ISSUE 8 (342) . The Ministry of Defence
then delivered its decision on the
rent allowance in 2010 . 26 FEBRUARY 2014 . ?All those
events took place before I became
the Minister of Defence,. The trial and conviction of Private Bradley Manning and
the international pursuit of NSA analyst Edward Snowden in particular
were seen as a warning to those considering assisting in the disclosure of
sensitive information that is in the
public interest.
In contrast, countries such as Panama, Dominican Republic, Bolivia and
Ecuador all experienced considerable
rises on last year?s rankings.
At the tail end of the index, the
last three positions are again held
by Turkmenistan, North Korea and
Eritrea, three countries where freedom of information is practically
non-existent.
This year?s index covered 180
countries, up by one from last year.
New entry Belize made its debut in
29th place.
50 per cent of the voters expressed their support for the incumbent chair in a poll commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat.
Urpilainen backed for
re-election by SDP voters
Workers would instead
pick her only rival, Antti
Rinne, to lead the Social
Democrats.
O L L I P O H J A N PA L O . and extended the
decision in mid-2012.
The decision will expire when
Puheloinen retires in July.
Haglund learnt about the special arrangement last Friday, when
Aamulehti wrote about it. W W W.HELSINKITIMES.FI
Available by subscription, on board more than 350 Finnair flights, on Allegro trains and in all top-quality hotels in Finland. Haglund adds.
As the Commander of the Defence Forces, Puheloinen has to live
near the Defence Command for security and other practical reasons.
Allowances of up to 70%
A few years ago, Generals of the Defence Forces collected allowances of
up to 70 per cent of their housing costs
in down-town Helsinki and Turku, a
decision delivered by the Ministry of
Defence in 2009 indicates.
Deeming the allowances ?unreasonable?, the ministry decided to
introduce a 35 per cent cap on the allowances in December 2009. says Anne Karjalainen, the chair of SDP?s district organisation in Uusimaa. 20 . when Jyri
Häkämies (NCP) was still the Minister of Defence . ?3 . Of
these the United States experienced
one of the most signi?cant declines
over the past year, falling 13 places to
46th position. Haglund says.
spondents would pick Rinne to lead
the SDP while 32 per cent would pick
Urpilainen. H T
JUTTA URPILAINEN, remains the favourite for re-election as the chair
of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
among SDP voters, suggests a poll
commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat
in which 50 per cent of the voters expressed their support for the incumbent chair and 38 per cent for her main
and only rival, Antti Rinne, who hit
the campaign trail in Salo on Tuesday.
The Social Democrats are scheduled to convene for a party conference in May to elect their new leader.
Disregarding party af?liations,
however, 36 per cent of the re-
Haglund vows to address
disputed rent allowance
Ballooning costs prompted the Ministry of Defence to
introduce a cap on rent allowances in 2010.
L AUR A H A L MINEN, T UOMO PIE T IL Ä INEN . Their votes, however,
may no longer prove decisive, with
information gathered by the SDP
about its supporter base in January
suggesting that no more than 30 per
cent of the supporters are workers.
Meanwhile, as many as 35 per cent
of the supporters are pensioners.
For Urpilainen, this bodes well
as the Helsingin Sanomat poll also
shows that 36 per cent of pensioners
would cast their vote for Urpilainen
and 29 per cent for Rinne.
The next chairperson will not be
decided by a poll or a member vote
but by the roughly 500 party conference representatives, whose
nomination process is currently ongoing across Finland. ?Traditionally, each representative has
voted according to their own views.?
Puheloinen was granted the allowance when he assumed his of?ce
in 2009. Risto
Kolanen, the chair of the district organisation in Helsinki, agrees. The ongoing success of
these countries is attributed to their
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Produced by non-pro?t, nongovernmental organisation Reporters Without Borders, the strength
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right to inform and be informed determine each country?s ranking.
The most recent trend globally
has seen a broad interpretation of national security needs, impacting upon
freedom of information in countries
typically regarded as democracies. HS
A L EK SI T EI VA INEN . The state-subsidised allowance enjoyed by Koli was
thereby equivalent to 71 per cent of
the market-determined rent.. You can
transfer from one
vehicle to another
with a single ticket
within the validity
of the ticket.
www.hsl.?
J A M E S O . and I?ll make sure
that the guidelines are followed.?
?If and when the matter is discussed with the successor of Puheloinen, its relevance must be
considered carefully,. he reminds.
?I can?t affect the past, but I can affect the future . H T
customary for the Finnish culture to revisit existing
agreements retrospectively, Carl
Haglund (SFP), the Minister of Defence, argues in response to the
news that the rent allowance enjoyed by General Ari Puheloinen,
the Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces, is in non-compliance
with the ministry?s guidelines.
IT IS NOT
The allowance granted to Puheloinen covers nearly 53 per cent
of his market-determined rent
of 3,408.48 euros. 3D
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Parking & toys
Parking costs to increase, and
children?s newly found love of
tablets stifles toy sales.
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A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . dream candidate
but a dissident labour market leader
turned consensus-seeking mediator.
Employers regard Rinne as an
agitator, whereas workers appreciate his brisk measures.
Indeed, the poll indicates that
43 per cent of workers would select
Rinne as the next chairperson of SDP
while only 30 per cent would select
Urpilainen. S U L L I VA N
HEL SINKI TIMES
THE 2014 World Press Freedom Index
has ranked Finland in the top position for the fourth consecutive year.
Once again, Netherlands and Norway ?lled out the second and third
positions. General
Markku Koli, for example, paid 1,115
euros a month toward the rent of his
129 square metre home in Helsinki
while the Defence Forces forked out
the remaining 2,755 euros during his
term as the Chief of the Defence Command in 2009-2011. Typically, the
representatives are allowed to vote
independently.
?No collective decisions on
personnel issues have traditionally been made,. Rinne was similarly the
favourite of male respondents,
with a support rating of 39 per cent
against Urpilainen?s 30 per cent.
Among women, the candidates are
neck and neck.
To a degree, support for Rinne
may stem from the disillusionment of
some voters with Urpilainen, which
may prompt them to vote against
her regardless of the rival candidate. The guidelines
adopted by the Ministry of Defence
in 2010 contrastively prescribe that
the rent allowance shall not exceed
35 per cent of rent.
?The new rent allowance guidelines have been applied to contracts
drawn up in 2012 when [Stefan]
Wallin was the Minister of Defence,. Rinne is not necessarily the
Social Democrats
The same year, Israel exported weaponry and
military equipment for 5.5
billion euro.
arms exports
alone were more than twice
the size of the entire military
budget of Finland.
THE ISRAELI
new deals
that the Ministry of Defence
of Finland keeps sealing with
Israeli weapons companies,
Finland ends up directly profiting the very companies that
bene?t from both the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territories as well as Israel?s
other war efforts.
BY CONTINUED. The total value of
the project could reach over
35 million euro with the ?rst
systems to be delivered soon.
FIBROTEX, a global industry
leader in camou?age, concealment, and deception solutions, is perhaps best known
as the IDF?s exclusive supplysource choice for camou?age
items. ECI Telecom and its associates are in
a position to ful?ll customer
needs at every communications layer. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
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Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. Bildner added that ?[t]he spirit of volunteering and love of the land
are part of our organisational culture, and we?re proud of
our reserve soldiers and will
continue to do whatever we
can to support them.?
SOON after the ECI purchase,
Finland sealed a much larger deal with Fibrotex Technologies (Fibrotex), another
Israeli private company specialising in manufacturing equipment for military
purposes.
THE MINISTRY of Defence of
Finland will acquire what Fibrotex describes as advanced
multispectral camou?age
systems. The Finnish Army Material Command has
been a valued customer of
ours since 2006, and we are
delighted with this award
and committed to ensuring
that this partnership will
continue for years to come?.
MADE possible by Israel?s
nearly half-century long occupation of the Palestinian
territories, Israel has been
able to augment its militaryindustrial complex, in relative terms, to a magnitude
unprecedented in the world.
In Israel, the mesh comprised
of the state?s military apparatus, related government
branches and the domestic
military industry is a unique
entity for it has evolved under unique circumstances.
ANNUALLY, the German research
institute
Bonn
International Center for Con-
THE YEAR 2010 provides an il-
lustrative example. 2
VIEWPOINT
20 . ?And I?ve had to
go a lot?, Laish emphasised.
ECI WAS
THE JERUSALEM
elaborated on what is
a common occurrence in the
LAISH
also interviewed on
the company?s success in the
Magen Miluim ceremony. in
their ?reservist-friendliness?.
Israeli society, but one that
might strike non-Israelis as
rather atypical, namely the
fact that a salient feature
of the relationship between
employees and employers in
Israel has to do with reserve
duty considerations. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. The
head of ECI?s human resources department, Adi Bildner,
stressed that ECI is a patriotic business endeavour: ?We
believe in professional excellence, but also in taking
societal responsibility and
setting excellent examples in
the community?. The GDPs
of Finland and Israel are almost identical, that of Finland being slightly bigger. performance. Israel, however, is consistently ranked as the most
militarised country in the entire world. Titled Global Militarisation Index, the
study measures the relative
importance of a state?s military to the society as a whole.
Militarisation Index, the Middle East is
ranked as the most militarised
region. This cooperation
has been built through years
of collaboration with the IDF.?
IN 2009, soon after the Israe-
li assault on the Gaza Strip,
the IDF expressed its special gratitude to ECI in a ceremony titled Magen Miluim
(shield of the reserves).
presence of the Defense Minister Ehud Barak,
Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen.
Gabi Ashkenazi, former head
of the Shin Bet Yaakov Perry and the IDF?s chief reserve
forces of?cer Brig. Gen. They?ve
never made me feel like I was
burdening them or something was wrong?, Laish told
to The Jerusalem Post.
IN THE
?THESE are companies which,
through their actions, make
it possible for their employ-
HE ALSO informed
the newspaper that ECI, one of Fin-
For Israeli weapons companies, Finland has
become a trusted trading partner.
ees to complete reserve duty
and then return to their jobs
without any damage to their
position or status?, an Israeli army spokeperson?s statement formulated.
land?s most important Israeli
trading partners in military
equipment, started giving
bonuses to those employees
who serve more than 20 days
per year.
Post interviewed one of ECI?s reservist
employees, Gur Laish. The
Finnish Defence Forces (FDF)
will purchase telecommunications networking products and
maintenance from an Israeli IT
company ECI Telecom (ECI).
FINLAND
ECI HAS been building the tel-
ecommunications network
of the FDF for more than a
decade, creating a situation
in which Finland can buy certain equipment and maintenance only from ECI. In
2010, the total Finnish arms
exports in 2010 were 58 million euro. With
this order, we continue to
bolster our global reputation for quality and innovation backed by ?eld proven
success.?
version produces an authoritative study on the state and
trajectories of militarisation
around the globe. Shuki Ben-Anat, the Israeli army
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Israeli companies have employees who are serving regularly in the reserves.
SEEKING to counter what appears to be an increase in
tension between Israeli reserve soldiers and their employers, the IDF has started
an annual tradition of acknowledging those employers which encourage their
employees to serve in the IDF.
?IF IT WAS during Defensive
Shield, the Second Lebanon War or just now in Gaza,
I?m a combat reservist, and
my unit is drafted anytime
there?s a full call-up. Hence,
ECI was awarded a no-bid
contract by Finland.
ECI IS the main telecommunications vendor for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and
among the world?s leading
providers of telecommunications networking solutions.
AS IS DE rigueur for any Israe-
li company in the business of
weapons manufacturing or
production of IT for military
applications, ECI white paper openly proclaims: ?ECI
Telecom heads a number of
leading companies. As is to be expected,
the company?s special relationship with the Israeli military is a marketing tool of
great value.
ADI BLUM,
owner and CEO of
Fibrotex, underlined that ?[w]e
take great pride in our company?s four decade relationship as
[the IDF?s] exclusive source for
concealment solutions?.
on yet a new
deal with the IDF in 2010,
COMMENTING
Blum asserted that ?we value each new contract award
as further proof of our products. Under these circumstances, Israel has been
able to increase its occupation-powered military exports
to extraordinary heights.
IN THE GLOBAL
weapons companies, Finland has become a
trusted trading partner.
FOR ISRAELI
BLUM exulted over the new
massive deal with Finland,
stating that ?[w]e feel great
pride to have been awarded
this strategic project, with
its leading-edge technical requirements. Laish
explained that he never felt
uncomfortable in any way
with ECI when he had to go for
reserve duty. own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
Bruno Jäntti is an investigative journalist specialising in international politics.
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has sealed a new
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People also look for guidelines
for their own actions in the
behaviour of others, and not
helping may become a behavioural norm,. Malinen now
stresses, insisting also that
Itella does not hold a monopoly of the delivery market.
The lion?s
share of deliveries
Statistics compiled by the
Finnish Newspapers Association show that in 2011 Itella was responsible for 60 per
cent of early-morning deliveries. he suggests.
The proposal represents
Itella?s effort to alleviate the
economic burden imposed by
its early-morning delivery
operations, the pro?tabili-
ty of which has eroded due
to slumping newspaper circulation. ?In an urban environment
and in the age of mobile
phones, calls to the emergency response centre are often
placed relatively quickly.?
Newspapers Association and
the CEO of Keskisuomalainen.
An ef?cient delivery system, he underlines, is a prerequisite for newspaper
publishers.
Kangaskorpi is unable to
estimate how exactly a joint
venture could enhance the
pro?tability of delivery operations. not, for example,
for long-term storing needs.
Regardless of the proposed
price hike, the cost of residential parking in the Finnish
capital remains low in comparison to for example Stockholm, where residents have to
cough up over 1,100 euro per
year for a parking permit.
In addition, Helsinki is
mulling over the expansion
of the residential parking
scheme, with the districts of
Munkkiniemi, Munkkivuori,
Lauttasaari and Käpylä tentatively designated as new
residential parking zones.
A permit in the new zones
would cost 180 euro per year.
For households with more than one car, the price of the parking
permit will jump by 50 per cent for their second and third cars.
Angry Birds movie makes
its nest in Vancouver
Sony Pictures
aims for a 2016
release date.
J A M E S O . Altogether, the sector
comprises 13 service providers. ?The matter should be
settled before the end of the
decade.?
?For Itella, early-morning
newspaper deliveries are business operations. Her body temperature
had dropped to 16 degrees.
She died in a hospital later
that night.
Her daughter, Ulla-Maija Vähä, says that she was
overtaken by grief but also
by disbelief after her mother?s death.
?Mother walked through
the Haukipudas centre at
the busiest time of the day
dressed only in light clothes,
and surely caught people?s
attention. H T
to return to her
childhood home had been
building up for some time. by discontinuing delivery
contracts and proposing notable price hikes.
In an interview with Helsingin Sanomat in late January, Kai Telanne, the CEO of
Alma Media, viewed that Itel-
la is ruthlessly taking advantage of its monopoly of the
market. They cannot be loss-making in the long
term,. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . On
24 February 2011, Eila Ukkola ran away from a nursing home in Haukipudas,
Northern Ostrobothnia. ?The partnerships
have disappeared. H T
HS / JUHANI NIIR ANEN
THE PRICE of residential
parking permits in Helsinki will rise from the current
120 euro to 360 euro per year
over the next half-a-dozen
years, the City Board decided unanimously on 17 February. A massive success
for Rovio, the series has surpassed more than one billion
views in its ?rst seven months.
?The Angry Birds movie
will allow Sony Pictures Imageworks to employ more
artists in Vancouver on a
single ?lm than we?ve had
on any of our previous CG
features,. We?re all in
the same boat,. underlines Malinen.
The increasing costs have
already strained the relationship between Itella and publishers, which have voiced
their disapproval of the manner in which Itella has hitherto approached the problem
. S U L L I VA N
HEL SINKI TIMES
THE forthcoming Angry Birds
movie is to be produced
by animation house Sony Pictures Imageworks in
Vancouver.
With over two billion
downloads since 2009, Angry
Birds has expanded rapidly in-
to entertainment, publishing
and licensing to become an international household name.
The movie marks Rovio?s ?rst
venture into feature ?lms,
following on from the weekly Angry Birds Toons animated series. she asks.
The inclination of people
to help depends on who is in
need of help, views Jere Roimu, an inspector at the Helsinki Police Department.
?A child stirs a stronger desire to help than an unkempt, maybe intoxicated
man on a park bench,. Itella could
participate in the possible regional ventures as a minority
shareholder,. We are willing to look
at a variety of options,. HS
A L EK SI T EI VA INEN . ?Maybe, for example,
by also sharing something
else,. enthused Randy
Lake, executive vice president and general manager,
Digital Production Services,
in a press release.
With directors Fergal
Reilly and Clay Kaytis at
the helm, the animated ?lm
is slated for a 1 July 2016 release. Holders of the permit are
not assigned a speci?c roadside parking space but are
exempt from hourly parking
fees near their home.
The price increment is to
be introduced intermittently
between 2015 and 2016.
Initially, city of?cials
were proposing that the price
of residential parking permits be raised to 680 euro per year but that permit
holders be also offered the
possibility to redeem the permit at a cut price for the summer months.
Despite lowering the price
?rst to 480 euro in November
and then to 360 euro on Mon-
day, the City Board turned
down the proposal for a price
cut for the summer.
For households with more
than one car, the price of the
parking permit will jump
by 50 per cent for their second and third cars . The costs, however, have failed to follow suit
as Itella has been unable to
trim its delivery organisation without compromising
the quality of its services.
Malinen hopes that publishers will participate in the
negotiations proposed by
Itella. he gauges.
Since the 1990s, several newspapers have of?oaded their delivery operations
to Itella in what Kangaskorpi
describes as the spirit of partnership. Hopefully,
they can be re-discovered.?
Itella wants to share
newspaper delivery burden
In particular, deliveries outside population centres are currently in jeopardy.
HEIK K I A ROL A , T EE MU LUUK K A . to a total of 540 euro per year in the
current residential parking
zones.
The decision represents
Helsinki?s attempts to increase the availability of
parking space by encouraging residents to purchase the
parking permit for genuine
need only . They cannot be loss-making in the long
term,. 26 FEBRUARY
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Residential
parking costs to
triple in Helsinki
K A L L E S I L F V E R B E RG . message. he
explains.
In general, Roimu views
regardless, people are predisposed to help one another. ?I think that it?s
more due to fear than indifference,. Sony Pictures will also be handling worldwide
distribution.
Eila Ukkola, the mother of Ulla-Maija Vähä, died three years ago in February after running away from a nursing home.
Heikki Turkka, the manager of a youth outreach
project in Helsinki?s Kamppi, views that the threshold
for people to step in is relatively high. ?No business can
propose two-digit rate hikes
to customers,. underlines Malinen.. ?We are interested
to hear what Itella has to present. Itella ventured into the
sector in 2003, when it acquired the delivery company
Leijonajakelu from Sanoma.
Newspaper publishers are
cautiously interested in the
proposal. explains AnnaMaija Pirttilä-Backman, a
professor of social psychology.
Pirttilä-Backman
also
points out that at times it
may be dif?cult to interpret
whether someone is in need
of help or whether they may
even be offended by an offer
to help.
Too few intervene
when others need help
JOHANNA SJÖHOL M . The
72-year-old Ukkola suffered
from Alzheimer?s disease
and was only wearing light
clothes and slippers.
Outside, the mercury was
20 degrees below the freezing point and the wind chill
factor was notable.
Ukkola?s disappearance
was noticed immediately, but
THE DESIRE
she was in a good physical
condition and walked fast.
Four hours later, Ukkola was
found sitting by a tree by the
sea. HS
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . he stated.
?We?ve heard the publishers. Malinen proposes that Itella and
publishers establish joint
ventures that assume responsibility for early-morning deliveries.
?We need new thinking
and co-operation. H T
HEIKKI MALINEN, the CEO of
postal services provider Itella, has invited publishers to
mull over a new collaborative arrangement to organise
newspaper deliveries. says
Vesa-Pekka Kangaskorpi,
the chairman of the Finnish
H S / R I O G A N DA R A
The City Board
approved the price
hike on 17 February.
?For Itella, early-morning
newspaper deliveries are business operations. he estimates.
The decision not to help
can be attributed to a natural
reaction associated with the
behaviour of people in crowds.
?It?s easy to think that someone else will surely help. How is it possible that people don?t step
in when others need their
help?
?Brands must
release new products to uphold
the interest of consumers,?
stresses Erkki Mäkilä, a buying
manager at K-citymarket, Anttila and Kodin Ykkönen.
Lego, for example, continues to thrive courtesy of
a number of themes targeted for girls. Accordingly,
the interest group demands
that the costs of parenthood
be balanced at once in order
to dismantle the unemployment trap of young women.
The Women Entrepreneurs of Finland is a nationwide interest group with
roughly 7,000 members.
In its preliminary ruling,
the CURIA commented on
the treatment of two Finnish
women.
One of the women had taken a child care leave after her
?rst maternity leave to take
care of her twins born in 2008.
She then got pregnant again
and took another maternity
leave before returning to work
from her child care leave. ?On the other hand, I am a game developer.?
M A R JO VA LTAVA A R A ,
E S A JUN T UN E N . 4
DOMESTIC
20 . ?We will gradually overhaul our entire fleet,. Tiina Janhunen,
a buying manager at Stockmann, reveals.
In fact, even video games
have struggled to sustain
their appeal, with children
being able to play whenever and wherever they are
on their smartphones and
tablets. Frida Leinonen, 4, comments on her favourite toys. ?Birthday parties are
going nowhere, and the present must be something concrete,. a 20per cent increase from 2012.
Should strict language skill requirements be loosened
for job applicants who aren?t proficient in Finnish?
Yes . Children who
play the video game Skylanders, for example, are encouraged to collect a series
of character ?gures, which
can be utilised in the game by
placing them on an extension
called the Portal of Power.
Today, spin-offs are increasingly derived from video games, rather than ?lms
or television.
Yet, certain traditional toys
remain popular. ?We process thousands
of tonnes of the same materials every year.?
Citing Ekokem?s arrangement with the OPCW, Piekkari declines to comment on the
scope and schedule of the project, as well as the distribution
of responsibilities with Veolia.
Last month, the waste management company revealed
that it has submitted a bid to
help dispose of the waste produced in the destruction of
Syria?s chemical weapons.
The resolution for the destruction of the weapons was
passed following a devastating gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Saqba in August,
which left hundreds dead and
sparked worldwide outrage.
After their collection in
the con?ict-ravaged country,
the chemical weapons will be
transported to the Port of Latakia and thereon, aboard
a Nordic ?eet, to the Port of
Gioia Tauro on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy. ?The sales
of wooden toys have grown
markedly,. H T
the employer. ?Now employers are even more tempted to
hire men instead of women,?
the deputy chair of the interest group, Kerttu Helynen,
comments in a bulletin.
In particular, the Women Entrepreneurs view the
ruling punishes women-run
small companies by imposing the new costs solely on
Ekokem?s hazardous waste treatment plant in Riihimäki.
Finland?s Ekokem to help
destroy Syrian chemical weapons
FINNISH hazardous waste man-
agement company Ekokem has
been awarded a contract to dispose of the chemicals and ef?uents produced in the process
of destroying Syrian chemical weapons, the Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW) announced
on Friday.
In addition to the Riihimäki-based company, the chemical arms watchdog awarded
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Last December, nearly 30,000 foreigners were without a
job . Roughly a dozen Finnish soldiers
have been sent to secure the
transport operation, which
began in mid-January.
In Italy, the weapons will
be loaded onto the American
container vessel Cape Ray for
their neutralisation at sea.
The disposal of the chemicals and ef?uent produced in
the process, in turn, is the responsibility of Ekokem and
Veolia.
