I doubt they are that stupid to
send an expert to the front-lines to
fight with weapons.?
Tomi Tuominen, a principal security consultant at nSense, reminds
us that in fact all the militant group
needs to carry out an online attack
is some expertise and money. H T
thE ISlamIc State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) is training its volunteer fighters to carry out online attacks, believes the chief research officer at
F-Secure, Mikko Hyppönen, who
has studied the online behaviour of
terrorists since 2012.
Hyppönen reveals that he has
come across instructions on how
to use the penetration tool Metasploit on JustPaste.it, a popular data sharing platform among Islamic
extremists.
In the United Kingdom, Hyppönen points out, Junaid Hussain
has travelled to Syria after serving
his six-month prison sentence for
hacking into the e-mail account of
ex-premier Tony Blair.
?He used to go by the hacker alias Trick,. says Hyppönen. ?In that
light, the decline has been moderate. ?The themes will
be totally different after the turn of
the year,. ?There
is talk about a phenomenon called
crime as a service . ?ISIS is
skilled in social media and recruiting. It
is now possible to purchase an online
attack from a third party,. H T
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43 per cent of Finns
favour a change.
J U h a Ro P P o l a . ISSUE 43 (377) . The policies of the Government, however, have not leaned
particularly to the right,. he gauges.
In general, people in the higher income brackets are more inclined to
have confidence in the capacity of the
Government than people in the lower
income brackets. The urban population, similarly, is more supportive of
the measures introduced by the Government than the rural population.
First and foremost, however, the
highly-educated have retained their
confidence in the Stubb Government.
Yet, the researchers estimate that
the SDP. that is, selling
cyber-offences as service packs. estimates
Markku Jokisipilä, the director of
the Centre for Parliamentary Studies at the University of Turku.
The Stubb Government began its
term in office in June when Katainen took over as the representative of
Finland in the European Commission.
In particular, it has struggled to implement structural reforms.
?Major questions have been on
the agenda. Nothing remarkable or
permanent has yet been achieved,?
Jokisipilä points out, adding that
the attempts have hardly seemed
convincing.
In addition, he estimates that the
prolonged debate over nuclear power permits may have gnawed away
at the confidence of many voters.
not a disaster
Regardless, the poll results should
not be interpreted as a disaster for
the Government under the current circumstances, insists Kimmo
Grönlund, a professor of political
science at Åbo Akademi University.
?A relatively large proportion voiced their confidence,. ?This is the last opportunity to achieve something concrete,. H S
a l E k S I t E I va I n E n . he says.
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Road tolls & green energy
Tolls being considered for Helsinki's roads. he says, referring to the
parliamentary elections looming in
roughly six months. he adds.
Indeed, 87 per cent of voters of
the National Coalition and 64 per
cent of those of the Social Democrats indicated their support for the
Government in the poll.
?On the outside, the National Coalition carried out its leadership change more elegantly than
Grönlund also calls attention to
the fact that the balance of power in the Parliament has changed,
with the Left Alliance and the Green
League now strengthening the
ranks of the opposition. time.
In fact, parties are already focused on fine-tuning their campaign strategies. ?3 . You can
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thE aPPRoval rating of the Government has dipped moderately
from last spring.
A survey commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat finds that 45 per cent
of Finns would be prepared to give a
vote of confidence to the Government
of Prime Minister Alexander Stubb
(NCP) in a hypothetical election.
Meanwhile, 43 per cent of Finns
would prefer the Government out of
office.
?The results are not a surprise if
you take into consideration the debate over the capacity of the Government of [Jyrki] Katainen (NCP)
and more recently the capacity of
the Stubb Government,. he
highlights.
British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) shakes hands with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb as he arrives for a
meeting at Downing Street, central London, on 8 October.
the measures introduced by the Government have not been particularly
favourable to households in the higher income brackets.
?Educated people are more committed to the political system and
usually have more confidence in it,?
Grönlund explains.
?The parties that form the core
of the Government are more urbanoriented than the large opposition
parties, the Centre and the Finns
Party,. Jokisipilä gauges.
Suggestions that the Stubb
Government is merely a caretaker government are not entirely unfounded, according to
Jokisipilä. analyses
Grönlund.
?[Antti] Rinne (SDP) definitely
has some work to do on unity,. Use mind tricks to help
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Mikko Hyppönen, the chief research officer at F-Secure.. HS
a l E k S I t E I va I n E n
Urquhart himself
had plenty of detractors and
opponents back home, particularly those who wanted
Britain to be less openly antagonistic toward Russia. for
example, the warring Druze
and Maronites in the Levant,
or feuding Greek Orthodox
and Armenians. an almost unthinkable
prospect for Britain and other
European powers.
aNd SO, among diplomats
and in the press, a Russophobic narrative began to
emerge. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. he wrote, ?the pop-
ulation would bathe regularly,
have a better?dressed dinner
for [its] money, and prefer water to wine or brandy, gin or
beer.. Without ruthless strongmen aligned with
the West, we?re told, the Muslim world would descend into a chaotic bloodbath where
terrorist
organisations
would gain sway.
lesson is not
meant to denigrate the Russians and praise the Ottomans,
an empire that was guilty of
many of its own misdeeds and
slaughters. Russia represented, in some accounts, a backward, superstitious society
where peasants still laboured
in semi-slavery and monarchs
ruled as tyrants, unchallenged
by parliaments and liberal sentiment. In a passage
cited by the historian Orlando Figes in his excellent history of the Crimean War,
Urquhart credits Islam under the Ottomans as a specifically ?tolerant, moderating
force?:
WHaT traveller has not observed the fanaticism, the antipathy of all these [Christian]
sects . That?s
no less true now than it was
almost two centuries ago.
BuT IT. He would later launch
a largely unsuccessful movement to bring the culture
of Turkish baths to the cold
damp of Victorian Britain.
CaSTINg his eye to the territories the Ottomans controlled, Urquhart praised the
empire?s rule over a host of
Christian communities . It was ideological, a
clash of civilisations. Islamism,
calm, absorbed, without spirit of dogma, or views of proselytism, imposes at present on
the other creeds the reserve
and silence which characterise itself. pamphlet, circulated in Britain in 1836, saw the
Ottomans as ?the only bul-
BaRON
the time, including a certain
Karl Marx. Zakaria asks Maher,
Harris and their supporters,
?is to tell 1.6 billion Muslims,
most of whom are pious and
devout, that their religion is
evil and they should stop taking it seriously??
WRITINg
THE BaCKdROP to this conversation is the US-led war effort
against the extremist militants of the Islamic State, as
well as the continued threat
of terrorist groups elsewhere
that subscribe to certain puritanical forms of Islam. And Urquhart?s
time spent among the tribes
of the northern Caucasus set
the stage for decades of romantic European idealising
of the rugged Muslim fighters in Russia?s shadow.
uRquHaRT returned from
his travels in Turkey and elsewhere convinced that the Ottoman lifestyle was better for
one?s health. His writings on the
threat of Russia shaped the
opinions of many in Britain at
The tiresome debate over whether Islam is
somehow more violent than other religions
unfortunately won?t go away.
proselytising of Catholics in
Poland infuriated European Catholic nations further
west, such as France.
