Financial sector
warned of future problems.
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Ebola & food wastage
Experimental Ebola drug struggles
to meet demand. H T
fInlAnD and Sweden will only continue to deepen and develop their
defence co-operation, the newlyappointed Swedish Minister of Defence, Peter Hultqvist, stated last
Friday.
One of the next steps forward, according to Hultqvist, is to improve
information sharing in the domain
of airspace control in an attempt to
prevent further airspace violations
by Russian aircraft. ?The line is clear but
not new,. ISSUE 42 (376) . ?We have to
address them, and in this respect
we are eager to increase co-operation,. he asserted.
Finland and Sweden agreed on a
framework for bilateral defence cooperation last spring, and are set to
unveil more detailed assessments
of the future scope of co-operation
in January. HS
A l E k S I t E I vA I n E n . In particular, co-operation is expected to increase in air
and naval operations.
no to nato
Led by the Social Democratic Party, the new government of Sweden
has decided against pursuing membership in Nato during the ongoing
electoral term. he said.
Hultqvist also revealed that he
has a very ambitious vision for defence co-operation between the two
countries.
?The new government wanted to
place particular emphasis on this,
and therefore the development of
defence co-operation between Finland and Sweden has been entered
into the government programme.
We are truly committed to this for
the next four years and want to see
results.?
Haglund similarly acknowledged
that co-operation with Sweden is the
most significant dimension of defence co-operation also for Finland.
?The main objective of the Finnish Government, with respect to defence, has been to deepen defence
co-operation between Finland and
Sweden. 16 . by the Finnish government
and the EU ?to prevent a massacre
in Kobane?. Finns seeking health services in Estonia.
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Immigration policy linked to gang
violence. ?3 . Another shortterm objective for the co-operation
is to facilitate the joint use of airports by Finnish and Swedish air
forces.
His Finnish counterpart, Carl
Haglund (SFP), admitted that the
repeated airspace violations by
Haglund (right) met with Hultqvist for talks on military co-operation between
the two countries.
Russian aircraft have pestered both
Finland and Sweden. They also made demands that
Finland and the EU should support
?the democratic structures in Syrian Kurdistan?.
Continued on page 3.. Hultqvist summarised on
Friday.
Sweden is, however, interested
in diverse co-operation with the defence alliance, such as taking part
in military drills, but will draw the
line at Article 5, Hultqvist added.
Under the article, an armed attack
against a member state of Nato in
Europe or the United States shall
be considered an attack against all
member states.
Both Finland and Sweden signed
a so-called host nation support
agreement with the defence alliance earlier this year.
peOpLe & LifesTyLe
Three human rights activists
hunger strike for besieged kobane
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thREE Finnish human rights activists announced the commencement
of a hunger strike on 9 October, due
to the plight of the predominantly
Kurdish city of Kobane in northern
Syria. Kobane is currently besieged
and under a large-scale assault by
the expansionist Jihadist organisation Islamic State, also known as IS.
The hunger strike was instigated
by investigative journalist and human rights activist Airin Bahmani,
investigative journalist Johannes
Hautaviita and student and human rights activist Pauli Huotari.
All three are students at the University of Helsinki, majoring in Middle
Eastern Studies and History and Political Science, respectively.
The trio demanded ?immediate
action. Specifically, the hunger
strikers called on the EU to threaten Turkey with sanctions if it ?continues to sabotage the defensive
actions carried out by the People?s
Protection Units (YPG) and Women?s Protection Units (YPJ) against
IS.. A billion tonnes
of food wasted every year.
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finland and Sweden to
deepen co-operation to
repel airspace violations
Haglund: Russian
airspace violations have
pestered both Finland
and Sweden.
HS / M ARKUS JOK EL A
DOMesTiC
AnnA-lIInA k AUhAnEn
The
CIA is not a kindergarten.
You have referenced in past
interviews that you have
good ties with chiefs of railways and European businessmen. That is
a breach of the basics of the
United Nations and international law.
Do you see any chance that
the state of New Russia
would be established?
Let me try to be very objective. so
We have had economical problems in Russia even without sanctions
and the sanctions now prompt us to look at what can be changed in
the paradigm of the economical development of our country.
which the political parties had
not been able to reach with all
of their propaganda efforts
before. own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin is a Russian official, president of the state-run Russian Railways Company and the Head of Department of State Politics of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Moscow State Lomonosov University. 22 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. Second, we are
deeply integrated with European railways in terms of
passenger and cargo traffic
and nobody has found that
my activities and professional deeds to have been against
the interests of railways in
Europe. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. Fortunately, there are no railways between Russia and Australia.
Of course, we have some
pressure for the country from
the point of view of accessing the financial markets. So this is a
struggle between, on the one
side a group of countries who
try to protect their civilisational roots and sovereignty
and on the other side global
dominators.
We live in a world where
sovereignties have been willingly given up, like in the EU,
and now we are in a situation
where Brussels tells some
member states that your
laws are not relevant and you
should follow the ideology
and policies of the EU . Is
that a serious risk or is he
being extra cautious?
I know Genadi. Why are you not
on the European sanctions
list?
First, this is not my first year
in office. The
sanctions have, on the other
hand, created a unification of
the society on a unique scale,
my career I have been decorated eight times by orders
from, among others, France,
Italy and Austria. What do you think
about this trend of fighting
for self-determination?
I?d like to answer this question as an academic and researcher, not as a Russian
statesman. So,
in terms of presenting oneself
or one state as so-called liberals, and to ensure the United States that they can rely
on the EU for the future, they
could invent something.
But I doubt that this
would be the course of developments in relations between Europe and Russia. but not the European Union . Helsinki Times sat down with Vladimir Yakunin for an interview in Rhodes, Greece, amid the World Public Forum.
Moving beyond sanctions
HE L S INK I T I M E S
How have sanctions affected your activities?
From a professional point
of view, not much. Just few
days ago I participated in
the European Railway Summit in Berlin and sat around
the same table with CEOs, including heads of British and
German railways and the
president of co-rail. So, there is no reason
for the European Union to
sanction me. Take any leader of
railways in Europe, he is inevitably on good terms with
the head of the government.
Genadi Timshenko, who is
also on US . Today, 84 per cent of
the population supports the
policies of the President of
Russia and that is also unique
compared with, say 13 per cent
of some European presidents.
day in the South of France
he does not go with them. You know, the
creation of something new
in Europe is not that simple
or easy and will create a lot
of problems. Do you talk directly to
their governments?
As far as economical relations are concerned, I have
never experienced any hardship on the part of my partners, companies or any
circles.
One hundred years after the
start of the First World War,
with the tensions in the
Ukraine, we are once again
on the verge of a global conflict. It
should be taken down step by
step. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). We
have had economical problems in Russia even without
sanctions and the sanctions
now prompt us to look at what
can be changed in the paradigm of the economical development of our country. Since the start of
Did something happen to
Timshenko in Finland?
Not in Finland or Europe ?
but one of his associates was
detained and interrogated in
the US without any grounds.
Are you equally concerned
when you move in Europe?
sooner or later these kinds of
deeds and approaches should
be changed.
Do you think the situation
with sanctions will change?
Sanctions, once implemented, are very difficult to lift. Between 1985 and 1991, Yakunin was Second and First Secretary of
the USSR?s Permanent Representative Office at the United Nations. Like in medicine, if you don?t have the
right diagnosis, you can?t
cure the disease and your
medicine may even harm. How did we get here?
I think the objective roots of
the Ukraine conflict should
be examined by the media.
When Mr Obama blames Russia for starting a conflict in
the Ukrainian territory, the
question is whether the president of the world?s leading
country is ?malfunctioning?,
if you know what I mean, or is
he badly informed, which is
hard to accept, knowing the
power and abilities of the intelligence community of the
United States.
It was not Russians who
started the war in Ukraine.
It was the Nazi, who even at
this moment tell Kiev, that
if you don?t act as we say we
will march with tanks on Kiev. He is also the founding president of the World Public Forum ?Dialogue of Civilizations?. When they
are forced to do something
contrary to their historical or religious identity and
their normal lives, they will
naturally resist that. In
Crimea, there was first a referendum and only later sepa-
ration. In our research, we call this as the
policy of ?global domination?
and ?suppression?. Actually, I don?t
see any practical reasons
for the US administration to
sanction me. From the
point of view of actual sanctions, I can live without kangaroos because, as you know,
I am sanctioned by Australia in addition to the US.
God knows why. The communist
ideology still exists in modernised form in China and is
in no direct conflict with the
West. So they
have seen my work as important and positive for their
countries. like
Croatia, for example.
There has been the Crimea
referendum and then the
one for Scottish independence. We have a saying: ?To be
more saint than the Pope?. (by the US) to sanction Russia and Russians, it is possible. Even
so, when his family leaves
for their traditional holi-
You know, if the heads of
states name you ?enemy of
the state?, I should consider
that it might be, if not dangerous, but risky. It?s not rebels or separatists, as you call them, but
the Right sector. if not orders
. sanction
lists, told news agency ItarTass, that to avoid provocations of the CIA he does not
travel outside Russia. On 20 March 2014, the US government sanctioned Vladimir
Yakunin in relation to the Ukraine crisis. So,
the basic notion that Russia
started this conflict is wrong.
Is there a new Cold War
emerging involving Europe?
I think we cannot use the
term 'Cold War', which was a
struggle between the communist and the capitalist
ideologies. But having
this in mind, I am not going
to change my life style or the
style of my work.
Do you expect the European
Union to harden sanctions
on Russia and possibly add
you to the next sanction list?
Judging by the way that Brussels has followed strong intimidation . This is something absolutely different. Kiev and
the international community
made no efforts to find out
who the snipers were in the
Maidan.
Answering these questions and presenting themselves
as
responsible
authorities, they can keep the
country intact in one form or
another. The explanation that he is in good terms
with the Russian leadership
is foolish. You know
how difficult it is to overcome this in one generation.
Whatever my opinion on
authorities in Kiev, if they
are political leaders, they
should answer the question,
that who was responsible for
using destructive and prohibited weaponry against the
civilian population and the
burning alive of more than
48 people in Odessa. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. Even if the US and the
EU would say that they would
lift the sanctions today, it
will take at least a year for it
take full effect.
Is your company also looking
at member states individually. And 98 per cent of the
population in Crimea voted in
favour of independence and
joining Russia. So this
is a signal to the decision
makers who are introducing
postmodern policies where
ugly things must become
acceptable.
In the case of Crimea,
Russia is being accused of
breaking international law
concerning the existent borders and the use of force. He is my good
friend in St Petersburg and I
can only say that he has solid
grounds to be concerned. But
in 1999, a part of Yugoslavia
was cut off and first accepted
and recognised by the western states and then there
was a referendum later. If not, the people in
the western and southern regions of the Ukraine have no
reason to believe that after
signing any agreement they
will not be kidnapped, raped
or killed.. In the existing
economy, everything is more
or less balanced and linked.
There are so many special
agreements and regulations,
which we ordinary people do
not even know about, which
influence the economical
and political mechanisms of
these areas.
Of course people try to
protect their self-identification and image. It
is obvious that the world?s
economy would not be sustainable without Europe,
without Russia or the US.
The world is like a small flat
for housing mankind . You can manipulate 51 or 52 per cent, but
98 is a different story.
That was the voice of the
people terrified with everything that was going on in the
Ukrainian territory.
To my mind, the legal
structure of the international law was changed after Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and so
on, when the ?great nation?
declared that we are exceptional and we can use force
where ever we want. The sanctions included a travel ban to the United States, freezing all of his assets in the
United States as well as a ban on business transactions between him and businesses he owns with American citizens and corporations. Catalonia is considering its own independence
vote. Following the policy of
the president of the Russian
federation, I can make the
conclusion that Russia did
not try to enforce the desolation of the rest of Ukraine.
Now there are 9000 casualties and blood has been
spilled on the soil. 2
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16
Nikke
comments on the events
of the Friday night in early
September.
He had not, for he had
never seen the attacker or
any of the 15 other boys who
hurried to encircle him and
his attacker.
One of them hit and
kicked Nikke in the face
while the others cheered him
on.
Nikke estimates that the
boy who assaulted him was
around the same age as him,
the others younger. The main goal seemed
to be to knock me out cold.?
The attack went on for
five minutes until Nikke
managed to slip away. he describes.
Thus far, as many as five
members of the gang have
been detained and nearly two dozen brought into
custody in the course of the
pre-trial investigation. Among
those who endorsed the initiative and its demands were
film director Aki Kaurismäki, professor of legal history
and Roman law at Helsinki
University Jukka Kekkonen
and professor of World Politics at Helsinki University
Teivo Teivainen. H T
THE aTTaCK was came out of
nowhere.
?Look at that blonde,
get him,. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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background falling foul of the law
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H a L M IN E N , Ruu T T O L O NE N . Professor
of Semitic Languages and
Cultures Hannu Juusola and
Professor Emeritus of International Law at Helsinki
University Lauri Hannikainen were also among the supporters of the campaign.
After most of the major
Finnish media outlets had
featured all or some of the demands of the hunger strike,
and the hunger strikers had
been able to raise awareness
on the immediate and ongoing
threat of the fall of Kobane,
the hunger strike was ended
late evening on 11 October.
Left to right, Airin Bahmani, Mina Zandkarimi (a relative of Airin
and supporter of the strike), Pauli Huotari and Johannes Hautaviita.
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16 . he says.
Low-income households,
he highlights, no longer have
access to hobbies to the extent that they used to have.
?Services for young people that have traditionally
been free are no longer free,
and sports clubs, for example, refer to children and
youngsters as customers.?
?It is naïve to think that if
70 per cent of youngsters can
afford to spend their freetime in a way that is totally
different from the way others do, the 30 per cent will
simply stand idly by,. is one of the
reasons behind the recent
outbreak of violence in the
capital region.
In a joint statement issued
last week, the Members of
the Parliament argued that
Finland has ?misguidedly encouraged individuals of immigrant backgrounds to live
fully according to their own
will while also preserving the
values that clash with the social culture in Finland?.
It is therefore necessary
to adopt a stricter immigration policy and to enhance
the social integration of
people of immigrant backgrounds, the duo stated.. ?Some
youngsters lead a varied life.
Then there are those who only have bad options available
to them,. Salasuo
says, stressing that the situation cannot be misconstrued
as some sort of indication of
ethnic groups.
Although a variety of ethnicities were represented in
the front-lines of the teenage
riots in Sweden, the underlying issue also there was social inequality, he argues.
Similar unrest has also
flared up in France and the
HS / JuHani niir anen
HELSINKI TIMES
A number of youngsters were beaten and robbed in Alippipuisto
Park on 12 September.
United Kingdom, where the
teenage riots of a few years
ago were characterised by
youngsters stealing exclusive brand items; the havenots wanted to have their
share.
?Similar developments in
Finland are not a surprise,
although they remain moderate in comparison to elsewhere in Europe,. ?It?s a group of likeminded people,. ?These US allies
in the Middle East are utterly undemocratic and the very
antithesis of gender equality.?
Johannes
Hautaviita,
an investigative journalist
and a columnist for Helsinki
Times, asserts that Turkey is
the key player in the current
disaster.
?Nato-ally Turkey is still
blocking arms and Kurdish fighters from entering
Kobane to defend the city.
To prevent the massacre of
more than 10,000 people,
the EU, which is Turkey?s biggest import and export partner, should use its leverage
to pressure Turkey to lift the
blockade of Kobane,. ?The guy hit with all
he had. DOMESTIC
Hunger
strike
for
Kobane
B Ru NO J ä N T T I
H e l S inK i T i m e S
Continued from page 1.
Da n Ko i v u l a a K S o
BaHMaNI, herself of Iranian
Kurdish background, calls it
?absurd that the democratic
structures erected in Syrian
Kurdistan seem to have gone
largely unnoticed in the EU
and in the US.?
?While the societal configuration in Syrian Kurdistan bolster gender equality
and grassroots democracy, a
number of Western states are
still leaning towards a coalition lead by the United States
and its allies like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE,. he says.
Laitio calls attention to
the fact that up to 23 per cent
of foreign language-speaking
youngsters in Helsinki are not
in education or employment,
while the corresponding
share for their Finnish-speaking peers is some 4 per cent.
The gang problem, he believes, cannot be solved by
?a misguided attempt?
Olli Immonen and Vesa-Matti Saarakkala, of the Finns
Party, have contrastively estimated that ?failed immigration policy. Bahmani
emphasises. Salasuo
says.
revising the immigration
policy, but only by addressing inequality in the Finnish
capital.
?One option would be
to develop the suburbs ?
the everyday environment
of the youngsters . were the words
17-year-old Nikke had heard
come out of the mouth of
an unknown boy moments
earlier, as he was walking
through Alppipuisto Park to
meet his friends.
As he caught up with
his friends, the boy lunged
at him from the side, fists
flailing.
?At first, I thought that
had I done something,. They all
appeared to be of immigrant
origin. tells Lotta.
Growing inequality
The crime spree can only
be attributed to one factor:
growing inequality, argues
Mikko Salasuo, a senior researcher at the Finnish Youth
Research Society. and to
make sure that the youngsters have access to free
and affordable hobbies. Supporting their families is also
significant.?
Socio-political problems
Tommi Laitio, the director
of the Youth Department of
Helsinki, similarly estimates
that the gang violence stems
principally from socio-political issues.
?I can only approach the
issue from the viewpoint of
individual youngsters, and
I can say that the lack of
meaningful activities and direction in life account for the
majority of social problems
among youngsters,. ?The
offences under consideration
include assaults, robberies
and thefts, assaults being the
most common,. H S
a L E K S I T E I va IN E N . He ran
out of the park and called the
police.
up to 70 attacks
The assault against Nikke is
part of a crime spree that began earlier this autumn during which a teen gang has
assaulted and robbed up to
70 children and young people in the capital region, confirms Tuomo Lotta, a chief
inspector at the Helsinki Police Department.
Some members of the
gang, Lotta reveals, are classmates, some friends of a friend
and others online acquaintances. Hautaviita puts forth.
Pauli Huotari, whose
work revolves around human rights issues in the Middle East, states that ?the so
called international coalition
against IS consists of Turkey, which has a long history of oppressing the Kurds,
and Saudi-Arabia, which opposes the mere principles of
democracy, equality and human rights.?
The hunger strike elicited broad support
H T
The heads of student housing foundations have reservations about the new building
policies because they lead to
higher building costs, which
are reflected in rents.
?Students end up footing the bill,. The respondents gave short waiting times
as the second most important
factor in favour of Estonia.
Around 20 per cent of the
participants had prior experience of using health services abroad and around six
per cent of Finns have used
health services in Estonia.
While most Finns resort
to medical treatment abroad
only if they become ill during
a trip, 15 per cent of respondents had travelled abroad
planning to use health services, revealed the survey.
?Estonia is so close, particularly for people living in
the southern Finland, that it?s
easy to pop over for a medical
check-up. More
than 80 per cent were also
happy to recommend the services to others.
?Finns may have some
prejudices about Estonian health services or be uncertain about local doctors?
language skills, but these
disappear when people try
out the services,. I doubt students would
be against that,. The Ministry of the Environment is responsible for
the regulations.
Needs not neglected
With Hoas having accessible housing available in 12 locations, the student housing
foundations are not neglecting
the needs of disabled students.
One of the buildings also
has around-the-clock assistance for disabled students,
organised by disability organisation the Vamlas Foundation.
The Central Finland Student Housing Foundation
(Koas) has been granted
an exemption from the requirements of the new regulations after students
complained about the size of
the bathrooms.
According to Matti Tanskanen, the managing director of Koas, students ?had
announced that they did not
want to pay over the odds.?
Two of the foundation?s
blocks of flats located in the
city centre only have accessible flats on the ground floor,
a test run that was also supported by the Council on
Disability.
