in the elections.
In addition, the economic weekly suggests that several experienced decision-makers . H T
has published the
results of a comprehensive survey of the power of balance in the
upcoming parliamentary elections, indicating that the composition of the next Parliament will be
unprecedented.
The Social Democratic Party will
according to the survey, only win 31
seats in the Parliament, representing a loss of 11 seats and the worst
election result in the history of the
party. There is no such driver
for the current recovery effort.
Continued on page 6.. The
Christian Democratic Party, however, would no longer be a viable auxiliary party, the survey indicates.
and was quite the burden to bear. In
this respect, we?re in a much better
situation,. H S
A l E k S I t E I vA InE n . Vihriälä acknowledges.
The unemployment rate in Finland
has recently crept up to 8.5 per cent
while the employment rate . 21 JANUARY 2015 . Because wage moderation is currently
the only means available to Finland,
economic recovery has been sluggish in comparison to the 1990s.
Furthermore, the earlier recovery
was boosted by the fact that Nokia
began its growth into one of the
world?s leading mobile phone makers
around 1995. ?3 . Yet, the business-oriented magazine is confident that the
Social Democratic Party will fare
?miserably. such as
Paula Risikko (NCP), the Minis-
ter of Transport and Local Government from the Vaasa constituency,
and Päivi Räsänen, the Minister
of the Interior and the chairperson
of the Christian Democrats from
the Häme constituency, may have
a reason to dread the results of the
election.
The four largest parties after
April?s elections will be the Centre
Party, the National Coalition, the
respondents in total
? A total of 18,750 Finns were interviewed for the survey between 2 June
and 2 December 2014. The survey takes into consideration the consolidations of constituencies and changes to the allocation of seats.
? The 18-79-year-old respondents represent the population as a whole.
? The results take into account the opinion polls published monthly by YLE
but disregards the possibility of electoral alliances.
? Talouselämä in its summary of the results sheds light on the distribution of seats between parties per constituency. In addition, the method
of analysis partly explains why the
Social Democratic Party is expected to suffer a devastating loss despite recently seeing an increase in
its support.
Confident of perfromance
Talouselämä also reminds that the
results do not necessarily reflect
the most recent fluctuations in
voter support because the first interviews were conducted already
in June. H T
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thE onGoInG economic crisis is in a
number of ways worse than the depression that ravaged Finland in the
early 1990s.
Economist Vesa Vihriälä, the
managing director at the Research
Institute of the Finnish Economy
(Etla), estimates that the two crises are already comparable in mag-
nitude: in both cases, the national
output has fallen sharply and the
debt-to-GDP ratio breached the 60
per cent threshold.
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and the National Coalition.
The Left Alliance and the Green
League are expected to gain a couple of seats, whereas the Christian
Democratic Party is to lose four and
the Swedish People?s Party one, according to the economic weekly.
Taloustutkimus interviewed a total of 18,750 Finns for the survey between last June and December on
commission from Talouselämä and
the Centre for Parliamentary Studies.
The data collected in the survey
has been analysed separately for
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'90s recession. has remained at 69
per cent. Vihriälä adds.
Restoring the weakened competitiveness of Finnish industries
was easier in the 1990s as the coun-
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Caricatures critising religion are
allowed by Finnish law. The employment situation
is considerably better today than it
was 20 years ago.
?At the time, the legacy of unemployment was felt for some time
Finns Party and the Social Democrats, according to the survey.
A coalition between any three
of these parties would guarantee
a clear majority in the Parliament,
whereas a coalition between two of
the parties would necessitate an alliance with two smaller parties. The National Coalition Party,
in turn, will lose no more than 2 of
its current 44 seats despite the recent drop in support for the party.
In the opposition, the Centre
Party will emerge as the undisputed winner of the elections by gaining 15 seats for a total of 50. The findings are therefore more accurate than nationwide support figures.
Crowdfunding & depression
Funding avenue for individual
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already longer than in 1990s
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comparable in magnitude.
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evaluation depends on which aspects you choose to emphasise,. Terms improve on
apartment savings accounts.
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Social Democratic Party Chairman and Minister of Finance, Antti Rinne.
each constituency in order to provide a more detailed projection of
voter support and the results of the
elections. that is,
the proportion of working-age people
in employment . 15 . Children
in nurseries are not active enough,
study shows.
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Paltamolainen electrical goods business ceased operations a year ago.
try could resort to devaluation in
addition to wage moderation. The corresponding figures
in 1994, before the economy began to
recover, were markedly different: 17
and 60 per cent, respectively.
?In light of two other indicators,
however, the current crisis appears
worse,. Helsinki Times is also available for sale in more than 140 kiosks across Finland.
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FROM FINNISH PRESS
Survey: SDP to suffer historic
loss in parliamentary elections
The National Coalition
will only lose a couple of
seats in the Parliament,
according to an extensive
survey commissioned
by the economic weekly
Talouselämä.
L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K Ko M A A
dOMEStIc
PA Avo t E I t t InE n . ISSUE 3 (388) . he
reminds.
One aspect tipping the scale
in favour of the depression of the
1990s is the development of employment and unemployment indicators. H S
A l E k S I t E I vA InE n
But
a supply crisis, raw material crisis, water crisis, climate crisis or a major natural
disaster today only creates
passing interest, after which
everyone looks to their own
house.
IT IS MORE likely that regional alliances are strengthened
in a G Zero world. Knowing that the USA
lives on a huge mountain of
debt with major social challenges at home makes many
THE USA
and have varied strongly since
1991. If the EU can re-create itself, it is the strongest
of them, with Germany as the
leading nation. The guiding hand, for better or worse,
which the USA has offered
the world community, will
probably not be as present
in the coming years. India is one
such. The significance
of international agreements would decrease because those who violate
them are not penalised. Theories abound,
WHAT
interests. The new
Pacific doctrine aimed at
curbing China?s military expansion hardly had time to
take effect before Ukraine
and ISIS demanded attention. own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
Minister Pär Stenbäck is a former Finnish minister of Education and of Foreign
Affairs. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. USA will
still remain the leading military power, even if an intensified arms race in China,
India and Russia slightly reduces the enormous advantage the superpower has
had.
simply has become
over stretched through its
involvement on so many
fronts. The latter states
have room for movement relative to the majors.
ALSO
IT SEEMS fairly clear that the
world is drifting towards
a G0 situation. In Asia there are
many potential areas of conflict. Russia operates its Eurasian Union, Saudi Arabia collects the Muslim
monarchies, Brazil leads in
South America; in Africa, Nigeria and South Africa are
expected to take the lead. In Europe small
Nato countries in the Baltics and Eastern Europe ask
if the US actually wants to
live up to its obligations if
the Ukrainian crisis deepens.
Deployment of small military units was needed to reduce fears.
does the future world
picture look like if this trend
continues. A G2 is not likely, even if the states are economically interdependent.
Obama?s statement in Brisbane sounds like a no to G2.
COULd global collaboration
be recreated within the G20
framework. At the same time
there is redistribution in the
roles that the main state actors play in world politics.
MANY observers believe that
America?s retreat from leadership has begun. the Ukraine crisis especially points in this
direction. He
launched the concept G Zero
that would replace the G7, G20
and all other attempts to coordinate cooperation between
the major economic and military players.
G Zero each state
would act for itself and its
UNdER
The image of a Brave New World that followed
the end of the Cold War has faded away.
countries think: for how long
can and will the USA want to
provide guarantees to the security of its many military
allies?
TOdAY, these clients are increasingly looking after their
own affairs: Japan, Taiwan
and South Korea in Asia, Israel and Saudi Arabia in the
Middle East. But one must not give up
hope that common sense (or
adverse circumstances) may
get states to pull together
and invest in a world order
that better meets humanity?s
long-term interests.. Text translated and reproduced with kind permission of Pär Stenbäck.
A scenario for the world
I WAS startled when reading what President Obama
said during the G20 meeting
in Brisbane, approximately:
United States, as the only superpower in the world... The
NGOs representing the conscience of the world would
be sidestepped, especially in the BRIC countries,
where they already are seen
as lay preachers of unilateral Western ideas. Pakistan . Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. The conflicts on several continents have increased
in intensity, so that one could
speak of the return of a new
Cold War. The signs
are many that the desire for
WHY
coordination and cooperation is rapidly decreasing.
The USA has burnt its fingers
in many places: no Palestinian agreement, retreat from
Afghanistan and Iraq with
mediocre results, challenges
from China and Russia, criticism from old allies such as
Turkey, Brazil and South Africa. According to them a holistic analysis
of security policies is required,
in which geography, climate
and above all the significance
of sea areas are essential to assess the future. The Second World
War brought them to the creation of the UN and the Bretton Woods agreements. The
ISIS caliphate suggests that
the world?s cradle, the Middle
East, remains a trouble spot;
religion has come back as a
mobilising force for terror.
The number of failed states
appears to be increasing, not
decreasing.
ARE THERE alternatives to an
egoistic world without leaders and rules. A
retreating US must sooner or
later pay attention to its lawless neighbour Mexico.
g ZERO,
unfortunately also
may lead to more strained
relations between the ma-
jor players . Afghanistan and
Iraq were draining on resources and undermining
political patience. The above-mentioned author believes that it
is only a truly dramatic crises that could awaken the
states. They are
formed around a Protecting
Power and may take different
shapes. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). The
showdown on Iran?s nuclear
ambitions has been deferred.
The Ebola epidemic has taken countries by surprise. China wants to become equal with the United
States in order to declare its
marine and neighbouring areas as its sovereign sphere of
influence. The image of a Brave
New World that followed the
end of the Cold War has faded
away. A few years ago a writer
(Ian Bremmer: Every Nation
for Itself) tried to describe how
world politics would turn out
after a gradual US retreat from
its role as world policeman. Core areas and
pivot states, as well as elbow
room states, are re-emerging
concepts that were used in
the early 1900s by the British
writer Mackinder, the Swede
Kjellén and the American
Spykman. One should
not be misled by the countless meetings and processes that are constantly going
on. The battle for the Afghan heritage can flare up.
The escalation in the South
China Sea does not bode well.
Many US writers have talked
about the inevitable war
against China.
old geopolitical doctrines are coming into favour
(see Robert Kaplan: The Revenge of Geography). Because we
apparently are slipping into
just such a world. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. Ruthless
global companies would get
more room to manoeuver,
but state-owned enterprises would also benefit from an
increasing protectionism.
now speculate about a
world without guidance and
coordination. 2
VIEWPOINT
15 . The economic and political realities
in the domestic scene are
forcing a rethink. Could a G2 occur with China and the US as
partners. A Republican Congress
makes foreign policies unpredictable. But the US has alliance agreements with a number of China?s neighbouring
states and cannot leave them
in the lurch. Will it become
isolationist or aggressive?
NO AgREEMENT has been
reached on sustainable development and the climate.
Comprehensive trade agreements are hard to settle. My
reflection was simply that if
a leader must say so, then he
wants to convince himself
and others that it remains so.
IT IS hard to avoid the feeling
that the world we have been
living in during the last quarter of a century is undergoing radical changes of some
kind. 21 JANUARY 2015
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?The number of low
income earners doesn?t necessarily increase, although
we might expect it to, as it?s a
relative indicator,. Just back to the basics. H S
A L E K S I T E I vA IN E N . People on a
relatively low income are
not eligible for housing allowance,. Nearly 70
per cent of respondents from
the lowest income brackets
would draw the line at 1,200
euros, while only 47 per cent
of respondents from higher
income brackets would.
Age and gender, in turn,
had little impact on the definitions of low and high-income earners, although the
income limits proposed by
men were generally somewhat higher than those of
women.
Respondents from the
capital region would similarly set the limits higher than
residents of other parts of
the country.
The definitions of high-income earners also reflected
the social class the respondents most identified with.
Respondents who considered themselves working
class would set the limit for
high income lower than those
who considered themselves
themselves
lower-middle
class. DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
15 . 21 JANUARY 2015
3
H S / S I R PA R Ä I H Ä
Who:
Bruce Oreck
From:
New York City
Known for:
US ambassador
to Finland
A former body builder, Oreck has become somewhat of a celebrity here in Finland. She would categorise people who earn more
than 6,000 euros a month as
high-income earners.. The statistical authority calculates the
limit for low income annually
on the basis of the median income of all households.
The median is the numerical value that separates the
population into two equallysized groups.
People are considered
low-income earners if their
earnings are equivalent to no
more than 60 per cent of the
national average income. Including all
wage supplements, the national average income was
3,284 euros.
?Your make a nice living if
you no longer have to count
down days until your next
payday,. H T
THE MAJORITY of Finns define
low-income earners as people who earn less than 1,200
euros a month and high-income earners as people who
earn more than 5,000 euros
a month.
The definition of highincome earners, however,
varies more than those of
low-income earners according to the earnings of the
respondent, finds a survey
conducted by TNS Gallup on
commission from Helsingin
Sanomat.
A group of coordinators
and thesis supervisors from
the Institute of Marketing
have convened at the Korjaamo Culture Factory in
Töölö, Helsinki, to mull over
means to improve the skills
of knowledge workers. explains
Mervi Rauhala.
?On the other hand, it?s
difficult to say where the
limit for middle income is ?
maybe at 2,500 euros.?
The employees of the Institute of Marketing estimate that their monthly
earnings of nearly 4,000 euros qualify them as middleincome earners. Blue jeans, a white
t-shirt and a big American smile?.
It remains to see what he has in mind for this year.
Question of the week
Have you started the new year by signing up to the gym?
Yes . points out Minna
Ristimäki.
In general, Finns. she points
out.
A decline in average income will inevitably lower the upper limit for low
income, thus promoting
many earners from the lowincome to the middle-income
category. On an
average, 13 per cent of Finns
fall into the low-income category. ?But didn?t
Laura Räty (NCP) already
create the boundaries for low
income?. Kirsi Hanhisalo
asks at the Korjaamo Culture
Factory.
Räty, the Minister of Social Affairs and Health, received considerable media
attention last autumn for
her misguided estimates of
the number of Finns who
earn less than 2,600 euros or
2,100 euros a month.
Her estimates also kindled a heated debate on how
nursery schools, for example,
categorise relatively many
households as high-income
households in their pricing
strategies.
?Defining the limit for
high income is surprisingly complicated if you take
into account the variety of
income limits. Sworn into office in 2009, his largerthan-life presence has transcended his official duties.
Oreck?s annual Christmas Card greetings have become
something of legend. Respondents who identified with the upper-middle
class tended similarly to set
the limit higher than those
who identified with the lower-middle class.
The median income of
full-time employees in Finland in 2013 was 2,928 euros
per month, according to Statistics Finland. definitions
of low income correspond
relatively well with that of
Statistics Finland. Nothing controversial. A relatively large
share of the population, 16 per
cent, would categorise people
who earn a minimum of 3,000
euros a month as high-income
earners.
Own perspective
The survey also finds that the
earnings of respondents influenced their definitions of
low-income and high-income
earners: the higher their own
earnings, the higher the limits for low and high income.
For example, half of respondents from the highest
income bracket defined high
income as earnings exceeding 6,000 euros a month.
A similar tendency was observed in the definitions of
low-income earners. The
definition of income includes
after-tax wage, entrepreneurial and property income
as well as pension and social
security benefits, according
to Statistics Finland.
The statistical upper limit for low income in 2013 was
1,190 euros per month for single-person households. Everything from being photographed
fully clothed in a sauna (surrounded by naked men) to flexing
his biceps through a ripped shirt have been the focus of his
annual greeting.
Numerous American news sites have picked up on his 2014
edition. Parties
will, on the one hand, promise to transform Finland into a tax haven for low-income
earners and, on the other,
to reduce the tax burden on
middle-income earners.
The definitions of low and
middle income, however, are
far from obvious even for
policy-makers. definitions of high-income earners
vary more than those of lowincome earners.
One in five Finns estimate
that monthly earnings of
6,000 euros qualify you as a
high-income earner, while one
in three would draw the line at
5,000 euros and one in four at
4,000 euros. 27.3%
No . Shirtless and covered in body paint and fake tattoos,
the text reads:
?This year I wanted to keep my holiday card simple. Monthly
earnings of over 5,000 euros,
in turn, would place them in
the high-income category,
they estimate.