Altogether, an estimated 1,000 tonnes of chemical
weapons will be destroyed,
with an initial priority on the
disposal of the roughly 500
tonnes of extremely hazardous chemicals, such as mustard and sarin gas, believed
to be in Syria.
L E H T I K U VA / A N T T I A I M O - KO I V I S T O
a contract to the international water treatment conglomerate Veolia.
Altogether, 14 companies
submitted bids in response
to the call for proposals.
?We are very pleased with
the con?dence in our expertise and to have been able to
demonstrate our expertise,?
comments Timo Piekkari,
the CEO of Ekokem.
Piekkari underlines that
the disposal of Syria?s chemical arsenal entails no technological challenges for Ekokem.
PEKK A HAK AL A . HS
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . For example, the
sales of dolls can no longer
keep up with other toy sales,?
says Hans Backström, an assortment director at SOK.
Janne Ylinen, the managing director of Halpa-Halli,
admits that his four children spend more and more
time with laptops and tablets. They gather dust
on the shelves of toy stores as
children are increasingly taken
to electronics, such as smartphones, tablets and robots.
?Robots, tablets and
games have replaced traditional toys. H T
are tough for dolls,
teddy bears and other traditional toys. H T
THE WOMEN Entrepreneurs
of Finland views that the recent preliminary ruling by the
Court of Justice of the European Union (CURIA) on wages
during maternity leave further
deteriorates the position of
women in the labour market.
According to the interest
group, the ruling tramples
on the hopes of job-seeking
women.
The CURIA ruled last
Thursday that employees are
entitled to their wages during
their second maternity leave,
even if they have not returned
to work after their ?rst maternity leave. ?Cruises should be more appealing
especially to the younger generation that is used to seeing new
things and travelling more than the older generation.?
?On iPad, the birthday party game [Toca Boca] is the best,. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA INE N . ?Dolls
are less interesting overall,
whereas board game sales
may move increasingly to digital games in the future.?
While visiting an international toy fair in Nuremberg,
Germany, at the turn of the
month, Ylinen paid attention
to the amount of children?s
tablets on display. 75.5%
?We don?t destroy the weapons but participate in the disposal of the waste produced in
the destruction process,. you have low-cost airlines, Facebook and day-spas,. Ylinen views.. ?The cruise concept has not changed for
decades. 26 FEBRUARY
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L E H T I K U VA / M A R T T I K A I N U L A I N E N
Women Entrepreneurs:
EU ruling on wages
during maternity leave
tramples on women
JUH A NI S A A R INE N . The world has moved on . If the demand for traditional dolls
and ?gures peters out, new
dolls and ?gures must be
churned out. Her
employer consequently refused to pay her wages for the
?rst three months of her second maternity leave.
The preliminary ruling
has been characterised as
momentous due to several
collective agreements currently containing chapters
that contradict it.
Back to back maternity leaves have even more detrimental
consequences for a woman?s career and finances.
No . Schults views.
In recent years, both Viking Line and Tallink Silja have
struggled to generate growth on their services to Stockholm,
with the latter reporting a modest decline in passenger volumes last year. says Janhunen.
Regardless, retailers do
not expect toy shelves in the
future to consist only of tablets. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA IN E N . Another key asset in today?s toy markets is
eco-friendliness. ?Discussion
on the topic was animated.
The toy industry is clearly undergoing a change that began
gradually years ago.?
As the world of children
changes, toy manufacturers strive to follow. On the other hand, both companies have recorded moderate increases on their services to Tallinn.
Tallink Silja has recently launched an extensive programme
to renovate its cruise ships operating on routes to Stockholm
in an attempt to increase passenger volumes and, in particular,
to appeal to young adults. Schults reveals. School-aged children, in particular, are no
THE TIMES
longer interested in traditional toys. Her father, Aki
Järvinen, says that he tries to find a balance between games and
toys. ?There is so much stimuli and entertainment that
basic toys are no longer
interesting.?
Barbie dolls and board
games, Ylinen says, are struggling to stand their ground in
today?s toy markets. 24.5%
Toy sales taper off as
children play more with tablets
HS / BENJA MIN SUOMEL A
L E H T I K U VA
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
Who:
Margus Schults
From:
Estonia
Famous for:
CEO of Tallink Silja
Margus Schults concedes that the traditional cruise concept
may be outdated while cruise lines struggle in the face from
low-cost carriers. ?The sales of video games have declined as
games move onto other platforms,. he
says
According to
PAM, threatening behaviour
against customer service
personnel has increased.
A Swedish store chain has
managed to stem robberies entirely by introducing
cash registers that dispense
change automatically, no
longer requiring cashiers
to handle cash. It?s a question
of equal treatment. ?There can be no
excesses, regardless of what
[the investigation] concerns.
It?s dif?cult to rectify mistakes made during the pretrial investigation.?
Krista Soukola, the of?cer in charge of the investigation, told Helsingin Sanomat
on Friday that she has yet to
pore over the verdict in detail. In addition, Leppiniemi criticised the publication ban that prohibits her
from revealing details of the
pre-trial investigation.
?Due to the publication
ban, I cannot interview possible witnesses,. On 13
February, Haavisto declined
to elaborate further on the
YLE:
Unusual
robbery
wave hits
small shops
HS
have recorded
nearly 40 robberies or attempted robberies in early 2014, representing a
two-fold increase from the
corresponding period last
year, YLE reports. In
its verdict, the district court
by the rules. says
Ihalainen.
According to Ihalainen,
the concentration of the operations of the traf?c safety
centres to Helsinki later this
year will curb the temptation
to break the law.
?A single large centre will
clarify the system. The Finnish
Commerce Federation, however, points out that the register system is expensive and
does not reduce the need for
personnel.
The police have yet to determine the cause of the increase in robberies at the beginning of 2014.
developments in the investigation as they occur. underlines Kekki.
Last year, the roughly 950 automatic speed surveillance cameras mounted
on roadside poles in Finland took 400,000 photos.
The photos are processed at
traf?c safety centres, where
police of?cers issue the written cautions, petty ?nes and
?nes recommended by the
automatic system.
Heikki Ihalainen, a superintendent at the National Police Board, emphasises
that the procedure is in no
way discretionary. of?cers viewing that
it was an attempt to hinder
the investigation and Rainiala that it was an attempt
to console a family friend. motives, he con?rms
that they are believed to have
acted with deliberation. The data collected by the cameras is processed at seven traffic safety centres across Finland.
. who is suspected of four aggravated
drug offences and aggravated acceptance of bribes ?
has contested the criminal
accusations.
Last Thursday, Aarnio
was also detained with probable cause on three counts of
aggravated abuse of public
of?ce, two counts of breach
of of?cial secrecy and two
counts of incitement to an
offence.
In effect, Aarnio is believed to have leaked classi?ed information and
employed coercive measures
affecting telecommunications, reveals Jukka Haavisto, the prosecutor in charge
of the investigation. she said.
Failure to issue fines to speeders
caught on camera sparks investigation
M IN N A PA S S I . The cases are not terribly ?agrant, but the ?nes
should have been issued,?
stresses Tero Kekki, the district prosecutor in charge of
the investigation.
According to him, the discrepancies have taken place
over a roughly two-year
period.
Although Kekki refrains
from speculating on the suspects. Last year, the cameras snapped roughly 400,000 photos. It will be dif?cult for anyone to call and
ask someone to delete a ?ne.
It will prevent the personal
cases that may have emerged
at regional centres from arising,. ?We?ll consider later
whether the decision should
be appealed,. In
addition, it remained unclear
what kind of evidence was to
be discovered in the raid.
Defence counsel Riitta Leppiniemi at the District Court of Helsinki in December.
questions whether the conversation even constitutes
suf?cient grounds to suspect
Rainiala of violating his of?cial duties.
Rainiala has voiced his
satisfaction with the verdict.
?The decision appears to be
lawful and suf?ciently validated,. ?We haven?t had
any prior suspected wrongdoings, but the matter has
been discussed every now
and then just to be sure,. she explained.
Leppiniemi also called
attention to the manner in
which Aarnio has been secluded during his remand.
?It?s been particularly tough
because he has not been allowed to contact his family,?
she highlighted.
Her criticism was rejected by Haavisto, who assured
that the defence is noti?ed of
this,. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . Rainiala
and the of?cers in charge of
the investigation disagree on
the nature of the conversation . ?We have no concrete knowledge of anything
like this taking place elsewhere,. ?We
believe there is a reason why
?nes were not issued in these
particular cases. It felt bad,
but it?s something that must
be done.?
Similarly, of?cers are
expected to transfer cases concerning their friends
of family members to their
colleagues. ?The
publication ban, in turn, is
standard procedure when an
investigation is still ongoing.
Its necessity will be re-considered as the investigation
progresses.?
With respect to the seclusion, Haavisto declined to
comment, citing the court?s
decision to seal the matter
classi?ed.
Court: No legal
grounds for raid
against drug squad
A day later, the District Court
of Helsinki ruled in a separate but related trial that
there were no legal grounds
for the raid performed in the
premises of the drug squad
in December, after four of
Aarnio?s subordinates had
been nabbed on suspicion of
violating their of?cial duties.
Inspector Petri Rainiala
had asked the district court
to consider the lawfulness
of the raid, insisting that the
sweep in his of?ce had not
been conducted according to
regulations.
The court concurred with
his view, concluding that
there were no grounds for
the raid because it had not
been shown to facilitate the
solving of a criminal case. It may be
that an explanation can be
found for some or all of the
cases,. ?Regardless of who was speeding,
the consequences must be
the same [?]. H S
JARI AARNIO, the chief of Hel-
sinki Police Department?s
drug squad, remains in detention following a decision last week by the District
Court of Helsinki to extend
his remand detention and the
deadline by which charges
against him must be brought.
Aarnio . ?I personally
issued all ?nes to police of?cers. 26 FEBRUARY
5
C O M P I L E D B Y A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N
M IN N A PA S S I . As a result, some 145,000 drivers were issued a written caution, 32,000 a
petty fine, 160,000 a summary penal fine and 13,000 a fine.
. he commented.
Rainiala also underlines
that the criminal accusations
must be investigated but that
the investigation must abide
The accusations against
Rainiala are related to a
phone conversation he had
with the wife of Aarnio after Aarnio?s arrest. The regional centres will be shut down later this year as their
functions are concentrated to Helsinki.
Source: The National Police Board.
HS / VESA OJA
Defence counsel Riitta Leppiniemi views
that she has been unable to defend her client due to the actions of the investigators.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R
Aarnio?s defence counsel slams investigators
950 automatic speed cameras monitor some 3,000 kilometres of
Finnish roads.. H S
TWO POLICE of?cers in north-
ern Finland are believed to
have deliberately not imposed ?nes on drivers caught
speeding on automatic speed
surveillance cameras.
?We are talking about
roughly two dozen cases
where the camera has reacted but no ?ne has been
issued. he reminds.
As a result, the of?cers
are suspected of violating
their of?cial duties but may
also be charged with abuse of
public of?ce.
In the course of the investigation, of?cers have
considered whether similar
cases of malfeasance may
have also taken place at other traf?c safety centres,
where the photos snapped by
the surveillance cameras are
processed. estimates Ihalainen.
. Altogether, roughly 950 automatic speed surveillance cameras have been mounted on roadside poles, covering some
3,000 kilometres of Finnish roads.
. 400,000
cases will be processed there
every year. he
states.
Ihalainen reveals that
during his assignment as the
director of a traf?c safety
centre he would personally
address all potentially cumbersome cases. Mikko Halme, an inspector at the Helsinki Police
Department, admits in an interview with YLE.
The phenomenon has also caught the attention of
Service Union United (PAM)
and the Finnish Commerce
Federation. Issuing them kept me up
a couple of nights. Emergency response driving and
other similar circumstances
are the only exceptions,. ?I have no
clear idea what has caused
THE POLICE
alleged data leaks but underlined that Aarnio is not
suspected in relation to the
so-called Putin leak.
After the hearing, defence
counsel Riitta Leppiniemi
criticised the investigators,
arguing that their actions
have made it virtually impossible for her to defend her
client.
The defence, Leppiniemi
said, was unable to prepare
suf?ciently for the detention
hearing, because the documents related to the new accusations were submitted
belatedly
A biobank
is a medical storage that contains tissue, DNA or oth-
er samples from humans, as
well as related information.
A law that came into effect last autumn allows the
establishment of biobanks,
and this opens new doors for
developing drugs and treatments, says Biobank Professor Olli Carpén from the
University of Turku.
?The law on biobanks ensures that samples are only
used with donors. Since then, medicine has advanced significantly. Joining Nato under these terms could lead to a 100 million euro
cut in our defence budget, a sum that is roughly equal
to the cost of running the Navy. Good kitchen hygiene is important in preventing E. Most certainly?
?ALEXANDER STUBB writes
on his Facebook page about
a story in Helsingin Sanomat
that analysed the use of tablets and smart phones during
parliamentary sessions.
?Do I sometimes use my
cell phone or iPad in the wrong
place at the wrong time. He is a doctor of philosophy by education.
Finland and Nato
THE HARD nucleus of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ-
isation, or Nato, can be found in Article 5, which commits the member states to defend each other. 26 FEBRUARY
FROM FINNISH PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
COMPILED BY ANNIK A RAUTAKOURA
L E H T I K U VA / TA PA N I M Y L LY
AAMULEHTI 15 FEBRUARY
New cases
of E. Finland is best defended by Finns, which is
why we should comply with the principle of defending
the entire territory of the country, have our own ef?cient Defence Forces and general conscription.
Want to know if you should compliment your girlfriend
on being plösö or paksuna?
Sick of not knowing your Kossu from your skumppa?
Not sure whether to käydä vieraissa or to käydä vierailulla?
Finnish After Dark is here to help, with everything from cool slang to chat up lines, tips on how to
avoid being beaten up in taxi queues and the latest excuses for why you are late for work.
Finnish After Dark is a humoristic look at various Finnish-language terms and phrases that are
almost impossible to translate.
These are the spices of late night conversation among Finns, which are almost always missed
by foreigners.
The book is based on the Finnish After Dark series published in SixDegrees over the past few
years. On the other hand, besides
the US, Britain, Greece and Estonia are the only countries
to achieve the two per cent mark. It is in the best interest
of Finland to keep tabs on these future developments and
also to watch for decisions taken by Sweden regarding its
defence, the country being our usual point of comparison.
THE FINNS Party, which I represent, is in favour of a national defence solution: while remaining militarily nonaligned, Finland is prepared to defend itself through a
regional defence system based on general conscription.
WE MUST seek military support but not rely on it. The most recent
developments have been
with biopharmaceuticals.
Biobanks also aid in developing these precision drugs.
?We do not know everything about the mechanisms
these drugs operate on and
who they are best suited for,
and who will encounter side
effects. The most common
symptoms of E. Stubb, who currently resides in Geneva, writes.
He states that he gave up
all heavy daily paper ?les a
couple of years ago.
?All the documents of the
day and background can be
found on my tablet these
days. The series continues to receive excellent feedback from readers.
Buy online: www.6d.?/fad or from major bookstores.. According to
Speaker Eero Heinäluoma it
offends people.?
OPERATIONAL costs could be anything from zero euros
up to 50 million euros, depending on how an active role
Finland would take on in the organisation. On the other hand, the strategic focus
of the US has shifted from Europe towards the Paci?c.
NATO?S future is open and it is still unclear which direction
the alliance will take steps towards. Security guarantees come at a price. One thing is for certain, though. Absolutely,. He serves as the vice chair of the Finns Party and a
member of the Nurmijärvi municipal council. KASPERI SUMMANEN
?Do I use my iPad in the
wrong place. No deaths
have been reported to THL.
Cases of E. coli infections
include bloody, feverless diarrhea and stomach cramps.?
?MORE
Finnish biobanks store
immense potential
?BIOBANKS to be established
in Finland are expected to
revolutionise medical treatment. As a member of a military
alliance we would receive assistance, but probably only
as long as the party coming to our aid bene?tted from
doing so. We also do not know
who bene?ts from them and
who does not, but in order to
better utilise them we need
to have a better understanding of these samples, as well
as related information,. Carpén describes.
In the early 2000s American researchers were able
to complete the human gene
map, thus the long hidden
mystery of human DNA was
solved. 6
20 . However, pressure to
achieve the two per cent goal would de?nitely exist, especially for a relatively well-off new member.
WHEN considering our defence options, it does not pay
to be naive. defence budget is two per cent
of gross domestic product, while our budget currently accounts for 1.3 per cent of GDP. coli.
?Some interviews have revealed that the diagnosed
people have, for example, consumed raw meatball dough.
Raw meat may contain the E.
coli bacterium,. About ten biobanks
will be set up in Finland
within a few years, mostly
in the vicinity of university
hospitals.
Biobank operations may
improve medical treatment
and the treatment of rare diseases signi?cantly. Stubb states.
?It seems that a tolerance
threshold and learning process in that regard are still
ongoing. There is no going
back to paper piles or print-
ed newspapers. Life is just so
much easier with these new
gadgets, in Switzerland as
well,. Finland?s share
of the defence alliance?s joint budget would amount to at
least 20 million euros, in addition to which a similar sum
would have to be forked out to send around 100 of?cers
to work at various Nato establishments. It used to focus
on crisis management and navigated its way through the
war in Yugoslavia that spelled the break-up of the country
but then got tangled up in the situation in Afghanistan.
NOW NATO is searching for a new direction and a return
to its fundamental task speci?ed in Article 5, unless involvement in a con?ict such as the Syrian crisis diverts
it from its course. On the
other hand they may be used
more innovatively than before,. Article 5 was, however, ?rst invoked only in
2001, in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Biobanks have massive potential for developing medical treatments.
YLE NEWS 15 FEBRUARY. And yet, it would still
remain unclear, what kind of added value could the defence of Finland gain by joining Nato.
WE SHOULD also bear in mind that the Nato recommendation for its member states. Biobanks will contain
blood and tissue samples for
medical and treatment research. 11 cases have been reported to the National Institute for Health and Welfare
(THL) since mid-December.
Those who have been diagnosed with the bacterium
are children located around
Finland. good
kitchen
hygiene
important
Jussi Niinistö is a Member of Parliament and the Chair of Defence
Committee. The
original interpretation was that if the Soviet Union attacked one of the European allies of the United States,
it would also be considered an attack against the US.
the cold war, Nato had its place as a defence
alliance. On Twitter Stubb
jokes that he gets feedback
mostly on his red ties and
sports watch.
The parliamentary committee receives complaints
on the use of phones by MPs
and ministers during plenary sessions. coli
. First of all, it has expanded by taking several new members. Therefore, Nato
membership would bring with it annual administrative
expenses amounting to 40 million euros.
WHATEVER
cases of Escherichia
coli bacteria, which cause intestinal infections have been
found. TITTA PUURUNEN
DURING
BUT NATO is a very different organisation from what it
was back in the days of the cold war. coli increased by
threefold last year.
THL and the Finnish Food
Safety Authority Evira are investigating the reason for the
increase. They should
be properly rinsed before eating them. Carpén clari?es.?
VERKKOUUTISET 15 FEBRUARY. permission
and anonymously. Seven of them have
a severe infection. Even if
Finland joined a military alliance in the future, we still
should retain sovereign control over all the key capabilities of our national defence. epidemiology veterinarian Ruska Rimhanen-Finne warns.
Also vegetables may cause
E.coli infections. We would be most likely to be given material
assistance, and air support at the most.
you think of Nato, there is no denying the
fact that joining the Alliance is not a cost-cutting measure. Of course I sometimes
rely on paper, but this is more
seldom.
mistakes,. 13 FEBRUARY PAUL TAYLOR & MIKE PEACOCK
EU must rebuild unity,
address populists?
concerns . said Hanna Lamadon,
Partner and Head of Commercial Leasing at DTZ Finland.
According to Lamadon,
property agents had to work
very hard to achieve a good
result in 2013. 13 FEBRUARY
Finland?s Outokumpu
trims loss on cost cuts
steelmaker Outokumpu reported a smallerthan-expected underlying loss
?STAINLESS
for the fourth quarter and forecast an improvement in the
current quarter after cost cuts
REUTERS. Successful leasing oper-
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has been particularly fruitful,. he said.
?In some southern European countries people are
thinking that the northern Europeans are arrogant
and they are not ready to
help?...?
Finns spent around seven hours of waking time alone per day on average in 2009 to 2010.
BUSINESS STANDARD. Analysts on average expected a loss of 122 million euros,
according to a Reuters poll??
of northern creditor states
and poorer debtor countries
was fuelling euroscepticism
and posed a threat to the
28-nation bloc?s unity.
?In some countries people
are thinking that integration
is not fair if we have to pay
for other countries. 14 FEBRUARY
Sponda selected DTZ
Finland as property
agent of the year
?PROPERTY investment company Sponda Plc has selected
DTZ Finland Oy as property agent of the year for 2013.
This is the sixth time Sponda
has awarded the title.
In giving out the award,
Ossi Hynynen, Senior Vice
President for Investment
Properties at Sponda, stat-
ed that DTZ Finland, one of
the largest property agents
in the Helsinki metropolitan
area, earned the title due to
its active and successful cooperation with Sponda.
?We have an active ?vemember team that handles
the leasing of business premises. We
are also concerned about environmental protection and
our support therefore includes funding to fuel-ef?cient stoves for the refugees
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At the same time, Finnish parents in average spent
5.5 hours with their under
10-year-old children in 2009
to 2010, while 10 years ago
the ?gure was six hours.
Mothers in particular, spent nearly one hour
less than 10 years ago, even
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?EUROPEAN leaders need to
rebuild the unity of the European Union, badly fractured
in the eurozone debt crisis, and address the worries
of populist voters, Finnish
and the host community,?
said Johan Borgstam, Swedish Ambassador to Kenya.
?The government of Finland
?rmly supports WFP?s efforts
in the ?ght against hunger and
will continue partnering with
the organization in this noble mission,. Finnish PM
Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen said on Thursday.
Speaking at a Reuters Euro Zone Summit, the center-right leader said mutual
resentment between citizens
ations for of?ce, logistics and
retail premises led to another
strong result in 2013. The high workload looks
set to continue in 2014, with
approximately one million
square metres of of?ce premises currently vacant in the
Helsinki metropolitan area??
helped to limit the impact of
weaker stainless steel prices.
Outokumpu trimmed its
quarterly underlying operating
loss to 90 million euros ($122
million) from 169 million euros
in the same quarter a year earlier. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . decisionmakers. 26 FEBRUARY
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L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
ALL AFRICA. 11 FEBRUARY
Kenya: Sweden and Finland
give more than $8 million
for refugees in Kenya
World
Food Programme (WFP) welcomed contributions from
Sweden and Finland of $6.9
million (45,000,000 SEK) and
$1.3 million (?1,000,000) respectively to support refugees in the Dadaab and
Kakuma camps in Kenya
as well as the Kenyan host
community.
?THE UNITED NATIONS
?Sweden is the world?s
fourth largest humanitarian donor and we are happy
to work with WFP to provide
necessary food assistance to
the refugees in Kenya. Thanks to its
active approach, DTZ signed
over 80 new leases during the
year. 7 FEBRUARY
Finns spend more time alone
spent about 20 per
cent more time alone in 2009
to 2010 than 10 years ago,
while Finnish parents spent
around 10 per cent less time
with their children, showed
the latest data released by
Statistics Finland Thursday.
Finns spent around seven
hours of waking time alone
per day on average in 2009
to 2010, while the ?gure was
?FINNS
5.9 hours in 1999 to 2000,
showed the latest statistical
data issued by Statistics Finland, Xinhua reported.
