H T
OLLI REHN,
the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary
Affairs, is no longer seeking the
presidency of the European Commission. in
particular, in the ?elds of economic and foreign policy. It will provide no help to us,?
Walinen bemoans.
Altogether, the burglars stole 37
pistols, ten long guns . mostly ri?es
. The ALDE is currently the
third-largest group in the European
Parliament.
The bunker where the ?rearms
were stored is part of a residential
building on the Kiskojienpolku road
in Hämeenkyrö?s Kyröskoski district. ?3 . I?m certain that this will form
a solid footing for the campaign.?
Juha Sipilä, the chair of Finland?s
Centre Party, said on Monday that
he is pleased with the agreement
reached by the two lead candidates.
?For Finland and the Centre, this is a
good solution. Of?cial accommodation statistics for
2013 will be published by Statistics
Finland in mid-February.
J A M E S O . In a communiqué issued on
Monday, Rehn?s pan-European party, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), revealed
that Rehn and its other lead candidate, Belgium?s Guy Verhofstadt,
have agreed on campaign roles.
Under to the agreement, Verhofstadt will seek the presidency of
the European Commission, whereas Rehn will seek other senior positions in the European Union . You can
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P E T J A P E L L I , M A R KO J U N K K A R I . and thousands of rounds of compatible ammunition. Current information
suggests that the collector had licences to all of the weapons and
stored them appropriately,. W W W.HELSINKITIMES.FI
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in Travel+Leisure magazine?s list of
the best places to travel in 2014.
These rankings came regardless
of the fact that the number of overnight stays at accommodation outlets in Helsinki fell short of 2012?s
record of approximately 3.3 million.
The decline of four per cent was attributed to a signi?cant decrease in
business travel.
However, the same year saw the
number of international cruise visitors increase to the record level of
420,000. Although some
of the ?rearms are valuable collectibles, Walinen gauges that the collection is not particularly unique.
?Similar collections are found
elsewhere. he
says.
The collector is not believed to
have any ties with organised crime,
the police also reveal. initiative has commenced, asking for the separation
of church and state. HS
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . In addition, the ?gures for
ferry traf?c and ?ights are expected to have set new records in 2013,
once Statistics Finland data become
available.
International leisure travel to
Helsinki remained steady last year.
AT THE
L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I N U K A R I
Religion and apartments
A citizens. Apartment
prices in Vantaa have decreased ?
at a price.
See pages 3,4
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / G E O R G E S GO B E T
Rehn and Verhofstadt agree
on respective campaign roles
DOMESTIC
The number of vistors to Helsinki last
year was slightly less than in 2012.. says
inspector Erkki Walinen, the of?cer
in charge of the investigation at the
Sisä-Suomi Police Department.
Furthermore, the burglary took
place while the owner was abroad,
between 14 and 18 January.
A HAUL
Olli Rehn is no longer seeking the presidency of the European Commission.
and experienced Finn elected into a
leading EU position,. S U L L I VA N
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end of 2013 readers of website TripAdvisor ranked Helsinki ?fth in their list of destinations
that are on the rise in Europe. H S
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . H T
of nearly 50 functioning
?rearms were stolen from the concrete bunker of a gun collector
in Hämeenkyrö, Pirkanmaa, last
week. 29 JANUARY 2014 . 23 . The stolen weapons include
assault ri?es that, according to information obtained by the police,
have been converted to no longer
?re automatically.
The act appears to have been
carefully planned.
?The target has clearly been
monitored and the act planned. No
doors were opened needlessly,. ?If such ties
existed, no gun licences would?ve
been granted,. The objective is therefore to encourage pan-European political parties to announce their lead
candidates for the presidency before
the elections and, hence, to enhance
democracy in the EU.
The chances of the ALDE to
snatch the presidency are deemed
low due to the party?s relatively
small size. Walinen points out.
In processing licence applications,
he adds, authorities carefully consider who can be allowed to possess
such weapons.
Helsinki ranked among
top international
travel destinations
The number of visitors from countries such as Japan and China has
continued to increase considerably,
by 22 and 12 per cent respectively
in the period January-October 2013.
The number of visitors from Russia,
Helsinki?s biggest incoming market,
is expected to be slightly down. One possible
position in Rehn?s sight is therefore
the chair of the Eurogroup.
Prior to his current position, Rehn
has held the position of the European
Commissioner for Enlargement.
According to him, the decision to
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The collaboration between the
two lead candidates was ?rst proposed by the Dutch Prime Minister,
Mark Rutten, and the chairman of
Germany?s Free Democratic Party,
Christian Lindner.
The format of the forthcoming
elections has been revised moderately to ensure that the results determine the fate of the presidency of
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more directly. ?This will
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support. Walinen describes the neighbourhood as a suburb of detached
houses.
The burglars are believed to have
used considerable time to break into the lock-protected concrete bunker before getting their hands on
the weapons.
?Also the security camera was
stolen. We now have a realistic chance of getting a distinguished
Burglars
steal
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weapons in
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L A SSE KERKEL Ä
academic partners in China
may help to build a bridge
for Finnish companies to get
connected to the Chinese
authorities, as China?s universities, particularly the
top ones, often have a broad
and complex social network
in the public domain. I stopped him before he left, asking him
to tell me the name of the person who attacked me, and I
was told they just met this guy at the bar, and his name
was Mike.
After 10 minutes, the police arrived with the medical
team. As
for the emerging economies,
they accredit the achievements in globalisation to
their graduates returning after studies abroad, and to imported foreign experts.
fessionals residing abroad
due to its immigration policies and a number of practical reasons. Later they
addressed me in Finnish again and proceeded trying to
talk to me, neglecting my response that I couldn?t understand them at all. As I wanted to take the
train to Tampere early the next morning, I decided to
stay in a McDonald?s, which was open until 5:00, and then
proceed to the train station to catch the early train.
Upon getting permission from the staff at McDonald?s
at Vaasa Keskus, I picked a seat in the corner, ordered a
bottle of water, and took a nap. Chinese
business is very much network based, in which guanxi
(strong personal and business relationships) plays a
pivotal role. In today?s
China, universities are not
only places to nurture talent but also places to generate new knowledge and train
new entrepreneurs. He has
long been doing research on and practically engaged with internationalisation activities.
Tianyun Jin-Kuusirinne is a Media Management
graduate student from University of Tampere and
also working as a secretary at Center for International Education and Chinese Education Research
and Exchange Center (CEREC) at the University
of Tampere.
The role that Finnish universities
have in a globalising economy
is crucial
to Finland, especially in its
economic development. Then they left and only the man on
the left apologised to me, saying: ?I?m very sorry for you,
my friend he is...?. To achieve this end,
especially in the economic dimension, is by no means
an easy task. At ?rst I didn?t know who did this. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. My friend
helped me publicise this attack online and received many
comments, from which I noticed that although such attacks are rare, this is not the ?rst time a foreign traveller
is attacked on Finnish soil. 29 JANUARY 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. As a
small country in the north of
Europe, Finland?s economy is
highly dependent on international trade and the international markets (statement by
the Prime Minister?s Of?ce).
The Internationalisation of
Higher Education Strategy,
issued by the Ministry of Education of Finland in 2009,
stresses the role of universities in a globalising local society. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. For instance, through
sustained academic collaboration, many Chinese universities entered trusting
and comprehensive cooperation with Finland. Why did they
do this. Unfortunately, this is an area that
has not been explored. Master student from University of Shanghai for
Science and Technology, China. I expressed my disappointment at
being attacked in Finland, as a foreign tourist. Its labour market is not
very accessible for those pro-
FINNISH policy-makers must
adjust the funding formula
related to international education. He was the
man that threw the chair to my head.
He said something in Finnish, a red-haired girl and a
man sitting at the table to the left stood up and talked to
him, and calmed him. So I waited until 14:00, when I felt so hungry that I had to rush to the supermarket and buy some
food.
The police explained my rights to me, and asked me to
describe the whole attack in detail. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. They asked me what happened and discussed what
to do next. I arrived at the police station at 12:30,
and until then, I still hadn?t eaten anything. Instead of simply
counting the percentage of
international students and
graduates, they should ?nd
a way to measure their quality when recruiting, and to
track their whereabouts after graduation. Due to the
accident, I had to cancel the rest of my travel plan and get
back to my friend?s place in Espoo as soon as possible.
After this assault, I changed my view about Finland.
It used to be a safe and peaceful place to me. In addition,
Finnish HEIs need to update
their understanding of international education, so
that they will develop wiser
operational strategies and
render great services for a
globalised local economy.
AFTER the demise of its proud
technology giant Nokia, Finland has placed more hope in
the rising companies in the
?eld of ICT and green technology. They spoke to me in Finnish and I asked if they could speak English. However, unlike other countries, Finland relies
on its higher education to attract global talent, whereas
the Anglo-Saxon countries
tend to enhance globalisation by absorbing foreign
workforce to participate in
their economic development
in addition to the role played
by their higher education. I stood up
and asked some young people who did this, none of them
replied, as if nothing had happened. In so doing they
need to better understand
the nature of globalisation and go beyond thinking
within the higher education
sector per se. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). One such is Rovio, the
producer of ?Angry Birds?.
These companies, often small
in size, are seeking partners
and markets in emerging
economies, such as China.
However, according to Finpro
(The national trade, internationalisation and investment
development organisation in
Finland), many of them have
encountered dif?culties in
getting into the right business network in China. I arrived at
downtown Vaasa at midnight. After the treatment, ?nally, I was able to have a short sleep on the bed.
After I woke up, I asked the hospital to help me reach
the police again. own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear editor,
Yuzhuo Cai is a Acting Professor at the Higher Education Group (HEG), School of Management, University of Tampere and one of the key initiators of the
Chinese Education Research and Exchange Center (CEREC) at the University of Tampere. Indeed China
has adopted the policy of market economy, but it is still relying on state-led capitalism.
The Chinese government has
been playing a much stronger role than governments in
many other countries in shaping the business environment.
This is typical in areas such as
trade barriers, laws and regulations, industrial and innovation policies, and in energy
and raw materials supplies,
and in allocating investment
in R&D. They took care of my wound
but didn?t check my concussion. Less than
half a minute later, I felt a sharp pain in my head and
opened my eyes, only to ?nd a hardwood chair on the
right side of the tabletop.
Realising someone had thrown a chair to my head, I
immediately took off my hat, touched my head and saw
blood in it. It requires actors involved in international education not only to be
committed but also to be innovative. Then they stopped.
I checked the time; it was 4 o?clock. Many
Finnish HEIs have already
established tight bonds with
overseas partner institutions. Then one staff member came to see what happened, I showed him the wound
and asked him to call the police.
Then I looked at the man sitting opposite me, and noticed that the chair next to him was missing. Therefore, to
enhance globalisation and
ease the social problems
caused by an aging society,
attracting and retaining the
top international students in
the Finnish labour market after their graduation seems to
be the solution. After debriefing to one of the police of?cers about what happened, she
led me to the waiting room and said the interpreter would
arrive at 14:30. They
went to the Chinese market alone without good contacts and partners. And as it
appeared to me, when the attack took place those young
men were quite sober and fully aware of what they were
doing, so being drunk was not an excuse. It could be worse if that impact
to my head was lethal, or put me into a coma. The
main concerns are related to
the differences in academic research and education.
To resolve the problem, education and business must
cooperate.
in the case of entering
the Chinese market, many
Finnish business people think
that China is market-oriented, and that doing business
in China follows a simple free
market logic. Then they asked what
my future plans were. For this matter, some
Finnish HEIs have even declined collaboration requests
from China regardless of
the valuable business networks those Chinese institutions may be engaged in. I shrugged to
show them that I didn?t understand Finnish. And when will the attacker be brought to justice?
And why did the police want to downplay this attack?
These are all my questions for the local police of Vaasa,
and I seriously hope this time they can come up with a
more reasonable and more responsible answer.
Yours Faithfully, Junmin Tong
Exchange student at Tallinn University of Technology,
Estonia. 2
VIEWPOINT
23 . They decided to have the paramedics check
and send me to the hospital, and I was quite astonished
when one of the police of?cers said my wound was not
very serious and they were wondering if it is okay not to
report this assault!
I was transferred to a hospital, and waited for 30 minutes until the doctor came. Having a reliable
partner in China will certainly speed up the business.
to ?nd those trustworthy partners then?
The answers are actually
in the higher education institutions at home. Two young men were
sitting in front of my table. At approximately 4:00 I
was awaken by some loud talking. This is
certainly an important approach. Typically, professors in the technology ?eld often have direct
connections to the business
actors in the corresponding
?elds.
WHERE
NOTABLY,
Finland has not
adequately exploited the
bonds to the Chinese HEIs.
Moreover, the Finnish HEIs
are hardly aware of the fact
that their international educational partners could be
key facilitators in bringing
the Finnish companies into the desired global markets. Particularly, government has a say in business
in the ?elds of ICT and clean
technology, in which Finland
may have the best chances to succeed in the Chinese
market.
STILL
EVEN though some Finnish
companies have realised the
importance of earning the
trust of the Chinese government, they can hardly approach the relevant actors.
Again the Finnish HEIs. While
Finnish higher education is
reforming itself to respond
to the demands arising in
the process of globalisation,
the policy-makers and international education practitioners do need to think how
international education can
contribute to globalising its
economy and local society.
I?m writing to you regarding what happened to me in
Vaasa, an innocent travelling student attacked inside McDonald?s, and I want to urge the local police to look into
this serious assault on a foreigner.
I left Umeå and took a ferry to Vaasa. Thinking I was
about to pass the night soon, I closed my eyes. Although this
has been explicitly addressed
in national policy discussions, Finnish HEIs have not
responded to it suf?ciently.
IN ORDER to secure the funding from the government
related to international education, Finnish HEIs strive
to get a suf?cient number
of international students
who ful?l the basic admission requirements, and to
make them graduate on time.
However, they sometimes
overlook the quality of the
students, their source countries and their intentions of
staying after graduation (as
noted by Shumilova, Cai and
Pekkola).
THE CURRENT
FINLAND,
like almost all the
other countries in Continental Europe, is no settler country. However, the
current practices in internationalisation of higher education in Finland seem to have
much room for improvement.
GLOBALISATION
Strategy itself
mainly considers that Finnish higher education institutions (HEIs) can contribute
to global society by educating the talents in it
All religious convictions, they also emphasise,
should be treated equally.
The initiative questions, for example, the state
churches. initiative launched
demanding the separation
of church and state
There are already
more than one
million irreligious
people in Finland.
JA ANA SAVOL AINEN . The
Police report that 48 suicides
were committed in Northern
Savonia, whereas the ?gure
was 31 in 2012.
The Police reveal that 111
suicide cases were reported
in the region of Eastern Finland, amounting to a 14 per
cent increase from the previous year. The Defence Forces have
taken action against the epidemic through vaccinations.
THE COLLECTION of statements of support for a citizens. Karisma highlights.
The advocates similarly
deem it peculiar that churches and religious communities are granted the right to
of?ciate at weddings under
the Marriage Act, but that no
such right has been extend-
ed to non-religious groups
or unregistered religious
communities.
Religious activities should
also be eradicated at schools
and kindergartens, as well as
at events of the Parliament,
the Defence Forces and universities, they demand.
As justi?cation, the initiative refers to the European Court of Human Rights?
interpretation of the freedom of religion, according to
which people have the right
not to disclose their religious
conviction or lack thereof.
By 14:00 on Monday, the
initiative had received roughly 350 statements of support.
A minimum of 50,000 statements are needed for the proposal to be presented to the
Parliament for consideration.
Advisory Board on Immigration and Integration declares an application process for
The grant For Immigrant Associations. Both churches are
de?ned as public corporations and thus part of the
public administration.
The freethinkers. DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . core work, but
their structural development. The
year that saw most suicides
in Finland was 1990, when
over 1,500 people killed
themselves.
Statistics Finland has not
yet published its own information on last year?s suicides,
as 10,000 death certi?cates
are still required. initiative for the
separation of church and
state in Finland began on
Monday. H T. Street address:
City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13.
www.hel.fi
HS
A N N IK A R AU TA KOUR A . says
Petri Karisma, the chair of
the Union of Freethinkers of
Finland.
?With the number of irreligious citizens already
breaching the one-million
mark, is the position of the
state church still justi?ed??
he asks.
Under the Finnish legislation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and
the Orthodox Church of Finland are in a privileged position. says specialist researcher Niina Ikonen
from the National Institute
for Health and Welfare (THL).
Thus far, only Sweden,
Spain and the United States
THE INFLUENZA
have witnessed a signi?cant
wave of in?uenza.
Swine ?u has been passed
through individuals in the
United States. 29 JANUARY 2014
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Number of
suicides increase,
especially in
Northern Savonia
ADRIANA DOBRIN / HS
ACCORDING to Police information suicides increased
last year throughout the
country. Unemployment that
is gnawing Eastern Finland
may have in?uenced the matter, speculates Professor of
psychiatry from the University of Eastern Finland Heimo
Viinamäki on Yleisradio.
The most common factors in?uencing suicide are
depression and related substance abuse problems.
Sometimes dif?cult mental problems, such as schizophrenia or a psychosis related
to another mental illness are
reasons behind suicide.
Suicides committed by
seniors are a new phenomenon. strategy work
. Similarly,
it points out that with public holidays set forth in the
Church Act, the Parliament is
unable to change them without the consent of the synod.
In addition, the advocates
argue that pupils at Finnish
schools should be allowed
to choose between religious
and ethics teaching regardless of their possible religious
convictions.
?If asked, you don?t have
to reveal what party you voted for. communications development.
The applicant must be an association or a group of associations with
more than half (50%) of its members having immigrant backgrounds.
The applicant(s) should by definition promote active citizenship and
integration, among other things, by means of supporting their members. Preference will be given to applications sub-
mitted by groups of associations which are provided with more substantial resources.
The representatives of associations may book a consultation time (45
minutes) for their grant application between February 10-14th,
9:00-15:00.
Additional information (in Finnish) and application forms:
www.hel.fi/heke/maahanmuutto > avustus järjestöille.
Inquiries: planning officer Olga Silfver, tel. Traditionally the winter epidemic has spread from garrisons,
but so far this has not been the
case. Also another A-type virus has been spreading.
Sweden has also reported
a number of swine ?u cases.
Finland?s situation remains
unclear, as examined examples are few.
?Based on them it is impossible to predict the mainstream virus,. it is not
too late for a vaccine
PÄ I V I R E P O . It has plagued
working age people in particular. HS
ALEK SI TEIVAINEN . But at schools, everyone must reveal their religious
convictions, and religious
teaching is determined on that
basis,. right to levy taxes, which are collected at
source by the state. The protection takes a couple of weeks
to actualise.
The vaccine?s protection
should be quite effective:
?The viruses that have been
going around have corresponded to the viruses in the
vaccine well,. employability, Finnish or Swedish language training, education
and general welfare.
The grant is not intended to fund the associations. capacity building
The grant may be awarded for one of the following purposes:
. argues Karisma.
Advocates of the initiative
believe religious conviction
should be de?ned as a private
matter. 816 suicide cases
were reported to the Police
last year. Other legislation fails to comply
with these principles,. According to Statistics Finland 873
suicides were committed in
2012, and the previous year
saw 912 suicide cases.
Ministers Krista Kiuru, Carl Haglund, Jyrki Katainen, Jutta Urpilainen and Paula Risikko attend the Parliament?s 150-year anniversary
church service at Helsinki Cathedral in September last year.
Citizens. volunteer training, lobbying and organizational democracy for the
staff, board members, members and volunteers
. The initiative calls
for legislative revisions to
abolish the state church and
to establish a state that is unbiased toward all religious
convictions.
?I?m not expecting the
Parliament to rush into revising the laws, but we must
be able to have an objective debate about this,. Ikonen states.
At least Tavastia Proper
and Southern Savonia have
witnessed in?uenza. HT
Difficult mental problems, such as schizophrenia or a psychosis
related to another mental illness are sometimes behind suicide.