Tanskanen says that not
having to comply with the
accessibility regulations allowed a more spacious design
for the living space.
?Building ordinary room
space is cheaper than building bathroom areas where
damp-proofing is required.
Tenants have been happy
with the design.?
Tanskanen also slams
the stringent requirements
for air ventilation systems,
which do not distinguish between small student flats
and big family houses.
?Tenants complain that
the flats are too draughty,?
says Tanskanen.
Parking required
Under the specifications, all
the blocks of flats must also
have parking spaces in connection with them, which
has attracted criticism from
both housing foundation
heads and tenants. 39.3%
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Who:
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From:
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Famous for:
Member of NCP, Vice
President at the European
Commission
Katainen is a Finnish politician and was Prime Minister of Finland from 2011 to June 2014. Most students can?t afford to have a car,. Altogether, 1,120 volunteers from all
over Finland participated in
the survey.. 4
DOMESTIC
16 . says Juvonen.
The student house located
on Arielinkatu has 140 studio flats, one-bedroom flats
and flatshares, which have
all been designed in line with
the regulations on accessibility applying to all new-build
flats. It is a
younger team than the former Commission, with the average
age at 49. says Tuula
Vartiainen, the managing director of the Kuopio Student
Housing Company (Kuopas).
Matti Tarhio, the managing director of Hoas, notes
that in a 25-square-metre
flat, the regulation-sized
bathroom may take up five or
six square metres.
He estimates that building costs would drop by up
to seven per cent if smaller
bathrooms were allowed.
?Of course this would also mean lower rents for tenants. Only 12 per cent
of the respondents who had
used health services abroad
had claimed compensation
from Kela.
The online survey was
conducted by Success Clinic for Medicine Estonia in
September 2014. Women make up 33 per cent of the Commission.
Katainen has been announced as the Vice President of
Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness. says Matti
Tanskanen.
Estonia and use also other services while over here,. he says.
A dentist assisted by a dental nurse treats a patient at a clinic in
Tallinn.
thetic operations were also
among services Finns would
consider using. Rehabilitation and aesM a r Ko M u M M
M aR ja SaL MEL a . explains
Tiina Mikk, a development
manager at Mikk Medicine Estonia medical centre.
In particular, the respondents who had already
tried out services provided
by Estonian medical centres
were prepared to go back for
further appointments. H T
a THIRD OF Finns are prepared to use health services
in Estonia either in connection with other travel or as
the sole purpose of the trip,
reveals a new survey commissioned by Estonian health
service provider Medicine
Estonia.
Finnish medical tourists
to Estonia were most likely
to have dental work done or
use services related to diagnostics and laboratory tests,
surgery and eye conditions,
health checks and orthopaedics. says
Timo Lehto, the managing director of the Tampere Student
Housing Foundation (Toas).
Regulations on parking
spaces come under the remit
of local authorities, which
decide on them in connection
with planning decisions.
In Jyväskylä, the plans for
the first student flats without parking spaces to be built
at the campus have been approved by the local planning
department.
?Students don?t need cars
because they walk or cycle. explains Pihla Laakso, who has noticed
the situation when walking
through the parking lot to
her storage room.
Hoas says that six of the
spaces are still up for lease.
In Helsinki, the cost of
building parking spaces in
a parking lot amounts to
around 30,000-40,000 euros
per space.
In other university towns,
there has been even less demand for parking spaces.
?We haven?t been able to
let a quarter of them, which
increases the rents,. 60.7%
No . H S
NIIN a W O O L L E Y . The aim of
his project is to boost jobs, growth, and investment with the
help of a select group of commissioners.
Katainen has the task of coordinating, presenting and implementing a package of jobs, growth and investment, which endeavours to mobilise 300 billion euro in additional public and
private investment in the economy over the next three years.
enough space for a wheelchair to manoeuvre in.
?It?s handy if we get a visitor who?s been in an accident,. When people need
to have their eyes checked or
want to have a health check
they book a time for a place in
the block of flats located in
the vicinity of the Kalasatama metro station, there are
34 parking spaces.
?There are usually only a
handful of cars parked in the
parking lot,. Six vice presidents have
been appointed, and will lead those projects. HS
NIIN a W O O L L E Y . says Mikk.
New directive
The EU directive that came
into effect in 2014 gives
consumers the right to use
health services in other EU
countries and claim compensation from their national
health institution.
According to the survey, Finns are generally not
aware of the new directive,
with only 39 per cent of the
respondents saying they had
heard of it. 22 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
M arKuS Sal MEl a
New b uilding s pecifications i ncrease rents:
Students criticise oversized bathrooms
Pihla Laakso (at the front), Essi Juvonen and their dog Alex have a student flat with wide doors in
compliance with building specifications.
regulations on accessibility and compulsory parking spaces
increase building costs and rents.
HEaRING that they had secured a 46.5-square-metre student flat through
the Foundation for Student
Housing in the Helsinki Region (Hoas) was a dream
come true for Essi Juvonen,
22, and Pihla Laakso, 21.
When the two students
from HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences
walked through the door of
the flatshare in a new block
of flats in Kalasatama in Helsinki, they were instantly
struck by how spacious the
apartment was.
The doors were wide and
the sizeable bathroom had
Question of the week
Timo Soini believes that Finland must participate in the fight
against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), although not
in a military capacity.
Do you agree?
Yes . Estonia is usually chosen as a destination
for medical treatment because it is considered good
value for money. Up to 66 per
cent of all respondents agreed
with this view, while the figure jumped to 87 per cent
among participants who had
already travelled to Estonia
for treatment. Even in
Good quality for good
price attracts Finnish
medical tourists to Estonia
Thanks to short waiting times and good value
for money offered by local health service providers, a growing number of Finns are finding
Estonia as a medical tourism destination.
PauL IIN a GRö NH O L M . He was recently appointed a commissioner in the
Juncker Commission.
The new Juncker Commission, due to take office in November, is organised around project teams. He is member of the National Coalition Party (NCP), and was their chairman from 2004
to 2014. The aim of the new
organisation is to improve policy coherence and efficiency.
In addition to Katainen, the Juncker Commission includes
four former prime ministers, and 19 former ministers
The National Board of Education (OPH)
is currently mulling over
whether or not to suspend
the man from his responsibilities. 20 per cent of the population of Salo and 16 per cent
of the population of Helsinki fall into the age group,. In addition,
young people from Espoo
like to go to Helsinki for the
weekend and during the
summer,. Statistics don?t necessarily reflect the development terribly accurately,
as stepping up supervision
usually yields an increase
in offences,. According to state prosecutor Juha-Mikko Hämäläinen,
phone surveillance has produced evidence confirming
that the money has been used
by al-Shabab militants to acquire food, shoes and weapons.
In addition, Hämäläinen estimated that although
the sums sent to Somalia are
small, solving offences such
as this is of utmost importance to Finland.
The defendants have admitted to sending money to
Somalia but rejected allegations that the money was
used for acts of terror.
The trial began at the District Court of Helsinki on 7
October with a preparatory hearing, and will continue with the main hearings in
mid-November. The fourth suspect in the case was detained
in his absence a day earlier.
The officer in charge of the
investigation, Mika Ihaksinen
of the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP), revealed on
Friday that three of the men
are believed to have fought for
an organisation classified as a
terrorist faction abroad.
?We suspect that people
were killed or harmed in the
battles,. hs
THE DISTRICT Court of Helsinki has detained three men
on suspicion of offences committed with terrorist intent.
A man born in 1984, who
since last autumn has taught
Islam in a couple of primary
schools in Helsinki, was last
Friday detained on suspicion
of murder committed with
terrorist intent and training
for the commission of a terrorist offence. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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L E h T I K U VA / s A m I h A L I n E n
Helsinki the
most violent city
for young people
Yet young people
and young adults
feel safer in helsinki,
surveys indicate.
L a SSE KERKEL ä . ?It?s relatively
wide especially because proportionally fewer young people live in Helsinki than in
Salo. personnel
manager Tarja Malmivirta
said.
In addition, the District
Court of Helsinki detained a
man born in 1980 for probable cause of recruitment for
the commission of a terrorist
offence, and a man born in
1984 on suspicion of preparation of an offence to be committed with terrorist intent.
Both of them are also suspected of murder committed
with terrorist intent, but the
court ruled that there was no
grounds to detain them on
that charge. hs
committed by
young people are proportionally more common in Helsinki than in other major Finnish
cities, finds a statistical review carried out by Kimmo
Haapakangas, a senior statistician at Statistics Finland.
In addition, the review indicates that violence in young
people is relatively common
in Vaasa, Turku and Vantaa,
and relatively uncommon in
Salo and Espoo.
At the request of Helsingin Sanomat, Haapakangas looked at reports of petty
assaults, assaults and aggravated assaults filed with the
police in 2006-2013 to determine which of the 20 largest
Finnish cities has the highest
and which the lowest assault
rate in young people.
In Helsinki, young people
commit an average of 5.4 assaults a year per one thousand
residents, but in Salo they only
commit 1.6 assaults a year.
The difference is statistically significant, Haapakangas estimates. he said.
hs / K ALLE K ALLIO
Three men detained on suspicion of terrorist offences
the detention hearing was held behind closed doors at the pasila
police Station on 10 october.. Last
year, fewer than 3,000 assaults committed by young
people were brought to the
attention of the police, for
the first time in eight years.
?Only a fraction of violent crime is reported to the
police. says
detective chief inspector Eero Välimäki.
Similarly to Laitio, he
points out that some of the assaults taking place in Vaasa
are committed by people from
the surrounding localities.
Espoo, in turn, stands out
favourably from its neighbours Helsinki and Vantaa. Moreover, the number
of assault reports filed with
the police has decreased over
the past two years.
?It?s now vital to put an end
to the current assault trend
as soon as possible,. Inspector Jyrki Kallio estimates
that a key reason behind the
relatively low prevalence of
violence in young people is the
rather dispersed urban structure of Espoo.
?We have certain centres
under control. he says.
Nationwide, the number
of assaults committed by
young people has decreased
rather than increased over
the past couple of years. ?First, we?ll naturally hear the man,. For
example, the man had looked
up the cost of the trip, considered a variety of routes, looked
into visa requirements and
discussed the plan with several people over the phone.
The defendant has rejected
the charges, arguing that he
has not seen his older brother for years and could not have
recruited the brother while in
Finland. ?A lot of young people
with nothing meaningful to
do, no study place or job, also live in Helsinki. he
says. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
16 . Anything can happen there,. he
points out.
To an extent, however, the
prevalence of violence in Helsinki can be attributed to the
fact that the city is a popular
place to party and hang out
for young people from other parts of Southern Finland,
reminds Tommi Laitio, the
director of youth affairs at
the City of Helsinki.
?It can be expected that
when young people who don?t
know each other gather here,
anything can happen,. The prosecution is expected to demand
suspended prison terms for
the defendants.
engaging in currency trading,
operated under various trade
names for three years until March 2008, promising its
members a return on investment of up to 400 per cent.
The founder of the club,
Hannu Kailajärvi, has been
sentenced to five years. h s
THE SuPREME Court of Finland
(KKO) has ruled that any profits obtained in connection to
the pyramid scheme WinCapita are criminal profits and
shall be subject to a forfeiture
order, thus overturning an
earlier ruling by the Eastern
Finland Court of Appeal.
The ruling applies not only
to the offender but also to all
beneficiaries of the offence,
regardless of whether or not
they knew the offender or
were aware of the illegal nature of the operations.
WinCapita, the court determined, had no other revenue streams apart from the
membership fees it collected from its new members for
distribution among its more
senior members. He
was eventually brought into
custody in the latter half of
2011, roughly six months after
the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) had joined the
investigation.
The indictment alleges
that the man recruited his
older brother to al-Shabab
in 2010, and conspired to
transport the 15 and 17-yearold children of the brother
against their will to a terrorist training camp in Somalia.
Although the plan was ultimately scrapped for financial
reasons, it had been developed
to a stage where there was a
genuine threat it could be carried out, the prosecutor highlights in the indictment. ?This is a geographically compressed locality
where everyone gathers in
the same place to party. reminds Venla
Salmi, a research analyst at
the National Research Institute of Legal Policy.
According to state prosecutor Juha-Mikko Hämäläinen (centre), phone surveillance has produced evidence confirming that ?3,000
collected by the three defendants has been used by al-Shabab militants to acquire food, shoes and weapons.
Supo was already on to
main terror suspect in 2009
Three men are suspected of financing
al-shabab in the first
ever terrorism trial in
Finland.
L a SSE KERKEL ä . hs
THE FIRST ever terrorism trial in Finland commenced at
the District Court of Helsinki
on 7 October, with three men
standing accused of financially supporting al-Shabab,
a terrorist faction based in
Somalia, and one of them also of preparing and recruiting for a terrorist offence.
The defendants have denied all criminal accusations.
Pre-trial documents made
public on 7 October indicate
that this main suspect, a man
born in 1977, was already under the surveillance of the
Finnish Security Intelligence
Service (Supo) in 2009. The ruling
directly affects five investors, who had been ordered
by the District Court of Pohjois-Karjala to forfeit profits
but won their appeal with a
second instance of court.
WinCapita, which marketed itself as an investment club
ror. In addition,
Kailajärvi has been ordered to
forfeit roughly 6 million euros
in criminal profits, of which
roughly 4.4 million has been
successfully recovered.
One of the men was
detained on suspicion
of murder committed
with terrorist intent.
MINN a Pa SSI, M a R ja S a L OM a a . imprisonment for aggravated fraud
and money collection offence
for deceiving thousands of people into investing in the fraudulent scheme. states
Laitio.
Violence in young people
is second most common in
Vaasa. WhenevaSSauLTS
er the economic situation is
weak, you may resort to illegal measures.?
Despite the recent assault
and robbery spree, Helsinki
has not become a more dangerous city to live in, Laitio
emphasises.
On the contrary, surveys
indicate that young people
and young adults feel safer in
the Finnish capital than before. Instead, the phone
conversations cited by the
prosecution as evidence concern the natural desire of the
brother to reunite with his
partner and children either
in Finland or Somalia, the defence counsel explained.
The other charges under
consideration concern financing the activities of al-Shabab.
The three defendants are
believed to have collected and
sent a total of 3,000 euros to
the militant group, fully aware
of the fact that the money
would be used for acts of ter-
Investors must forfeit Win
Capita profits, Supreme Court rules
a Nu N OuS I a IN E N . The profits were, therefore, criminal
profits.
The ruling, delivered on
Friday, establishes a precedent for lower instances of
court to apply in the ongoing disputes arising from the
pyramid scheme
In addition, we
need to foster international collaboration and good relationships on a global level, and with our neighbours
in particular.
FINLaNd?S
is along the same lines in their defence policy, with the new Prime Minister Löfven?s government
announcing that Sweden is not planning to apply for
Nato membership. In the Southern Finland, the figure represents
over half of the respondents,
at 53 per cent.
The Prime Minister Alexander Stubb understands
the citizens. Furthermore, the programme clearly states that Finland will not seek to join
Nato during this government term.
of these policy statements, Prime Minister
Stubb?s comments on domestic and international platforms have raised eyebrows. Sweden?s government programme
states that military non-alignment serves Sweden?s
best interests.
SwEdEN
IN FINLaNd, the president is responsible for foreign
policy, in cooperation with the government. Sweden offers an example.
?In Sweden, the level of
self-sufficiency in pork production is approximately 40
per cent, which means that
the rest is imported from
Poland, Germany, Holland
and Denmark. This in itself is good, but the problem is
that in the debate, supporters of military non-alignment are often labelled old-fashioned and lacking in
foresight. All three options have their
supporters, who, however, agree that now is not the
right time to join a military alliance while a conflict is
underway.
long-term foreign and security policy is
based on military non-alliance and independent defence, with national service at its heart. Finland?s membership in Nato would indicate that the
country has chosen its camp in respect of its security policy. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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l e H t i K u vA / M A r K K u u l A n d e r
Lasse Hautala is a Member of Parliament for the Centre Party from
Kauhava. In the 29 September issue
of the German paper Der Spiegel, he said that Finland
should have joined Nato back in 1995. He is also a member of the Agriculture and Forestry Committee and the Administration Committee.
Nato ?
To join or not to join?
THE UKRaINIaN crisis
has added fuel to the fire in the
debate on Finland?s defence policy. concern.
?I understand why people
might feel worried. reasons
veterinarian Leena Suojala
from MTK (The Central Union
of Agricultural Producers and
Forest Owners).
As an example, Suojala
highlights the national quality scheme for pork, which
was accepted by Evira in
2013.
?Pork had to be dismissed
from the welfare criteria as
the national legislation had
been made so strict that it
could not be admitted in to
the quality scheme.?
According to Suojala,
the tools related to national quality schemes have to
be voluntary, but must surpass legislated minimum
requirements.
?If the minimum level of
legislation is tightened, voluntary duties are cut to a
minimum, and thus we cannot make use of the quality
scheme when competing in
European markets.?
In other words, Finland
can utilise ecological and
Those most concerned are
living in Lapland, where as
much as 30 per cent are very
concerned and 41 per cent
quite concerned. It turned out to be
a conclusion reached by ministry officials under their
own steam, but it raises the question of how it is possible for such announcements to be made without the
minister being in the know, and against the guidelines
set forth in the government programme.
Stubb reassures that Finland is not currently the object of direct threats from extremists.
MTV 12 October. The worst consequence
of a strict law is not being
able to afford domestic production anymore. Defence Minister Carl Haglund?s statements on Nato have also been
strongly in favour of membership. PIPSA PARKKINEN
MTK dismisses the practicality
of the objectives presented by
the animal welfare association
as "extremely dangerous"
SEy (Alliance of Animal Welfare Associations) recently
presented their cattle welfare related objectives to be
considered for the new animal welfare law.
?The objectives are all
worthy in themselves but it
would be extremely dangerous to set them as a minimum
requirement in animal welfare law as they cannot then
be used in voluntary quality
schemes, for example in procurement tendering,. Stubb reassures.
Differing opinions between
age groups are notable: those
between the ages of 18-24 are
not very concerned over the
operations of extremist movements, with 60 per cent saying
they are just a little worried
and 5 per cent not worried at
all. Three main themes
have become evident in the discussion: the current
policy of military non-alliance, Nordic cooperation
and Nato membership. The older the respondents,
the more worried they are
about radical movements.
The study was carried out
by Think If Laboratories Oy
for MTV News in the beginning of October. Of the respondents, 58
per cent are worried over operations of extremist movements, of whom 19 per cent
are very worried. There are
no notable differences between women?s and men?s
views.
ILTALEHTI 11 October. and never more so than when speaking in the international arena - represent the official Finnish policy,
which currently does not involve any plans to join Nato.
The wisdom of blurring the picture on Finland?s foreign
and security policy in the current international situation can be questioned.
IN LIgHT
THE MINISTRy for Foreign Affairs published its report
for the future on 30 September. The Swedes
hold a halo over their heads
for having high standard
of animal welfare legislation, even though the meat
they eat comes from animals
that haven?t been treated
accordingly.?
Suojala warns:
?The most advanced law
for animal protection in Europe might sound great in
theory, but in practice it will
destroy our production.?
KESKISUOMALAINEN 12 October
Hundreds of foreigners lack bank accounts
l e H t i K u vA / v e s A M o i l A n e n
of Nato membership call for discussion
on the matter. However,
I would like to remind people
that Finland is not the object
of direct threats at the moment,. In the Oulu
region, the amount of people
concerned is 62 per cent, in
Western Finland 60 per cent
and in Eastern Finland 58 per
cent. The claim that Nato membership would clarify Finland?s situation seems unfounded to me. President Niinistö should be lauded for his defence of the
current policy of neutrality, which is also the guiding
principle mentioned in our government programme.