Ponsonby, the British ambassador to Istanbul
for much of the 1830s, decided the job of thwarting Russian expansionism was a
?Holy Cause.. But many argue
it has little to do with Islam,
writ large.
IN aNy case, Islam and those
who practice it were not always perceived to be such
a cultural threat. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. was
growing increasingly concerned about the expanding
might of Russia. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). Just a few
decades ago, the US and its
allies in the West had no
qualms about abetting Islamist militants in their battles
with the Soviets in Afghanistan. appears to restore harmony, by despotism.
FLaSH forward to 2014, and
the conversation has curiously flipped: Pundits bluster
about the centuries-old war
between Sunnis and Shiites.
Christians are a persecuted, beleaguered people in the
Middle East. But let this moderator be removed, and the
humble professions now confined to the sanctuary would
be proclaimed in the court
and the military camp; political power and political enmity
would combine with religious
domination and religious animosity; the empire would be
deluged in blood, until a nervous arm . Jerusalem in the 19th
Century was still the site of
acrimonious street battles
among Christian sects, policed by the exasperated Ottomans. 2
VIEWPOINT
23 . An influential group of officials in
Britain . An article in
the ?British and Foreign Review. Russian Orthodox
THaT
wark of Europe against Muscovy, of civilisation against
barbarism.. . Their
streak of fundamentalism is,
for the West, the bogeyman of
the moment. then the most powerful empire in the West, with
a professed belief in liberal
values and free trade . The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. The potential
Russian capture of Istanbul,
capital of the weakening Ottoman Empire, would mean
Russia?s navy would have free
access to the Mediterranean
Sea . Recent spats between outspoken commentator Reza Aslan, TV host Bill
Maher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris . the arm of Russia
. After
all, beginning with the Catherine the Great in the late
18th century, the Russians
had framed their own conquests in religious terms: to
reclaim Istanbul, once the
centre of Orthodox Christianity, and, as one of her favourite court poets put it,
?advance through a Crusade?
to the Holy Lands and ?purify
the river Jordan.?
sort of Christian zeal
won little sympathy among
other non-Orthodox Christians. ?If London were
[Muslim],. (Russia,
the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France eventually engaged in the largely pointless
and very bloody Crimean War
in the 1850s.)
THIS HISTORy
goes to show how
much the politics of an era
shape its conversation about
cultures and peoples. From Central Asia to the Black Sea, Russia?s newly won domains were
casting a shadow over British
colonial interests in India and
the Middle East. their hostility to each
other. Look even further, and
there was a time when a vocal constituency in the West
saw the community of Islam
as a direct, ideological counter to a mutual enemy.
TuRN back to the 1830s. who said on
Maher?s show that Islam was
?the mother lode of bad ideas. The Ottomans,
who were embarking on their
own process of reform, looked
favourable in comparison.
daVId uRquHaRT, an enterprising agent who served a
spell with Ponsonby in Istanbul, became one of the most
energetic champions of the
Ottoman cause and Islamic culture in British policy
circles. He was previously a
senior editor at TIMe, based first in Hong Kong and later in new York.
When the West wanted Islam
to curb Christian extremism
T He W A s HIn g T o n P o s T
debate over
whether Islam is somehow
more violent than other religions unfortunately won?t
go away. have launched a thousand blog posts and vitriolic
tweets.
THE TIRESOME
recently in The
Washington Post?s opinion
pages, Fareed Zakaria acknowledged the existence of
an unpleasant level of intolerance in some Muslim?majority countries, but stressed
such societal ills can?t be laid
at the feet of a whole religion.
?So, the strategy to reform
Islam,. own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
Ishaan Tharoor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Who has traced their
actual repose to the toleration of Islamism
This will of course
also have a knock-on effect
on the amount of traffic on
the roads.
?That amount of traffic
won?t be unsustainable but
will present some challenges.?
Tunnelling for change,
Rautava wants to tie the
proposed road tolls to some
traffic projects that are particularly important to the
Helsinki region, including
the new tunnel to be built under the city centre.
?The proposed road
charges could cover some of
the costs of the new tunnel.?
Rautava argues that the
proposed road toll should be
part of a national system,
with the state making a clear
commitment to a road toll
system.
Risto Rautava, chairman of HSL.
finns are ready to pay
1-5 per cent extra for
green energy, poll finds
H E IK K I a RO L a . h s
a L E K S I T E I va INE N . ?The preparedness of Sweden has
been good and information
exchange smooth,. h s
N IIN a W O O L L E y . The funds accumulated through road charges should also benefit the
region.?
Rautava is still against
any congestion fees or other
charges that are solely targeted at the Helsinki region.
HSL?s board will discuss the
proposal on Tuesday.
so be willing to pay extra for
sustainability.
Over 1,000 18-70-year-old
Finns from the area covered
by the natural gas network of
Gasum responded to the poll.
In addition to sustainability, the majority of respondents identified the domestic
or local origin of energy as
an important factor in the
production of goods and services. h t
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JulkaisiJa Helsingin kaupunki Publicerad av Helsingfors stad Published by tHe City of Helsinki
OvER 70 per cent of residents
of Southern Finland would be
willing to pay moderately more
for goods and services produced with renewable energy,
indicates a poll commissioned
by Gasum, a Finnish importer
and seller of natural gas.
The results suggest that
85 per cent of the residents
consider sustainable production methods important and
that 73 per cent would al-
?The overall costs of private motoring mustn?t go up
anymore and these proposed
tolls shouldn?t be charges
that only concern the capital
region. h t
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l e h t i k u va / m i k ko s t i g
Stubb and
Löfven:
Russian
activity
in Baltic
Sea has
increased
23 . Helsingin Sanomat reported the
proposal for road tolls on 18
October.
The change in Rautava?s views on road tolls was
brought on by recent predictions on the growth of traffic
volumes in the region.
?I still firmly believe
that cars belong to a city but
growth in traffic volume will
inevitably bring environmental problems with it and
slow down traffic, increasing
travel times.?
According to estimates by
the Helsinki City Planning
Department, the population
of the capital region will increase by 250,000 residents
by 2050. 29 OCTOBER 2014
Over 70 per cent of the population of Southern Finland would
be willing to pay extra for
goods and services produced
with sustainable energy, a poll
commissioned by Gasum finds.
mated that a price hike of 1-5
per cent would be acceptable.
Respondents aged 56-70
years were the least prepared
to pay extra for renewable energy, despite the fact that they
also considered sustainability
more important than younger respondents, the poll finds.. DOMESTIC
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STEfaN LöfvEN, the newlyappointed Prime Minister of
Sweden, faced a barrage of
questions during his first official visit abroad as members of the press enquired
into the mysterious naval operation under-way outside
Stockholm, which in Sweden
vesa moil anen / vesa moil anen
is already widely referred to
as a submarine hunt.
?First of all, it?s not a submarine hunt but an intelligence operation,. Meanwhile, the respondents who indicated
their willingness to pay extra
for renewable energy esti-
l e h t i k u va
T E p p O M O I S IO . h s
a L E K S I T E I va IN E N . Löfven
underscored to a Swedish
journalist.
?The Armed Forces are
looking into whether or not
it?s a submarine. h t
of the board
of directors of Helsinki Region Transport (HSL), Risto Rautava, (National Coal.