Influenza season about
to begin . 09 310 37951 from 9 to15,
olga.silfver@hel.fi
The dead line for applications is Friday February 21st 2014, at 16.00
When and how to apply: Applications with necessary attachments
in English or Finnish should be submitted by February 21st 2014
(16:00), to the following address: Registry of the City of Helsinki, Personnel Centre, P.O. The share of women in
suicides by seniors is exceptionally higher than that of
men. H T
season of
the winter is about to commence. Box 10, 00099 CITY OF HELSINKI. IT-systems and consulting services that could be seen as one-off
investments in strengthening the organization
. H S
A N N IK A R AU TA KOUR A . The number was
up from the previous year by
approximately ?ve per cent.
Statistics Finland compared
crimes reported to the Police during 2012-2013, and
Yle was the ?rst to report on
court statistics.
Suicides in Northern Savonia in particular increased
considerably, by over a third
from the previous year. The ?rst cases were
diagnosed as early as October, but their number has begun to increase.
The situation is still calm.
If one wants a vaccine, it may
still be obtained. union
argues that the privileges
enjoyed by the state churches violate the rights of members of other religions and, in
particular, people with no religious af?liations.
?The constitution stipulates that people should not
be discriminated based on
their religious convictions.
People also have the right to
religion and conscience. Women often kill themselves by drug overdose,
while men?s suicides are often committed in more brutal ways.
Suicides have steadily decreased in the last decades,
although ?gures may ?uctuate during some years. The size of the grant will vary according to the number of people participating in the strengthening activity and according to the size of the target group benefiting from
the development action
21.6%
Development not alone
Kaunis Bertta was accompanied by two similar cost-effective houses.
According to the development director of the venture
at NCC Ilkka Alvoittu the entire construction project appears to be completed within
three years.
?The city of Vantaa, if any,
can claim its promise on inexpensive apartments. The city has begun
to implement several measures for curbing apartment
construction costs with Deputy Mayor Juha-Veikko Nikulainen (NCP), who is in
charge of land use.
A record-breaking number of over 2,000 apartments
are set to be built. HS
A N N IK A R AU TA KOUR A . 4
23 . He did not have to
pay a Helsinki-level price for
his home.
?Having a warm space in
the basement is a luxury, as I
am used to having to dig the
car out of the snow. HS
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . The house is built on the basis of Skanska and Ikea?s idea. The number
is smaller than in decades.
?Cases of drink driving
have decreased by 1,000 cases each year since 2007. On
the contrary, it was intensi?ed last year. The evaluation memo of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health proposes stricter alcohol taxation
and an adulteration of medium-strength beer. Myyrmäki will see the construction of so-called cost-effective houses at a ?Finnish record-breaking pace?.
K AT J A K U O K K A N E N ,
M AR JA SAL MEL A . H T
VANTAA wants to become a
city where people can afford
to live. It is too expensive.?
The expenses of Skanska
and Ikea?s Boklok house model were reduced on this plot
by the fact that the city sold
the land for a cheaper price.
Huovinen believes that the availability of alcohol must see
new restrictions. I went to get
the lottery ticket from Ikea
through which we entered
the apartment contest.?
The new apartment has
three bedrooms and a combined living room-kitchen.
?After the army I will most
likely move to a rental apartment in Vantaa with my girlfriend. ?According to
preliminary information the
Police did 220,000 hours of
supervision of drink driving.
This is a few thousand hours
more than before,. Linsiö
describes.
Construction company
NCC, which was in charge of
Bertta?s construction, bene?ted from Vantaa?s policy of
speeding up apartment zoning. It features a common yard sauna, and is built
on an inexpensive block plot purchased from the city. Surely many factors in?uence
the development of the matter. 78.4%
garage ?ts the bottom ?oor,
and the apartment building
was located on a small supplemental building plot.
?We were drawn to the
practicality of this apartment: there is no wasted
space within the 61 square
metres, and the apartment
works well for two people,?
describes fresh returnee
Heikki Linsiö. It is based on a
survey made in Sweden in the 1990s that inquires how much Swedish people wish to pay living
costs. Completed in December 2013, the two-storey row house has apartments of 44-72 square metres. We
monitor supervision hours
closely,. Extensions
in nightclub opening hours and the sales times of mediumstrength beer in shops should also be cut back.
?The World Health Organisation and all our health experts
believe that the three most important measures are to limit
availability, prices and advertisement.?
Huovinen considers increased taxation essential. Due to relaxed
parking norms the parking
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Functional development
Researcher of urban economy and living, Seppo Laakso,
believes in the functionality
of Vantaa?s policy.
?Vantaa already holds the
image of being the place of
residence for normal, working middle-class people.?
Once the ring rail line is
completed in 2015, a huge
zone where apartments and
working places can be interlaced into an urban environment will be available.
Laakso believes that Vantaa should be careful not to
produce a simplistic image
in the minds of those seeking
apartments. The city ?rst put a tender for the plots among the
construction companies, and
then worked on the plans
together.
his girlfriend in Martinlaakso within seven minutes?.
?We moved here with
my mother and sister from
a semi-detached house in
Martinlaakso. Ihalainen says.
Traf?c supervision by
the Police was reformed two
weeks ago, when the traf?c
Police was discontinued and
its personnel were transferred to the units of the local Police.
The Police Administration
assures that the reformation
will not reduce supervision of
drunk driving.
?Supervision may be concentrated in more densely
populated areas, but it will
not become weakened. The
young man does not move
around the quiet area of
Kivistö much, but ?reaches
Number of drunken
drivers rapidly decreasing
L A SSE KERKEL Ä . The working process must be recordbreaking in Finnish history.?
Vantaa?s momentum in executing inexpensive apartments is increased by the fact
that there are many suburbs
built in the 1970s for supplementary construction.
Although the Berttas are
mass produced, like many
suburban houses, they have
been made more interesting
by varying the locations of
windows and balconies.
?The mistakes of the horrendous 1970s will not be repeated, and the cityscape
is looked after,. The
trend seems to continue,?
says Superintendent Heik-
ki Ihalainen from the Police
Administration.
This number of drink driving cases developed somewhat inconsistently last year,
however, as the number of
aggravated drunken driving
incidents decreased by about
1,300 from the previous year,
but those caught drink driving increased by a little over
200.
Where does the decrease
in drunken driving stem
from?
?It is dif?cult to say. The average square metre price is 3,400 euro. Ihalainen
ponders reasons for the current development.
The decreased number of
those caught drink driving
cannot be explained by lax
L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K KO M A A
No . she said, in an article in HS. ?With the opportunity
to jump in a bus or walk to the
store within a kilometre?s radius, fewer cars are required,?
Nikulainen ponders.
A recent resident of a
Boklok house Luukas Raatikainen, 19, is nevertheless
very happy with his car. Ihalainen says.
A SIGNIFICANTLY small number of drunken drivers was
caught in traf?c last year,
even though police intensi?ed screening.
According to preliminary
statistics by the Police College of Finland a little less
than 18,000 drivers were
caught last year. Alvoittu
observes.
Kivistö, which is close to
the railway and still in its
early phase, is one of the areas where Vantaa now requires one parking space per
130 living square metres.
This cuts the apartment?s
price by 5,000-20,000 euro.
Last year the average price per
square metre in new apartment buildings was 4,964 euro, and 3,824 euro in terrace
houses. It is a utopian thought
to look for an apartment in
Helsinki. He moved back
to Vantaa from Pieksämäki
with his wife to spend his retirement. 29 JANUARY 2014
DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
BENJA MIN SUOMEL A
Vantaa cuts apartment prices
Peitsitie 12-14, Kivistö. It is also worth
offering ?neater?, more expensive apartments.?
supervision by the Police. The city has
granted more building permits
for this year than in a decade.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja believes history
and social sciences instruction at schools should be increased
at the expense of religious education.
Do you agree with his proposal?
One of the fresh cost-effective abodes is Kaunis Bertta, which was completed in
Myyrmäki late last year. It is
a chunky 8-storey building
that had smaller costs due
to restricted parking spots,
for example. ?I feel
that the policy of moderate increases in taxation is worth
continuing,. ?It is challenging
to find a balance, where the black market or importation with
passengers will not get out of hand.?
The main goal of the restrictions and simplifications is
?reaching a permanent decline in the overall consumption of
alcohol.?
Drink driving incidents
2009-2013
25 000
20 000
15 000
10 000
5 000
0
2009 10
11
12
13
JH HS, Source: Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu
No single factor is responsible for a decrease of drink driving in Finland.. Driving
while drunk is also generally frowned upon,. Though
due to the small plot there
are no guest spots,. He is originally
from Helsinki. High quality is
also essential.
?There is the risk of Vantaa losing well-earning residents who work in Aviapolis,
for example. Lottery luck favoured Luukas Raatikainen, for
the family got to buy a home from Kivistö, Vantaa.
Vantaa is decreasing apartment construction costs by loosening
rules. H T
Yes . No single factor has been
identi?ed to explain this,?
Ihalainen says.
According to Ihalainen reasons may include decreased alcohol consumption
and alcolocks that have been
installed in the cars of those
found guilty of drunken
driving.
?Many people from younger generations do not consume alcohol at all
?The pecking order is very clear at
some places. At least one member of the biker gang was
in the premises during the
house search, the police have
revealed.
The police made several seizures in relation to the
drug offence being investigated. ?There isn?t
a doctor who wouldn?t make
mistakes. Laiho
was bold and talkative, and
seemed to have an unfaltering con?dence in himself.
Yet, a slew of complaints
was ?led against Laiho, the
majority of which concerned
medicine prescriptions or his
failure to administer the necessary treatment. Three
men have been detained on
suspicion of drug offences in
the ?rst case, while the District Court of Päijät-Häme has
detained one man on suspicion of aggravated drug offence in the second case. The reports should have sparked an
assessment of the situation
by the chief medical of?cer
or another member of the administrative staff.
A senior medical of?cer
reveals that doctors tend not
to point out the mistakes of
their colleagues. If you were able to tell
where the cafeteria was, that
was a lot.?
Laiho impressed the doctor with his social skills
and self-con?dence . The seven members
of the Somali group have all
?led a complaint of ethnic agitation against Saastamoinen.
The police determined in
the pre-trial investigation that
the current facilities have no
hygiene or other problems
that would prevent their use.
Saastamoinen was dismissed
as the chair of the local Finns
Party organisation in November, but continues to deny all
allegations of wrongdoings.
BEFORE his exposure in 2011,
pseudo-doctor Esa Laiho was
able to practise medicine
without a licence for over a
decade by avoiding responsibility and refraining from
making decisions. In addition, other sus-
pected criminal activities
were exposed in the raid.
Earlier on 14 January, the
police announced that the raid
is related to two criminal cases investigated by the Häme
Police Department. ?Nothing like this
has happened before,. In addition,
he managed by specialising in
geriatrics, where patients are
approaching death, doctors
insisting on anonymity view
in an interview with Helsingin
Sanomat.
Laiho was funny, quicktongued and self-con?dent,
describes a doctor who met
him when specialising. The
police suspect the counsellor,
Esko Saastamoinen, of ethnic agitation, discrimination
and defamation.
Last autumn, Saastamoinen demanded that the local
INVESTIGATIVE
Finns Party organisation be
provided ?a clean meeting
place?, because the current
one is also used by a Somali group. ?I do not, however, subscribe to the claims
that treating ageing patients
is easy, despite the presence
of death in the work,. Most of his
mistakes seem to be associated with his tendency to
avoid decision-making and
delegating responsibility, indicate the dozens of reports
and complaints referred to
by the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and
Health (Valvira).
Although some of the patients died, Valvira estimates
that it cannot be shown beyond doubt that their deaths
were caused by insuf?cient
or inappropriate treatment.
Laiho?s elderly patients suf-
fered from several ailments
and illnesses that may have
taken their lives regardless
of the treatment.
The police contrastively
suspect Laiho of three homicides and ?ve aggravated
assaults.
Regardless, one senior
medical of?cer views that
the damage caused by Laiho
was in fact surprisingly light
. a fact that may have allowed him to continue practising medicine for as long as
he did.
On the other hand, doctors and patients alike categorically dismiss the idea of
untrained doctors practising medicine, gauges Timo
Strandberg, a professor of
geriatrics. [?] It?s always
easy to say in hindsight what
should have been done,. Laiho rang the family member again 20
minutes later to inform that the patient had died.
Ordered too much morphine
Laiho ordered morphine for a patient in end-of-life care without dose limitations.
Source: Valvira
At some workplaces, another doctor says, the climate is so authoritative that
pointing out mistakes is virtually impossible. ?I
was unsure of my own competence. Laiho, for example, did not return to the hospital to examine the patient despite the requests of the medical staff.
Was on the phone while resuscitating
Laiho rang the family member of a patient suffering from
chest pain while resuscitating to inquire about a possible donot-resuscitate order. Under such circumstances, you pay no attention
to the medical competence of
others. It?s dif?cult to
point out anything to another, unless it?s an absolutely
crucial issue.?
As a result, the nursing staff
is usually disinclined to meddle in the work of doctors, even
when mistakes are noticed.. he
reminds.
According to Strandberg,
it may be relatively easy to
edge into geriatrics due to
the ?eld?s persistent shortage of doctors. The suspects were
found in possession of plenty
of property believed to have
been stolen, including hundreds of watches and over a
hundred pieces of jewellery.
Born in 1981, 1988 and
1990, the suspects are believed
THE POLICE
to have broken into a minimum
of 30 houses in Espoo, Lohja,
Pukkila, Mäntsälä, Kerava,
Tuusula, Hausjärvi, Riihimäki
and Raasepori after 10 January.
Juha Koivisto, the of?cer in
charge of the investigation at
the Itä-Uusimaa Police Department, revealed earlier that the
burglaries had taken place in
the afternoons and evenings,
when the inhabitants of the
houses were not home. he
stresses.
Despite reports ?led with
Valvira by nurses about the
vague orders and prescriptions by Laiho, his actions
came under scrutiny at no
stage of his career. Laiho ordered the patient antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medicines and hypnotics that affect the central nervous
system.
Delayed treatment
The incision of a patient recuperating from a back surgery became severely infected and developed into a sepsis, but was
not diagnosed or treated promptly due to Laiho dragging his
feet. 29 JANUARY 2014
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C O M P I L E D B Y A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N
L E H T I K U VA / K I M M O M Ä N T Y L Ä
Police wrap up
investigation at
Cannonball club
house in Heinola
HS
THE POLICE have wrapped up
L E H T I K U VA / K I M M O M Ä N T Y L Ä
their investigation at the club
house of the Cannonball motorcycle club in Heinola. Both
cases, the police have said,
are linked to a member of the
Cannonball motorcycle club.
Further details of the cases
under investigation have not
been disclosed to the public.
Esa Laiho practised medicine without a licence for over ten years.
Former colleagues: Laiho
charmed with his self-confidence
Esa Laiho was able to practise medicine
without a licence for over a decade due to
his extrovert personality, his former colleagues believe.
K A I SU M O IL A N E N . The
police operation began on the
morning of 14 January and
proceeded in an orderly fashion, with the of?cers making
no arrests. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . As a result, the National Supervisory Authority
for Welfare and Health (Valvira) regards the death certificate written by Laiho as erroneous, as it suggests that the
patient was suffering from a disease not diagnosed prior to
their death.
Caused mortal danger
Laiho ordered a lethal dose of liquids to a patient, which according to Valvira would have caused oedema and the death
of the patient within 24 hours of administration.
Ordered medicine without meeting a patient
Laiho drafted a medical certificate to a 71-year-old patient
without meeting or conducting a medical examination on the
patient. In addition to watches and jewellery,
the marauders found some
cash while ransacking the
houses during the break-ins.
Finns Party counsellor?s
Somali comment referred
to prosecutor for
consideration of charges
HS
of?cers have
concluded their pre-trial investigation into a controversial comment by a Finns
Party member of the Lieksa town council and referred
the case to the Prosecutor?s
Of?ce of Eastern Finland for
consideration of charges. H S
The raid at the Cannonball club was related to 2 criminal cases.
Trio suspected of
break-in spree caught
HS
have apprehended three men on suspicion of
tens of burglaries in Southern Finland following the
release of an image of the
suspects caught on security
camera. No record of medical examinations was written down in the patient medical record. the
of?cer says.
?The police suspect Esa Laiho of three counts of manslaughter and five counts of aggravated assault.
?The police view that although Laiho made no deliberate attempts to kill his patients, he should have recognised that his
actions may have jeopardised the lives and well-being of his
patients.
?Two of the alleged homicides took place in Helsinki in 2011
and one in Lahti in 2006.
Wrote down the wrong cause of death
Laiho determined that the cause of death of a 79-year-old
patient suffering from osteoporosis and anaemia was indeterminate pneumonia and heart disease
He also states that
?re of?cials are involved in the
planning. It seems that caffeine
accelerates the process,. After the study some were
Timing is important in the
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discontinuation, of work
future we will make
a living from inventions in,
for example, environmental
technology and services relating to happiness, health
and welfare, reckons Olli Hietanen, Director of Development at Finland Futures
Research Centre from the
University of Turku.
He is convinced by Finland?s potential and knowhow, even if threats provoke
fear, or even hopelessness.
A recent report by the
Research Institute of the
Finnish Economy (Etla) predicted that robots will replace a third of jobs. A
new research indicates that
memory improves when
drinking coffee correctly.
The amount of coffee makes
no difference. ?How far they will
carry is the question?, he says.
A common plight for older cities in different countries
has been the concentrated
construction of houses. It
merely changes its form.
?There is no going back,
but the potential of the future is incredible. The use of these images
calls for more complex differentiation by the brain, which
we call a differentiation of patterns. According to Kostet, it was only
after 1800s and the Turku ?re
that buildings were situated
further apart from each other
and the ?re safety of materials
was taken into consideration.
Previously it had been thought
that ?res would be prevented by careful supervision. 6
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given a caffeine pill that corresponded to a cup of mediumstrength coffee, while others
were given a placebo pill.
The next day, the participants were shown the same series of images again, this time
with slight changes. T RO S DA H L
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life better in the future.
He sees the ongoing
breach in the working life as
a means to a new and better
life.
?The old work has much
that can be dismissed?, Hietanen declares, and states
that work will not run out. researcher Michael Yassa says.
In a traditional memory
test, participants are asked
to recall whether they have
seen the image in question
before. The participants
were shown a series of images. Rather, timing
is of the essence.
If a work meeting includes
food and drinks, the coffee
should be offered only after matters have been dealt
with, especially if the meeting concerns lots of matters
that should be kept in mind.
It has been discovered that
a dose of caffeine right after
learning improves long-term
memory.
The new study was reported by Nature Neuroscience,
and results are published in
Psyblog.
The effects of caffeine
on memory were studied at
John Hopkins University in
Maryland.
Partakers of the study did
not use caffeine products on a
regular basis. Those who
had taken the caffeine pill did
better in the test than those
who were given placebo.
?The effect of caffeine
would not have been evident,
if we had used a traditional
memory test and similar images. After all,
we are one of the world?s
most skilled and competitive
nations.?
Hietanen believes that a
shift in attitude is the Finns?
greatest challenge, as complaining does not give rise to
anything new.
Finland?s only professor
of working welfare, MarjaLiisa Manka from Tampere,
agrees.
?We have a huge breaking point ahead of us, but it
should not be feared. The
construction of some kind of
?re prevention systems was
attempted and ?re supervision was also implemented.
?It was of no use once the
?re started. Extinguishing
them was extremely dif?cult. Usually the alarms
?THERE
go straight to ?re departments, so help is quick.?
Kostet says that some historical sites in Finland have
?re-safe materials in the ?oors,
for example. There is far
too much hassle everywhere
at the moment, and there
is no time to make sense of
things.??. Researchers also
used stronger caffeine pills,
but they did not affect longterm memory.?
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these sites are Rauma, Porvoo,
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Instead of being unable to service debt our consumers took on more. In Sweden it is 180%, and in Finland it is about
120%. Consumer debt keeps going up, despite all the increasingly desperate warnings from the
Bank of Finland. Domestic demand will remain slow during this year,. HS
NIINA WOOLLE Y . For over 30 years the cyclical waves are replicated across each Nordic real estate market.
?As this will help boost our
GDP, the gap to the 60 per cent
limit will remain even larger.
This will give us some leeway
this year but not beyond that,?
explains Heiskanen.
According to Pohjola Bank?s
forecast, the Finnish economy
will grow 1.7 per cent this year.