Corresponding income
Overall, Finns. 72.7%
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Kirsi Hanhisalo (left), Milla Saramaa, Eeva-Kaarina Aurila, Liisa Tuhkanen, Minna Ristimäki, Päivi Puhakka and Mervi Rauhala attend
the Institute of Marketing workshop in Helsinki.
Finnish perceptions
of income revealed
Place of residence a
factor in determining
who qualifies as
having low income.
A NN A - L IIN A K AU H A NE N . This is what occurred during the depression
of the 1990s, for example: the
wage gap between low and
middle-income earners narrowed as the median income
of households fell, along with
the limit for low income.
Low-income earners are
also considered to be at risk
of poverty.
The upcoming parliamentary elections will guarantee
that a lot will be said about a
number of income groups in
the months to come. They
came up with a definition
they can agree on relatively
effortlessly: residents of the
capital region, where housing costs are high, qualify as
low-income earners if they
earn less than 2,000 euros a
month.
?Singles in Kemi may get
by on 2,000 [euros a month],
but that?s nowhere near
enough for a single parent in
the capital region,. summarises Liisa
Tuhkanen. The number of low-income earners has in recent
years stayed at approximately 700,000.
The categorisation of certain earners as low-income
earners, however, is hardly a reliable indicator amid
economic crises, reminds
Kaisa-Mari Okkonen, a senior statistician at Statistics
Finland
4
15 . The gravity of the situation
is underlined by the unprecedented number of university graduates . We
also suffer from a lack of appreciation for hard graft.
Even though we boast large quantities of immaterial intellectual property and the world is rife with opportunities related to digitalization, the industrial internet
and computer networks, and 3D production, we do suffer from a shortage of enthusiasm that would help make
us a forerunner in these fields. The country fails to attract investments
because we have lost our competitive edge and entrepreneurs and business leaders have lost their trust in the political sector. Investments in research,
product development and innovation by universities,
university centres, universities of applied sciences and
companies are suffering from post-Nokia hangover. These three fields have
the power to change the world, so having expertise in
them is the key to Finland?s future success. According to him, distributing the pictures would
not bear hallmarks of hate
Danish newspaper JyllandsPosten were not seen as
bearing hallmarks of a crime.
In 2006, Suomen Sisu published caricatures of Prophet
Muhammad on their website,
but the case never proceeded
to court.
?The meaning of caricatures is not to offend but to
crimes. although
they do not justify them.?
er hand, Finnish kids spent
approximately 20 minutes
more on light exercise daily
than their Australian peers.
Soini remarks that the
nursery has a big role in
strengthening children?s exercising habits. On the oth-
cise two hours a day, which is
the quantitative recommendation of Varhaiskasvatus?
(early childhood education?s).
?The increased sitting
habits and insufficient physical activity of adults and
school children have been
widely discussed in the public lately. In his free
time, Suutari enjoys exercise, particularly dancing and motorcycling,
and takes interest in community issues.
Only growth will
guarantee well-being!
The attack at the Charlie Hebdo office has led to discussion on freedom of expression particularly regarding cartoons that are found
offensive, which Mika Illman says do not fall under the hate crime category in Finland. Until
now, 30 MPs have made public their intentions of leaving their seats free-willingly.
Based on a new report, approximately twenty are at
risk of not being re-elected.
According to a new report
commissioned
by
criticise the use of Islam for
justifying violence and for
totalitarian means. JANNE LAITINEN
Law allows publishing
Muhammad pictures in Finland
PUbLISHINg Muhammad pictures from the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, is
allowed in Finland, says Doctor of Jurisprudence and former state prosecutor Mika
Illman for Sunnuntaisuomalainen. Such actions might lead
to increasing tensions and violent outbreaks . We are currently in the midst of a deep crisis,
as all of those almost 300,000 people out of work know
from their own experience. To fix the situation
and to create new jobs, on top of all the other reforms, we
also need to overhaul the way the labour markets function.
In the modern-day society, a country?s government
must adopt a more goal-oriented approach to the preparation of labour laws. If we manage to fix the skewed company distribution, making it more like the distribution
our competitors have . which would also have a positive
effect on our unemployment rate - things will definitely
start to look up for us. In the business sector, when a company outsources part of its operations, it still retains the
overall decision-making power, and this is what the government should do regarding the labour markets. Companies
acting as leaders in their own fields, and the example
they set, is essential in gaining the required skills. 21 JANUARY 2015
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L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / T H E M b O M U H I N d O K A S H A U r I
Eero Suutari is a National Coalition Party Member of Parliament
from Kajaani, with 32 years of experience in the export business in
the ICT sector (Kajaani Automatiikka Oy and Sunit Oy). The results of this
study would suggest that
spontaneous, active play
and general activity of children of nursery age is also
ILTALEHTI 10 January. Finland?s labour laws date back to the 1970s
even though the world has moved on from those days.
The government has passed the negotiation process on
labour laws for labour market organisations to take care
of, a decision which later on has served to exclude a major part of the society from the process. Thanks to our punitive
tax system, the service business sector is under-developed in Finland. During the
nursery day, Finnish children
tended to stay put more and
do less moderately straining
activity compared to their
Dutch peers. The majority of
the study observations showed
that encouragement for physical activity was infrequent.
Master of physical education Anne Soini?s doctoral
thesis, ?Always on the move??
which measures physical activity of 3-year-old preschool
children, will be examined on
Thursday 15 January at the
University of Jyväskylä.
Talouselämä magazine and
the Centre of Parliament Research, the Centre Party would
gain up to 15 additional seats,
the Left Alliance three and the
Green Party two seats in the
new Parliament.
In turn, SDP would lose 11
MP seats, the National Coalition Party two, the Finns
Party two, Swedish National Party one, and Christian
democrats up to four seats.
In these parties, many MPs
hoping for a re-election have
got a reason to be worried.
According to the report,
the Christian Democrats
would decrease into a minute
group of two MPs. It is not enough
that the labour market parties reach an agreement; they
must also exceed the targets set by the government, the
most important of which are the creation of new jobs and
reduction of unemployment. In addition to initiating negotiations, the government must set stricter targets and
monitor the achievement of these goals. This cartoon was made in response to the attacks, and says ?Freedom of expression will never die.?
ETELÄ-SUOMEN SANOMAT 11 January. We have to remove the obstacles
that are preventing growth in this sector.
Promotion of export is essential as the domestic
market does not offer enough potential for mediumsized companies to continue to expand, which is one
reason why companies have stopped growing. OLLI AINOLA, TOMMI PARKKONEN
Twenty MPs at risk of being
voted out of the Parliament
L E H T I K U VA / rO N I r E KO M A A
We need 200,000 new jobs in Finland in order to maintain the current tax rate while still being able to pay for
public services, demand for which will grow as the population ages. We
have to set our sights high to get Finland back on track!
The parliament will see a reshuffling of members in the upcoming elections in April.
TwENTY MPs seeking re-election are at risk of being voted
out, says a new study predicting a large change in the
distribution of the Parliament?s seats.
Up to one third of the Parliament?s members might be
replaced as the citizens elect
the new MPs in April. If the labour market parties
will not agree to reform the system, they will soon lose
their clout. Illman
explains.
He says, however, that although the distribution of
such pictures is allowed, the
decision of doing so should
not be taken lightly.
?The freedom to distribute such pictures must exist,
but doing so is playing with
fire. According to the law, shaming
a religious community publicly can lead to a verdict for
blasphemy.
However, for example the
Muhammad pictures from
VERKKOUUTISET 11 January. In contrast to other EU countries, Finnish
law regarding breaking religious peace is in force. We suffer from a shortage of companies that can create new jobs. This is the only way we can stop the growth of
the national debt and prevent our children from inheriting a huge debt burden. Our skills
in the export sector, and particularly in export marketing, have taken a step back. In comparison with other European
countries, our company distribution is U-shaped, meaning that we have a large number of small private enterprises and plenty of large export companies but we lack
medium-sized growth companies that also operate in
the export market. Soini reflects in her dissertation
bulletin.
Soini considered comparative materials between Finland, Holland and Australia,
which showed country specific differences in children?s
physical activity. The chairperson of the Christian Democrats, Päivi Räsänen, is one
of those MPs who need to
prepare themselves for the
strong possibility of being
voted out.. up to 40,000 . In other
words, the caricatures critisise the use of power,. registered as job-seekers.
We have a shortage of companies that are capable of
offering new jobs. Understanding and accepting this principle will result in a
tripartite negotiation system that is better able to respond
to modern-day challenges. ILKKA AHTOKIVI
Nursery kids already sit too much
AccORdINg to a new study,
the physical activity of children consists mainly of lowefficiency activities, such as
sitting, standing or walking.
Anne Soini studied three
year olds for her dissertation, and found that they
spent only two per cent of
their time in the nursery at
moderately straining play.
Her study showed that only
a few of those who took part
in her study actively exer-
worryingly infrequent,
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L E H T I K U VA / RO N I R E KO M A A
Helsinki?s luggage
lobby redesigned with
Finnish nature theme
??FINNISH NATURE and
technological expertise meet
in the luggage lobby redesigned by acclaimed interior decoration architect and
sculptor Stefan Lindfors.
The redesign has been
carried out respecting the
old design, and the hall has
been given a modern look
whilst preserving its original features with the main
theme of Finnish nature.
The ceiling of the lobby
has been covered with fab-
ric representing wings and
designed exclusively for Finavia by Lindfors, while live
footage of nature is projected on one of the walls.
Glass showcases placed
in between the luggage claim
belts present Finnish plants
and forest wildlife acquired
with the EU?s permission,
and the walls of the lobby
are decorated with a circuit
board pattern, hand-drawn
by Lindfors, and pays homage to Finnish IT expertise.
BBC 8 January
Finland: Alcohol prizes
banned in pub quizzes
quiz winners in Finland
used to look forward to a few
free pints for their efforts, but
new alcohol laws mean that?s
now a thing of the past, it?s
been reported. The new rules are meant
to prevent adverts being seen
??PUb
by people who are below the
legal drinking age of 18, but
it has left the owners of the
country?s watering holes wondering how to reward victorious quiz teams.
One pub in the northern
city of Oulu hasn?t come up
with a replacement yet, and
the lack of prizes at the year?s
first quiz didn?t go down too
well with customers.
They
?moaned
and
whined a bit,. ?It?s ridiculous
to try to control every little thing by legislating,. E ng l i s h . says
one user on the Kauppalehti
newspaper website. The fact that
the coldest places are warming faster isn?t that much of
a mystery. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
15 . According to ZME
Science, ice acts like an insulating cover that reflects the
sun and keeps the water below cold. C a lligra phy.
D a n c e . Over
50 per cent more deliveries
went through these pickup
points in 2014 compared to
2013.
As well as taking on extra
staff to serve the Christmas
rush, Posti said it increased
the rates at which parcel terminals were serviced.
?Natural place?
Anders Falck, Posti business director, said his firm?s
research suggested more
than 50 per cent of Finnish
consumers were doing their
Christmas shopping online.
?For many consumers, online stores are a natural place
to shop,. MICHELLE KENNE
Finland is warming faster
than the rest of the world
??FINLAND IS WARMINg fast
. The
pub?s owner is worried the
move could hurt business
in the meantime, and notes
that pubs and bars don?t admit underage drinkers anyway. FI
I n s ti t u te o f Ad ul t E d u c at io n in Hels inki
Tö ö l önt u l l i n kat u 8, 00250 Hels inki
niko laaksonen (left) gives ceo Heikki malinen a package bearing posti's new logo.
POST & PARCEL 6 January
Parcel volumes up 9
per cent at Christmas in
Finland, despite recession
??FINLAND?S newly
rebranded
national postal service Posti has said the country?s recession has failed to dampen
Christmas parcel volumes.
The Nordic country?s
economy is struggling worse
than most in Europe at the
moment, not least because
neighbouring Russia?s financial troubles have hit
exports.
Nevertheless, Posti said it
delivered nine per cent more
packages last month than it
did the same month in 2013.
Posti was delivering more
than 1 million parcels a week
during the busiest periods in
December, a record amount.
The festive boost means
the year as a whole saw Posti handling 32.6 million parcels in 2014, an increase of
800,000 on the previous year.
The company said its network of 460 automated par-
cel locker terminals has been
gaining popularity, and has
become a standard delivery
option for online stores. A memorable arrival
lobby will leave a positive impression on a passenger and
that might make the passenger travel via Helsinki Airport again the next time.??
The redesigned baggage
hall is part of the development of Helsinki Airport
to improve the passenger experience, and part of
the current 900 million-euro development programme,
preparing the airport to
serve about 20 million passengers per year by 2020??
ku Mertanen tells Yle. 2D Gam e Gra phic s .
S u omen k i e li ja o h ja u s - N u o r is o ta ku u ko u lu tu s .
HELS INGI N
AI KU I SO PI STO
HE L AO. We are
continuing to invest in the
development of mobile and
web services.?
into the air, moderating the
temperature and frustrating
skiers everywhere??
?You would expect that
the temperatures in the
north would be rising faster
than the global average,. F i nni s h fo r Fo rei g ners . he said.
?E-commerce has grown
5-10 per cent this year. We
are developing ever more di-
INHABIT 9 January. Street advertising and social media adverts for alcoholic drinks have
been outlawed, and alcohol
can no longer be given away in
competitions, national broadcaster Yle reports on its website. ?But [researchers] expected a rate that was
50 per cent faster; Finland?s
temperature is rising by almost 100 per cent.???
L E H T I K U VA / K I M M O M ä N T y L ä
AIRPORT WORLD 12 January
Finland?s temperature is rising by almost 100 per cent faster than
the global average.. This isn?t surprising to
some, who expect the rate of
warming at the poles to increase faster than in other areas of the world. Mu s i c . quiz host Mi-
Ville Haapasaari, director
of Finavia?s Helsinki Airport,
explains: ?Helsinki Airport is
Finland?s business card and
for many passengers the first
contact with Finland.
?That is why it is important that we stand out from
other airports in a surprising way. Icefree parts of the ocean now
absorb much more heat than
they used to, so when air temperatures drop in the fall and
winter, the heat is released
verse services to support ecommerce and to make the
daily lives of our customers
easier.?..?
Posti, which rebranded
from Itella at the start of this
year in order to simplify its
market reach, is continuing
to expand its network of parcel lockers, with more than
ten extra locations being installed this month.
Falck said his company
was also looking to other options to improve customer
convenience.
He said: ?Posti serves consumers at different service
points with extensive opening hours. The result is that the
more ice that is lost to melting, the more the surface absorbs the heat instead of
reflecting it back to space. Ari
Laaksonen, professor in the
Department of Applied Physics at the University of Eastern Finland and a co-author
of the study told Scientific American. according to new
research from the University of Eastern Finland and the
Finnish Meteorological Society. The researchers found that
over the past 166 years Finland?s average monthly temperatures increased by two
degrees Celsius, whereas temperatures over the rest of the
planet have increased by only
.8 degrees Celsius on average.
In general, sub-Arctic
countries are all warming
faster than the rest of the
world. Another person is clearly unimpressed, writing: ?Next they
are going to ban farting in
public places.???
COME
AN D
EN JOY
LEARN I N G !
S u o m i . Han d c r aft s . The new Posti
mobile application gives an
estimate of the delivery time
of a parcel and also has many
other useful features. P ho to gra phy.
S p a n i sh . faster than scientists ever
predicted and at nearly twice
the rate of any other country
on Earth . While some Finnish
social media users think
the new alcohol rules are
a good idea, with one person describing it as ?common sense?, many say it?s a
step too far
by a lot. Such a scenario is unprecedented, so if it were to happen we have no idea what
to expect. The people of Europe are
not satisfied with their current situation. Etla on 8
January unveiled its exhaustive assessment of the measures the next Government
should adopt to boost pro-
ductivity and turn around the
economic situation.
