourous
psychologist and a young
circus acrobat who becomes
his sidekick, Robin. With Children
06.40 Absolutely Fabulous
07.15 Must Love Cats
08.05 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.55 Must Love Cats
13.50 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Smack the Pony
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. The entertainment
is derived from the interaction
between the offender and the
police officer.
00.00 World?s Weirdest
Restaurants
00.30 South Park
01.00 Ax Men
01.55 Shark Tank USA
02.55 The Voice of USA
08.05 Namaste
09.35 Doctors
10.30 Undercover Boss UK
11.50 All On The Line
13.45 Grand Designs
15.15 Jamie Oliver Happy Days
Live
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 Jamie?s Kitchen
20.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
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.
21.00 Top Chef Masters
Paulie
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Paulie is a hilarious adventure
classic for the whole family. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
This reality television series
portrays the real life highsea adventures of the
Alaskan crab fishermen.
20.00 Gold Rush 2
21.00 S.W.A.T.: Firefight (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Benny Boom.
Starring: Robert Patrick,
Carly Pope, Gabriel Macht,
Kristanna Loken. Paul Cutler (Gabriel
Macht) knows a thing or two
about diffusing tense situations
Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. Operator number 118. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. 09 4711.
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Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. See www.forex.fi for more
information.
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Restaurants. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 The Pursuit of Happyness
FILM
Directed by: Gabriele
Muccino. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. 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
The total volume
of wood material used
in Finland in 2012 that was
burned was
50%
Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. 09 3101 3300. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent medical treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health
centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital
(Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
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on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. New York (K16)
23.10 Major Crimes
00.10 Fringe
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Flipping Out
Flipping Out takes a look
at a peculiar real estate
speculator, Jeff Lewis who
buys houses and ?flips?
them, selling them for a
profit after fixing them up.
15.55 Oliver?s Twist
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant in an
attempt to revive the business.
19.30 Raising Hope
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Project Runway
Heidi Klum hosts a reality
series where aspiring
fashion designers compete
for a chance to break into
the industry.
22.00 Shameless (K16)
23.00 Raising Hope
23.30 Vampire Diaries
00.30 Bones (K16)
01.25 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
11.00 Crocodile Man
14.00 MasterChef Australia
15.20 Shark Tank USA
Shark Tank features business
pitches from aspiring
entrepreneurs to a panel of
potential investors.
16.20 The Voice of USA
18.20 MasterChef Australia
19.30 The Voice of USA
22.30 Ice Road Truckers
23.30 Inside a Storm
00.30 South Park
01.00 Ax Men
01.55 Shark Tank USA
02.55 The Voice of USA
HELSINKI TIMES
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.15 Zoo
08.45 French Food at Home
09.15 Supernanny
10.20 For Rent
14.20 French Food at Home
14.50 Crazy about Wedding
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Excused
17.30 Criss Angel Believe
his series is centered on
stunts and street magic acts
by magician Criss Angel.
18.25 Frasier
21.00 Under the Dome
23.35 Dexter (K16)
A Miami police forensics
expert moonlights as a
serial killer of criminals who
he believes have escaped
justice.
00.45 Frasier
01.15 Excused
01.45 Criminal Minds: Suspect
Behaviour (K16)
02.45 Dr. 09 100 23.
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Medical services. Both telephone cards and Finnish SIM cards for mobile
phones can be bought at R-kioski shops.
fares: Helsinki (one zone) ?2.80/?2.20 from ticket machine, Helsinki-Espoo or Helsinki-Vantaa (two zones) ?4.50 and whole area
(three zones) ?7.00. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. 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). Single ticket
The Pursuit
of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness
is a brilliant, touching and
inspirational film based on the
true story. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. When Gardner
lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm, he
and his son endure many hardships, including being homeless
and living in shelters, in pursuit
of his dream of a better life for
the two of them. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
Fri 3/14
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6:44 am 6:16 pm
6:45 am 6:10 pm
6:55 am 6:27 pm
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6:50 am 6:20 pm
6:45 am 6:00 pm
Telephone. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. Pakula.
Starring: Julia Roberts,
Denzel Washington, Sam
Shepard. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. Chris Gardner (Will
Smith) is a bright and talented,
but marginally employed salesman. Phil
TV5
06.10 Married. With Children
06.40 Absolutely Fabulous
07.15 The Jeff Corwin
Experience
08.05 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.25 Extreme Couponing
12.55 The Jeff Corwin
Experience
13.50 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Smack the Pony
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. Starring:
Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton,
Will Smith. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. 22
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13 . In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. 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. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
Fri 3/14
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wednesday
tuesday 31.12.19 .3.