The banking group has not
needed to review its prediction
for some time.
?Growth in global economy will boost the recovery in the export sector. In
Sweden, house prices are 140% higher than the 1993
lowpoint in after-in?ation terms. HT
Finland and
the Nordic bubble
ECONOMISTS have recently been wringing their hands
over a supposed bubble in the Nordic area. The writer is a journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. If these banks have dif?culties elsewhere
we could feel it here. For example, only 27% of Nordea?s customers are Finns, and
only 12% of Danske Bank?s personal customers live
in Finland. GDP, with investments in research and development included in the ?gure
from this year on.
Finance minister:
Investigation
called for into tax
revenue leaking
to tax havens
M AT T I T Y Y N Y S N I E M I . A real estate collapse coupled
with crippling debt levels is exactly what happened in
America to trigger the ?nancial crisis.
DENMARK has the most worrying situation. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Instead of developing drugs companies
seek success in the
fragments of product development.
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
Pohjola Bank: Finland needs to
shave at least a billion off spending
ANNI L A SSIL A . This is
what has caused economists to scratch their heads and
pound away at their modelling programmes.
IF WE use debt and price appreciation as guides, we are
better off in Finland than our neighbours. Urpilainen has always
been vocal in her opposition
of tax havens, calling for a
thorough investigation into
how much the state loses in
tax revenue through compa-
Finnish banks are not wholly domestic. The problem they see is that both housing prices and consumer debt have increased. In Denmark and Finland prices are 90% and 84% higher, respectively. But there
are still signs we should be concerned about. Heiskanen
commented.
In 2015, economic growth
will reach 2.5 per cent, according to Heiskanen.
nies and private citizens. After all, we went through our own real estate-induced crisis in the 1990s and had thoroughly reformed our ?nancial systems. says
the ?nance minister.
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Urpilainen says it is essential to have a report on
the amount of tax revenue
lost to tax havens completed
already during this year.
?Using tax havens is legal,
at least to some extent. In some cases Norway?s real estate market is especially troubling:
in 2006, prices per square meter in Oslo and Stockholm
were identical, but by the end of 2012 a ?at in Oslo cost
double than one in Sweden?s capital.
the ?nancial crisis hit America there was a
tendency in the Nordic region to tut-tut at the silly
colonists. use
of tax havens.
?I?ve requested a report on
this ?gure as a minister but
such a ?gure hasn?t been available as the matter has never
been investigated. Additionally, real estate prices
among the Nordic countries tend to be closely coordinated. Our real estate prices only took a modest dip
and then continued to increase. 265,000 Finnish households now have
loans which are at least three times their annual disposable income.
REIJO
HEISKANEN, chief
economist at Pohjola Bank,
estimates that the government needs to ?nd a way of
shaving 1 to 1.5 billion euros
off its spending to reverse the
upward trend in the national debt-to-GDP ratio this year.
The government is set
to borrow some seven billion euros this year but the
spending cuts do not need to
amount to this ?gure if economic growth picks up at
the pace Pohjola Bank has
predicted.
?We should aim at agreeing on savings amounting to
1 to 1.5 billion euros in this
year?s budget framework negotiations, preferably from
spending. But
we should have a discussion
on whether it is morally right,
especially when the whole society is struggling with a dif?cult economic downturn and
at the same time private people and companies are avoid-
ing paying taxes in Finland,?
Urpilainen commented.
Urpilainen believes that
tax revenue is leaking out of
Finland through means of illegal tax evasion as well as
legal tax planning.
?But the moral aspect is
a separate issue. said Heiskanen, speaking at a press
conference on Monday.
Heiskanen says that the
relation between Finland?s
Reijo Heiskanen, chief economist at Pohjola Bank.
national debt and gross domestic product will remain
below the 60 per cent mark
this year, this being the limit Eurozone countries have
committed to.
The EU is changing the
way it calculates member
states. That
is the way it always works
and it will happen this time
around as well. In
Norway values have doubled in ten years. H S
NIINA WOOLLE Y . In every country debt levels have been growing
since the 1990s.
MUCH of this debt has been used to buy real estate. Recent tax hikes
have been so large that I
think we should now look into spending cuts,. 29 JANUARY 2014
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David J. Here in
Finland real estate prices are climbing faster than income or rent costs. Our newspapers were
?lled with speculation that the terri?ed Americans
would come and beg us to tell them what to do. Is it right
that even in Europe there are
so-called tax havens, which
operate within the same economic area but under totally
different rules??
Even though a report on lost
tax revenue is not available yet,
Urpilainen believes that the
sums are large enough to be
signi?cant not only because of
the moral principle but also on
the level of Finland?s economy.
?When we have to borrow
money to ?nance services and
social bene?ts, all income is
important to the state,. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi. HT
JUTTA URPILAINEN, Finland?s
?nance minister and the chair
of the Social Democratic Party, is surprised by the vast
of number of Finns who are
reaping the bene?ts of tax havens. Consumers
have loans equal to 321% of annual disposable income.
Norwegians have debt levels which are twice their income. What happened?
WHEN
MUCH of the developed West went through a retrench-
ment period as real estate prices fell. I don?t see a particular Finnish problem, but we are interconnected with
the other markets and our debt-to-income levels are getting worse. 8
BUSINESS
23 . Banks were stuck
with bad loans, so had to write off debt they couldn?t
recover and raise more capital. I ?rmly believe that such an investigation
should be launched,
arises from migration policies which, say the
critics, threaten employment prospects of nationals in
various member states and abuse of social bene?ts by a
?ood of new arrivals.
While migration and refugee matters top the list of
pressing problems, of greater import and interest is the
issue of future membership of the EU and its likely direction and criteria for admission. Is it to remain a ?Christian club. In the
future, Russia and the EU might need each other more
than they presently believe.
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9. Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan,
Armenia, Tajikistan , Belarus, and possibly Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Turkey and Mongolia would engender impressive growth in population,
land area and assets, hindering unstoppable Chinese or
Indian roll-outs across Eurasia. show that collaboration with
the European Union can be mutually bene?cial. At times it
seems unwieldy as it is. Being a natural land bridge between East and West, they
have a certain facility in dealing with neighbours from
both sides. in world affairs.
Nevertheless, current unease and, in some cases, outright dissatisfaction with the existing European structures have manifested themselves in the rise of
rightist political parties that were formerly somewhat
marginal, but now threaten to be pivotal in future elections. Russian family closeness is similar in Italy, Spain and Germany, but
not in Britain and Scandinavia. Does the EU want to be bigger. These include UKIP in the UK, Forza Italia in Italy, Golden Dawn in Greece, the Party for Freedom in The
Netherlands (led by Geert Wilders), the Jobbiks in Hungary, Marie Le Pen?s Front National in France, even the
relatively moderate True Finns party in Finland. are obvious candidates, as are smaller fry such as Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Moldova, Israel and Morocco. Must territories actually be in Europe or do we go by a looser de?nition. Russia?s excellent cross-border and trading relations with Finland
. Only a small part of Turkey is in Europe; Israel and Morocco
have no such foothold. You can ?nd soul friendship in Russia,
Finland, Germany and Britain but not so much in Latin
countries. a dutiful EU member . both bigger in area than any EU member . Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and The Netherlands have increased the EU membership to 28, the latest to accede being Bulgaria and
Romania in 2007 and Croatia in 2013.
So far, nobody has left the Union, but some members
have hinted that they might do so. or are Muslim
countries welcome to membership. Russian sense
of humour is matched in Britain, Denmark and Finland.
Russian linguistic ability compares with that in the Nordic Countries and The Netherlands.
Different European countries show quite diverse
characteristics, for instance Italian talkativeness and
Finnish tight-lipped behaviour. The latter, with its 80 million population and
number 4 ranking in world trade, is incontestably the
heart and engine of Europe and the European Union.
Germany?s 82 million outnumber France?s 60 million,
UK?s 59 million and Italy?s 57 million, but Russia counts
with 146 million inhabitants, most of whom can be classi?ed as Europeans. With land borders with 14 different countries, remoteness from other nationalities is never an
option. and ?Eurasia. The loquacious, emotional
Italian is almost the opposite of the modest, humorous
Englishman, but Russians seem to adapt well to either. But how about the long term. Coordination
between the EU and the EAU . Africa. Russian love of ballet
and theatre is shared by Britain and France, their love of
opera by Italy and Germany. Russian courtesy is matched in Italy, Spain
and Portugal, but not in Germany or Finland, where people are much more matter-of-fact. His company, Richard Lewis Communications, provides cross-cultural communication training, as well as language training for international executives.
Russia and the EU
THE EUROPEAN UNION is currently an uneasy one. A
comprehensive study I made of the Russian character
during 2008-10 revealed the following traits in comparison with major European ones:
Generosity
Spain, Italy
Family closeness
Italy, Spain
Respect for the elderly Italy, Spain, Germany
Compassion
Italy, France, Portugal
Soul friendship
Germany, Finland, Britain
Courteous manners
Italy, Spain, Portugal
Love of theatre, ballet Britain, France
Love of music, opera
Germany, Italy
Talent for literature
France, Spain, Britain
Technical ability
Germany, Nordic countries
Imagination, vision
France, Spain, Italy
Sense of humour
Britain, Denmark, Finland
Eloquence
France, Italy
Linguistic ability
Nordic countries, the Netherlands
Where Russian traits in the left-hand column correspond strongly with those of certain European countries,
the latter are placed alongside in the right-hand column.
Therefore we see that Russian generosity, a well-known
trait, is matched faithfully in Italy and Spain but not particularly in Germany. How European are the Russians. Neither
can American dominance be discounted. As such it is contradictory in
nature to any Russian inclination to cooperate with the
EU. Russia shares outstanding technical ability with Germans and Nordics; countries in
Southern Europe . The United Kingdom
has reiterated at regular intervals its dissatisfaction
with the present structure and three members . How huge will the Chinese commercial clout be in 2050 and beyond. It is long term thinking,
but might be a better option for Russia than just facing
east. These
parties are likely to considerably increase the number of
their seats in the European Parliament and gain pivotal roles in their national politics. It
is a question of breadth of vision . How competitive does the EU want
to be in rivalling Chinese penetration into another huge
emerging bloc . Evolving from the European Coal & Steel Community (ECSC) in
1951, signing the EEC Treaty of Rome in 1957, the original
6 members . the UK,
Sweden and Denmark . It would be a northerly side-step, focussing less on
the bustling economies of south and south-east Asia, but
given the Russian Federation?s reach and interest in Arctic latitudes, it might be an alluring choice. Germany and France currently contend for leadership of the EU (Germany the stronger of
the two). Apart from
strictly political considerations, what are the EU?s ambitions. Russians openly show
compassion, as do Italians and Portuguese, but Britons
and Finns do not. would come to mind. The best writers in Europe
are Russian, British, French and Spanish. What is remarkable
about Russians is that they seem to possess all the European characteristics, while many other Europeans seem
to exhibit only some of them. Most discontent, apart
from criticism of over-bureaucratic edicts emanating
from Brussels and waste of money, swollen expense
sheets etc. Given that the terms ?Europe?,
?Asia. 29 JANUARY 2014
CULTURAL VIEWPOINT
Richard Donald Lewis is a British linguist, cross-cultural communication consultant and author. This breadth of vision is
enhanced by one or two Asian traits . Ukraine and Turkey
. Spain, Italy, Portugal, do not shine
technologically. Where does Russia stand in all
this?
This writer has in previous articles raised consciousness of the importance and in?uence of the great land
mass of the Russian Federation, not only as a prime mover in the BRICs alliance but as a key player in a greater
Eurasian context. HELSINKI TIMES
23 . Whether Russians like it or not, leadership beckons at all turns.
The creation of the Eurasian Union (EAU) is a current
Russian-inspired venture and interferes with Ukrainian
aspirations to join the EU. Are dictatorships
acceptable. He speaks 10 languages (French,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Japanese) besides his mother tongue. These include,
above all, prolonged continental peace, but also removal
of dictators, strengthening of democratic institutions,
social bene?ts, human rights, independent judiciaries, a single currency, free movement of labour, relaxed
border controls, bail-outs for fragile economies, lower
tariffs in a market of 500 million and a general enhancement of ?soft power. are all arbitrary geographical con-
cepts, could the EU (under another name) be expanded
with the prime aim of constructing the world?s biggest
market/trading bloc so as to compete better with rival giants China, India, the United States and (ultimately) South America. itself a Russian trait.
This is a basic Russian quality . one that they have possessed for hundreds of years. How stringent are humanitarian
considerations or legal constraints. have declined to enter the Euro
zone, which in the last ?ve years has had wobbles, troubles and tribulations.
The EU can, however, count its achievements, which
continue to be prized by most members. But these countries do match Russia
and France in vision and imagination. stoicism, self-sacri?ce, adaptability, face protection.
If one had to sum up Russian psychology and abilities in one word, ?versatility
The second direct ticket for the ?nal went for Han-
YOTTAFIRE. Arhinmäki said
he might go to the games later to show support to Finnish
athletes...?
?POPE FRANCIS received in
audience an ecumenical delegation from the Lutheran
Church of Finland during their
annual pilgrimage to Rome.
They have been celebrating the
feast of Saint Henry of Uppsala, patron saint of Finland, in
this manner for 25 years now.
The Holy Father addressed
them, saying: ?The Apostle
asks the members of the community of Corinth, marked
by divisions, ?Is Christ divided?. However, the
quality of the easternmost
reaches of the Gulf of Finland has improved as a result
of water protection measures
and particularly thanks to
improved waste water treatment in St Petersburg??
Large lakes in
Finland OK, coastal
water quality poor
?A NEW assessment of the eco-
logical status of Finland?s waters shows that 85 per cent of
the surface area of our lakes
and 65 per cent of our rivers
are in a good or very good state.
However, three-quarters of
the surface area of our coastal waters are in a worse state.
The main problem is eutrophication.The ecological status
of large lakes and northern
BEARING
THE MAIN actor tasked with the protection of the Baltic
Sea environment is HELCOM, which de?nes the necessary measures. Nowhere else in
the world can we ?nd such high levels of nutrient content in the sediments. The
Council of the Baltic Sea States promotes stability and
welfare in the region. The Sea
thanks to political,
immeasurable
economic, cultural and has
value in terms of
social ties and coopera- recreation.
the abovementioned in mind,
it is sad to say that
there are dark
clouds
gathering
over the recreational use of the sea, since the marine environment of the
Baltic Sea is in very bad condition. 18 January
Finnish minister
of sports to skip
Sochi opening
sports minister said he will not attend
the opening ceremony at the
Sochi Winter Olympics for
political reasons.
In an interview with national broadcaster YLE, Paavo
Arhinmäki said politicians
?FINLAND?S
should not go to Sochi to ?support human rights violations,
restrictions to freedom of
speech and the oppression of
sexual minorities.?
Activists worldwide have
called for a boycott of the
Sochi Games amid concerns
pet cent had white-coat hypertension (elevated of?ce
but normal home BP), 8.1 pet
cent had masked hypertension (normal of?ce but elevated home BP), and 27.1 pet cent
had sustained hypertension
(both measures elevated)...?
L EH T IKU VA / K IMMO M Ä N T Y L Ä
tion, the significance of
the Baltic Sea Region
will only grow in the
future.
Hanna Sky was directly sent to the final by the professional jury.
Paavo Arhinmäki, Minister for
Culture and Sport.
for the environment, Russia?s
human rights record, and an
anti-gay law. 18 January VÍCTOR M. Currently Finland holds the presidency, choosing a Clean, Safe and Smart Baltic Sea as
its umbrella theme.
our sea can be achieved through strengthened cooperation of all the actors and with the help of
national parliaments, the European parliament, the
Nordic Council and the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, which provides a political platform for parliamentarians from the Baltic Sea Region to meet, form
opinions, exert political pressure in relation to questions of regional importance as well as organise political activities to bring about major improvements in the
Baltic Region?s health and prosperity.
SAVING
EUROVISIONTV. 29 JANUARY 2014
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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
NETNEWSLEDGER.
18 JANUARY
Pope
Francis
welcomes
Finnish
clergy to
Vatican
Eeva-Johanna Eloranta, MA, MSSc is a member of Parliament of Finland and the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group. Faced with voices that no
longer recognise the full and
visible unity of the church as
an achievable goal, we are invited to not give up our ecumenical efforts, faithful to
what the Lord Jesus himself
asked of the Father: That they
may all be one?...?
BUSINESSWEEK.
19 JANUARY
KATI POHJANPALO
Bitcoin
becomes
commodity
in Finland
after failing
currency test
doesn?t meet the
de?nition of a currency or
even an electronic payment
form in Finland, where the
central bank has instead decided to categorise the software as a commodity.
?Considering the de?nition
of an of?cial currency as set
out in law, it?s not that. Because of this, our
children can no longer go swimming. The Baltic Sea Action Summit process
gathers together public and private bodies in order to
implement actions that have a positive impact. The aim of
the Northern Dimension is to support stability, welfare
and sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region
through practical cooperation.
THE BALTIC SEA is
an important area for tourism. The
Baltic Sea Region offers a mild climate, clean nature,
beautiful archipelago scenery and alThere is no doubt that, so some nice, long
beaches. the Baltic Sea. ?At this stage it?s more
comparable to a commodity.?
Finland is the latest country to try to come to grips
with the advent of virtual
currencies that aren?t controlled by any central bank or
government...?
?BITCOIN. As a
matter of fact, approximately half of all the tourists arriving in Finland come from countries around the Baltic. Paeivi Heikkinen, head of oversight at the
Bank of Finland in Helsinki,
said in a 16 January phone interview. This question has been
chosen as the theme for the
Week of Prayer for Christian
unity, which begins tomorrow. Today it is addressed to
us. 20 January ELEANOR MCDERMID
Home blood pressure
best guide to metabolic risk
?HOME blood pressure (BP)
is a good guide to which patients are likely to have the
metabolic syndrome, say
researchers.
Marjo-Riitta
Hänninen (National Institute for
Health and Welfare, Turku,
Finland) and team found that
home BP mediated the association between different
hypertension categories and
the metabolic syndrome.
The study involved 1582
participants, aged between
44 and 74 years, of whom 15.0
AMARILLOGLOBENEWS. Nowhere else in the world can
we ?nd a seabed with so little life due to lack of oxygen.
na Sky with the song Hope.
Four other acts progress to
the second chance round and
the band Makea was eliminated from the competition.
Last Saturday?s show,
followed the same structure as in the previous week.
First a warm up with the
artists and then the live
performances...?
Second UMK show
completed in Finland
?THE SECOND semi-?nal of
UMK, the Finnish national
selection for the 2014 Euro-
vision Song Contest just took
place. It?s also
not a payment instrument, because the law stipulates that
a payment instrument must
have an issuer responsible for
its operation,. The signi?cance of
the Baltic Sea Region as a tourist destination will probably grow in the foreseeable future as climate change
makes summers in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean too hot to enjoy during summer holidays. ESCUDERO
MEDWIRENEWS. 17 January
Finnish waters, in particular,
is largely good or very good.
In contrast, small lakes suffer
from eutrophication.
Along the coast, none of
the water areas were classi?ed as high. Equally often, these countries are the main tourist
destinations for Finnish tourists. There is no doubt that,
thanks to political, economic, cultural and social ties
and cooperation, the signi?cance of the Baltic Sea Region will only grow in the future.
THE EU Strategy
for the Baltic Sea Region aims at improving the marine environment of the Baltic Sea, at
increasing the safety of marine traf?c and at strengthening economic cooperation in the region. 10
FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
23 . She is also member of the Nordic Council and the City Council of Turku.
Saving the Baltic Sea
TODAY the Baltic Sea Region comprises nine countries,
different cultures and a plethora of histories, yet they
all share the fundamental importance of our lifeblood
. The enlargement of the EU, now encompassing nearly all the countries in the region, has
only added to the importance of the Baltic Sea Region
within the context of Europe. Every summer, bluegreen algae rises to our shores. The status of the
Finnish Archipelago Sea and
the Gulf of Finland is especially worrying
underwritten by Ottawa to
the tune of one million dollars
plus another 300,000 dollars
from private donors . 29 JANUARY 2014
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AFP PHOTO / FEMEN0
The legacy of
Canada?s first
PM much darker
to first nations
TORONTO, CANADA
The legacy of John A.