Party) is prepared to consider the implementation
of road tolls on the condi-
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the Stockholm archipelago on 20 October.
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tion that the funds raised
through road charges are put
towards funding traffic-related projects.
Rautava has become
known as an ardent advocate
for private motoring in the
Helsinki City council. he commented. Both premiers also
admitted that the activity of
Russia in the Baltic Sea has
increased.
Traffic on the Itäväylä motorway in mid-September.
Helsinki Region Transport boss
is prepared to consider road
tolls in the Capital Region
K a I Su M O IL a NE N . For the present, we don?t know exactly
what it is.?
Löfven was in Helsinki on
Monday to discuss energy
policy, the European Union
and the economic situation
with his Finnish counterpart
Alexander Stubb (NCP).
The
discussion
also
broached on the naval operation and bilateral defence
co-operation in general, according to Stubb
Sounds of squeaks and
leaves rustling waft through
the air as rats fight over food.
All parts of Helsinki have
sizeable rat colonies, with
the city?s rat population estimated to be around 100,000.
The rodent is the undeniable king of the capital?s wild
fauna.
?But it could as well be
around half a million. H T
of first-time
homebuyers has decreased
steeply over the past ten
years, indicates data re-
THE NuMBER
leased by Statistics Finland
on 16 October. is a term coined to describe Swiss fiscal policy
adopted in 2003. The aim of the debt brake is to control government spending. 4
DOMESTIC
23 . You didn?t dare to sit
down anywhere. Laine says, pointing to
the other side of the metro
station.
Fatima Jeilani, who walks
through the park daily,
agrees with Laine.
?I see rats here every
time. Between 2012
and 2013 alone, the number of first-time homebuyers
declined from over 26,000
to 20,718. With as many as
34,159 Finns buying their
first home in 2006, the number of first-time home buyers has decreased by almost
40 per cent in less than ten
years.
The statistics only incorporate the first-time buyers
M a I J a a a LT O . Occasionally
a rat may take a wrong turn
somewhere and scamper up a
local resident?s toilet.
For a number of decades,
there have been no reports
of rats passing a serious disease to people. 39.0%
No . It seems that there
are staggering numbers of
rats everywhere.?
Silventoinen is responsible for the eastern districts
of Helsinki, where Itäkeskus
is not the only area overrun
by rats.
Sightings of rats have also
been reported in Kontula and
Vartiokylä.
?The most surprising
thing is that there is no apparent reason for the sudden
population explosion,. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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HS / JuHANI NIIr ANeN
Rats plague Helsinki streets
A large rat leisurely eats a baguette at Tallinanauki Square in Itäkeskus. says Professor
Henttonen, adding that for
a rat, a journey up to a toilet is not much of a feat as
these rodents are known to
be good swimmers.
Helsinki has launched
warfare against the growing
rat population in Itäkeskus
but exterminating the rodents is no mean feat, as they
are cautious animals who do
not eat any foodstuff in large
enough quantities for poison
to be lethal. H T
THE CITY rat is a pest that
does not belong to Helsinki,
says Susanna Paavilainen,
the chair of the Helsinki Society for Animal Protection
(HESY).
HESY has not taken an official stance on the rat problem plaguing Helsinki but
Paavilainen agreed to comment on the situation.
?It?s a positive thing that
rat poisons are so advanced
these days. It?s gross.?
Usually, rats only appear
from their holes and drains
when something, for example
road works, disturbs them.
But in Tallinanaukio in
Itäkeskus there is no major work underway, which
makes it likely that the reason behind the sudden appearance of rats in large
numbers is either population
growth or a search for food,
animal
protection
society: Rats
do not belong
in Helsinki
Between 2012 and 2013 alone, the number of first-time homebuyers declined from over 26,000 to 20,718.. And all the while, rats are
having a feast in the shrubbery. explains Silventoinen.
And these city rodents
have no fear of humans,
scurrying under bright street
lights to lap up the last dregs
of spilled cider.
Henna Laine, who lives locally, first noticed the rodent
invasion last summer.
?There were dozens of
them. Its cap
can be calculated on a mathematical curve.
A debt brake limits government spending when the economy is doing well, but also allows for spending to increase
when tax revenues are lower, and as such operates on a
Keynesian agenda.
Kataja?s reasoning is that the current measures the government has taken to improve the economy, including lifting debt,
won?t improve the structural problems that Finland?s economy
faces.
The issue arose in response to Finland?s recent credit rating
downgrade by Standard & Poor.
ground and scamper back
to the safety of the undergrowth. 61.0%
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Who:
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From:
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Famous for:
Member of NCP, Chairperson
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Subcommittee
Chairperson of the Parliament?s tax subcommittee, Sampsa
Kataja has recently been in the headlines for advocating a ?debt
brake?, similar to the fiscal policy used in Switzerland.
A ?debt brake. It functions as a spending cap in that growth in
government spending cannot increase above the rate of average revenue increases over a number of years. explains
Raimo Pakarinen, an environmental inspector at the
Helsinki City Environment
Centre.
Summer recognition
The scale of the rat invasion in Tallinanaukio Square
says Professor Heikki Henttonen from the Finnish Forest Research Institute.
anything but picky
Under the shrubbery, a pile of
cucumbers and other foodstuffs still in their plastic
wrappers can be seen.
?If food wrappers have
not been torn open it?s unlikely that rats are short of
food as they can get into
pretty much any packaging,?
says Pakarinen.
Rats spend most of their
lives in the drain system and
in the undergrowth of park
areas. And there
are more of them on the
side,. The shrubs
in Tallinnanaukio Square
in Itäkeskus, Helsinki, are
THEY aRE
teeming with large numbers
of rats. Known to be anything
but picky when it comes to
food, rats are happy to partake in crumbs meant for
birds and anything washed
down the drains.
Every little scrap of leftover porridge flushed down
the toilet provides rats with
a meal.
The size of the rat population has not been monitored
as they are usually considered harmless. Occasionally, the young males of
the colony may be forced to
seek a new territory else-
Number of first-time
homebuyers on the slide
Ju H a NI S a a R IN E N . H T
everywhere: rats.
Scampering nimbly between
my legs without any fear, the
largest are the size of a packet of margarine. Death from internal bleeding is usually fast,?
explains Paavilainen.
She stresses that the rat
population numbers apply to
the city's huge wild rat problem, and not to rats that are
kept as pets.
where, explains Henttonen.
The rats that appear in toilets are usually individuals that have been forced to
leave their pack.
?Those rats have probably got lost,. A young woman sees
the rats chasing each other
and screams.
The metro rumbles under
my feet and yet another bus
pulls up to a stop right next to
me. No
one really knows,. H S
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Population estimated to be around 100,000.
came to the notice of authorities last summer.
Efforts to curb the proliferation of the city?s rat population were launched in
August but to no avail, according to Tarja Silventoinen, a supervisor at Stara, an
environmental management
service provider for Helsinki.
?There are just too many
of them. On an ordinary evening, the rodents are not content to scurry around the
bushes, but also venture out
on the streets.
One approaches from the
left, another one from the
right. The main
reason why rats should be
given a wide berth is that
they spend most of their time
in the drain system and are
likely to be dirty, according
to Jukka Kiesi, a health inspector at the Helsinki?s Environment Centre.