Seija Ilmakunnas, the director at the Labour Institute
for Economic Research, largely
agrees with the analysis of Etla
on the similarities and differences between the two crises.
She would, however, like to
call more attention to the differences in the employment
situation. In the photo are Broadcom?s employees Pekka Kotila
(left), Jouni Hokajärvi and Mika Holappa.
ture direction of Europe. Although the downturn that
followed the depression of
AN ExAMINATION
the 1990s was initially longer, the recovery . Labour is leading the
polls, and no one can ignore the huge surge in the nationalist UK Independence Party.
THERE is one common thread in all these countries,
with the exception of Estonia. They have lost faith in
their leaders and their place in the union.
H E IK K I A RO L A . The
several-year periods that
preceded the two downturns
resemble one another closely: the public economy began
to overheat while debt exposure and income inequality
increased, but the signs were
left undetected.
?Tougher fiscal policy
would have been needed especially at the end of the first
decade of the 21st century,?
states Ilmakunnas.
POLITICS
neighbours in Estonia will vote in early
March. Ilmakunnas says.
She also underlines that
the events that led to the
downturns warrant thorough examination. This
time, we haven?t had to lay off
more than 100,000.?
In the 1990s, the problem was essentially tackled
by introducing the so-called
unemployment path to retirement, an instrument
that allowed people to retire as early as age 53. This wide variety
of member states will give us an idea which way the political winds are blowing.
Current recession longer
than '90s depression
THE fIRST election is set for 25 January and takes place
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in Greece. The current leader of the polls, Syriza, wants to renegotiate the terms.
IN THE past Syriza has suggested leaving the euro and
returning to the drachma. 21 JANUARY 2015
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K A I T I R K KO N E N
David J. It seems Finns are not satisfied of the status
quo (for good reason) and we will see Centre return to
power.
IN MAY the Brits go to the polls. CApACITy BuIldIng
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Digital applications in English or Finnish should be submitted by February 21st 2015 (16:00), through the portal asiointi.hel.fi.. The right-leaning Estonian Reform Party currently has the most seats in parliament, and they are
also leading the polls. Our last
trip to the polls was a mess. Many
who entered the path to retirement failed to re-employ
themselves.
?That put a massive burden on the public economy.
We?re in a better situation today,. ?The number of employed people decreased then,
in the early 1990s, by nearly
half a million . once it truly began . Estonia is doing relatively well in
comparison to the rest of Europe and Estonians see no
need to drastically change their leadership.
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slowly than 1990 gross domestic product
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WE ARE next in line with our election in April. If the polls
are correct, most likely the current leaders in every
country besides Estonia will be tossed out of office. The Conservatives are following this movement and may even call a referendum
on EU membership if they win. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
European elections 2015
THE fIRST half of 2015 may give us a glimpse of the fu-
In July last year, Broadcom announced the end of their modem business in Finland, and more than
400 people were made redundant in Oulu. The Finnish people had no
idea what they wanted, so they voted for every political
philosophy which resulted in an impotent rainbow coalition. I doubt that Syriza would do anything
as rash as leaving the
The people of Europe euro, but they will
push for a renegotiare not satisfied
ation of the bailout
terms (which they are
with their current
right to do). Our
new leaders will need to deliver this change that they
have been promising.
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The grAnT FOr IMMIgrAnT ASSOCIATIOnS. H T
of the development of GDP in the
wake of the downturns
shows that national output
began to recover in 2010 before regressing in 2012. This is receiving attention because the future of the common currency is at stake. We have elections in a struggling state which received a bailout, another which
was a reluctant contributor to the bailout, an enthusiastic new entrant to the union and an important country with a history of Euro scepticism. was quicker, with
the output reaching previous
peak levels in six years.
The same has yet to take
place in the wake of the more
recent crisis.
On the other hand, the crises do differ in that 20 years
ago the decline in national
output was due to a diminishing labour force, whereas
today the decline is attribut-
able to the erosion of industrial productivity, Vihriälä
explains.
Statistics indicate that
the productivity improved
steadily before beginning its
decline in 2008.
Amidst such difficult circumstances, a variety of remedies are needed. A more insituation.
teresting backdrop
of this is the changing attitude of the Greek people. The current
largest party in parliament, New Democracy, is in favour of sticking to the bailout terms. H S
A L E K S I T E I vA IN E N . It seems we won?t make the same mistake again.
Faith in the right-wing National Coalition has fallen,
trust in the left Social Democrats has disappeared,
and the once-powerful populist Finns Party are losing
support. Cord (david@helsinkitimes.fi) is a writer, journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. They are becoming ev-
er more sceptical of some European ideals such as the
free movement of people. 6
BUSINESS
15 . Could there be runs on the banks of other
countries such as Spain, which would then force them
to withdraw from the currency union, too?
change faster than the weather, but at this
point it seems very unlikely that the left-leaning Syriza will not win
The drop is
beneficial to the wallets of motorists regardless of the adoption of higher fuel tax rates at
the beginning of the year.
In addition, the tax burden
of consumers has grown due
to a decision to limit the right
to deduct commuting expenses and mortgage interests.
As a result, the purchasing power of middle-income
earners is expected stay close
to its current levels, whereas that of both higher-income
and lower-income earners is
to decrease moderately.
climbing taxes
Overall, taxes have crept up
considerably over the ongoing electoral term. says
Minna Punakallio, the chief
economist at the Association
of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities. 21 JANUARY 2015
7
SANNA BEILINSoN, 30, and
her boyfriend, are looking for
their first flat together. But
we are expecting the demand
to increase.?
At Danske Bank and Nordea the additional interest is
4 per cent.
?The additional interest
that Danske Bank pays is
significant. The combination of non-existent economic
growth and tax hikes, she says,
is a dangerous one.
Lehtinen urges the Government to lower income tax
rates across income brackets, including the middleincome bracket. says Beilinson.
Banks in particular have
demanded an increase, and
even abolishment, of the age
limit. says
Viitanen.
According to Viitanen, the
benefits that the apartment
account scheme has brought
have been necessary and
positive.
?In the future we need
to make sure that the maximum amount of the loan
is raised to be proportional
to the level that apartment
prices are developing at.
This is very important,. Having our own garden would of course be fun,?
says Beilinson.
?I?ve now been actively
looking at flats on the Internet, and we?ll start going to
viewings soon.?
Beilinson feels that opening an ASP-account, or a savings account specifically for
those buying their first apartment, has been beneficial in
searching for her first flat.
?I heard about the apartment savings account a long
time ago, probably when
I was still in high school
through friends or my parents,. Banks
have certainly noticed that
within their customer base,
a lot of people are beginning
to consider their living situations and have decided to buy
an apartment only once they
are in their thirties,. You need to
save for at least eight periods
which are each three months
in length, so finding an apartment would take much longer. +358-9-616 621, info@hotelanna.fi
www.hotelanna.fi
The price of petrol per litre has dropped by a few dozen cents since last autumn due
to a dramatic decline in global
crude oil prices. In my current
situation an account like that
isn?t necessary. Last summer, the apartment loan in Helsinki stood
at a maximum if 145,000 euros, but currently stands at
180,000 euros.
For apartments in Espoo,
Vantaa and Kauniainen, the
maximum amount of loan is
145,000 euros and in other
municipalities the maximum
is 115,000 euros.
The interest for the apartment savings loan must be
lower than it is for other first
apartment loans.
According to the most recent statistics from the State
Treasury, by the end of last
November 30,700 new apartment saving accounts had
been opened, whereas five
Purchasing power of middleincome earners to stagnate
K ATJ A B ox B E Rg . The
Taxpayers Association of Finland has calculated that the
tax hikes implemented over
the past nearly four years
amount to a total of 5 billion
euros, with the share of the
central administration being
2.5-3.0 billion and that of local governments some 800
million euros.
Sanna Beilinson takes a look at lamps in the Helsinki Habitat store. BUSINESS
HELSINKI TIMES
15 . ?The
drop in petrol prices is especially significant,. says Beilinson.
Before the turn of the
year, the last opportunity
one had to set up such an account was at 30 years of age,
but last October the government allowed that age to be
increased.
A change in savings
On 1 January a change in law
came in to effect, which allows up to 39-year-olds to
open an apartment savings
account.
Each year, the bank pays
one per cent interest and, in
addition to the whole sum
saved, the bank pays an additional interest of 2-4 per cent
once the apartment has been
bought. Currently that is an
excellent return on a riskfree investment.
?I?m a little disappointed that I didn?t start an account earlier. The
Association of Finnish Local
and Regional Authorities reveals that several municipalities already feel the pressure
to raise municipal tax rates, in
addition to the nearly one hundred that did so last year.
?There?s no end in sight.
The pressure is still there,. H T
H S / S a M i K E Ro
The terms for getting an account
for apartment savings just got better
Domestic demand has waned in the face of eroding purchasing power.. will fail to increase
this year due to the tax policy
pursued by the Government.
Purchasing power refers to
the spending power of people
in the prevalent price environment after the subtraction of income taxes.
The purchasing power of
Finns was earlier forecast to
crumble slightly in 2015, but
earners have benefited from
unusually low inflation. says
Viitanen.
Amount increased
The amount that could be
lent was increased in November. that is, people who
earn roughly 3,200 euros a
month . highlights
Teemu Lehtinen, the chief executive at TAF.
Cosy hotel in the heart of Helsinki
Annankatu 1, 00120 Helsinki
tel. Before interior decoration plans
are confirmed, however, she must first acquire an apartment.
years ago the amount was
less than half of that.
Danske Bank?s CEO Lari
Luovinen says he believes
that with the new changes, demand will increase even more.
?Our customers still have
a relatively small amount of
information regarding the
new terms and conditions
about the change in law. Its predecessor, the Cabinet of Prime
Minister Jyrki Katainen
(NCP), ruled that half of any
adjustments to the economy must be realised through
tax hikes and the other half
through spending cuts.
The problem is that the
tax hikes and economic uncertainty are hardly
an incentive to consume. says Beilinson.
Minister of Housing Pia
Viitanen says that banks
have demanded a removal of the age limit because
those who are saving to buy
an apartment are important
clients.
?Being a customer can often last for decades. According to Beilinson, the banks didn?t mention before the new year that
the change of law was coming up, even though with the
change Beilinson would have
had many more years to start
an account.
?The banks hadn?t said
anything about the change in
law,. It makes
the apartment savings account an interesting place to
save.?
The total tax rate will, according to TAF, climb to 44.7
per cent this year, representing a 4 percentage point increase from 2010.
The policy-making of the
Government has been dictated by the sustainability
deficit, the exceptionally difficult economic crisis as well
as the dent it has made on the
national economy. H S
A L E K S I T E I vA INE N . They
are looking for a two-roomed
apartment in the Espoo-Tapiola, Mankkaa, or Niittykumpu regions.
?We might also consider a
small bit from a row house in
Espoo. A
number of economists have
already expressed their concerns about possible deflation as domestic demand
continues to wane and export industries struggle.
In Finland, the commerce
sector has been in shambles
for some time.
?The tax policy does little
to boost purchasing power,?
states Jaana Kurjenoja, the
chief economist at the Finnish Commerce Federation,
reminding that the retail sector must also adapt to a rise
in electricity tax rates.
Any further revisions to the
tax scheme will largely depend
on the next Government. saving
? Anyone between the ages of 18-39 who is planning on buying their first apartment can open an ASP account.
? The account requires 10% of the price of the apartment to be
saved. Individual deposits can range between ?150-3,000.
? For the amount that has been deposited, the customer gains
a yearly interest percentage without tax.
? When the apartment is bought, the amount that has been
saved gains an additional 2-4% interest.
? If the loan for the apartment rises over 3.8%, the customer
gets 70% of that supported by the state.
H S / R i o G a n da R a
R E E T TA H E I S K A N E N . H T
If YoU struggled to scrape by
until your next payday last
year, things are not going to
get any easier this year.
The Taxpayers Association of Finland (TAF) forecasts that the purchasing
power of middle-income
earners . H S
A L I c I A JE N S E N . ?You can?t
keep on raising taxes for ordinary people,. A couple of years ago it
could have been a different
situation,. We want to encourage our clients to actively save money. he stresses.
ASP
said
Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called on
France to protect its Jewish
communities.
Rivlin said that Jews from
France would be welcome
in Israel but that it was important that their choice
be ?born out of a positive
Jewish identity, out of Zionism, and not because of
anti-Semitism.?
About 500,000 Jews are
citizens of France, the second-largest population of
the community outside Israel and the United States. James E. said Dr. in Hebrew for the act of ?ascending,. has raised protests from
internet security experts
and suspicions by conspiracy
theorists of US involvement
in a bizarre plot to further
isolate the Korean regime.?
They point out, said Dr.
Jennings, that stranger
things have happened before.
It would not be the first
time that the CIA has used
dirty tricks to cripple a for-
eign regime or try to assassinate a foreign leader.
He said folks are entitled to be sceptical about
FBI claims and to raise questions about possible CIA
involvement.
The CIA?s own Inspector
General as well as the 197576 Church Committee reported that a large number of
crazy tricks were attempted
in trying to get rid of Castro,
including poisoned cigars
and exploding seashells.
?One wonders what the
top CIA officers were drinking
when they came up with such
silly notions,. against
Islamist militant groups such
as Hamas in the Gaza Strip and
Hezbollah in Lebanon.
?They might have different names . North
Korea farce, as some are alleging, it?s high time for a new
congressional investigation
like that of the Church Committee to whack the agency
hard and send some of its current leaders back to the basement of horrors where they
belong,. The French Republic
will be judged a failure,. Sharansky said in an
interview in Paris on the sidelines of a previously scheduled
immigration fair organised by
Israel and attended by hundreds of French Jews.
?Inside France there is a
core problem, and the country?s leadership refuses to
say where it is coming from,?
said Avi Zana, director general of AMI, a French organisation that encourages
immigration to Israel. This is what we?re
up against, so you shouldn?t
be so hard on Israel.. It also supports the Netanyahu
narrative, casting himself as
the defender of Jews, that he
alone is the strong leader to
face a dangerous world,. 8
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
15 . but
HELSINKI TIMES
all of them are driven by
the same hatred and bloodthirsty fanaticism,. Netanyahu said
he would convene a special
committee to encourage Jewish immigration ?from France
and other countries in Europe
that are suffering from terrible
anti-Semitism.?
Israeli leaders pressed
their case that Europe has allowed a dangerous rise of anti-Semitism and that Jews,
even in the most developed
countries on the continent,
face not only hostility but also outright attack.
Israel routinely makes the
case for Jewish immigration
. iP s
cONTROvERSIAL lowbrow Hollywood comedy, ?The
Interview?, portrays the story of two US talk-show jour-
L e h T U K U Va / a F P P h o T o / D e V R a B e R Ko W i T Z
THE
nalists on assignment to
interview Kim Jong-un . But let another
country make such a comedy about our president, and I
assure you, it will pay dearly,?
he said.
Dr. But in the aftermath of the Paris attacks,
the pitch is being made in the
blunt terms of survival.
Yair Lapid, Netanyahu?s
former finance minister and
the head of a centrist party,
said at a gathering in Israel,
?Jews are being murdered because they?re Jews, and intel-
lectuals are being murdered
because they?re intellectuals.
The Europeans are starting to
understand that there can be
no compromise with terror,
racism and anti-Semitism.?
Lapid said, ?European
Jewry must understand that
there is just one place for
Jews, and that is the state of
Israel.?
Naftali Bennett, Israel?s economy minister and
a hard-right politician who
marched in Paris on Sunday,
wrote on his Facebook page
that he heard repeatedly
from Jews that ?there?s nothing left for us in France.?
French leaders, however,
responded that they do not
want to see the Jews leave.
?If 100,000 French people of Spanish origin were
to leave, I would never say
that France is not France anymore. Jennings,
president at Conscience International and executive director at US Academics for
Peace, said new information
from cyber security firms
calls into question the doctrinaire assertion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was behind
the Sony hack attack.
?The FBI?s rush to judgment . Sharansky said.