The increase of being alone
is obvious for both men and
women and in all age cohorts.
Particularly women aged
over 65 years spent most
time alone, compared to the
other groups
Finland last
had a minority government in
1977 and it ruled for less than
a year. Our production is 4.7% below
what it was in 2010, but our nearest competitors of Estonia, Sweden and Germany all have levels of production above 2010 levels.
FINLAND?S
Prime Minister Katainen and Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen
are signaling that the government can no longer commit to the
second of two policy targets it had previously defended against
austerity critics.
Government abandoning a target to
halt debt growth by
the end of its term
next year.
K A S P E R V I I TA
BLOOMBERG NE W S
PRIME Minister Jyrki Katainen has joined Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen in
signaling the government
can no longer commit to the
second of two policy targets
it had previously defended
against austerity critics. The general government budget gap has
remained within the 3 per cent
European Union rule since at
least 1996, and will narrow to
2 per cent next year.
Further delays in pushing
through budget cuts will only
undermine debt targets, according to Vesala.
Hitting the target
Finland?s 3 billion-euro austerity target is based on a
forecast by the Finance Ministry of how much budget adjustment is needed for debt
as a percentage of gross domestic product to begin
falling.
?My perception is that 3
billion euros is not enough,?
Vesala said. 8
BUSINESS
20 . The time has come to make some serious
decisions about Finland?s future and place in the world.
MEANWHILE, our trade balance has started to deterio-
rate again. The
shift means the government
is poised to spread 3 billion
euro of measures needed to
rein in the budget over several years, allowing debt
growth to continue.
Finland, which boasts the
euro area?s only remaining
stable AAA credit rating, has
suffered two years of economic contraction. The 9 billion-euro plan
agreed in November will be
sent to parliament gradually.
Changes to municipal structures and local governments?
role in social services are still
being drafted.
?Public sector reforms
have proceeded much too
slowly,. Tiny incremental steps have been taken to ?x
the situation, like holding wages down via the most recent collective bargaining agreement, making small
adjustments to the budget and tinkering with retirement ages. Still, Katainen defended his government?s
austerity policies as key
to protecting Finland?s top
credit grade and preventing
a rise in borrowing costs.
Austerity critics, including Nobel Laureate Paul
Krugman, argue the policies have exacerbated Finland?s recession. Both the
Green League and the Left Alliance have fewer lawmakers
than before, but more power.?
The departure of either the
Left Alliance of the Greens
would leave the government
with the backing of about 112
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Finland drops debt target
amid austerity backlash
David J. Katainen?s National Coalition was 3.2 percentage points
behind the Center Party.
The government is predicting a central government
budget de?cit of 3.2 per cent
of gross domestic product for
next year, in contrast to a prior 1 per cent target. This is good, but it doesn?t go far enough.
we need signi?cant structural reforms, not
only in the labour market and pension system, but also in the public sector. Our government can?t get a handle on our
persistent short-term budget de?cits and aren?t showing the political backbone to make long-term reforms.
ALMOST everyone agrees on Finland?s problems. ?You
should use this space.?
The ruling coalition has
watched its popularity slide in
polls. Economists had expected things would begin to improve, but this is not
the case. departure would shrink
its support to 102. Finland has received some unpleasant economic news recently, and we are doing much worse than we
had realised. Urpilainen said last
week.
?To preserve growth, we
must consider carefully how
much cuts and tax increases
are implemented next year,?
she said. ?The Finnish government is committed to turn
the debt-to-GDP ratio downward,. and how it plans to
?get back to the very sound
and solid ?scal position?,
OECD chief Angel Gurria said
in Helsinki last week. +358-9-616 621, info@hotelanna.fi
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?The discussion is missing a plan on how to support
growth,. The Left
Alliance, which has 12 lawmakers supporting the government in the 200-member
legislature, voted narrowly
in November against quitting
the coalition amid a protest
against budget cuts.
?Small parties command
exceptionally large clout,?
said Erkka Railo, a researcher
at the Center for Parliamentary Studies at the University
of Turku. In the fourth quarter of 2013 our GDP shrank
1.4%, even worse than the 1.1% drop we had in the third
quarter. Urpilainen?s Social Democrats trailed the opposition
Center Party by 6.2 percentage
points in a Helsingin Sanomat
poll. They just need to be implemented, and that?s what?s
proving troublesome.?
The 9 billion-euro package ?will take time to implement,. We still have some ?nancial leeway in our budget, so we should begin studying
signi?cant capital investments and reforms.
SOME
Cosy hotel in the heart of Helsinki
Annankatu 1, 00120 Helsinki
tel. During that time we
had a ?1.6 billion trade de?cit. We lost our decades-long surplus during the
?nancial crisis, but the situation had started to gradually improve. ?The measures included in the government?s reform package are all
very good, I don?t think there?s
anything essential missing. ?Their power originates from the threat of leaving the government. I
don?t believe that nominal
GDP growth will accelerate
enough.?
Beset by Europe?s fastestaging population, the government is trying to push through
structural changes to pensions and health-care spending to ensure public ?nances
remain sustainable in the long
term. The
jobless rate will peak at 8.3 per
cent in 2014 before falling to
8 per cent in 2015, the Parisbased institution said.
The Finnish government
can stretch any new austerity measures over a longer
time period, provided it ?explains very well where this
is going. Katainen favors reducing expenditure,
in contrast to Urpilainen?s
party?s preferences.
?Katainen has had dif?culties in putting his foot
down as the head of the government,. The writer is a journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. They are correct, but only if we don?t develop our
public processes and systems. In almost two
decades we have made virtually no progress in the productivity of our public sector.
I BELIEVE
The shift means the government is poised to spread 3 billion euro
of measures needed to rein in the budget over several years,
allowing debt growth to continue.
people claim that globilisation will destroy the
welfare state that Finland worked so long and hard to
build. ?Fewer spending cuts
or omitting some tax increases
isn?t a growth strategy.?
The nation?s economic
plight has eroded public ?nances. According to Statistics Finland,
the total productivity in government agencies and institutions is 0.4% higher than in 1995. Our
wages have risen too high and we are no longer competitive. Urpilainen is also facing dissension within her Social Democratic Party?s ranks
after Antti Rinne, who heads
trade union Pro, said he will
run against her at the party
gathering in May.
Katainen signaled that
the government may also renegotiate a plan to split austerity measures into equal
parts of tax increases and
spending cuts. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Finland?s crossroads
THERE are few things worse than unexpected bad
news. A
number of important industries are in trouble, including metals, forestry and especially electronics. ?He favours discussion, perhaps
even a bit too much.?. I believe that international competition and the welfare state are not mutually exclusive, but we must improve our public sector
as well as our private sector. state as government measures undermine
demand.
Growth forecast cut
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development last week cut its forecast
for Finnish economic growth
to 1.1 per cent from 1.3 per
cent projected in November.
The economy will expand 1.9
per cent next year, it said. Unfortunately Finland seems to have
lost its forward momentum, and exports fell 2% during the ?rst 11 months of last year. We are now falling farther behind our peers.
The only European countries to have a worse fourth
quarter than us were Greece and Cyprus, which should
tell us a thing or two.
WE HAVE probably entered into our third recession in
six years and are still about 5% below our 2008 production peak. The nation, still
reeling from the decline of a
technology industry led by
Nokia, has lost competitiveness against trade partners in
a development that?s stalled
exports and killed jobs.
L E H T I K U VA / RO N I R E KO M A A
THE FIRST disquieting surprise is that Finland?s economic growth is not returning. Timo Vesala, an economist at LaehiTapiola Asset
Management in Espoo, said by
phone. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi. Railo said. he said. ?It?s unlikely that
the growth of indebtedness
to GDP would stop there. Krugman
said last month the northernmost euro member is in a
?depressed. Urpilainen said, without specifying a timeframe.
More austerity, and its timing, puts pressure on the coalition?s junior partners. Sweden, in contrast, had
a ?6.7 billion surplus.
International
competition and
the welfare state
are not mutually
exclusive.
industrial production took an
extremely nasty hit
during the recent recession, but it stabilised in the next few
years. Now it is on the
downward slope again
Young families increasingly prefer apartments in urban centres over
detached houses. Finnish shareholders can concentrate
on putting together their
share,. While declining
to identify the companies, he
says that the commitments
include state subsidies and
guarantees. says Pekka Ottavainen, the chairman of Fennovoima board.
30-to 40-year-olds most active
buyers of detached houses in Finland
a common dream for most
families with children,. In addition, Supercell has recently
invested in advertising, acquiring, for example, three
commercial slots for the pregame show of this year?s Super Bowl broadcast.
?Naturally, that has shown
in popularity,. 26 FEBRUARY
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Supercell
profits
surge to
3.5m per
employee
JUHANI SA ARINEN,
ESA M ÄKINEN . says Paananen.
H S / H E I D I P I I RO I N E N
THE PROFITABILITY
?gures, but according to App
Annie, an app analyst ?rm,
Clash of the Clans is the more
pro?table of the two titles.
Regardless, both games were
among the top-grossing Apple apps throughout last year
and surged to the summit of
Google Play?s top-grossing
chart after their launch on
Android in late 2013.
The popularity of the
games continues to increase,
says Ilkka Paananen, the
CEO of Supercell.
The planned site of the nuclear power plant in Hanhikivi, Pyhäjoki.
Russian pension money may be
used for Pyhäjoki nuclear plant
million euro contract for
the supply of uranium has
been awarded to a Rosatom
subsidiary.
The other shareholders in
Fennovoima are to contribute a quarter of the costs and
must con?rm their commitment to the project by the
end of this month.
?We know that Rosatom
can arrange the necessary
outside loans. the combat strategy game Clash of
Clans and the farming game
Hay Day, both of which are
available for download for
free and allow gamers to use
real money to advance faster.
Supercell has refrained
from releasing game-speci?c
Next up worldwide
Meanwhile, the game studio?s anticipated third title,
Boom Beach, is scheduled for
its worldwide launch next
month. Statistics from April to June last
year report almost 3,000 detached house purchases.
allocated for the pensions of future Russian generations may be used for the
construction of Fennovoima?s
nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki, northern Finland. HS
ALEK SI TEIVAINEN . growing popularity. In the forest sector,
for example, Metsä Group has
posted pro?ts that fall narrowly short of those of Supercell. 34-yearolds, born in 1979 were most
active buyers of detached
houses.
For example 22-year-olds
bought fewer detached houses than those aged 52. The prices of small
apartments continue to grow
along with increasing demand, but the sales of large
family apartments is crawling on slowly. BUSINESS
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . ?We are also in
negotiations with leading international ?nance companies,. The number
of detached house purchases decreased by a ?fth in the
country last year, and young
buyers in particular were
less active buyers.
In the UK, the notion of a
generation of 20-to 30-yearold living on rent is widespread. HS
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . says
Managing Director at Kiinteistömaailma
Seppo
Hämäläinen.
Families are no longer purchasing houses, choosing to rent or purchase smaller apartments.
Steady decrease
Fewer detached and semi-detached houses are built each
year in Finland.
Juhani Väänänen from
the National Land Survey
of Finland reveals that the
number of detached house
sales has steadily decreased
on a national level for eight
years.
?The number of property
purchases began to increase
as early as 2006. Russian newspaper Kommersant, in turn,
has reported that the project will cost 4.9 billion euro, revealing also that a 450
J U S S I KO N T T I N E N . he adds.
Rosatom owns one-third
of the Finnish nuclear power
consortium.
At present, Fennovoima
estimates that the construction project will cost 4?6
billion euros. Last
week, an unknown in?ltrator
was able to hack Supercell?s
of?cial Facebook accounts and
thereby access its internal reports. the
?PEOPLE
The founders of Supercell, Ilkka Paananen (left) and
Mikko Kodisoja.
Kauppakartanonkatu 7, 00930 Helsinki
Puh. In the worst case
scenario, a young person has
to save for up to 30 years in
order to purchase an apartment of one?s own. Families
no longer purchase houses, but instead they live on
rent or purchase smaller
apartments.
North American research
shows that young people?s
living habits differ signi?cantly from their parents?.
Instead of gardens they seek
urban environments, where
services are located close
by and time is spent together outside the house, for example at garden grills, parks
and different social venues.
The apartments themselves
may well be small, and driving by car is also becoming
less common.
These values are re?ected
in apartment sales and construction in many countries.
In Finland the phenomenon appears to be focused
in the Helsinki metropolitan area. H T
www.arvelin.?
French publication Le Figaro has reported. Väänänen points out.
Finland is not experiencing signs of detached houses
becoming a living trend favoured by middle-aged and
aging people.
During April to June last
year, the busiest time for
detached house sales, the
average buyer was born between 1973 and 1988, statistics from the National Land
Survey reveals. 09-2511 110, expo@arvelin.?
The purpose of the national fund is to cover future pension liabilities in Russia and
the de?cit in the country?s
pension fund.
?It is expected that the
funds are granted in accordance with the application.
The decision will be delivered
in the ?rst half of the year,?
Ivanov estimates in an e-mail
to the daily.
In addition, Ivanov reveals
that Rosatom has secured
preliminary commitments
worth four billion euros from
a number of Russian ?nance
companies. The strategy game is
already one of the most popular mobile games in Australia and Canada, where it is
currently in the beta phase.
A recent data security attack against Supercell has also
provided an indication of the
titles. However, whereas Metsä
Group provides employment
to over 11,000 people, Supercell employed an average of
100 people last year.
The game studio has
grown at a staggering rate, its
revenue shooting from nonexistent levels in 2011 to 78
million euro already in 2012.
Its revenue stems from
two mobile games . The overall
drop does not entirely result
from the ?nancial crisis of
2008,. This is an
increasingly common reason
for living on rent.
The possibilities for young
people obtaining a loan have
been complicated by the ?nancial crisis, and their con?dence in their national
economy has also wavered.
Studies indicate that the
values of young people have
changed. H T
under the age of
50 are not part of the detached house markets,. HT
of Supercell reached new heights last
year as the pro?ts of the mobile gaming sensation surged
to 3.5 million euro per employee, or nearly 2 million euro per day.
Supercell reported that in
2013 its revenue was 672 million euro and pro?ts 349 million euro.
Such ?gures bear comparison to most major Finnish corporations. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . According to
real estate agents young
couples in the metropolitan area seek an urban living
environment.
?Although a detached
house in a suburb remains. Vyacheslav Ivanov, a deputy
director general at Rusatom
Overseas, has revealed to
Helsingin Sanomat that Rosatom, the supplier of the
plant, has applied for a loan of
2.4 billion euros from the Russian National Wealth Fund for
the construction effort.
FUNDS
ANNA K ARISMO . The hacker has since
posted an unveri?ed screenshot online indicating, for example, that the daily revenue
of Supercell has crept up to
some 3.8 million euro.
Paananen has refused to
comment on the accuracy of
the ?gures.
By far the most signi?cant
expenses of the game studio
are the 30 per cent charges
imposed by Apple and Google
on in-game purchases
?Legally, we have no right to hold
these people. ?I look forward to developing a bipartisan plan
to push back as hard as
possible.?
US of?cials say the release of the men violates
an agreement on detainee
transfers that was reached
with the Afghan government
in 2012. Munitions List (USML) and place
them on the less restrictive
Commerce Control List (CCL).
This will mean that these
items will no longer need a
license from the State Department to be exported and
will instead be subject to the
less stringent controls maintained by the Department of
Commerce.
There are two principal
problems with the administration?s new approach. This danger results from
a decision to take thousands
of items off of the U.S. we take it very,
very seriously and we?re constantly thinking of how we
can do better.?
But according to administration of?cials, promotion is
only one side of its approach
to arms transfers. Whether
arming the Shah of Iran in
the 1970s or transferring of
weaponry to Afghan extremist groups ?ghting against
Soviet forces in Afghanistan,
the US government has paid
too little attention to where
US arms end up.
Iran still has US weaponry
dating back to the Shah?s era,
and Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda-like groups around the
world have bene?ted from
the US weapons that were
poured into South Asia during the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan.
The new Obama policy
seems to take account of the
risk of US weapons ending up
with hostile regimes or organisations when it states
that it will take into account
?the risk that signi?cant
change in the political or security situation of the recipient country could lead to
inappropriate end use transfer of defense articles.?
The real question is how
these new arms transfer
criteria will be applied in
practice.
A loosening of controls
Ironically, the administration?s new rhetoric of restraint has been enunciated
in parallel with an effort to
loosen arms export controls,
an initiative that could make
it easier for US weapons to
fall into the hands of terrorists and human rights abusers. where innocent Afghans
have become radicalised.
On the eve of the release,
US of?cials took the rare step
of disclosing the names of a
handful of detainees set for
release along with a summary
of the evidence against them.
One, Mohammad Wali, was detained in Helmand
province last May after investigators found his ?ngerprints on the residue of
roadside bombs that targeted Afghan and foreign
troops, the US military said.
Another, Nek Mohammad, was captured the same
month in Kandahar province
in possession of several artillery rounds that US military
of?cials suspected were part
of an arsenal used to target
their bases, the military said.
Afghanistan?s ?edgling
court system has traditionally given more weight to
confessions than the type of
forensic analysis that US military personnel see as irrefutable evidence of guilt. The United
States invoked that clause in
the latest cases . We are studying the cases of the rest of the
prisoners to see which one
deserves to be punished and
which one needs to be freed.?
The Finnish military purchased long-range cruise missiles for its Hornet fighers from the USA in 2012 at a cost of some ?180 million.
Obama?s arms sales policy:
promotion or restraint?
WASHINGTON
WILLIAM HARTUNG . It has
released several former US
detainees over the past few
years, in some instances as
gestures to appease political
factions and power brokers.
Several US lawmakers,
exasperated by what they see
as Karzai?s intransigence,
saw the prisoner release as
the last straw. the
embassy said in an uncharacteristically sternly worded
statement. Graham, RSC, threatened
earlier in the week to lead
an effort to suspend all aid
to the Afghan government if
the release went forward.
?President Karzai, in my
view, is single-handedly destroying this relationship,?
Graham said during a hearing. Human rights
concerns have too often taken a back seat to other considerations, from access to
military bases and the cultivation of allies in key strategic locations to a desire to
cement relations with major
oil-producing countries like
Saudi Arabia.
The explicit human rights
language in the new Obama
policy directive mirrors that
contained in the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, and
it holds out hope that basic
principles of human rights
may now be given higher priority in arms export
decision-making.
Another promising element of the administration?s
new policy is its pledge to
pay closer attention to where
US arms end up. so that
scarce enforcement resources can be concentrated on
high-end weapons and weapons components. But the
administration?s narrow focus on controlling the ?ow
of modern equipment to potential competitors ignores
the danger posed by making
it easier to export low-tech
items.
Iran wants spare parts to
keep its aged US-made ?ghter jets and attack helicopters ?ying; China wants older
model technology to copy and
manufacture; and many regimes want the means of daily repression, like low-tech
guns and communication
and surveillance equipment.
None of these items would be
kept behind the ?high fence?
of United States export controls as envisioned by the
Obama reform.?
L E H T I K U VA / S H A H M A R A I
?THE AFGHAN
Karzai has called the US
detention center at Bagram
air base a Taliban ?factory. said Abdul Shokoor Dadras, a senior
member of the review board
that studied the cases. Sen. Acting Assistant Secretary of State
for Political-Military Affairs
Tom Kelly underscored this
point in April 2013 testimony
to Congress.
?It is an issue that has the
attention of every top-level
of?cial who?s working on foreign policy throughout the
government, including the
top of?cials at the State Department . 26 FEBRUARY
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Afghanistan frees
suspected Taliban
prisoners over
US objections
KABUL
S AY E D S A L A HUDDIN ,
ERNES TO LONDOÑO
WA SHINGTON POS T
government
on Thursday released 65
suspected Taliban militants
from prison, ignoring repeated and vehement protests
from the US military, which
fears that the men are likely to return to the battle?eld.
The release was a starkly
public illustration of Washington?s growing inability to
in?uence the actions of President Hamid Karzai?s government and is certain to
further poison US-Afghan
relations, threatening the
prospect of an orderly withdrawal of US combat troops
by the end of the year.
In a statement issued after the men walked out of
an Afghan-controlled portion of a massive American
base north of the capital, the
US Embassy in Kabul condemned the release.
?The Afghan government
bears responsibility for the
results of its decision,. First,
the weapons and weapons
components that are moved
under the jurisdiction of the
Commerce Department are
not likely to receive the regular human rights vetting that
occurs during the State Department?s licensing process.
Second, the decision to allow many of the items moved
to the Commerce list to go to
36 allied nations with no license at all will make it easier for smugglers that have
set up front companies in
these allied nations to get a
hold of US arms components
and ship them on to Iran, China, or other destinations prohibited under US law.
The administration has
defended its new arms export control policy as an effort to put ?higher fences
around fewer items. Lindsey
O. to attacks that killed
or wounded 32 NATO troops,
as well as 23 Afghan security
forces and civilians.
The Afghan government,
which has long viewed US
detainee operations in Afghanistan as an affront to
its sovereignty, has said that
it reviewed the evidence
against 88 former US inmates and concluded that the
majority were innocent.
?That is why they were
freed today and are on the
way to their homes,. The deal included a
clause saying that the countries could hold an ?exchange
of views. On 15 January, the Obama administration issued the ?rst of?cial
policy directive on conven-
tional arms sales since the
mid-1990s. The document,
Presidential Policy Directive
27, carries on the administration?s explicit commitment
to promoting arms sales, but
it also includes a pledge to
show restraint.
The human
rights connection
The most encouraging element of the new policy is its
pledge to forego sales where
there is a likelihood that the
weapons transferred will be
used to conduct genocide or
other atrocities, violate international humanitarian
law, or contribute to violations of human rights.
One would think that any
reasonable policy on arms
transfers would include
these strictures, but that is
not the case. in advocating on
behalf of our companies and
doing everything we can to
make sure that these sales
go through ... in the event of a disagreement over the release
of prisoners. ?We urge it to make
every effort to ensure that
those released do not commit
new acts of violence and terror.?
US military of?cials said
the detainees were ?directly
linked. to no avail.
While some Afghans
hailed the release as a milestone in the country?s quest
for sovereignty, others expressed fear and dismay.
The Bagram prison gate, some 50 kilometers north of Kabul.. 10
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
20 . IPS
?THE UNITED STATES is the
world?s leading arms traf?cking nation, with $60
billion in arms transfer
agreements last year alone.
In 2011, US companies and
the US government controlled over three-quarters
of the international weapons
trade.
The Obama administration regularly touts the role
of US of?cials in promoting
US arms sales
even novices
may find it a bit too easy.
FOR ALL the attention that
the brewing competition for
natural resources in the rapidly melting Arctic has gotten
in recent years, things have
been relatively quiet in Antarctica, despite similar ambiguity over territorial control
and potential for major resource grabs: The continent?s
oil reserves are estimated at
up to 203 billion barrels ?
the third-largest in the world
. She emphasises that it will be quite
some time before pump-probe
microscopy becomes practical
for most museums. 26 FEBRUARY
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ANDRE W M ANDEM AK ER
Mobile app
review:
Codeacademy
Hour of Code
H AY L E Y T S U K AYA M A
THE WA SHINGTON POS T
Antarctica holds 203 billion barrels of oil . he says. ?The country is rapidly building research stations
. The
app is aimed at those with
nearly no coding knowledge ?
even novices may ?nd it a bit
too easy. Not only
does it now take hours to analyse a few square millimeters
of a painting, but the work also
needs to be done in a lab with
the help of trained scientists.