Rats live in colonies with a
strict social hierarchy: older
males make sure that young
male rats do not get within a
sniffing distance of females
or food.
Rats that are not part of
the pack are violently chased
away, or even killed. As such, government spending is dependant on the economic climate. H S
NIIN a W O O L L E Y . In a swift move, they
grab a grain of rice off the
Question of the week
Prime Minister Stubb has suggested that ?iPhone killed
Nokia and the iPad killed the Finnish paper industry?.
Do you agree?
Yes . The animal is about the size
of two fists.
K a I Su M O IL a NE N . That is why blood
thinners are used to control
the population.
In large enough quantities, the substance stops the
rat?s blood from clotting, in
the end causing the animal to
die from bleeding.
of condominiums, not those
of detached houses.
In addition, the date shows
that the average age of firsttime home buyers has remained relatively unchanged,
at 28, between 2006 and 2013.
Condominium prices have
crept up by nearly 33 per
cent in the capital region and
by roughly 15 per cent elsewhere in Finland over the
same period.
Real estate market
is slowing down. H S
NIIN a W OO L L E Y
Her
killing is being investigated
as murder due to its brutal
and ruthless nature.
Rautaheimo also revealed
that the suspect did not re-
sist the arrest. In addition to accessing and disclosing the information, she sent a message
to the two officers responsible for the pre-trial investigation in defence of the man,
despite her not being officially
involved in the investigation.
By doing so, Kiukkonen
endangered the efficiency,
impartiality and purposefulness of the pre-trial investigation, the district court ruled.
She later accessed the database to look up two traffic violation reports filed
against the ex-girlfriend of
her ex-boyfriend in what she
has revealed to be an attempt
to discover the phone number of the woman.
As a result, the District
Court of Helsinki found Kiukkonen, a star of the reality television show Poliisit,
guilty of two counts of data
protection offence and two
counts of violation of official
duty, and gave her a 2,400
euro fine.
Kiukkonen
has
declared her intention to appeal against the verdict. The
reason for her visit is believed
to have been personal.
Court retires to
consider verdict in
ulvila murder mystery
Evidence presented by the prosecution proves
neither the involvement of the defendant or
the absence of third party involvement in the
nearly one-decade old murder case.
L a SSE K E RK E L ä . ?There was no
drama. Altogether,
Aarnio is suspected of 28 offences, including aggravated
drug offences, and has been detained on suspicion of seven.
L E h T I K U VA / K I m m o m ä n T y L ä
L a SSE KERKEL ä . he explains.
Investigators will next
look into the motive and further details of the act.
The body of the victim
was discovered near an old
oil harbour on 12 October, but
her identity remained a mystery until the police released
a photo of her on 13 October,
because she was in possession of no identifying documents or other items.
Investigators
wrap up inquiry
into aarnio
He has denied all criminal
accusations throughout the
pre-trial investigation.
The majority of the charges against him are related to
the some 800 kilos of hashish smuggled into Finland in
2011-2012, in what is known
as the barrel case. h s
INVESTIGaTORS have submitted a case file of some 25,000
pages pertaining to a long
list of offences linked to Jari
Aarnio, a former chief of Hel-
sinki Police Department?s drug
squad, to the Office of the Prosecutor General for consideration of charges. The events that
led to the death of the woman, born in 1956, are believed
to have started by the apartment building complex the
woman and suspect both
lived in, late on 11 October.
Juha Rautaheimo, the officer in charge of the inves-
tigation, underlined on 17
October that it remains premature to comment on how
well the victim and the suspect knew each other.
The nearly 60-year-old
victim was driven from the
apartment building to the
seashore where she was subjected to more abuse, according to Rautaheimo. she stated.
The Helsinki Police Department is set to hear the senior constable regarding the
wrongdoings, in order to determine whether her official
position should be re-considered in light of the conviction.
In addition to the said incidents, Kiukkonen is suspected
of violating her official duties
by showing up at Helsinki Prison unannounced in full police
uniform, demanding that she
be let in to meet a prisoner. Aarnio,
however, is believed to have
continued his involvement
in the smuggling operations
until 2013, reveals Jukka
Haavisto, the prosecutor in
charge of the investigation.
The pre-trial investigation into the barrel case was
conducted in collaboration
with the drug squad and the
National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) . ?The tensions between KRP and Helsinki police did boil down to Aarnio.
They arose from the attempts by Aarnio to divert
attention away from himself,. In
addition, he reminded the
court that Auer suffered
from sleep deprivation and
was subjected to suggestive
aNNELI auER
interrogation methods when
in 2009 she said that she may
have killed her husband.
The defence instead called
attention to a number of unanswered and disregarded questions in the murder
mystery, such as the threats
made against Lahti and the
car sighted near the family?s
home on the night in question.
The Vaasa Court of Appeal
concluded the final hearing,
somewhat surprisingly, by
asking the defendant if she
wanted to make a statement.
In her brief statement from
Turku Prison, Auer viewed
that the emergency call recording clearly indicates that
she wanted someone to arrive
at the scene as soon as possible. hs
a MaN has been remanded in
custody on suspicion of killing a middle-aged woman in
The former drug enforcement chief is suspected of a total of 28 offences, including
aggravated drug offences.
SuS a NN a R E IN B O T H . he explains.
In order to do so, Aarnio is
believed to have attempted
to frame an innocent person
for drug offences, causing
the man in question to be arrested and subjected to other unwarranted coercive
measures.
Aarnio is also suspected of accepting bribes from
Trevoc, a manufacturer of
surveillance equipment, as
well as leaking sensitive information about police databases, informants and
undercover operations to
members of the media and
other third parties.
In addition to Aarnio, 22
people have been implicated
in the pre-trial investigation,
including five subordinates
of Aarnio and one employee
of the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo).
The under 30-yearold suspect has
confessed to the
killing in preliminary
interrogations.
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5
cOmpiLed by aLeksi Teivainen
L E h T I K U VA / s E p p o s A m U L I
Celebrity officer
to appeal fine
marianne Kiukkonen, a star of the reality
show poliisit, was handed a 2,400 euro fine
on 16 october for accessing a police database twice without a reason compatible with
her official duties.
SENIOR constable Marianne
Kiukkonen was given a fine
by the District Court of Helsinki on 16 October for accessing a police database
without a reason compatible with her official duties on
two separate occasions.
Kiukkonen first accessed
the database wrongfully in
June 2012 at the request of a
friend of her now ex-boyfriend
to determine whether a criminal complaint had been filed
against him. she viewed.
The Vaasa Court of Appeal
said it will deliver its verdict
in the perpetuating murder
trial ?as soon as possible?.
The body of a roughly 60-year-old woman was found near an old oil harbour in Laajasalo, Helsinki, on 12 October.
Man remanded in custody for murder
of middle-aged woman in Laajasalo
Laajasalo, Helsinki, in the
wee hours of 12 October.
The suspect was brought
into custody on 16 October
and has confessed to killing
the woman and dumping her
in the sea in preliminary interrogations. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . under strained
circumstances, according to
Haavisto. hs
Jukka Haavisto (right), the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, and his colleague mikko männikkö at the district court of
Helsinki in late July.. hs
pleaded, in her
closing statement before the
Vaasa Court of Appeal on 14
October, that the evidence
presented by the prosecution
proves neither her involvement or the absence of third
party involvement in the murder of her husband, Jukka S.