This programme says that ?the government will act
to strengthen Finland?s international position and ensure the continuity, predictability and consistency of
foreign and security policy.. SARI KORPELA
Extremist movements?
operations worry Finns . 6
16 . ISIS is the latest example, and the Taliban, alQaida and al-Shabaab have
made it clear in the last few
years that they?re a force to
be reckoned with. Whenever we?re dealing with extremist movements, we should be
worried. I believe that by remaining non-allied, Finland implements a policy that is just as unambiguous
and clear-cut. The loss of our neutral status would also interfere with our work in peacekeeping operations.
A non-allied country is a more credible partner in this
field than a nation flying the flag for one side.
SUppORTERS
Many key services have been relocated online, requiring bank
identification.
HUNdREdS of foreigners live
in Finland without a bank account or a bank ID, estimates
Senior Inspector Päivi Keskitalo from the Office of the
Ombudsman for Minorities.
Such problems are often
connected to identification.
Prerequisites for opening a
bank account are showing
proof of identity and to justify one?s need for opening an
account.
According to Keskitalo, living without a bank account is difficult and costly.
Bank IDs are requested at
many official services.
Preeminent Expert Mika
Linna, from the Federation
of Finnish Financial Services,
says that the situation might
complicate the lives of foreigners in Finland to quite an
extent.
?It should be questioned
whether it?s justifiable to relocate services online to this
extent. young
people hold a different view
MORE THaN 50 per cent of
Finns are concerned, with
one fifth being very concerned, over operations of
extremist movements in Finland, finds a study by MTV.
Those most concerned are
over 55 years old.
MTV News studied people?s opinions concerning
the matter in the beginning
of the month, when KRP (the
National Bureau of Investigation) arrested three suspects
for participating in the operation of an armed group in
Syria. Over 1500
people participated in the
survey.
ethical production and add
competitiveness only if the
requirements remain voluntary. They?re beginning to realise that everybody has to be
able to use the bank IDs but not
everybody is granted them.?. It included a statement that Finland joining Nato would help clarify the
country?s position, an announcement that took Foreign Minister Tuomioja by surprise. Ministers always
and ?Viskigate. Its econo-
my has lagged behind peers,
with gross domestic product
per capita shrinking by about
0.26 per cent, ?well below?
the norm for comparable
economies, the rating firm
said. trending on Twitter.
be considered as a promotion
of a strong spirit.
?This was about the
event?s marketing name,
which had advertised strong
spirits,. from the title should be sufficient. from their
posts in an effort to remove
it from search results.
This move has since been
described as unnecessary
by the state regulators, who
now say that removing the
word ?whisky. Finnish officials say??
the West are unable to maintain a constructive dialogue,
Finland?s President is warning.
In an interview with The
Globe and Mail, Sauli Niinisto said his country, which
costs, based on Eurostat data, have risen above those of
the euro zone.
S&P further warned the
country?s aging population,
shrinking workforce and loss
of global market share in the
key information technology
sector will pose further challenges in its recovery...?
shares a 1,300-kilometre
border with Russia, is fully
supportive of European Union sanctions and was quick
to condemn the annexation
of Crimea.
But he added that Russia
and the West should both keep
talking to prevent current tensions from growing worse??
Now in Heureka!
GOING UNDERGROUND
Interactive exhibition on geology, mines
and underground construction
WWW.HEUREKA.FI/EN. The photo was taken in 2011 when it similarly
downgraded France?s rating.
real output remains about 6
per cent below its 2008 level.
Further, the rating firm said,
Finnish exports have underperformed world trade since
2008, an indicator of lower
competitiveness...
...Despite weak economic
performance, the rating firm
noted, the country?s labour
The GloBe anD Mail 12 october
Finland urges mending of
relations between Russia and West
?THE CRISIS in Ukraine could
lead to a resurgence of Cold
War-style policies if Russia and
the past five or so years,
with low rent luring artists,
young people and the gay
community, and resulting in
the opening of hip bars and
restaurants.
As a result, Hakaniemi Market Hall has become
more fashionable too.
This is where locals buy
groceries and where the
odd tourist may stumble
upon lunch, after crossing
Pitkasilta bridge. they said.
India is one of the centres
which hosts one of the five
global centres of innova-
L E H T I K U VA / E R I C P I E R M O N T
The Wall STreeT Journal 10 october. said the agency?s senior inspector Jarmo Oresmaa.
The event?s license is dependent on the fair?s website not showing up in search
engine results for the word
?whisky. trending
on Twitter...?
STuff.co.nz 13 october
Finland a joy for foodies
?THE FINNS are known for
their steady diet of fish,
thanks to the nearly 200,000
lakes across the Nordic country. in the titling or promotion of the event.
This meant that the beer
and whisky event was, perversely, not allowed to be
named or described as a beer
and whisky event.
Due to strict alcohol advertising laws in the country,
the State Regional Administration Agency (Avi) deemed
the use of the word ?whisky?
in the event?s marketing to
a beer and whisky expo has
been ordered to refrain from using the word ?whisky. in Finnish.
Organiser Mikki Nyman,
having consulted with Valvira, the National Authority for
Health and Welfare, initially
took the decision to ask private bloggers and social media users who were writing
about the event to remove
the word ?whisky. But there is much more
to Finland?s cuisine than
smoked herring and saltcrusted pike.
There is the fantastically named Arctic cloudberry
and the popular lingonberry,
along with strawberries so
red and sweet they put our often tasteless supply to shame.
To learn more about the
Finnish diet, I join Helsinki
tour guide Ulla-Maija Rouhiainen, who shows me around
the harbour city?s markets.
We begin in the district
traditionally home to Helsinki?s working class, at the
100-year-old
Hakaniemi
Market Hall (Hakaniemen
Kauppahalli) in Kallio.
The area (?across the
bridge,. If you?re
staying in Helsinki for a week
or more and have accommodation with a kitchen, this
is where you should come to
stock your pantry??
tion run by Finland known as
FinNode.
The main focus areas
of FinNode India are clean
tech, education and learning,
health care and wellbeing,
and innovations to base-ofthe-pyramid markets
A number of agreements
covering education, energy,
fishing and other sectors, both
on government-to-government, business-to-business
as well as institution-to-institution are expected to be
signed during Mukherjee?s
three-day state visit beginning tomorrow.
?The prospects for the already active Indo-Finnish
cooperation on science and
technology look promising
,with increasingly diverse opportunities opening not only
for the authorities but also for
research organisations, technology companies and sponsors,. ?viski. . 22 OCTOBER 2014
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The DrinkS BuSineSS 13 october
Finland
bans the
word
?whisky?
L E H T IK U VA / T I M O J A A KO N A H O
?THE ORgANISER of a beer
and whisky expo scheduled to take place later this
month had been ordered to
refrain from using the word
?whisky. a boost
the new government
keen on making the country
a global manufacturing hub,
India is seeking to engage
with Finland, known for its
knowledge-based economy
and clean technology, official
sources said on 13 October,
ahead of President Pranab
Mukherjee?s visit to this key
Nordic nation.
?India views Finland as
an important member of
the European Union and a
repository of modern technology, and Finland sees
in India a large market for
its products and a favoura-
?WITH
ble investment destination
for its high technology industries,. to
?Beer expo?.
However, even after the
name change, inspector Oresmaa said he had received complaints from members of the
public about the event?s website, as it still controversially contained references to
whisky.
The story has now become national headline news
in the country, with a backlash on social media and ?viski. And the country?s budget deficit in 2015 is expected
to violate the European Union?s budget rules, Martti
Hetemaki, permanent secretary of Finland?s Ministry of
Finance, said in August.
On 10 October, S&P also
warned of Finland?s vulnerability to Russia, which accounts for about one-tenth of
total exports, or about 4 per
cent of country?s GDP. Ulla says) has become a trendy enclave over
The econoMic TiMeS 13 october
India eyes Finland for
tech cooperation to give
?Make in India. Maria arMenTal
S&P cuts
Finland?s credit
rating one notch
to AA-plus
?STANDARD & POOR?S Ratings Services cut Finland?s
triple-A rating one notch to
AA-plus, citing the Nordic
country?s continuing economic problems.
The outlook is stable,
however, S&P said.
The rating firm had earlier indicated a possible rating
downgrade, warning in April
that it could strip the triple-A rating within the next
two years unless ?clear signs
emerge that Finland?s negative economic and fiscal debt
trends are being reversed.?
The nation, which once
enjoyed robust economic
growth, has been struggling
to recover from the 2008 financial crisis. they said on the
eve of Mukherjee?s visit to
Finland, the first by an Indian president in 26 years.
?In Finland we also have a
reliable trade partner, heavily industrialised in a very
green way.
We have 1.5 billion dollars
of trade and there are over
100 Finnish companies in India which are working here,
including in R&D,. and
?Viskigate. It said
it expects Finland to post
its third consecutive year of
negative real GDP growth, as
Standard & Poor has decided to downgrade Finland?s credit rating this year. In
the agency?s view, the name
must simply be changed from
?Beer and whisky expo. in promoting the event, causing backlash
on social media, with ?viski. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
16
Commercial
banks took a 372 million euro
hit due to exchange rate losses. reported good profits.
Yet there are some signs
of distress. Cord (david@helsinkitimes.fi) is a writer, journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. 22 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
L E H T I K u vA / K I M M o M Ä N T Y L Ä
David J. In a nutshell, they say
it will increase corporate power and make it more difficult for governments to
The simple fact
regulate markets for the
public good.
is that free trade
PROTESTORS
with North America will do us more
good than harm.
THE FINNISH government
is firmly in favour of the
deal. Since 4
September, the Helsinki index is down 8 per cent, and
this will likely negatively impact earnings.
Banks
Domestic banks also had a
good spring, despite the sputtering economy. The euro area?s problem loan ratio is 8.2
per cent, but Finland?s is only
1.9 per cent.
Dissatisfied customers
Finnish customers are unimpressed with the health and
profitability of the Finnish
financial sector. Both Handelsbanken and POP Pankki
scored over 81 in satisfaction,
while the average was 74.7.
L E H T I K u vA / A N T T I A I M o - Ko I v I S T o
Protestors against free
trade have it wrong
STOP TTIP may talk about Philip Morris suing Austral-
ia about tobacco advertising, but they don?t mention
that Finland?s 67 ISDS agreements have caused us no
problems. The
simple fact is that free trade with North America will
do us more good than harm.
Cosy hotel in the heart of Helsinki
Annankatu 1, 00120 Helsinki
tel. and ?I advocate Free Trade?.?
I HAVE some sympathies for the protestors, because
it is obvious our current system is leaving millions of
people behind. Europe?s Bank
Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) is designed
to improve the stability of
the financial sector, but will
increase potential costs to
banks.
?Previously, the negative
outlook captured the challenges the system faced from
operating environment pressure points and asset-quality erosion,. Between
mid-April and late June the
OMX Helsinki index climbed
Moody?s
Despite the good results this
spring, the credit ratings
agency Moody?s is bearish
on Finnish banks. They suspect health and safety standards will
be lowered and regulations on some business practices
. It is nothing unusual
for the far right and far left to oppose free trade (although for different reasons), but this movement has
a list of grievances instead of vague philosophical
worries.
under the Stop TTIP banner are upset
that the negotiations are conducted in secret. They believe the slow
economic recovery will support asset quality. They
have problems with the investor-state dispute settlement procedures (ISDS), which gives private companies the right to sue governments via international
panels. They talk about how our environment will
be harmed, but they don?t mention that peer-reviewed
studies find that the supposed negative impact on the
environment from free trade is negligible. All
types of Finnish banking institutions . Personally, I would rather see a free trade
agreement between the EU and Africa, but that doesn?t
mean one with North America wouldn?t benefit us. +358-9-616 621, info@hotelanna.fi
www.hotelanna.fi
Surveys show Danske and Nordea customers are the most happy
with their banks.. such as fracking and the use of genetically modified
organisms . C O R D
HEL SINK I TIMES
FINNISH investment firms
had the best spring in recent
memory. Moreover,
part of banks. An annual
survey has found that Finns
are now more dissatisfied
with banks than at any point
in the last eleven years.
The annual ESPI Rating
reveals that Finns. The
arguments from the Stop TTIP organisers are of an anecdotal nature, unsubstantiated, or just plain wrong.
The financial sector saw a profitable spring, but new regulations have caused concern.
Finance industry weathers
recession, but problems loom
securities received by cooperative banks,. will be discarded. Statistics
Finland explained.
Finnish banks and investment firms have increased profits, but Moody?s warn of potential
problems and customers are far from happy.
DAV I D J . He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
THIS past weekend, thousands of people across Europe
protested against the proposed free trade agreements
between the EU and the United States and the EU and
Canada. says
ESPI Finland?s Mats Nybondas in a release.
Customers of Danske and
Nordea are least happy with
their banks, but some Finns
are quite satisfied. satisfaction with their banks has
fallen for four straight years.
A main concern is the massive decline in customer service in the industry.
?We see that the image of
customer service has deteriorated throughout the industry, which is worrying,. The value of their investments jumped over 42
million euros and they even
gained several hundred thousand from changes in foreign
exchange rates.
The second quarter was a
relatively good time for the
Helsinki stock market, which
helped earnings. Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has argued
fervently for the agreement and attempted to meet objections point by point.
He points out that public services are exempt from
the deal, Finland already has 67 other treaties with ISDS procedures, and that free trade secures economic
growth and provides jobs.
STUBB is right. said Moody?s
Jan Skogberg in a release.
?But, despite some cyclical
improvements in Finland?s
economy that have alleviated
some of our earlier concerns
for creditworthiness in this
system, the forthcoming implementation of BRRD is the
key consideration in our decision to maintain the negative
system outlook.?
Moody?s still had some
good things to say about the
Finnish financial system,
almost 10 per cent. More recently, there has been a global selloff of equities which
has also impacted the Finnish stock market. Net income from financial
operations in the industry
was 603 million euros, a drop
of 5 per cent from the same
period in 2013. Interest income increased slightly to 1.4
billion euros, commission income was up 1 per cent to 431
million euros, and total operating profit jumped 60 per
cent to over 1 billion euros. Yet a return to 1930s-era protectionism
is no answer. 8
BUSINESS
16 . wrote Statistics Finland
in a press release.
During the first half of
2014 Finnish investment
firms enjoyed a 133 million
euro net operating profit.
They had gross interest income of 564 million euros
and dividends of 1.9 billion
euros. The credit
analysts are also impressed
with the low amount of bad
loans in Finland. gain in operating profit was due to one-off
events.
?The growth in operating
profit was affected by nonrecurring sales gains from
though. Yet they
are not blaming the economy or asset prices: Moody?s
instead worries about new
regulations. Several hundred participated in Helsinki.
While their aims are noble, their fears are unfounded.
THE TwO proposed
trade agreements are the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with
America and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade
Agreement (CETA) with Canada. Yet while the finance industry had increasing profits, the credit ratings
agency Moody?s says new
regulations could take a bite
out of future income.
Investment firms
?The net operating profit of
investment firms amounted
to 29 million euros in the second quarter, which is 34 per
cent more than one year earlier,. commercial banks,
coops, and saving banks . It benefits both parties
over time. Nobel Prize winner in economics Paul Krugman is the darling of the anti-austerity, anti-corporate left which is organising the protests, but even he
is generally in favour of free trade. He wrote ?If there
were an Economist?s Creed, it would surely contain the
affirmations ?I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage. They don?t
mention that economists almost universally agree that
the benefits of free trade outweigh the disadvantages, and that there is firm evidence to support this. Economists are notoriously argumentative, but there is one thing that almost all of them agree
with: free trade is a good thing
HS
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . Their task is to train and educate the user. ?a mobile conference centre. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer made an announcement this
year that it has formed a partnership with Akili labs to
test the use of a mobile video game for detecting early signs of Alzheimer. In addition, you have many other
games such as Mushy Rooms, which is a learning game
where kids raise awareness about local nature, or OutCatch, a GPS-based outdoor location game.
BUT SERIOUS gaming is not only focused on education
and learning. The father of two children reveals
that he has taken a sabbatical and is in no hurry to return to work.
?When the first version of
Climb Hill Racing was out, I
thought now is a good time to
take a break, after that push.
But that?s when the work truly started. ?It may have been that it
was suggested as a home for
my family, but I immediately
got the feeling that it must be
turned into an office.?
?It?s rather a unique
office.?
Unique indeed. In addition, it is
compatible with even the
most low-end smartphones.
Not long after its release,
so many people were playing
Hill Climb Racing that the ingame ads and purchases began to generate substantial
revenues. Whatever the case, gaming by definition has a distinct fun allure to it. If the share price stands
at eight million euros, the
amount paid to the pilots will
be 24 million euros.
The rewards would be
equivalent to 5-10 per cent
of the basic pay of pilots over
four years, according to the
airline.
CaN gaMINg be serious. and Fingerroos. ?A good climate,
good environment, good people . Although his first
project was a bundle of photography apps for smartphones, games continued to
intrigue him.
Fingerroos reveals that he
worked 16 hours a day for a
couple of months before unveiling Hill Climb Racing, a
racing game that has since
made him a millionaire.
Developing
over decades
Fingerroos had created his
first game, Rally 94, two decades earlier for his friends
to enjoy, on an old laptop of
his grandmother's. that?s how you maximise creativity.?
On sabbatical
These days, the 30-year-old
founder of Fingersoft is rarely seen at the office. ?I had
to come up with a name for
the firm because games are
made by firms, not by people. Its rudimentary rendition of a driver dangles behind the wheel
as the player navigates the
car through a simplified hilly
landscape.
It is, on the other hand,
free, easily approachable
and, most importantly, entertaining. The goal of the trial is to actually validate Akili?s game, where the player navigates a
character on a platform around a series of obstacles, as
a biomarker for potential use in Alzheimer?s trials. ?We
work on systems,. 22 OCTOBER 2014
9
Tony Fingerroos. . Actually it can, but that does
not mean it loses its fun. until now, because even gaming is getting
serious.
According to entrepreneur Toni Fingerroos, creativity flourishes when the work has a good atmosphere, a good environment and good people.
ing the mark of 5,000 daily
downloads.
In addition, the apps provided a medium for marketing Hill Climb Racing, which
soon far exceeded the expectations of its creator. The concept is based on the worldrenowned Finnish educational curriculum and parents can actually keep track of their child?s progress
through the app. Fingerroos tells.
Yet, he decided to give it
one more go, sat down in his
living room and began writing code. Direct healthcare, non-medical and indirect costs
of brain disorders cost Europe almost ?800 billion a
year. Fingersoft hired
its first employee, and the
bedroom was no longer large
enough to function as the
headquarters of the growing
company.
Home is
where the office is
Fingerroos decided to buy his
game studio, a large detached
house in Kempele, just outside
Oulu. fortunes have changed
dramatically in the
past three years.
V E S A R A N TA
Turning his business around
Indrek vainu works as a business advisor at Helsinki Business Hub.
He is a Harvard-graduate and a co-founder of two start-up companies in the fields of IT and medical technology.
JUHaNI Sa aRINEN . Hence it is natural that
the country that brought Angry Birds and Clash of
Clans to the world is also active in the field of serious
gaming.
aN ExCELLENT example of serious gaming is education-
al gaming where, for example, iPad games are used
to teach kids basic concepts in mathematics. One of
the garages has been transformed into a billiards parlour, while the others house a
massive recreational vehicle
. ?I
failed at that quite miserably,. replies
Fingerroos. Children train their characters through the game
and the better the kids solve math puzzles, the smarter
their character gets. Or maybe it is a game of Tetris from the
?80s (hey, it was loads of fun back in the day). HS
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . You have to listen
Finland to cut its stake in Finnair
JUHaNI Sa aRINEN . red
Ferrari 458.
The kitchen table appears
to support enough bottles of
premium whiskeys and other spirits to supply an Alko
store.
Also on the table are an
empty pizza box and a leaflet
titled Moderation: A Guide to
Controlling Alcohol Use.