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Pelican Brief
AVA 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Two and a Half Men
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
15.15 Up All Night
16.15 Undercover Boss
In this hidden-camera
show an executive goes
undercover in his or her own
company to get a raw look at
how people really work.
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 C.S.I. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. USA/1993.
23.45 1600 Penn
00.15 I Hate My Teenage Daughter
WEATHER
Banks and Bureaux de Change. 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.
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Internet. Struggling to make ends
meet, Gardner finds himself
and his five year old son (Jaden
Smith) evicted from their San
Francisco apartment with
nowhere to go. Public phones
are scarce. Directed by:
Gabriele Muccino. USA/2006.
TV5 21.00
Wednesday 19.3.2014
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. Starring:
Jaden Smith, Will Smith.
USA/2006.
23.20 My Strange Addiction
00.30 Call Me Fitz (K16)
01.40 Numb3rs
02.35 Twin Peaks
03.25 Deadliest Catch
04.15 MacGyver
AVA
08.05 Namaste
09.35 Doctors
10.30 Baby Borrowers on
Holiday
12.45 Storage Hoarders
13.45 Jamie?s Kitchen
14.45 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 It?s a Brad, Brad World
21.00 The Pelican Brief FILM
Directed by: Alan J. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
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13 . I never had a poor interaction. You degreed folks need only persist.
You?ve already got a solid
advantage over me. He can often be found running, writing and lifting heavy things, though generally not at
the same time.
Persistence pays off
I DISLIKE being told no.
The idea that there might
be a perception that I?m not
good enough grates on me to
such point that, invariably, I
have to prove that this isn?t
the case.
On a Sunday night in Helsinki, a day before returning to Berlin, where I resided
and worked as an editor-inchief for over a year, I sat in
my hotel room reading a computer screen that was essentially telling me I wasn?t good
enough for Finland. Try a few
variations. Finns are receptive,
pleasant to deal with, and direct. Be persistent.
We?re expats, and we?re kind
of a big deal.
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SixDegrees
is on stands now!
Grab a copy from your
nearest pick-up point!. I ignore general
query ?elds on business websites. One will work.
I?ve been a journalist for
over ?ve years, a social media strategist, publicist,
and worked in marketing,
amongst other things. I liked ?nding a place in
Kallio that had 60-cent coffee. Be endearingly persistent.
I made a list of every business I wanted to work with. If it gets
bounced, no sweat. It made connecting with
the right folks simple, and that
mutual, friendly frankness led
to my quick procurement of a
foothold in Finland.
It?s your job as an expat to insist that you belong
here. That
wouldn?t do at all.
In a country where education is high quality and free, natives speak multiple languages,
and the workforce is highly skilled, I don?t look amazing
when I describe myself.
I?ve no degree, I speak English exclusively, and must get
my work visa sponsored anywhere I?m employed in the EU.
I?m a pain to hire, particularly
when a skilled EU resident can
be employed right away.
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
That?s why I?m writing
this. That as an
expat, I wasn?t cut out for employment in Helsinki.
Over four days in the city,
I?d learned that I really liked
it here. I was hired, full-time,
in the ?eld I pursued. Hundreds of customers visit our facility in Helsinki each month to receive holistic treatment and relaxing massage.
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Dustin Hucks is a journalist living in Europe by way of Los Angeles. Go to LinkedIn, ?nd
out who works there. 19 MARCH
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WELLBEING
Celebrating
five years of Chinese
holistic massage in Helsinki
Our beautiful facility in Helsinki is a genuine Chinese oasis to
which you are heartfelt welcome. The cold, the dark, the
personal space.
I liked standing in frozen
parks for no particular reason. Use it.
Force of will, friends. I even kinda liked the part
where I fell on my ass, sliding
down a frozen Berggatan in
front of Hotel Arthur to the delight of a bunch of school kids.
As I too appreciate strangers falling down, those kiddos
were alright in my book.
Being told I wasn?t ?t
for employment here. If the
emails you want aren?t readily available, they?re generally
?rst name, last name, @ business name .com/.?. I didn?t particularly like
the Thai place two blocks away
that charged 16 euros for an
appetizer, but it can?t all be ideal. Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. This is
part of the reason I jump HR
and go for the top; it?s HR?s job
to exclude me based on lack of
degree. My experience. Be great at what you do.
Be con?dent. Creative types and business owners are often more interested
in experience than academic
pedigree.
What I appreciated about
the job hunting experience in
Helsinki, is that leadership has
responded with overwhelming positivity to my reaching
out. I
skipped HR rep e-mails and
contacted CEOs and creative
directors