Macdonald is celebrated,
but not by the Aboriginal
people of Canada.
PAUL WEINBERG
IPS
MANY of the challenges faced
by the Conservative government in its relations with
Canada?s aboriginal peoples
may come to a head at the
200th birthday events for Sir
John A. Canadians don?t
know their own history and
don?t know the uglier parts of
their history.?
Why did Macdonald, who
as prime minister had a lot on
his plate, bother with the additional job of Indian Affairs?
He faced, among other things,
a major railway corruption
scandal which temporarily
threw him out of power in one
election for a single term of
of?ce and a struggle to keep
the new country (still connected to the British Empire)
united, despite being divided between English-speaking Protestant Ontario and
French-speaking
Catholic
Quebec.
Additionally, his army
fended off two separate insurrections in the newly acquired northwest by the
Métis (a separate distinct
people of mixed First Nations
and European ancestry) over
Ottawa?s failure to follow
through with promised land
grants . INTERNATIONAL NEWS
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . she
added.
One of the founders of the
Knights Templar, Servando Gómez, was a teacher in a
primary school in the Michoacán town of Arteaga, where
until 2009 he received his
pay check as a school teacher.
In mid-2009, the drug
lord Gómez, known as La
Tuta, phoned a radio programme to call for a pact
with then President Felipe
Calderón, saying his organisation would be prepared to
disappear if the authorities
guaranteed security in his
territory and defended them
from rival cartels.
Calderón rejected the proposal, and in response sent
the security forces into the
state, with poor results, and
with dozens of police and soldiers ambushed and killed.
The tension in Michoacán
has spread to neighbouring
states like Colima, Querétaro and Guerrero, which have
their own self-defence forces. They were not
armed.
Some sources say four
people were killed when the
military attempted to disarm the self-defence group
last Monday Jan. 13. And little by little, they hemmed in
Apatzingán, a city of 100,000
people that is the main
stronghold of the Knights
Templar.
The cartel, cornered, began to set ?re to town halls
and buses around the region.
But instead of moving to dismantle the cartel, the government of Enrique Peña
Nieto sent in the army to disarm the self-defence groups,
which it had allowed to grow
for months.
The government?s argument is that they are illegal
groups, because in Mexico
civilians are not allowed to
carry guns of a larger calibre
than nine mm.
The government has
leaked information about
a possible link between the
self-defence groups and the
Jalisco New Generation cartel, which splintered from
the Sinaloa cartel headed by
Joaquín Guzmán ?El Chapo?.
The leaders of the self-defence forces deny any ties to
criminal groups, and feel betrayed by the federal government, which used to back
them.
?The government has
changed its tune,. said Dr. poverty, high rates of
diabetes, poor nutrition, lower life expectancy and broken treaties, especially the
1876 treaties in the Canadian
northwest . Estanislao Beltrán, a spokesman
for the self-defence forces
of Michoacán, said in a radio
interview after the government?s attempt to disarm the
vigilante groups in the state
of Mexico, in which at least
two people were killed.
The con?rmed casualties
were Rodrigo Benítez Pérez,
25, and Mario Pérez, 56, both
day labourers from the town
of Antúnez. ?It
used to clearly support them,
and would accompany them.
But something happened;
now it is sending in the military to disarm them and kill
civilians.?
Experts in security like
Martín Barrón, a researcher at the National Institute of
Penal Sciences, say that what
is happening in the state is
the result of a misguided
strategy applied by the Calderón administration: ?governing through fear.?
Interior minister Miguel
Osorio acknowledged that
the current situation in Michoacán is a consequence of
a decade in which violence
incubated.
Michoacán, in the southwest, is one of Mexico?s most
lawless states, and decades
ago the population learned to
live with . But only
these two deaths have been
con?rmed.
Michoacán is caught up
in something like a civil war
for which no solution is in
sight. José
Manuel Mireles, the founder
and leader of the self-defence
group.
Mireles is convalescing in
Mexico City, after the small
plane in which he was ?ying home to his town, after a
meeting with federal authorities, crashed last Jan. in them) to 1996, when
they were ?nally closed.
The problems faced by aboriginal peoples in Canada
today . Alejandra Guillén, a reporter who
has closely followed the phenomenon of the self-defence
groups in indigenous areas of Michoacán, told IPS. says another colleague who wishes
to remain nameless. There are a total of 36 of
these vigilante groups, in
eight of Mexico?s 31 states.. can be traced
to Macdonald?s government,
when he held the jobs of both
prime minister and minister of Indian Affairs during
much of the 1867 to 1891 period, argues historian James
Daschuk, an assistant professor in the faculty of kinesiology and health studies at
the University of Regina.
Daschuk?s calling public attention to Macdonald?s
starvation policies has struck
a political ?nerve,. In February 2013, people from several towns in a
region known as Tierra Caliente took up arms to defend
themselves from the Knights
Templar drug cartel.
The Knights Templar are
a breakaway faction of another cartel, La Familia, that
?THE ARMY
emerged during the government of former president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012),
initially claiming to ?protect?
the people of Michoacán
from the notoriously brutal
Zetas drug cartel.
But the new cartel soon
forgot that aim, and began
to kidnap and extort businesspersons, ranchers and
farmers.
The situation hit a low
point when they began to
commit sexual abuse.
?They would show up at
your house and say: ?I really like your woman, I?ll bring
her back soon?,. said Guillén.
?There are no good or bad
guys, just a society very
closely linked to the phenomenon of the drug trade, which
it didn?t see as a bad thing until the turf wars began. 11, 2015.
The emphasis in the events
organised by the of?cially
non-partisan and non-profit bicentennial commission
. This
was done to pave the way for
white settlement and the construction of the cross-country
Canadian Paci?c Railway.
?There is no denying that
Macdonald built the country,
but the collateral damage in
building the country the way
he did was the legacy of Canadian aboriginal relations,?
Daschuk told IPS, ?We as citizens in Canada have not engaged in this kind of debate
about what the state did on
our behalf. We
can?t forget that the region
has been a drug production
area for many years.
?And another important
thing is that it?s not just a
question of taking up arms.
They have a social base,. the subject of a 2013
Supreme Court of Canada decision favouring the Métis in
Manitoba.
Activists of FEMEN Mexico holding a protest together with civilian activists against recent actions by the Mexican Government
against self-defenses in the state of Michoacan, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
A Mexican state
armed to the teeth
MEXICO CIT Y, MEXICO
DANIEL A PA STR ANA
IPS
decided to open
?re on the people,. the drug trade.
?None of the categories of
analysis help us understand
Michoacán,. Macdonald, the country?s ?rst prime minister, set
for Jan. The
cause of the crash has not
been clari?ed.
In the last few months,
with the green light from the
federal authorities according to the self-defence force?s
leaders, the group gradually
gained control of the towns
in Tierra Caliente. of
Macdonald?s decisions or
personality (for example, his
alcoholism is often discussed
and is the butt of some jokes).
He intends to get Canadians,
who are not known to be up
on their history, to start talking about their founder.
Milnes declined to comment on the interpretation
that the Stephen Harper government itself will place on
the Macdonald bicentennial.
Today, some First Nations?
bands in western Canada are
challenging the building of
oil sands energy projects and
pipelines because the Harper government failed to fully consult and accommodate
them as required constitutionally under a treaty that
began with the royal proclamation of 1763 under the
British crown.
The same government is
resisting making available to
a judge-led inquiry complete
documentation of credible instances of physical and sexual
abuse experienced by approximately 100,000 aboriginal
children who were forced by
law to attend church-managed residential schools from
1876 (when Macdonald set
them up to reduce the ?sav-
age. is on
Macdonald?s record as the consummate politician, speechmaker, provider of humour
and statesman who in the end
forged a transcontinental nation starting in 1867 out of a
string of disparate colonies in
British North America.
Commission spokesperson Arthur Milnes says there
will be no ?whitewash. Despite
guarantees of food in times
of famine under 1876 treaties,
rations were withheld from
destitute and malnourished
First Nations (following the
disappearance of the buffalo) from Regina to the Alberta
border on the western prairies in order to force them to
leave their traditional lands
for selected reserves. and in many cases, live off . 4
The
MIT scientists have recorded more than a billion expressions from thousands
of people and fed them into
a computer algorithm that
gradually grew adept at interpreting a given expression
on anyone?s face.
Picard said marketing
companies have jumped at
this technology, which they
use to detect nonverbal signals from consumers, either in
focus groups or via webcams.
Affectiva?s clients include Unilever and Coca-Cola, as well
as some major Madison Avenue ?rms. 29 JANUARY 2014
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M I C RO S O F T R E S E A R C H
created a company, Affectiva, that marketed the wrist
sensors for a few years before shelving them in favor
of a second system they invented, which uses cameras
to identify emotional states
such as surprise, dislike and
embarrassment using ?eeting scans of the face. ?I?m one of those
people who is already wedded to technology, and the
thought of being wedded to
it another way seems intrusive,. That prompted the device to send a distress message to her cellphone, which
broadcast it to a network of
her friends. ?We all
have the same uncomfortable feeling that we?re headed into this frontier where
things are going to know
more about us than we?re
comfortable with,. It?s the feeling of
your hands getting sweaty
before something. Roseway says. beat at different rates depending on
the wearer?s stress. when you?re typing
real hard,. He?s probably lying on
the ?oor to ease the tension.
?A teacher might not understand this and say, ?Get off the
?oor and back to your desk.?
The signal allows the child to
be better understood.?
Czerwinski is taking the
technology in other directions. Hersh, a physician
and director of informatics
at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, recently heard Czerwinski speak
about affective technology but
was not convinced the measurements would be of any particular therapeutic use.
Not all stress is bad, he
pointed out, and he wasn?t
eager to have yet another
technological ?x for a human
problem. ?You want
so badly to succeed and make
your child happy,. These
are ?standard things like ?Maybe you should take a walk,. In a focus group
that Picard cites as an example of the technology?s value
to marketers, rural women in
India spoke of the immodesty of a body lotion ad in which
a husband put his hand on his
wife?s midriff. Maybe there?s
a person in your life who
makes you sad or angry or
bored. This has given her
a deep sense of where subtle mood swings can be felt,
she says. she says. ?We think about
[having the keyboard send]
a message . Czerwinski says.
Her team plans to make
keyboards sensitive to how
hard they?re being struck,
another possible indicator
of mood. It?s the
feeling of something that
matters happening.?
On a day when she was taking her teenage son and friends
out for a birthday celebration
at an amusement park, she expected her stress to peak on a
roller coaster. It?ll be integrated
into our person.?
?They?ll be embedded,?
Czerwinski adds.. ?It
re?ects a deep-seated concern
we have about situations that
are out of our control.?
Picard and an MIT colleague, Rana al-Kaliouby,
Microsoft cognitive psychologist Mary Czerwinksi, left, and senior research designer Asta Roseway
are creating devices that help read a person?s emotions.
As yet unconvinced
William R. Because her
devices were often better
than the children themselves
at communicating their feelings, she designed ways of
feeding information from
a wrist sensor to the cellphones of parents and other caretakers so they could
know about the stress their
children were under and respond accordingly.
?The sensors have provided data that has allowed people to see things that they
were guessing about, and often guessing wrong,. use 40 motors to ?ap
when the wearer is happy. ?We feel this in our
guts, but what does it mean?
Part of our work is to try to
make sense of where we?re
headed, so we can share
some solid learning about
it. that flap when the wearer is happy.
M I C RO S O F T R E S E A R C H
tense. Czerwinski
says. or even
text . could we warn family members that there?s going
to be an eruption. For example, an autistic child might be lying on the
?oor looking lethargic, but
the signal from his wrist
sensor shows that he?s very
M I C RO S O F T R E S E A R C H
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psychologist
Mary Czerwinski and her
boyfriend were having a
vigorous argument as they
drove to Vancouver, B.C.,
from Seattle, where she
works at Microsoft Research.
She can?t remember the subject, but she does recall that
suddenly, his phone went off,
and he read out the text message: ?Your friend Mary isn?t
feeling well. . To
show stress, similar motors
on the back of the vest literally raise its hackles. The developers also made a jacket
that resembles a chain-mail
vest whose bendable, wired
?leaves. But both say
that their devices have given
them surprising clues about
their own states of mind.
Picard has been wearing
one or more sensors for several years. he said.
The people developing affective devices empathise
with some of this. Stretch, take
a deep breath, call a friend,
play some music or a video game. Including the one
with whom she was arguing,
right beside her.
?Some people say, ?Why
would I want you to know how
what I?m feeling??. This can provide help at the
instant it?s required.?
Although one can easily imagine a frustrated parent slamming her intrusive
cellphone against the wall,
Czerwinski says that, when
tested, the system helped
parents use the right approach with their kids.
A jacket that resembles a chain-mail vest has bendable, wired
?leaves. . The interventions are the
same that cognitive psychology has offered for decades:
Go take a walk. Picard
says. The argument may have
been trivial, but Czerwinski?s internal response was
not. But the women?s
facial expressions while the ad
screened suggested they liked
it. a butterfly-shaped set of wires attached to a sensor and worn on a wristband, beat at different rates depending on the
wearer?s stress level.
Feeling mad?
New devices can
sense your mood
and tell . Picard
and her colleagues dreamed
of creating caring robots.
As a ?rst step, they decided to make machines that
could detect and help us cope
with our sometimes hidden
emotions.
One of Picard?s early projects involved helping autistic children. ?But most parents aren?t
looking in those books when
they reach the end of the tether. In fact, the peak
hit at her house in the morning, when a hitch came up and
she was afraid she?d have to
cancel the party. You might want
to give her a call.?
At the time, Czerwinski was wearing on her wrist
a wireless device intended to monitor her emotional ups and downs. One is to create ways
for people with less dramatic mental conditions to monitor stress in everyday life.
The projects she has developed with her colleagues,
including Microsoft senior research designer Asta
Roseway, include a butter?y-shaped set of wires attached to a sensor wristband.
The ?Mood Wings. the kind you ?nd in
parenting books,. Over a year, more critical patterns could be detected,. ?Try not to
shout. she says.
?But there are audiences that
could bene?t because they
have communication gaps. The company went ahead
and ran the ad.
Czerwinski?s machines
are not geniuses at ?guring
out how to make you feel better. others.
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Early beginnings
Czerwinski is working in affective computing, which
emerged in 2000 from the
laboratory of Rosalind Picard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ?You realise that
these devices measure a feeling you?ve had your whole
life that you don?t know the
name of. Autistic kids could bene?t from
fabrics that show feelings. 12
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23 . Another
of their inventions is a fabric
device that hangs on the wall;
it turns crimson and sets off
a fan when it picks up stress
from a user?s wrist sensor.
While these gadgets are
prototypes that probably
won?t go beyond the novelty stage, they represent the
kind of machines that, by
helping people become more
tuned in to their emotions,
could allow them to be more
self-aware and develop strategies to improve their lives,
Czerwinski says.
Technically in the mood
?You don?t need this system
to remember a real trauma,
but [it identi?es] the micropatterns of badness in your
day that you don?t know are
happening but may put you
in a bad mood. Or
in PTSD . Something
as fanciful as these devices
could expose that.?
Czerwinski and her colleagues have developed a
way to help parents of children with attention-de?cit
hyperactivity disorder respond constructively to their
children?s dif?culties.
A parent wears a wrist sensor while caring for the child.
Via a wireless computer system, the sensor relays signals
of parental stress to a network.
In reply, the network sends
text messages to the parent?s
cellphone that suggest helpful
behaviors or messages. The objective, Czerwinski says, is to increase
mindfulness, or awareness
of how we feel in particular
circumstances.
A more elaborate system
that Czerwinski?s team has
tested tracks a person during a day at the of?ce using a
wristband and chair sensors,
facial recognition technology, voice recorders that are
said to detect state of mind
and GPS data. ?Don?t send that
e-mail!. We?re like everyone else,
riding the waves and seeing
where we?re going.?
Like it or not, the technology is coming at us, she says:
?In the future, we may not
even see the sensors we?re
wearing. Similar to
the technology used in lie detector tests, it interprets signals such as heart rate and
electrical changes in the
skin. she said.
Czerwinski doesn?t have
much evidence of the ef?cacy of her technology, nor
does Picard. It maps out the
user?s levels of excitement,
stress and anger throughout
the day with color- and shapecoded blobs on a monitor.
?Mood Wings,. ?Try
some deep breaths,
Three speakers at the fall
meeting of the American Geophysical Union in mid-December warned that the
Indian Ocean coast of northern Sumatra could suffer another tsunami disaster in as
few as 60 years.
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Nanyang Technological University?s Earth Observatory
of Singapore. Charles Rubin,
Kerry Sieh, Jessica Pilarczyk and their colleagues had
been reading the millennia-
long histories of past tsunamis in three kinds of geologic
records and determining the
age of each tsunami recorded
there using radioactive carbon-14 dating.
The most novel record
was found in a cave located
200 meters (about the length
of two football ?elds) from
the present-day coastline.
Only the far-reaching inland
surge of a tsunami can carry
sand into this cave, where it
can then be deposited layerby-layer, tsunami by tsunami. Conveniently enough for
the researchers, tsunami deposits in this cave are demarcated by dark layers of guano
deposited between tsunamis by the cave?s resident
bats. 29 JANUARY 2014
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of tsunamis will take many
more records like the one in
the guano-laced cave.
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and problems in dealing with
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tsunamis in a 1,900-year interval between about 5,400
years ago . Two
tsunamis struck the northern Sumatra coast in quick
succession about 600 years
before the 2004 tsunami.
Previous, more precise dating of coral uplifted by offshore quakes at about that
time show the interval between the two tsunamis to
have been just 60 years or
so. researchers
who literally dig up records
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University and funded by the
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The new results may be
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When a progressive dementia, such as Alzheimer?s
disease, develops the body is
suffering from a shortage of
certain nutrients.
And when the disease
worsens, so does the deprivation of these nutrients. A great
offshore earthquake, like the
one that killed hundreds of
thousands when it struck off
Indonesia?s Sumatra coast in
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Figuring out how a single
offshore fault can rupture
. and about 3,300 years ago.
Then, about ?ve lesser tsunamis, to judge by the thickness
of their deposits, sloshed into the cave in the next 500
years. perhaps in a sequence of
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explains Ari Rosenvall, a
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These foodstuffs are rich
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Such a bottle of these dietary supplements will be
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prescription but it is recommended that people only use
the product when advised
to do so by healthcare professionals. stresses Hilkka Soininen
?We will have new research results soon, which
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then, appears to be that big
tsunamis vary in recurrence
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writes in an email.
?It seems Mother Nature
has this capricious behavior,. Now, it appears
such optimism is unwarranted
In recent
months it seemed that reaching the age of 66 while still in
the workforce would increase
one?s amount of pension.
Prevention is essential
The evidence of the latest
studies showed that perception is crucial but in Finland
prevention is fundamental.
Kirsi Ahola, team leader at
the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Work and
Mental Health (FIOH), highlights that in the work context a strong emphasis on
preventative actions toward
stress has been established
through the Occupational
Safety and Health Act.
Ahola emphasises the responsibility of the employer for his staff?s well being
under any work-related circumstances. Perception can be distorted, although in normal individuals
it is quite realistic. 1414 2316. Åberg ponders.
?It is very rewarding to be
able to work with young and
intelligent people and wit-
ness their development. The research found that participants who were convinced
of stress as harmful for their
health had a 43 per cent higher risk of death during the
eight-year study period than
those who did not have the
same conviction.
The generally accepted
view among researchers is
that prolonged stress can have
a negative impact on health.
?No-one knows exactly
how long stress exposure has
to be to have an adverse impact on health. H T
THIS SPRING, on 31 May at
16:00, Leif Åberg, Professor
of Communications at the
University of Helsinki, will
end his 41-year-long academic working career. she asserts.
Recent research has
found that the hormone oxytocin has an anti-depressive effect and could work as
a defence mechanism to help
cope with the current stress.
?It can alleviate severe depression and anxiety,. ?Of
course, decreasing work-
stress would undoubtedly improve the well-being of
the working population,. Åberg will
make a so-called professor
agreement with the university. In mental
disorders, perceptions can be
distorted,. Of?cially,
at least. safety and health at
work and to identify and recognise health and safety risks
of work, work environment,
and work conditions. says Professor Jussi
Vahtera from the research
department of the FIOH.