One member of a visiting
group of business students
asks if they can have a beer.
What is a typical workday
like in such an office. a remarkable achievement for
a game the first version of
which was the result of the
endeavours of one man over
a three-month period.
The popularity of the game
guarantees that Fingerroos no
longer has to work if he does
not feel like it, for he remains
the only owner of Fingersoft,
which last year reported profits of 12.4 million euros on revenue of 15.5 million euros.
This year, the revenue will
decline moderately because
Fingersoft has concentrated
on publishing games by other
developers after the success
of Hill Climb Racing, Fingerroos says.
Ultimately, however, he is
likely to return to game developing. he describes.
He
resurrected
his
old trade name after his
other
ventures
proved
unsuccessful.
Three years ago, the market for smartphone apps
was burgeoning but had yet
to swell into the multi-billion euro industry it is today.
Competition was not as intense as it is today, and the
apps created by Fingerroos
gained popularity, especially
among Android users, reach-
gaming is getting
serious, in a good way
WHENEvER someone
mentions gaming, the first thing
that may pop into their head is an image of an oddly shaped avian species flying against the barracks of
pigs or troops of clansmen battling out for their place
under the sun. You might be wonderfully
surprised.
This article is provided by Helsinki Business Hub
www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi. It became
Fingersoft.?
Fingersoft did not develop
into a real company until ten
years later, when Fingerroos
began programming games
for Nokia mobile phones. The house
is like a fusion of the office of
a technology firm and a student share flat on hormones.
The bathtub is big enough
to fit over half of the employees of Fingersoft. Finland has strengths in neuroscience, and its research
has been also featured in the NeuroGaming Expo held
in San Francisco, where the gaming and research field
meets to discuss new solutions to problems in healthcare. H T
FINNISH Government
has committed to reducing
its stake in Finnair in the
spring of 2019 in connection
to an incentive plan thrashed
out by the airline and the
THE
Finnish Air Line Pilots. Serious games are not a game genre but rather a category
of games that aim to teach the user.
FROM the outset it can sound boring, but not until you
dig deeper and discover the wide variety of games that
are considered serious gaming. BUSINESS
HELSINKI TIMES
16 . In exchange, they
will be entitled to a cash reward
under the incentive plan provided that the preconditions
imposed on the plan are met.
If the cost cuts are materialised and the share price of
to feedback if you want to improve your game.?
Hill Climb Racing has already been installed on
roughly 200 million tablets
and smartphones . Fingerroos
recalls.
Hill Climb Racing looks
far from a hit game. It also plays an increasing role in healthcare, and neurogaming is one example of that. H T
THREE years ago, Toni Fingerroos had to face the facts:
his business ideas had been
frankly awful.
His track record included
a game studio that managed
to squander its seed capital before publishing a single
game and a company repairing and selling sports cars
imported from Japan and the
United Kingdom.
The latter venture also
drained his personal savings.
?If I remember rightly, no
one ever received their wage,
but everyone was left with
some debts to pay,. Most games in the App Store
today are built with the primary purpose of entertaining people, but serious games have another primary
purpose. No wonder game developers are turning their
heads to that market as it poses a lot of challenges and
opportunities.
SO NExT time you browse through the App Store for
new games to play, venture off the beaten path and
try a few serious games. ?Making a good
game is like doing things you
enjoy with friends.?
Facts
? In 2012, Toni Fingerroos
published a racing game
titled Hill Climb Racing.
? The game has already
been downloaded some
200 million times.
? The game studio founded and owned by Fingerroos, Fingersoft, reported profits of 12.4 million
euros on revenue of 15.5
million euros last year.
Finnair is a minimum of four
euros in 2019, the pilots will
be entitled to a cash reward
of a total of 12 million euros. ?It
suddenly reached at least a
few hundred thousand daily downloads,. Finnish
award-winning gaming company SkillPixels teaches
kids aged 4-8 with their SmartKid game to complete
preschool, 1st and 2nd grade mathematics curriculum. Association (SLL).
The Government will, regardless, remain the majority
shareholder in Finnair, with a
stake of 53.5 per cent instead
of the current 55.8 per cent.
The roughly 700 pilots employed by Finnair have agreed
to cut their wages and other
benefits by a total of 17 million
euros a year. That?s what Toni, ten
years old, thought
It is impossible to
determine from that small
sample whether the medication is even partly responsible for their ability to defeat
the Ebola virus.
Thomas Eric Duncan, a
Liberian who succumbed to
the virus on 8 September in
Dallas, was not given ZMapp
?because it was not available,. Supplies of ZMapp were exhausted by mid-August.
Duncan was given brincidofovir, an experimental
antiviral drug made by Chimerix that has killed Ebola
in test tubes. The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation is
helping with that effort.
But as the spread of the epidemic in West Africa continues to out-race conventional
methods of control, Mapp
did not reveal how much of
the drug it will be able to
produce or how quickly. said Joseph Schepers, executive director of
investor relations and corporate communications for
Chimerix.
ZMapp is produced by
Kentucky
BioProcessing, which owns the
32,000-square-foot facility.
Mapp is seeking additional
capacity at Caliber Biotherapeutics, which has a similar facility affiliated with the
Texas A&M centre.
The US government?s Biomedical Advanced Research
and Development Authority
is funding both Tekmira and
Mapp, which has a 24.9 million-dollar, 18-month con-
tract from the agency to help
it develop ZMapp as a protection against bioterrorism
attacks. M C K E N z I E ,
pHIL HARRIS . he said.
By contrast, food waste in
developing countries mainly
happens at the ?farm or pro-
TO THIS
cessing. ?A magic bullet to get
ourselves out of this isn?t going to happen.?
Seven people have been
treated with ZMapp, a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies that has shown
promise against the virus
in macaques. also are underway.
Washington Post staff
writers Abby Phillip and Joel
Achenbach contributed to this
report.
HELSINKI TIMES
A billion tonnes of
food wasted yearly
while millions
still go hungry
NApLES, ITALy
A . We
might need to rely on a safe,
effective vaccine.?
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health
began a trial involving 20
people in early September to
determine the safety of an
Ebola vaccine that was already in the development
pipeline. D. In the
United States, agencies estimate that roughly 40 percent
of the food produced is discarded in landfills, with supermarkets accounting for
much of this.
Yet, on both sides of the
Atlantic, people can be prosecuted for taking food from
dumpsters . which has led
to activists organising campaigns offering meals cooked
from thrown-away food.
Some solutions
Tesco and several other British supermarket chains have
agreed to a programme of
waste reduction, and restaurants in several countries are
also taking steps to decrease
the waste and turn it into biogas to be used for energy.
Gardner told IPS that supermarkets should be looking
at donating produce to local
organisations such as soup
kitchens, although it would be
better if they ?weren?t generating waste to begin with.?
On biogas, some speakers
said that using food or household waste for energy at the
local level could contribute
to wider environmental solutions, but the main aim
should be to decrease waste.
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10
Currently, approximately a third of food goes to waste globally.. levels, Gardner said.
?Food is lost because usually
there aren?t systems for getting it to processing facilities and then to the consumer
efficiently.?
Food losses and waste
amount to roughly 680 billion dollars in industrialised
countries, and 310 billion
dollars in developing countries, according to the SAVE
FOOD Initiative.
Saying that ?consumers in
rich countries waste almost
as much food (222 million
tonnes) as the entire net food
production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tonnes)?, the
SAVE FOOD initiative found
that ?if one-fourth of the
food currently wasted globally could be saved, it would
be enough to feed 870 million
hungry people in the world.?
In Europe, the vast quantity of food thrown out by
supermarkets has sparked
public outrage.
In Britain, an estimated 15 million tonnes of food
is wasted annually. said Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where
Duncan was treated. The patients
included physician Kent
Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol, Americans who
were infected in Liberia this
summer and recovered after treatment in the United States. said Geisbert, who was involved in the
early development of numerous drugs for the virus when
he worked for the Defence
Department and who has
conducted animal trials for
TKM-Ebola. ?You end up with
a situation where these companies weren?t set up to ramp
up [production]. As a result, experts are unclear about when
drug treatments will become
an effective weapon against
the virus, which has killed
more than 3,800 people since
March.
Thomas Geisbert, a professor at the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston who has researched
Ebola for decades, said that
even if the drug manufacturers are able to scale up
quickly, he sees no prospect
that the medications will halt
the epidemic in West Africa.
Even the vaccines that are
under development won?t be
available until 2015, at the
earliest.
?It?s not the cure-all,. 16 . he
said. The initial results
should be available later this
fall. iP s
day, we continue
to see widespread waste of
enormous quantities of food,
an urgent concern around the
world.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 1.3 billion tonnes of
food go to waste globally every year. The
same questions remain for
TKM-Ebola and brincidofovir, the other drugs that have
been given to human Ebola
victims so far. But there?s only two so
far that can protect against
Ebola in non-human primates, and they are ZMapp
and TKM-Ebola.?
Anthony Fauci, director
of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview
that even if the international community accelerates
its response, ?it?s conceivable that we will not be able
to control it if we don?t put
enough resources in. All three hope to
make their drugs more widely available, but their small
size prevents them from flipping a switch and dramatically ramping up production.
?Outside the US, we are
currently in discussions and
assessing the best way to
provide brincidofovir to have
a positive impact on public
health,. After the
11 September, 2001, attacks,
the government poured
hundreds of millions of dollars into the development of
these and other drugs. So was Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance journalist who was infected with
Ebola in Liberia and is in a
hospital in Nebraska.
And a handful of patients,
including US physician Rick
Sacra, have been given TKMEbola, which is made by the
Canadian drug company
Tekmira.
The Food and Drug Administration granted the
three drug manufacturers
permission to use the unapproved medications on humans even though their
safety and effectiveness
against Ebola has not been
proven. ?Of those, there?s probably a dozen or so that can protect mice or guinea pigs with
Ebola. You don?t
just go from that to making
10,000 doses overnight.?
He believes Tekmira and
Mapp appear to have the
most promising Ebola treatments in the pipeline.
?I?ve got shelves and
shelves full of stuff that can
inhibit the growth of the virus in cell cultures,. 22 OCTOBER 2014
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
L e h T i K U Va / a f P P h o T o / J o e R a e d L e
Makers of experimental
Ebola drugs struggle to
increase production
A possible Ebola patient is brought to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas on 8 October. Thomas Eric Duncan, the first confirmed Ebola virus patient in the US, died earlier that day.
WASHINgTON D.C.
L E N N y B E R N S T E I N , B R A Dy D E N N I S
The Wa shing Ton Pos T
THE MANufACTuRER of the
experimental Ebola drug
ZMapp said Friday it is trying to squeeze more production out of the tobacco plants
used to create the medication and develop other ways
of making the drug in an effort to boost supply.
The 32,000-square-foot
facility in Kentucky where
the monoclonal antibodies are created in specially grown tobacco plants has
put all other business on
hold since August and is devoting its entire capacity to
producing the Ebola medication, according to Mapp
Biopharmaceutical.
With the federal government?s help, the tiny San Diego company is also seeking
additional capacity at a similar facility affiliated with
the Texas A&M Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing,
one of three governmentfunded bio defence centres.
Over the longer term,
Mapp is trying to figure out
a way to use Chinese hamster ovary cells, a more traditional method of producing
antibodies, that would allow
greater production, according to a statement issued by
the company. Tekmira has a 140
million-dollar contract with
the Defence Department that
was signed in 2010. Now the demand is huge, and the companies and the government
are racing to respond.
?It takes time,. Meanwhile, 805 million people are experiencing
chronic undernourishment or
hunger, Ren Wang, Assistant
Director General of FAO?s Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department, told the 11th
International Media Forum on
the Protection of Nature.
The forum, organised
by environmental group
Greenaccord and held in
Naples on 8 to 10 October,
brought together experts,
journalists and policy makers.
Wang said that although
global food production has
tripled since 1946, and the
world has reduced the prevalence of undernourishment
over the past 20 years from
18.7 to 11.3 per cent, food security is still a crucial issue.
About one-third of current global food production
goes to waste, so expanding
current agricultural output
is not necessarily the answer.
In fact, the world produces
enough food for every individual to have about 2,800
calories each day, according
to scientists.
There is unquestionable
inequality in the world?s food
system, said Gary Gardner, a
senior fellow with the Worldwatch Institute, a research
and outreach institute that focuses on sustainable policies.
?In wealthy countries,
food waste often occurs at
the level of the retailer or
consumer,. one begun Thursday in Africa . Geisbert
said. Two other vaccine trials
. But
budget cuts and the emergence of other priorities did
not leave enough funding for
the expensive final stages of
clinical trials and for mass
production, Geisbert said.
And since all previous Ebola outbreaks were relatively small and contained, there
was no market for the drugs.
Large companies left the job
to smaller ones, such as Mapp
and Tekmira
a prompt that usually leads to people underestimating how much they drink.
But it also weeded out those
who had happened to bingedrink the week before.
Sure enough, heavy drinking affected sperm quality
only in the men who reported that it was just their normal routine.
Young Danes drink more
than any other youth in Europe, Jensen says, so the
findings are particularly
worrisome in her own country. In
many ways, it is more like a
submarine.
Packed with cutting-edge
technology, the Exosuit diving
apparatus promises to revolutionise ocean exploration.
Its oxygen system provides life support for up to
50 hours. After using it, diver
Theotokis Theodolou sang
the praises of the suit to
news agencies, saying it allowed a diver to move freely
deep in the ocean and carry out work requiring great
precision.
The suit can be fitted with
up to eight 1.6-horsepower
thrusters, which the diver
can operate with his feet.
?I could grab, pick,
squeeze and dig with my
hands for hours,. The diver?s life depends on the air hose attached to the suit working
properly.
Modern-day ocean adventurers, including explorer Jacques Coustaeu?s son
Jean-Michel, can now rely on a deep-sea diving suit
that is much safer to use. And it
is easy to image Nyutten in
the role of a latter-day Captain Nemo.
The exploration of the
worlds under the sea is just
beginning and inventions by
Nuytten, whose company has
also developed submersibles,
can contribute to the successful completion of the work.
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Five apples a day keep mental
health decline at bay.
16 . With time, these ideas
matured into the suit.
Nyutten was granted a
patent for the joints used in
the suit already in 1985 and
tests on the latest version of
the suit kicked off in 2009.
Nuytten has received
France?s prestigious Jules
Verne Award for his work on
deep-sea technology. ?Hopefully it
would reverse within three
months, because that?s how
long it takes new sperm to
mature,. surveying 1,221
Danish men during medical
L e H T iK U Va / P e K K a S a K K i
IT GOES
Sperm is affected after consuming 5-10 units of alcohol
weekly.
High fruit and
vegetable intake linked
to mental wellbeing
ticipants with high mental
wellbeing declined in parallel with fruit and vegetable
intake.
For the purposes of the
study, wellbeing was defined
not only as the condition of
feeling good and functioning
but also as optimism, happiness and self-esteem.
The findings, the researchers estimate, are an indication that a high intake of fruit
and vegetables may a factor
contributing toward the mental wellbeing of people.
JOHaNNa MITJONEN . But she
and her colleagues will have
to perform a long-term study
to know that for sure.
?We cannot answer these
questions yet. 0207 465 705
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Theodolou. This is where the
suit differs from a submarine, allowing the diver to get
up close and personal with
any object discovered.
The oxygen in the Exosuit is replenished on the basis
of the diver?s metabolic rate
and pulse and the air matches closely the air we have at
the surface.
Usually divers need to pay
very close attention to the
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mixture of gases they use
when diving at similar depths.
The pressure inside the
suit is similar to the air pressure at the surface, allowing
the diver to ascend more rapidly without concerns over
decompression sickness.
If the diver for some reason loses consciousness, a
team monitoring the dive can
control the apparatus and direct it back to the surface.
Canadian origins
The suit was developed by a
Canadian inventor and businessman, Phil Nuytten, who
joined a diving club in Vancouver at the age of 13 and
started selling diving equipment two years later. In a survey of men
between the ages of 18 and
28, researchers reported recently in the journal BMJ,
as few as five drinks a week
were found to affect sperm
quality.
In the study, men who
drank an average of five to 10
units (one beer, glass of wine
or 40 millitres of liquor is
considered a unit) of alcohol
a week had a slight decrease
in sperm concentration, total
sperm count and percentage
of healthy and normal sperm.
The effect became much
more pronounced at 25 units
a week (3.5 drinks a day), and
men who averaged 40 units a
week had a 33 per cent reduction in sperm concentration
compared with the lightest
drinkers.
The study is just a preliminary one . ?But the effect was there,
albeit smaller, with just five
units a week,. A number of treasure hunters have
since lost their lives trying to
reach the ship.
Until now, divers have only been able to explore parts
of the wreck down to the
depth of 60 metres, but this
novel diving system allows
them to go much deeper.
An ancient device, the
Antikythera
Mechanism,
designed to predict astronomical positions and eclipses, has previously been
recovered from the wreck.
Explorer Jacques Coustaeu?s son Jean-Michel recently tested the
revolutionary diving suit.
Treasure trove
The wreck can turn out to be
a veritable treasure trove of
ancient objects, which can
now be discovered with the
help of the new deep-sea apparatus. HT
DuRING his ocean adventure,
Tintin, the world-famous Belgian cartoon reporter, wears
a deep-sea diving suit that
needs to have air pumped into it continuously from the
surface. H S
NIINa WOOLLE Y . 24.5.
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20.10. Then the
researchers asked the men to
decide whether that week had
been typical. HS
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . she said. It was easier for
them to remember the specifics of the previous week?s consumption than it would have
been to estimate their overall
averages . SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Drinking
can be
hazardous
to sperm
exams required before their
compulsory military service
. Jensen
said, ?But having said that,
it?s easy to recommend that
young men drink less. The suit?s shell can
withstand an intense pressure 30 times greater than
air pressure at the surface,
allowing a diver to descend
down to 300 metres.
Developed by Canadian
Nuytco Research, the hard
metal dive suit bears a striking resemblance to the space
suits astronauts wore for the
moon landings in the late
1960s and the early 1970s.
Originally designed for maintenance work of New York?s
underground drain system,
the suit has undergone vast
amounts of development
work to become a unique atmospheric diving system.
The suit has been used by
the United States Office of
Ocean Exploration and Research and photographers
of the renowned journal National Geographic.
The
half-a-million-euro diving system has also
been employed in oil exploration in the Persian Gulf.
At the beginning of September, an archaeological team
descended to the seafloor in
the Greek archipelago in the
Aegean Sea, using the suit to
explore an ancient Roman
shipwreck.
The wreck had been discovered by divers looking for
sponges back in 1900. We
know it?s healthier for your
liver, and most other things.?
R a C H E L F E LT M a N
THe Wa SHing Ton PoS T
without saying that
drinking in excess is bad for
your health, but it might also hurt your chances of reproducing. We can?t say
that drinking less will improve sperm quality,. H T
Today reported in late September on a recent study indicating that
people who consume a minimum of five portions of fruit
and vegetables a day feel
mentally healthier than people who consume less fruit
and vegetables.
Researchers at the University of Warwick collected information on the
physical and mental wellbeing,
health-related
behaviours and socio-economic background of nearly 14,000 participants over
16-years-old.
The study found that 35.5
per cent of participants with
high mental wellbeing consumed a minimum of five
portions of fruit and vegetables a day, whereas only 6.8
per cent of them consumed
no more than one portion a
day. she said, ?so
it?s troubling.?
Jensen can?t be sure
whether this effect would
be permanent. At the
age of 18, Nuytten almost
drowned in a diving accident,
an event which led to him to
starting work on improvements to breathing apparatus. but lead author Tina Kold
Jensen says that it may paint
a more accurate picture of
male drinking and its effects
than previous studies.