?It is happening everywhere in Europe, but France
has the biggest Jewish community and also the biggest
Muslim community in Europe,. But if 100,000 Jews
leave, France will no longer be
France. ?They
will not say that it is caused
by Islamist extremism, because that is not politically
correct.?
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the director of the European Jewish Association, told
I24 news that immigration to
Israel, called ?aliyah. ISIS, Boko
Haram, Hamas, al-Shabab,
al-Qaida, Hezbollah . Netanyahu said.
Many Arab leaders denounced the Paris attacks
and said the assailants did
not represent Islam.
Palestinian
Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas
called the assaults ?a heinous
crime that is in contradiction
of religion and morality.?
Abbas also attended the
solidarity march in Paris, appearing beside French President François Hollande and
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel . even
though there has not been
substantiated evidence that it
was behind the Sony hack.
?Think about this way: it?s
fine to make comedies about
assassinations of the leaders
of small countries the US has
demonised. Prime
Minister Manuel Valls said.
The attacks in Paris came
as Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians began their
campaigns for national elections on 17 March.
While decrying the violence, the politicians used it to
drive home the point that Israel
serves as a ?front line. It allows them to say to Europe,
?You see. and
midway down the road are recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to poison
the North Korean leader.
The plot, which has enraged North Korea who was
accused of retaliating by
hacking into the computers of
Sony Pictures distributing the
movie, is patently fictitious
and involves a ricin-laced
strip meant to poison Kim
while shaking hands with the
journalists.
The plot of ?The Interview. Jennings.. Margolin said.
He said it would be better
to preserve and protect Jews
where they live in Europe.
The day cIA failed to un-beard castro in his own den
USA
T H A L If dE E N
K I T T Y S TA P P . providing a haven for Jews
in distress is, after all, one of
the founding principles of the
Jewish state. ?I never saw this before,. Netanyahu said, ?I wish to tell to all
French and European Jews ?
Israel is your home.?
His office said the families
of the four French Jews slain in
the hostage standoff at the kosher grocery in Paris on Friday,
which elicited round-the-clock
media coverage in Israel, asked
that their bodies be flown to Israel for burial. from which the agency may be forced to retreat
. 21 JANUARY 2015
L e h T i K U Va / a n T T i a i m o - Ko i V i s T o
After Paris attacks, Israel
vows to welcome European
Jews seeking to immigrate
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (L), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, French President
Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi attend the Unity rally, Marche Republicaine, which gathered heads
of states and over one million people to Paris, France on 11 January.
ISRAEL
W IL L I A M B OO T H A N d RU T H E gL A S H
T he W a s hin g T o n P o s T
ISRAELI LEAdERS said Sunday
that they would welcome with
open arms French Jews who
fear for their safety in the
wake of attacks by Islamist
extremists against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
and shoppers at a kosher supermarket in Paris last week.
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and
members of his cabinet linked
arms with French politicians
on Sunday during a march in
Paris to commemorate the 17
people killed in three days of
bloodshed in France. said Jennings.
?And we all know about Abu
Ghraib, torture, rendition and
the black sites.?
?If it does turn out that the
CIA is implicated in any way
in this newest Sony vs. and, specifically,
its lack of insistence that its
Muslim immigrants support
liberal democratic traditions.
He said he found French
Jews, especially elderly ones,
scared. and just a few steps
from Netanyahu.
Some Israelis saw political motivations at play, especially in the backdrop of the
coming elections.
?For Netanyahu and the
other politicians, this is a
double opportunity. is not the only solution
for French Jews.
?Anyone who is familiar with the European reality
knows that a call to make aliyah is not the solution for antiSemitic terror,. In
the past three years, Jewish
immigration from France to
Israel has tripled, to almost
7,000 in 2014.
Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for
Israel, a quasi-governmental
body that facilitates Jewish
immigration and absorption,
predicted that more than
10,000 French Jews would
come to Israel this year.
Sharansky blamed the
hostile atmosphere for Jews
in France in part on the
country?s embrace of ?postnationalism and multiculturalism. has echoed over the years in various
incarnations of historical events.
The plan to kill the North
Korean leader harkens back
to the days in the late 1960s
and 1970s when scores of attempts were made by US intelligence services to kill
Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
The hilarious plots included
an attempt to smuggle poisoned cigars into Castro?s
household and also plant soluble thallium sulphate inside
Castro?s shoes so that his
beard will fall off and make
him ?the laughing stock of
the socialist world.?
Some of the unsuccessful attempts were detailed in
a 1975 report by an investigative body appointed by the US
Senate Intelligence Committee chaired by Senator Frank
Church, which are likely to be
the subject of renewed discussion particularly in the context
of last month?s announcement
of the resumption of full diplomatic relations between the
two sworn enemies: the US
and Cuba.
Michael Ratner, president
of the Berlin-based European
Centre for Constitutional and
Human Rights, told IPS, ?Sad-
ly, the movie was not a comedy [the North Koreans and
Kim Jong-un] could ignore.?
The CIA has a long history of often successful plots
to assassinate leaders, he
pointed out.
Numerous plots were exposed in the 1975 US Senate
Church Committee report,
including attempts against
Castro, Patrice Lumumba of
the Congo, Rafael Trujillo of
the Dominican Republic, Ngo
Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam, and
others, said Ratner.
The ban on such assassination since those revelations is meaningless; the US
now calls it targeted killing,
he added.
?Think about Colonel
Qaddafi [of Libya] and others
killed by drones or Joint Special Operations Command.?
Seen in this context, said
Ratner, a North Korean reaction would be expected
But of
course in the beginning there
is always hype when it comes
to any successful, and even
unsuccessful, new idea,. says
Linturi.
RESEARCHERS AT Yale University in the US have finally found an answer to why
a cold often leads to the flu.
When a nose cools down in
lower temperatures, the immune system?s ability to stop
the virus from spreading
decreases.
It has long been known
that the most typical cause
of mucous illness, rhinovirus, increases more quick-
ly in a cold nose than in the
warmth of the lungs, but it
hasn?t been known why.
Most studies have focused
on determining the effect
of cold air directly on the virus. The timing
wasn?t right. Because they are often popular and social, following
them is an Early Majority, at
around 30-35 per cent of the
population.
A Late Majority forms a
third of the population. H S
A L I C I A JE N S E N . H S
A L I C I A JE N S E N . They found that in a cold
environment, the immune
system?s ability to prevent
the proliferation of the virus
was clearly diminished.
It is because of this that
the virus finds it easier to
proliferate in a cold environment than in a warm one,
which increases the risk of
mucous illness.
The researchers found
that the effect of the cold environment was linked particularly to the immune system,
rather than linked to a higher
efficiency.
The study helps to understand why people can get a
mucous illness for example
on a hike in Lapland, where
they don?t meet another
person.
It is estimated that 20 per
cent of people carry asymptomatic rhinovirus in the mucous membrane of their nose
at all times. If the mucous
membranes get cold enough,
the virus can go wild.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
published the study.
that Finnish skies would embrace flying cars in 3-7 years.
But we haven?t seen it so far.
Linturi wrote a report for
a government committee on
the future titled ?Finland?s one
hundred new possibilities?. Normally it has
gone better.?
Through his family business, Linturi invested in Californian Paul Moller?s project,
which was the development
of a flying car.
In the beginning of the
century, Linturi expected
L E H T I K U VA / T ro n d H . although the message
that nobody ever makes a
mistake is really difficult to
formulate.?
The Internet of Things is at the top of the hype
? The Internet of Things usually means that embedded industrial equipment is connected to the web. Each embedded device
gets its own IP address. This way, the equipment is easier to
control and maintain.
? The idea was already presented in the beginning of the
1990?s, but it is only recently that technology makes it possible to be part of everyday life.
? There is a similar notion regarding the everyday object?s Internet. That means, for example, that your dog?s chain has an
IP address. Once embedded, you will always know where your
pet is. Car tyres can be equipped with an address, giving information on when they have worn out.
Following
different trends
The media in Finland doesn?t
always follow sensations
in, for example, the United
States.
?3D-printing was a really hyped topic in the US, but
not so much in Finland,. Domestic shopkeepers cannot sustain their
business either on the street
or online.
Within reach
of the consumer
Some new innovations miss
out on a great future. Following that, expectations have
been high for the new technology, with one article following the other.
In December, even oil
company Shell?s chairperson
Jorma Ollila mulled over the
technology in an interview
with HS.
The long-term challenge
is technological innovation, which is making breakthroughs in all fields. He compares the
hype curve to a theory on
the diffusion of innovations,
which communications researcher Everett Rogers presented in the beginning of
the 1960s.
According to the theory,
2-3 per cent of the population
are daring and educated Innovators. Linturi admits that even they were
hype reports.
?We are trying to give
confidence to the idea that
the world could look different in the future. On the
other hand, their revolutionary effect on society over
the next twenty years is frequently understated.
As such, hype resulting
from oversized expectations
is followed by a hangover.
From published articles one
might deduce that all the efforts put towards companies
developing new technology
are just a ludicrous way to
gain business.
But in reality new innovations are ripe for the market only once they have been
downplayed in public . describes Linturi.
?For inventors and experimenters a useless thing will
also suffice. They
are usually sceptical towards
new things and they often
have a lower socioeconomic
status.
Laggards make up 10-20
per cent of the population.
They actively oppose new
innovation.
?In the beginning, the inventors and experimenters
embrace an idea. Linturi points out.
?The phenomenon can be
compared to the Internet in
the 1990?s . explains
Burton.
This led to the Hype
Curve, which looks at media
presence and the increase
and decrease of expectations
of different innovations. H T
was speaking about it in every speech. says futurist Risto Linturi. says Linturi.
?And let?s hope that people aren?t put off too easily . SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HELSINKI TIMES
15 . And that
we should put effort into new
things. It
often happens that when a
new technology is released
into a broader public audience, a snowballing effect
takes place.
Curve to the top
All newspapers want to write
about the topic that their
competitors have already
written about. Of all
technological innovations,
Ollila considers the most significant to be robots, nanotechnology, the Internet of
Things, artificial intelligence
and 3D printing.
A person considering
themselves aware of proportionality doesn?t really
understand.
Why has a robot that extrudes trivial plastic trash
gathered so much media
interest?
Disproportionate hype
has,
however,
already
achieved zenith with regards
to 3D-printing.
Now at the top of the hype
is the Internet of Things.
At least, so claims consulting company Gartner in this
year?s report, which looks at
Hype Cycles.
Gartner has published an
annual report with new technological Hype Cycles for 20
years. The group who follow the Innovators are the
Early Adopters, at 10-15 per
cent of the population. claims Linturi. 21 JANUARY 2015
9
L E H T I K U VA / J A r n o M E L A
First future innovation is
exaggerated . T ro S dA H L
M A R KO H A M IL O . He thinks that a certain
amount of hype is necessary
for things to move forwards.
?But you have to be careful in choosing topics and
timing. suspects
Linturi.
The hype ends when mass
media is no longer interested
in the innovation.
The innovation is already
familiar to the early majority. They act as
excitation to external marketing and media. then it's
followed by a hangover
WHEN DID you first hear
about 3D- printing?
That is, the device that
builds small objects by extruding plastic string, which
has avowed to change the
whole industrial production
of goods?
It could hardly be more
than two or three years ago,
unless you closely follow the
tech field?s publications from
around the world.
Helsingin Sanomat, for
example, published a longer article for the first time in
the summer of 2012. H T
When a nose cools down in lower temperatures, the immune system?s ability to stop the virus from spreading decreases.. On the
other hand, most hyped technology still gradually rises to
the mainstream to a point
where it is within the reach
of the average consumer.
But is Gartner?s hype
curve
more
accurately considered as simply
entertainment?
?I can?t really take it seriously,. that
is, when people decide that
?in fact, nothing came of
this.?
A company that has gotten stuck with old technology or an old business model
could at this point potentially
make its biggest error in assessment and imagine that
the danger is over.
For example online shopping didn?t threaten conventional shops for years,
although it was a subject under plenty of discussion already by the 1990s.
Now the industry is
threatened by international
online shops. Of course
they also speak about it because they are pioneers.?
?Then we move to the early majority, who are signif-
3D technology didn?t have the same impact here in Finland as it did in the USA.
icant in their numbers, but
don?t speak a lot about the
subject,. Above all, that relies
on experimenters and innovators,. I have tried to be
more careful after the flying car episode. The ideas that
fall off the hype curve are
supposedly these,. He
also compiled a metropolitan
vision for automatic traffic.
He enthused robot cars. Innovators and experimenters have moved on to
something new.
The laggards don?t wake
up to advertising, so they
aren?t a vital target group for
the media, says Linturi.
?So I would describe the
phenomenon with more
curves and theories. every minister
Study: Flu virus thrives in a cold nose
J A NI K A A RO . Every newspaper
mentioned it in every issue,
even though only a few thousand Finns were using the
net simultaneously.?
?3D-printing has a larger
effect on society, but there is
less talk about it,. Now, however, researchers have changed course and
given attention to the nose?s
immunology.
Researchers compared
the cell structure in the nose
mucous membrane immune
system against the rhinovirus in temperatures of 37 and
33. The reports were devised to outline how new
technologies and services
grow from market hype and
become a utility in mainstream business.
The idea was to follow
how new technologies, services and trends develop
over time, explains Gartner?s
head of research Betsy Burton on Talking Technology?s
audio-blog.
?We noticed quite quickly
that whenever any technology or service develops, they
all evolve in a similar manner.
This always happens, were
it a question of technique, or
for example wireless services
or infrastructure,. This is how
new technology rises to the
top of the hype curve.
Old wisdom dictates,
however, that the significance of new technology often is overstated over an
interval of two years
It is a much better
business than it has been understood to be in Finland, he
says. I got
tips from colleagues and others in the field. I managed to
create promo-material that I
would have needed for marketing in any case.?
In Finland, Chaker?s publisher is WSOY. The videos pre-
senting his book were filmed
in Santa?s hometown by the
Arctic Circle. Major events
such as the Finnish independence on December 1917
and the civil war following
shortly in January, the two
wars with Russia and the fall
of the Soviet Union in 1990,
the rise of the Finnish shipbuilding and paper industry
and the birth of Nokia have
?It was one way to ensure that there was interest, and to assure American
and Canadian publishers that
hey, there is demand,. This
amounts to around 7,200 euros. H T
FINLANdIFIEd Canadian
lawyer and gaming company consultant, André Noël
Chaker, has taken to becoming the Niilo Tarvajärvi of
the digital age.
Chaker has lived in Finland for twenty years and
truly believes in Santa Claus
and wishes that others would
as well. Liukas, a Finn who lives
in the US, is a superstar of
crowdfunding. Chaker succeeded in 27 days.
?Kickstarter
recommends that you collect money for less than a month. One of
my goals was to find a significant publisher in English.?
Crowdfunding
turned
out to be an excellent way to
market the book in advance,
says Chaker.
?I was testing ideas. With crowdfunding he is prepared to
conquer America.
?I?ve kept the rights to the
English version for myself,?
he says.
For the publishers, it was
something new that Chaker
was also looking for funding
through crowdfunding, but
WSOY welcomed it. As an
unknown author, I wouldn?t
have gotten anything.?
Marketing to the US and
the UK has, however, only
just begun. It will be different
when the book is ready.?
Chaker admits that usually projects in Kickstarter
don?t gather so much money.
In the children?s book field,
this is probably not a surprise.
?The sum has to be proportional to the money usually used for children?s books
both in Finland and the US. But it?s
not perfect.
Crowdfunding interests
a more alternative and technologically interested people. All together she collected 380,000
dollars, so about 320,000
euros.
Crowdfunding works well
for launching children?s book
projects, says Chaker. Back then it was called
Päivälehti, simply ?The Daily?.
Since then, the paper has reported a remarkable volume
of news to its readers.
To honour its 125th anniversary, Helsingin Sanomat
has published a collection of
its historical front pages as
a book. I
managed to gather five times
the amount than a children?s
book author would have gotten as an advance payment
from the publisher. This story is
an ethical one, in the league
of Harry Potter or Lord of the
Rings.?