Museums need a smaller system they can use themselves,
she says. Then, the researchers
turned their laser eye on an
actual Renaissance painting: The Cruci?xion, painted
by Puccio Capanna around
1330. the world?s third largest oil reserve . with
a ?fth planned for next year.
(Japan, Germany, and Italy al-
ready have ?ve stations, and
Britain and the US have six.)
Some have questioned China?s motivations for expanding
its presence on the southern
continent. Warren says.
The blue of the angel?s robe,
on the other hand, was created through a complex layering of several less precious
pigments, with just a hint of
lapis lazuli, the team reported online this week in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
?Honestly, for me it was
like a glimpse into the future,. the
UFO-shaped Taishan . wrote Nicola Davison on ChinaDialogue in November. Beginners to the
world of coding should consider the app for the online coding school Codeacademy to
pick up some new tricks. agrees
Koen Janssens, an analytical
chemist at the University of
Antwerp in Belgium who was
not involved in the research.
Identifying
authenticity
Warren hopes pump-probe
microscopy might also aid
in the identi?cation of forgeries. Britain and Argentina
have overlapping claims and
. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . Not to worry, Warren
says: Biomedical researchers
are already shrinking down
pump-probe microscopy systems, and it?s only a matter of
time before these new eyes
start looking at art.. Mary?s robe is
composed of a thick layer of ground-up lapis lazuli, a deep blue stone that at
the time was ?more expensive than gold,. As the
molecules gain and lose energy in reaction to the pulses,
they emit signals that serve
as identifying ??ngerprints?
that reveal their chemical
makeup. It?s aimed at
those with nearly no coding
knowledge . and perhaps even more importantly in the coming century, its ice holds 90 per cent
of the world?s fresh water.
But there?s a sign this week
that things may be heating up
a bit on the South Pole with
China?s unveiling of its fourth
Antarctic research base . as well as 90 per cent of the world?s fresh water.
The scramble for Antarctica
J O S H U A K E AT I N G
S L AT E
The Codeacademy app can be
used to create a simple personal website. By imaging small sections of the blue robes of the
Virgin Mary and one of the
?ying angels, they revealed
that Capanna used very different pigments to create
each one, despite their similar colors. removing tiny core samples
to study its stratigraphy, says
Warren Warren, a chemist and
biomedical engineer at Duke
University in Durham, NC. If the 3D structure
of brushstrokes varies from
artist to artist, for example, it could serve as a kind
of signature, helping historians distinguish between
the work of a master and an
imitator.
Casadio is skeptical, however, that such identi?cation
will ever be precise enough
to supplant the sophisticated
presence in Antarctica with an
eye on the icy continent?s vast
untapped resources.?
For now, mining is prohibited under the Antarctic
Treaty, but that will be up for
review in 2048 and a number
of countries may try to jockey for position before then.
The treaty also forbids
new territorial claims by
countries on the continent
but passes no judgment on
previous ones, which has oc-
casionally led to some controversy. He
spends most of his time developing laser systems used to image human tissue. That could
help conservators ?ne-tune
their efforts to halt such deterioration. The app,
originally made just for the iPhone and iPod Touch, has also been optimised for the iPad.
Free, for Apple?s iOS devices.
Researchers led by Duke chemist and biomedical engineer Warren Warren used a kind of 3D imaging called pump-probe microscopy to study the hidden structure of Puccio Capanna?s ?The
Crucifixion,. Like, say, paint?
?We built a laser system
that was designed to do a
good job of diagnosing skin
cancer and then realised
that we could use exactly that same laser system
to look at Renaissance artwork,. painted around 1330.
techniques historians and appraisers already use. But when he
visited an exhibit on detecting
art forgeries in London?s National Gallery a few years ago,
he began wondering what art
historians and conservators
could learn about artwork if
they had access to the state-of-
Seen the light
One method Warren works
on is called pump-probe microscopy, which uses carefully timed pulses of laser
light to electrically excite the
molecules in a sample. The low-powered laser pulses travel deep
into a painting without scattering as conventional light
sources do, returning a remarkably clear picture of its
subsurface structure as well
as chemical ?ngerprints of
the pigments in each layer.
The team initially tested the technique on mock-up
paintings made with historically accurate Renaissance pigments, proving that
pump-probe microscopy can
distinguish between the 3D
structures of a purple created by mixing red and blue
pigments and a similar shade
made by layering red over
blue. ?Such a boost in
technology is what the art
conservation and museum
?elds need to ensure that
unique works of art are and
remain protected in the best
possible manner,. In Stars and Stripes,
Seth Robson commented last
year that ?China is boosting its
3D imaging reveals how paintings were made
LIZ ZIE WADE
S C I E N C E /A A A S
the-art imaging technologies
like the ones in his lab.
THERE?S more to a painting
than meets the eye. in the midst of the dispute
between the two countries
over the Falkland Islands ?
Argentina objected last year
to London?s decision to name a
large swath of Antarctic territory after Queen Elizabeth II.
Chile, Argentina, Britain, Norway, France, Australia and New Zealand have
current claims on Antarctic territory, but given the
ambiguity involved, you can
probably expect a lot more
countries to be angling for
a piece of the Antarctic pie
over the next 30 years.
N O R T H C A RO L I N A M U S E U M O F A R T, R A L E I G H , N C .
DO YOU have a little more
than an hour and some curiosity to spare. Under
the surface of a sun-dappled
landscape or a scrumptious
still life lie dozens of meticulously applied layers of paint,
forming a complex 3D structure that is all but invisible
to viewers. But it offers a friendly path through a process that
many ?nd intimidating.
The app itself doesn?t require that you make an account
to use it, though if you want to
take advantage of any of Codeacademy?s other courses, you?ll
have to do so online. Now, an imaging
technique borrowed from
biomedical research promises to let art historians and
conservators peer into the
depths of paintings without
damaging them, providing
new insights into how these
works were made.
?Right now, if an art conservator wants to understand
the three-dimensional layering
structure of a painting, they almost certainly take a scalpel to
it,. Those
wary about privacy will probably want to skip the ?nal step of
the ?nal lesson (spoiler alert!),
which lets users publish a simple personal website. a method of assertion on a
continent where sovereignty
is disputed,. Pump-probe microscopy is especially useful
for studying biological pigments like melanin in skin.
So Warren wondered: Could
it work on other kinds of pigments, too. says Francesca Casadio, a conservation scientist
at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois who was not
involved in the research.
Pump-probe
microscopy could be especially useful for identifying places on
aging paintings where the
pigments have started to
decay, she says
On the side that remains in shade, there is a valve that lets cool air in,. After ?nishing the
plans during the winter, he
was all set to embark on the
construction stage in June.
Falck carried the recycled
and locally sourced building
material to the site himself.
?I wanted to keep the surrounding nature intact. explains
Robin Falck, an advocate for ecological elegance.
Hideaway designed
by Finnish student
sparks global interest
A cabin designed and built in the Sipoo archipelago has aroused
interest around the world.
JA ANA RINNE . The childhood summer community, with everyone pulling together, gave
Falck values that he still
holds onto.
?I learned from my parents that ?doing is a joy. Born on 15 July 1990.
. Then jazz
will play on the terrace and a
chainsaw sings in the forest.
?In the summer, I will
do a longer trip in the US to
the south via San Francisco.
There?s a motorbike waiting
for me in Seattle.
L E I F RO S A S
tened Nido, Italian for birdhouse, and posted it on a blog
called freecabinporn.com.
After that, Nido has been featured in the book Northern
Delights, various blogs and
the magazines Wohnträume, Decasa, LXRY and Home
Magazine
?Recently I heard about a
guy who?s building an identical hut somewhere in a Brazilian rainforest. Falck took
his fee for a work trip to Mexico as sur?ng lessons by a pro
and paid for his coffees at Johan & Nyström in Katajanokka by designing a bar stool
for the café and producing a
piece of blackboard art.
?I was a regular at the café and when they asked me to
design a job advert for a barista on their blackboard, I
drew a picture of myself.?
Even though Nido in the
Sipoo archipelago is the place
closest to his heart, the designer, who has dubbed himself ?Swiss Army Knife?, is
L E H T I K U VA / M A R J A A I R I O
Research Director at the Karolinska Institute says that vitamin products should not be used to replace a versatile diet.
VITAMIN E products sold in
pharmacies and stores are
usually not versatile enough
to protect from Alzheimer?s
disease, says Research Director at the Karolinska Institute Miia Kivipelto.
The most common vitamin E products contain only
one form of vitamin E, while
the overall number of vitamin types is eight.
Helsingin Sanomat reported last week of Kivipelto?s
Finnish-Swedish study which
reports that these eight different types may protect
against Alzheimer?s disease.
If a vitamin E product contains only one dose of a single
Robin Falck
. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . says Falck, looking
at the familiar forest through
lacy frost decorating the window of his birdhouse.
It was in these woods that
he built his ?rst toy houses at the age of seven. 26 FEBRUARY
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L E I F RO S A S
?Nido?s built quite high up to allow air to flow underneath it, which helps prevent overheating when
the weather?s hot. Graduated from the
Svenska Normallyceum
upper secondary school
in 2008 .
. HT
WINTER in the Sipoo archipelago is a designer dream
with white mist embracing the treetops and untouched snow covering the
footpath. H T
a staunch believer in global
design.
?These days, a designer should be able handle details: the image, the power
of graphic design and layout.
A good designer will always
be in demand as the world is
lacking in elegance.?
There might be a niche for
a Finnish designer in the design world but now Falck closes Nido?s door behind him and
turns his gaze towards the
lake. HS
NIINA WOOLLE Y . Industrial designer by
profession.
. This idyllic scene
is not ruptured by the small
building that rises from the
rocky ground like a boulder
of stone.
The little cottage is a hideaway Robin Falck designed
and built in 2010.
?I was about to start my
military service, and had
been for some time dream-
ing of building something on
the land owned by my family. ?The balance will shake?.
According to Kivipelto
ideal vitamin E intake takes
place through adequate consumption of vegetable oil,
peanuts, green vegetables,
avocado and whole grains.
The vitamin products in
the markets often contain D
alpha-tocopherol or D alphatocopheryl acetate, which is
often found in most multivitamin products, such as
Pharma Nord?s Bio vitamin E.
University Pharmacy has
developed its own Professorin E-vitamiini (Professor?s vitamin E), which contains all
?ve kinds of vitamin E.
?We are headed in the
right direction, although it is
rather early for commenting
on results without speci?c
studies?, Kivipelto says.
She states that consuming
large doses of vitamin E may
involve side effects, such as
an increased risk of a stroke.
Kivipelto points out that
elder people often consume
several medications simultaneously, which may have unpredictable outcomes.
The daily need for vitamin
E amounts to approximately 15 milligrams for adults.
Kivipelto described this
amount, which multivitamin
products often approximately contain, as rather safe.
Adverse effects have been
associated with signi?cantly
higher dosages, almost twenty times the recommendation.
?It is important to keep in
mind that vitamin products
should not be used to replace
a versatile diet, which often
contains many forms of vitamin E?, Kivipelto says.. Gives climbing, motorbikes, music and travelling as his hobbies.
Nido boasts a large window and ten square metres of floor area
on two levels.
Vitamin E products not versatile
enough to prevent Alzheimer?s disease
K AT R I K A L L I O N PÄ Ä . Studies industrial design
at the Aalto University School of Art, Design
and Architecture.
. explains Falck.
Nido cost around 10,000
euro to build.
After completing the
work on Nido, a stint in the
army seemed like a stroll in
the park.
?Building a nest for myself
could be called a rite of passage during which I grew into a man,. I wanted to give more
space for nature both indoors
and outdoors, and less for
humans.?
Designing for himself
Falck, who studies industrial design, is often out of place
at the School of Art and Design, where a student who
has worked as a designer already during his freshman
year stands out like a sore
thumb among the crowd of
bohemian dreamers dressed
all in black.
?I design for others and not
for myself but my approach to
design is still playful.?
Falck?s work and other undertakings bear witness to
this playfulness. I was really
pleased to be invited to participate in a mini housing
project in Northern Stockholm,. With
his younger sister, he put up
wooden huts and Indian tepees, with a little help from
their cousins from Sweden
who came over for summer
holidays. Lugging the material there was
hard work but once the cabin
was ?nished it looked as if it
had always been there.?
Building in harmony
Nature does not make design
mistakes but human handiwork hardly ever manages
to achieve a similar level of
harmony.
With its perfect design, Nido is a rare exception. Fencing taught
him gentlemanly manners
and behaviour and then later on, besides strengthening
these values, martial arts also introduced him to meditation and Buddhism.
?For me, Zen is a tool that
helps me make most of each
moment.?
Times spent in Kitö have
taught Falck respect for nature, and this respect gave
the framework for Nido?s
design.
type of vitamin E, its use may
be compared to a four-legged chair with one leg that is
longer than the rest, Kivipelto
says. By hard
work I don?t mean pushing
yourself to the limit, but happy perfectionism.?
Having always enjoyed
hiking in the woods, Falck
has been athletic from a very
young age. and
hard work pays off. Its grey
walls carry the same DNA as
the trees that surround it.
Falck took a picture of his
humble abode he had chris-
?The wall slants because
you don?t get a box shape in
nature. Nido?s owner will be back
in Kitö at Easter. When we were doing some
work in the forest at Easter I
found this spot and thought
it was the perfect location.?
The ?rst thing Falck, then
19, did was phone Porvoo to
ask about a building permit
and was told that a mobile
dwelling under 10 square metres in size did not require a
permit. 12
PEOPLE & LIFESTYLE
20
It was a communal form of care, which
allowed people to cleanse
themselves, to let go of the
sorrow,. Indeed, science has already admitted the importance of
nature for the mental health
of man. HS
MERI R ANTA M A . ?There I saw
gnomes and other inhabitants of nature and the forest. They led the souls of
the dead away from earth
and asked the spirits and
fairies for answers to questions of everyday life.
Aarnio felt it was necessary to study the tradition also in practice and
in 2003 traveled to see Johannes Setälä, who lived in
Lohjansaari. LIFESTYLE
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20 . Susanna Aarnio, 47, is a shaman, comparative religionist,
lament singer, nature photographer and artist. Aarnio had moved into
the country to study homeopathy and veterinary medicine.
Once when she was in a
bookstore, a book from the
shelf fell on Aarnio?s toes.
It was a book on Finno-Ugric shamanism written by a
Dutch shaman. HT
DEATH did not startle Susnanna Aarnio. It?s certainly fun to
drum in candlelight, but the
authentic shaman tradition
is the complete opposite of
that.?
Firstly, according to
Aarnio, it has been survival
learning in the midst of nature. When
she was able to put her grief
into words, it felt easier to
cope with.
?Long ago, laments were
a way for women to survive
everyday life. Sometimes it seems useless to do
anything anymore . She understood
she had found something
signi?cant.
?Peace descended on me.
I realised that now I?d found
the answer that I?d been
looking for my entire life.?
Already as a child Aarnio
enjoyed wandering in the
forests in her home region
of Haukivuori. Lives in Nuuksio.
. I had conversations with
animals, trees and rocks and
kept an animal cemetery in
my home yard.?
The town had a home for
the elderly, whose residents
thought Aarnio?s talks were
natural. The same folklore
had been everyday life for
them as children.
Right after reading the
book she had found in a
Dutch bookstore, Aarnio
traveled to Amsterdam to
meet the author of the work.
The person knew the Finnish shaman Johannes Setälä
and talked about his work as
a representative of the Finnish shaman tradition.
Aarnio shuddered at the
thought that she had to travel all the way to the Netherlands to ?nd her country?s
history. In addition, she
attends various events and
educational institutions to
lecture and perform Kalevala poems and laments.
Aarnio feels that she has
always had shaman abilities. The most important
thing was knowledge of nature and a respectful interaction with nature. She began building shaman drums
and learning old rituals and
incantations.
In 2006, they founded the
Center for Finno-Ugric Shamanism, and three years later, Setälä enthroned Aarnio
as the continuer of his work.
In recent years, spirituality has again started to interest people. Aarnio says in her
house in Nuuksio.
The 34-volume Ancient
Poems of the Finnish People
sticks out on the bookshelf.
Reindeer skins, which Aarnio
has soaked in alder bark water, are drying in the bathroom. He had practiced traditional shamanism
for decades already and took
Aarnio as his student. Unexpectedly,
Aarnio says that she cannot
stand ?crackpottery. In one study, ADHD
children were noted to bene?t as much from a thirtyminute daily outing in the
park as from their medicines.
Aarnio is also saddened
by the individualisation of
man?s self-image.
?In the past, we thought
that we are merely links in
the chain of generations.
The modern man, instead,
is curled up around his own
ego, ruminating on his problems and thinking about his
own desires and well-being.
Previously, it was completely
impossible.?
A year ago, the comparative religionist who had lived
in Helsinki for a long time
moved to Nuuksio with her
husband and three schoolaged children.
Around the new home,
there is a lot of forest in which
to breathe and animals to
observe.
Together with her husband, Aarnio has founded the
Finnish Wildlife and Nature
Photography Institute, and
Aarnio uses photographs also as material for teaching
shamanism.
On the computer, she
shows her photos, with which
one can try to understand
the shamanistic worldview.
Lichen stretches out from
the ground like a ?st. Traditionally, it has been
thought that shamans were
able to leave their bodies and
wander in the spiritual world
solving various problems.
Aarnio believes she can do
just this.
She knows that most people judge the spiritual world
and premonitions to be nonsense. One can
see faces and stooped ?gures
in a fern or a dried-up, curved
tree leaf.
Aarnio is satis?ed. But as I
Shaman, comparative religionist, lament singer, nature photographer and artist, Aarnio is not one
for the New Age approach.
have children myself, I cannot give up hope.?
A natural cause
Aarnio believes that one reason for depression, for example, is man?s nonexistent
relationship with nature. 26 FEBRUARY
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A modern shaman
Susanna Aarnio is a comparative religionist and shaman, who
teaches the making of traditional drums and the singing of laments.
She cannot, however, stand New Age ?crackpottery?. Aarnio contemplates
her response to the criticism
for a while.
?My own experience of
the invisible world is the only
thing I can lean on.?
Cooperation with comparative scientists has
heartened Aarnio. In the 1990s,
she had studied to be a geriatric nurse in the Netherlands
and worked in municipal
home care providing hospice
care.
She had sat next to frail
cancer and dementia patients, listened to their broken breathing and caressed
their wrinkled foreheads.
Aarnio?s task was to make
death as painless and peaceful as possible, and she felt
her work was important.
But when in 2010 Aarnio
had to say goodbye within a few months to both her
father, who had become
seriously ill, and her grandmother, she was almost
crushed by grief.
Fortunately, laments existed. ?We are one of the
few Finno-Ugric peoples who
are missing the connection to
the old folklore.?
A significant change
In 2000, Aarnio returned
to Finland from the Netherlands and continued the biology studies she had started
earlier at the University of
Helsinki. A snag
looks like a creature galloping in the moonlight. When she had met
Professor Pentikäinen, who
had studied shamanism,
Aarnio decided to change
her major to comparative
religion.
She learned that in their
communities, shamans were
respected members who acted as the contact persons between the spiritual world and
people. Association and Äänellä itkijät ry.
. Aarnio arranges workshops, lectures and courses on Finnish
spiritual heritage and nature photography. When staying up beside her father?s bed had
become too hard, Aarnio had
started studying to become a
teacher of the Viena Karelian
lament tradition and modern
laments.
During the course, Aarnio
and the other participants
sang Karelian laments in
which men were taken to war
and dead children and lost
loves were mourned. Studied comparative religion and biology at the University of Helsinki, and is a founding member of the Society for
Northern Ethnography.
. They are meant for the
making of the kannus drums,
the Finno-Ugric traditional
drums.
?My children have sometimes been bitter when the
skins have been soaking in
the bathtub, and they have
been unable to take a bath,?
says Aarnio and laughs.
Of many talents
Aarnio is a 47-year-old comparative religionist, shaman,
lament singer, nature photographer and artist.
She teaches Finno-Ugric
shamanism and the Kalevala sage tradition and leads
courses on the making of traditional drums and the singing of laments.
Aarnio has organised
many exhibitions on FinnoUgric folklore together with
Professor Emeritus Juha
Pentikäinen. Mother of four. and deplores that especially New
Age neo-shamanism is in
fashion.
?Many want to frantically
experience spirituality, but
today it?s mostly mere egotripping. That is,
you see, living folklore.
Move
towards shamanism
A change took place in
Aarnio?s life when she was living in the Netherlands in the
1990s. The
shaman tradition is alive and
acquires new forms in the
digital age.
. In the summers,
she organises similar retreats to old sacred Finnish places.
. Member of the Finnish Professional Photographers. The authentic
shamanic tradition is something quite different.
VENL A P YS T YNEN . we are
already so deep in the consumption society. Has healer roots in her Savonian-Karelian
family tree.
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update in English.. Shamans
knew the healing herbs,
knew the routes of animals
and weather developments.
Everything in nature was
thought to have its own spirit, also rocks and plants.
If good relationships with
nature fairies were not maintained, the situation was believed to lead to imbalance.
And Aarnio believes that
exactly that has happened,
as man has abandoned his
sacred relationship with nature that he cherished for
thousands of years.
Climate change becomes
worse, oceans have become
polluted, and many species
have become extinct.
?The rape of nature is
hard for me to take. They have
encouraged her to talk about
her own experiences. Aarnio read
the book straight through
in the store
Fourteen years
passed from the acquisition
of the site to the laying of the
foundation stone. With the introduction of
a similar solution in Finland,
the countries will begin to offer bilateral cross-border e-services, with the first pilot projects to go public in 2014.
On its anniversary, the
President of the Republic of
Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves (whose great- great uncle
Hans Rebane was Estonian
ambassador when the embassy building was completed),
unveiled a commemorative
plaque in the embassy?s lobby.
Estonian Embassy in
Helsinki
Kaivopuisto 10
10114 Helsinki
www.estemb.fi
This spread is provided by Enterprise Estonia
Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen
at a press conference in Helsinki on 11 December, 2013.. 26 FEBRUARY
HELSINKI TIMES
Estonia and Finland
establish a joint
Education Cloud
In January 2014 the Estonian
education minister Jaak
Aaviksoo and his Finnish
colleague Krista Kiuru signed
a cooperation memorandum
on creating a joint EstonianFinnish Education Cloud.
The beloved Estonian character
Lotte will get her own theme park
this summer, when Lottemaa
is opened near Pärnu.
Bruno, Lotte, Albert
Fun for families in Estonia
Estonia continues to grow in
popularity as a holiday destination among Finns, and last
year?s tourism figures are verging on an all-time high. just like
Google and Facebook . In 2013,
895,000 Finns stayed overnight
in Estonia, eight per cent more
than the year before. Here are some fun
things for families to do
while in Estonia!
Lottemaa Theme Park
This summer, the belov-
ed Estonian character Lotte
will get her own theme park,
when Lottemaa is opened
near Pärnu. The clearest benefit of
such data exchange platforms
lies in the fact that citizens and
companies have to be asked to
submit information just once.
The cooperation will be based
on the present version and
source-code of the Estonian
state data exchange layer Xroad. The 2015
PISA test, for example, must
be completed online. In the electricity exhibit, you can see a
lightning bolt reaching up to
3 metres!
More information:
www.energiakeskus.ee
The 80th anniversary
of the embassy building was celebrated in
Helsinki on 4 December last year.
Estonian Embassy building in Helsinki turns 80
Eighty years have passed since
the construction of the Estonian
embassy building in Helsinki.
The 80th anniversary of the embassy building was celebrated
in Helsinki on 4 December 2013.
It was the first building that
the Republic of Estonia specifically had built as an embassy.