Typical statistics
Jensen and her colleagues
started by asking the men to
give a detailed account, unit
by unit, of what they?d had to
drink the week before. 22 OCTOBER 2014
Exosuit allows divers
to reach new depths
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The ingenious diving
apparatus allows
divers to move and
breathe freely deep
under the sea.
T I M O Pa u K K u
H T
and how one
becomes a Finn are questions that have long preyed
on the mind of Eilina Gusatinsky, the editor-in-chief
of Spektr, a Russian-lanFINNISHNESS
guage monthly published in
Helsinki.
?How one is recognised as
a Finn,. Although she was not a
typical immigrant, her mother having emigrated to Moscow to study in 1958, she has
nevertheless experienced
feelings of not belonging.
?Several Russian Finns
fail to find their place in
Finland.?
?Naturally, there will always be people who break
Institutional racism
While the contemporary public debate on racism is restricted to the Finns Party,
slurs and attacks, Gusatinsky
also wants to call attention
to institutional racism, a pattern that may not be detected
even by people who consider
themselves very tolerant.
?Yet, they ensure that institutional racism is structured in a way that nothing
or no one can penetrate it,?
she argues.
?It?s difficult to understand all this unless you have
personally been in a situation
where you have had to contemplate your own identity
and membership in a group.?
It is vital that such questions can be discussed without
making any accusations, Gusatinsky states. 3.3%
235.65 km2 of land
3.94 km2 of fresh water
1185.12 km2 of salt water
Women: 1068
men: 1148
www.korsnas.fi
ago in Malax is an abandoned
pilot station. ?Everyone
is familiar with the term glass
ceiling in the context of women advancing their careers.
Instead of a glass ceiling, immigrants face a concrete wall.?
The 50-year-old Gusatinsky is particularly famil-
iar with the situation facing
Russian Finns, she being
among the most visible members of the community.
She moved to Finland
from her native Moscow in
1990. she elaborates. It is crucial, however, that the question is not
approached solely from the
viewpoint of such extreme outcomes, she reminds. 50
per cent of the working population have created their
own work place in a range of
industries.
Culture
The Korsnäs church is an old,
cruciform wooden structure
built in 1831 in a neo-classical style. and less for what
goes on in your country of origin,. The first people
to have made Korsnäs their
home were estimated to have
arrived in the early 1300s,
and were chiefly fishermen
and hunters.
Business
The coast municipality
boasts 300 small businesses including, but not limited
to, farmers and fur farmers.
It has a remarkable amount
of entrepreneurship . It is largely dominated by marshes and forests, and has plenty of nature
trails to discover.
Molpehällorna are a number of islets in the surrounding archipelago. However, we should be
thinking how everyone could
make it,. Both have been
converted to natural stations
which provide opportunities
for visitors to experience nature, walk along trails, hear
interesting stories, and even
stay over night.. 87.2 %
Percentage of residents
with Finnish as
mother tongue:
approx. A replica of the beacon
can be found close to the nature trail on the Molpehällorna islands. Kvarnbacken sports two windmills, the
larger . Both mills
are in working order. she estimates. It was designed by
CL Engel. The three major
islands, Bredskäret, Halsön
and Southern Björkön, also
include large walking areas
to explore.
Molpe is the most northerly village, and was formerly a fishing village. can they work at the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs?
Gusatinsky
proposes
that a particular social contract be drawn up. Over
the years, other buildings
have been added to the landscape, including a smoke sauna and a blacksmith.
An old fishing port with
both old and new boathouses crowd the harbour. What if you
drew up a list of the ways of
the country. ?Maybe they?re thinking that since
you?re convinced that I?m so
bad, I?ll be really bad,. They
will do so on their own merits. are situated in
two cottages and boast exhibitions, story nights by
firelight and craft days for
children and young people.
In the Harrström village
close to the sea is the Mill Hill
?Kvarnbacken?. ?You often hear the expression
?when in Rome?. The
High Coast and Quark were
appointed in the years 2006
and 2000 respectively. Instead, new ways to justify
why you aren?t one of us are
found constantly.?
In addition to the integration of immigrants, it would
be crucial to consider how
immigrants are accepted into society. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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HS / m aRkuS jok El a
through and make it. For example,
it would be fair to say out loud
what responsibilities dual citizens in Finland can and cannot
assume . It sits snugly between Närpes in the South
and Maalahti in the North.
The municipality is known
for its entrepreneurship,
wind turbines, and the classic Korsnäs sweater with its
THE FIRST
An old windmill in Korsnäs.
unique design and vibrant
colours.
History
Korsnäs has been independent since 1887, when it ended its affair with Narpes. They
gained attention for their
unique geological formations and De Geer moraines.
UNESCO endeavours to con-
serve heritage, and as such
chosen locations require
safeguarding and nurturing.
Another important element
is to display its uniqueness to
the public. Its high windows
allow the sun to bathe its interior in light, and it also provides excellent acoustics
and as such is often used for
concerts. ?Vladimir Putin,
Kremlin, power, Russians and
Russian Finns coalesce into a
uniform group in the minds of
people.?
Russian Finns may consequently be ?interrogated?
over the crisis in Ukraine, despite the fact that they are as
perplexed about is as others.
While some Russian Finns
do support Putin and the
policies he pursues, Finland
must ensure that it does not
promote such views, Gusatinsky stresses, viewing that
boys bullied at school for
their Russian background
may feel that Putin is exacting revenge for the trauma
they have endured.
Others disapprove of Putin and his policies but are
nevertheless disinterested in
being interrogated.
?When you make a deliberate decision to move
abroad, you are prepared to
assume greater responsibility for the affairs of that
country . ?And
whether certain groups of
people are left out.?
The questions have become part of the public debate, following reports that
people of immigrant backgrounds have left Finland
to fight for the Islamic State
(ISIS) in Iraq and Syria.
Gusatinsky observes a
certain vengeful drive in the
phenomenon, with young immigrant men conforming to
the role imposed on them by
the enveloping society. 12
PEOPLE
16 . says Gusatinsky. Its
first recorded mention took
place in 1442. Two
boathouses display old boats
and engines. reminds Gusatinsky.
Discovering Swedish-speaking municipalities: Korsnäs
ALICIA JENSEN
HEl SINk I TImES
of a new series
discovering Finland?s Swedish speaking municipalities takes a closer look at
Korsnäs. Although this has
already been a conscious policy in Canada for a few decades, the process has proven
painstaking, points out
Gusatinsky.
?It?s simply not enough to
repeat platitudes about twoway integration.?
Held accountable
Russian Finns naturally occupy a special position in
Finland.
Ordinary Russians are often asked to account for the
actions of Kremlin,. Korsnäs is a monolingual Swedish-speaking
municipality, situated on
the West coast of Finland in
the archipelago in the Ostrobothnia region, by the Gulf
of Bothnia. Fiskartorpet
can be found close by, which
displays how a fisherman?s
family lived around the late
1800s and early 1900s.
Nature
The High Coast-Quark archipelago area to which Korsnäs
belongs is a UNESCO World
Heritage List location. she says,
tongue-in-cheek.
?Today, no one can tell
what those ways are. It houses
an abandoned Coast Guard
station on the Molpehällorna, and in the Bergö archipel-
Korsnäs
Percentage of residents
with Swedish
as mother tongue:
approx. The local museum
?Hembygdsmuseet?, and the
parsonage museum ?Präst-
gårsmuseet. one of the largest
in the country . HS
A L E K S I T E I vA I N E N . built in the
1840s, and the smaller built
in the later 1800s. says Gusatinsky.
To interpret the phenomenon as a sign of structural alienation would not be to
exaggerate, she believes.
Eilina Gusatinsky is one of the most visible members of the Russian Finn community.
Immigrants face a concrete
wall, states Eilina Gusatinsky
Editor-in-chief of
Spektr shares the
Russian perspective.
JuSSI NIEMEL äINEN . That way, you
would know them,. The Korsnäs community is dedicated to maintaining each of these aspects.
Korsnäs has a lot to offer
for those seeking to experience the traditional Finnish
archipelago. The waters
in the Kvarken archipelago
are full of rocks and dangerous shallows. The seafaring
route to Vaasa started from
the Molpehällorna islands
and the first beacon was built
in the Bothnian Bay in 1668.
It was manned from 16811808
HT
alone suffer
from more health problems
than people living in multiperson households, reveals
a new report by the National
Institute of Health and Welfare (THL). Any major purchases also put more of a strain
on the finances of one-person households, who may
already be living on a shoestring budget.
Based on various indicators, ill health is more common among people living
alone. Living alone is most
common among over-75s but
also a large proportion of
people in their early 20s live
in one-person households,
while 35-44-year-olds are
PEOPLE LIvINg
Men living alone have a five-fold risk of dying from alcohol-related reasons compared with married
people, while the risk was three-fold for women living alone.
nerable to any changes in
circumstances, such as illness or unemployment, than
that of people living with a
partner. adds Rantala. The Automobile and
Road Museum, Mobilia, located about 20 kilometres
outside Tampere, is the country?s biggest car and road
museum.
The venue, which is also specialised in road
traffic history, presents exhibitions, the Rally Hall of
Fame and a showcase of old
classics. The study is the
first in Finland to compile
information on living conditions, health, lifestyle, social relationships, the quality
of life and use of social and
health services in one-person households.
People living on their own
are more likely to suffer from
health-related
problems
than the rest of the population. Everyone
will find something to get excited about!?
In fact, in addition to the
special exhibition, the car
collection and the Rally Hally
of Fame, the Mobilia Museum
offers various activities for
families with children.
In the summertime, for
instance, children aged 4 to
12 have a chance to learn how
to behave properly in traffic
at Rahtarit Traffic Park. Sadists just
want to have fun... People living
alone, and particularly single parents, were more likely
to claim income support than
people living with a partner.
The financial situation of
singletons is often more vul-
fession and employment
situation are factored in.
The leading cause of premature deaths is alcohol, with
single men having a five-fold
risk of dying from alcohol-related reasons compared with
married people, while the
risk was three-fold for women living alone. In general, there were
vast differences in the lifestyles among the groups, including smoking, which was
much more common among
unmarried people.
Internet trolls have sadistic
and narcissistic personality traits
K aT R I K a L L I O N Pä ä . HT
a NEW study has finally confirmed what many have
suspected for a long time: Internet trolls are horrible human beings.
The journal Personality
and Individual differences reported in its September issue
that internet trolls bullying
other users on online discussion boards often suffer from
personality disorders.
The study found that sadistic, psychopathic, narcissistic and Machiavellian
characteristics are exceptionally strong among Internet trolls.
An Internet troll is a person who comes into an online
discussion and posts comments with the sole purpose
of causing upset and provoking a reaction.
Trolls try to get as many
people as possible involved in
the discussion without participating themselves. Canadian researchers decided to find out.
They carried out two online surveys with more than
1,200 participants, whose
comments on their own online behaviour were analysed. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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Roarin. The researchers were
looking for signs of traits
that are part of the Dark
Tetrad of personality: sadistic, psychopathic, narcissistic and Machiavellian
characteristics.
The study found a strong
link between the Dark Tetrad
and trolling. Erik Carlsson, Paddy Hopkirk, Rauno
Aaltonen and Timo Mäkinen were the first motor sport
names to be inducted into the
Rally Hall of Fame.
Even though the showcase, coordinated in collaboration with AKK Motorsport
ry, is a Finnish project, it represents rally accomplishments by drivers around the
world.
Canadian researchers have declared Internet trolls to be
?prototypical everyday sadists?.
ed the researchers to say that
Internet trolls are ?prototypical everyday sadists?.
?Both trolls and sadists
feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . ?There
is nothing like driving a 1963
Ford Anglia to make you feel
a little nostalgic. LIFESTyLE
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16 . Children can practice traffic regulations (taught in Finnish)
both as pedestrians and pedal car drivers.
Then there is the barrack
village. They
lie, exaggerate and make insulting comments to get a response, and then sit back and
enjoy the commotion they
sparked.
Because of the word?s similarity to a troll of Scandinavian folklore, the two terms
have become confused.
Dark Tetrad and trolling
But what kind of a person
goes online purely to look for
a fight. They have a higher mortality rate and their working
ability is often lower than
that of people living with a
partner, who in general enjoy healthier lifestyles. And Internet trolls get
pleasure out of other people?s
suffering, so the best thing
you can do is ignore them.. The risk of accidental death or suicide was
also higher among people living alone.
The negative effects of
living alone were particularly
prominent in problems related to mental health and alcohol. engines! Research: People living alone
IN KaNgaSaLa there
is what
can be considered a small
paradise for all car enthusiasts. This outdoor exhibition describes mobile work
sites and barrack villages
that were an important part
of Finnish road construction
and unemployment management in the 1950s and 1960s.
Mobilia?s own barrack village
has barracks for different
purposes: apartments, offices, tool sheds, canteens and
even laboratories.
?The year 2014 marks the
beginning of Mobilia?s expansion,. In
2015, the theme exhibition
On the Move will tell the story of Finland after the Second
World War.?
The Automobile and Road Museum Mobilia is the country?s
biggest car and road museum.
More than a million
Finns live in oneperson households.
MaRKE HaRK a S . During the summer, the museum
also rents out nostalgic cars
such as a VW Beetle, Ford
Anglia and Saab 96 for a few
hours or a day.
Meanwhile, the Rally Hall
of Fame focuses on global rally stars and their vehicles.
an experience
for the whole family
?A visit to Mobilia Museum
is a fun experience for the
whole family,. The mortality rate
triples among 30-64-yearold single men and doubles
among single women compared with married people.
This is partly due to socioeconomic factors, but single
people are still more likely to
die prematurely when differences in education, pro-
the most likely to live with a
partner.
a situation of income
According to statistics for the
year before last, more than
30 per cent of one-person
households were on a low income, compared with 12 per
cent of the population in general. Poverty was
also more common among
young and middle-age men
than women. concludes Rantala. People living alone are also more
likely to figure among clients of social benefit offices,
rehabilitation services and
substance abuse treatment
centres.
Over the last few years,
the number of people living
alone has skyrocketed and
there are now more than a
million people living in oneperson households in Finland. says Rantala.
?From anyone interested in
classic cars, racing, and the
history of building roads and
the infrastructure, to families with children. HS
NIINa WOOLLE y . explains acting museum director Taina Rantala.
?Car and Caravan, open until
31 October, tells the story of
caravan and car travelling in
Finland.?
The origins of touring with automobiles dates
back to the early 20th century, when travelling around
the local countryside was
a common leisure activity among wealthy families.
Even though having a holiday on the road subsequently became popular among
all Finns, it wasn?t until the
1990s that caravans became
a means of transportation
that could often be seen at
camping sites.
automobile
and Road Museum Mobilia
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open daily 10:00-16:00
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Old classics and
the Rally Hall of Fame
?If you are looking to experience old automobiles to
the fullest, you can also rent
a classic car from the museum and take it out for a
spin,. This relationship was so strong it prompt-
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fare worse than married people
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old classics and the
Rally Hall of Fame at
Finland?s biggest car
and road museum.
Every year, successful rally drivers are inducted into
the Hall of Fame in pursuit of
the Finnish and World Championship Rally. ?We
are in the process of building
a brand new 1,000-square
metre exhibition space that
will be open next summer. As for race
car enthusiasts, they should
head to the International
Rally Hall of Fame hosted at
the Autoglym Gallery.?
In the Mobilia Classics
section, visitors have the opportunity to admire iconic
cars behind glass walls. ?Every year, Mobilia
features an exhibition with
a changing theme that profoundly describes a specific
topic,. and the Internet is their playground!?
they remarked.
The researchers advised
people encountering an online troll to bear two things in
mind: the troll may be a person with a personality disorder. Among the one-person
households on a low income,
18-34-year-olds were faring the worst
Couch stretch: Starrett
invented the couch stretch, a
favorite among CrossFitters
and a great way to increase
hip mobility. A person suffering
from the impostor syndrome
thinks that I should really be
a labourer, just like others in
our family.?
At work, however, Sami always received praise.
It was like a drug that one
needed to get more of all the
time.
?I?m sure most people
thought I did my work well.
Still, I was afraid that something shameful would be revealed about me.?
Birth of the imposter
The impostor syndrome concept was born in the late
1970s, when the clinical psychologists Pauline Clance
and Suzanne Imes wrote
about the subject in the Psychotherapy magazine.
Ollikainen, however, believes it is misleading to
talk about a syndrome. she says.
?When one doesn?t build a
bubble, one doesn?t have to
fear it will burst.
Getting rid
of the imposter
Love helps with the impostor syndrome. Coaches David Dellanave and Kelly Starrett (author of Ready to Run) offered
three exercises to improve
your biomechanics and overall mobility.
. It raised the feelings
of shame and failure to the
surface, and Sami decided to
go to therapy. The fact that
someone loves you with all
your faults. H T
SaMI?S career was on a big upswing. His stomach was sick
from nervousness. ?I know I?m good
enough for those who count.?
But can you rid yourself of
the impostor syndrome?
?Finally, the new role sinks
into the mind. To escape this feeling, the
child seeks approval through
his or her achievements. Then he got divorced. I?ve screwed up and lost
face so many times that I?ve
received mercy,. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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In reality, I am not good
The impostor syndrome presents an often agonising reality for
those who suffer from it.
A person suffering from the impostor syndrome wonders why on earth they have
been promoted as a manager or an expert.
MERvI JuuSOL a ?HS
M E R I R a N Ta M a . You?ll know pretty quickly how much tissue
restriction is in your hips,
legs and ankles. We did have feelings,
but they were in a tight pile
underneath a shell.?
Sami realised that his parents were incapable of giving
positive feedback. It is
a question of a thought pattern. Already in
school, he had started to be
afraid of mistakes and failure. The
change feels good, but the
mind does not keep up with
the speed and reminds you
of beliefs that have become
familiar: soon it will be revealed what you are really
like.
Initially, Sami did not
understand why he felt so
bad at work. Success in hobbies and later in
work may become a replacement with which the lack of
real approval is remedied.
?When one finally receives praise and respect,
it is very addictive. Ollikainen believes
you should desensitise your
own mind to withstand failures, disappointments and
bouts of low self-esteem. Work becomes
more flowing and automatic with experience. Then he or she starts getting rich. At that
time, the person may feel
that he or she must continue this play, so that he or she
won?t lose the praise,. are afraid that
they are not as competent
as other people think. One
should understand their own
developmental history
This was done by Sami,
who does not work as a manager these days.
?I was significantly helped
by the realisation that I was
constantly seeking my father?s approval through my
acts, although my father was
a working man, who was not
interested in my work.?
Three exercises that improve
runners. says special psychologist, psychotherapist Teemu
Ollikainen.
Let us, for example, think
about a person who has lived
his or her entire life in poverty. As a
Member of Parliament, I was
so young that I didn?t have
to pretend to be a know-itall. The more
Sami performed and reached
his goals, the further he felt
from his family.
?It was somehow shameful to be successful.?
Psychologist Ollikainen
recognises Sami?s thoughts.
?The same cognitive conflict is related to success
in one?s career as to losing
weight. According to Ollikainen, in the
background may lie school
bullying, weak friendships,
a feeling of being an outsider or an ostracised position
among people of one?s own
age.
If a child does not receive
enough positive feedback, he
or she may start to believe
that he or she is not as good
as the others, says Ollikainen. He was
responsible for employees
and a multimillion budget. Still, it is not a matter
of common insecurity, but
rather a distorted thought
whose roots often lie already
in childhood.
Roots of the imposter
According to Ollikainen, behind the impostor syndrome
is often the fact that parents
are incapable of giving respect to a child.
?The child does not realise that the matter concerns
the parent?s inability and incompetence. At one time,
the author and former Member of Parliament Rosa Meriläinen also suffered from it,
something she had already
experienced when she was
high school age.
?At the time, I wrote in
my diary how I was afraid
that people would notice that
I?m very common and insecure, after all. Starting out,
feel free to take mini-breaks.