Lahti, in December 2006.
Her defence counsel, Juha
Manner, insisted for example that the recording of the
emergency call Auer placed
on the night of the homicide
does not rule out third party
involvement.
Manner also argued that
it would have been impossible for Auer to set up the
crime scene and dispose
of the murder weapon and
bloodstained clothes as alleged by the prosecution. ?I
will fight for justice until the
end,. The man was taken into custody close to his apartment,. ?If the police had arrived
in a couple of minutes, Jukka
would have been saved and
the offender would have been
caught,
now is the moment to switch
gear. 6
fROM fINNISH PRESS
23 . 29 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
compiLed by mAri sTorpeLLinen
SAVON SANOMAT 19 October. A recent study found that
those reading newspapers are
more likely to vote. The Government?s Ebola crisis team
supports her work.
Finland?s financial contribution to fighting Ebola will
also be raised significantly.
Finland is preparing support
in the form of 7,1 million euros for the UN?s international Ebola fund, announced
in a briefing by the Foreign
Office.
L E H T I K U VA / K I M M o M ä N T y L ä
BuSINESSES are clearly picking up on the signals and tak-
ing a proactive approach. Finland can make use of this opportunity and become a pioneer. As such, comprehensive care is essential in preventing further attempts.
According to Partonen,
care is currently something
?where there?s lots of room
for improvement?.
KALEVA 17 October
Tuomioja appoints
advocate in work against Ebola
has strengthened
its participation in the fight
against Ebola. Thus the means for preventing them are largely the
same.
A key reason for the difference may lie in post suicide
attempt care, says Timo Partonen from National Institute for Health and Welfare.
It is known that attempted
suicide puts the individual at
risk for another attempt: approximately half of those attempting suicide have tried it
before. One of its main goals is to provide testing and
identify areas in the Helsinki capital region where cleantech inventions can be presented to companies.
MTV 16 October
ETELÄ-SUOMEN SANOMAT 18 October. However, consequences
of such actions have not been
reported. He has already reportedly proposed the VAT
reduction to other parties at
the Government?s meeting to
finalise the budget.
?I did not get a positive
response. Kangaskorpi finds the trend worrying
and fears that subscribing to
a paper will be reserved only
for the wealthy in the future.
?Traditionally, Finns read a
lot. Reading
papers and magazines also
correlates with children?s success at school, which means
that we are talking about
something more meaningful
than an economic gain for the
papers.?
THE TIMINg was spot on . Putting a price on carbon
. One related consequence would be an increase
in abortions. We can utilise our biomass resources
and expertise, our know-how on environmental technologies and ICT. would give the essential
signal for companies, municipalities and other key stakeholders to invest in climate solutions worldwide. We still
have a window of opportunity to change our course and
prevent dangerous consequences, by keeping the global
temperature from rising by more than 2° C.
Suicide rates among women are not Repetitive
in line with their decline among men abortions
IT IS CLEaR that we need an ambitious and strong glob-
SuICIdE
attempts among
Finnish men are in decline,
whereas the number has remained constant for decades
among Finnish women.
For twenty years, a national preventative program
has monitored suicide. Last year, more
than every third abortion
was performed on women already familiar with the procedure. In the New York Climate Summit, more than 1000 businesses and investors signalled
their support for pricing carbon. This is a new
business initiative to encourage Finland to take stronger action on climate change and to promote sustainable
business in order to answer global environmental challenges. The Minister
for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja (SD) has named Tiina
Jortikka-Laitinen, Councilor
of Foreign Affairs, his special
fINLaNd
advocate for work against
Ebola. This act aims at putting into law a mitigation
target of reducing emissions by at least 80% by 2050.
suicide rates. In June, the government submitted for parliamentary approval Finland´s
Climate Act. We have well-educated engineers to
drive this change, as well as the means to contribute
sustainable solutions for global efforts on mitigating
climate change and the loss of natural resources.
Of COuRSE, we first need a strong home market for clean
technology. AULIKKI ELO
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
Rinne promotes VaT reduction for
magazine and newspaper subscriptions
Sanni grahn-Laasonen is Minister for the Environment. The amount of
suicides among women decreased by 37 per cent from
the darkest year of 1990 to
2011, the best year so far. The domestic longterm goal is to become carbon-neutral. She is also a Member of Parliament for the National Coalition Party, serving
her first term. The
decrease in the same time period was 59 per cent for men.
Studies show that reasons behind suicide attempts
are similar for men and women. TEPPO KOSKINEN
WE NOW have a unique opportunity to pull ahead in
adopting cleantech and bioeconomy solutions because
it has become the common consensus that societies
with low carbon emissions and high-energy efficiency
will be the success stories of tomorrow.
Tiina Jortikka-Laitinen, Ambassador to Tunisia at the time, is photographed in April 2011.
performed on
progressively
younger
individuals
aBORTION rates have remained stable in recent
years, although the media
has been rife with discussion
regarding the connection between contraceptive pills
and blood clot related deaths.
The publicity was feared to
lead to a decrease in the use
of contraceptive pills without substituting contraception. The
amount of suicides among
men has historically been
high, but the program has
helped to significantly reduce those numbers.
The same has not, however, occurred with women?s
al agreement that brings together all major economies.
To get there, we need a broad commitment from all sectors of society. According to THL
(National Institute for Health
and Welfare), 10,120 abortions were carried out in 2013,
almost the same amount as in
the previous year.
Although
the
total
amount of abortions is in decline, the number of abortions per individual is on the
rise, which are performed
on increasingly younger individuals. The scientific community is unequivocal that the
climate system is warming, and many of the observed
changes are unprecedented. For individuals below
the age of 20, the rate was 12
per cent.
The amount of abortions
among under 20 year olds has
decreased notably during the
21st century. Major
Finnish companies have joined Finland?s Innovation Fund
in forming the Climate Leadership Council. The measures
taken in the ?90s, which include making sex education a
compulsory subject at schools
and allowing over 15 year olds
to buy the morning after pill
without a prescription, were
introduced to curb the trend
of increasing abortions rates.. It will not be a stroll in the park but the
good news is that strong climate action has a solid economic case, too. Climate negotiations will culminate in Paris next year, with the aim of reaching a global
agreement on curbing emissions after 2020. In December,
I will be attending a UN conference in Lima, Peru, to make
preparations for Paris, when we have a historic opportunity to respond adequately to the climate challenge. The government is setting ground with national strategies for both cleantech business and bioeconomy. However, I?m still
thinking about it . The logic in earnings with digital content is still
missing and the whole transition today?s media is going
through makes the operation
of newspapers and magazines
continuously more difficult.?
The Chairman of Finnish Newspapers Association
and Executive Director of
Keskisuomalainen Oyj Vesa-Pekka Kangaskorpi sees
the initiative of the Minister
of Finance as ?good, welcome
and responsible?.
?For the press industry in
Finland, the VAT increased in
2009 from zero to nine.?
The high VAT was rapidly apparent in subscription prices of newspapers
and magazines. This was the take-home message from
most of the businesses and investors present in New
York.