In 1919 the young Estonian
state was the first country to
acquire a valuable site in the
Kaivopuisto area of Helsinki.
Oskar Kallas, the first Estonian Ambassador to Finland,
had the idea of acquiring the
site, and he partly financed
the project with his own money. The
Finnish minister of education
Krista Kiuru said, ?We must
think of how to motivate students, how to use new teaching methods, and create study
software for the new generation. It is especially important
today to use digital study materials, as the young generation has lived in the digital
world since they were born.?
When the Cloud develops,
it will be possible to pass exams there, maybe even get a
university diploma. is supported by
European Regional
Development Fund.
Other popular family attractions in Estonia include
Tallinn Zoo, the Seaplane Har-
Toomas Dettenborn
Science Centre Energy
in Tallinn to open in June
The Energy Discovery Center
is opening its unique family
centre in a 100-year-old power station on June 12, 2014.
The historic building of the
science centre is currently
undergoing a complete renovation, during which the content of the exhibition will also be renewed. When it was bought, there
were three wooden buildings
on the site, and one of them
became the home of the Estonian embassy. Prime Minister Ansip in Tallinn and
Katainen in Helsinki.
Furthermore, the Estonia
ID card?s basic software now
supports with its new version
release the Finnish citizen ID
cards. Based on
the drawings of the architect
Konstantin Bölau, the first
building designed as an embassy for the Republic of Estonia was completed in November 1933. The whole family
can embark on an adventure
with Lotte and her friends in
Gadgetville . 14
ENTERPRISE ESTONIA
ESTONIA IN FINLAND
20 . It
is a joint ecological system
that enhances schoolwork.
Both Estonia and Finland
rank highly in PISA tests, but
even quality education needs
to be developed further. The Cloud is also a place
where Estonian and Finnish
schools, teachers, students,
parents and experts can meet.
The Education Cloud becomes a supporting partner to the learner and adviser, as it remembers . To
our knowledge, this is the
world?s first digitally signed
international agreement; it
was signed using ID cards.
The
Prime
Ministers
signed the MoU digitally on
10 December . information and communication technologies. a setting familiar from the Lotte books and
animated films. The renewed
center will have more than
130 hands-on science exhibits, where the whole family can explore the magical
world of science. In 1929 Ambassador Aleksander Hellat
said he wished to have a new
building for the embassy, and
the next ambassador, Hans Rebane, was equally determined
to have an embassy building
constructed. This will enable Estonian and Finnish authorities
to exchange information, and
the companies and persons
to conclude contracts and exchange other documents using the digital signatures
mutually.
One of the central agreements of the MoU foresees
that the state data exchange
layer, known in Estonia as the
X-Road, will be developed
jointly with the Finns in the
future. Altogether, Finns spent 1.69 million
nights in Estonia (+3%).
2014 is again an exciting year for Estonian tourism: the year is full of events
whether you are looking for
culture, relaxation, or family fun. Time flies in
Lottemaa while you are inventing or playing with the
characters, testing your skills
on the adventure trails, enjoying a delicious meal on
the food street, or taking a
plunge on the beach.
More information:
www.lottemaa.ee.
bour in Tallinn, the Tallinn TV
Tower, the Science Centre AHHAA in Tartu, Ilon?s Wonderland in Haapsalu, and the
many forest adventure parks
around the country.
For more information on
holidays in Estonia, visit Estonian Tourist Board?s website: www.visitestonia.com.
Malle Kolnes
Estonian Tourist Board / Enterprise
Estonia
Programme
?Promoting Estonia as a Tourism
Destination. Minister Aaviksoo hoped that the
first courses will be ready
next autumn, which enable
learners to pass the course
based totally on electronic
materials.
According to Krista Kiuru the Education cloud could
be the joint Nokia of Estonia
and Finland and will certainly attract attention all over
the world.
Source: Teachers Weekly
Prime Ministers Ansip and
Katainen: co-operation
in the field of e-services
will help us a lot in
practical issues of life
Estonian and Finnish Prime
Ministers Andrus Ansip
and Jyrki Katainen signed
the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) digitally.
The MoU regards two countries. The sidewalks were
made of Estonian limestone,
a stone fence surrounded the
house and the pillars were
made of Saaremaa (Ösel) dolomite as the architect Bölau had
suggested.
According to Aaviksoo, the
Education Clouds stands for
a new environment, which
gathers digital study materials, databases and everything
else needed for today?s learning. the
learner?s interests and preferences, finds the most suitable
materials and programs, and
asks additional questions
said Hirvoja.
One of the main events during ICT Week is Latitude59,
which takes place on 28-29
April. There will also be Theme
Rooms (IOT, CleanTech and
Gaming) and a Pitch Contest
powered by StartupWiseGuys
Accelerator. Starting in January,
we will head Baltic cooperation in both the Baltic Assembly and the Baltic Council of
Ministers. Helsinki Commission) in July.
www.bsy.vm.ee/en/
Toomas Dettenborn
Innovation and Business Centre Mektory?s four storey,
4,500 square metre building
is a network of different test
laboratories, workshops, demo studios of companies, an
exhibition and conference
hall, and theme studios of cultures of different countries.
It is also home to the eState
and eHealth labs, Ericsson
Connectivity Room, Samsung Digital Academy, Britain
Means Business Room, Robotorium, Cool Tool Studio and
Energy Discovery Centre.
The aim of Mektory
(Modern Estonian Knowledge Transfer Organization
For You)
is to bring together scientists, students and entrepreneurs; to solve practical product development problems;
and generate new intelligent
ideas.
We have research and development projects in cooperation with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Ericsson,
State Real Estate Ltd, as well as
many other Estonian companies. There are always
plenty of Finnish startups
and investors at Latitude59,
and this year we hope to see
even more of them in Estonia,. Most top Estonian startups visit the Slush
conference, like Weekdone
did when we won the pitching competition. We have focused on three
directions . ENTERPRISE ESTONIA
ESTONIA IN FINLAND
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . It?s a unique
This spread is provided by Enterprise Estonia
learning experience to hang
out with best from the whole
region. One of the keynote speakers is Micke Paqvalen, the Founder and Operational Chairman of Kiosked, a
Finnish company focusing on
content monetisation. For more information visit the landing page at
www.estonia.eu/ictweek/
?There is great interest in
ICT Week, and some of the
events are already fully booked.
Our vision is for Estonian ICT
Week to become an annual tradition involving top players in
the field,. A
Unique Centre Bringing Together Students, Professors,
Entrepreneurs, School Children and Embassies
Baltic
Sea
Year
2014
People recognise the black-yellow car with the MEKTORY logo everywhere in Estonia.
practical side to the maximum possible extent, but also
to prepare better-trained engineers with an experience of
cooperation with companies.
The third aim is to encourage
students?
startup companies to move forward. Viro-keskus
Sörnäisten rantatie 22 C
00540 Helsinki
Mrs Kati Mihkelsaar
+358 400 799 762
helsinki@eas.ee
www.eas.ee
Investments and Cooperation
Mr Valdar Liive
valdar.liive@eas.ee
www.investinestonia.com
Export & Trade
Mrs Irene Surva-Lehtonen
irene.surva-lehtonen@eas.ee
www.tradewithestonia.com
Estonian Tourist Board
Market Manager, Finland
Ms Malle Kolnes
malle.kolnes@eas.ee
www.visitestonia.com
Investors and startup community get together in Tallinn during Latitude59, and in
Helsinki at SLUSH. As
of July 2014, Estonia will also
assume the yearly presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, thereby simultaneously becoming the head
of VASAB (Vision And Strategies Around the Baltic Sea).
Additionally, Estonia will begin its two-year chairmanship of HELCOM (Baltic Marine Environment Protection
Commission . We have already held
four business model competitions and dispatched the
winners to global centres of
technology.
The fourth aim is to deal
with the upcoming generations and show that engineering is exciting, feasible
and down to earth! Numerous possibilities have been
created in the house for
children.
The fifth aim is to commit
maximally to internationalisation, because these days,
success is only guaranteed by
combining different cultures,
The bleeding edge in Estonia
Reserve your calendars for a
sizzling ICT Week in April.
?One of the biggest highlights
of 2014 is Estonian ICT Week,
taking place from 23-30 April.
During this week, opinion
leaders from the Information
and Communication Technology sector, entrepreneurs,
venture investors, top foreign
officials and representatives
of international organisations
will be visiting Tallinn,. United we
are strong. Have a look at www.latitude59.ee www.latitude59.ee/
and stay tuned for updates.
It has already become an
annual spring tradition that
the investors and startup
community of the Nordic Region get together in Tallinn
working habits, ideas and interesting solutions. explained Member of the Management Board of Enterprise
Estonia, Martin Hirvoja.
Estonian ICT Week combines several important technological entrepreneurship
events into a single week: ITL?s
conference ?Change, Quick!?
focuses on the role of ICT as a
changer of the business models of other sectors, Latitude59
The Estonian Embassy
www.estemb.fi
is a networking conference
for globally-minded startups
and venture capital, and then
there is Garage48?s popular
development weekend event.
There are also important public sector events like Nordic
Digital Agendas Day (held by
the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications),
and the 4th annual conference of the Freedom Online
Coalition. And every person of every age has to
study, take steps forward and
search for the synergy between different fields!
Innovation and Business
Centre Mektory
Raja 15, Tallinn, Estonia
+372 620 3527
www.ttu.ee/mektory
mektory@ttu.ee
2014 will be a year for Estonia in which regional cooperation will receive special attention.
during Latitude59, and every autumn it happens again
in Helsinki during SLUSH.
?The strength of Baltic-Nordic startup ecosystem lies
not in single countries, but
in cooperation. Moreover, this year?s Latitude59 is
special because on 28 April
there will be a vibrant Startup
Party sponsored by Transferwise. Also beginning in
January, we will coordinate
Nordic-Baltic cooperation. design and product development, development of business models, and
mobile services and media.
The second aim of Mektory is to tie theoretical studies at the university with the
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www.eestimaja.fi
Estonian Institute
www.viro-instituutti.fi
Tuglas Society
www.tuglas.fi
The Association
of Estonian-Finnish
Friendship Organizations
www.svyl.net
Estonian
Association of Designers
www.edl.ee
Enterprise Estonia in Helsinki
Eesti Maja . The main topics this year
are Going Global, Talent Acquisitions, VC Funding and Exits. 26 FEBRUARY
Estonia
in Finland
Mektory
TUT Innovation and Business Centre MEKTORY . said Jüri Kaljundi, cofounder of Weekdone and
Garage48 Foundation.
www.estonia.eu/ictweek
Useful links:
www.estonia.eu
www.vm.ee
www.einst.ee
www.archimedes.ee
www.arengufond.ee
www.euregio-heltal.org
www.seky.fi
www.fecc.ee
www.finland.ee
www.eesti.ee
www.e-estonia.com
www.momoestonia.com
www.garage48.org
lives. Her son must
transform a cardboard doll
into an archaeologist. (Simply having parents doesn?t count.)
But here?s the thing: Everyone makes judgments about
everything all the time. all the
time: This is the most important thing I will ever do. (Disclosure: I was
formerly an online editor at
New York magazine, where
Senior is a contributing editor to the print publication.
We did not interact.)
Senior?s book explores the
effects of children on parents
. Many
of the day-to-day dif?culties
in child-rearing will sound familiar to anyone who is a parent, or has talked to a parent,
or is friends on Facebook with
a parent. If
you keep obsessing about being a parent, you must be doing it right. especially mothers, Senior suggests . Senior writes. On a holiday visit to my
hometown, where nearly all
of my old friends are parents, we both confessed to
feeling pangs for a cat. Good thinking, kid. Being an
active participant in your
children?s education is one
thing. I don?t
remember what I said, just
that I spoke to a space on the
wall northwest of his face. Puukka concludes.
?The icebreaker Tarmo (1907)
and the outdoor exhibition are
also available to the visitors
during the summer alongside
a series of events such as the
Gangut Regatta and the Kotka
Maritime Festival.?
Maritime Museum
of Finland
Maritime Centre Vellamo
Tornatorintie 99, Kotka
www.nba.fi/en
suomenmerimuseo@nba.fi
Tel: +358 (0)40 350 0497
Open: Tue, Thu and Sun
11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?6-8; free from
people under 18 and on
Wednesdays 18:00-20:00
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A visit to the museum is a complete sensoral experience: visitors
can smell tar, learn more about parts of a barque and even try
lifting an anchor.. explains Marja Puukka, Information Of?cer of the
Maritime Centre Vellamo. Parents
will accept any amount of
second-guessing from their
own children, but not from
the childless: You?re not allowed to express an opinion about parenting unless
you are a parent. The lack of sleep. Being a third grader
by proxy is another. and
?to be adored unconditionally.. etc. And let me
warn you now: If you want
to have kids but your partner is on the fence, do not let
your partner read this book.
Senior scrupulously chronicles the lack of fun. responsibility. Because if
you are critical of how someone parents, you expose the
raw nerve that throbs inside them . The
tantrums. But it
was in the spirit of ongoing
exploration on the subject
of children that I read Jennifer Senior?s carefully researched ?All Joy and No Fun:
The Paradox of Modern Parenthood?. It?s talk therapy
for a decades-long anxiety
attack.
And yet, no parent Senior
interviewed regrets having
children. Puukka explains. There?s
got to be a better use of your
time. The paintings were painted between
1958 and 2013 and some of the
places and landscapes have
already disappeared but live
on in these works,. ?Lower-income parents give orders and
directives. ?It also tells about the
well-preserved shipwrecks
of the Baltic Sea.?
North Star, Southern Cross
is a complete sensorial experience, which gives museumgoers the opportunity to
smell tar, learn more about
the parts of a barque and
even try lifting an anchor.
Herrings, Pilots of
Light and Shipwrecks
from the Middle Ages
In addition to its sophisticated permanent exhibition, the Maritime Museum
of Finland hosts various temporary ones. The paintings are on
display until the end of March.
Herring, a shared heritage,
on the other hand, showcases various posters that tell
about different ways of ?shing and preparing herring.
The exhibition is open to the
public until 30 March.
Starting from May, the
Maritime Museum of Finland
will host the temporary display The Jug and the Church
Bell . says Puukka. You are not
my boss, sure. As a result, the work of the modern
parent is less tangible, more
metaphysical; modern parents try to set their children on
the path toward a happy life.
Just what that means is so elusive that parents try whatever they think might work. and the Museum of
Kymenlaakso, which focuses
on Kotka and the Kymenlaakso region,. This mindset is encapsulated in one book-throwing sentence in ?All Joy and
No Fun?, uttered by a loving,
well-intentioned mom in suburban Houston. And
then, there?s mom: ?And what
do you want me to work on??
Child, how may this adult
serve you?
The book calls to mind
the classic, ineffectual children?s comeback, ?You?re not
the boss of me.. Young children afford
parents ?the opportunity
to be our most human,. particularly, based on the
bulk of her interviews and research, mothers. The kid is not declaring
autonomy but rather de?ning the power structure of
his own universe. You judge the
value of goods while knowing
nothing of the intricacies of
international supply chains.
You comment on teachers
(your kid?s, your own) without reading up on pedagogy. And if I do it wrong, I
have failed as a human.
No wonder parents are
so nervous. But implicit in
that statement is the notion
that someone else is, and that
person?s name is Mom or Dad.
Not anymore.
But of course, as the childless one, I?m not allowed to
say that. But
parenting, with its contemporary existential heft, is
cordoned off in a special area set aside for people who
agree with you. Who knows what the world
will look like in 10 years?
Senior focuses on ?middle-class. 26 FEBRUARY
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Books: The everyday miseries
of child-centered parenting
All Joy and No Fun: The everyday miseries of child-centered parenting.
All Joy and No Fun:
The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, by
Jennifer Senior. Middle-class parents give choices and negotiate,. You
have an opinion on your dentist without having gone to
dental school. Those
parents have their own problems, and existential fretting
about their children isn?t typically one of them. (Wealthy
moms and dads, presumably, can hire someone else to
do the parenting when necessary.) ?Middle-class children are told that they are
fully empowered. I exhaled, and fell in love
a little more: This was not the
issue that would break us.
Nearly three years after
that conversation, my husband and I still return to the
topic, testing the wind to
see if our hearts have shifted. It
sounds miserable. The disorder.
Turning
childrearing on its head
Senior, a parent of a young
son, turns childrearing literature on its head by writing
about the role children play in
their parents. The joy,
she admits, is dif?cult to
quantify.
The book?s chapters mirror a child?s development,
segmented into infancy and
toddlerhood, primary schools
years, and adolescence. life - a sibling, a
caregiver. I am
terri?ed I may be doing it
wrong. In the long
run, this attitude may or may
not serve them well, because
they then enter the world
with the sense that no power structure is too formidable to defy or outmaneuver.?
This may not even serve
them well in the short run,
since one immediate result
of active parental involvement is passivity: ?Because
middle-class children today occupy privileged positions within the family, and
because their parents have
overextended themselves on
their behalf, kids sense that
they have the power to make
their boredom their parents?
responsibility.?
Taking responsibility
Everything is the parents. One
explanation for today?s overscheduled kid, Senior writes,
is that his parents must prepare him for every possibility. Kotka Through the Eyes of
Four Painters, for instance,
showcases the artworks of
four painters from Kotka: Eino Heino (1921-1987), Olavi
Heino (1953- Eino Kukkonen
(1934-2004) and Päiviö
Pyöttiälä (1924-2006).
?The works of these four
artists describe the coastal town of Kotka from many
different angles. Pilots of Light
. They wished their
days were different, but not
their lives. The day I told
the man who would become
my husband that I didn?t want
to have children, I couldn?t
even look him in the face.
We?d been together for three
months and, at 32, I was interested only in getting serious or being single. ?It will be the
biggest effort of 2014,. Because the joys
are there, even though the
ratio of no fun to joy in Senior?s book is four chapters to
two. ?As
national museum, it concentrates on the maritime history of the country as a whole.?
KOTKA?S
North Star,
Southern Cross
The permanent exhibition
North Star, Southern Cross
gives visitors an overview of
the past and present of Finnish
seafaring. Parents, why do you put up with
homework ?checking?. ?The museum?s
own production will focus on
the study of shipwrecks from
the Middle Ages and on what
they can tell us about seafaring and maritime trade on the
Baltic Sea during that period.?
A unique setting
Another aspect that makes
the Maritime Museum of Finland a one-of-a-kind museum is the venue in which it is
located: the Maritime Centre
Vellamo. Ecco.
AILEEN GALL AGHER
SL ATE
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Topics concerning
navigation, seafarers, ships,
merchant shipping and travel
by sea are all highlighted here.
?The exhibition wishes
to remind people of the wintry conditions of Finland and
of the huge change that icebreakers brought to Finnish
seafaring,. How could I
know, etc. That?s a rule that
modern parents made up and
we childless follow meekly in their company. He
paused for a long moment,
and then shared similar feelings. a display of Olympic and speedboats . And while that?s
a reasonable, even obvious,
notion in the abstract, it?s tedious in the day-to-day. He af?xes a shovel from his Lego
set. This was directed at any nonparent trying to exercise authority in
a little kids. Sounds reasonable enough. And you have every right
to, because you?re a human
who experiences things. ?Whatever [parents]
are doing is for the child?s
sake, and the child?s alone.
Parents no longer raise children for the family?s sake or
that of the broader world.?
This path toward a childcentric world was inevitable,
Senior theorizes. Puukka continues. Your
children astound you, too;
when the tedium of adulthood sets in, it?s children who
jolt your worldview.
And I envy all that.
Gallagher, a former senior
editor at NYMag.com, teaches
magazine journalism at Syracuse University.
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Fascinating seafaring
Herrings, ships, artworks and life at sea.
YA N N I C K I L U N G A
HEL SINKI TIMES
Maritime Museum of Finland is a national
maritime museum dedicated to recording the history
of seafaring in Finland and
it tells about the relationship between people and the
sea. The
overwhelming workload. LIFESTYLE
20 . parents, who she
describes as pretty much
everyone who isn?t wealthy,
poor, or working class. No wonder they
write blogs detailing their
children?s bodily functions ?
look everybody, it works! ?
or Facebook posts admitting
their parenting fails or chiding other parent?s choices. Children af?rm later the
choices you made when they
were small; what they grow
up to achieve is, in part, because you raised them. It?s a pathetic rebuke, when you think about
it. ?It?s a pleasure to the
eye, an architectural gem that
also houses the Coast Guard
Museum, the boat hall . Now parents have outsourced all that
responsibility to schools, pediatricians and Target. Old-timey
parents had to do a lot more
work just to provide children
with basic staples. Located at the Maritime
Centre Vellamo, the museum provides visitors with an
in-depth look at the life of
seafarers, the development
of ships, maritime trade and
travelling by sea.
?The Maritime Museum of
Finland appeals to people who
are interested in seafaring
and maritime history in general,. No wonder you?re all so freaked out!
Again and again, Senior emphasizes that delayed childbearing and family planning
mean that today?s parents
can focus on their children in
ways they didn?t, and couldn?t,
before. Shipwrecks from the
Middle Ages
?Neither
party wants a legal process.
That?s in no one?s interest,?
he says, refusing to comment
further on the issue.
YLE commentator Kaj Kunnas in Sochi during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on 12 February.
YLE?s broadcast rights for
Qatar to improve Sochi Olympics were a bargain
BEN PRIECHENFRIED
BLOOMBERG NE W S
QATAR?S 2022 World Cup organising committee has
drawn up a workers. Naturally, we cannot be
sure whether journalists can
report freely also on other topics until we are there,. In the past two
years, at least 382 workers
from Nepal have died, the
newspaper said.
Qatar, smaller than Connecticut, won the right to
host the tournament three
years ago after a process that
saw two FIFA of?cials suspended after telling undercover reporters they would
be willing to sell their votes.
Aside from corruption, debate has centered on whether it?s safe to host a World
Cup in Qatar when temperatures can reach as high as
50 degrees Centigrade during the northern hemisphere
summer, when the tournament is usually played.
FIFA said in October it will
wait until after this year?s
World Cup in Brazil to decide
whether to move the 2022
competition to a different
time of year.
ments and a pay-per-view
online service.
In Finland, YLE broadcasts the Olympics. In this respect, YLE
has bene?ted from a lack of
competition for the broadcasting rights in Finland.
A number of international
sport associations have expressed their concerns about
the situation. HT
European countries
support their Olympic athletes more than Finland does.
Yet, a considerable share of
Europeans are unable to follow the ongoing Sochi Winter
Olympics on so-called free
channels . he adds. After
London, however, the International Olympic Committee
(ICO) decided to see whether commercial broadcasters were willing to cough up
more for the rights.
They were, with the ICO
posting an immediate 50 million euro jump in revenue
from broadcasting rights.
On the other hand, viewer ratings have declined as
the Olympics are no longer
necessarily available on free
channels. ?Ilta-Sanomat has reached the same
decision [as Helsingin Sanomat], after Belarus withdrew
its special demands,. HS
ALEK SI TEIVAINEN . he
says.
In a press conference on 11
February, Lehkosuo rejected
the allegations ?rmly, revealing that it has been a struggle
for the club to pay wages for
some time now. charter after soccer?s governing
body demanded action following the reported deaths
of 185 Nepalese construction
workers last year.
The 50-page document released by the Supreme Committee sets out standards
on pay, housing, health and
safety and other principles
that contractors must adhere to.
Qatar has two weeks to
submit a report on working
conditions so that it could
prepare for a 13 February European Parliament hearing
on the subject.
Contractors will be required to set up bank accounts for workers so Qatari
of?cials can keep track of
pay, and housing will be
monitored for hygiene and
cramped conditions, the
committee said Tuesday in
an e-mailed statement. a fact that has
stirred criticism in Sweden
and, in particular, in Norway,
where winter sports are held
in high regard.