. mechanics and mobility
MIKE PLuNKE T T
THe WA SHing Ton PoS T
stronger is essential to becoming a better
runner. According to a study
done in the 1980s, two out
of five successful people suffer from the impostor syndrome, i.e. Lie
down, putting your shoulders
on the bench and your feet hipdistance apart on the ground.
Breathe in, squeeze your glutes
and lift your pelvis up, pushing through the hips. Put the front leg
in a lunge position and stretch
out that hip flexor. When you get the motion
Aside from getting out and pounding the pavement, exercises off the track can help you improve
your biomechanics and overall mobility.. The child thinks
that he or she is at fault,. Kneeling in front
of the couch or a wall (and facing away from it), press your
back shin against it, toes
pointed up. The 30-something man
led his own department in a
technology company. Ollikainen says.
The impostor syndrome
has been seen as the problem of especially young, successful women. But
bad feelings festered in Sami?s
mind.
?All the time, I was afraid
that I?d be found out.?
Sami had been chosen
as the manager of the same
people whose colleague he
had been for a long time. Then, lean
back, squeeze the glutes and
get a full stretch in your hips
and quads.
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Helsinki Times. The therapist
started asking about Sami?s
childhood family.
?I understood that I was
seeking my father?s approval through performing.
When I was a child, my father
travelled for work and was
distant.
I?m not saying that my
childhood was emotionally
poor. Ollikainen says.
The cause of the impostor
syndrome, however, is not
always found at home. First you
pretend to be an expert until
you become a full-fledged expert,. Or an overweight
person, who loses thirty kilos and starts to get attention in a new kind of way. Sami felt that as manager he
should be flawless, trying to
please everyone to avoid rejection and judgement.
He suffered from the impostor syndrome.
This is when a successful
or a good-looking person is
afraid that other people will
find out that he or she is not
really intelligent, talented
or attractive. Keep the
chest and spine neutral and
the movement nice and fluid. Barbell hip thrusts: Find
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GETTING
pushed out. 10-minute squat test:
Get into a low squat position
and stay there for 10 minutes, keeping your weight
on your heels and your knees
down, add weight with a barbell for an extra challenge.
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LIFESTYLE
16 . Ollikainen says.
Time and experience help
with the impostor feeling.
Also, recognising your own
thought patterns helps to
get rid of the feeling of being
a fraud. Out
of all people, 70 per cent will
at some point in their lives
consider themselves impostors. That I?m not
an intellectual and don?t con-
stantly ponder philosophical
questions.?
Especially in politics, Meriläinen has heard many people that she admires say that
they are consumed by feelings of inadequacy.
?I was able to rid myself
of the impostor feeling already at an early stage. The impostor
syndrome is not found in the
mental disorder classifications, but it is a known phenomenon in psychology.
?In the impostor syndrome, the real me is in conflict with the experienced
me,
H S
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . As my second set
of tyres were taking a good
ten laps to switch on, Rosberg caught me and took me
by surprise with an attack in
turn 1,. On the
other hand, the games serve
as a reminder that Finland
have yet to reach a level that
would make them immune to
even the threat posed by the
diminutive Faroe Islands.
Finland may have to chase
the game wherever the qualifying campaign takes them.
Neck and neck
With Finland and Romania
both drawing their games
on Saturday, the teams were
neck and neck at four points
in Group F, ahead of their
clash at the Helsinki Olympic
Stadium on Tuesday. Bottas told.
With Rosberg holding on
to his second place, he trails
structors?
championship
with three races yet to go.
The Sochi Autodrom was
not as kind to Ferrari and
Räikkönen. H T
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match Finland vs Greece at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki on
11 October. You do have
to remember who we are up
against,. ?It?s naturally nice to be ?the best of the
rest?, but that is not enough
for a driver in the long run.
I want to be ?the best of the
best?,. H S
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . I was
able to keep up with the others but had no business trying
to overtake them. It was simply slow. Standings. A failure to earn a minimum of four points from the
two upcoming games, however, would not bode well for
the Euro 2016 dream.
Finland could not face Romania and Hungary at a more
opportune time, with Romania losing forward Ciprian
Marica to injury and with
manager Victor Piturc reportedly edging closer to a
transfer to Al-Ittihad.
Hungary, in turn, continue their qualifying campaign
under inexperienced caretaker manager Pál Dárdai
following the sacking of Attila Pintér in September.
Bottas drives during the inaugural Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi on 12 October.
Bottas yet again on the
podium alongside Mercedes duo
Third time this season for F1 driver at
inaugural Sochi race.
H E I K K I K u LTa . reminded
Hamilton.
The results of the Russian
Grand Prix also saw Mercedes secure its first con-
stint the rear tyres started to
go away and I fell far behind
Hamilton. Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas gives a thumbs up on the
podium. I was so inexperienced at the time,. Northern Ireland, in turn, sat atop the qualifying group after
snatching a surprise win
against Hungary and beating
the Faroe Islands on Saturday.
The other teams, however,
have played into the hands of
Finland by dropping points to
one another and thus ensuring that the group remains
tightly contested.
?I?m satisfied as long as
we don?t lose. The team raced
in support of their injured
member Jules Bianchi but
failed to produce the results
they surely wanted.
?The car felt good on the
track. The advantage of Hamilton is precisely the same he
was unable to protect seven
years ago, when Kimi Räikkönen claimed the drivers?
title in the two final races of
the season.
?I remember that well,
but I?m a totally different
man today. ninthplaced Räikkönen lamented.
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / Y U R I K A D O B N O V
Ta p I O K E S K I Ta L O . H T
claimed a
podium spot alongside Lewis
Hamilton and Nico Rosberg
of Mercedes already for the
third time this Formula One
season on Sunday 12 October.
Although the venue for
the Russian Grand Prix, the
Sochi Autodrom, proved a
great fit for Williams, it was
not enough to change the
fact that the Mercedes W05
can triumph at any Formula
One Grand Prix.
Bottas started his race
from the third grid but rose
quickly to second after Rosberg was forced into the pits
for flat-spotting his tyres
in a bold attempt to overtake Hamilton in turn 2. SpORT
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16 . Rosberg, as a result, fell all the
way back to 16th but began
a tremendous recovery, ultimately overtaking Bottas in
the 31st lap to clinch second
place behind his rival and
team-mate Hamilton.
?I went into the race confident that I could fight for
the win. I tried
to drive as fast as I could
because we were sure Nico
would inevitably wear out
his tyres, allowing me to reclaim the second place,. admitted Bottas.
He hung on to Rosberg in
the final laps of the Russian
Grand Prix, ready to pounce
as soon as the tyres of Rosberg began to wear out.
?After the tyres switched
on, they kept on getting better. Paatelainen commented on the upcoming game
against Romania on Saturday.
Although a draw against
perhaps the best team in
Group F would not be a disaster for Finland, it would mean
that the team could ill-afford
to drop points against Hungary. To the right is Greek player Nikos Karelis.
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L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / Y U R I K A D O B N O V
Euro 2016 dream
lives on for Finland
Finland showed resilience on Saturday by
clinching a 1-1 home draw against Greece but
need more points from their upcoming qualifying games against Romania and Hungary.
L E H T I K U VA / A N T T I A I m O - KO I V I S T O
THE QuaLIFYING campaign
for the Uefa Euro 2016 may
only be in its infancy, but Finland have a number of reasons for cautious optimism.
Manager Mixu Paatelainen
and his squad have already
demonstrated that they are
capable of challenging every
single team in their qualifying group.
Finland produced a Jekyll-and-Hyde
performance
against Greece on Saturday,
on a cool night at the Helsinki
Olympic Stadium.
In the first half, the hosts
failed to find means to penetrate the back-line of their
disciplined opposition, but
the complexion of the game
changed dramatically in the
second half as Roman Eremenko began pulling the
strings in a deeper role in
central midfield.
Although Finland excelled
at times, the 1-1 scoreline was
rather a fair reflection of the
proceedings on the pitch.
The draw against Greece
and the earlier win over the
Faroe Islands are both indicative of Finland: The fact that
the team wiped out an early deficit in both games is an
indication of the mental resilience of the squad. The start went well,
but in the middle of my first
vaLTTERI BOTTaS
Hamilton by 17 points in the
Formula One Drivers. Bottas described his
race.
With two second-place
and three third-place finishes, Bottas currently sits
fourth in the Formula One
Drivers. Standings.
Best of the best
The 25-year-old Finn is widely touted as the most gifted
driver of the pack chasing the
Mercedes duo. My traction got better towards the end, allowing me
to set the fastest lap. You need a
Mercedes engine to overtake
on a track like this,
The idea is to use up the pasta left over from the night
before, but you can also cook some fresh and toss with a goodquality jarred marinara.
Whole-grain pasta gives the dish a rustic heartiness, not to
mention fibre and nutrients, and the sauce clinging to it adds
depth of flavour and colour. Add the onion and cook,
stirring occasionally, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Such is their authenticity
that they recently collaborated with Japanese celebrity chef
Hiromitsu Nozaki when he visited Finland in August.
Hanko Sushi used the acclaimed chef?s recipe and design to create a number of
T u u K K A E R vA S T I
FINLAND?S culinary scene
has only recently diversified
and Hanko Sushi has confidently ridden that wave of
expansion. It?s the same
idea in Japan and Finland.?
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A frittata that?s greater
than the sum of its parts
You know those people who can pull together a fabulous meal
even when the refrigerator is seemingly empty. Japanese culture, way of thinking and design in our restaurants.?
Through his experience,
he?s found some similarities
in Finnish and Japanese way
of thinking about things,
which may explain why sushi has become so popular
in Finland. For it to appeal to
everyone, Laakio felt sushi
still needed time.
Laakio and his partner
decided to test the waters
in 2008 in Hanko. This mix
of Japanese kitchen and sushi created a perfect opportunity for Hanko Sushi to gauge
the public?s reaction to other
types of Japanese cuisine.
?This is kind of a start
that we can have more events
or cultural exchange with Japan,. we?re used to eating
it but if we offer it to foreigners who?ve never tasted it, it
doesn?t look very appealing.?
Not only is the variety
smaller and the tastes more familiar, but some recipes have
even been altered to suit the
Finnish palate. It?s kind
of our mission to bring healthy
Japanese food to everyday life,
starting from the very small
children all the way up to the
older people. are freezer and pantry staples, making this meal a welcome option for those days when
you haven?t had time to get to the store.
Spaghetti frittata with artichokes
and sun-dried tomatoes
6 servings
From nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.
Ingredients
¼ cup chopped, vacuum-packed sun-dried tomatoes, 6 large
eggs, plus 6 large egg whites, 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 small onion, sliced thinly into half-moons, 1 large clove garlic, minced, 1
cup frozen artichoke hearts, defrosted, rinsed and chopped, ¾
teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, pinch
crushed red pepper flakes, 2 cups cooked whole-wheat spaghetti (115 grams dried spaghetti), tossed with ½ cup marinara
sauce, 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, ½ cup
grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Steps
? Place the sun-dried tomatoes in a small bowl; cover with boiling water and let them sit for 10 minutes, then drain.
? Whisk together the eggs and egg whites in a medium bowl.
? Heat the oil in a medium (18 cm) cast-iron or ovenproof nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. So we have
created our own recipe for a
milder, sweeter taste of soya.
We have changed other recipes even from what we started with five years ago, and we
may keep changing them.?
One aspect of Japanese
preparation they try to hold
on to, however, is the rice.
?We try to be authentic in the
way of cooking and seasoning
the rice. ?We?re
listening and were humble
for his ideas. Co-founder Mika
Laakio fell in love with sushi many years ago, having
lived six years in Japan. Add
the garlic and cook for 30 seconds, then add the artichoke
hearts, the chopped and drained sun-dried tomatoes, salt,
black pepper and crushed red pepper flakes. you
eat it also with your eyes.?
Culinary culture:
parallels and contrasts
Hanko Sushi?s cuisine has
some similarities to an authentic Japanese restaurant,
but less than one might think.
?There are so many different
types of tastes and shapes
and colours of sushi in Japan
. (I
use a mix of whole eggs and egg whites to get all the rich goodness of the yolks while keeping saturated fat and cholesterol in
the right zone.)
This recipe adds an element of surprise by incorporating
cooked spaghetti that has already been tossed in marinara
sauce. This savoury
frittata is just the kind of thing they have up their sleeve.
A frittata . 16
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16 . [In Japanese culture], the food is very healthy
and also the peace of mind and
things like that are important.
That?s something that we try
to bring out . ?We?re like kin.
In common we have respect
for nature and from that, respect for food. Meeting Nozaki was a great opportunity to
continue a cultural exchange,
and also to learn from him.
?I have to say we?re students,. ?Soya sauce
plays a big role in sushi, and
in the Finnish taste, we?re not
used to that salty or bitter taste
of normal soya. And sure enough we
did!. ?To be authentic
. is, in general, an
ideal vehicle for quickly turning random bits of food into an
impressive, healthy and satisfying meal. He has such a
strong experience . I don?t think we need to do
that. He
had been ready to steer the
sushi ship to Helsinki in 1995,
but explained that ?when I
moved back, Finland wasn?t
ready.?
Back then, sushi was still
a luxury. artichoke
hearts and sun-dried tomatoes . We have ebi, king
crab, which is cooked so it?s
easy to start with.?
Some things may be a little too exotic for the Finnish taste, explains Laakio.
?There?s natto for example,
which is fermented soya bean
paste. We just try to make sushi that people would love to
eat, that tastes good to them.?
So far, the strategy has been
faring well!
Rather than bringing the
exotic nature of sushi out, they
want to appeal to everybody.
?We want to show that sushi
can be everyday food. Laakio says. he?s a
sensei, a teacher, so we want
to maybe learn the world of
thought of good, perfect food
and its presentation . Laakio explains.
?Our main product is salmon, everybody knows salmon
and it has been here for years
and years. We?re
not here to show how different
and strange it can be. we go with more familiar
products,. Cook, stirring,
until the vegetables are warmed through, about 1 minute.
? Add the spaghetti and parsley, stirring to incorporate.
? Pour the eggs evenly over the spaghetti and vegetables. Reduce the heat to medium-low or low; cook until the eggs are
set on the edges but not in the middle, 8 to 10 minutes.
? Meanwhile, position an oven rack 9 to 13 cm from the broiler
element; preheat the broiler.
? Sprinkle the top of the frittata with the cheese. Transfer the
skillet to the oven; broil just until the middle is set and the top
is golden brown, 2 to 4 minutes; be careful not to overcook or
the eggs will become tough.
? Cut into 6 wedges and serve.
Nutrition Per serving: 250 calories, 18 g protein, 22 g carbohydrates, 11 g fat, 4 g saturated fat, 195 mg cholesterol, 610
mg sodium, 4 g dietary fibre, 4 g sugar.
Krieger?s most recent cookbook is Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). She blogs and offers a weekly newsletter at www.elliekrieger.com.
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An assortment of sushi.
Lunch time 10:30-15:00
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Future of
sushi in Finland
After the interview with
Laakio took place, the fifteen Hanko Sushi restaurants were sold to Royal
Restaurants in early September. Laakio comments
that he and his colleague
are happy with the deal.
They have both been made
shareholders at Royal Restaurants, and will be working to develop new concepts for the enterprise.
Their next projects are focussed on expansion and
will also have an international scope.
This frittata brings an element of surprise by incorporating cooked spaghetti that has already been tossed in marinara sauce.. Yet authenticity isn?t what they?re
striving for. 22 OCTOBER 2014
Appetite grows for sushi in Finland
T u u K K A E R vA S T I
Chef Jesper Björkell at Toyko Sushi Academy with Japanese chef Katsunori Ikeda.
ALICIA JENSEN
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Collaboration
with celebrity chef
Now Hanko Sushi has grown
from a small shop in Hanko
to having over 15 restaurants
around Finland, chiefly in Helsinki. ?It was
just kind of a good idea, it?s
a great summer city,. The vegetables here . Laakio recalls. We have a container
where we season the rice, it?s
called handai, in that part we
try to be traditional.. says Laakio. And so began the story
of Hanko Sushi.
T u u K K A E R vA S T I
Hanko Sushi restaurant at Hangon Casino in Hanko.
lunchboxes that were produced by their head chefs.
The lunchbox included not
only sushi, but rice seasoned
differently and mixed with
different flavours that resembled risotto, but with vegetables and seasoning. ?In March,
one of our chefs went to Japan for three weeks to learn.
He went to a chef school and
went to meet special knife
sharpeners.. I would compare it to
mämmi . ?We wanted to test
how it goes, so we can produce something that people like. All you have to do is
warm a handful of vegetables in a skillet with aromatics, in this
case garlic and onion; pour the eggs over; cook on the stove until mostly set; then give it a couple of minutes under the broiler
to brown and melt the small amount cheese sprinkled on top. basically a crustless quiche
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The Dance of Life
Exhibition of one of the major visual artists in Northern Europe of the
20th century.
Didrichsen Art Museum
Kuusilahdenkuja 1
Helsinki
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?0/8/13
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and loved ones.
Amos Anderson Art Museum
yrjönkatu 27
Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/2/8/10
www.amosanderson.fi
Until Sun 16 November
Kiasma goes Kunsthalle
How do the works from Kiasma look
like when they are exhibited outside their own museum?
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/7/10
www.taidehalli.fi
Until Sun 11 January
Ceramics & Space
Exhibition of contemporary
Finnish ceramics.
Design Museum
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
Tue 11:00-20:00
Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?0/5/8/10
www.designmuseum.fi
Until Sun 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
Until Wed 28 January
Edward Munch . By the exhibition the museum makes an
early start on the festivities of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jean
Sibelius, one of the greatest Finnish composers.
This extensive jubilee exhibition explores the connections between
Sibelius and the art scene of his day. He was also an inspiration to many artists, and vice versa. Espoo Museum of
Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
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Tommi Toija: Mutatis mutandis
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F I N N I S H N AT I O N A L G A L L E R y / y E H I A E W E I S
Sibelius at Ateneum
A new exhibition, Sibelius and the World of Art opens at Ateneum Art
Museum on Friday 17 October. 18
WHERE TO GO
16 . didrichsenmuseum.fi. For example, his tone poem En Saga (1892) inspired painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela to paint a work of the
same name in 1894. Laitinen: Fundamental Matter
Wide-ranging installations combining sound, light and moving image.
EMMA . Vincent (USA)
Indie pop.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Tickets ?37
www.thecircus.fi
Albert Edelfelt: Composer Jean Sibelius (undated).
Ateneum Art Museum.
Tue 21 October
Club Koko Loft
Østergaard Art Quartet (DNK,
NOR, FRA).
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Tickets ?16.50/22
www.kokojazz.fi
Fri 17 October
Stonetone, Fumble
Punk rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?7.50
www.semifinal.fi
Fri 17 October
Karkkipäivä
Country/blues/punk/rock.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?7.50
www.korjaamo.fi
Tue 21 October
Jussi Lampela Nonet & Aili
Ikonen
Jazz.
Kanneltalo
Klaneettitie 5
Tickets ?20
www.kanneltalo.fi
Fri 17 October
Get your Gun (DNK), Face of
God, Slippery Slope (EST)
Rock.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?8.50
www.barloose.com
Fri 17 October
Satin Circus
Pop.
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Tickets ?11.50
www.ontherocks.fi
Wed 22 October
Oireklubi
Cubache.
Siltanen
Hämeentie 13
Free entry
www.siltanen.org
Fri 17 October
Fu Manchu (USA)
Stoner rock.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Tickets ?29.50
www.elmu.fi
Wed 22 October
Gaby Moreno (GTM)
Latin Grammy Award winner.