Nevertheless, the National Insurance Institution of
Finland (Kela) recorded in
2012 into the seven diseases of public health: diabetes,
coronary disease, cardiac insuf?ciency and hypertension. ?The employer
has a duty of care for his employees. However, ?in
psychiatric pharmacology it
is not established as a medical treatment?.
According to the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Helsinki, stress has been misunderstood.
Turn work stress into your friend
Recent studies reveal that perception of
stress plays an important role in its effect.
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at work might not be the only causes of stress-related diseases. It is also called the
?love hormone?. What he
holds of particular value is
the way the university treats
retirees as resources that
can be utilised instead of
decrepits.
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a child?. ?Related stress
co-occurs with an unhealthy
lifestyle (smoking, not exercising, being overweight and
drinking excessive amounts
of alcohol) but no clear evidence for a cause and effect
relationship between these
was found,. PukkiRåback explains. 29. Often those diseases
have been associated with
stress.
After May Åberg plans
to spend more time at his
cabin and on his sailboat in
Virolahti.
He does not plan to quit
working, either. It is also a part
this working community;
competition is tough.?. states Heikkilä, who has been directly
involved in this study. He may take students as
he pleases, teach courses and
?nish ongoing instructions.
He will have the same workspace and e-mail.
Åberg considers the arrangement ideal. This is when Åberg
retires at the age of 66.
?The university provides a
good framework for the kind
of work I enjoy. claims Dr. she adds.
Other ?ndings by the University of Wisconsin indicate
some people get sick from
stress (e.g., develop a mental
disorder), while others can
handle even severe stress.
Under similar stress-exposures, people react differently,. One may develop and brainstorm things,
increasingly with younger
researchers,. The
interpretation of stress depends on the perceptions
that people have towards
the resources available to
cope with daily and work demands, as Pulkki-Råback
clari?es.
?Perception doesn?t necessarily depend on objective
features of the situation. Many disappointments from
previous years have quickly been forgotten, once it
has been possible to attempt
something new.?
The feeling of responsibility has also kept him working.
He has almost a dozen doctoral thesis students, whose work
should be developed as much
as possible before summer.
The decision to retire next
spring was in?uenced by the
fact that Åberg?s wife retired
about ?ve years ago. Recent studies by
Harvard University reveal
that participants who took
stress as a positive sign had a
more con?dent reaction to it.
Biologically speaking, their
anxiety did not increase,
and so their risk of an eventual heart attack did not rise
either.
When do people interpret stress as harmful. Especially if the employer is told
or ?nds out that an employee has adverse job strain, he/
she is obliged to assess the situation and start actions to remove or reduce health risks,?
Ahola says.
It is not clear evidence
that health programmes
are directed speci?cally to
those people who have been
exposed to severe stress.
Indeed, it seems that the national statistics do not record information related to
stress-related diseases or absenteeism from work due to
stress.
?There are only a few such
conditions listed in the classi?cation of diseases, and
the employer does not accept
any other than illnesses for
sickness absence bene?ts.
For example, burnout or bereavement or stress are (usually) not acceptable causes
for sickness absence bene?ts,. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . Pulkki-Råback says.
?Different vulnerability depends on individual dispositions, like temperament, our
genetic hardiness, and our
prior experiences?
that a strong negative perception of stress could also
play a role in generating an
unfavourable effect. Laura
Pulkki-Råback, docent.
Contrary to popular belief, stress does not inevitably lead us into sickness, and
our negative perception of it
might, in fact, turn it against
our health. she
adds.
Another piece of stress
research in which Heikkilä is
also currently involved found
no obvious relationship between unhealthy lifestyles
and stress. ?Oxytocin
is quite surely a ?relaxant?
and helps one to calm down
under stress.?
She explains that this hormone ?is secreted in close
social interaction, sexual interaction, and also nursing
L IIS A TA K A L A
Many continue to work at retirement age
Professor of Communications at the University of Helsinki Leif Åberg will get to keep his office even
after retirement.
M A R I A M U S TA R A N TA . New research suggests
that stress can also have a
negative effect just because
people believe it does.
According to the Institute
of Behavioural Sciences at the
University of Helsinki, stress
has been misunderstood.
?Stress is a positive state,
meaning that it?s an adaptive
mechanism which prevents
us from getting into danger
and prepares us to cope with
challenges,. It?d be safe to
say that a couple of hours of
stress or a few days is probably not too harmful, whereas stress that goes on for
months or even years is,?
states Katriina Heikkilä,
Specialist Research Scientist
at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH)
In addition, people?s vulnerability to anxiety needs to
be taken into account: ?People differ in their vulnerability to stress. That is why
Unexpected
upsides of stress
After a 12-year study, the
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, along with the
University College London,
discovered that work-related stress is not associated
with the most common forms
of cancer, such as colorectal, lung, breast and prostate
cancers.
?Work-related stress was
not related to the risk of common cancers, it increased the
risk of heart disease, though
not as much had been previously thought,
Two out of three
members of the Union of Sales
and Marketing Professionals
SMJK have a base salary, in
addition to commission, bonuses or both.
One of them is real estate
agent Juha Kittilä from Helsinki. Ojala says.
High pay,
short education
(up to 3 years)
?3500 . Typically they work in car shops,
household appliance or furniture stores, as telephone
sales people or real estate
agents.
Some work solely on a
commission-based salary.
Real estate commission
Almost 10,000 members of
the Service Union United Pam
receive some kind of commission salary. Paying off
your student loan might be
hard, especially if the salary you end up with does not
compensate for the length of
your studies.
Expert opinion
To ?nd out whether studying
is worth your while, moneywise, we turn to the experts.
According to ministerial advisor Ville Heinonen
from the Ministry of Education and Culture and special
researcher Matti Sarvimäki
from the Government Institute for Economic Research,
it is worth it.
?As a general rule, a long
training period is re?ected in
your future salary, your position in the job market and in
job security,. Heinonen says.
?On an individual level, a good income is attainable
even
without
quali?cations, for instance
for an entrepreneur.?
According to Sarvimäki,
a university degree is worth
the trouble . He also gets
a share of an apartment?s
sales fee.
Kittilä sells three apartments in a month on average.
It takes a lot of imperceptible
work. The
shift lasts until morning.
As he sits down behind
the wheel, he is not certain of
a cent?s worth of income. That is worth
thinking about when making decisions about your future career.
A
Education is not cheap,
but who foots the bill?
There is a lot of discussion
about whether society should
support further study and to
what extent it should do so.
The other option is that young
people use student loans to ?nance their studies and pay
an even larger portion of their
studies themselves.
This makes you wonder
whether studying is really
worth it. The salaries
in the ?eld may increase, because the demand for care
workers will rise in future.. I have
thought about turning to another line of business.?
The downside of commission pay has been evident
during recession. Veterinarian
?2721 . During successful periods commission-based income grows,
but recession may cut a large chunk out of the paycheck.
JA ANA L AITINEN . Once money
is available, it has to be put to
savings.
?Income varies, it is part
of the job. Keeping
those machines idle is costly. He works in the Helsinki city centre, and receives a
base salary of less than 500
euro in a month. especially in
Finland, as further study is
more affordable here than in
many other countries.
?For most Finns, their education is the most important investment decision of
their lives. 22
. They will easily ?nd new
work, where results are evident in wages.?
Incentive
not always enough
The salary may remain small,
no matter how one does their
work. As the markets have
become more strained, salespeople have to work even harder to maintain the previously
solid income.
?In reality it is a matter
of reducing wages,. If no apartments are sold, that is the
way it is.?
One must learn to live
with a ?uctuating set of income, he says. Ojala from Pam
says. Economist
Low pay,
short education
(up to 3 years)
?2641 . The student loans
add up and you might end
up in a lot of debt. head of
research Reija Lilja from the
Labour Institute for Economic Research says.
?If women enter traditionally male ?elds of work,
they tend to also earn better.
If these industries are at all
appealing, they are worth going into, if the aim is to earn
well.?
is also a matter of luck, if one
gets drives,. This gives the workers an
edge in salary negotiations,?
Sarvimäki explains.
Highly
educated, lower paid
The lowest paid jobs that require an academic degree include childcare workers, social
workers, librarians, translators and some artists. Building electrician
?2866 . The law dictates that the income level
must be reasonable, though.
?What?s reasonable is
technically de?ned in court,?
Röksä states.
Collective agreements ensure minimum wages in those
?elds that have them. Cook
?1866 . It affects your income, your likelihood of being unemployed and where
there are vacancies in you
?eld globally.?
?Education is a good investment, but you should
choose your ?eld carefully,?
Sarvimäki points out.
From a ?nancial perspective, training as a doctor is
worth your while, so long as
you are keen to study and have
the talent for it, he suggests.
?Also people with degrees
in economics, law and engineering usually have high
income jobs and are rarely
unemployed.?
Even a short training
course at a vocational school
can lead to high earnings.
Dockers, workers at a paper
mill and train drivers are all
among well paid blue-collar
workers.
Salaries may become high
in small key ?elds where a
small group of workers is responsible for operating expensive machinery. He does state
that a good month may yield
100,000 euro.
?There are also months
with zero income. Library assistant
?2460 . Recently taxis have
been used less, he says.
?It has been quiet. The better the
employee?s result the better
it is for the company as well.
Taxi driver Jussi Varis is paid by commission only.
?Individual incentives increase sales results up to ?vefold,. HS
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Increasingly many receive
part of their income
on a commission basis
Performance-related pay models are becoming increasingly common. Children?s teacher
nomic ?uctuations more and
the likelihood of becoming
unemployed is greater.?
According to Lilja, the care
industry is worth at least
thinking about. Flight attendant
?3034 . I see the ?uctuation of
sales more as an opportunity.?
Commission pay is one
model for rewarding the
employee?s performance at
work. But this does not
mean that these differences
in income are fair,. says Head of Education
and Research at the Union of
Sales and Marketing Professionals SMJK, Jouni Röksä.
?If a top salesperson receives the same income regardless of the result, it is
not motivating in the long
run. HT
LONG training period
should result in a good salary, at least if you are training
to be a doctor. Still, a bluecollar worker may earn more
than a woman with a university degree. Other methods include
bonuses, individual increments, incentives and pro?t
rewards that are granted to
the entire personnel.
Commission pay and other models have their bene?ts, but also downsides, says
Head of Consultation at Pam.
?It is good that sales people earn well, when times and
business are good.?
The commission works as
incentive to succeed, when
it is immediately re?ected in
the paycheck. Telemarketing still does
not have a collective agreement.
?We have cases from socalled call centres, where a
telesales person has worked
full-time for a month, and is
left with ?fty euro,. He needs to be on the
phone constantly.
Kittilä does not want to
give exact information on
his incomes. Professor
?4046 . Bus driver
?2165 . EDUCATION
WORKING LIFE
HELSINKI
HELSINKI
TIMES
TIMES
1623
. How do you measure the value of saving a human life or teaching children
how to read. Metal worker
High pay,
longer education
(at least 6 years)
?8368 . he says.
Varis has been a taxi driver in Helsinki for about ?ve
years. City Mayor
?6068 . It is worth knowing
that bad months will pass.?
Kittilä says that the real estate ?eld has many different wage models that
vary according to ?rms and
domains.
Some companies have
larger base salaries, for example 3,000 euro per month.
On top of that a moderate
commission may build up.
The base salary may also be
low, like Kittilä?s, but the
commission is high.
?Some suffer from the uncertainty of their incomes, so
they choose a high base salary. Even if
your salary seems small, your
job may be more secure than
those in the industry sector,
as they are affected by eco-
offered a commission that
matches the former monthly salary. These
are typically female ?elds.
?These careers are chosen
by people who do not consider income to be the most important reason for deciding
on a career. It is also a question of values: is it more valuable to mend machinery or to
treat people??
Keep an eye on stability
Even if the average salary for
your dream job does not take
your breath away, it is worth
looking at the salary for your
entire career and the stability of your future job, Reija
Lilja advises.
?If you are highly quali?ed,
it is less likely that you will
become unemployed. During a depression
this may be a dif?cult task.
Contrary to common belief, Finland does not have a
minimum wage. Out of every euro the
customer pays he gets 35-40
cents.
?During very successful
nights I may earn 200 euro,?
he tells.
The pre-Christmas season does not last throughout
the year, though. ?Individual agreements are allowed, but
they must guarantee the employee at least the minimum
wage as stated by the collective
agreement,. It
Wages and education, in comparison
How relevant is the amount of time spent on
your education to the wages you will receive?
JA ANA L AITINEN . HS
MINNA HEL MINEN . His
wage is determined by how
many drives he manages to
get during a shift.
He is paid on a commission-basis, much like the
majority of Helsinki?s taxi
drivers. H T
It is more common to have a
base salary with commission.
in the evening taxi
driver Jussi Varis drives the
taxi out of the garage and
goes out to make a living. Jouni Röksä from SMJK says that some
companies have changed wages to be based more on commission during economic
instability. This is reality for taxi
driver Jussi Varis, who lives
only on commission.
?I can in?uence results to
the extent that I know where
people move and at what time.
Yet income cannot be endlessly in?uenced, no matter how
good the customer service. The average night shift results in 50100 euro.?
Many other workers also earn on commission. Many try it out and
AT FIVE
are defeated after a few bland
months. They may be
A woman?s salary is 82.4
per cent of a man?s salary, on
average. Especially January and late summer
are quiet times in terms of
drives.
?Sometimes I am left with
only tens of euros. Hairdresser
Low pay,
longer education
(at least 6 years)
?3520 . Röksä
points out.
Employees may also be
pressured into becoming entrepreneurs. However, there is
one surprise in the statistics:
if she is part of the top tier
of executives and of?cials, a
woman?s euro is 111 cents of a
man?s euro.
The smaller incomes of
people with university degrees cannot be explained
simply by the fact that these
jobs are typically done by
women, Lilja notes.
?In the public sector, it is
dif?cult to calculate what is
pro?table
Studies
show that these close relationships are vital to our
health and wellbeing. ratings on the surveys paralleled number and
duration of calls throughout the study, reassuring the
researchers that frequent
phone calls were a reasonable indicator of intimacy.
By analysing the students?
phone invoices, the researchers were able to construct a
ranking system for each contact based on the frequency
and duration of calls.
Although there were high
levels of turnover in the
names in each individual?s
network, the basic characteristics of the network itself
. social interactions suggests to him that each person
has their own distinct preference, or perhaps capacity, for
maintaining those bonds.
?It would be very nice to
see what happens for people
of different age groups and
social situations, to see if the
same pattern persists,. Vilho Lampi,
for instance, focuses on the
work of Vilho Lampi, an Oulu-born painter famous for
his self-portraits. 18
LIFESTYLE
23 . That?s the main result from a new study in which
researchers used cell phone
data from British secondary
school students as they transitioned to university to track
how many close social connections they maintained. But the striking stability of individual preferences
for organising . Isaac Wacklin, Amelié
Lundahl and Juho Mäkelä are
Regardless of how many friends one has, a person tends to maintain close friendship connections with only a handful of people.
The only friendship constant may
be the number of one?s friends
Study looks at the amount of friends kept in
emotional proximity during transition from
secondary school to university
EMILY UNDERWOOD . It
?rst served as the head of?ce
of the leather company Veljekset Åström Oy, and was subsequently taken over by the
University of Oulu. After people leave
college, for example, their
networks might shrink or
?get more and more frozen?
as time goes on, he suggests.
Saramäki hopes in future research to study larger groups
of people over longer periods
of time, and to include other forms of communication
such as social media.
The ?ndings ?do suggest a
certain ?budget constraint. ?The Museum shop
Ainoa has an interesting selection that puts emphasis on innovative, fun and sustainable
items. ?To keep
rank, you need to be a relative.. and limiting . The venue eventually
opened its doors as the Oulu
Museum of Art, which was inaugurated in May 1990.
A total ?oor area of 3,385m2
and 1,330m2 of exhibition
space on two ?oors, including a ?black box. about extrapolating from the results of the
study because of its small, homogeneous sample. networks upon a
period of transition.
gave each an 18-month contract from a major mobile
phone company with 500
free monthly minutes and
unlimited texts. ?One of the Museum of Art?s tasks is to preserve the phenomena of the
day from the viewpoint of the
community?s cultural heritage and cultural property.
This is what we are trying to
achieve through each of our
exhibitions,. in
the number of ties one might
maintain, which has been
suggested by studies before,
but is still not universally accepted,. how many people a person
called and how much time
they spent on the phone with
them . Percentfor-art-principle, on the other
hand, illustrates how architecture and visual art in the
Oulu region have absorbed
in?uences from each other.
In addition to being a museum of art, OMA also serves
as a centre for cultural activities and events. Hirvonen says. Then,
they ranked all of those individuals on a 1 to 10 scale
of emotional closeness, with
10 signifying someone ?with
whom you have a deeply personal relationship.?
Each student was asked
to ?ll out the same questionnaire again, nine months later, and a third time, after 18
months. SCIENCE /A A A S,
WA SHINGTON POS T-BLOOMBERG
FRIENDS come and go, but the
Friends in transition
Given the importance and
dif?culty of creating bonds
that sustain us, Saramäki and colleagues wanted to
know what would happen to
the social networks of students as they transitioned
from secondary school to
university, a period of signi?cant ?ux. Then there is the café
on the ?rst ?oor, where even a
piece of cake is like a piece of
art!. remained the same
throughout the 18-month
period. The Story of OMA?s Collection presents different periods, styles and modes of execution in Finnish visual art.. The exhibition?s journey in time begins
in the so-called Salkku room
with visual art works from
the 18th century up to the
1940s. The
Story of OMA?s Collection,
a special exhibition hosted
until 2015 that presents different periods, styles and
modes of execution in Finnish visual art.. But
they do have a cost: time and
effort that take away from
work, personal time or other
relationships. All the students lived in the same city
in Britain when the study
began; by the end, 10 had
left for universities in other parts of England. He agrees with
Saramäki that ?you have to be
very careful. or patterns of intimacy with others, which they
tend to maintain over time.
Regardless of how many
Facebook friends a person
has, most people maintain
only a small number of emotionally intense relationships, says Jari Saramäki of
the Aalto University School
of Science in Espoo, a computational scientist who studies social networks. In fact, OMA also presents a series of exhibitions online. Saramäki says. So individual
differences in the number of
close ties likely re?ect each
person?s ability to divvy out
the ?nite resources of time,
communication, and emotional investment that are
required to sustain relationships, scientists say.
The study has shown no change in students. Whether
such a constraint exists may
also depend on the type of
communication being used,
he says; it is not possible to
spend 24 hours a day talking
on the phone, for example.
Oulu Museum of Art OMA
Kasarmintie 9
Oulu
Tel: +358 (0)44 703 7471
www.ouka.fi/oulu/oma
Open:
Tue-Thu and Weekends
10:00-17:00
Fri 12:00-19:00
Tickets ?4-6, free admission
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some of the leading names
representing those times,
while Sam Vanni, Unto Pusa
and Ahti Lavonen are some
of the artists included in the
section that focuses on the
1950s-1980s period.
The visual art of the last
two decades is presented
through the self-portraits
and graphic prints of Tiina Ketara, Marika Mäkelä,
Janne Räisänen and Kirsi
Jokelainen. she concludes.
A Sense of Time . The
research also suggests that
people have distinct social
?signatures,. For example, a person?s top three contacts typically got 40 to 50 per cent
of the person?s calls, the authors reported during the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ?Besides contemporary art exhibitions we
offer concerts, dance performances, workshops, lectures
and meetings with artists,. A series of on-site
exhibitions, combined with
various online galleries and
an excellent café where art is
served on a plate, makes it a
must for all those with a passion for art.
The OMA building was designed by architect Birger
Federley in 1922 and hosted
different services before ?nally welcoming the museum. type of space,
make OMA the largest art museum in the northern region
and one of the most sophisticated in the whole country.
?The venue is easily accessible and we welcome everybody
with an interest in contemporary and modern Finnish art,?
explains Anna-Riikka Hirvonen, Director of OMA.