Crowdfunding is increasing quickly in Finland
? Crowdfunding is a way for an individual to gather money for projects or a business.
? The idea is to gather a large sum of money from a large group of contributors who each contribute a small amount.
? Forms of contribution range from gifts to equity investments.
? Crowdfunding is becoming increasingly widespread, and it is one of the fastest growing ways
of financing.
? There are many different types of crowdfunding services on the internet, among them is the
Finnish mesenaatti.me service.
? There is currently no comprehensive legislation on crowdfunding. There are other laws that
may, however, affect the service, such as a money collection law, trade or consumer protection
law, or financial market legislation such as law regarding credit and the Market Securities Act.
all made front-page news.
The sinking of Estonia and
tragic school shootings a
few years ago also make an
appearance.
The book includes lots
of hidden treasures as well,
such as events, trends and
thoughts you weren?t aware
of or have been forgotten. Crowdfunding is a way to activate your
own community. H S
A L I C I A JE N S E N . I refuse to
take money for advertising. Kickstarter-crowdfunding hasn?t yet been offered
to Finns for creative projects
such as books.
He considers the sum he
collected a good start to his
book?s success story. Niilo
Tarvajärvi isn?t a good comparison, says Chaker. Contrary to estimations of Finns, the brand
price of Santa and Christmas
should be counted in billions,
says Chaker.
For the Christmas markets he also wants a children?s book in English based
on Santa?s childhood. Tarvajärvi?s projects namely failed.
A
There are a lot of reasons,
Chaker says. If
the goal hasn?t been reached
in that time, there isn?t really hope that people will be interested in it.?
Reasons to Kickstart
But why did Chaker collect
money for his book project
from volunteers online . The first issue of the paper came out in
1889. American economists
even have their own term for
Christmas economics: santanomics. I
don?t think it fits the picture
when there?s crowdfunding
involved. ?My aim was to
explore how such a great story and the export of Finnish
values really works. 21 JANUARY 2015
HELSINKI TIMES
HS / JUHANI NIIR ANEN
Canadian lawyer has faith in the Santa Claus brand
André Noël Chaker collected more than 7,000 euros of funding to tell the story of Santa Claus?
childhood.
A NN A - L IIN A K AU H A N E N . Pages are reprinted
in their original format, just
like they were printed back in
the day they when they were
fresh out of the press.
Looking back at what
made it to the front page
throughout all these years
is fascinating. According
to the publisher, crowdfunding allows for a new chance to
market in advance and get an
idea of market demand.
?My project on the other
hand has begun really well.?
In December, Chaker collected 10,000 Canadian dollars worth of support from
private individuals to fund
his Santa?s Dream book. Fennia is
still providing insurance and
Castren and Snellman still
offer legal services.
?Speedy. For that
he crowdfunded the first publication in December. says
Chaker.
Chaker?s friend Linda Liukas inspired him to crowd
fund. The budget for
three days of filming was altogether 2,000 euros.
?This 2,000 euros of investment allowed me to collect 10,000 euros. The advantage of hindsight, of course, makes the
read even more thought
provoking.
Missing controversy
Unfortunately one may get
the impression that some
controversial points regarding both Finnish and international history, such as the
union of Finland with Nazi
Germany, have either been
left out of the selection or
covered summarily.
The book is naturally in
Finnish, but the abundance
of images makes it interesting for readers with rudimentary or no knowledge of
the language as well.
Interestingly, in contrast
with most foreign newspa-
pers, Helsingin Sanomat has
placed adverts on its front
page since the beginning, and
some of the companies advertising their products and
services still exist. How will the future
generations see the headlines and adverts of our era?
Will there be any trace left
from our digital social media
chitchat and tweets?. Steam ship trips
advertised on the front page
in the 1890s sound antique to
us now. 10
PEOPLE & LIFESTYLE
15 . Internationally only every other
campaign succeeds to collect
its target sum. The past has
on the other hand been glori-
Helsingin Sanomat?s office is located in Sanomatalo.
ous and diverse. She runs female coding events collective Rails Girls, and last year
crowdfunded money for her
children?s book on programming. especially when he already has
a publisher in Finland?
Today?s paper yesterday
HE L S INK I T I M E S
L E H T I K U VA / T E E M U S A L o N E N
dO YOU remember what
news was on the headlines
last month, last year or 10
years ago on this date?
Finland?s national newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat
has just turned 125 and its future, like the future of all other printed papers, has never
looked grimmer. reminds
Chaker.
Those giving money will
get an English copy of the
book by June.
The story is almost ready.
The first chapter of the book
has been available for reading and downloading on his
webpage, from which he has
gathered feedback.
?There have been great
ideas both from the publisher
and the readers. He has
formerly been an adviser at
Veikkaus and is currently a
gaming company consultant and a popular lecturer.
Speakerforum?s customers
chose him as the Speaker of
the Year a few years ago.
These networks were also helpful when it came to
crowdfunding.
All together, 155 people
funded Chaker?s book. To make the video, Chaker recruited a young
professional. Chaker does this
alongside his work. Her original aim was
10,000 dollars, which she
gathered in two hours. He
gathered most of the money
from his acquaintances and
through his network.
?It is always the case, that
to begin something new you
need to coax your network
to support you. It is like
premarketing for your actual product.?
Two out of three crowdfunders for Chaker?s project were acquaintances or
friends of acquaintances.
One half of those donating
were from Finland, a third
were from Canada.
?The rest were from the
US and Europe, where I also
have a lot of friends.?
Now that he has achieved
his goal, he needs to fulfil his
promise.
?In crowdfunding it is
important that the action
is considerate,. Chaker sensed that his
topic of Santa Claus, a familiar fantasy story, was perhaps too mainstream for this
crowd.
?This was maybe too Disney to trend on Kickstarter?s
top lists.?
Supporting video
For his project, Chaker made
quite a few books and videos presenting Santa Claus.
Chaker received help from the
tourism office in Rovaniemi
and support from the town?s
management
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11
Discovering Swedish-speaking municipalities: Pedersöre
A L I c I A JE N S E N
H E L S INK I T I M E S
RIVERS,
lakes and the
Kvarken archipelago . Immigrant students usually wait until the
problems have escalated into a crisis situation, whereas
native students come in before that.?
In many cultures, such as
Asian and African cultures,
talking about mental health
problems is a taboo. This meant
that when Teeter?s depression reoccurred, she had to
seek help through the public sector. nature and forests. The only immigrant group that has at least
some tailored service available are victims of torture. Pedersöre?s longest trail
is approximately 50 kilome-
Pedersöre has diverse nature to offer visitors, including the boulder Lostenen (left) and a variety of hiking trails.
Depressed and far from help
M A R IK K A B E Rg M A N
HE L S INK I T I M E S
?IT?S JUST terrible that there
are no counsellors available
who can work with international clients in public sectors. The buildings in
the immediate surroundings
of the station also date back
to the same time period, creating a unique atmosphere.
There are also monuments dating from different time periods, the oldest
being one dating back to the
stone age.
Nature
Pedersöre is a large municipality which includes part
of the Kvarken archipelago,
but also lakes, rivers and forests. Nigerian
born social services student
Oyebola Oluwatoyin recalls
asking her fellow African
students where they would
visit if they needed help for
issues like depression, suicidal behaviour or thoughts,
or anxiety. LIFESTYLE
HELSINKI TIMES
15 . The counselling
sessions are free of charge
and a client may have up to
10 sessions. But
what about the numerous
immigrants that are ?just?
depressed?
No amendment to the
situation is in sight, since it
is not yet even possible to
specialise in multicultural counselling in Finland.
The current economic situation in Finland, where even
existing services are being
downsized, accelerates the
problem.
Still, a very different
kind of knowledge is needed. It
is a bilingual municipality
in the Ostrobothnia region,
with a majority of Swedish
speakers. behaviour.
The counsellor should be also
aware of the fact that many
cultural groups do not share
the values imbedded in the
western methods, and therefore may have different expectations of the outcome.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R T T I K A I N U L A I N E N
An immigrant suffering from mental
health problems can
feel very alone in
Finland.
tion improved considerably through the counselling
sessions with a professional, and from those sessions
she was able to take with her
tools that would assist her
in coping with her ongoing
sense of loss and grief.
Of course, ten sessions
of counselling therapy were
not enough. Therefore,
she had no records from her
previous counselling therapy, and had to present her
case as a new client of mental health.
Teeter?s story demonstrates the problem with immigrant?s mental health care:
the language barrier, lack of
multicultural understanding
and resources. It is located in Kiisk,
Lappfors. 8.8%
794.28 km2 of land
31.77 km2 of fresh water
0 km2 of salt water
Women: 5,339
Men: 5,634
For more fun, visit:
www.pedersore.fi. Kiisk still holds a permanent exhibition displaying
works by the two authors, and
other pieces from their life including photographs and objects that belonged to them.
Yet for something different, one can go fishing in the
Depression . It has many nature trails
to follow, allowing the curious to discover its diverse nature. She
believes that many problems
of immigrant students may
have been present in their
own country to some extent,
but they are often escalated
here because of displacement
issues, heavy workloads,
traumatic memories, or uncertainty about the future.
?A typical example might
be that the person had a life,
a career, plans, friends and
family in their own country,?
says Granlund.. There are a multitude of museums that
demonstrate how farmers
have lived in the last few centuries, and how they made
their livelihood.
The Fagerbacka farm, for
example, is the only one of
its kind left in Ostrobothnia.
It displays both calm scenery
and a traditional environment with graying log cabins
surrounded by a fence. cultural background,
and then be open to flexible definitions of ?appropriate. a condition that affects different kinds of people.
Pedersöre
Residents with Swedish
as mother tongue:
approx. Historically it is
one of the oldest parishes in
the Ostrobothnia region.
History
There is no record of exactly
how old Pederöre is, but it is
one of three original parishes
in the Gulf of Bothnia. The
museum also describes what
it was like when war and modernisation were taking place.
The Bennäs railway station is also an interesting
sight in Pedersöre, its style
having been preserved from
when the railway station was
built in 1885. Anna
Granlund, the counselling
psychologist at the university, has witnessed the special
needs of such students. After seeking help
from public services she was
referred to the SOS Center,
the only place in Helsinki offering English counselling for
immigrants. Another vital industry
in Pedersöre has been the agricultural sector.
Culture
The importance of agriculture to Pedersöre is visible
from the many ways that the
municipality still pays tribute to it. It also follows the Esse
river and Purmo north river.
Following the trail will lead
you to one of Finland?s largest erratic boulders, called
?Lostenen?. She was surprised
to hear that they never knew
they could even seek help.
?In my culture people
with mental health issues
are often victimised for their
illness, and face unfair dis-
crimination and stigmatisation. The policy of the
SOS Center is not to keep client records due to matters
of confidentiality. A lay view of mental
illness among Africans is still
attributed to spiritual or social causes, which creates an
unending challenge in mental health.?
Wanted: New
kind of counselling
Finnish society has only recently started to adapt to
diversity in ethnicity and
language, yet it is clear that
the mental health services for immigrants in Finland
Esse river, its rapids being a
great location for catching
fishing grayling, brown trout
and pike. It also
exhibits the milk industry in
the 1900s, a time when cows
roamed freely in the woods.
The culture preserve at
Lassfolk is another museum
where it is possible to learn
about the daily life on a farm
in the 1800s and 1900s. There is a huge lack of
cultural sensitivity and multicultural
understanding.
It?s all very sad?, says Violetta Teetor, a native South African. or ?correct. After a long custody
battle, the father of her two
children was awarded full
custody and moved to the
United States with them.
After losing her children,
Teetor became severely depressed. The pair called the
path down to the Esse river
the Kärleksstigen, or Path of
Love. Teetor has been living
and working in Finland for
over a decade, and has experienced suffering from depression as an immigrant.
A time of crisis started
for Teetor when she got divorced. Lakes Mosavatten
and Stikpiksjön are also good
locations for fishing. Surrounding the lakes is also a
good place to spot wildlife ?
including otters, flying squirrels and even mussels.
are running far behind what
is needed. Teetor?s condi-
Lonely and cold Finland
The Laurea University of
Applied Sciences has had a
considerable number of immigrant students. It was
first mentioned in writing
in 1348, when King Magnus
Eriksson issued a statute
concerning trade in the par-
ishes of Korsholm, Närpes,
and Pedersöre.
In 1865 Esse and Purmo
separated from Pedersöre to
become their own parishes.
Pedersöre?s current borders
were drawn in 1977 when Esse
and Purmo came back together with Pedersöre to create a
larger municipal area.
Business
The rivers in Pedersöre have
been important in shaping the
business history of the municipality, allowing carpenters in the region to become
famous for their shipbuilding
between the 1500s and the
1800s. Immigrants
are left alone outside public
sector help.
ters in length, and is called
the Utterleden, or Otter Trail.
It winds through the most
sparsely populated part of
the municipality, exhibiting
?untouched. In countries that have ex-
perienced a longer history
with immigrants it has been
found that counselling that
is based solely on the western value systems of communication and psychology does
not work well. There are steps
and railings built to reach the
top of the stone, so that visitors can enjoy the view.
Another trail is called
Skalderna?s stig, or Poet?s
path. For immigrant
counselling to be effective,
it is necessary for counsellors to investigate their clients. Pedersöre, or Pedersören kunta
in Finnish, has a diverse nature to offer, not to mention
excellent places to spend a
day unwinding by fishing. All this was
suddenly transformed into a
somewhat lonely life of a fulltime student and underpaid
part-time worker in a dark,
cold and costly new country.
These people are such heroes
for enduring massive changes in their lives, but they often fail to recognise this
themselves, let alone give
themselves mercy and time
to adapt. 89.7%
Residents with Finnish
as mother tongue:
approx. Although the village is small, its cultural heritage is still well maintained.
The trail is about 5 kilometers in length, and along it
one can find paintings, poems and information about
the flora and fauna which can
be observed along the trail.
Authors Hjalmar Korkfors and Viola Revall lived by
Kiisk for a number of years,
where Krokfors was a school
teacher
The bar is very
well equipped: there are 200
different wines on offer and
an extensive list of cocktails.?
Costillas de cerdo offers long-braised pork ribs with tamarind glaze, Szechuan pepper and peanuts.
Positively buzzing
Although the restaurant
business is currently being
badly plagued by the poor
economic situation, it seems
that the troubles have not
reached Pastor. Each
dish sounds more exotic than
the next: Nigiri, Atún, Anticuchos. As I sip
my delicious cocktail from a
rose-patterned tea cup, the
restaurant manager tells me
that besides wanting to do
something distinctive with
serving the cocktails, the
second-hand thinking shines
through here, too:
Taking over the space formally occupied by Cuba!, the dining area
seats seats 150 people.
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he l S ink i t i M e S
up with a unique mixture we
really like.?
Head chef Andrew Ayre
has prepared the most popular dishes of Pastor for me
to try. Having just told him
that I like my cocktails quite
fresh and zesty, the beautifully prepared drink, Zawinul chai, arrives, responding
perfectly to the request. Tender and tasty, with
the twist in flavour brought
on by Asian herbs, these are
some proper quality ribs. so plentiful that I seriously struggle in
emptying my plate. The general feel is
very fresh and funky.
DJ beats in Finland?s
first unisex school
Leafing through the menu,
one easily faces a difficulty
in making the choice. Ingredients include
chilli, lime, avocado, ginger and Peruvian asparagus,
among others. In other words, one gets
the fine dining experience and
easy-going, professional but
uncomplicated service all at
once.
The multifaceted feel
stretches also into the interior design: the overall image is
light and clean, Northern-style
and modern. Straight after opening, at 5 pm, the
doors go constantly as customers keep flowing in.
?Since opening in August,
we have been fully booked
pretty much constantly,?
Koiranen says.
?Monday and Tuesday
are a bit quieter but the rest
of the week we are buzzing.
Luckily, we have not been
affected by the economic
downturn here at all.?