TV 2, a Norwegian commercial television station,
only broadcasts certain
Olympic events on its free
channels and the remainder on its subscription-based
channels. He said in last
month?s statement that Qatar needed to provide ?clear
rules and steps that will build
trust and ensure that the sit-
uation, which is unacceptable at the moment, improves
in a sustainable manner.?
The process will continue after 13 February, Zwanziger said, and culminate in a
report to be presented to his
fellow FIFA executive committee members on 20 and 21
March.
The Guardian newspaper said on 24 January that
the Pravasi Nepali Co-ordination Committee counted
185 deaths by using government ?gures as well as death
certi?cates. In Sweden, the
Sochi Olympics are broadcast
by Viasat, which generates
revenue from advertise-
SEVERAL
national ice hockey league,
SM-Liiga.
How much is YLE paying for the rights to Sochi
Olympics?
Citing trade secrets, the
national broadcaster refuses to reveal the exact costs,
but information obtained by
Helsingin Sanomat suggests
that the rights to the Sochi
Olympics cost YLE 30 per
cent less than the rights to
previous Olympics. 26 FEBRUARY
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L E H T I K U VA / A N T T I A I M O - KO I V I S T O
FC Honka
CEO
wants
to settle
wage
dispute
outside
the
courtroom
JUSSI SIPPOL A . Tapio
Sadeoja, the senior editor-inchief at Ilta-Sanomat, says.
?Hopefully, the accredited
reporters are allowed to do
their jobs at the tournament
without restrictions imposed
by authorities.?. Rules
will be enforced by outside
auditors and made public.
Germany?s Theo Zwanziger will be FIFA?s representative at the meeting
in Brussels. Without an
audience, the sports struggle and ultimately no one
bene?ts.
HS and IS to send reporters to Minsk
HS
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . MTV is
already spending considerably on the rights to Formula 1 and the Ice Hockey World
Championships, whereas Nelonen has invested a reported 15-17 million euros in the
broadcasting rights to the
ARI PUSA . ?It?s best for everyone
that we talk face-to-face and
not through the press,. According
to the former manager, his
wage was paid on time only
once last year and four times
in both 2012 and 2011.
Lehkosuo has consequently submitted a formal
complaint with the District
Court of Espoo in order to recover over 34,000 euros in
unpaid wages from his employer. Before the London Olympics
two years ago, broadcasting
rights to the Olympics were
distributed by the European
Broadcasting Union. He believes the reason for his sacking is his
decision to seek redress
through litigation.
On 11 February, Lehkosuo
declined to say whether he
will also seek legal action for
the accusations hurled about
by Honka.
Auvinen, in turn, has
voiced his hope that the dispute can be resolved outside the courtroom. The national broadcasting company
has already secured broadcasting rights also to the
2016 Rio Olympic Games
and, although no agreements
concerning the subsequent
games exist, is expected to
retain the rights in the foreseeable future.
Finnish
commercial
broadcasters are both unable and unwilling to compete against YLE for the
broadcasting rights. In effect,
YLE has spent less than ten
million euros on the rights.
The price cut is a consequence of the strengthened
negotiating position of the
national broadcaster. HS
ALEK SI TEIVAINEN . The top-tier club
sacked Lehkosuo on 7 February, insisting in a statement that the manager had
committed gross ?nancial
misdeeds.
Auvinen declines to comment further on the allegations. H T
HELSINGIN Sanomat and Ilta-
Sanomat will send reporters
to cover the Ice Hockey World
Championship in Minsk, Belarus, in May, the dailies announced after the Belarusian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
con?rmed that reporters
covering the tournament require no special visas to enter the country and are able
to work without restrictions.
?We are pleased that the
situation has been resolved for
the best interest of freedom of
speech. SPORT
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . HT
TERO AUVINEN, the CEO at
the Espoo-based football
club FC Honka, has revealed
that he will contact former
manager Mika Lehkosuo
in the near future in an attempt to resolve their dispute over wages outside the
courtroom. reminds
Kaius Niemi, the senior editorin-chief at Helsingin Sanomat.
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / V I K T O R D R A C H E V
safety for World
Cup workers
after nearly 400
deaths in 2 years
It is hoped that the accredited reporters will be allowed to do their jobs at the tournament without
restrictions imposed by authorities.
?If restrictions are imposed, we are prepared to
withdraw our reporters from
the games,
The fact that the groups consist of students from a
variety of disciplines makes the situation something the students would not otherwise encounter.?
?This is not a course where someone holds the students?
hands and makes sure they do as they are told,. she lauds.
The applicants, Hirsikoski nonetheless assures, are not subjected to terrible scrutiny to extract the most suitable candi-
International higher
education
Annually almost 4,000
international students with
over 100 nationalities.
Over 1,000 courses in
English.
70 Degree Programmes in
English.
Courses and projects designed to improve students?
working life competence
and connections.
Active student life
. It should be something that genuinely supports the operations of the enterprise,. she says.
?It?s difficult to summarise an experience like that, but students
will definitely benefit from Project Aces. she adds.
Although she was initially looking for Finnish students who
could promote the expansion of Mum?s in Finland and in the
Nordic countries, she ended up taking one student from Italy,
one from Japan and one from Finland under her wing.
?The participants were interested in social and environmental
responsibility, design and the duties I had mentioned in the assignment,. all in search of new skills and ideas.
Interested employers are first required to draw up an assignment for a group of three to five students or recently graduated applicants. and to stay!
dates. ?It was a nice and refreshing experience.
We, for example, found one re-seller in Japan through the project.?
In particular, Puro was impressed with the attitude of the
participants. The applicants are then assigned to a particular
project on the basis of their interest.
?As an employer, you can?t simply decide to have a couple of
students and then start thinking what they could do,. ?I applied because I really love fashion and
design. it?s so close to the city, but at the same
time you are submerged in the nature. Club.?
?I go there to jog all the time. It?s something you can?t find in every city.?
2 Samppalinna Park
?For summer picnics?
5 Turku City Library
3 Aura River
?The most beautiful part of Turku is where they recently built a pedestrian bridge across the Aura River, in front of all the lovely restaurants and bars.?
?I used to go there so often when I was studying.?
Kiss My Turku is a project
that encourages Turku
residents and visitors alike
to list and share their
favourite spots in Turku.. Hirsikoski
stresses. Instead, the applicants learn by getting their hands
dirty and, at times, from failures.
?A great opportunity?
Elisa Bertieri, originally from the town of Porto Ceresio in Italy, was one of the three students assigned to the project offered by Mum?s. Affordable living and
housing costs.
. ?I haven?t come across such attitudes since. Puro says. It?s a great opportunity to
get a glimpse into working life.?
Elisa Bertieri?s Turku
1 Uittamo Beach
4 Jogging trail around the student village
?It?s very nice, especially during the winters. Compact city where all
the main campuses are
centrally located.
TEXT
A L EKSI T EI VA INEN
?
?
?
?
Project Aces seeks
to ensure that a growing
number of its roughly
40,000 students
find employment in
the region after
graduation.
Project Aces offers invaluable
work experience for students in the
Turku region while allowing local
enterprises to outsource projects.
Students in the Turku region have the opportunity to gain invaluable experience from working life by participating in Project Aces, a trail-blazing training programme that connects
motivated students with local enterprises in a novel and apparently effective way.
?It?s a project, not an internship,. reminds
Outi Puro, the artistic director and founder of Mum?s, an ethical design house with a unique concept . she says, ?first, about group dynamics, because even though we were a small group, it was interesting to realise how a group of people who don?t know each
other interact,. ?Maybe [their motivation] is due to realistic marketing,?
she estimates. 40,000 students: 1/4 of the
population.
. Charming city centre by the
River Aura.
. 26 FEBRUARY
Students get a taste
of working life in Turku
Student
city
Turku
Genuine student city
. Close to the Turku Archipelago with over 20,000 islands.
Welcome to Turku to study
and live . ?We explain what we can offer and lay out the
conditions. 2 universities and 4 universities of applied sciences.
. The
group was exceptionally motivated,. but more demanding and, ultimately, also more rewarding.
?I think I learnt so much,. to combine Nordic
design with traditional handicraft skills across the world.
?I believe the employers who participate must have an idea
of what the students will do. I thought it would be interesting to work at a small design company.?
In addition, Bertieri wanted to experience working in Turku.
Similarly to her employer, however, the experience was not
quite what she had envisioned . 18
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . says Bertieri, who initially arrived in Finland in
2007 after gaining admission to a master?s degree programme
in Baltic Sea Region Studies.
By the time she joined Project Aces in the autumn of 2012,
she had already completed her studies.
?Working with students from completely different backgrounds was not easy, but it gave us an idea of how different
sides of a project are tied together and how a team as a whole
is responsible for the success of the project,. explains Anna Hirsikoski, a
project manager at the University of Turku?s Brahea Centre for
Training and Development.
?Rather than employers, the enterprises are clients who commission a product or a service from a group of students and don?t
supervise how the assignment is carried out. European City of Culture: culture, sports, pubs and clubs...
. I particularly like the Winter Outdoor Swimmers. Of course, the occasional report has to be filed, but essentially the group is responsible for the advancement of the project.?
Internships, in contrast, typically entail more support and
supervision, she points out.
Organised in partnership with the City of Turku and the region?s universities, the training programme is also an attempt
to stem the brain drain of educated young adults to the Capital
Region by connecting them with the region?s employers.
For Turku, in particular, ensuring that a growing number of
its roughly 40,000 university students find employment in the
region after graduation is a priority.
?The city is worried about how we educate scores of people who then go to work in Helsinki. That is their motivation
to participate,. Thus far, organisations from the field of
public administration to hobby associations, from boutique design houses to electrical engineering companies have participated . Hirsikoski speculates. According to her, Turku
has been actively involved in planning, carrying out and implementing the training programme.
?We also want to advance and underline the significance of
connecting and enterprises.?
Under Mum?s wing
For employers, the motivation to take part may be to conduct a
market research project or, for example, to enhance their presence on social media. It?s incredible all year
around
Pour the mole sauce over each beetroot. You?re different
beasts.)
No matter how much I
prepare, things with you
eventually get ugly: Even as
you yield, you can?t help but
scrub, scrub, and there you
are.
I know that?s how you want
this to go, and I suppose it?s
the price I pay, but sometimes
I get a little tired of it, and this
starts to feel tortured, in an Iwish-I-knew-how-to-quit-you
kind of way. Somehow, you ?nd a way
to leave your mark. Scrape them into a food processor. the squirrels. Cut the greens from the beetroots and reserve the smallest
ones for a garnish, saving the rest for another use. I use paper towels, foil, a
plastic board, running water or a combination thereof. I
complete you.
And every time we meet,
it?s the same story. When you eat them with a knife
and fork, the beetroots. They?re so much less
complicated. And it?s you
who won?t let me.
Ingredients
. You test
my patience for a while, but
sooner or later you yield
(don?t have much of a choice,
do you?) and allow your
earthy sweetness, even some
tenderness, to come through.
That?s when I show you how
much I care. But I can?t quit you
J O E YO N A N
THE WA SHINGTON POS T
I ADORE YOU. Turn the oven temperature to 500 degrees.
. Besides,
I don?t mean to be too controlling or anything, but the
fact is, from time to time you
need to be put in your place.
(Doesn?t everybody?) Frankly,
that?s when you really shine.
Think about it this way:
Where would you be without
remind me just how much
you?ve endured. ½ cup roasted, unsalted cashews, plus more for garnish
. ¼ cup pomegranate seeds (optional)
Steps
. I slice into you, and,
well, you know exactly what
you do. Roast until the beetroots are barely tender and a skewer
pierces them with just a little resistance, an hour to 1 hour 45
minutes, depending on the size and age of the beetroots.
. Perhaps
you don?t appreciate being
scrubbed raw, then wrapped
and baked until a skewer
pierces your heart. I rub
off your outer skin, and you
bleed. ½ cup chopped dried apricots, plus more for garnish
. Garnish
with the pomegranate seeds, if using, and cashews, dried
apricots and reserved small beetroot greens.
Nutrition Per serving: 160 calories, 3 g protein, 22 g carbohydrates, 8 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 170 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fiber, 12 g sugar
The Washington Post. When I?m
a little more hands-off, leaving you unwrapped and your
skin intact, it might be little
more than a drop, but other times the stain is the size
of a hipster?s tattoo. Tear the chilies open; discard their stems and seeds, then
transfer the remaining flesh to the food processor along
with the tomatoes and onion, garlic, chipotle pepper, ½ cup
cashews, ½ cup apricots, plantain and the ½ teaspoon salt.
Puree to make a smooth mole paste.
. You?ve suffered
more than your share of insults and abuse, and this is
obviously not your ?rst trip
to the roasting pan. To serve, divide the beetroots among individual plates
(nestling them on a bed of yellow rice or another grain, if
desired). Add the dried chilies and heat for just a few
minutes on each side, until their flesh goes brown and turns
pliable. You need me. Dry, transfer to the baking sheet and
drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the oil, rubbing to coat them.
. Awaiting what . But
there?s no getting around the
fact that the two of you simply can?t stay together for
the cooking. 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce
. 2 plum tomatoes, quartered
. 26 FEBRUARY
19
DEB LINDSE Y
Whole roasted beetroots with mole sauce
4 servings
Besides the fabulous combination of beetroots and mole
sauce, the brilliance of Tom Madrecki?s recipe is in his way of
treating the beetroots: Their skin stays on, and they?re roasted, unwrapped, in a super-hot oven, so the sugars caramelise
and the flavours concentrate. 1 small onion, quartered
. Honestly, beetroot,
how could you?
I?ll admit it: I?m still trying
to ?gure you out, and maybe I?ve made mistakes along
the way. I shower you
with expensive nut oil from
France and vinegar from
Spain, feta from Bulgaria and
yogurt from Greece. Trim off
any small root tails from the beetroots, and trim off any remaining stem. I try to catch your
drops of scarlet where I can
. Just hiding, buried up to
your stem in some backyard
garden somewhere. Position an oven rack 4 to 6 inches from the broiler element
or flame.
. Strain and reserve the soaking water (for
optional use).
. Transfer them to a medium bowl and barely cover with water to rest for 30 minutes, then use tongs to remove the chilies. Perhaps what I consider TLC is
in fact a little rough. (If it?s
not spicy enough, use some of the reserved chili-soaking
water instead.) Taste again, and add salt if needed.
. Arrange the tomatoes and onion on a small rimmed baking
sheet; broil them until charred all over, turning them a time
or two, 15 to 20 minutes. Perhaps
what recipe writers refer to
as ?without resistance. I?m not perfect. I want
dark. I scrub,
B R I A N N A W A LT H E R
Getting to the
root of beetroot.
me. That?s when I dabble with one of your cousins,
the golden one or that striped
number. Let?s be honest: I ?nd
you gorgeous, but not everybody does. EAT & DRINK
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . Every now
and then, when I feel like taking extra time, I?ll even drape
your shoulders in a warm,
thick coat of mole sauce. 4 large dried chili peppers, such as ancho or pasilla
. 1 clove garlic
. ½ teaspoon fine sea salt, plus more to taste
. I remove the
skewer, and you bleed. crimson flesh looks beautiful next to
the brown mole, which Madrecki makes with dried apricots in
the winter (and fresh plums in the summer).
This makes about 2½ cups of mole paste, about three times
what you need for this recipe, but the paste stores well and
can be used to make sauce to cover enchiladas, to drizzle in
tacos or to coat shredded chicken or turkey.
Make ahead: The beetroots can be roasted and refrigerated
for up to 1 week; reheat in a 200-degree oven before serving.
The mole paste can be refrigerated for up to 1 week or frozen
for up to 6 months; defrost before cooking and thinning out
to make the sauce.
Adapted from a recipe by Madrecki, who runs a private supper club in Arlington, Virginia, USA, called Chez Le Commis.
Whole roasted beetroots With Mole Sauce.
Things we love: I scrub.
You stain. You stain my ?ngers,
my cutting board, my roasting pan. 4 medium beetroots (about the size of tennis balls),
preferably with greens attached
. Scrub the beetroots thoroughly under running water, using a small brush if needed to remove any
trace amounts of dirt. I
treat you with tender loving
care, and this is how you repay me. 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
. While the beetroots are roasting, heat a large, dry skillet
over high heat. To make the sauce, return the skillet you used for the chilies
to medium heat and pour in the remaining 1 tablespoon of
oil. I nestle you on a bed of puff pastry, simmer you into a soup,
layer you with goat cheese
and caramelised onions in a
sandwich, and lay you onto
a plate next to some of your
favorite companions: leeks,
walnuts, oranges. (See
the accompanying recipe.)
If I?m being truly considerate, I?ll even reunite you
with your greens. 1 ripe plantain, cut into chunks
. (I?m trying to get better about that,
because I get the feeling that
the separation is part of what
obviously upsets you. I respect you. So much nicer.
They?re so sunny in comparison that sometimes you all
barely seem related.
Oh, who am I kidding?
I don?t want sunny. Water (optional)
. Being the object of my
affection isn?t always a picnic, it?s true, but some of you
strike me as particularly thickskinned. You
know you wouldn?t be happy with that. It?s just that I?ve always
thought you could handle all
this. Add ¾ cup of the mole paste; cook, stirring constantly
and scraping the bottom of the pan, until the paste darkens slightly and thickens, 5 to 10 minutes. Taste, and if the
paste is sufficiently spicy, stir in water ¼ cup at a time to
create a thick but pourable, sauce-like consistency. Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil.
. is anything but, and you?ve actually been resisting all along.
Anyway, you can?t blame
me. It?s you I can?t stop
thinking about
Take the top shell and
dip into the chocolate glaze, letting the excess drip off. HS
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . Whisk the flour with the cornstarch and then add to the egg
mixture, mixing until you get a smooth paste.
. Et voilà! Enjoy!
Choux pastry
. Possibly
realising that visits to her house
were nearly intolerable, she
made sure to ply us with rich
cookies and ?aky pastries when
we came. She knew the power
of buttery baked goods. Place the dough in a pastry bag fitted with a large plain tip and
pipe 12 oblongs of dough of about 2 cm wide onto the baking sheet.
. ¼ tsp. Butter is
made from cream, right. Continue to bake for another 25 minutes or until the
shells are a nice amber color and when split, are almost dry inside. Mine did not, though
it has wavered. When it boils,
keep whisking constantly for another 30-60 minutes until the
pastry cream becomes thick.
. Pour the egg mixture into a medium saucepan and cook over
medium heat until boiling, whisking constantly. and it?s named this
way because well, it?s eaten
in a ?ash.
Previously called pain
à la duchesse (bread Duchess) or petite duchesse (little Duchess) until 1850, these
sweet delicacies originated
in France during the nineteenth century. 15 g cornstarch
. 3 large egg yolks
. I declared.
?The second one.?
I pulled off the blindfold to see my father looking amazed. I was
blindfolded. 60 ml heavy whipping
cream (35% butterfat
content)
. 55 g semi-sweet
chocolate, finely chopped
. I loved its every texture: shatteringly hard,
unctuously creamy, blisteringly liquid. Transfer the dough to your electric mixer and beat on low speed
to release the steam from the dough (1 minute). This can
be done with the spoon, but piping gives a fancy touch. Pour the pastry cream into a clean bowl and immediately cover
the surface with plastic wrap to prevent a crust from forming.
Cool to room temperature and refrigerate until firm. I put it . Some are chocolate, coffee or vanilla. Gently stir
until the chocolate has melted. There
was no doubt in my mind.
?That?s butter,. At some point, I moved
beyond the acceptable. he announced gravely, clearly expecting to horrify
us, ?put butter on his steak.. the
other owner of the restaurant Filip Langhoff rejoices.
He runs the restaurant together with his wife Linda
Stenman-Langhoff. Butter.
My grandmother had introduced us. She was a tiny Dutch
woman with a morose outlook
and a way with dough. However, the ?rst
recipe in English was published only several years
later in 1884 in the Boston
School Cookbook by Mrs D.A
Lincoln. my mother
. To make the éclairs all the same size,
use a template by drawing 8.5 cm lines on a parchment paper.
Place the template under the baking sheet so that you can use
it as a guide.
. Once the dough
is lukewarm, start adding the lightly beaten eggs and continue mixing until the dough get back together again and forms a
smooth thick paste. ½ tbsp. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool.
Pastry cream
. (For a chocolate pastry cream, stir in 55 g of finely chopped semi-sweet
chocolate or 1½ tsp of instant coffee or espresso powder to the
hot milk for a mocha flavour).
. 20 g all-purpose flour
. Once
the glaze is dry, gently place the top half of the pastry shell on
cream. Place the butter and water in a saucepan over medium high
heat and bring to a boil.
. Remove from heat and add the flour mixture to it, all at once.
Stir until combined
. ?There?s no difference between margarine and butter.
It tastes just the same.?
No one was allowed to
contradict my father, so I
proceeded cautiously.
?I think I can tell the difference,. Until, one day, he noticed.
?Jane, I want you to eat this
margarine,. Heat the cream just until boiling and immediately pour it over the chocolate. That
didn?t sit well with my mom,
who declared that regardless
of what he wanted everyone
else to eat, she, for one, was
going to eat butter.
From then on, the margarine dish occupied the center of
the dinner table and the butter
dish was parked at my mother?s
elbow, which also happened to
be next to mine. Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Mention margarine, and her eyebrows would ?y up in disgust.
Her daughter . If it does curdle, just pour it through a strainer.
. The couple has worked in the restaurant business abroad as well,
which Filip Langhoff ?gures
is an advantage.
?Perhaps that experience has helped us in making Ask an entity that differs
THE GASTRONOMIC
Éclairs au chocolat, a French
pastry that seduced the world
A simple choux pastry and custard filling
and glaze make a sophisticated dessert for
every occasion.
VA L É R I E B RU N
HEL SINKI TIMES
THE NAME éclair comes from
French meaning ??ash of
lightning. I did, too, escaping my father?s notice. pure vanilla extract
. 1 tsp. Can be covered and stored in the fridge for two days.
Makes 12 chocolate éclairs.
R E CI P E A DA P T E D F RO M S T E P H A N I E JA W O R S K I - JOYO F B A K I N G .CO M
Chocolate can be used for both the filling and the glaze.
Ask opened in 2012 on Vironkatu, on the premises previously occupied by Restaurant Luomo.
Things we love: after the real
thing, no substitute will do
JANE TOUZ ALIN
THE WA SHINGTON POS T
IT WAS a youthful passion,
strong and true. It was possibly the ?rst and last argument he ever let me win.
So many ?rst loves ?zzle
and die. Some historians speculated that Antonin
Carême, the famous French
chef gave origin to the ?rst
éclairs. If desired, gently brush the tops of the dough with a lightly
beaten egg.
. was a chip off the old block
where butter was concerned.
And so, it turned out, was I.
The taste of the stuff proved
irresistible. For this recipe, however, I chose a vanilla custard
?lling with a touch of vanilla and a splash of coffee liquor, all this topped with dark
chocolate glaze. Return saucepan to the heat and stir constantly until the dough
comes away from the sides of the pan and forms a thick smooth
ball (about 1-2 minutes).
. 300 ml whole milk
. H T. In a heatproof bowl, mix the sugar and egg yolks together.
. She slathered
butter on her mashed potatoes
and dinner rolls. Usually, the ?avour of the ?lling
matches the ?avour of the
glaze. So
it?s really not cheating at all.
JULIA WECK M AN
Make the filling with chocolate, coffee or vanilla, and find your perfect éclair.
from other restaurants in
Helsinki.?