?At present, the museum
hosts A Sense of Time . They recruited 24 students ages 17 to 19,
half male, half female, and
L E H T I K U VA / M A R J A A I R I O
number of close friends you
have may remain surprisingly
constant. The University library was active for over
two decades, before the building was closed for renovation
in 1987. Higher ?emotional
closeness. When
given the phones, each student completed a questionnaire listing the names and
phone numbers of all their
friends and work and school
acquaintances, as well as all
their known relatives. Saramäki is careful to note that
the study didn?t establish
why students rearranged
their social lives, but one
blunt interpretation is that
as subjects. says David Lazer, a
network scientist at Harvard
University. Hirvonen adds.
The Museum of Art OMA?s
work is not only limited to its
premises. 29 JANUARY 2014
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Promoting a
vibrant urban
culture through art
Art, architecture,
events and delicacies from Northern
Ostrobothnia.
YA N N I C K I L U N G A
HEL SINKI TIMES
Museum of Art
(OMA), located in Myllytulli,
Oulu?s green part, is the largest art museum of Northern
Finland. circumstances
changed, they didn?t pine for
their old best friends, they
simply replaced them with
new ones.
Relatives pull rank
Parents, siblings and other relatives were least likely
to precipitously lose rank or
simply fall off the call lists,
Saramäki says
Small
black beluga lentils, so named
because they look like beluga
caviar, keep their shape and
a slightly ?rm texture when
cooked. EAT & DRINK
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . The cooks had put the
pot near an open ?re and let the
smoke infuse them. On one end of the spectrum are the split red and yellow lentils, so common in dals,
which disintegrate when you
cook them and might be the
best gateway lentil of all. ?You can
add some to whatever you?re
cooking, and it enriches it,
makes it a little thicker.?
On the other end. . They?re quickcooking. 2) The French phase,
a.k.a. We don?t cook with them.
But what we try and do is take
something that exists naturally . The
lentils came ?rst. be nothing
short of a dietary staple. As a relatively new vegetarian, I?ve been
realising that lentils can ?
nay, should . and draw
the connection to something
people would eat and wouldn?t
mind having swapped out.?
Lentil ideas
If there is a queen of lentils,
at least an American one,
surely it would be Mollie
Katzen, creator of that iconic (at least to vegetarians)
lentil-walnut burger recipe
in The Moosewood Cookbook
of 1977 and so many more. Could the same range
be accomplished by, say, a
mere chickpea, as much as I
love those. Their appeal
endures: They?re a staple of
Indian cooking, they?re featured in one of the national dishes of Egypt, and if you
were in Italy or Brazil or Chile
on New Year?s Day you probably ate lentils in some form as
a symbol of prosperity (they
also resemble coins, not just
lenses). She also cooks lentils in
the same pot as Chinese forbidden (black) rice, topping
it all with mushrooms and
white beans.
?Some of the best cooks
I know do very little to lentils,. to
lentils, creating an addictive
out-of-hand snack or topping. Their heft makes
them useful for sauces, and
for vegetarians that often
means sauces that in their
traditional form include
ground beef or pork.
Because lentils are one of
the best plant-based sources of protein on the planet,
their ability to play the part
of meat can?t be overstated.
?Indeed, the phrase so often
applied to the lentil, ?the poor
man?s meat,. the salad phase, in which
we learn how to pronounce ?du
Puy.. ?Those
soft but toothy little rounds
of lentils really do speak the
same language as a ground
beef,. We?ll
always have lentils, won?t we?
In America, where their
cookery is relatively young,
there seem to be several phases of lentil awareness: 1) The
soup/stew phase, a.k.a. (Sure enough,
Burks and Lawrence add smoke
from various sources . ?Just cook
simply with aromatic vegetables, and dress with really
good olive oil, salt and pepper.. i.e., a lentil . the
Moosewood phase, in which
chilies and burgers and loaves
abound. Still, it?s all too easy to
take them for granted. Best for mashes, soups
and stews.
Cooking time: 15 to 25 minutes or more, depending on how
soft and disintegrated you want them.
Black beluga lentils. That?s not too far from
what Sarah Copeland does
for a winter salad of lentils
and torn shreds of fresh mozzarella in her new book, Feast
(Chronicle Books, 2013).
Katzen recently had a
swoon-worthy experience with
a dish that included smoked
lentils at the restaurant Camino in Oakland, Calif., near where
she lives. enlightened.
From the top: red, orange or yellow split lentils; black beluga lentils; French du Puy lentils; and brown or green lentils.
Lentils: Common types and times
Go to a well-stocked Indian market, and you?ll find an overwhelming variety of dried lentils: different colors, some with
skins on, some with skins off. frying . Commonly used for Indian dal, these break up during cooking. A good
rule of thumb is to rinse the lentils under cold running water,
then combine 1 cup lentils with 3 cups water and a pinch of
salt, bring to a boil, reduce to a very gentle simmer, cover, and
cook for the recommended amount of time.
Here?s what the most common varieties are best used for, and
how long they typically take to cook.
Red, orange or yellow split lentils. Ancient Sumeria
old. 4)
The anything-goes phase, a.k.a.
the true-lentil-enlightenment
phase, in which we start to ask:
What can?t lentils do?
I?m squarely at the beginning of Phase 4. Way ?rst.
Lentils are Pompeii old.
Ezekiel old. dare I say. she says, and
as soon as I made her ?cozy
mash. They?re
inexpensive. Cozy indeed. Stone Age old.
Before there were virtually any other legumes, there
were lentils, offering up protein and iron and an earthy,
nutty ?avor to anyone smart
enough to boil some water
and cook them. is only derogatory if you put the emphasis
on ?poor man?s. (All together now:
No soaking!) But what I?m re-
HOW OLD ARE
alising is that, possibly best
of all, they?re more versatile
than I had ever imagined.
That last realisation has
been gradual, overtaking me
as I?ve perused one vegetarian cookbook after another
over the past several months
and, more recently, tried recipe upon recipe for lentils. 29 JANUARY 2014
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Lentils are some of the best plant-based sources of protein.
Lentils have countless culinary
uses way beyond soups and stews
J O E YO N A N
W A S H I N G T O N P O S T- B L O O M B E R G
lentils. but not
from scorching the pan . But perhaps
more intriguingly, she takes
inspiration from a Burmese
salad that includes fried split
yellow peas and applies the
same technique . In
her latest book, The Heart of
the Plate (Houghton Mif?in,
2013), Katzen revisits the
burger idea, combining lentils with caramelized onions
and brown rice. instead of on
?meat,?. Instead, the sweet
onions, a little balsamic vinegar and a pinch of cayenne
pepper add a round, mysterious ?avor. Let?s
quickly review the reasons:
They?re nutritious. Their name/appearance is what prompted authors Justin Fox Burks and
Amy Lawrence of The Southern Vegetarian (Thomas Nelson, 2013) to simmer them
with dried seaweed to approximate caviar and to put them
on creme-fraiche-topped blini,
which I stuffed myself with on
New Year?s Eve. Those delicate
little French blue-green du Puy
lentils similarly hold up well,
making them grand for salads
warm and cold.
In between are the big
brown or green lentils, which
can go either way, getting
soft enough to mash if you
want or staying ?rmer if you
stop short. Here?s
one clue: People who say
lentils are shaped like lenses have the reference backwards. Turns out that the
world?s ?rst lenses got that
name because they were
shaped, yes, like lentils. ?We?re not into
meat analogues, those weird
fake chickens or what have
you. These small, blue-green-spotted lentils keep their shape when cooked and have a particularly
creamy texture. ?I
think there?s a love affair between them,. to
their lentil taco ?lling.)
Some of Katzen?s favorite
treatments involve the marriage of lentils and onions. That might
make them intimidating to
some cooks (and if you look
at the dal section of a stocked
Indian market, you will see
why), but I consider that a
plus. She swooned over
the Camino dish, but I melted
as completely as a cup of red
lentils when I tasted hers.
It seems reminiscent of
dal, albeit without the Indian spices. 3) The dal phase, a.k.a.
the Indian-food-is-so-muchmore-than-curries phase. Small, shiny and black, they resemble caviar and maintain their shape and firm texture when
cooked. Best for cold or warm salads.
Cooking time: 25 to 30 minutes.
Brown or green lentils. ?You
sprinkle a handful in a soup,
and nobody knows,. she tells me. he says. ?This
may well have been meant as
a compliment by the ?rst users of the phrase.?
Burks, whose book also uses lentils in tacos and to make
a riff on bourguignon, says it?s
all about the texture. Larger varieties, these can get
mushy when overcooked but otherwise keep their shape.
Good for sauces or for playing the part of meat in taco fillings, sloppy Joes and more.
Cooking time: 30 to 40 minutes.. of red lentils (which
turn golden) stirred into longcooked onions, I knew what
she meant. she says, ?like when you
forget them in the pan and they
scorch a little bit.. Best for salads or appetizers, such as on blini.
Cooking time: 20 to 25 minutes.
French du Puy lentils. writes Waverly Root
in Food, his 1980 tome. Never.
Lentil varieties
One difference is, there?s not
just one lentil. ?I love the
taste of accidental smoke and
lentils,. says
Kathy Hester, author of The
Great Vegan Bean Book (Fair
Winds Press, 2013). I?ve
fried them into little nutlike
snacks, coaxed them into a
soothing mash, stuffed them
into tacos, turned them into a
caviar facsimile, pureed them
into gravy, paired them with
mozzarella in a warm salad,
even transformed them into
a credible take on Bolognese
sauce. But in most mainstream groceries, the varieties are limited to three or four.
Because the cooking time can vary by age and variety, follow the directions on the package for basic cooking. And
Cook for 3 or 4 minutes, so the
green beans are heated through. Somehow, ?vanilla. 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil, or more as needed
. But vanilla is essentially a supporting actor.
It is a sociable ?avour, at its
best when bringing out the
best in other distinct ingredients, softening their acidity,
drawing out their intensity,
helping them to cohere. It?s no wonder that
vanilla is one of the most expensive spices in the world. Once the oil shimmers, stir in the
garlic and the ginger. Many actually
prefer it. Taste; add sesame oil
and/or soy sauce as needed.
. 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable or peanut oil
. Food manufacturers thus have little incentive
to choose real vanilla: Using pure vanilla extract costs
American ice cream manufacturers approximately 73
cents a gallon of ice cream, as
opposed to 12 cents a gallon
for extract made from vanillin, Tim Ecott writes in Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice
Cream Orchid. And it also explains why we associate
vanilla with all things plain:
Because vanilla rarely owns
the spotlight, we?ve come to
think of it as the wall?ower of ?avours, retiring and
easily overlooked. It is primarily premium food products
that contain pure vanilla ?
as well as, surprisingly, CocaCola, which industry insiders
say contains the real thing.
(Perhaps this is the meaning
behind Coke?s slogan.)
Real vanilla, as the makers of Coke understand,
gives foods a certain je ne
sais quoi. it is.
Asian-inspired, this dish is made with minimal amounts of oil
and soy sauce, and that lets the green beans shine through.
Makes 6 or 7 servings
Ingredients
. The
smell of the rice was overpowering; I could have used
it as an air freshener for my
apartment, but it was far too
fragrant to eat. But the green,
string-beanlike pods become
dark brown and fragrant only after a curing process that
takes several months, a kind
of spa treatment for vanilla
beans. Reduce the heat to medium-low; cook,
stirring occasionally, for 6 or 7 minutes, adjusting the heat as
needed to keep the garlic and ginger from browning.
. It takes its time
. It may be
that we are now experiencing vanilla fatigue, that our
olfactory glands have become immune to the aroma.
Taste the real vanilla
But the vanilla that wearies
us is rarely vanilla at all. This has been
especially true in the past
20 or so years, as consumers
have grown wary of arti?cial
additives and ?avourings.
Many now seek out quality
products that use real vanilla and are willing to shell out
for them. Today,
the many candied and cookied ice cream ?avours that
use vanilla as a base reinforce the notion that vanilla
is basic: merely the starting
point for ?avour, not ?avour
itself.
Several developments in
the past two decades have also done much to alter vanilla?s status. The ?avour, novel for its aromatic intensity,
quickly became popular. Ice
cream had previously been
?avoured with fruit or nuts
(and, occasionally, with unexpected foods like brown
bread), so this colourless,
lumpless incarnation would
have seemed plain by comparison, writes Rain. Total
production is small, around
2,000 metric tons a year, with
demand historically exceeding supply. to produce an odourless,
pale yellow ?ower that, unless pollinated, dies within
hours. to indicate the
mind-numbing elevator variety and ?plain vanilla sex?
when speaking of humdrum
missionary style. Kosher salt
. (In Mexico,
where vanilla originated, an
indigenous bee pollinated
the ?owers; vanilla could not
be grown elsewhere until a
slave boy on the island of Reunion discovered how to pollinate the orchid in 1841.)
The seed pods, like human
children, take nine months
to develop. Meanwhile, heat the vegetable or peanut oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. The entire cultivation process can
take up to ?ve years. in the late ?80s, it
became a trendy addition to
savory dishes after Wolfgang
Puck famously paired lobster
with vanilla sauce at Spago.
Now, vanilla is a standard
complement to ?sh or pork.
A real taste
Since I had cooked only with
vanilla extract, I decided to
give the beans a try. I bought
two dark, oily pods and made
Patricia Rain?s Vanilla Bean
Rice, slicing the bean lengthwise and scraping the thousands of tiny, ?avourful
seeds into the saucepan. 2.5 cm piece peeled fresh ginger root, finely chopped
. And suddenly I had a vanilla epiphany.
The rice, a truly bland food,
forced the vanilla to take centre stage. Lightly salt the mixture; cook, stirring every minute or so, for 6 to 8 minutes, until the meat is cooked
through and lightly browned.
. Drain
the beans and spread them out on a clean dish towel to dry.
. around two to three years
. Add the cooked green beans, sesame oil and soy sauce,
tossing to incorporate. Ac-
cording to Patricia Rain, author of Vanilla: The Cultural
History of the World?s Favorite
Flavour and Fragrance, vanilla was ?rst brought to America by Thomas Jefferson in
the late 18th century. Increase the heat to medium-high; stir in the ground pork
to incorporate with the ginger and garlic, breaking up any
clumps of meat. According to Rain, the
pods are ?wrapped in clothes
and stored in boxes for hours
to days, massaged, manipulated, laid in the sun to dry
each morning and brought in
to rest each evening.. 225 grams lean ground pork
. Professional chefs,
too, have been using more
vanilla . Add the green beans to the pot. It?s at
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23 . He
had sampled vanilla sweets
in France and later imported beans to make vanilla
ice cream. 500 g green beans, trimmed and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
. Cook for 6 minutes or until
the vegetables are tender; drain, then immediately transfer
the beans to the ice-water bath to cool for 5 minutes. And so vanilla has
become the Zelig of the processed-food world, appearing in everything from Nilla
Wafers to Absolut Vodka: ice
cream, sorbet, yogurt, cookies, cakes, cream soda, colas, root beer, Frappuccinos,
granola, protein powders,
chocolate, malt liquor and
breath mints. 2 medium cloves garlic, finely chopped
. Of course,
like many wall?owers, vanilla has a lot going for it. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Nutrition Per serving (based on 7): 150 calories, 10 g protein,
5 g carbohydrates, 11 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 30 mg cholesterol, 95 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugar
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Although it has become synonymous with being bland in some
circles, vanilla remains a complex and versatile flavour.
The case for one of
our most maligned
flavours.
A M A N DA F O R T I N I S L AT E ,
W A S H I N G T O N P O S T- B L O O M B E R G
VANILLA has a PR problem.
As a noun, vanilla refers to
our most fragrant and complex ?avour, the one we use
to improve everything from
cheesecake to chocolate. When
Prince Charles married his
much-maligned sweetheart,
a British newspaper branded her ?Plain Vanilla Camilla.. In
2004, vanilla prices peaked at
500 dollars (US) per kilo.
Of course, there are some
who will demand real vanilla at any price. This
is why baked goods made
without vanilla lack depth
and dimension, like music
without a bass line. to alert
kitchen workers to an attractive girl. Vanilla soon caught on
among the European elite;
Queen Elizabeth, an inveterate sugar addict, indulged
daily in vanilla-infused pastries prepared by her chef.
Even 50 years ago, vanilla
still connoted ?the very essence of zest and ?avour,. has
become shorthand for bland.
It wasn?t always this way.
For centuries, vanilla was
considered exotic, luxurious
and rare. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat.
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Vanilla is anything but plain
Perhaps vanilla seems common and ordinary because ?
these days, anyway . as
William Sa?re once wrote: At
soda parlours, counter boys
hollered, ?Vanilla!. After a 1991
study conducted at Manhattan?s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center revealed
that a vanillalike fragrance
reduced stress among patients undergoing MRI scans,
vanilla-scented candles, incense, body lotion, shampoo
and air fresheners also began to proliferate. Anywhere from 90-97 per cent
of vanilla-?avoured products
are made with vanillin, a substance found in small quantities in natural vanilla but
made synthetically for processed commercial foods.
Real vanilla contains hundreds of different components that contribute to its
nuanced taste and aroma.
It is as different from vanillin as sugar is from Equal;
vanilla possesses subtlety and depth, while vanillin
is loud, brassy, super?cial.
And yet most Americans
have become accustomed
to the latter. But
as an adjective, it is a pejorative, employed to describe
anything common, generic or bland. Where, then, did the
myth of plain vanilla come
from?
Starting
point for flavour
Vanilla?s lacklustre reputation stems in part from its
particular history in America, where most people initially encountered it as a
?avouring for ice cream. The explosion of
low-fat and low-carb products has created a need for
strong ?avours to render
these foods remotely appetising, and the ?avouring industry has determined that
vanilla, despite its supposed
blandness, is a consistent favourite. The orchid that produces the pods
is something of a diva, making vanilla one of the world?s
most labour-intensive crops.
The ?nicky plant likes damp
heat, steady rainfall and a
delicate balance of sunshine
and shade. 1 teaspoon low-sodium soy sauce, or more as needed
Steps
. In the 16th century, Hernando Cortes brought
vanilla beans from Mexico
to Europe, and they became
one of the Spanish empire?s
most pro?table commodities. Pollination requires
arti?cial insemination, a
manual transfer of pollen
from the male anther to the
female stigma. Most of
the world?s vanilla is grown in
Madagascar, Indonesia, Mexico and Tahiti, where climate is
right and land plentiful. Its rich, multifaceted ?avour derives in part
from the careful hand-rearing the beans receive. We say ?plain vanilla music
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23 . Janá?ek: Jen?fa
Finnish top soprano Karita Mattila
as the young conflict-torn Jen?fa.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Tickets ?37-125
www.opera.fi
Mon 27 January
Simple Minds (UK)
Scottish rock group.
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?47
www.thecircus.fi
Sat 25 January
Jeijjo & Nupi, Aksim
Rap.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?5
www.virginoil.fi
Wed 29 January
Rytmihäiriöklubi
Elifantree.
Juttutupa
Säästöpankinranta 6
Helsinki
Free entry
www.juttutupa.com
Sat 25 January
Club Milk It!
Neils Children (UK).
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Tickets ?6
www.ontherocks.fi
Sat 25 January
Freaks Of The Revolution,
The Noir Brigade
Rock/punk.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?5
www.semifinal.fi
Sat 25 January
Karri Koira, Ruudolf, Musta
Barbaari
Rap.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Tickets ?13
www.elmu.fi
Wed 29 January
Oireklubi
Antti Autio & Nuori Hannes.
Siltanen
Hämeentie 13 B
Helsinki
Free entry
www.siltanen.org
Wed 29 January
Sonia, Bye Mandu, Nevala
Indie rock/pop.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?5
www.semifinal.fi
Wed 29 January
Skogen Brinner (SWE), Seremonia
Hard rock.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Tickets ?6/8
www.barloose.com
Wed 29 January
Imperial State Electric (SWE)
Rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?18/20
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 23, Sat 25 & Tue 28 January
Bella Figura
Triple bill featuring works by three
world-famous choreographers.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?15-91
www.opera.fi
Thu 23-Sun 26 January
Salla Hakanpää: Surface & Ville
Walo: Mortimer
Double bill of brilliant new circus.