Pastor . And
they are plentiful . If
someone still thinks that second-hand equals worn and
scruffy, Pastor will prove you
wrong. Containing lemongrass-infused
vodka, jasmine, lime and ginger ale, the cocktail makes an
interesting mixture of great
tastes exactly to my liking.
An additional fun factor is
that it arrives in a traditional
English-style teapot. 21 JANUARY 2015
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The main course, Costillas
de cerdo, arrives, containing
long-braised pork ribs with
tamarind glaze, Szechuan
pepper and peanuts. another visually beautiful piece
of art. I?m already
planning my next visit in the
very near future.
Pastor
erottajankatu 4
00120 helsinki
tel 040 034 4700
www.pastorrestaurant.fi
Mon: 17.00-23.00
tue: 17.00-23.00
Wed: 17.00-23.00
thu: 17.00-23.00
Fri: 17.00-03.00
Sat: 14.00-03.00
Sun: Closed. this restaurant not only provides excellent
cuisine but also promotes both historical and ecological values.
?The tea pots and cups are
all recycled and have been
given a new life in Pastor.?
I applaud the place silently for its green values. However, some people with a serious sweet tooth might find
the dish a bit inadequate as it
is rather small in size.
The day of the week I visited the place was Thursday.
The restaurant was busy,
service excellent, and atmosphere uplifting and glamorous. The atmosphere is almost posh, yet relaxed. restaurant manager Pekka Koiranen reveals.
Taking a second look, I realise that, indeed, they do seem
strangely familiar. The website
summarises the idea behind
the dishes on offer as follows:
?Our inspiration comes
from the Peruvian kitchen, where the food is really fresh and the flavours are
strong and rich. The chair
design, having formed an integral part of the schooling experience for numerous Finnish
children, works perfectly with
this concept, too. However,
for those with a big appetite,
it is the perfect dish.
As I digest my meal,
Koiranen tells more about
the concept of Pastor.
?The idea has been to create a combined restaurantnightclub for the weekends.
On Fridays and Saturdays, we
are open until 3am. The
flavours of Nikkei ceviche are
very fine and delicate. The starter is called
Nikkei ceviche, a cold dish
that combines whitefish, red
onion, jalapeño chilli, yuzu and coconut tiger?s milk.
The plate is simply a piece of
art. my expectations are met with such
ease. I find it as the perfect ending to my meal: very
sweet with different textural elements of crisp banana
slices, soft mousse, biscuit
crumble and edible flowers.
At this point, I could have
not asked for more. There?s also a DJ playing. The secondhand theme is repeated also
with the drink lists, which are
tied inside old book covers.
The bartender recommends me to try a cocktail. Peruvian cuisine
meets ecological glamour
peruvian food with asian influences, cocktails from teacups and a
nightclub atmosphere . I get the feeling that
Pastor would be at its absolute best during weekends ?
seems like the perfect place
to start your night before going out clubbing. And
they are wonderful . This time, I have roasted
white chocolate mousse, caramelized banana and toffee
ice cream on my plate . 12
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15 . The
beautiful starter does exactly what it?s supposed to: cuts
the edge of my hunger but also sets the bar very high for
the main course to follow.
The name Pastor raises some curiosity, as it does
not clearly hint that the cuisine would originate from Peruvian and Asian cultures.
The restaurant manager tells
that behind the name lays a
historical factor:
?The first school for both
boys and girls in Finland was
founded by Pastor Broberg at
the end of the 19th century,
and it used to be in this very
building. We liked the idea of
having a name that signifies
something.?
Nikkei ceviche combines whitefish, red onion, jalapeño chilli,
yuzu and coconut tiger?s milk.
Another stylish plate arrives on our table in the form
of a dessert called Blanco. Pastor on Erottajankatu
has been renovated from the
space previously known as Cuba! nightclub into a sophisticated and stylish diner, which
seats 150 people. Yet, as it turns
out, second-hand has been a
major driving force behind the
designing of the place.
?The chairs are old school
chairs,. To the extent that you
wouldn?t want to lay your
fork on it as you feel you?ll
ruin something precious.
Following a moment?s admiration, however, I tuck in. The ?nikkei?
tradition mixes the cuisine of
Peru with East Asian ingredients; add to this a few Spanish influences and we came
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cook for about 6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until they
begin to soften.
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then add the beans and pasta.
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Peek into my refrigerator anytime throughout the winter, and
you will find the basics: milk, yogurt, eggs and such. c o m. Add the zucchini, garlic, oregano, basil, salt and pepper;
cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. I make it practically every week.
It?s to the point where I feel a little out of sorts if I don?t have
some around.
The Italian-style soup, chock-full of vegetables, beans and
pasta in a tomato-y broth, has become a staple in my home,
for good reason. I suppose that?s another reason I am compelled to
make this soup all the time: It?s where my leftovers luxuriate.
MAKE AHEAD: The soup can be refrigerated in an airtight
container for up to 4 days or frozen for up to 3 months.
From nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.
6 servings (makes 11½ to 12 cups)
Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 large onion, diced, 2 ribs celery, diced
(½ cup), 1 large carrot, scrubbed well, then diced, 1 medium red
bell pepper, seeded and diced, 1 medium zucchini (about 225
grams), diced, 4 cloves garlic, minced, 1 teaspoon dried oregano, 1 teaspoon dried basil, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, ½ teaspoon
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small red beans, drained and rinsed, ½ cup dried, whole-grain
elbow pasta, ½ cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
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Tel. The pot practically begs
me to toss in that extra cup of broccoli or chopped fennel
uneaten from the previous night?s dinner. Uncover; increase the heat to medium-high just long
enough to return the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat to
medium-low and cook uncovered for 10 to 15 minutes, until
the pasta and vegetables are tender.
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Nordic Travel Fair MATKA
15-18 January
Helsinki Exhibition &
Convention Centre
Messuaukio 1
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Exciting blend of stand-up
comedy, soft porn cabaret and
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Helsinki City Theatre
Studio Elsa. The lovely Kitri is being married off to a rich nobleman Gamache, even though she is in love with the impoverished Basilio,
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Until Sun 18 January
#snapshot
Photographs taken by ordinary
people, images sourced from the internet, historic snapshots and selfies as well as an overview of the
history of the selfie
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
Tickets ?0/6/8
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Sat 17 January
St Petersburg Festival Ballet:
Sleeping Beauty
Classical ballet
Finlandia Hall,
15:00
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?27.50-62.50
www.finlandiatalo.fi
Until Sun 25 January
Jonathan Hobin: In The Playroom
Hobin´s exhibition is part of the
Lens Politica, a festival of social
cinema and art
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
Tickets ?0/6/8
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Sat 17 January
St Petersburg Festival Ballet:
Swan Lake
Classical ballet
Finlandia Hall, 19:30
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?27.50-62.50
www.finlandiatalo.fi
Until Wed 28 January
Edward Munch . Bart´s take on this ballet classic was first staged at the Berliner Staatsoper in 1993. The
score for the ballet is composed by Ludvig Minkus in 1869. Joose Keskitalo,
Kati Salonen & Asko Keränen Duo
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?8.50
www.semifinal.fi
Thu 15 January
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Pietro Rizzo, conductor & Alessio
Bax, piano
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?7.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 16 January
Finnish Radio Symphon
Orchestra
Hannu Lintu,
conductor & Boris
Berezovski, piano
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 16 January
Lieminen
Pop
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?13.50
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 16 January
Sea Change (NOR)
Synth pop
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 16 January
Levon Vincent, Lil Tony &
Katerina
Techno
Kaiku
Kaikukatu 4
Helsinki
Tickets ?14.50
www.clubkaiku.fi
Fri 16 January
Club Pimpin Ain´t Eazy III
Toluhaukat,
Litsquad- Kd & T Skrilla
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?12
www.kuudeslinja.com
Sat 17 January
Plutonium 74
Psychedelic disco funk
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?13.50
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 17 January
Toni Loimuneva, Kari Tapiiri solo
Singer-songwriters
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?7.50
www.semifinal.fi
Sat 17 January
Laineen Kasperi & Palava
Kaupunki + St. An absorbing adventure full of love and friendship begins.
Fri 16 & Sat 17 January
Finnish National Opera
Helsinki
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?16-94.50
www.opera.fi
One of the many colourful acts in Patrice Bart´s Don Quixote.
Thu 15 January
Jukka Perko & Avara
Jazz
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/16.50
www.kokojazz.fi
Thu 15 January
Wedding Crashers
Power pop
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Thu 15 January
Colossus-klubi
Discordia, Something?s at the Sky
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50
www.ontherocks.fi
Thu 15 January
?HoL Stripped?
Vähäsarja feat. Rasta
Hip hop
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?11/13
www.korjaamo.fi
Sat 17 January
Above & Beyond (UK)
Trance
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Tickets ?26-39
www.thecircus.fi
Sat 17 January
Club Mehudisco
Pöllöt & Big Wave Riders
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Tickets ?6
www.kuudeslinja.com
Sat 17 January
Schoenbrunn Palace Orchestra
Traditional New Year´s concert by the
legendary orchestra from Vienna
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?59.50-72.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sun 18 January
Night of surprises
Apocalyptica vocalist and
cellist Perttu Kivilaakso
and internationally acclaimed
piano star Laura Mikkola
interpret iconic classical works
for cello and piano
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Helsinki
Tickets ?14.50/19.50
www.sellosali.fi
Wed 21 January
Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor &
Steven Isserlis, cello
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?59.50-72.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Wed 21 January
Hämis Pop-Klubben
The Ludwig Vans, Bad Penny,
Pervert Echo
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?7.50
www.semifinal.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 15-Wed 21 January
Cirko Aereo: Camping 3
The third part of the acclaimed
Camping series by contemporary
circus group Circo Aereo
Cirko
Kaasutehtaankatu 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?17.50/27.50
www.cirko.fi
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AS THE Arctic freeze sets in,
what could be more on people?s minds these days than
getting away for a little while.
And so, with Finns recently
dubbed the number one travellers in the world, there are
more options on offer than ever before to meet their needs.
Enter stage left: the Nordic Travel Fair MATKA. Ensi Linja 2
Tickets ?26
www.hkt.fi
Fair time to travel
Tap into
untouched human potential
J A M E S O ' SU L L I VA N
H E L S IN K I T I M E S
EXHIBITIONS
Fri 16 & Sat 17 January
Don Quixote
Major classical ballet choreographed by Patrice Bart
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?16-94.50
www.opera.fi
Visitors can find services and products of over 1,000
exhibitors from over 80 countries on display. Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?15/23
www.zodiak.fi
Until Sun 22 March
Sibelius and the World of Art
Exhibition explores the links between the composer?s work and the
art scene of his time
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 10:00-17:00
www.ateneum.fi
Wed 21 January
Jyrki Karttunen: Jemina . 14
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Don Quixote
The spring season at the Finnish National Ballet starts with
the major classical ballet, Don Quixote choreographed by the
French ballet master Patrice Bart. In the ballet, the romantic
old knight Don Quixote and his comedic sword bearer Sancho
Panza arrive at a Spanish village just as chivalrous aid is needed. The Dance of
Life
Exhibition of one of the major visual artists in Northern Europe of the
20th century
Didrichsen Art Museum
Kuusilahdenkuja 1
www.didrichsenmuseum.fi
Wed 21 January
Jenni Kivelä: Kleine Monster
A performance about female
monsters
Zodiak . Brilliant visuals and virtuosic staging make Don Quixote one of alltime ballet favourites at the Finnish National Ballet.
Based mostly on two chapters of the epic novel by Miguel
de Cervantes, Don Quixote takes the audiences on a journey
from wintry Finland to sunny Spain
Otherwise, it might
pay to monitor the offered
prices for some time before
committing. h T
AIRLINERATINgS.coM
on
Tuesday published its list
of the safest airlines in the
world for 2015, putting Qantas, the flag carrier of Australia, at the top of the list.
The remainder of the top
ten was only listed in alphabetical order and, in addition to Finnair, consisted
of Air New Zealand, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad
Airways, EVA Air, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines.
The airlines in the top ten
?are always at the forefront
of safety innovation and
launching new planes,. This is known in
the industry as yield or revenue management.
Airlines and
their bucket lists
Here is how yield management works. It
does not always pay off, but
sometimes we do manage to
save a considerable amount
of money.
Two to three weeks before the flight date, the price
quotes start increasing.
This is the time when business travellers start booking. Seats can
be interpreted as balls that
are allocated among these
buckets.
Initial allocation of seats
among the price buckets is
determined by historical
data indicating how well a
certain flight sells. yield managers
start looking at flight bookings about two months before the departure date.
This implies that it generally does not pay to book more
than two months in advance:
Studies show that initially
the airlines leave the cheapest price buckets empty, and
yield managers may move
some seats into those buckets if a couple of months before the departure date the
flight is emptier than expected. The in-
dustry jargon for these prices is ?buckets.. h s
A L E K S I T E I VA IN E N . from the most expensive
fully refundable fare to the
cheapest, deeply discounted
nonrefundable price. This is also
the time when one can find
significant differences between price quotes, depending on where one looks and
what contract they have with
the airlines.
Thus, if we book a trip earlier than three weeks before
the flight date, we tend not
to delay the purchase. HELSINKI
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. yet, there is no
clear consensus on which day
that is. Another important question is where to
Finnair named one of the
safest airlines in the world
P E K K A T o R V INE N . The best strategy for booking within the last
couple of weeks before the
flight, however, is not to delay the purchase, but to try
getting quotes from several
agents, which is easy to do in
the Internet age.
Yuriy Gorodnichenko is an associate professor of economics at University of California,
Berkeley.
Volodymyr Bilotkach is a senior lecturer in Economics at
Newcastle University.
This article was originally published on The Conversation:
www.theconversation.com.
L e h T i k u va / M i k ko s T i g
Y UR I Y go Ro dN I c H E N Ko,
Vo L o dY M Y R B IL o T K Ac H
T he W a s hin g T o n P o s T
Finnair is one of the ten safest airlines in the world, according to AirlineRatings.com.
safest airlines in the world
by Germany?s Jet Airliner
Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC).
Last year, JACDEC named
the state-owned airline the
third safest airline in the world
behind Air New Zealand and
Cathay Pacific. sometimes up to a week ?
hoping for a lower quote. Hence, the airlines face
two somewhat contradictory goals: to maximise revenue by flying full planes and
to sell as many full-fare seats
as possible. In 2013, Finnair
was ranked the safest and in
2012 the second safest airline
in the world by JACDEC.. according to the website.
AirlineRatings.com
on
Tuesday also unveiled its
first ever list of the ten safest
low-cost carriers: Aer Lingus,
Alaska Airlines, Icelandair,
Jetblue, Jetstar, Kulula.com,
Monarch Airlines, Thomas
Cook, TUI Fly and Westjet.
Both lists are based on
rigorous safety audits carried out by the International Air Transport Association
(IATA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation as well as a blacklist of
airlines compiled by the European Union, accident statistics and statements by the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The review team of AirlineRatings.com consists of
aviation journalists who examined the recent annual reports, accident reports and
operational history of virtually every airline in the world.
Of the total of 449 airlines reviewed, 149 received the maximum of seven stars for safety
while nearly 50 received no
more than three stars.
Earlier, Finnair has been
listed as one of the three
buy this ticket. Airlines distribute their inventory on
their own Web sites and on
several computer distribution
systems, meaning that prices can sometimes differ depending on where one looks
for them. Or check
the airline itself.
As for answering the original question we posed, here
are some simple tips. This is a race against time
for an airline, and, of course,
no company wants to discount its product more than it
has to. From two months to
about two to three weeks before the flight date, the fare
quotes remain mostly flat,
with a slight upward trend.
However, and perhaps paradoxically, there is a good
chance of a price drop during
this period. And
no, the airlines do not use
cookies to manipulate fare
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There are a range of factors to consider when purchasing your flight.
How to book the cheapest airline flight
How airlines price their tickets is a source of many myths
and urban legends. As the seats on a flight
sell, yield managers monitor and adjust the seat allocation. First,
if you have to travel during a
peak period, such as Thanksgiving week, it is generally
best not to delay buying that
ticket. If, for instance, the
sales are slower than expected, some of the seats might
be moved to lower-priced
buckets . None of
these is entirely true.