Langhoff and his spouse
intend to celebrate the price
with work.
?We will celebrate with
customers,. pure vanilla extract
Chocolate glaze
. Fill the bottom half with the cream. ah, but I can?t
feel guilty about it. Decades later, I
learned about compound butters, often served with meat.
To my 8-year-old self, it just
seemed like my uncle was some
kind of culinary mad genius.
A tasteful change
My dad was a thrifty sort,
and the day he determined
that we could save money
by switching to margarine,
he ordered the change. I
was dazzled. he says.
The Gastronomic Association of Finland has chosen
the restaurant of the year
since 1985. salt (ignore if using
salted butter)
55 g unsalted butter
cut into pieces
120 ml water
2 large eggs, slightly
beaten.
Pastry cream:
. Add the milk slowly to the egg mixture, whisking constantly to
prevent curdling. It should fall from a spoon in a thick ribbon.
. Place on
a wire rack to dry. I ventured.
A deal was struck. In a bowl, whisk together the flour with the sugar and salt.
. And in a story as old as the hills, my father tried to break us up: me
and my ?rst love. lots of it ?
on whatever seemed acceptable. When ready to use, whisk or stir
before using to get rid of any lumps.
Chocolate glaze
. It
might have been the night my
father was tsk-tsking over a
relative?s notoriously self-indulgent eating habits.
?I have seen your Uncle Allen,. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract. Last year Chef
& Sommelier on Huvilakatu
was awarded the title.
JULIA WECK M AN
JUHO T YPPÖ . light corn syrup
ble the day you wish to serve
them and there is no need to
wait for hours for the cream
to ?rm up in the fridge.
I hope you savour this
French pastry and don?t forget to add the ?our and
starch to the pastry cream
?lling. Meanwhile, in a saucepan bring the milk just to a boil and remove from heat.
. Often, I?ll admit, I am seduced by cream.
That rich taste, that sensuous
mouth feel . If desired, I add a
splash of coffee liquor, or any other liquor will do. This recipe
is very versatile, so you can
choose the aromas you?d like
to make.
It is better to make the
?lling pastry the day before,
this way, the éclairs will be
faster to make and assem-
Ingredients
?
?
?
?
?
?
Choux pastry
65 g all purpose flour
½ tsp. If I
could tell margarine from
butter, I would be allowed to
eat from the butter plate.
Two saltines were fetched.
Butter was spread on one,
margarine on the other. Stir in the vanilla and corn syrup.
Assemble
Split the pastry shells in half lengthwise. 26 FEBRUARY
HELSINKI TIMES
VA L É R I E B RU N
Ask in Kruunuhaka chosen
as restaurant of the year
Association of Finland has chosen the
Helsinki-based restaurant
Ask as restaurant of the year.
The restaurant, which focuses on organic Nordic ?ne
dining, was opened on Vironkatu in Kruunuhaka in August 2012. Today, the recipe
is translated into hundreds
of different languages and
éclairs are popular all over
the world.
An éclair is an oblong pastry made with choux dough,
?lled with cream and topped
with icing. he said sternly. Preheat oven to 200°C. 20
EAT & DRINK
20 . It happened to me
twice and I was wondering why it wouldn?t thicken.
Don?t let this happen to you!
Éclair au Chocolat, oh là
là. granulated
white sugar
¼ tsp. In October that year
restaurant critic Anna Paljakka described Ask?s portions as
light, beautiful and tasty.
?It feels good that we have
been received so well,. ?You?re right,. (This can
be made up to 3 days ahead). Bake for 15 minutes and then reduce the oven temperature to
180°C. I chewed the ?rst
cracker, then the second. There was almost
no food that butter could not
improve. 50 g granulated white
sugar
. he
said, a little sadly
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Map of Scars
Multi-layered map consisting of
scars drawn by three charismatic
female dancers.
Zodiak - Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
Until Sat 2 March
Markus Henttonen: Night Time
Stories
Cinematic photos from the nocturnal cities.
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
www.taidehalli.fi
Until Sun 9 March
Dorothée Smith
French artist´s melancholy
and haze images exploring the
themes of absence and presence.
The Finnish Museum of
Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
Helsinki
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/5/8
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Until Sun 9 March
Tuija Lindström: In The Beginning
There Was Everything
The retrospective exhibition takes
the viewer on a journey through
Tuija Lindström?s career, from the
1980´s black-and-white vintage
prints to the 2010´s large,
colorful works.
The Finnish Museum of
Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
Helsinki
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/5/8
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Until Sun 20 April
Ars Fennica 2014
Exhibition by the 2014 Ars Fennica
candidates . Getting its´
Finnish premiere on Friday 21 February, Beauty and the Beast
offers classical ballet at its´ finest, romantic castle atmosphere,
wonderful costumes by Erika Turunen and music by Ottorino
Respighi.
Fri 21, Sat 22 & Wed 26 February
Javier Torres:
Beauty and the Beast
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?24-115
www.opera.fi
MUSIC
Thu 20 February
Wiljam Suvanne Quartet
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Tickets ?10/15
www.kokojazz.fi
Thu 20 February
Jukka Ässä, Koria Kitten Riot
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?10/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Thu 20 February
Shamanviolin with Áilu Gaup
Music Centre
Camerata
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?6.50/12.50/17.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 20 February
Iva Nova (RUS), Lada Nuevo
Russian grooves with a twist.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Tickets ?6/8
www.barloose.com
Thu 20 February
W. Janá?ek: Jen?fa
Finnish top soprano Karita Mattila
as the young conflict-torn Jen?fa.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?37-125
www.opera.fi
Tue 25 February
Sibelius Academy: Restless
Longing with Horn and Harp
Duets, dialogues, and monologues
for French horn and harp.
Music Centre
Camerata
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?6.50/12.50/17.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Wed 26 February
Cola & Jimmu
(Nicole Willis & Jimi Tenor),
Haunted by Hallucinations
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?7/9
www.barloose.com
Wed 26 February
Within Temptation (NLD)
World tour opening concert.
The Cable Factory
Tallberginkatu 1
Tickets ?48-115
Wed 26 February
UMO & Kurt Elling
Top jazz vocalist.
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Tickets ?33/38
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Wed 26 February
Yournalist, Suomen
Karvapääkuninkaat 1986,
Pintandwefall
Pop/rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?10/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 26 February
Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra
Pehr Henrik Nordgren 70 Years!
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?7-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 21, Sat 22 & Wed 26 February
Javier Torres:
Beauty and the Beast
Ballet version of the
charming fairy tale.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
www.opera.fi
Wed 26 February
Hanna Pajala-Assefa:
History of a Love
A duet based on movement and
rhythm by the artist couple choreographer Hanna Pajala-Assefa and
musician Abdissa ?Mamba. Rudolf Steiner
Nearly 400 objects, from artworks
to furniture and scale models.
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A magical tale of inner beauty
The spring season´s ballet at the Finnish National Opera, Beauty and the Beast, fascinates both grown-ups and kids. IC -98
(Patrik Söderlund and Visa
Suonpää), Riitta Ikonen,
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver
Kochta-Kalleinen, Leena Nio
and Pauliina Turakka Purhonen.
Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2
Helsinki
Open:
Tue 10:00-17:00
Wed-Fri 10:00-20:30
Sat 10:00-18:00
Sun 10:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
www.kiasma.fi
Until Sun 11 May
Henrik Vibskov
A pioneer of contemporary Danish
fashion design and a boundless
inventor.
Design Museum
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
Helsinki
Open:
Tue 11:00-20:00
Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?0/5/8/10
www.designmuseum.fi
Until Sun 13 July
Chaplin in Pictures
The incredible life and career
of the mythic artist told
through pictures.
Helsinki Art Museum
Tennis Palace
Salomonkatu 15
Helsinki
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00
Tickets ?0/8/10. Assefa.
Kanneltalo
Klaneettitie 5
www.kanneltalo.fi
Wed 26 February
Agit-Cirk: Blood Under Fingernails
A meld of classical scripted
clownery and animation.
Cirko
Kaasutehtaankatu 1
Tickets ?17.50/22.50
www.cirko.fi
EXHIBITIONS
From Wed 26 February
Designer of the
Everyday . Based on
the classic French fairytale first written in the 1700s, the ballet tells a heartwarming love story of Belle, a young and purehearted merchant´s daughter, and the Beast, a prince in a monstrous disguise.
Choreographer Javier Torres´ previous ballet, rendition of
Sleeping Beauty, garnered positive reviews and now it´s time
for another familiar fairytale, that of a prince transformed into
a monster, a beautiful girl trapped in his enormous castle, and
the love that little by little awakens between them. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni
A beloved opera about the
notorious legend of Don Juan.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?15-91
www.opera.fi
Fri 21 February
Poisonblack, Beast (SWE)
Heavy rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?13/15
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Thu 20, Fri 21 & Sat 22 February
Muissa Maailmoissa Festival
The Thing (NOR/SWE), Rashad
Becker (GER), Hieroglyphic Being
(USA) and more.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 21 February
UGH!
Pietarin Spektaakkeli & Laineen
Kasperi live.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?0/9
www.kuudeslinja.com
Fri 21 February
Korpiklaani + supports
Folk metal.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?14/16
www.virginoil.fi
Fri 21 February
AlaValA, Amusia
Pop/rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
www.semifinal.fi
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Finnish National Opera / Javier Torres: Beauty and the Beast .
Fri 21 & Sat 22 February
Kultabassokerho Presents:
Toppen
Aivovuoto, JVG, Gasellit?
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?25-35
www.thecircus.fi
Sat 22 February
Nolla nolla nolla
Punk.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
www.barloose.com
Sat 22 February
Zamorano
Rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?5
www.semifinal.fi
Sat 22 February
Femmagaala 10 Years Party
Ruger Hauer, Damn Seagulls,
No Shame.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?10/12
www.virginoil.fi
Sat 22 February
Psychic TV / PTV3
(USA/UK)
From early industrial
and acid house to psychedelic
glam rock and noise punk.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?30/33
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 22 February
Uusi Legacy-klubi
Clear Soul Forces (USA),
DJ J-Laini & guests.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Tickets ?18/20
www.kuudeslinja.com
Mon 24 February
Frank Turner & The Sleeping
Souls (UK)
Folk punk.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
www.elmu.fi
Mon 24 February
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or worst . S U L L I VA N
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J A M E S O . However, once he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, it?s time to save her. of
the laddies.
The chief frustration of
That Awkward Moment is that
everyone in it is so much better than the material: Efron,
an acting, singing and dancing triple threat, here squanders his charm, evoking fond
memories of the High School
Musical movies and 17 Again.
Teller and Jordan may not
be as well known (yet), but
to get a sense of the prodigious gifts they possess,
check out their astonishingly good performances in
last year?s The Spectacular
Now and Fruitvale Station,
respectively.
For their part, Davis and
Imogen Poots . For the nightowls
in attendance, things aim to
eventually wind down at 3 am
Sunday morning.
Muissa maailmoissa /
In Other Worlds
20-22 February
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51
Helsinki
His latest album, To Be
Loved, saw him team up with
acclaimed producer Bob Rock
(Metallica, Bon Jovi). Offering a songbook of standards drawn from a range
of eras, including memorable takes on such cuts as
Fever, The Way You Look Tonight, For Once in My Life and
Moondance, the album also featured the unmistakeable tones of the Bee Gees?
Barry Gibb on back up vocals
for How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?. And, blessedly,
just as swiftly forgotten.
Elsewhere on screens
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms in Winter?s
Tale. 26 FEBRUARY
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RO B E R T O B E A R GU E R R A
Film
Stars squandered on
derivative brom-com
Awkward Moment
turns out to be unfortunately
aptly named, not for mining a
rich vein of social and romantic anthropology, as the ?lmmakers obviously intended
to do, but for so clunkily
stringing together callow,
predictable scenes from romcoms past.
Actually, make that bromcoms: In this male-centric
version of glossy wish ful?llment, Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. CULTURE
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20 . The best thing
about awkward moments,
after all, is that they usually
pass quickly. clearly have promising careers
ahead of them after this
coarse, contemptuous digression. Her ?rst release in ?ve years, the album
saw her record take on songs
from the likes of Paul McCartney and Sigur Rós, producing a well-received set that
also saw the singer drawing
on the concept of space as
her muse.
SOPRANO
Sarah Brightman ?
Dreamchaser World Tour
24 February
19:30
Tickets ?53.50-83.50
Hartwall Areena
Areenakuja 1
Helsinki
RETURNING to the same venue after playing to a full
house in 2012, Canadian singer Michael Bublé is performing at Hartwall Areena on
Friday 21 February.
Introduced to the music
of swing by his grandfather
when he was a youngster,
Bublé was discovered in 2000
by an aide to Canada?s former
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Released
in April last year, the album
proved to be yet another big
success, with cuts such as
It?s a Beautiful Day, Close Your
Eyes and Bryan Adams duet After All garnering favour
with his fervent fan base.
Fans of warm up a capella
septet Naturally 7 are in for
a double treat on Friday. Needless to say
the album made itself comfortable on to top the charts
around the globe, nicely padding the retirement fund of
the then 25-year-old.
Menist, along with Czech
Bölzer, among others.
Saturday offers up American experimental sound artist
Hieroglyphic Being, Swedes
Young Lean & The Sad Boys
and Receptacles and Belgians
Lay Low. Friday night
sees Germans Rashad
Becker and Dieter Moebius taking the stage on separate occasions, the UK?s
Cut Hands and Krypts Chris
Dreaming He sure can swing
to sing
J A M E S O . All is supposed
to be forgiven in the course
of an anticlimactic come-toCupid speech in which his
caddish protagonist (please
don?t call him a hero) realizes What Relationships Are
All About.
With their chirpy, pseudo-hip banter and superdesigned
faux-downscale
apartments, the men of That
Awkward Moment rarely convince viewers that they?re
more than obnoxious, entitled brats, running amok
in the big city with way too
much disposable time, income and healthy liver enzymes at their disposal.
Admittedly, Michael proves a
sensitive, soft-spoken exception in a group that includes
a female wingman (Mackenzie Davis) who can drink and
swear and sweet-talk ladies
with the best . The variety of artists seeks to challenge the
conventions of music and
creative expression.
Things kick off at Korjaamo?s vaunusali on Thursday
with
Norwegian/
Swedish jazz trio The Thing.
Known for their collaborations with the likes of Neneh
Cherry (2012?s The Cherry
Thing) and Thurston Moore,
among others, support
comes in the shape of free
jazz trio Black Motor.
On Friday and Saturday the festival spreads out
throughout Korjaamo Culture Factory. Subsequently asked
to perform at the wedding
of the Mulroney?s daughter,
achieving superstardom was
only a matter of time for the
young Canuck crooner.
Fast forward a handful
of years, and Bublé?s eponymous third album was a
huge worldwide success. Adam on Girls) than
THAT
That Awkward Moment (K12)
Release Date: 21 February
Director: Tom Gormican
Starring: Zac Efron,
Michael B. While the sound of Russell Crowe and
Colin Farrell teaming up sounds like a good proposition, early
word unfortunately points firmly in the other direction.
Meanwhile, acclaimed French flick Jeune & Jolie follows teenager Isabelle who becomes a prostitute after an unsatisfactory
sexual experience. But when one of her clients dies of a heart act
mid-coitus, her secret may just be revealed
JO?S
Norwegian-Swedish jazz trio The Thing helps kick of the inaugural Muissa maailmoissa/In Other Worlds festival at Korjaamo Culture Factory.
Music from other worlds
J A M E S O . who plays
a woman so ideal that she?s
smart and pretty and likes
Scotch and Xbox . The ringleader, a serial
one-night-stander named Jason (Efron), explains to the
far more domesticated Michael (Jordan) that he needs
to build a ?roster.?
That is, a list of women
who can be called, texted or
sexted at any hour for a latenight booty call or other form
of adult sleepover.
What passes for frank and
timely social observation in
?That Awkward Moment?
has less to do with edgy honesty (e.g. Jordan
Winter?s Tale (K12)
Release Date: 21 February
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Starring: Colin Farrell,
Jessica Brown Findlay
Jeune & Jolie (K15)
Release Date: 21 February
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Marine Vacth,
Géraldine Pailhas
a shallow, derivative re-tread
(er, ?Sexism in the City??).
Trying to fuse the raunch and
ribaldry of Judd Apatow with
the aspirational feel-goodism of the movies Matthew
McConaughey no longer
makes, ?rst-time writer-director Tom Gormican succeeds only in delivering a
long-form sit-com of verbal
and behavioral cliches, from
a running scatological joke
featuring Teller?s character
to a duo of unsavory sight
gags involving Efron?s anatomy, both real and outlandishly arti?cial. S U L L I VA N
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Sarah Brightman brings her Dreamchaser
World Tour to Hartwall Areena on Tuesday 18 February.
Known for her performances
in such Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals as Cats and
Phantom of the Opera, over
the years she has gone on
to perform with the likes of
Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Andrea Bocelli.
The acclaimed singer arrives in support of her 11th
solo release, last year?s
Dreamchaser. S U L L I VA N
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together over 20
artists, both Finnish and
international, the Muissa maailmoissa / In Other Worlds festival is being
staged for the ?rst time at
Korjaamo Culture Factory
from Thursday 20 February
until Saturday 22 February.
Offering up a wide range
of eclectic tastes, rang-
BRINGING
ing from jazz to hip-hop
and electronic to metal music, this fresh festival on the
scene seeks to break down
barriers. Jordan
take center stage as three
20-ish Manhattan professionals who, early in the ?lm,
vow to stay single and broout together while they still
can. Not
only will they perform a set
before the main act, they will
join Buble later in the evening
during his performance.
Michael Bublé
21 February April, 20:00
Tickets ?59.50-99
Hartwall Areena
Areenankuja 1, Helsinki
WARWICK SAINT
A N N H O R N A DAY
THE WA SHINGTON POS T
Canadian crooner Michael Bublé is performing once again in Helsinki.
Bilko
is a conniving motor pool
supervisor who uses his
position to finance various
get-rich-quick schemes,
including illegal gambling,
at a Kansas military base.
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn.
Starring: Steve Martin, Dan
Aykroyd, Phil Hartman.
USA/1996.
21.00 Survivor
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.30 Broadchurch
SUB
11.00
11.30
12.00
12.30
13.00
Work It
I Hate My Teenage Daughter
Whitney
The New Normal
How to Live with Your
Parents (for the Rest of
Your Life)
13.30 Middle
14.30 Partners
15.00 World Palooza
17.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
17.30 United Bates of America
18.00 Masterchef USA
20.00 Top Gear
21.00 The Jackal (K16) FILM
Directed by: Michael CatonJones. Starring: Christine
Taylor, Fairuza Balk,
Neve Campbell.
USA/1996.
01.30 Knight Rider
02.35 Just for Laughs
03.00 MacGyver
AVA
08.00 Namaste jooga
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
11.50 Shannen Says
12.50 Top Chef Masters
14.45 Model Employee
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
Friends revolves around the
lives, loves, and laughs of
six young friends living in
Manhattan.
19.00 Million Dollar Decorators
20.00 Storage Hoarders
21.00 American Idol
00.00 Hart of Dixie
22.2.
MTV3
NELONEN
Sgt. Miami (K16)
01.15 30 Rock
01.45 Sleepy Hollow (K16)
02.35 Grimm (K16)
JIM
12.55 Man vs. This habit has broken up
his marriage to Audrey and is not
doing much good for his relationship with his young son Max. Starring:
Arielle Kebbel, David
Strathairn, Elizabeth Banks.
USA/Canada/2009.
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 One Born Every Minute
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Project Runway
19.30 2 Broke Girls
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Arrow
22.00 Revolution (K16)
A group of revolutionaries
confronts an authoritarian
regime 15 years after
an instantaneous global
shutdown of all electrical
devices.
23.00 Entourage (K16)
23.36 C.S.I. USA/2008.
23.55 Rescue Dawn FILM
Directed by: Werner Herzog.
Starring: Christian Bale,
Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies.
USA/Luxemburg/2006.
02.25 Frasier
02.55 Excused
03.25 Falling Skies (K16)
TV5
06.05 Absolutely Fabulous
06.45 Extraordinary Dogs
07.15 The King of Queens
07.45 Matlock
11.45 Kitchen Boss
12.15 Say Yes to Dress
12.40 Dogs 101
13.30 Absolutely Fabulous
14.05 Hale and Pace
14.35 Matlock
15.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Married. USA/Ireland/2001.
02.50 Best of Pamela Anderson
04.00 MacGyver
05.15 Defying Gravity
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Find My Family UK
11.50 You Deserve This House
12.50 Million Dollar Decorators
13.45 The Rachel Zoe Project
14.45 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
20.00 Model Employee
21.00 Juno FILM
Directed by: Jason Reitman.
Starring: Ellen Page, J.K.
Simmons, Michael Cera.
USA/2007.
23.15 The Americans
00.15 Hart of Dixie
saturday
21.2.
MTV3
American Beauty
Sub 21.00
09.45 Hart of Dixie
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Farm Kings
15.15 Mike & Molly
15.45 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
20.05 Liar, Liar FILM
Directed by: Tom Shadyac.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Maura
Tierney, Jennifer Tilly.
USA/1997.
22.50 Dallas
23.45 Chigago Code (K16)
Detective Jarek Wysocki,
one of Chicago?s toughest
cops, struggles to clean
up the town?s violence and
corruption.
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 The Model Agency
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 One Tree Hill
19.30 New Girl
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 American Beauty (K16)
FILM
Lester Burnham, a depressed
suburban father in a mid-life
crisis, decides to turn his hectic
life around after developing an
infatuation for his daughter?s
attractive friend.
Directed by: Sam Mendes.
Starring: Kevin Spacey,
Annette Bening,
Thora Birch.
USA/1999.
23.20 C.S.I. Starring: Jim
Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer
Tilly. In order
to track down this coldblooded
killer, he and a by-the-book
Russian intelligence officer enlist
the aid of an imprisoned Irish terrorist. Food
21.00 Pawn Stars
22.00 Rude Tube (K16)
23.00 American Pickers
00.00 Container Wars
00.30 Ball Boys
01.00 Bizarre Crime
01.35 Speeders
02.05 Gene Simmons Family Jewels
03.30 South Park
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Princess
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 Sarah 101
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 Sarah 101
14.50 What Not to Wear
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Frasier
18.25 Excused
22.00 Journey to the Center of
the Earth FILM
Directed by: Eric Brevig.
Starring: Brendan Fraser,
Josh Hutcherson, Anita
Briem. With Children
17.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.30 The King of Queens
18.30 The Karate Kid FILM
Directed by: John
G.Avildsen. Miami (K16)
00.35 Bones
JIM
13.35
14.35
15.40
16.35
17.30
18.30
19.30
21.00
friday
20.2.
Man vs. Directed by: Ron
Howard. USA/1984.
21.00 Knocked Up (K16) FILM
Directed by: Judd Apatow.
Starring: Jason Segel,
Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill.
USA/2007.
23.35 The Craft (K16) FILM
Directed by: Andrew
Fleming. Bilko
MTV3 17.05
08.05 Children?s Programming
10.20 Cosmos
13.25 Oliver?s Twist
16.05 Top Gear USA
17.05 Sgt. Food
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.
23.00 Ice Road Truckers
23.55 Rude Tube (K16)
08.05 Children?s Programming
10.30 Supernanny
13.45 Dog Rescue
14.55 Zoo
15.25 Sea Rescue
15.55 Shake It Up
19.00 Elementary
21.00 Live and Let Die (K16)
FILM
James Bond is sent to stop a
diabolically brilliant heroin
magnate armed with a complex
organiSation and a reliable
psychic tarot card reader.