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Tickets ?46
www.savoyteatteri.fi
The InTernaTIonal TheaTre of fInland
Fri 17 October
Olavi Uusivirta
Pop/rock.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?12.50
www.virginoil.fi
Wed 22 October
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Strauss´ Olympic Hymn.
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?7.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 16 & Fri 17 October
Jenni Vartiainen
Pop.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?22/23
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 17 October
Svenska Disco Kyrkan
Mika Snickars & Kool DJ Dust,
Stockholm.
Club Kaiku
Kaikukatu 4
Tickets ?10.50
www.clubkaiku.fi
Fri 17 October
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Joseph Haydn´s Symphony No 103
and Brahms´ Piano Concerto No 2.
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?7.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 17 & Wed 22 October
Claude Debussy: Pelléas
and Mélisande
Dreamlike symbolist opera.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?17.50-94.50
www.opera.fi
Fri 17-Tue 21 October
Kalevi Aho: Frida y Diego
Sibelius Academy Opera
presents the world premiere
of Kalevi Aho?s opera.
Helsinki Music Centre
Sonore
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?11.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sat 18 October
Lost Society
Metal.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50
www.virginoil.fi
Sat 18 October
Club We Jazz
Hailu Mergia (ETH).
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?20
www.kuudeslinja.com
Wed 22 October
Asa & Band
Hip hop.
Stoa
Turunlinnantie 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?9/13
www.stoa.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 16 & Sat 18 October
Hore?ná-Godani-Robbins:
Urban Utopias of Dance
Triple bill of urban energy, brilliant
movement and macabre humour.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?21.50-108.50
www.opera.fi
Thu 16-Sat 18 October
Pajama Men (USA): Just The Two
of Each of Us
A world-renowned comedy duo of
Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez.
Espoo City Theatre
Louhi Hall
Kulttuuriaukio 2
Helsinki
Tickets ?15/25/30
www.espoonteatteri.fi
Fri 17-Sun 19 October
5-3-1-Festival of New Juggling
in Helsinki
Brilliant juggling from both local
and international artists.
Stoa
Turunlinnantie 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?15-20
www.stoa.fi
Wed 22 October
Agit-Cirk: Glimmer
Contemporary circus.
Cirko
Kaasutehtaankatu 1
Tickets ?17.50/22.50
www.cirko.fi
EXHIBITIONS
From Fri 17 October
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
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
From Wed 22 October
Tuomas A. His home in the cultural landscape at Lake Tuusula, his circle of artist friends and relatives, and the art collection at Ainola provided a varied background for his
From Fri 17 October
Sibelius and the World of Art
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
MUSIC
Thu 16 October
Tuomo & Markus,
Minna Stenberg
Soul/folk/pop.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
www.barloose.com
Thu 16 October
Robert Nordmark (SWE)
Jazz.
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
www.kokojazz.fi
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 10:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
Sat 18 October
GOTHtober 2014
Solar Fake (GER), Ten After Dawn,
Hexdrive.
Gloria
Pieni Roobertinkatu 12
Tickets ?13.50
www.gloriahelsinki.fi
Tue 21 & Wed 22 October
Susanna Leinonen Company:
Kaira
Contemporary dance.
Alexander Theatre
Albertinkatu 32
Tickets ?18/34/42
www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
Sat 18 October
Petra
Pop/rock.
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Tickets ?6.50
www.ontherocks.fi
Tue 21 & Wed 22 October
Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin:
The Raven & La Femme Rouge
The surrealistic works of Finland?s
leading contemporary
flamenco group.
Alexander Theatre
Albertinkatu 32
Tickets ?18/34/42
www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
Sat 18 October
The 1975 (UK)
Indie rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?24/25
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Mon 20 October
St. The exhibition covers Sibelius´
youth and his international breakthrough, fantasies and myths about
the famous composer, as well as his symphonic landscapes and nature
motifs.
Sibelius was surrounded by art in many ways
On display until 16 November, Kiasma goes Kunsthalle has
selected a total of 30 works
for the exhibition, drawn
from Kiasma Collections
which number around 8,500
works.
Given the differences in
buildings, the temporary environs promise to shed new
light on already familiar
works. S U L L I va N
The Wa shing Ton Pos T
vations being undertaken at
Kiasma, a number of works
have been moved around the
Caída libre (Free Fall) by choreographer Sharon Fridman fills the
stage with 20 local performers and six Spanish and French dancers.
HOP Helsinki 2014
17-18 october
tanssintalo.fi/hophelsinki2014
Kiasma goes Kunsthalle
Until 16 november
Taidehalli
nervanderinkatu 3
helsinki. Leonetti borrows a little
too liberally from the dogeared demon-doll cookbook,
serving up a platter of halfbaked cliches seen in everything from Magic to Child?s
Play and beyond, all spiced up
with lazy jump scares of the
sort that have been used a
hundred times before.
When it comes to visuals, the director has a modest
flair. Lonnie Smith, Joe Locke,
Ari Hoenig and Stefano
Dibattista.
The guitarist has recorded ten full-lengths, with
J a M E S O . The villain in
the new movie . CULTURE
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16 . a creepy
doll that played an incidental role in the plot of that earlier (and far superior) horror
film . He?s
more successful in insinuating that every supporting
character in the film might
be the antichrist, pumping up the creep-out factor
in a book shop owner (Alfre
Woodard), a boy next door
(Gabriel Bateman) and the
police detective (Eric Ladin)
investigating the attacks by
Satan worshippers that open
the film.
Ah, yes, Satan worship.
At least that plot point goes
somewhere. Offering some further
fresh perspective, the collection also includes works from
the Kouri Collection, as well
as more recent acquisitions
from Kiasma that have not
previously been exhibited.
The works are from 22
major artists from Finland
and abroad and traverse such
approaches as minimalism,
kinetic art and 21st century
painting and sculpture.
The exhibition seeks to
challenge more traditional
notions of beauty, with Richard Deacon?s Almost Beautiful
encapsulating this by offering
experiences that can be found
with many senses.
The collaboration between the two art houses is
curated by Eija Aarnio from
Kiasma and Hanna MamiaWalther from Kunsthalle
Helsinki.
ORGaNISEd
He ovat paenneet (K16)
Release Date: 17 october
Director: J-P Valkeapää
starring: Roosa söderholm,
Teppo Manner
Elsewhere on screens
after the hollywood Marvel adaptation of Ant-Man nearly derailed earlier this year due to director edgar Wright leaving due to creative differences, have no fear, as the swedes are on hand with
a similar conceit. No stranger to these
shores, Kreisberg was last
seen performing on the same
stage at Malmitalo in 2012.
Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet
16 october, 19:00
Tickets ?15
Malmitalo
ala-Malmin tori 1
helsinki
J a M E S O . International faces of Dance in Hel-
sinki is a documentary by
Hanna Brotherus, premiering on Friday at 7 pm. Here, Wan acts as
producer, but his oversight
isn?t enough to fix the problems with his sous-chef
IT IS aN aRTICLE
Set in 1970, the story centres on John and Mia (Ward
Horton and Annabelle Wallis),
a married couple who, along
with their new baby, are terrorized by an antique doll,
the hideousness of which is
apparent to all but the protagonists. and Caída Libre on
17 October. And
you?re going to put it in the
baby?s room?
John and Mia soon start
experiencing
run-of-themill poltergeist phenomena:
phantom popcorn bursting
into flame on the stove, poor
television reception, a sewing machine running in the
middle of the night.
Not exactly blood-curdling stuff, even though Leonetti tries to make it so. Here his interaction with the audience
promises to swell into an aerobics/disco dance class.
Meanwhile, a documentary is being presented as
a part of the HOP Helsinki
2014 programme. The
documentary follows the situation faced by foreign dancers here, as these newcomers
seek to make connections,
find working opportunities
and better the local situation
regarding grant and funding
opportunities.
corner to Taidehalli. Here a detail is depicted from Self-Seeds,
1998.
Jonathan Kreisberg brings his modern jazz touch to Malmitalo on 16 October.
anDRe a M aCChia
M I C H a E L O . S U L L I va N
heL sinK i TiMes
by the House of
Dance association, HOP Helsinki 2014 is being held on
Friday 17 and Saturday 18
October.
Showcasing its main
theme over the weekend of
inclusiveness and internationality, here the audience
plays a key role via a pair of
participatory and international dance pieces.
Guests from abroad include Israeli Sharon Fridman, whose Compañía
Sharon Fridman will be
performing both ¿Hasta
Dónde?. set in Romania during the Turkish invasion, our man Vlad (Luke evans) helps duke it out
for his homeland. S U L L I va N
heL sinK i TiMes
COMBINING traditional sounds
and instrumental virtuosity with modern soundscapes,
American modern jazz guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg is
fronting a Quartet that bears
his name at Malmitalo on
Thursday 16 October.
After first picking up the
guitar when he was ten, guitarist Kreisberg?s finesse on
the instrument was immediately apparent, and he eventually graduated from the
HOP
into
dance
his most recent, Wave Upon
Wave, just about to hit stores.
Alongside some fresh cuts
from this latest collection,
the evening promises to feature a number of selections
from his earlier recordings.
This gig forms part of his
current European tour, which
rounds up at the end of the
month. Presumably, our human essence
is packed with unholy phytochemicals that the demons
need to survive, like some supernatural form of kale.
That tenet lies at the heart
of Annabelle, a spinoff/prequel inspired by last year?s
The Conjuring. Crime fighting is soon on the cards for
the youngster.
Dracula Untold tells the well-worn tale of Vlad the impaler, in . Looking for this
freak show, with a face like
a gargoyle. ?Where did you
find her?. a franchise
reboot. Well, sort of. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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J i M M y K aT z
Film
?annabelle?: You?ve seen it all
with this ugly, frightening doll
of faith in
moviehouses, if not in the various houses of the Lord, that
demons are always clamouring for your mortal soul. Time to sell his soul, then, and live by night.
Finally, local film He ovat paenneet sees a boy and a girl on the lam after they meet at a custody center for troubled youth, and steal a car.
JO'S
F n g / P e T R i V i R Ta n e n
a move
for art
J a M E S O . S U L L I va N
heL sinK i TiMes
IN LIGHT of the current reno-
The work of Singaporean Simryn Gill is among that of 30 works on
display at Kunsthalle. The thing would
pull a shank on you from under its petticoat the minute
you turn your back. Which is more
than you can say for the little
boy (who seems to be clairvoyant, but aren?t they all?).
He gets introduced but is
never explained and soon is
forgotten.
But the biggest hole is the
one at the centre: What does
the devil want with the baby?s soul?
Despite its deficiencies,
Annabelle is not without a
modicum of verve. Leonetti
starring: annabelle Wallis,
Ward horton
antboy (K7)
Release Date: 17 october
Director: ask hasselbalch
starring: oscar Dietz,
nicolas Bro
dracula Untold (K12)
Release Date: 17 october
Director: gary shore
starring: Luke evans,
sarah gadon
Modern jazz
esteemed University of Miami music programme in
1994. It has its
unnerving moments, but
they?re outweighed by the
sheer stupidity and predictability of the story. Leonetti is the longtime
cinematographer for horror master James Wan, having worked with him on four
of the director?s films, from
Dead Silence to Insidious:
Chapter 2. The latter offers
a true international collaboration, as ten dance profes-
sionals and ten volunteers
from Finland join six Spanish
and French dancers from the
company.
Meanswhile, the following day sees New York choreographer Miguel Gutierrez?s
Deep Aerobics. surprise, surprise . Hollywood has never adequately
explained what exactly these
fiends mean to do with it. It?s not
a movie for connoisseurs of
horror, but for more susceptible sorts, those content
with a fast-food approach to
fearmongering.
?The devil preys on the
weak and the vulnerable,?
Mia says, reading aloud from
the occult reference guide
that she consults when Beelzebub himself starts making
house calls.
So do movies such as this,
which pander like the dickens.
annabelle (K16)
Release Date: 17 october
Director: John R. ?Do you know how long
I?ve been looking??
Really. squeals Mia with
delight, after John presents
his wife with something that
resembles a ventriloquist?s
dummy in drag that?s been
left out in the rain for too
long. Starting out as an art
rocker, his style continued to
develop as he moved around
the States. Going on to dip
his musical toes into fusion,
he eventually settled on becoming a jazz traditionalist.
Over the years, Kreisberg has toured and recorded
with artists of the calibre of
Dr. is a conduit for a spirit
whose state of malevolence,
and apparent malnourishment, compels it to try to
scare up a little soul food.
The result is a disappointingly derivative dish.
Working from a silly script
by Gary Dauberman (writer of the straight-to-video
Blood Monkey), director John
R. Antboy tells the tale of 12-year-old Pelle who accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers
Starring: Harrison
Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Diana Scarwid. Directed
by: Peter Segal. USA/2008.
00.05 NCIS
01.00 Beyond the Headlines:
Casey Anthony (K16)
01.55 Frasier
02.25 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
03.25 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.20 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. Starring: Sandra
Bullock, Tim McGraw,
Quinton Aaron.
USA/2009.
23.20 Modern Family
00.20 Ladies of London
What Lies Beneath
Friends with Benefits
What Lies Beneath is a supernatural horror thriller starring
Harrison Ford and Michelle
Pfeiffer as a seemingly happy
married couple who experience a strange haunting that
uncovers secrets about their
pasts. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 American Pie: The
Wedding FILM
It is the wedding of Jim
and Michelle and the
gathering of their families
and friends, including Jim?s
old friends from high school
and Michelle?s little sister.
Directed by: Jesse Dylan.
Starring: Alyson Hannigan,
Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Eugene Levy.
USA/2003.
23.30 5D: Virgin Diaries
00.35 Tough Love
01.30 Overhaulin
02.25 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
This series features obese
people competing to win a
cash prize by determining
who can lose the highest
percentage of weight
between them.
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
22.30 Vanity Fair?s Hollywood
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
saturday
17.10.
MTV3
The Simpsons Movie
Sub 20.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Lily Cole?s Art Matters
Fashion model and art
history graduate, Lily Cole
examines the inspirations,
obsessions and processes
of pioneering artists in this
new documentary series.
14.35 Mike & Molly
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 What Lies Beneath (K16)
FILM
Directed by: George
Zemeckis. Feeling lonely after
her daughter leaves home for
college, Claire (Pfeiffer) begins
to sense that something is
wrong in her house and feels a
spirit is trying to contact her.
At first her husband Norman
(Ford) suspects that it is just
her imagination but when the
images turn real, they must uncover the truth, confront their
worst fears and find what lies
beneath. USA/2012.
01.35 Frasier
02.05 Castle
03.05 Ice Road Truckers
TV5
06.10
07.05
07.55
12.20
MacGyver
Matlock
The King of Queens
Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.45 Kitchen Boss
13.45 MacGyver
14.50 Matlock
15.50 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.20 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.50 Married. Directed by: Will
Gluck. New York (K16)
00.00 Grimm (K16)
A supernatural crime drama
involving a police detective
who can see the dual nature
of creatures among us
hiding in human form.
JIM
09.20 MasterChef Australia
12.05 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
13.05 American Restoration
13.35 Ball Boys
14.05 Ice Road Truckers
16.05 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
Anthony Bourdain arrives in
a new city each week with
only 24-48 hours to show
viewers the insider places,
people and foods.
18.00 Undercover Boss
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.
19.00 Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant
in an attempt to revive the
business.
21.00 Guinness World Records
22.00 Ax Men
23.00 Rude Tube
NELONEN
07.40 Children?s Programming
08.30 Sea Rescue
10.10 Dogs of Manhattan
11.10 Animal ABC
11.40 Wipeout
12.40 Aliens in the Attic FILM
Directed by: John
Schulz. Starring: Mary
Elizabeth Winstead,
Joel Edgerton.
USA/2011.
23.10 The Blacklist (K16)
00.15 Legends of the Fall (K16)
FILM
02.45 Overhaulin
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 It?s a Brad, Brad World
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
23.00 First Dates
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
18.10.
MTV3
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Nelonen 21.00
08.05 Children?s Programming
21.00 Amazing Race
Teams of two people race
around the world in amazing
locations.
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.25 Southland (K16)
Southland follows the lives
of the Los Angeles Police
Department officers on the
streets of LA.
01.25 Reckless
SUB
11.00 Suburgatory
Suburgatory follows a
teenage girl who moves
from the city to the suburbs.
12.00 Two and a Half Men
13.55 Undercover Boss
15.45 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
16.45 X Factor UK
19.05 Top Gear
20.00 The Informant
The Informant depicts Mark
Whitacre?s involvement as a
whistle blower in the pricefixing conspiracy in the
early 1990s.
23.00 C.S.I. Voices:
Dan Castellaneta, Julie
Kavner, Nancy Cartwright.
USA/2007.
23.00 Cheaters
00.00 Catfish
01.05 The Simpsons
JIM
11.20 Top Secret Recipes
Food hacker Todd Wilbur
investigates an iconic American
recipe and tries to make it
better than the original.
12.15 American Pickers
14.05 Shark Tank Canada
15.05 MasterChef Australia
16.05 New York Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
21.00 Rude Tube
22.00 Pawn Stars UK
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 JIM D Crime: Gang Life (K16)
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Gene Simmons Family Jewels
02.00 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Fashion Star
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
17.50 The Hotel Inspector
21.30 Naked Gun 33/13: The
Final Insult FILM
Frank Drebin comes out of
retirement to help Police
Squad infiltrate a gang
of terrorists planning to
detonate a bomb at the
Academy Awards. Directed by: George
Zemeckis. Starring: Georgia
Craig, Jennifer Garner,
Juliette Lewis.
USA/2006.
14.00 Dawson?s Creek
15.00 Your Style in His Hands
16.00 Keasha?s Perfect Dress
16.30 Lindsay
17.30 My Crazy Obsession
18.00 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 Friends with Benefits FILM
Directed by: Will Gluck.
Starring: Jenna Elfman,
Justin Timberlake, Mila
Kunis. Starring: Jenna Elfman,
Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis.
USA/2011.
MTV3 22.35
Friday 17.10
TV5 21.00
Saturday 18.10.2014. Starring: Nicolas
Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm,
Charlie Yeung. USA/2000.
Jamie (Mila Kunis) is a young
executive recruiter for a leading
job agency in New York trying
to sign Los Angeles-based
Dylan (Justin Timberlake) for
her client. Directed by:
David Silverman. With Children
17.55 The King of Queens
19.00 The Smurfs FILM
Directed by: Raja Gosnell.
Starring: Neil Patrick Harris,
Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria.
USA/2011.
21.00 The Thing FILM
Directed by: Matthijs van
Heijningen. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
friday
16.10
MTV3
American Pie: The Wedding
T V5 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
14.35 Back in the Game
17.30 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Reckless
Roy agrees to represent his
ex-wife?s fiancé in a disputed
property deal, which may
have resulted in murder.
23.35 Those Who Kill (K16)
Catherine Jensen, a
recently promoted homicide
detective, enlists the help of
Thomas Schaeffer, a forensic
psychologist, to track down
serial killers.
00.35 Terriers
SUB
14.00
14.55
16.00
18.00
Undercover Boss
Mythbusters
Walker, Texas Ranger
Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay visits
struggling restaurants
across America and spends
one week trying to help
them become successful.
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
Sheldon misses an
opportunity to get legendary
Stan Lee?s autograph
because he has to make an
appearance in traffic court.
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
23.00 Cheaters
The Cheaters surveillance
team follows the suspected
cheater and collects video
and audio evidence of the
illicit affairs.
00.00 Supernatural (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.25 Crocodileman
12.25 American Pickers
The show follows antique and
collectible pickers Mike Wolfe
and Frank Fritz as they travel
around the United States.
14.15 Shark Tank Canada
15.10 MasterChef Australia
16.05 New York Ink
Miami Ink veteran Ami
James will be the center of
this Big Apple iteration of
the tattoo business.