THE MITIgaTION of climate change creates a huge mar-
ket for those who can provide the steps towards a
low-carbon future. We are already front-runners in cleantech. The goal is to double the cleantech industry by 2020.
We also need ambitious climate goals. She will start her new
job immediately. As Minister for the Environment, Grahn-Laasonen is
responsible for matters related to the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) and the preparation of climate legislation.
Grahn-Laasonen is a Master of Social Sciences.
Tackling climate change
benefits economy
JuST before my nomination as Minister for the Environ-
ment on 23 September, more than 100 heads of states
and some 800 leaders from business, finance and civil society from around the world gathered in New York.
The purpose was to bring the leaders together to confirm their commitment to fighting climate change and
to give new pledges to action.
A study has found that reading newspapers is correlated both to likelihood of voting and children?s
success at school.
MINISTER of Finance Antti Rinne (SD) supports decreasing VAT of subscription
fees to newspapers and magazines. an idea supported by Finland . whether it
could be the right time to improve the economic situation
of the press
and compared being
gay to living ?with a dog, with a
horse, with a sheep, whatever.?
Human rights groups
have criticised the antipropaganda bill authored by
Milanov as ?outrageous and
incredibly dangerous?...?
L E H T I K U VA / T I m o J A A Ko n A H o
PINK NEWS 20 October. Finland, meanwhile,
was downgraded last week
to AA+ by Standard & Poor?s
and is facing weak growth as
sectors it has long relied on,
especially technology and
forestry, have struggled to remain competitive.
?Borg?s report should be
seen as an important opinion among others as we examine the best ways of returning
Finland?s economy to growth,?
Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said. The papers will back
the Scottish government in
a case being brought by the
Scotch Whisky Association.
The Finnish ministry of
health said the issue was a
?question of principle?.
President
Pranab
Mukherjee
met Santa
Claus during
Finland visit
?PRESIDENT
Pranab
Mukherjee on 17 October returned home after a five-day
visit to Norway and Finland.
Apart from signing a
number of agreements including one for peaceful use
of nuclear energy and pacts
to step up cooperation in defence, President Mukherjee
became the first Indian President to visit Santa Claus?s
ter, Sweden is still AAA-rated
with all the main ratings companies, and Swedish economic output is growing
steadily. The major imports from Israel took
place in the 1990?s and during
the very first years of the 21st
century.
It would probably be an
exaggeration to claim that
more than a relatively tiny
part of Finns are aware that
Finland is conducting arms
trade with some of the most
egregious human rights violating countries in the world.
However, the issue has received scattered coverage.
In particular, Finland?s arms
trade links with Israel keep
drawing a lion?s share of the
overall criticism.
Indeed, the fact that Finland continuously seals new
military deals with a state
that so openly breaches international law, that is the
state of Israel, as well as conducts trade with, and produces economic benefit to,
private Israeli weapons companies which are complicit in Israel?s abysmal human
rights breaches has arguably
elicited more domestic criticism than Finland?s arms
trade with any other state.
A placard is placed in Helsinki on 19 July bearing the words ?Israel bombs hospitals?, bringing attention to the usage of weapons
exported from Finland.
Over 250 Finnish dignitaries from the arts, sciences and politics have signed a
petition demanding an immediate discontinuation of
all military trade and cooperation between Finland and
Israel.
Among the signatories are
foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja, world-renowned international law expert Martti
Koskenniemi and distinguished professor at the University of Helsinki, forensic
dentist Helena Ranta. and
has claimed it would raise the
price of a bottle of whisky.
It has taken its case to
the European courts after
After the stamps went on
sale on in September in Finland, Itella reported that
it had received pre-orders
from 178 countries, and that
the range of stamps were the
best selling in its history.
The artist, real name
Touko Laaksonen, died in
1991 but remains an influential figure in the gay art
scene, and is one of Finland?s
most well-known figures.
In August last year, Milanov
said that gay people were not
?normal. AARON DAY
Indian president pranab mukherjee (l) visited at the santa claus
Village at the Arctic circle near Rovaniemi, Finland on 16 october
and met with santa who gave a X-mas present to the president.
official workplace and meet
him in person.
During his visit to Oslo, India and Norway signed over a
dozen pacts to step up cooperation in defence, science
and technology, education
and other sectors. The arrangement
for cooperation between the
Atomic Energy Regulatory
Board of India and the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland will ensure
cooperation in the field of nuclear and radiation safety regulation concerning exchange
of information personnel related to the peaceful use of nuclear energy...?
GOING UNDERGROUND
Interactive exhibition on geology, mines
and underground construction
WWW.HEUREKA.FI/EN. ?Sweden
has managed to set a good example as regards responsible
public finances,. However, he remains
widely respected in his native
country and is credited with
steering Sweden around the
worst of Europe?s long-running economic crisis.
After Mr. In addition, I
urge the Finns themselves, our
close neighbours, to refrain
from using these stamps when
sending letters to Russia.?
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 10 October
Struggling Finland asks
Sweden?s ex-finance minister
for economic advice
government is
hoping an outside perspective can help the country
out of its economic troubles
and has asked Sweden?s former finance minister Anders
Borg to share his thoughts on
a way forward.
In a statement late [on 7
October], Finland?s government said it had asked Mr.
Borg to prepare a report taking stock of Finland?s current
economic state and outlining
options for future economic
policy.
Mr. In Finland,
the two countries signed an
agreement for nuclear cooperation. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . Speaking to
the TASS news agency, he said:
?They are basically elements
of homosexual propaganda,
which is banned in our country.?
?I ask the leadership of Russian Post to pay close attention
to this request. They
are joined by Finnish MEPs
and MPs, a number of Finlan-
dia Prize winners, film and
stage directors, writers, actors, scholars and more than
40 university professors.
The Finnish film director
Aki Kaurismäki encapsulated some of the reasons why
Finland?s arms trade with Israel is such an abomination:
?What makes the arms trade
between Finland and Israel particularly disgraceful is
the fact that it is carried out
with companies and weapons which have had a central
role in the killing of civilians
in the territories illegally occupied by Israel.???
Now in Heureka!
L E H T I K U VA / K A I s A s I r E n
NDTV 17 October
Legislation to bring in the
Scottish government?s alcohol price plan was passed
by Holyrood in May 2012,
but ongoing legal challenges have prevented the policy
from being implemented.
The SWA has described the
legislation, which is supported by health professionals
and the police, as ?un-targeted, misguided and illegal. DAVID MACDOUGALL
Finland backs Scottish
minimum alcohol pricing
?THE FINNISH government is
set to give its support to the
Scottish government in a controversial court case over minimum pricing levels for alcohol.
BBC Scotland has learned
that Finnish officials will present papers to the European
Court of Justice in Luxembourg
this week. Borg?s eightyear tenure as finance minis-
?FINLAND?S
BBC 15 October. If a nation wants to have
its own decisions concerning
public health and concerning
alcohol policy, we are at the
same side of that nation.?...?
TELESUR 13 October. he said??
the Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled last year that
minimum pricing was legal.
The Scottish government
believes its reforms, which will
set a 50p minimum price for a
unit of alcohol in a bid to cut
crime and improve health, are
lawful, and has urged the alcohol industry to respect the will
of the Scottish parliament.