Directed by: Guy Hamilton.
Starring: Roger Moore,
Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour.
UK/1973.
23.30 Under the Dome
00.25 Halloween (K18) FILM
Directed by: Rob Zombie.
Starring: Malcolm
McDowell, Tyler Mane.
USA/2007.
02.40 Dexter (K16)
TV5
06.00 Dynamo: Magician
Impossible
07.00 Dogs 101
08.00 Matlock
12.15 Sundays at Tiffany?s FILM
Directed by: Mark Piznarski.
Starring: Alyssa Milano,
Eric Winter, Kristin Booth.
USA/2010.
15.30 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
16.00 Must Love Cats
17.00 MacGyver
18.00 Dynamo: Magician
Impossible
19.00 Monk
20.00 30 Rock
21.00 The Dilemma FILM
A man discovers that his
best friend?s wife is having
an affair. Forrest,
Francesca Dellera, Isabella
Biagini. Constantly changing
his identity and location, he is
known only as the Jackal. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 NCIS
21.00 Godzilla FILM
Directed by: Roland
Emmerich. Italy/1987.
02.30 The Karate Kid FILM
Directed by: John
G.Avildsen. Starring: Bruce Willis,
Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier.
USA/1997.
23.15 C.S.I. USA/1984.
AVA
08.00 Namaste
10.00 American Idol
12.00 Million Dollar Decorators
13.00 Storage Hoarders
14.00 Breaking Pointe
15.00 The Rachel Zoe Project
16.00 Me, My Bump & I
17.00 Find My Family UK
This series follows how
family members who have
been separated are reunited.
18.30 Save with Jamie
20.00 Grand Designs
21.00 American Idol
22.00 Royal Pains
23.00 Reign
00.00 Vanderpump Rules
Liar, Liar
The Jackal
Can a lawyer tell the truth for 24
hours straight. Miami (K16)
01.00 Vikings (K16)
JIM
08.30 MasterChef Australia
11.50 Kitchen Nightmares USA
14.40 Chuck?s Day Off
15.10 The Delinquent Gourmet
Driven by a passion for
food and a huge appetite
for adventure, join a chef
Bowers as he travels the
world in search of exotic
edibles and life-enhancing
experiences.
15.40 Invite Mr Wright
16.35 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
17.30 Man vs. Starring:
Elisabeth Shue, Pat Morita,
Ralph Macchio. Food
MasterChef Australia
Shark Tank USA
Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
MasterChef Australia
Kitchen Nightmares USA
Talent USA
This reality show features
singers, dancers, magicians,
comedians, and other
performers of all ages
competing for the advertised
top prize of one million dollars.
22.30 JIM D: Ancient Aliens
Ancient Aliens presents
theories of ancient
astronauts and proposes that
historical texts, archaeology
and legends contain
evidence of past humanextraterrestrial contact.
23.30 Barter Kings
00.00 Trigger Happy TV
01.00 South Park
01.30 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Princess
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 Sarah 101
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 Sarah 101
14.50 What Not to Wear
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Frasier
18.25 Excused
20.00 Criss Angel Believe
21.00 Criminal Minds
The cases of the BAU an
elite group of profilers that
analyze the nation?s most
dangerous criminal minds
in an effort to anticipate
their next moves before they
strike again.
23.30 Blue Bloods
00.30 Frasier
01.00 Excused
01.30 Metcalfe (K16)
TV5
06.00 Married. USA/2011.
23.15 Sexcetera (K18)
00.25 Love and Passion (K18)
FILM
Directed by: Tinto Brass.
Starring: Andy J. Bilko FILM
Sergeant Ernest G. Aware
of the Jackal?s presence but
uncertain of his purpose, the FBI?s
Deputy Director faces the biggest
challenge of his career. With Children
06.30 Absolutely Fabulous
07.05 Michaela?s Animal Road Trip
08.00 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.30 Cake Boss
13.00 Michaela?s Animal Road Trip
13.55 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Hale and Pace
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. Starring: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier.
USA/1997.
MTV3 20.05
Friday 21.2.2014
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This suspense thriller revolves
around a ruthless assassin who
has been hired to eliminate someone at the very top of the U.S.
government. 26 FEBRUARY
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thursday
MTV3
NELONEN
Godzilla
T V5 21.00
09.45 Hart of Dixie
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 The Great British Bake Off
15.20 Middle
15.45 Oliver?s Twist
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Undercover Boss USA
22.40 The Uninvited (K16) FILM
Directed by: Charles and
Thomas Guard. Starring: Channing
Tatum, Jennifer Connelly,
Kevin James. The wish becomes
immediately true but how Reede
finds a way to navigate his daily
life without telling lies. Fletcher Reede
(Jim Carrey) is a career-focused
lawyer who has devoted his life
to bending the truth to his advantage. Ultimately, Fletcher misses his son?s
fifth birthday party and makes an
excuse so flimsy that even Max
can see through it. Directed
by: Tom Shadyac. Food
14.45 MasterChef Australia
15.45 Shark Tank USA
16.40 Kitchen Nightmares USA
17.35 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
18.30 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Man vs. Starring: Hank
Azaria, Matthew Broderick,
Kevin Dunn.
USA/Japan/1998.
23.40 World?s Heaviest Man Gets
Married
00.45 The Tailor of Panama (K16)
FILM
Directed by: John Boorman.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan,
Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee
Curtis. These unlikely allies enter
a global race against the clock to
stop the mysterious mercenary
before he can complete his deadly
assignment. Directed by: Michael
Caton-Jones. When it comes
time to blow out the candles on his
cake, Max makes a wish: that his
Dad could go just one day without
telling a lie
UK/2005.
19.30 Frost/Nixon FILM
A dramatic retelling of the
post-Watergate television
interviews between British
talk-show host David
Frost and former president
Richard Nixon.
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Frank Langella,
Michael Sheen.
USA/UK/2008.
22.35 The Americans
23.35 Persons Unknown (K16)
SUB
11.00
14.00
15.00
15.55
16.55
17.55
18.55
19.55
21.00
The Simpsons
Farm Kings
Masterchef USA
The Face
Lying Game
Pretty Little Liars
Project Runway
Mythbusters
The Mummy FILM
Directed by: Stephen
Sommers. Starring: Julia
Roberts, David Brisbin, Albert
Finney. So the
two begin an incredible fight
that will bring a small town to
its feet and a huge company to
its knees. Directed by: Joe
Wright. Jones FILM
Directed by: Mike Figgis.
USA/1993.
04.10 MacGyver
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Undercover Boss UK
11.50 All On The Line
13.45 Grand Designs
15.15 Jamie?s Big Feastival
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 Save with Jamie
20.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
21.00 Top Chef Masters
22.00 My Three Wives
23.00 Rizzoli & Isles
Jane and Maura work to
track down the killer of a
man stabbed during his alma
mater?s car wash fundraiser.
Pride and Prejudice
Erin Brockovich
Based on the beloved masterpiece
by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice is the classic tale of love and
misunderstanding that sparkles
with romance, wit and emotional
force. Directed
by: Chris Noonan. UK/2005.
Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts)
is an unemployed single mother,
desperate to find a job to
support herself and her three
children. It revolves around five
Bennet sisters; the beautiful Jane,
the clever Elizabeth, the bookish
Mary, the immature Kitty and
the wild Lyndia. USA/2000.
MTV3 14.55
Sunday 23.2.2014
Nelonen 21.00
Monday 24.2.2014. Starring:
JamesCromwell,
Magda Szubanski.
Australia/1995.
21.00 2012 FILM
A frustrated writer struggles
to keep his family alive
when a series of global
catastrophes threatens
to annihilate mankind.
Directed by: Roland
Emmerich. for an answer. Starring: Julia
Roberts, David Brisbin,
Albert Finney.
USA/2000.
00.10 Frasier
00.40 Excused
03.10 Mad Men
TV5
06.00 Married. Starring:
John Cusack, Thandie
Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor.
USA/2009.
00.05 Numb3rs
01.00 Call Me Fitz
02.05 Twin Peaks
03.00 Eye Of The Beholder (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Stephan Elliott.
Starring: Ewan McGregor,
Ashley Judd, Patric Bergin.
Canada/UK Australia/1999.
AVA
08.00 Namaste
10.00 American Idol
13.00 Save with Jamie
Jamie shows how you do not
need a massive budget to
make great, delicious food.
15.00 Top Chef Masters
In this series, worldrenowned chefs compete
against each other in weekly
challenges.
16.00 Model Employee
17.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
20.00 Reign
23.30 Law & Order: Los Angeles
tuesday
24.2.
MTV3
The Mummy:
Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Sub 21.00
09.45 Hart of Dixie
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Survivor
15.10 Whitney
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Hostages (K16)
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles
Detective Jane Rizzoli and
Medical Examiner Dr. Phil
14.50 America?s Next Topmodel
15.50 Criss Angel Believe
21.00 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
FILM
A bachelor is haunted by the
ghosts of his past girlfriends
at his younger brother?s
wedding. Directed by: Mark
Waters. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Catch is areality
television series which
portrays the real life highsea adventures of the
Alaskan crab fishermen.
20.00 Gold Rush 2
21.00 The 6th Day FILM
Futuristic action film about
a man who meets a clone of
himself and stumbles into
a grand conspiracy about
clones taking over the world.
Directed by: Roger
Spottiswoode.
Starring: Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Michael
Rapaport, Michael Rooker.
USA/2000.
23.30 Best of Anna Nicole Smith
Directed by: Mikael
Salomon. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 Take Me Home Tonight
(K16) FILM
Directed by: Michael Dowse.
Starring: Anna Faris,
Chris Pratt, Dan Fogler.
USA/2011.
23.00 Motive
01.00 The Only Way is Essex
02.00 Mr. Maura
Isles team up to solve crimes
in Boston.
23.35 Psych
00.35 Louie
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Beverly Hills Pawn
15.25 United Bates of America
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Beverly Hills Pawn
19.00 United Bates of America
19.30 Suburgatory
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Big Bang Theory
21.00 The Mummy: Tomb of the
Dragon Emperor FILM
In the Far East, Alex
O?Connell, the son of famed
mummy fighters, unearths
the mummy of the first
Emperor of Qin - a shapeshifting entity cursed by
a witch centuries ago.
Directed by: Rob Cohen.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jet
Li, Maria Bello. USA/2008.
23.10 Suburgatory
00.40 Bones
01.35 Awake (K16)
JIM
12.45
13.15
14.10
14.40
15.40
Chuck?s Day Off
Dinner: Impossible
Barter Kings
MasterChef Australia
Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
17.30 American Pickers
18.25 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
21.00 American Pickers
Mike and Frank are pickers
that travel the country and
literally would go anywhere
just for the prospects of
finding antique gold.
22.30 Container Wars
23.00 Ball Boys
23.30 Trigger Happy TV
00.55 South Park
01.25 Crimestories Around the
World
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Princess
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 Sarah 101
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 Sarah 101
14.50 What Not to Wear
15.55 Heavy Texas
16.55 Frasier
18.25 Excused
20.00 America?s Next Topmodel
21.00 Erin Brockovich FILM
Directed by: Steven
Soderbergh. Starring: Keira Knightley,
Matthew Macfadyen, Talulah
Riley. But
as their lives become intertwined
in an unexpected adventure, she
finds herself captivated by the
very person she swore to loathe
for all eternity. Starring: Matthew
McConaughey, Jennifer
Garner, Michael Douglas.
USA/2009.
02.40 Blue Bloods
TV5
07.20 Chestnut: Hero of Central
Park FILM
Directed by: Robert Vince.
Starring: Abigail Breslin,
Barry Bostwick, Christine
Tucci. With Children
06.30 Absolutely Fabulous
07.05 Bad Dog!
08.00 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.30 DC Cupcakes
13.00 Bad Dog!
13.55 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Hale and Pace
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. 26 FEBRUARY
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sunday
monday
23.2.
MTV3
NELONEN
Babe
TV5 18.10
08.05 Children?s Programming
14.20 Oliver?s Twist
14.55 Pride and Prejudice FILM
Directed by: Joe Wright.
Starring: Keira Knightley,
Matthew Macfadyen,
Talulah Riley. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
20 . Starring: Christian
Slater, Randy Quaid.
USA/1998.
03.10 MacGyver
04.10 Flashpoint
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
11.50 Marbella Mansions
Interior designers oversee
makeovers of some of the
southern Spanish coast?s
most expensive properties.
12.50 American Idol
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friend
20.00 Grand Designs
21.30 The Jamie?s Big Festival
23.00 Love Bites
00.00 Hart of Dixie
25.2.
MTV3
NELONEN
Sleepy Hollow
Sub 22.00
09.45 Hart of Dixie
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Grand Designs
This series covers unusual
architectural house-building
projects presented by Kevin
McCloud.
15.15 How to Live with Your
Parents (for the Rest of
Your Life)
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Person of Interest
22.35 Suits
23.35 666 Park Avenue (K16)
00.35 Legit
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Gordon?s Ultimate
Cookery Course
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Supersize vs Superskinny
19.30 Mom
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Big Bang Theory
22.00 Sleepy Hollow (K16)
This is a modern day twist on
Washington Irving?s classic
in which Ichabod Crane,
resurrected 250 years in
the future, pairs up with a
present-day cop, Lieutenant
Abbie Mills, to save the
town of Sleepy Hollow from
unparalleled evil.
23.00 Mom
23.30 Nikita (K16)
00.30 Bones
01.25 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
13.25 Undercover Boss
14.20 MasterChef Australia
15.20 Shark Tank USA
16.15 Kitchen Nightmares USA
17.10 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
18.10 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
22.30 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
23.00 Bizarre Crime
This series tells the stories
of some of the UK?s oddest
offences through interviews
with the police, victims and
criminals.
23.35 Speeders
00.05 World?s Weirdest
Restaurants
00.35 South Park
01.05 Ax Men
02.00 Shark Tank USA
07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Princess
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 Sarah 101
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 Sarah 101
14.50 What Not to Wear
This series helps make all
women stylish, regardless of
their shape, height or age.
It includes show highlights,
plus featured outfits and
case studies.
15.55 Supernanny
16.55 Frasier
17.25 Hoarders
18.25 Excused
21.00 Elementary
This series is based on
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s
Sherlock Holmes detective
stories with contemporary
twists.
22.00 Criminal Minds
23.30 Californication (K16)
00.05 Frasier
00.35 Excused
01.05 Elementary
02.05 Dr. Directed by: Steven
Soderbergh. Now Erin?s determined to
take on this powerful adversary
even though no law firm has
dared to do it before. Starring: Brendan
Fraser, Rachel Weisz.
USA/1999.
23.20 Grimm (K16)
00.20 Revolution (K16)
01.15 Supernatural (K16)
JIM
08.45 MasterChef Australia
10.45 Kitchen Nightmares USA
12.35 Top Secret Recipe
13.25 Cooks to Market
14.20 Talent USA
16.10 JIM D Biography: Shirley
Temple
17.05 JIM D: Biography: Natalie
Wood
19.00 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
22.00 American Pickers
23.00 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
The show follows the work
of Border Security Officers
as they enforce Australian
customs, quarantine,
immigration and finance laws.
23.30 Bizarre Crime
00.05 World?s Weirdest
Restaurants
00.35 Ice Road Truckers
01.30 JIM D: Ancient Aliens
02.25 Barter Kings
02.50 Bondi Rescue
03.20 Top Shot
08.05 Children?s Programming
11.30 Zoo
12.00 Sea Rescue
12.30 Dog Rescue
13.50 Dr. Finally she convinces
attorney Ed Masry (Albert
Finney) to hire her and promptly
stumbles upon a monumental
case against a giant corporation. Phil
TV5
06.00 Married. And while
Ed does not want anything to
do with the case, Erin will not
take ?no. With Children
06.30 Absolutely Fabulous
07.05 Must Love Cats
08.00 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
13.00 Must Love Cats
13.55 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Hale and Pace
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. When Elizabeth
Bennett (Keira Knightley) meets
the handsome and snobbish Mr.
Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen),
she believes he is the last man on
earth she could ever marry. USA/2004.
12.00 Extraordinary Dogs
12.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
14.25 Matlock
15.20 30 Rock
16.15 Zoo Days
17.10 Knight Rider
18.10 Babe FILM
Babe, a pig raised by
sheepdogs, learns to herd
sheep with a little help from
Farmer Hoggett
Phil
TV5
06.00 Married. 09 100 23.
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Medical services. USA/2006.
04.00 Twin Peaks
04.50 MacGyver
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Baby Borrowers on Holiday
11.50 Me, My Bump & I
12.45 Storage Hoarders
13.45 Save with Jamie
14.45 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.45 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 The Rachel Zoe Project
20.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
21.00 Before Sunrise FILM
Directed by: Richard
Linklater. 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.
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what to do) . Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
Fri 2/21
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Post Offices. USA/1993.
23.10 My Strange Addiction
00.20 Call Me Fitz
01.25 Numb3rs
02.15 I?ll Always Know What You
Did Last Summer (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Sylvain White.
Starring: K.C. 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. Against explosive
firepower, bitter cold, and dizzying heights, Gabe must outwit
Qualen in a deadly game of hideand-seek. Single ticket
Cliffhanger
Sylvester Stallone stars as Gabe
Walker, a member of a mountainclimbing rescue team in this
action-adventure film. See www.forex.fi for more
information.
Thu 2/20
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more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. Starring: Ethan
Hawke, Julie Delpy.
USA/1995.
22.55 1600 Penn
23.25 I Hate My Teenage Daughter
WEATHER
Banks and Bureaux de Change. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. The currency exchange counter at the harbour in
Katajanokka, Helsinki is open everyday (Mon-Fri 15-17:30 Sat-Sun
10-11, 15-17:30). Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
Fri 2/21
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7:46 am 5:22 pm
8:01 am 5:02 pm
7:57 am 5:32 pm
8:08 am 4:55 pm
7:55 am 5:23 pm
8:21 am 4:32 pm
Telephone. Operator number 118. New York (K16)
On the 10th anniversary
of 9/11, we bear witness to
some specific events from
that day as Mac and the team
recall some moments that
have been indelibly burned in
their mind ever since.
22.40 Major Crimes
23.40 Fringe
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Flipping Out
Flipping Out takes a look
at a peculiar real estate
speculator, Jeff Lewis who
buys houses and ?flips?
them, selling them for a
profit after fixing them up.
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
19.30 Raising Hope
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Project Runway
22.00 Vikings (K16)
23.00 Raising Hope
23.30 Vampire Diaries
00.30 Bones
01.25 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
11.50 Invite Mr Wright
12.45 The Delinquent Gourmet
13.15 Cooks to Market
14.10 MasterChef Australia
15.30 Shark Tank USA
16.25 Kitchen Nightmares USA
17.20 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
18.20 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
21.00 Rude Tube (K16)
22.30 Ice Road Truckers
This series features the
activities of drivers who
operate trucks on seasonal
routes crossing frozen lakes
and rivers in remote Arctic
territories in Canada and
Alaska.
23.30 Gene Simmons Family
Jewels
00.25 South Park
00.55 Ax Men
01.50 JIM D Biography: Sophia
Loren
02.40 Shark Tank USA
HELSINKI TIMES
07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Princess
09.50 Say Yes to the Dress
10.20 Sarah 101
13.20 Say Yes to the Dress
13.50 Sarah 101
14.50 What Not to Wear
15.55 Supernanny
Jo Frost is on a mission to
help desperate parents deal
with their badly behaved
children.
16.55 Frasier
17.25 Criss Angel Believe
18.25 Excused
21.00 Under the Dome
23.30 Dexter (K16)
00.40 Frasier
01.10 Excused
01.40 Criminal Minds: Suspect
Behaviour
02.40 Dr. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. Gabe is
haunted by an incident from his
past when he failed to rescue the
girlfriend of his best friend, Hal
Tucker (Michael Rooker), from
falling to her death. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 Navy NCIS
21.00 Cliffhanger (K16) FILM
Directed by: Renny Harlin.
Starring: John Lithgow,
Michael Rooker, Sylvester
Stallone. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. Now
millions of dollars and lives hang
in the balance. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietalahti Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. With Children
06.30 Absolutely Fabulous
07.05 The Jeff Corwin Experience
08.00 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.30 Mall Cops: Mall of America
13.00 The Jeff Corwin Experience
13.55 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Hale and Pace
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. Starring: John Lithgow,
Michael Rooker, Sylvester Stallone. 26
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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. Restaurants in the Helsinki area can be found from
the internet service www.eat.fi, which provides information on restaurants, their menus, opening hours and some user rating etc.
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Internet. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. Having quit
his job and fled the mountains,
Gabe must return to the scene
of his undoing to track down the
merciless international terrorist
Qualen (John Lithgow). Clyde, Ben
Easter. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. 09 3101 3300. 26 FEBRUARY
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are scarce. Directed by: Renny
Harlin. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. 09 4711.
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Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. 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
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Airport buses.Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central
Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 min., ?5.90
or ?3.80 with Helsinki Card. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers
My
daughters attended chess,
theater, drawing and dancing classes and made a lot of
friends.
I would like to share also my views about important things I have witnessed.
Many foreign students from
developing countries are
choosing Finland as a place
to study. There is clear need
to increase the number of dormitories, especially in Helsinki
metropolitan area. While Finnish
saunas have their reputation
set forever, I was very worried
for Nokia. Some of the reasons
are quality of education, English being a medium language
of instruction and low tuition
fees and scholarship schemes
offered for foreign students.
This can be observed from
the long queues waiting to get
a place to live in student dormitories. While Finnish is a
dif?cult language, my daughter started speaking it already in three months. After a few
months, I was offered a research fellow position in this
institution, which gave me
terri?c experience both personally and professionally.
Finland became very famous in my country and also in other countries because
of Finnish saunas and Nokia
mobile phones. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES
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20 . While it takes some
time to get to know them,
once you are in their circle,
they take care of you very well.
It is interesting to observe that
Finnish people drink when
they are happy and when they
are sad and angry. The short term approach
would be partnering with private owners while in the long
term building new dormitories is the only way to go.
I am moving to Vietnam
and I have to mention that
I will miss world?s cleanest nature and the fascinating winter adventure I had in
Finland.
w
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second daughter also went
to kindergarten and I was
amazed to see the comprehensive programme which is
developed towards improving kids. Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. I believe with the right
strategies and investment in
research and development,
Nokia has a potential to regain the mobile market again.
Finnish people are amazing, kind and very hospitable
people. I came to Finland
again in 2011 to work for UN
University?s World Institute
for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Originally from Uzbekistan,
Aziz Akmalovich Karimov has recently departed Finland for Vietnam.
Another look at Finland
MY FIRST trip from Uzbekistan to Finland was to attend
Jyvaskyla Summer School
for a spatial statistics course
in 2006. Sometimes,
they drink too much and when
I ask they say it is a culture.
My worry is that young people also drink a little too much.
While there are age restrictions on purchasing alcohol, I
do not think it is working as it
should be. I think educational
programs and campaigns that
deliver messages about the
adverse effects of alcohol on
health play a key role.
Europe made a breakthrough by introducing low fat
products and I believe now it is
time to do the same thing for
alcoholic beverages.
I have two daughters and
both of them started their
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
active life in Helsinki. My
eldest daughter started ?rst
grade in Lansimäki School
and I am very happy with
the educational programme
and support she got from her
teachers. thinking and their
creative skills. Now, I know that
Nokia is not going out of business. I think this
is very central issue because
without subsidised accommodation, students cannot
survive in such an expensive
city. 26 FEBRUARY
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five years of Chinese
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Our beautiful facility in Helsinki is a genuine Chinese oasis to
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