Cirko
Kaasutehtaankatu 1
Helsinki
Tickets ?17.50/22.50
www.cirko.fi
Fri 24 January
Jyrki Karttunen:
Youth and Freedom
Dream-like dive into the world of
emotions.
Helsinki City Theatre
Pieni Näyttämö
Eläintarhantie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?18-29
www.hkt.fi
EXHIBITIONS
From Fri 24 January
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 2 February
Transformation:
Towards
a Sustainable
Future
How to you build or renovate
your home to balance human
needs with the demands of
ecological sustainability?
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Kasarmikatu 24
Helsinki
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/3/6
www.mfa.fi
Until Sun 9 February
On the Shores of the Lake
Exhibition dedicated to the
fascinating artist community that
lived on the shores of Lake Tuusula
at the turn of 20th century.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
Until Sat 2 March
Rafael Wardi
Retrospective exhibition of painter
Rafael Wardi.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
Until Sat 2 March
Esko Männikkö: Time Flies
The long-awaited retrospective
includes both classic works and
new photographs.
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/7/10
www.taidehalli.fi
Until Sun 3 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
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/5/8
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Until Sun 3 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
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/5/8
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
OTHERS
From Tue 23 January
DocPoint
One of the largest documentary film
festivals in the Nordic countries.
www.docpoint.info
Helsinki Times iPad edition. 6
Tickets ?5
www.semifinal.fi
Fri 24 January
Tuomari Nurmio
Blues/rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?20/22
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 24 January
New Orleans Rhythm Gang,
Jussi & The Boys
Jazz/rock.
Storyville
Museokatu 8
Helsinki
Tickets ?10
www.storyville.fi
Fri 24 January
Helsinki Jungle Mafia &
Garage presentz:
Drum´n´Bass Convention
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Tickets ?12
www.elmu.fi
Fri 24 January
Deep Space Helsinki
Adriana Lopez (ESP),
Samuli Kemppi & Juho Kusti.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?10
www.kuudeslinja.com
Fri 24 January
Danceteria & WE LIKE:
Unitedw/ Deniz Koyu (GER)
and Belocca (HUN)
EDM/techno/house.
Fredan Tivoli
Fredrikinkatu 51-53
Tickets ?12/14
www.fredantivoli.fi
Fri 24 January
Antti Kokkomäki & Tammikuun
Lapset, Viljami Kukkonen
Folk.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?5/7
www.korjaamo.fi
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Medeia, For The Imperium
Rock.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.virginoil.fi
Sat 25 January
Moonface (CAN), Blck
Indie rock/dream pop.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?10/12
www.korjaamo.fi
Sat 25 January
Hectorock 6
Räjäyttäjät, Seksihullut,
Napakymppi, Finntengs Sound
System.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.barloose.com
Sat 25 January
Sin Cos Tan, Shine 2009
Synth pop.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 24 January
Doom Unit
Metal.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?10/12
www.barloose.com
Sat 25 January
Alcest (FRA), Hexvessel,
The Fauns (USA)
Folk/rock/noise pop.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?24/26
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 24 & Mon 27 January
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M ARKUS HENT TONEN
Night Time Stories
Photographer Markus Henttonen?s Night Time Stories, a cinematic photo series depicting nocturnal cities, brings the metropolitan night into Kunsthalle Studio. This fascinating photo series was awarded at the Photomania International Biennale of Photography in Kaliningrad, Russia in 2009 and at the Billnäs
Young Artist´s competition in 2011.
In Night Time Stories, the main role is not played by the city itself, but the hidden
beauty of nocturnal moments, the people of the city and the stories that tell about
the metropolitan solitude and alienation. Henttonen´s melancholically lingering photos are like film sets, with precise composition, dramatisation and artificial lighting.
Since his graduation from the Turku Arts Academy in 2002, Henttonen has been
working as an artist photographer as well as freelance photographer for both editorial and commercial assignments for numerous clients. Most
of the works are from 2008 when Henttonen was working in Berlin, Barcelona and
Rio de Janeiro. His works have been exhibited in over 70 exhibitions both in Finland and abroad.
Until Sat 2 March
Markus Henttonen:
Night Time Stories
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/7/10
www.taidehalli.fi
Night Time Stories - Rooftop Party, 2008.
MUSIC
Thu 23 January
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor &
Leif-Ove Andsnes, piano.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?6-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 23 January
Verhot, Band Of Vipers
Dark rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4
S U L L I VA N
HEL SINKI TIMES
BEST known to fans of ?80s
music (and of Brat Packer
hit ?ick The Breakfast Club)
for their hit Don?t You (Forget
About Me) Scottish rock band
Simple Minds are coming to
town. about Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit opening just after
Oscar nominations are announced. as long
as the space-time continuum separating the Ryanverse
and Star Trek?s Captain Kirk
holds true. Nuori ihmissusi
Release Date: 24 January
Director: Matti Pekkanen
Starring: Aleksi Holkko,
Sami Palolampi
London School of Economics
when he watches the World
Trade Center fall in 2001; after enlisting with the Marines
and suffering a potentially fatal injury, he?s recruited by a
shadowy CIA honcho named
Harper (an excellent Kevin
Costner) to work as an analyst in ?nancial espionage.
Soon enough, Ryan goes
from being a Wall Street wolf
in sheep?s clothing to a guntoting, bad-guy-of?ng, fullon spy in Moscow. Here Chiwetel Ejifor is a free black man in 1840s America,
who soon finds himself sold into slavery by two white men.
Out of the Furnace offers a burst of testosterone from the director of Crazy Heart, as Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson
go head to head as protagonist and villain.
Finally, local flick Anselmi . No sooner do we pay
homage to the very best that
Hollywood has to offer (and
Hollywood came forth with an
exceptional bounty last year),
than we are forced to consider yet another example of the
franchise obsession on which
the industry depends to survive. and
?Family Albums?.
The festival also includes
a retrospective of Kanerva Cederström, presenting nine of her ?lms from
the course of years including the Tove Jansson trilogy.
The main guest this year is
award-winning documentary ?lm maker Kim Longinotto, long giving a voice to the
oppressed, silenced and marginal peoples.
DocPoint - Helsinki
Documentary Film
Festival 2014
28 January-2 February
www.docpoint.info/en
Success
is Simple
J A M E S O . (As Harper
tells him while putting a gun in
his hands, ?You?re operational
now.?) Viewers don?t necessarily have to follow the arcane
dialogue about algorithms
and cellphone triangulations
. mine, i.e. What
makes their journey all the
more remarkable is that Tom
has autism. or decipher the countless
shots of computer screens ?
to understand the supremely simple plot. but oddly appropriate
. Suf?ce it to say
that, true to Jack Ryan?s roots
in Clancy?s Cold War-era imagination, he?s once again
?ghting the Russians, here
personi?ed in a ruthless villain nicely underplayed by
Branagh, who?s twice joined
by a cameo performer sure to
elicit sentimental sighs in audience members of a certain
age (i.e. The Armstrong
Lie follows the spectacular
rise and fall of cyclist Lance
Armstrong and his dopingand deceit-stained career.
Meanwhile, at the other end
of the spectrum, The Optimists tells the tale of a Norwegian women?s volleyball
team for seniors. Snap out of it, movie
fans! Awards are all well and
good, but a studio?s gotta eat.
The descent from the sublime to the banal isn?t as depressing as it might have
been with Shadow Recruit, although the trip is often vertiginous. Still active on the live
circuit, they are now kicking
off a European leg of their
tour, continuing support for
the greatest hits collection
of last year. Elsewhere, ABBA
fans can get a kick out of the
sing-along version of ABBA ?
The Movie, get to know some of
music?s greatest backup singers in 20 Feet From Stardom,
A number of disasterthemed ?lms are on offer,
including Beyong the Wave,
as Kyoko Miyake visits her
aunt?s village in Fukushima
in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in 2011. If one wishes that
he would pull the camera back
once in a while to provide respite from the ganglia-jangling
swishes and pans, one need
only remember that the enduse of Shadow Recruit is on the
?ve-inch screen of the guy sitting next to you on a train.
That movies now must
be made for both iPhones
and Imax is less a backhanded testament to Hollywood?s chronic lack of
visual and spatial sense than
the rock and hard place between which ?lmmakers are
so uncomfortably jammed
these days. CULTURE
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23 . The most audacious
Shadow Recruit sequel may be
the one that dispenses with
swishes, pans and Bourneagain distractions, and simply lets Jack Ryan play.
Also on screens
Steve McQueen?s third film 12 Years a Slave arrives upon a colossal
wave of positive word of mouth, and some 10 Oscar nominations
to boot. Emerging into a
new, platform-neutral world,
Jack Ryan seems more like
a throwback than ever. don?t ask).
Branagh, who proved his
action bona ?des with Thor,
does an inarguably competent job of choreographing a
modestly intelligent espionage
thriller, even if it?s impossible
to identify anything new he?s
bringing to an already groaning table. Elsewhere, ever wondered about
the events of a plane crash?
Well re-enacting these in 3D
is Charlie Victor Romeo.
New Finnish ?lms are on
offer, as well as local student
?lms. Here 98 is
not the number on the back
of your shirt, but your age.
Mission to Lars sees two
siblings hoping to help their
brother Tom meet Metallica
drummer Lars Ulrich. Other themes bunching similar ?lms together include ?Landescapes?, ?Lost
in Places?, ?Borderlines. With live dates
stretching until the summer,
a new album, their 18th, is
being readied for a potential
spring release.
Simple Minds
27 January, 20:00
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki. With
a programme packed with
over 100 ?lms, numerous
seminars, lectures, workshops and concerts can also
be found on the bill.
ONCE
The various ?lms on offer
traverse a variety of genres
and themes. Directed by Kenneth
Branagh in a jumbled blur of
dizzying close-ups, revolving camera moves, hand-held
action sequences and deceptive layers of shiny surfaces,
Shadow Recruit threatens to
become less a resuscitation
of the beloved Tom Clancy
brand than yet another jumbled, jarring action ?ick that
isn?t nearly as smart as its
brainy protagonist.
But with Chris Pine competently stepping into shoes
once occupied by Harrison
Ford and Ben Af?eck (and,
brie?y, Alec Baldwin), Jack
Ryan seems to have a reasonable chance at surviving into the 21st century . Presenting the best Finnish and international documentaries
of the year, the festival lands
once again in the Capital Region from 28 January until 2
February.
From its humble beginnings in 2001, the numbers in
attendance each year are in
the vicinity of 30,000. Performing at The Circus on Monday 27 January,
the band brings with them a
back catalogue that stretches back to 1977, when the
band ?rst formed in Glasgow.
With founding members,
vocalist Jim Kerr and guitarist/
keyboardist Charlie Burchill still on board, the band
is rounded out by longtime
drummer Mel Gaynor, and
Andy Gillespie (keyboards)
and Ged Grimes (bass).
The band enjoyed extraordinary success in the
?80s, before their fortunes
began to wane towards the
Making sure we don?t forget about them: Simple Minds will visit Helsinki on 27 January.
end of the century. The early ?00s saw the band return
with renewed vigour, with a
number of well-received releases. In Shadow Recruit,
Jack is pursuing his PhD at the
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Release Date: 24 January
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Chris Pine,
Kevin Costner
12 Years a Slave
Release Date: 24 January
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Michael Fassbender
Out of the Furnace
Release Date: 24 January
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Christian Bale,
Casey Affleck
Anselmi . Nuori ihmissusi follows young
Anselmi, as he sets out to find out who his mother was, who
abandoned him the day he was born.
JO?S
Mission to Lars is just one of around 100 films on offer at DocPoint this year.
Emphasising the Point onscreen
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DOCPOINT
Film
Chris Pine gives beloved
franchise fresh blood
A N N H O R N A DAY
WA SHING TON POS T . S U L L I VA N
HEL SINKI TIMES
again, the 13th annual
DocPoint is kicking the year
off in ?lm festivals. BLOOMBERG
THERE?S something disorienting . But
he?s a proud one, and Pine
possesses the charisma and
chops to play him convincingly, as both a thinker and
a doer
Miami (K16)
00.10 30 Rock
00.40 Sleepy Hollow (K16)
01.35 Grimm
JIM
10.45
14.00
15.05
16.00
16.55
Dinner: Impossible
MasterChef Australia
Shark Tank USA
Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
Gordon shares his infectious
passion for great cuisine and
gets people eating, cooking,
thinking and talking about
food.
17.50 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Ink Master
20.00 Pawn Stars
Rick Harrison and his family
buy, sell, and appraise items
of historical value.
22.00 Rude Tube
23.00 Container Wars
23.30 Ball Boys
00.00 Storm City
01.00 Bizarre Crime
01.35 Speeders
02.05 Gene Simmons Family
Jewels
03.00 Bullrun: Cops, Cars &
Superstars
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.45 Pitchin. Starring: Tom
Hanks, Paul Sanchez, Helen
Hunt. In
09.15 Travel with Kids
10.20 Property Virgins
13.50 Sibling Rivalry
14.50 What Not to Wear
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Frasier
17.55 Heavy Texas
21.30 Gray Matters FILM
Directed by: Sue Kramer.
Starring: Heather Graham,
Bridget Moynahan, Tom
Cavanagh. In
14.50 Fabulous Cakes
15.50 Supernanny
16.55 Frasier
17.55 Hoarders
20.00 Heavy Texas
21.00 Seeking Justice (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Roger
Donaldson. Starring:
Laura Linney, Tom
Wilkinson, Campbell Scott.
USA/2005.
01.00 Knight Rider
01.55 Just for Laughs
02.25 Star Trek: The Next
Generation
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
11.30 Shannen Says
12.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
13.00 Top Chef Masters
15.00 A Model Employee
A Model Employee is a
reality competition series
where eight models will
have the chance to compete
for their dream job.
16.00 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 Million Dollar Decorators
20.00 Storage Hoarders
21.00 American Idol
25.1.
MTV3
NELONEN
Reign
AVA 23.00
08.05 Children?s Programming
13.25 Oliver?s Twist
14.15 Antz FILM
Directed by: Eric Darnell,
Tim Johnson. Starring: Tom
Hanks, Paul Sanchez, Helen
Hunt. In
09.20 Supernanny
09.50 Plastic Makes Perfect
10.20 Property Virgins
13.50 Property Virgins
14.20 Pitchin. Queen
Mary Stuart of Scotland,
arrives in France as a
teenager to formalize her
arranged engagement to
the dashing Prince Francis,
next in-line for the throne
of France.
Cast Away
007: Thunderball
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and
two-time Oscar winner Tom
Hanks reunite to explore the
blessings and heartache of fate
and the survival of the human
spirit. Starring: Sean Connery,
Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi.
UK/1965.
AVA 21.00
Thursday 23.1.2014
Nelonen 21.00
Saturday 25.1.2014. He needs to head
to the Bahamas to recover two
nuclear warheads which have
been hijacked by Spectre?s
Secret Agent Emilio Largo. Directed by: Terence
Young. Far
away from home, his girlfriend,
and any human contact, he
engages in a battle of wits with
himself as he is tested mentally,
physically and emotionally in
order to survive. 24
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23 . With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 That ?70s Show
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 NCIS
21.00 Basic Instinct (K16) FILM
A police detective is in
charge of the investigation
of a brutal murder, in
which a beautiful and
seductive woman could be
involved. Starring: Nicolas
Cage, January Jones, Guy
Pearce. Miami (K16)
00.25 Vikings
01.25 Smallville (K16)
02.25 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
08.45 MasterChef Australia
14.40 Chuck?s Day Off
15.40 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
A travel and food show
hosted by Anthony
Bourdain.
18.30 Pawn Stars
01.00 Hawaii Five-0
01.50 Rude Tube
08.05 Children?s Programming
10.30 Supernanny
13.20 Dog Rescue
14.25 Zoo
14.55 Sea Rescue
15.25 Animal ABC
15.55 Wizards of Waverly Place
19.00 Elementary
21.00 007: Thunderball (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Terence Young.
Starring: Sean Connery,
Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi.
UK/1965.
23.35 Under the Dome
00.35 Unknown (K16) FILM
Directed by: Simon Brand.
Starring: Jim Caviezel, Greg
Kinnear. Starring: LeAnn
Rimes, Shawn Roberts,
Christian Potenza.
USA/2011.
15.00 Say Yes to Dress
15.30 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
16.00 Must Love Cats
17.00 MacGyver
18.00 Breaking The Magician?s
Code: Magic?s Biggest
Secrets Finally Revealed
19.00 Monk
20.00 30 Rock
21.00 Burlesque FILM
Directed by: Steve Antin.
Starring: Alan Cumming,
Cher, Christina Aguilera.
USA/2010.
23.10 Sexcetera (K18)
00.20 Baby Cat FILM
Dirtected by: Pierre Unia.
Starring: Julie Margo, Corine
Corson. USA/2006.
02.25 Dexter (K16)
TV5
06.10 Breaking The Magician?s
Code: Magic?s Biggest
Secrets Finally Revealed
07.05 Cats 101
07.55 Matlock
12.30 Reel Love FILM
Directed by: Brian K.
Roberts. USA/2000.
23.40 Hart of Dixie
saturday
24.1.
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 The Model Agency
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
Jamie Oliver shows how
to cook a meal in just 15
minutes.
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
18.30 One Tree Hill
This series follows the
eventful lives of high-school
kids in Tree Hill.
19.30 New Girl
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 40 Year Old Virgin (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Judd Apatow.
Starring: Steve Carell,
Catherine Keener, Paul
Rudd. With Children
06.40 Absolutely Fabulous
07.15 Michaela?s Animal Road Trip
08.05 Matlock
12.05 Kitchen Boss
12.35 Cake Boss
13.05 Michaela?s Animal Road Trip
14.00 Absolutely Fabulous
14.35 Hale and Pace
15.05 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. Starring:
Woody Allen, Sharon Stone.
USA/1998.
16.00 Alpine Skiing World Cup:
Kitzbühel SPORT
In Finnish.
17.00 Top Gear USA
Top Gear is about motor
vehicles, primarily cars and
is the world?s most widely
watched factual television
programme.
21.00 Survivor
In this reality game show
contestants are isolated in
the wilderness and compete
for cash and other prizes.
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.25 Southland (K16)
SUB
11.00 Ben and Kate
11.30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter
12.00 Whitney
12.30 Up All Night
13.00 Are You There, Chelsea?
14.00 Middle
14.30 Partners
15.00 World Palooza
16.05 Flipping Out
17.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
17.30 United Bates of America
18.00 Masterchef USA
20.00 Top Gear
21.00 Jarhead (K16) FILM
Jarhead follows Swoff from
a sobering stint in boot
camp to active duty, where
he sports a sniper rifle
through Middle East deserts
that provide no cover from
the heat or Iraqi soldiers.
Directed by: Sam Mendes.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,
Scott MacDonald,
Peter Sarsgaard.
USA/Germany/2005.
23.25 C.S.I. France/1968.
02.00 Evolution FILM
Directed by: Ivan Reitman.
Starring: David Duchovny,
Orlando Jones.
USA/2001.
AVA
10.00 American Idol
12.00 Million Dollar Decorators
13.00 Storage Hoarders
14.00 Project Accessory
15.00 The Rachel Zoe Project
16.00 Me, My Bump & I
17.00 Find My Family UK
18.00 Grand Designs Australia
20.00 Glee
21.00 American Idol
22.00 Royal Pains
23.00 Reign
SERIES BEGINS. USA/2011.
23.10 Hannibal (K16)
00.10 Frasier
00.40 Metcalfe (K16)
02.30 Beyond Scared Straight
MTV3
NELONEN
Resident Evil
T V5 21.00
07.50 Oliver?s Twist
09.50 The Young and the Restless
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
22.40 Dallas
23.40 Chicago Code (K16)
TV5
SUB
06.10 Married. Directed by:
Robert Zemeckis. Starring: Denis
Arndt, Michael Douglas,
George Dzundza.
USA/France/1992.
23.20 Manhunters
00.25 Enough (K16) FILM
Directed by: Michael Apted.
USA/2002.
02.30 The Sex Clinic (K16)
03.25 Star Trek: The Next
Generation
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Find My Family UK
11.30 You Deserve This House
12.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
13.00 Million Dollar Decorators
14.00 The Rachel Zoe Project
15.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
16.00 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
20.00 Model Employee
21.00 Cast Away FILM
Directed by: Robert
Zemeckis. Will Bond, his
allies and his special gadgets
succeed in preventing a threatening nuclear catstrophe or
will Largo gain the upper hand
this time. 29 JANUARY 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
friday
23.1.