Ismo Tuominen, who heads
up alcohol policy at the Finnish
ministry of health, said: ?Finland has decided to back Scotland in this court case.
?This is a question of principle. Finland exported weaponry to
Israel already in the 1950?s,
1960?s and 1970?s. AIRIN BAHMANI, BRUNO JÄNTTI
Finland eager to deepen arms
trade collaboration with Israel
?MILITARY trade between
Finland and Israel goes back
for more than 60 years. Borg quit domestic politics last month after his centre-right Moderate Party was
voted out in Sweden?s general
election. 29 OCTOBER 2014
7
compIled by AlIcIA Jensen
Russian lawmaker
demands postal service
to refuse Finnish Tom
of Finland stamps
?A HOMOPHOBIC Russian
politician has declared the
range of stamps produced to
commemorate the influential
gay artist Tom of Finland as
gay ?propaganda.?
Vitaly Milonov, who was
the politician behind St Petersburg?s anti-gay law said
he wants Russia?s postal service to return-to-sender any
mail which bears the Tom of
Finland stamp
At the
beginning of 2014 France?s
yield was only 0.43 per cent
higher than Germany?s, but
by mid-October that spread
had widened to 1.03 per cent.
The spread between Germany is widely watched
as a sign of distress. The yield on France?s
benchmark 10-year bonds
was 3.03 per cent on the last
day it had the best AAA rating. It was Nokia?s
actions and inactions . But the bottom line on the
ledger is simple: the death of Nokia?s mobile phone division was an accidental suicide.
I COULD
FINLAND is not known to be
a particularly arrogant nation, but one thing it has always been proud of is its
dependability in paying
debts. Investors
could demand a higher return
for loaning money to Finland
because there is a slightly
greater chance of default.
?There could be a few dozen million, a hundred million
extra on top of interest payments,. Nokia killed Nokia. Higher
costs to insure against a default could also make investors shy away, although so
far credit default swap prices have barely budged: Finnish debt can be insured for
half the cost of French debt,
for instance.
Rinne suggested that borrowing costs for companies
could rise, although most
commercial banks base the
rates they charge on ECB interest rates and not on sovereign debt yields. I do this in my
book, so I won?t do it here. Some
politicians may have taken
the AAA rating for granted,
and the downgrade may spur
them on to agree on structural reforms. Finland currently pays
0.22 per cent more than Germany, which is almost exactly the same spread as at the
start of the year. 8
BUSINESS
23 . At present
there are no indications that
Finland?s downgrade has
affected the private debt
market.
It is possible that Finland?s downgrade will have
a positive outcome. Now its yield is 1.3 per
cent, less than half of what it
was before.
France?s borrowing costs
may have gone down, but this
was due almost entirely to an
overall decrease in interest
rates across Europe. It wasn?t Nokia?s fault that
they had problems, he suggests. Typically a lower rating means higher risk,
which translates into higher
interest payments. which caused the decline and fall of Finland?s
greatest company. No, it was someone else?s fault. Big mutual funds which
focus on prime debt could ignore Finnish bonds. Yet as S&P
pointed out, any such reforms will have to wait until
after the next parliamentary
election.. S&P?s downgrade may have shocked the
public, but investors have
largely shrugged it off.
Higher borrowing costs
There could be more repercussions if other credit ratings agencies follow S&P?s
lead. wrote Standard & Poor?s in their report.
S&P lamented about the
Government?s slow progress
in implementing planned
reforms. I
could talk about software
problems and leadership
errors and irregular processes and botched products and bureaucratic inefficiencies. So far
Finland has not suffered
through a similar divergence
from Germany?s benchmark
yields. It wasn?t Apple. Everyone makes
mistakes, but Stubb?s statement also implies what
he thinks about blame and responsibility. That might
be true, but he certainly gave the wrong message.
IF WE take Stubb literally, he was simply incorrect. He
has since responded to the criticism, suggesting that
he was using a metaphor for global change. If he had
read it, he wouldn?t have told a reporter the wrong
reason why the company collapsed. C O R D
HEL SINK I TIMES
go into great detail about why Nokia fell. He
might as well have ridiculed baseball and Abraham Lincoln while he was at it. their strategic and tactical
blunders, their poor processes, their inefficient structure . It wasn?t because of
Finland. In comparison to the benchmark
Germany, France?s borrowing costs have gone up. It is not
encouraging.
APPARENTLY
LAST week Stubb was interviewed by the American fi-
nancial news broadcaster CNBC. Apple was more of a
symptom of Nokia?s weakness than a cause of it.
Apple was more
of a symptom
of Nokia?s
weakness than a
cause of it.
Finance Minister Antti Rinne speculated that the poorer credit rating could cost Finland.
Finland?s day of reckoning
after ratings downgrade
The credit downgrade of finland?s long-term
debt is likely to have consequences.
DAV I D J . This was a good clarification, but there are still
lingering worries. During the recent financial crisis Finland clung
to its reputation for fiscal responsibility, but finally the
top triple-A rating has been
stripped away.
?The downgrade reflects
our view of the risk that the
Finnish economy could experience protracted stagnation because of its aging
population and shrinking
workforce, weakening external demand, loss of global market share in the key
information technology sector, structural retrenchment
of the important forestry
IT IS odd that Finland?s pro-business prime minister
would make such a fundamental mistake about Nokia.
It is also strange that someone so savvy about public relations would tell an American news outlet that America?s favourite company caused Finland?s problems. Even if he was speaking metaphorically, he should have known this would be the
wrong thing to say.
plication of responsibility. In particular, the
agency was upset that key
reforms in pensions, social
welfare and health care services were delayed until 2017.
The fallout from Finland?s credit downgrade is yet to be
ascertained.
poorer credit rating could
cost Finland. Ap-
ple didn?t kill Nokia. I hope that this debacle can be attributed to a
minor slip-up instead of a revelation of how our prime
minister really views our economy. Cord (david@helsinkitimes.fi) is a writer, journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. At the beginning of 2012 France boasted a AAA rating on its debt.
Since that time S& P has cut
France?s rating twice and just
weeks ago slashed their credit outlook to ?negative.?
Yet since early 2012
France?s borrowing costs
have not increased. He was talking about
how the public sector?s job was to build a good environment for innovation when he segued into Nokia.
He stated: ?A little bit paradoxically I guess one could
say that the iPhone killed Nokia and the iPad killed the
Finnish paper industry.?
HIS STATEMENT that the iPhone killed Nokia received
a lot of attention, particularly because it is wrong. After a storm
of criticism he admitted that we caused our own problems. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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David J. And, of course, if
Stubb would like some information on what really happened to Nokia I can recommend a book for him.
GENERALLY
Complacency
President Sauli Niinistö
warned that Finland had become complacent, and told
the national broadcaster YLE
that the downgrade was a
?much-needed wake-up call.?
Prime Minister Alexander
Stubb echoed Niinistö, telling Bloomberg that the Government hadn?t taken the
situation seriously enough.
Finance Minister Antti Rinne speculated that the
L E H T I K u vA / A f p p H o T o / p H I L I p p E H u Gu E N
BUT the worst thing about Stubb?s mistake was the im-
sector, and relatively rigid
labour market,. Rinne told YLE.