Studies have suggested that prices can be higher or lower on a given day of
the week . this shows up as
a price drop. 21
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. These include tips about the best day
of the week to buy a ticket, last-minute discounts offered by the airlines, and
the conspiracy theories suggesting that the carriers use
cookies to increase prices
for their passengers. likely explanations include differences
in contracts between the airlines and the distribution systems/travel agents, implying
that different travel agents
may not have access to the
airline?s entire inventory of
available prices.
when to book
The airlines. We tend to monitor prices for several days
. At the
same time, we check quotes
from multiple travel agents,
or go directly to a site that allows for a quick comparison
of prices (such as kayak.com
or skyscanner.net). The
airline?s per passenger cost is
the lowest when the flight is
full, so carriers have incentive
to sell as many seats as possible. As noted above,
such price drops can occur
at any time before the flight.
However, the general trend
of price quotes is upward,
starting from about two to
three weeks before the flight
departure date.
Of course, an average traveller wants to know when he
or she should buy the tickets
for the next trip. adjusting their in-
ventory for specific customers appears to be beyond
their technical capabilities.
What is true about pricing
in the airline industry is that
carriers use complex, sophisticated pricing systems. For each flight
or route (if we are talking
about multi-segment itineraries), the airline has a
set of available price levels
. While price drops are
still possible, a chance of a
price increase is much higher if you wait to book within
this time period. For example, fewer deeply discounted seats will be offered on a
flight on Thanksgiving week
than on the same flight during the third week of February. Offered prices can in
fact drop at any time before
the flight, yet they are much
more likely to increase than
decrease over the last several weeks before departure.
Further, the airlines prefer
to wait for the last-minute
business traveler who?s likely to pay full fare rather than
sell the seat prematurely to a
price-conscious traveler. We are not entirely sure what precipitates this
phenomenon
USA/2010.
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Directed by: Clint Eastwood.
Starring: Matt Damon,
Cécile De France, Jay Mohr.
USA/2010.
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Jess and Schmidt try to
befriend a group of young
twentysomethings who have
moved in across the hall.
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of pranks on Schmidt to make
him feel like he is getting old.
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Hunters
14.15 Delgo FILM
Delgo, an adventurous
but naive teenager, must
rally his group of friends
to protect their world from
conflict between the Lockni
and Nohrin people. USA/2005.
AVA 21.00
Friday 16.1.2015
Nelonen 21.00
Saturday 17.1.2015. Starring: Sandra
Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan
Gosling. USA/2005.
01.15 Deadwood
TV5
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07.35 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy
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Silverstein. Food
Shark Tank Canada
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Top Chef
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.
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08.30 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
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Amber heads to a makeout party and Reggie tags
along.
17.25 MasterChef USA
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O?Reily is in for a surprise
when a visitor reveals the
truth about his past, while
Cyril faces trouble for his
difficult behavior.
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TV5
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18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 The Nanny
20.00 50 Ways to Kill Your
Mammy
21.00 Fired Up! FILM
Directed by: Will Gluck.
Starring: Philip Baker
Hall, Nicholas D?Agosto,
Eric Christian Olsen.
USA/2009.
22.45 The Office
SERIES BEGINS. Starring: Sam
Worthington, Liam Neeson,
Ralph Fiennes.
USA/2010.
23.05 Killer Karaoke
00.05 Inside Man
JIM
09.15 MasterChef Australia
11.35 Dinner Impossible
12.30 Dangerous Encounters
with Brady Barr
13.35 American Restoration
14.05 Container Wars
14.35 Ax Men
15.30 Man vs. USA/2007.
22.50 New Girl
23.20 Mom
23.50 Lie to Me
Hereafter
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Hereafter is a supernatural thriller
fantasy film telling three parallel
stories about three people who
are haunted by mortality in different ways. And
when Marcus (Frankie/George
McLaren), a London schoolboy,
loses the person closest to him, he
desperately needs answers. Starring:
Dwayne Hickman, Jane
Fonda, Lee Marvin.
USA/1965.
14.10 Dawson?s Creek
15.00 Long Island Medium
15.30 Say Yes to the Dress:
Bridesmaids
16.00 Mob Wives
16.50 Top 20 Funniest
17.50 Stranger Than Fiction
FILM
Directed by: Marc Foster.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman,
Emma Thompson, Maggie
Gyllenhaal. Directed
by: Jason Maurer, Marc F.
Adler. Directed
by: David Twohy. Stephen
Hawking over an online game.
20.30 The Simpsons
22.00 Extant
Extant follows an astronaut
who returns home from a
year-long solo mission in
space and tries to reconnect
with her husband and son in
their everyday life.
23.00 The 100 (K16)
00.00 Two and a Half Men
00.25 Vikings (K16)
01.25 Supernatural (K16)
JIM
11.30
12.25
13.20
14.15
15.10
16.05
17.00
17.30
18.30
19.30
21.00
friday
15.1.
Ink Master
Britain?s Best Bakery
Shark Tank Canada
New York Ink
Top Chef
Extreme Makeover
Man vs. USA/2008.
18.00 Nordic Combined World
Cup SPORT
In Finnish.
21.00 Survivor
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.35 Dallas (K16)
01.30 Mentalist
SUB
11.00 Modern Family
12.00 Anthony Bourdain: Parts
Unknown
13.00 Catching Hell
14.00 Mythbusters
15.00 Top Chef
17.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.00 Big Bang Theory
When Sheldon hires a
female grad student to
assist him, a jealous Amy
asks Penny to help her spy
on them.
18.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Clash of Titans FILM
Perseus, mortal son of Zeus,
battles the minions of the
underworld to stop them
from conquering heaven and
earth. USA/2002.
00.55 Mind Games
SUB
14.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
14.55 Undercover Boss USA
16.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
18.00 Top Chef
19.00 The Simpsons
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
Penny enrolls in a college
class and keeps it a secret
from Leonard. On the other side of the world,
Marie (Cécile de France), a French
television journalist, survives a
near-death experience during the
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. After receiving a
used car ?Herbie. Each
on a path in search of the truth,
their lives will intersect, forever
changed by what they believe
might or must exist in the hereafter. Maggi is going to prove to
her dad that she is good enough
to be the next great Peyton.
Directed by: Angela Robinson.
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Michael
Keaton, Matt Dillon. Sheldon causes
conflict with Dr. Starring: Cameron
Diaz, Jude Law, Kate
Winslet. USA/2010.
Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan)
is the youngest member of the
Peyton racing clan and she has
always been forbidden from following her racing dreams by her
overprotective father (Michael
Keaton). USA/2006.
21.00 The Holiday FILM
Two heartbroken women
swap homes in each other?s
countries, where they each
meet a local guy and fall in
love. 16
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15 . Matt Damon stars as
George, a factory worker who has
a special connection to the afterlife. A
mockumentary on a group
of typical office workers,
where the workday consists
of ego clashes, inappropriate
behavior, and tedium.
23.50 C.S.I.
01.10 Disappeared
02.05 My Big Fat Fetish
03.00 The Office
AVA
09.30 Real Girl?s Kitchen
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
12.00 Biggest Loser
12.55 Doctors
14.05 Real Housewives of
Orange County
15.00 Glee
16.00 Jamie?s Chef
17.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
British style experts Trinny
Woodall and Susannah
Constantine travel the globe
turning hapless fashion
failures into glamorous
catwalk queens.
18.00 Grand Designs Australia
19.00 Biggest Loser
22.00 Project Runway Allstars
00.00 Lie to Me
saturday
16.1.
MTV3
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Pitch Black
MT V3 22.35
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Double Your House For
Half The Money
14.35 Mike & Molly
16.15 Nordic Combined World
Cup SPORT
In Finnish.
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Pitch Black (K16) FILM
A commercial transport ship
and its crew are marooned
on a planet full of dangerous
creatures that only come out
to feast at night. Directed by: Clint Eastwood.
Starring: Matt Damon, Cécile De
France, Jay Mohr. Directed by: Nancy
Meyers. They take Herbie
for a test drive and end up at a
car show where Herbie compete
against all-time racer Trip
Murphy in an impromptu street
race. USA/2000.
00.50 Crisis (K16)
SUB
14.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
14.55 Undercover Boss USA
16.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
19.00 The Simpsons
19.30 How I Met Your Mother
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Miss Congeniality FILM
An FBI agent must go
undercover in the Miss
United States beauty
pageant to prevent a group
from bombing the event.
Directed by: Donald Petrie.
Starring: Sandra Bullock,
Michael Caine, Benjamin
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MTV3
NELONEN
Extant
Sub 22.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Property Brothers
14.35 Ground Floor
15.10 Jamie?s Food Escapes
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Madam Secretary
22.35 Murder by Numbers (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Barbet
Schroeder. USA/2006.
23.40 Motive
00.40 NCIS: Los Angeles
03.10 Stranger Than Fiction
FILM
Directed by: Marc Foster.
USA/2006.
AVA
09.30 Real Girl?s Kitchen
11.30 Bread with Paul
Hollywood
Paul Hollywood reveals
the secrets of breads from
all over the world and
shows how a loaf can be
transformed into delicious
dishes for breakfast, lunch
and dinner.
13.05 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
16.00 Property Brothers
18.00 Project Runway Allstars
21.00 Juno FILM
Directed by: Jason Reitman.
Starring: Ellen Page,
Jennifer Garner, Jason
Bateman. Starring:
Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel,
Cole Hauser. USA/2000.
00.15 Cheaters
01.15 How I Met Your Mother
01.40 Scorpion
JIM
11.30 Ink Master
13.20 Shark Tank Canada
14.15 New York Ink
15.10 Top Chef
16.05 Extreme Makeover
18.00 Talent USA
19.00 Pawn Stars UK
20.00 Hotel Hell
Gordon Ramsay travels
across the USA visiting
hopeless hotels, mediocre
motels and just plain bad
B&Bs, attempting to fix
their problems and turn
around the struggling
establishments.
22.00 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
23.00 Speeders
23.30 Ax Me
00.30 Cajun Pawn Stars
02.30 Bondi Rescue
07.00 Children?s Programming
07.55 Good Luck Charlie
08.25 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
09.15 My Kitchen Rules
10.15 Property Virgins
13.50 Excused
14.20 My Kitchen Rules
16.25 Melissa & Joey
17.25 MasterChef USA
18.25 Frasier
21.00 New in Town FILM
Directed by: Jonas Elmer.
Starring: Renee Zellweger,
Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan
Fallon Hogan.
USA/Canada/2009.
02.05 Frasier
02.35 Castle
03.35 MasterChef USA
TV5
06.35 Animal Airport
07.30 MacGyver
08.25 Matlock
12.20 Everybody Loves Raymond
13.20 The King of Queens
14.10 MacGyver
15.05 Matlock
16.00 Disappeared
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Kicking & Screaming FILM
Directed by: Jesse Dylan.
Starring: Dylan McLaughlin,
Kate Walsh, Mike Ditka.
USA/2005.
21.00 Spider-Man 3 FILM
Directed by: Sam Raimi.
Starring: Bill Nunn, Bryce
Dallas Howard, James
Franco. Starring: Lindsay
Lohan, Michael Keaton, Matt
Dillon. Directed by: Louis
Leterrier. Starring: Tom
Selleck, Kathy Baker, William
Sadler. Food
17.00 American Pickers
The show follows antique
and collectible pickers
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz
as they travel around the
United States.
18.00 Kitchen Nightmares
21.00 Guinness World Records
22.00 Trigger Happy T V
23.00 Undercover Boss
07.50 Children?s Programming
08.30 Sea Rescue
09.00 The Hotel Inspector
Award-winning hotelier
Alex Polizzi resumes her
quest to salvage some of
Britain?s worst-run hotels
and bed-and-breakfast
establishments.
14.00 Animal Rescue
19.00 Once Upon a Time
21.00 Herbie: Fully Loaded FILM
Directed by: Angela
Robinson. However, she has no
idea her life is about to take a
huge u-turn. as a graduation present Maggie visits her
friend and mechanic Kevin to
check Herbie. USA/2007.
23.50 Jesse Stone: No Remorse
FILM
Directed by: Robert
Harmon
In the early
1980s, Charlie Wilson (Hanks) is
a womanising US congressional
representative from Texas. Starring: Robbie
Coltrane, Alan Cumming,
Rene Russo. 21 JANUARY 2015
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18.1.
MTV3
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MTV3
07.55
12.00
12.55
14.55
15.50
Gulliver?s Travels
MTV3 12.55
08.05 Children?s Programming
09.55 Grand Designs
11.55 Jamie?s Food Escapes
12.55 Gulliver?s Travels FILM
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver
takes an assignment in
Bermuda, but ends up on the
island of Liliput, where he
towers over its tiny citizens.
Directed by: Rob Letterman.
Starring: Jack Black,
Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly.
USA/2010.
14.35 Madam Secretary
16.25 Nordic Combined World
Cup SPORT
In Finnish.
22.35 Homeland
Homeland is a compelling
and contemporary US
thriller about a troubled
and unorthodox CIA agent,
starring Claire Danes.
23.45 Madam Secretary
SUB
11.00 The Simpsons
13.30 Big Bang Theory
15.00 How to Live with Your
Parents (for the Rest of
Your Life)
15.30 Two and a Half Men
16.00 Glee
17.00 Pretty Little Liars
20.00 Mythbusters
21.00 The Day the Earth Stood
Still FILM
Directed by: Scott
Derrickson. Directed by: Danny Boyle.
Starring: James Franco, Kate
Mara, Amber Tamblyn. USA/2007.
23.00 Spartacus: Vengeance
(K18)
00.10 Spider-Man 3 FILM
Directed by: Sam Raimi.
USA/2007.
02.45 House
AVA
09.30 Bread with Paul
Hollywood
12.00 Grand Designs
14.00 You Deserve This House
15.00 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.
17.00 Real Housewives of
Orange County
21.30 Modern Family
22.00 Cold Feet
The series follows three
couples as they cope with
marriage, children and
infidelity.
23.05 New Girl
23.35 Mom
00.05 Lie to Me
01.00 Farm Kings
tuesday
19.1.
The Adventures of Tintin:
The Secret of the Unicorn
T V5 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Survivor
14.35 The Millers
15.10 Lucky Dog
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Madam Secretary
22.35 Bones (K16)
A forensic anthropologist
and a FBI agent build a team
to investigate death causes.
23.35 Homeland
00.40 White Collar
White Collar is a show about a
convicted white collar criminal
who winds up working for the
FBI man who caught him.
01.40 The McCarthys
SUB
14.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, a martial artist,
and his partner Trivette
are Texas Rangers. Ryan asks Gloria for
a huge favour.
00.00 Deadwood
TV5
06.30 Animal Airport
07.30 MacGyver
08.25 Matlock
12.20 Everybody Loves Raymond
13.20 The King of Queens
14.10 MacGyver
15.05 Matlock
16.00 Disappeared
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
21.00 The Adventures of Tintin:
The Secret of the Unicorn
FILM
Directed by: Steven
Spielberg. USA/1997.
13.50 The Magicians
14.50 Sean Saves the World
15.15 Columbo
17.05 Monk
18.00 House
19.00 Nanny McPhee FILM
Directed by: Kirk Jones.
Starring: Angela Lansbury,
Colin Firth, Derek Jacobi.
USA/2006.
21.00 Charlie Wilson?s War FILM
Directed by: Mike Nichols.
Starring: Julia Roberts,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Tom Hanks. (K16)
02.50 Disappeared
AVA
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
12.00 Biggest Loser
12.55 Doctors
14.05 Real Housewives of
Orange County
15.00 Glee
16.00 Jamie?s Chef
17.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
18.00 Grand Designs
19.00 Biggest Loser
22.00 Real Housewives of
Orange County
23.00 Cold Feet
The series follows three
couples as they cope with
marriage, children and
infidelity.