MTV3
NELONEN
Golden Boy
MT V3 22.35
07.50 Oliver?s Twist
08.50 Heart of Dixie
09.50 The Young and the Restless
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
22.35 Golden Boy
As the team searches for
the person who murdered
a young model, Clark
is suspected of leaking
information to the press.
23.35 The Finder
Isabel?s new boyfriend is
robbed of his memorabilia
collection and Walter does
his best to help.
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
23.35 2 Broke Girls
00.05 New Girl
00.35 Bones
01.30 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
13.30 JIM D: Modern Marvels
14.30 MasterChef Australia
15.35 Shark Tank USA
16.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
17.25 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
18.25 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
21.00 Talent USA
22.30 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 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.45 Pitchin. Tom Hanks gives one of
the towering screen performances of all time as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer
whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him
isolated on a remote island. with Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.01 That ?70s Show
19.00 Evolution FILM
Directed by: Ivan Reitman.
Starring: David Duchovny,
Orlando Jones, Julianne
Moore. USA/2006.
23.35 Doubt FILM
Directed by: John Patrick
Shanley. USA/2000.
Thunderball is the fourth spy
film in the James Bond series.
This time indestructible and
charming Secret Agent James
Bond (Sean Connery) has the
important and dangerous mission again. If
the British will not pay $280
million in ransom by a certain
date, Largo nukes two English or
American cities. Starring: Meryl
Streep, Amy Adams.
USA/2008.
01.45 Frasier
02.15 Falling Skies (K16)
TV5
06.10 Absolutely Fabulous
06.45 Extraordinary Dogs
07.15 Too Cute!
08.05 Matlock
12.00 Kitchen Boss
12.30 Say Yes to Dress
13.00 Too Cute!
13.55 Absolutely Fabulous
14.30 Hale and Pace
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married... Directed by: Paul
Verhoeven. USA/2005.
23.10 C.S.I. Starring: Ali Larter,
Iain Glen, Milla Jovovich.
USA/2007.
22.45 The Exorcism of Emily
Rose (K16) FILM
Directed by: Scott
Derrickson. USA/2001.
21.00 Resident Evil (K16) FILM
Directed by: Russell
Mulcahy
Roger Ferris (Leonardo
DiCaprio) is the best man U.S.
Intelligence has on the ground.
When he uncovers evidence
indicating that a major terrorist
leader may be operating out of
Jordan, he enlists the aid of CIA
veteran Ed Hoffman (Russell
Crowe) in infiltrating the elusive
saboteur?s vast underground
network. USA/2007.
23.35 Big Love
00.50 Kate & William: After the
Wedding DOC
TV5
07.25 Boxboarders! FILM
Directed by: Rob Hedden.
Starring: James Immekus,
Austin Basis, Michelle
Alexis. Mike
Ross has always dreamed of
becoming a lawyer but life
has taken him in a different
direction. USA/2005.
16.10 Alpine Skiing World Cup:
Kitzbühel SPORT
In Finnish.
22.35 C.S.I. After the
rescue mission lose one man in
a skirmish at a bombed village,
some in the group begin to question the logic of losing more lives
to save a single soldier. USA/2012.
20.15 Daddy Day Camp FILM
Charlie and Phil take their kids
to Camp Driftwood for summer
vacation, but once there, they
discover that Camp Driftwood
is no longer the kindhearted
camp site of its time.
Directed by: Fred Savage.
Starring: Cuba Gooding
Jr., Josh McLerran, Lochlyn
Munro.
USA/2006.
22.00 Motive
22.55 Monk
23.50 Resident Evil (K16) FILM
Directed by: Russell
Mulcahy. With Children
06.55 Absolutely Fabulous
07.30 My Cat from Hell
08.20 Matlock
12.05 Kitchen Boss
13.05 My Cat from Hell
14.00 Absolutely Fabulous
14.35 Hale and Pace
15.05 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. Phil
TV5
06.25 Married. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . USA/1998.
Sub 21.00
Sunday 26.1.2014
Nelonen 21.00
Monday 27.1.2014. Starring: Leonardo
DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark
Strong. Directed by:
Ridley Scott. USA/2008.
23.50 Suburgatory
00.20 Awake (K16)
01.20 Bones
02.15 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
11.15
11.45
13.35
14.05
15.10
Chuck?s Day Off
Flip This House
Barter Kings
MasterChef Australia
Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
17.00 Pawn Stars
18.25 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay visits
struggling restaurants
across America and spends
one week trying to help
them become successful.
21.00 American Pickers
22.30 Container Wars
23.00 Ball Boys
00.55 Crimestories Around the
World
01.50 Shark Tank USA
07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Travel with Kids
Learn all the tips and tricks
to travel with kids.
10.20 Sibling Rivalry
13.50 Sibling Rivalry
14.55 What Not to Wear
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.55 Frasier
17.25 Zoo
17.55 Hoarders
20.00 America?s Next Topmodel
21.00 Saving Private Ryan (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Steven
Spielberg.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Edward
Burns, Tom Sizemore.
USA/1998.
00.15 Hannibal (K16)
01.15 Frasier
01.45 Mad Men
02.45 Dr. Starring: Iain Glen,
Milla Jovovich.
USA/2007.
01.30 Twin Peaks
AVA
08.00 Namaste
10.00 American Idol
13.00 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
Jamie Oliver and Jimmy
Doherty have opened a new
cafe on Southend pier.
15.00 Top Chef Masters
16.00 Model Employee
17.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
This series follows several
incredibly busy and
ambitious Manhattan
women.
20.00 Reign
23.30 Law & Order: Los Angeles
00.30 The Killing (K16)
tuesday
27.1.
MTV3
NELONEN
Grand Designs
AVA 20.00
09.45 The Young and the Restless
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Survivors
15.10 Whitney
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
The drama set in the
glamorous world of the Los
Angeles fashion scene and
focusing on the wealthy and
powerful Forrest family.
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Hostages (K16)
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles
23.35 Psych
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
This megahit comedy
revolves around four
intelligent physicists and
their beautiful neighbour
Penny who shows them how
little they know about life
outside of the laboratory.
21.00 Changeling (K16) FILM
Directed by: Clint Eastwood.
Starring: Angelina Jolie,
John Malkovich, Jeffrey
Donovan. It
flew into thunderstorms
and disappeared over the
Atlantic Ocean.
23.00 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
23.30 Bizarre Crime
00.05 World?s Weirdest
Restaurants
00.35 Ancient Aliens
01.30 Brad Meltzer?s Decoded
02.30 Barter Kings
03.00 Top Shot
08.05 Children?s Programming
09.00 Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition
11.30 Supernanny
12.30 Zoo
13.00 Sea Rescue
13.30 Dog Rescue
14.35 Hoarders
15.35 Rules of Engagement
16.30 America?s Next Topmodel
21.00 Premonition FILM
Devastated upon receiving
the news that her husband
has been killed in a tragic
car accident, a woman
wakes up to find him still
very much alive... USA/1999.
22.40 Masturbation for Girls
23.40 Daddy Day Camp FILM
Directed by: Fred Savage.
Starring: Josh McLerran,
Lochlyn Munro. Hawkins. USA/2008.
This exciting Oscar-winning war
thriller is set during the invasion
of Normandy in the World War II.
Following the Allied invasion of
Normandy, two brothers lay dead
in the wake of the onslaught.
Meanwhile, in New Guinea, a third
brother has been killed fighting
the Japanese. Starring:
Sandra Bullock, Julian
McMahon. USA/2007.
12.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
14.55 Matlock
15.45 30 Rock
17.45 Knight Rider
18.45 Puppy Love FILM
Directed by: Harvey Frost.
Starring: Candace Cameron
Bure, Victor Webster, Katie
L. Starring: Reese
Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo,
Donald Logue. USA/2006.
01.15 Star Trek: The Next
Generation
02.10 MacGyver
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
11.30 Marbella Mansions
12.30 American Idol
15.30 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
20.00 Grand Designs
This series covers unusual
architectural house-building
projects presented by Kevin
McCloud.
23.00 Love Bites
28.1.
MTV3
NELONEN
The International
TV5 21.00
09.45 Heart of Dixie
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.10 Grand Designs
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
SERIES BEGINS. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 That ?70s Show
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 NCIS
21.00 The International (K16)
FILM
An Interpol agent attempts
to expose a high-profile
financial institution?s role
in an international arms
dealing ring. Directed
by: Mennan Yapo. 29 JANUARY 2014
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Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
sunday
MTV3
NELONEN
Premonition
Nelonen 21.00
08.00 Children?s Programming
14.20 Just Like Heaven FILM
A lonely landscape architect
falls for the spirit of
beautiful woman who used
to live in his new apartment.
Directed by: Mark
Waters. However, when
an unexpected opportunity
presents itself, he soon
finds himself becoming the
new associate at one of
Manhattan?s top corporate
law firms.
00.10 Alpine Skiing World Cup:
Schladming SPORT
In Finnish.
00.40 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)
23.00 Mom
23.30 Nikita (K16)
00.30 Bones
01.25 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
12.30 Flip This House
Flip This House focuses on
Real Estate investors who
take the most rundown
houses and over the course
of a few weeks transforms
them into gorgeous
profitable properties.
14.25 MasterChef Australia
15.30 Shark Tank USA
16.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
17.30 Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
18.30 MasterChef Australia
19.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA
22.30 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
23.00 Bizarre Crime
23.35 Speeders
00.05 World?s Weirdest Restaurants
00.35 Ax Men
01.30 Shark Tank USA
07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Travel with Kids
10.20 Sibling Rivalry
13.50 Sibling Rivalry
14.55 What Not to Wear
15.55 Supernanny
16.55 Frasier
17.55 Hoarders
21.00 Elementary
This series is based on Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle?s Sherlock
Holmes detective stories with
contemporary twists.
22.00 NCIS
23.00 Californication
23.35 Frasier
00.05 Elementary
01.05 NCIS
03.00 Dr. Starring:
Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom
Sizemore. After the Army
General Staff learns that a fourth
brother is missing in the French
countryside, a rescue mission is
ordered to find the young soldier
and bring him safely back home
to his grieving mother. Directed
by: Steven Spielberg. With Children
07.15 Bad Dog!
08.05 Matlock
12.20 Kitchen Boss
In this cooking program
Buddy Valastro cooks various
Italian-American dishes from
his family?s recipes.
12.50 DC Cupcakes
13.20 Bad Dog!
14.15 Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous is an
Award-winning sitcom set in
the world of fashion and PR.
14.50 Hale and Pace
15.20 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. Miami
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
Flipping Out
Masterchef USA
Undercover Boss USA
Lying Game
Pretty Little Liars
Project Runway
Mythbusters
Body of Lies (K16) FILM
Directed by: Ridley Scott.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Russell Crowe, Mark Strong.
USA/2008.
23.25 Grimm
00.25 Revolution (K16)
01.25 In Plain Sight
02.25 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
08.15
10.25
12.15
13.15
14.10
16.05
17.00
18.00
19.00
monday
26.1.
MasterChef Australia
Kitchen Nightmares USA
JIM D: Modern Marvels
Cooks to Market
Talent USA
Chrome Shines
Flip This House
Flip This House
Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
22.00 Air France Flight 447: Jet
Crash Over the Atlantic
Ocean DOC
An Air France Flight
447 jet crashed over the
Atlantic Ocean carrying
228 people aboard on June
1, 2009 on a flight from
Rio de Janeiro to Paris. During the course of
his dangerous mission, Ferris
gradually comes to question
how much he can trust his
presumed allies who include not
just Hoffman, but the outwardly
helpful head of Jordanian intelligence as well. Phil
TV5
06.15 Married. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 That ?70s Show
19.00 Deadliest Catch
This reality television series
portrays the real life highsea adventures of the
Alaskan crab fishermen.
20.00 Gold Rush: Alaska
21.00 Big Daddy FILM
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
Starring: Joey Lauren
Adams, Allan Covert, Josh
Mostel. Starring: Clive
Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin
Mueller-Stahl.
USA/Germany/UK/2009.
00.05 Big Daddy FILM
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
Starring: Joey Lauren
Adams, Allan Covert,
Josh Mostel.
USA/1999.
03.05 Star Trek: The Next
Generation
04.00 MacGyver
AVA
08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Undercover Boss UK
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.
11.30 All On The Line
13.30 Grand Designs
15.00 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
20.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
21.00 Top Chef Masters
23.00 Rizzoli & Isles
00.00 Hart of Dixie
Body of Lies
Saving Private Ryan
Body of Lies goes beyond
the conventional espionage
thriller. Directed by:
Tom Tykwer
Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. Phil
TV5
06.10 Married. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. Dial 112. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. 09 4711.
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Market halls. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. Single ticket
The Interpreter
The Interpreter is a political
thriller full of action. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. Or something else
entirely. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. 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). Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine
Keener. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
Fri 1/24
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Post Offices. With Children
06.40 Absolutely Fabulous
07.15 The Jeff Corwin Experience
08.05 Matlock
12.05 Kitchen Boss
12.35 Mall Cops: Mall of America
13.05 The Jeff Corwin
Experience
14.00 Absolutely Fabulous
14.35 Hale and Pace
15.05 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
17.00 Married. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent
medical treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital
(Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
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Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of what
to do) . Directed by: Sydney
Pollack. But when federal
agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn)
investigates her claim and digs
deeper into Silvia?s dangerous
past, the more suspicious he
becomes that Silvia herself
might be involved in the conspiracy. USA/UK/2005.
AVA 21.00
Wednesday 29.1.2014
Airport busses.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. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
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from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. Operator number 118. USA/2008.
23.15 Motive
00.10 Rollerball (K16) FILM
02.00 Twin Peaks
02.55 Star Trek: The Next
Generation
WEATHER
Banks and Bureaux de Change. 09 100 23.
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23.30 1600 Penn
00.00 I Hate My Teenage Daughter
Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. 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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08.00 Namaste
09.30 Doctors
10.30 Baby Borrowers on Holiday
11.30 Me, My Bump & I
12.30 Storage Hoarders
13.30 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
14.30 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.30 Doctors
17.25 Eastenders
18.00 Friends
19.00 The Rachel Zoe Project
20.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
21.00 The Interpreter (K16) FILM
Directed by: Sydney Pollack.
Starring: Nicole Kidman,
Sean Penn, Catherine
Keener. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. With Children
17.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
18.00 That ?70s Show
19.00 Deadliest Catch
20.00 NCIS
21.00 21 FILM
This film is the fact-based
story about six MIT students
who were trained to become
experts in card counting
and subsequently took
Vegas casinos for millions in
winnings.
Directed by: Robert Luketic.
Starring: Kate Bosworth,
Kevin Spacey. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. 09 3101 3300. 26
TV GUIDE
23 . See www.forex.fi for more
information.
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Grocery stores. With every step of the
way, he finds more reasons to
mistrust her. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. Is Sylvia a victim?
A suspect. Public phones
are scarce. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. (K16)
22.40 Major Crimes (K16)
23.40 Fringe
SUB
09.25 Eastenders
13.55 Mythbusters
14.55 Flipping Out
15.55 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.25 Eastenders
18.00 How I Met Your Mother
19.30 Raising Hope
20.00 The Simpsons
20.30 Two and a Half Men
21.00 Project Runway
Heidi Klum hosts a reality
series where aspiring
fashion designers compete
for a chance to break into
the industry.
22.00 Vikings (K16)
23.00 Raising Hope
Raising Hope revolves
around Jimmy Chance who
has not made the best
decisions in life but is trying
his best to raise his daughter
with the help of his family.
23.30 The Vampire Diaries
00.30 Bones
01.25 48 Hour Mystery
JIM
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Dinner: Impossible
Cooks to Market
MasterChef Australia
Shark Tank USA
Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay?s F Word
MasterChef Australia
Kitchen Nightmares USA
Legendary Chef Gordon
Ramsay is invited by the
owners to spend a week with
a failing restaurant in an
attempt to revive the business.
21.00 Rude Tube
23.30 Gene Simmons Family Jewels
00.30 Meet the Parents (K16)
01.00 Ax Men
01.55 Shark Tank USA
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07.00 Children?s Programming
09.15 Travel with Kids
10.20 Sibling Rivalry
13.50 Sibling Rivalry
14.55 What Not to Wear
15.55 Supernanny
16.55 Frasier
17.55 Hoarders
21.00 Under the Dome
When the townspeople
realize that their food and
water are running out, they
begin looting Chester?s
Mill for whatever remaining
supplies that they can find.
23.00 Dexter (K16)
00.05 Frasier
00.35 NCIS
01.35 Dr. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietalahti Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. In one of
the hidden corridors of power
at United Nations headquarters, translator Silvia Broome
(Nicole Kidman) overhears a
potentially explosive secret
about a planned assassination
attempt. 29 JANUARY 2014
wednesday
tuesday 31.12.29.1.
MTV3
09.45 Heart of Dixie
10.40 Emmerdale
11.40 Doctors
14.05 Undercover Boss UK
15.15 The New Normal
The New Normal revolves
around a blended family of a
gay couple Bryan and David
and single mother Goldie an
aspiring Lawyer, who after
running away to L.A with her
daughter Shania, agrees to
become their surrogate.
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 C.S.I. On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
sudoku
5.5
million hours
of teaching were given
in adult education
not leading to
a qualification
in Finland in 2012.
Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. 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. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. For more information, see www.hsl.fi.
Tourist Information.Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau
(Pohjoisesplanadi 19, Aleksanterinkatu 20) is open Mon-Fri 9-20
and Sat-Sun 9-18 between 15 May and 14 September; at other times
of the year, Mon-Fri 9-18 and Sat-Sun 10-16, tel. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
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Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily
unlike
most Americans, my siblings
and I can comfortably enjoy
silence, and know the proper way to enjoy sauna is with
löyly, contrasting with the
majority of US gym saunas,
where throwing water on the
rocks is usually forbidden.
My hometown in Orange
County, California, is a concrete, compact place where
every tree and ?ower has
been planted and pruned by
meticulous human hands.
Over three million people
are packed into just 2,400
square kilometers. In California, we joked that we only
have two seasons: summer,
and diet summer. Other aspects of
Finnish culture went into the
way we were raised . By contrast, Helsinki?s clean air,
low population density and
nature are refreshing to me.
Here in Finland I can easily
seek solace in nature, something I always felt was missing when living in California.
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EXPAT VIEW
A first generation American, Catharina Satola is a born and raised Californian
connecting with her Finnish heritage.
Third culture kids get the best of both worlds
WHEN I moved to Finland in
2012 with my boyfriend, I experienced culture shock mixed
with the feeling you get when
you come home after a long
absence, despite the fact that I
had only been to Finland a couple of times before in my life.
Both of my parents grew
up in Finland, and it was important to them to involve my
brothers and me in Finnish
culture since we were small
children, participating every
year in festivals and events
for Finnish people living in
America. the ?rst
time I rode a train and a bus
was here in Finland. Where
I grew up, everyone drives,
regardless of the distance.
Public transport is not an
option for most folks in Orange County, and it?s usually far too hot to trudge up
and down the steep hillsides.
While I do love the ease of use
of public transport here in
Finland, I do also miss driving my car up the Grapevine.
In America, I stood out
from others due to the Finnish characteristics inherited from my parents. For some-
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
one like me who enjoys the
sensation of warm concrete
on bare feet, Finland?s chilly
weather leaves me lacking;
however, my ?rst real winter
was a great delight . 29 JANUARY 2014
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23 . though
I screamed the whole way
down the hillside, I must admit that sledding is great fun.
One of the things that
wowed me when I came to
Finland was how light the
traf?c is here. Being between cultures is a blessing, because
it allows you to experience
both, and grants a unique
perspective as both outside
observer and inside participant in each culture.
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Grab a copy from your
nearest pick-up point!. What Finns
consider bad seems more
like a very good day of traf?c
back in Southern California.
I think this is in part due to
Finland?s great public transportation system . Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. Here in
Finland I am ?nding out just
how American I really am,
and discovering qualities I
learned from the culture of
Orange County and from my
peers