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
20.00 Talent USA
22.45 Shark Tank Canada
23.45 Ice Road Truckers
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Hoarders
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
22.00 Bangkok Dangerous (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Danny & Oxide
Pang. Starring:
Lesley Nielsen, Priscilla
Presley, George Kennedy.
USA/1994.
23.15 Universal Soldier: Day of
Reckoning (K18) FILM
Directed by: John Hyams.
Starring: Scott Adkins, JeanClaude Van Damme, Dolph
Lundgren. 20
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16 . USA/2011.
23.10 Sexcetera (K18)
00.30 Stolen Sex Tapes (K18)
FILM
Directed by: Robert Danes.
Starring: Sydnee Steele,
Kelly Couch.
USA/2002.
02.15 Knight Rider
03.10 Elizabeth (K16) FILM
05.15 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
14.55 Jamie?s Food Escapes
15.55 Grand Designs Australia
20.00 Elle Style Awards 2014
21.00 The Blind Side FILM
Directed by: John Lee
Hancock. Starring: Carter
Jenkins, Austin Butler,
Ashley Tisdale. USA/2000.
01.15 24: Live Another Day (K16)
SUB
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Range
18.00 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
Jamie Oliver and Jimmy
Doherty open a pop-up
cafeteria, where they serve
up the best of British food.
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 The Simpsons Movie FILM
After Homer accidentally
pollutes the town?s water
supply, Springfield is
encased in a gigantic
dome by the EPA and the
Simpson family are declared
fugitives. When he takes the
job and moves to the Big Apple,
they quickly become friends.
Their friendship turns into a
friendship with benefits, but
with Jamie?s emotionally damaged past and Dylan?s history of
being emotionally unavailable,
they have to try to not fall for
each other the way Hollywood
romantic comedies dictate.
However, they soon finds things
getting unexpectedly complicated when emotions enter
the picture. Starring: Harrison
Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana
Scarwid. USA/
Canada/2009.
14.30 90210
17.55 Once Upon a Time
21.00 The Twilight Saga: New
Moon FILM
Edward leaves Bella after
an attack that nearly
claimed her life and in her
depression she falls into
yet another paranormal
relationship, this time with
werewolf Jacob Black.
Directed by: Chris Weitz.
Starring: Kristen Stewart,
Robert Pattinson,
Taylor Lautner.
USA/2009.
23.40 Under the Dome
00.35 Paranormal Activity (K16)
FILM
02.20 Weeds
04.00 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
TV5
06.35 Children?s Programming
07.30 Top 20 Funniest
12.00 Catch and Release FILM
Directed by: Susannah
Grant
With Children
07.40 Dawson?s Creek
15.00 United States of Bacon
15.30 The Goldbergs
16.00 Monk
16.55 Knight Rider
19.00 The Smurfs FILM
Directed by: Raja Gosnell.
Starring: Neil Patrick Harris,
Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria.
USA/2011.
21.00 Mr Bean?s Holiday FILM
Mr. Directed by: Raja
Gosnell. Now they are in
a race against time to get back
to their village before Gargamel
finds them. When
Gargamel chases the tiny Smurfs
out of their village, they tumble
from their magical world into
New York City. In the hidden land of
the Smurfs, the perpetually happy
blue creatures are preparing for
the Blue Moon festival. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
16 . Sunshine
01.35 Fame
02.30 Tough Love
03.20 Chicago Fire
04.10 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
Jamie Oliver shows how
to cook a meal in just 15
minutes.
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Gallery Girls
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
22.30 First Dates
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
The Smurfs
Charlie?s Angels
Everyone?s favourite little blue
friends are back in this family film
spectacular. Starring:
Bill Murray, Cameron Diaz,
Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu.
USA/2000.
23.00 My Baggy Body
00.05 Friends with Benefits
FILM
02.10 Twin Peaks
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 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.
14.40 Versace
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
19.00 Grand Designs Australia
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Chicago Fire
T V5 23.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Undercover Boss
14.35 Modern Family
Three different, but related
families face trials and
tribulations in their own
uniquely comedic ways.
15.15 Jamie?s Chef
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 The Mentalist
This series revolves around
Patrick Jane, who is
employed as an independent
consultant working with
the California Bureau of
Investigation to solve
crimes.
22.35 C.S.I. New York (K16)
23.35 Suits
00.35 The Glades
01.35 Legit
SUB
14.00 United Bates of America
The series follows the Bates
family as they manage
everyday life in Tennessee.
14.30 The Capones
The spirit of the infamous
gangster Al Capone still
lives on in Chicago in
the form of his dramafilled, lasagna-loving
dysfunctional family, the
Capones.
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
This megahit comedy
revolves around four
intelligent physicists and
their beautiful neighbour
Penny who shows them how
little they know about life
outside of the laboratory.
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Catfish
23.00 Nikita (K16)
00.00 Shameless
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
12.20 American Pickers
14.10 Shark Tank Canada
15.10 MasterChef Australia
16.05 Modern Marvels
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Ax Men
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
Amateur cooks get the
chance to turn their
homemade food products
into a life changing business.
09.50 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Pregnant in Heels
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
23.30 NCIS
McGee?s girlfriend turns
to NCIS for help when she
finds new evidence in a
controversial case that her
bosses at the Department of
Defense closed.
00.30 Rescue Me
01.30 NCIS
02.30 Elementary
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.15 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.30 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. Starring: Neil Patrick
Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria.
USA/2011.
The most glamorous private eyes
in the world are back in action
in this big-screen adaptation of
the popular ?70s television series.
Natalie (Diaz) is the smart but
silly one, Dylan (Barrymore) is the
tough but fun-loving one, and Alex
(Liu) is the classy but hard-as-nails
one, and they are employed by
the mysterious Charlie, who never
meets his employees face to face.
Along with their helper Bosley,
the Angels are sent into action
when a high-tech programmer
Eric Knox is kidnapped. Sunshine
20.00 Lindsay
21.00 Hanging Up FILM
A trio of sisters bond over
their ambivalence towards
the approaching death of
their curmudgeonly father,
to whom none of them was
particularly close.
Directed by: Diane Keaton.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Diane
Keaton, Lisa Kudrow.
USA/2000.
23.00 Chicago Fire
Evidence recovered at a
series of fires indicates
that Lt. Starring: Chris
Hemsworth, Natalie
Portman, Tom Hiddleston.
USA/2011.
01.20 NCIS
02.15 Fear Factor
03.15 Weeds
04.20 Bizarre Crimes
TV5
06.15 Overhaulin
07.10 Married. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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sunday
monday
19.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Mr Bean?s Holiday
TV5 21.00
08.00 Children?s Programming
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
Obsessive cleaners team up
to clean some of Britain?s
dirty homes.
00.00 Those Who Kill (K16)
01.00 The Americans (K16)
02.00 Political Animals
SUB
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14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
The Simpsons
Adventures of Merlin
The Face
Catfish
Pretty Little Liars
X Factor UK
Anthony Bourdain: Parts
Unknown
Bourdain looks at the
Congo as one of the more
industrialized powers in
Africa now largely crumbled
to nothingness and chaos.
20.00 Mythbusters
22.30 C.S.I. Directed by: McG.
USA/2000.
TV5 19.00
Sunday 19.10.2014
TV5 21.00
Monday 20.10.2014. Jane loses
investigative focus when
she discovers Korsak is
considering retirement.
23.35 The Good Guys
00.35 Super Fun Night
SUB
14.00 X Factor UK
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.30 The Simpsons
23.00 Grimm (K16)
00.00 Gang Related (K16)
The series follows the personal
and professional lives of the
members of the elite Los
Angeles Police Department?s
multi-agency Gang Task Force
as they take on the city?s most
dangerous gangs, including
one with which a task force
member has ties.
01.00 Shameless (K16)
02.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.20 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
12.20 American Pickers
14.10 Shark Tank Canada
15.10 MasterChef Australia
18.00 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.
19.00 Shark Tank Canada
Shark Tank features business
pitches from aspiring
entrepreneurs to a panel of
potential investors.
20.00 Kitchen Nightmares
23.00 Shark Tank Canada
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 NCIS Los Angeles (K16)
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress XL
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Once Upon a Time
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
23.20 Oz (K16)
A series chronicling the
daily activities of an unusual
prison facility and its
criminal inhabitants.
00.30 NCIS
01.30 Beyond the Headlines:
Casey Anthony (K16)
02.30 Frasier
03.00 Bizarre Crimes
03.40 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.15 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens (S)
20.00 Breaking Amish: Los
Angeles
SERIES BEGINS.
This series follows a
new group of Amish and
Mennonite young adults as
they trade in their old-world
traditions for the modern
temptations of Los Angeles.
21.00 Charlie?s Angels (K16)
FILM
Directed by: McG. Directed by:
Steven Bendelack. Starring:
Karl Roden, Max Baldry,
Rowan Atkinson.
UK/France/Germany/2006.
23.00 Spartacus: Blood and Sand
(K18)
00.10 House
01.10 Legends of Fall FILM
Directed by: Edward Zwick.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins,
Julia Ormond, Brad Pitt.
USA/1993.
03.05 For the Love of the Game
FILM
Directed by: Sam Raimi.
USA/1999.
AVA
11.00 Building the Dream
15.00 Lucky Dog
16.00 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
19.00 Elle Style Awards 2014
20.00 Ladies of London
21.00 Two Weeks Notice FILM
A lawyer decides that she is
used too much like a nanny
by her boss, so she walks
out on him.
Directed by: Marc Lawrence
USA 2002. Starring: Sandra
Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia
Witt. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 Mr. Bean wins a trip
to Cannes where he
unwittingly separates a
young boy from his father
and must help the two come
back together. Cami has
problems dealing with her
past, so she turns to Father
Kieran for assistance.
00.30 The Simpsons
01.00 Cheaters
JIM
09.10 MasterChef Australia
12.30 Ice Road Truckers
This series features the
activities of drivers who operate
trucks on seasonal routes
crossing frozen lakes and rivers
in remote Arctic territories in
Canada and Alaska.
14.25 Talent USA
Talent USA features
singers, dancers,
magicians, comedians,
and other performers of
all ages competing for the
advertised top prize of one
million dollars.
16.05 Ax Men
18.00 Pawn Stars UK
20.00 Hotel Hell
22.00 Mountain Men
Eustace Conway lives on a
parcel of land in the Blue
Ridge Mountains and hosts
people to whom he teaches
basic wilderness survival skills.
23.00 Strange or What?
00.00 Rude Tube
01.00 American Restoration
01.30 Ball Boys
02.00 Master Shooter
07.40 Children?s Programming
09.00 Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition
13.00 Sea Rescue
13.30 Zoo
15.30 Body of Proof
21.00 Thor FILM
The powerful but arrogant
god Thor is cast out of
Asgard to live amongst
humans in Midgard, where
he soon becomes one of
their finest defenders.
Directed by: Kenneth
Branagh. USA/2002.
22.55 Modern Family
23.55 First Dates
tuesday
20.10.
MTV3
Breaking Amish: Los Angeles
T V5 20.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.45 Amazing Race
14.45 The Millers
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
The drama set in the
glamorous world of the
Los Angeles fashion scene,
focussing on the wealthy
and powerful Forrest family.
18.00 Emmerdale
Emmerdale is a British soap
opera set in Emmerdale,
a fictional village in the
Yorkshire Dales.
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles
The team investigates when
a man is found murdered
inside his doomsday
fallout shelter. Soon they
also discover that the kidnappers
have gotten their hands on Knox?s
latest invention, a system that can
monitor voice communication from
anywhere in the world, virtually ending the notion of private
conversation. Severide is being
targeted by an arsonist.
01.00 Mr. New York (K16)
23.30 The Originals (K16)
Klaus takes extreme
measures to protect Hayley
and their child. However,
they do not have any clue that
the evil wizard Gargamel is about
to follow one of them into their
secret world in an attempt to
capture their happy essence - a
substance guaranteed to render
his magic all-powerful
Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. Single ticket
sudoku
2 Fast 2 Furious
This adrenaline-fueled action
film is the second installment
of the Fast and Furious series.
Now an ex-cop on the run,
Brian O?Connor (Paul Walker)
travels through the US, drag
racing against the locals and
winning large amounts of money.
However, one day the FBI issues
a country-wide manhunt against
him and the police locate him and
repossess his car, forcing him to
fly the coop on foot. Brian agrees, but only if he is given
permission to choose his partner.
Directed by: John Singleton. Now, Brian is
offered a deal by Agent Markham
and Bilkins to go undercover and
try to bring down an international
drug lord in exchange for his
criminal record to be erased. Leonard and
Penny?s relationship comes
to a crossroad.
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Hell?s Kitchen USA
23.00 Sons of Anarchy (K16)
00.00 Star-Crossed
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.25 Extreme Fishing
Robson Green travels
around the world to some
of the greatest fishing
destinations, where he
challenges local masters of
their craft over five rounds
of competitive fishing.
12.20 American Pickers
Mike and Frank are pickers
that travel the country and
literally would go anywhere
just for the prospects of
finding antique gold.
14.10 Shark Tank Canada
15.10 MasterChef Australia
16.05 New York Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark TankUK
23.00 Shark TankUK
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 Mountain Men
01.55 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
HELSINKI TIMES
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress XL
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Dance Moms
This series follows the early
careers of children in dance
and show business, as well
as the participation of their
mothers.
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
21.00 Under the Dome
00.00 Castle
00.55 Frasier
01.25 Recue Me
02.20 Brad Meltzer Decoded
03.15 Undercover Boss
04.10 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.25 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. 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. 09 100 23.
Medical services. 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). Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. See www.forex.fi for more
information.
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Grocery stores. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietaniemi Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. 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. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. Restaurants in the Helsinki area can be found from
the internet service www.eat.fi, which provides information on restaurants, their menus, opening hours and some user rating etc.
Internet. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. 09 3101 3300. Operator number 118. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
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Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of
what to do) . Public phones
are scarce. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
Post Offices. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 United States of Bacon
20.30 Brooklyn 99
21.00 2 Fast 2 Furious (K16)
FILM
Directed by: John Singleton.
Starring: Eva Mendes, Paul
Walker, Tyrese Gibson.
USA/2003.
23.10 The Blacklist (K16)
00.10 Brooklyn 99
00.45 The Boat that Rocked
FILM
Directed by: Richard Curtis.
Starring: Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick
Frost. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. 09 4711.
Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. 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. Dial 112. UK/2009.
03.10 My Crazy Obsession
03.40 Overhaulin
04.30 Call Me Fitz
05.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 All On The Line
14.40 Royal Inquest
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
22.30 Ladies of London
This new series follows a
group of elite British socialites
and American expats enjoying
the upper crust of the high
society world.
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Weather
Banks and Bureaux de Change. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. For more information, see www.hsl.fi.
Tourist Information.Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau
(Pohjoisesplanadi 19, Aleksanterinkatu 20) is open Mon-Fri 9-20
and Sat-Sun 9-18 between 15 May and 14 September; at other times
of the year, Mon-Fri 9-18 and Sat-Sun 10-16, tel. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. 22
TV GUIDE
16 . 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. 22 OCTOBER 2014
wednesday
Finland inFo
22.10 .
MTV3
NELONEN
Big Bang Theory
Sub 20.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Untamed China with Nigel
Marven
Wildlife adventurer Nigel
Marven explores China and
unveils creatures, scenery
and customs never seen on
screen before.
14.35 How I Met Your Mother
15.15 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
23.15 Royal Pains
A down and out surgeon has
a chance to redeem himself
as a small town physician
in the wealthy beach
community of East Hampton.
00.10 Revolution (K16)
SUB
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Catfish
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
Sheldon takes on Wil
Wheaton in a game of
bowling. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. USA/2003.
TV5 21.00
Wednesday 22.10.2014
Airport buses.Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central
Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 minutes, ?6.
On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to
the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Prices of old
detached houses fell by
2.1%
year-on-year
in April to June
Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. Starring: Eva Mendes, Paul Walker,
Tyrese Gibson
a collection of articles, essays and comments
published in Albanian language in 2003.
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Finnish lyrics, the refrain being
?olen suomalainen.... She is the CEO of Sound & Vision Oy and Hon. She is a linguist, senior art producer and
journalist. (= I?m a
Finn). Finns
are a singing nation! At least
that is my impression.
Listening to the Finnish
singers I find myself enchanted by the beautiful voices and
the marvellous feelings they
convey to you.
Is it because of the country?s nature: thousands of
lakes with crystal-clear water
and virgin beaches, vast areas of forests rich in flora and
fauna as well as exotic Polar
nights, days and seasons. to Finnish. Or
is it because of the deep-running feelings of the silent and
quiet Finns, who might find it
easier to sing than talk?
Listening to their singing,
their way of interpreting the
songs and the message conveyed by them, I can?t help
trying to find a connection between them as a singer and
as an adult Finn. They lived a
colourful and diversified life
with joys and sorrows, with
ups and downs. Consul General of Albania in Finland.
Finns . The silent Finns express themselves
better by singing and dancing.
It seems that Finland has got
maybe the greatest number
of officially recognised singers
per capita in the World. Maybe this is a good
solution for protecting the
relatively small Finnish language from the inundation of
the so-called ?big languages?
in the field of art, too.
Finnish rock singers try
to find a place in the international arena by singing in English. Writings from
Finland . Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. In
their repertoire there are Finnish songs of different authors
as well as their own beautiful
and very touching songs.
Interestingly, a great part of
their albums consist of foreign
songs adapted to Finnish from
English, French, Greek, Spanish etc. A singing nation
I CAME to Finland to study the
Finnish language and culture.
It was before my first week
was over that, walking in the
streets by our students. This
makes them easier to grasp by
the vast audiences of Finns,
who, surprisingly enough, are
quite keen at karaoke singing
and mass dancing.
With such a background,
the majority of tourists, businessmen and, of course, different scholars consider Finland
a country where you can join
a concert or a dancing party at
any given time. That goes for foreign
songs, too. They sound wonderful in the melodiously colourful Finnish language.
It would surely be a pleasure for any foreign audience
to listen to their songs sang
in Finnish by Finnish singers,
whose overwhelming voice
can soothe any stressed head,
can caress any broken heart
and can brighten up even the
gloomiest days of the season!
Many of them have warm,
loud and colourful voices that
can cover any pitch, making
listening pleasant and perceptible. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES
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FL Liliana Verdha is a researcher of Finnish language and culture and author of four dictionaries
(Albanian-Finnish-Albanian & Albanian-Finnish-English). It took me a while before
it dawned on me that the melody belonged to the Italian song
L?Italiano sang by the famous
Toto Cutugno.
Now I?ve gotten used to
hearing foreign songs in
Finnish. dormitories of Koskela, I heard some
beautiful, familiar tunes. 22 OCTOBER 2014
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which you are heartfelt welcome. Some of them also
play guitar, the accordion, the
keyboards or the flugel, but
usually they are accompanied
by professional orchestras.
This is an excerpt from the
author?s book Scandinavian
Chronicles . including Aznavour
(Hier Encore), Cutugno (Soli), Godrin-Rodriguez-Salazar
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
Send us your story to expatview@helsinkitimes.fi
(Mujer), Blair-Danova (Man
With The Accordion), Ceratto
(Amor Con Amor Se Paga), Morakis (The Boy On The Dolphin),
Jass-Stein (Eldorado), Jose Luis Galan (Mañana), R.Malo
(Dance The Night Away), Spindola-Morales (Te Amare), Vardis-Andrikakis (Isos) and so
many others. Although from
an insider?s point of view this
may feel a little exaggerated, it
still bears some truth. On the other hand, pop,
country and light songs are
written and sang mainly in
Finnish. They are from
different towns of Finland,
some are single, some happily married, some divorced.
Some have children, and have
been working for most of
their lives but have still been
singing all their lives.
They sing about life and
love, about the natural inner beauty of a beloved one as
well as about hope for a brighter morrow and a better life. The majority of
them are translated, or as they
say, ?adapted