Charlie Wilson?s War
127 Hours
This film tells the story of how
one congressman who loved a
good time, one Houston socialite
who loved a good cause and
one renegade CIA agent who
loved a good fight conspired to
bring about the largest covert
operation in history. In LA she
intends to trace her late
mother?s history. (K16)
01.50 Raising Hope
JIM
12.35 Britain?s Best Bakery
Britain?s Best Bakery is a
reality series which sees a
national search for Britain?s
best bakery.
13.35 Shark Tank Canada
14.30 New York Ink
15.25 Top Chef
16.20 Extreme Makeover
17.15 Shark Tank Canada
18.15 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Top Chef
22.30 Pawn Stars
Rick Harrison and his family
buy, sell, and appraise items
of historical value.
23.00 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
The show follows the work
of Border Security Officers
as they enforce Australian
customs, quarantine,
immigration and finance laws.
00.00 Speeders
00.30 Storm City
01.30 JIM D: Incomprehensible
Machines
02.30 Shark Tank Canada
03.30 New York Ink
07.00 Children?s Programming
07.55 Good Luck Charlie
08.25 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
09.10 My Kitchen Rules
10.15 Property Virgins
13.50 Excused
14.20 My Kitchen Rules
15.55 The Hotel Inspector
16.55 The Neighbors
17.25 MasterChef USA
18.25 Frasier
21.00 Elementary
A math genius, who is part
of Sherlock?s network of
experts, stumbles upon a
body while participating in a
math puzzle competition.
23.55 Rescue Me
00.55 Frasier
01.25 Elementary
02.20 MasterChef USA
04.15 The Neighbors
TV5
06.30 Animal Airport
07.30 MacGyver
08.25 Matlock
12.20 Everybody Loves Raymond
13.20 The King of Queens
14.10 MacGyver
15.05 Matlock
16.00 Disappeared
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Naked and Afraid
20.30 The Nanny
After being fired from her
job and dumped by her
boyfriend, a cosmetics
saleswoman becomes the
nanny to the three children
of a rich British widower.
21.00 Starsky & Hutch FILM
Directed by: Todd Phillips.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Fred
Williamson, Owen Wilson.
USA/2004.
23.00 Disappeared
00.00 The Adventures of Tintin:
The Secret of the Unicorn
FILM
Directed by: Steven
Spielberg. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
15 . is kept in
Oz for an uncertain amount
of time. Directed
by: Mike Nichols. With
the help of maverick CIA agent,
Gust Avrakotos (Hoffman), Wilson
dedicates his political efforts to
supply the Afghan mujahideen
with the weapons and support required to defeat the Soviet Union.
However, Charlie eventually learns
that military victory can only be
achieved at a great price. New York (K16)
23.45 Person of Interest
00.45 Psych
01.40 Undatable
SUB
14.00 Walker, Texas Range
14.55 Undercover Boss USA
16.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
A series in which two
extreme eaters swap diets
in an attempt to change
the way they view food and
eating.
19.00 The Simpsons
19.30 Raising Hope
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
23.00 Revolution
00.00 Nikita (K16)
01.00 C.S.I. USA/2012.
TV5
06.45 Mob Wives
07.35 Say Yes to the Dress:
Bridesmaids
08.00 Long Island Medium
08.30 Dawson?s Creek
12.20 Buddy FILM
Directed by: Caroline
Thompson. Starring:
Anna Chlumsky, Dan
Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis.
USA/1994.
21.00 The Dictator FILM
Directed by: Larry Charles.
Starring: Sacha Baron
Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben
Kingsley. Throughout his journey,
Ralston recalls friends, lovers,
family, as well as the last two
people he ever had the chance to
meet. USA/2007.
This biographical survival drama
is based on the true story. Starring: Julia
Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Tom Hanks. Starring:
Dwayne Hickman, Jane
Fonda, Lee Marvin.
USA/1965.
02.00 C.S.I.
02.45 Disappeared
AVA
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
12.00 Biggest Loser
12.55 Doctors
14.05 Flipping Out
15.00 Glee
16.00 Jamie?s Chef
17.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
18.00 Grand Designs Australia
19.00 Biggest Loser
This series features obese
people competing to win
a cash prize by losing the
highest percentage of weight
to their initial weight.
20.00 Grand Designs
This series follows people
building their dream houses
and all the dilemmas that
come with it.
21.00 Project Runway Allstars
22.00 Real Housewives of
Orange County
23.00 The Rachel Zoe Project
20.1.
MTV3
NELONEN
The Nanny
TV5 20.30
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
14.35 Modern Family
15.15 Undercover Boss
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
This series follows the
wealthy and powerful
Forrest family and their
fashion house business
Forrester Creations.
18.00 Emmerdale
22.45 C.S.I. USA/2011.
23.05 Extreme Cougar Wives
00.05 Cat Ballou FILM
Directed by: Elliot
Silverstein. Starring: Andy
Serkis, Daniel Craig, Jamie
Bell. USA/
UK/2010.
TV5 21.00
Sunday 18.1.2015
Sub 21.00
Monday 19.1.2015. Food
16.20 Once Upon a Time
17.20 Frasier
17.50 Gordon?s Great Escape
Gordon?s gastronomic tour
of South East Asia brings
him to Vietnam.
20.00 America?s Next Topmodel
21.00 Senior Skip Day FILM
Directed by: Nick Weiss.
Starring: Larry Miller,
Tara Reid, Clint Howard.
USA/2008.
22.50 Oz (K16)
An Irish ?terrorist. Food
12.20 Extreme Makeover
14.10 Talent USA
15.05 Undercover Boss
16.00 Kitchen Nightmares
18.00 Hotel Hell
19.00 Anthony Bourdain: No
Reservations
Anthony cruises Croatia?s
coast in search of The New
Riviera.
20.00 Undercover Boss
In this hidden-camera
show an executive goes
undercover in his or her own
company to get a raw look at
how people really work.
00.00 Bullrun
01.00 American Restoration
01.30 Speeders
Children?s Programming
Melissa & Joey
Frasier
Body of Proof
My Girl 2 FILM
13-year-old Vada is living
in Pennsylvania and for a
school project she travels
to stay with her Uncle Phil
in Los Angeles. Directed
by: Howard Zieff. Starring: Andy
Serkis, Daniel Craig, Jamie
Bell. It
stars James Franco as a real-life
canoyoneer Aron Ralston, who
became trapped by a boulder in
an isolated slot canyon in Blue
John Canyon, southeastern Utah,
in April 2003. They
make it their business to
battle crime in Dallas and all
around the State of Texas.
14.55 Undercover Boss USA
16.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
19.00 The Simpsons
19.30 Suburgatory
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 127 Hours FILM
Directed by: Danny Boyle.
Starring: James Franco,
Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn.
USA/UK/2010.
23.00 Inside Man
00.00 C.S.I. (K16)
00.50 Suburgatory
JIM
12.20 Dinner Impossible
13.15 Dangerous Encounters
with Brady Barr
14.15 New York Ink
15.10 Anthony Bourdain: No
Reservations
16.05 Extreme Makeover
17.00 Man vs. Food
17.30 Shark Tank Canada
18.30 MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia
gives budding chefs the
ultimate once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to develop
their cooking skills, to be
mentored by the best.
19.30 Top Chef
21.00 Kitchen Nightmares
22.30 Pawn Stars
00.00 Strange or What?
02.00 Shark Tank Canada
03.00 New York Ink
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.00 Good Luck Charlie
08.30 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
13.50 Excused
15.50 Man vs. Starring: Keanu
Reeves, Jennifer Connelly,
Kathy Bates. USA/2011.
02.00 C.S.I. Over the next five
days Ralston examines his life
and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage
and the wherewithal to extricate
himself by any means necessary,
scale a 65 foot wall and hike over
eight miles before he is finally
rescued. USA/2008.
23.05 NCIS: New Orleans
00.05 The Originals (K16)
01.05 Killer Karaoke
JIM
09.25 MasterChef Australia
11.20 Man vs
Meanwhile, Maggie
continues to open up to
Richard.
00.00 Castle
00.55 Frasier
01.25 Rescue Me
TV5
06.35 America?s Cutest Pets
07.30 MacGyver
08.25 Matlock
12.20 Everybody Loves Raymond
13.20 The King of Queens
14.10 MacGyver
15.05 Matlock
16.00 Disappeared
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
The series follows a
successful sports writer Ray
Barone, whose oddball family
life consists of a fed up wife,
overbearing parents, and an
older brother with lifelong
jealousy.
18.00 The King of Queens
21.00 Dragon Eyes (K16)
FILM
Directed by: John Hyams.
Starring: Crystal Mantecon,
Cung Le, Jean-Claude
Van Damme.
USA/2012.
22.55 Deadly Affairs
23.55 Columbo
01.50 C.S.I.
AVA
09.30 Bread with Paul
Hollywood
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
12.00 Biggest Loser
12.55 Doctors
14.05 Real Housewives of
Orange County
15.00 Glee
16.00 Jamie?s Kitchen
17.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
18.00 Grand Designs
19.00 Biggest Loser
22.00 Real Housewives of
Orange County
23.00 Flipping Out
00.00 Lie to Me
01.00 Farm Kings
Weather
Banks and Bureaux de Change. Food
17.30 Shark Tank Canada
18.30 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Top Chef
An American reality
competition in which chefs
compete against each other
in culinary challenges.
21.00 American Pickers
22.30 Pawn Stars
00.00 Undercover Boss
00.55 Anthony Bourdain: No
Reservations
01.50 Shark Tank Canada
02.45 Meet the Parents
03.45 New York Ink
HELSINKI TIMES
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.00 Good Luck Charlie
08.30 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
Jeff Corwin travels around
the world taking viewers
below the surface to explore
the Earth?s least understood
resource, our oceans and
waterways, and the animals
which call them home.
09.10 My Kitchen Rules
10.15 Property Virgins
13.50 Excused
14.20 My Kitchen Rules
15.55 The Hotel Inspector
16.55 The Neighbors
17.25 MasterChef USA
18.25 Frasier
21.00 Grey?s Anatomy
Alex and Meredith?s
friendship ignites jealousy
in Jo. The currency exchange counter at the harbour in
Katajanokka, Helsinki is open everyday (Mon-Fri 15-17:30 Sat-Sun
10-11, 15-17:30). 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. Directed by:
John Hyams. He begins to
play one gang against the other
using his unparalleled martial
arts skills, and by calling on the
teachings of his brilliant mentor
Tiano (Jean-Claude Van Damme)
to find the strength to battle
back. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
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what to do) . Public phones
are scarce. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. 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. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent medical treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health
centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital
(Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. Starring: Crystal
Mantecon, Cung Le, Jean-Claude
Van Damme. See www.forex.fi for more
information.
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Grocery stores. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. V, the town?s ruthless and
corrupt police chief. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. Restaurants in the Helsinki area can be found from
the internet service www.eat.fi, which provides information on restaurants, their menus, opening hours and some user rating etc.
Internet. Single ticket
Dragon Eyes
The battle for the streets begins
in this martial arts film. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
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Telephone. Operator number 118. Dial 112. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. USA/2012.
TV5 21.00
Wednesday 21.1.2015
Airport buses. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. (K16)
01.15 New Girl
JIM
12.20 Britain?s Best Bakery
13.20 Shark Tank Canada
14.15 New York Ink
Miami Ink veteran Ami
James will be the center of
this Big Apple iteration of
the tattoo business.
15.10 Top Chef
16.05 Extreme Makeover
17.00 Man vs. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. St. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. For more information, see www.hsl.fi.
Tourist Information. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central
Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 minutes, ?6.
On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to
the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
sudoku
Finland's preliminary
population figure was
5,472,421
at the end of November
Statistics Finland
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Medical services. 18
TV GUIDE
15 . Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. 21 JANUARY 2015
wednesday
Finland inFo
21.1.
MTV3
NELONEN
Vikings
Sub 22.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Cosmos
14.35 How I Met Your Mother
15.10 Grand Designs
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
The drama set in the
glamorous world of the Los
Angeles fashion scene and
focusing on the wealthy and
powerful Forrest family.
18.00 Emmerdale
22.40 Mythbusters
In this series two Hollywood
special effects experts attempt
to debunk urban legends by
directly testing them.
23.45 Bones (K16)
00.45 Royal Pains
01.45 Revolution (K16)
SUB
14.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
14.55 Undercover Boss USA
16.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
19.00 The Simpsons
19.30 New Girl
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Top Chef
22.00 Vikings (K16)
The series tells the saga
of Ragnar?s band of Viking
brothers and his family as he
rises to become King of the
Viking tribes.
23.00 Scorpion
00.25 C.S.I. However, just as he begins
to bring the community under
control, Hong is confronted by
Mr. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. 09 3101 3300. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietaniemi Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. 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. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
Post Offices. 09 4711.
Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. Jude
is a dangerous neighborhood
where the dueling gangs of local
kingpins Dash and Antuan terrorize the streets and the citizens
live without a hope until a mysterious stranger Ryan Hong (Cung
Le) arrives in town
My
wife arrived here in June
2012. At the moment I am
working as an Embedded
Software Designer in the automation industry.
Personally I am very fond
of learning about different cultures and languages,
though I have not been able
to learn Finnish language fully in these five years. Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. She could not grasp the
idea that he wanted a simple
glass of milk to drink with
lunch.
I myself am now quite
much Finnishified . I have an
excuse to save myself, however . I landed
in Helsinki airport and was
on my way to Tampere via
train when, to my surprise,
I thought I had entered a library room. Normally in public transports you may get to
listen to discussions on current affairs, weather, political situation and even some
personal stories of people. So
I would suggest Finns make
more and more babies to
avoid this situation in future.
We have a phrase ?honesty is the policy?, which I have
really observed in Finns. Hundreds of customers visit our facility in Helsinki each month to receive holistic treatment and relaxing massage.
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EXPAT VIEW
Originally from Pakistan, Ataul Ghalib completed his Master?s in IT from Tampere University of Technology, and has been working in the field of Embedded
Software Development from four years.
How I see Finns and Finland
I HAVE been
living in Finland
for almost five years now. That
is something pretty unusual
for part of the world where I
belong to. I
came to Finland in 2009 to
study my Master?s degree in
Computer Systems at Tampere University of Technology. Honesty is one area in
which Finns stand out more
than others in my opinion.
Of course drinking coffee
and using alcohol cannot be
neglected when we are talk-
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
Send us your story to expatview@helsinkitimes.fi
ing about special qualities of
Finns and no doubt Russians
are standing side by side in
this with Finns.
One other tradition in
which Finland is quite different from the rest of the world
is drinking milk for lunch!
Yes, really; milk. A
year ago I got a news from
somewhere that Finland has
been ranked second among
all the countries of the world
in honesty. 21 JANUARY 2015
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Celebrating
five years of Chinese
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Our beautiful facility in Helsinki is a genuine Chinese oasis to
which you are heartfelt welcome. www.moomin.com. She kept on asking if she
could bring tea with milk or
coffee, or put some chocolate
in it. One of my
Finnish colleagues who visited the United States for a
business trip told me that he
ordered lunch in a restaurant and asked for a glass of
milk with lunch. In
short we like to talk.
It got even stranger when
I noticed that Finnish babies
travelling with their families are not crying either.
Our moms would love to have
such calm babies.
But I must say that this
was just the first impression I got of Finnish society, but once you make
Finnish friends they are really friendly people and you
can even find Finns who can
talk more than you, especially when they are drunk.
I got married three years
after I came to Finland. She said there are
so few people that it looks
like a strike or a holiday. apart
from speaking the language
which I hope to learn soon.
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All Things Moomin . The waitress
came to him asked, ?Sir! Is it
right that you have ordered
milk with lunch?. He said,
yes. Imagine someone coming from
a place populated with more
than 186 million people. When we drove from
Helsinki airport to Tampere
she asked me ?Is it a public
holiday?. the Finnish language
is one of the hardest languages on the planet Earth, but I
can speak the Suomen kieli
enough get me in trouble.
I arrived in Finland in
September 2009. Being a Muslim
I really appreciate it, since
it is a key part of my religion. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES
HELSINKI TIMES
15 . It was pin drop
silence; everyone is reading or listening to the music
with their earphones