France?s experience
Although conventional wisdom suggests that Rinne is
correct, that has not always
been the case. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Alexander Stubb is wrong
about Nokia (and Finland)
Prime Minister Alexander Stubb hasn?t
read my book, The Decline and Fall of Nokia. In fact,
they have fallen dramatically. He has used this off-the-cuff sound
bite about Apple causing our problems before, so one
wonders if he really believes it.
speaking, I tend to support the National
Coalition because I think they have better economic
policies
were sold
in Finland.
The struggles of record
stores have been compounded by the fact that non-dedicated stores account for a
growing share of music sales
. reminded Aleksi
Pahkala when announcing the
bankruptcy of Stupido Shop.
Revenues from the sales
of used CDs and records ?
traditionally a significant
life-jacket for niche stores
. Although the claim was
dismissed immediately by
Billboard, which cited Amazon as the largest record retailer, the market share of 8.1
per cent commanded by Urban Outfitters is an indication that it has grown into a
major player.
Nor has all hope been
abandoned in Helsinki. It?s all about letting it happen in a most natural
relationship between neighbours. Well, I?m willing to take that risk.
FINLaND
Sales negotiator Emmi Laaksonen (left) hosted a viewing of a
two-room flat in Alppila, Helsinki, on Wednesday.
thinking that they should
pocket at least as much,. I?m not suggesting that we Finns need to accept
or condone everything Russia does or that Russians
need to agree with everything we stand for. There has been
a lot of talk that vinyl sales
will increase, but it remains
a niche product, not a mass
product,. While entrepreneurial activity might not have been historically encouraged, that is not the case any longer. That is
new jobs, intelligent people immigrating, decreased unemployment rates, more wealth created and shared, a
smiling taxman... ?People
are fixated on the price they
paid or an earlier peak price,
The record, in turn, remains
significant for collectors, but
local brick-and-mortar stores
are literally up against the entire world as collectors can
find the record they want with
a couple of clicks through online platforms such as Discogs
and MusicStack.
In fact, the most soughtafter rarities are more likely to be auctioned off online
than to end up on the shelves
of brick-and-mortar stores.
New store concepts
Although the news does not
bode well for record stores,
there is some light at the end
of the tunnel.
Urban Outfitters, an
American fashion chain, announced in early October
that more records are sold at
its 350 stores than anywhere
else. Many of these startups are willing and
able to make a splash in the European and global markets but need some additional skills and resources.
Herein lies a mutual opportunity.
For the last few years I have been working with dozens of Russian startup accelerators and incubators to
identify, evaluate, and choose the best Russian startups that have the potential to make an impact on the
Western European and US market. Russia
is producing an increasing number of exciting startups
that are no longer satisfied with catering to the domestic market only. have similarly dwindled,
with the re-sale value of the
CD taking a tumble as people
are dumping their collections
to second-hand shops.
Demise of the CD
In addition, the development
has contributed to the demise of the age-old mainstay
of the music industry, the CD.
Last year, no more than 3.5
million CDs . The mutually beneficial interdependence will prevail, politics
aside. over 5 million
less than in 2011 . 29 OCTOBER 2014
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The growing sales of
records represent the
only glimmer of hope
for music shops.
R E I J O H I E TA N E N
Brick-and-mortar music stores
continue their downward spiral
Jan-Erik Nyrövaara is the managing partner at Helsinki Ventures,
an accelerator and early stage investor focusing on Russian and
CIS startups.
J a R K KO J O K E L a I N E N . and especially those of the
handful of titles that sell tens
of thousands of copies a year.
Recently, popular albums by Robin and Jenni
Vartiainen have been sold
through chains of fast food
restaurants and kiosks,
respectively.
The situation is illustrated fittingly by a discusSeppo Hämäläinen, the
managing director at Kiinteistömaailma, points out
that Finns are also under the
impression that they should
always profit from selling
their home. As a result, no
buyer is found for one-third of
the homes on the real estate
market.
?People have a misguided perception of the value of
their own home,. Last
year, the sales surged by
as much as 51.6 per cent in
Finland.
The reality, however, is regrettably not quite so bright.
The Finnish National Group
of IFPI has reported that no
more than 72,480 records
were sold in the country last
year, a volume hardly enough
to keep more than a couple of
music stores afloat.
?Streaming has especially hit CD sales. they
have come and gone.
What has stayed constant is trade and mutual dependency. HS
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . ?Epe?s has ended its
operations. The potential is there,
maybe lacking some entrepreneurial skillsets and understanding on success factors behind global scalability yet setting forth amazing technology and attitude.
Looking back, this is exactly how it was in Finland back
in the ?90s. H T
Finns considering selling their home have unrealistic
expectations of the sale price,
real estate agents estimate.
MaNy
Epe Helenius, the founder and owner of Epe?s Music Store.
The struggles of record
stores began soon after the
buoyant early 2000s.
First, legal and illegal downloads began to gnaw away at
the sales of major chains focusing on hit titles, such as
Free Record Shop and MegaEpe's. BUSINESS
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23 . Since then, consumers
have abandoned downloads in
favour of streaming and today
consume music predominantly through online services such
as Spotify and YouTube.
The aforementioned reasons were also what Epe Helenius, the founder and owner of
Epe?s Music Store, cited in his
announcement in February.
sion I overheard recently at
the counter of a record store
in Helsinki: a customer inquired about the availability
of the latest Robin album and
was surprised to hear that it
was in stock.
?Of course we have it. Ingredients needed for success, supported with
resources of startup friendly public financing and services. H T
may
have been made earlier this
year, but it did not become a
reality until early October.
Epe?s Music Store, perhaps
the most renowned record
store in Finland, has been resigned to history, having shut
down its last brick-and-mortar store in Tampere in February and now also its online
store. From a
pragmatic point of view, I rather see this grass root level business interaction between neighbours being the
most effective way of increasing mutual understanding and decreasing tensions.
A case in point is the deepening relationship between the Finnish and Russian startup ecosystems.
We have tended to disregard innovation in Russia and
think of Russians as imitators of western technology.
This view is, in fact, quite flawed.
Russia has a long-standing tradition of excellent
education and thriving scientific research. While the powers
that be may have had their disputes and disagreements, people have cooperated, interacted, and traded.
While the recent developments in Ukraine have
strained the relationship between Russia and the EU
and the US, even this does not change the fact Finland
and Russia are linked on a much deeper level. Business being business, there is a risk factor involved, of course. Trade
has cross-pollinated cultures, and has brought people
together throughout the centuries. Regimes have come and gone. he says.
Elias Oikarinen, an academy research fellow at Turku
School of Economics, views
similarly that sellers are slow
to react to changes in the real estate market. he
describes.
The real estate market has
slowed down this year, with
real estate agents estimating
that sales have already fallen by roughly ten per cent in
comparison to last year and
are also likely to fall short of
the levels recorded during the
financial crisis of 2008-2009.
This article is provided by Helsinki Business Hub
www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi. All this is highly appreciated and desired by Russian startups.
Again, putting politics aside, it?s all about people
interacting for mutual benefit where they see a true
match. From squirrel skins and samovars to high
tech, Finland and Russia have been engaged in active
trade that has been a benefit to both nations. Between 2012 and 2013
alone, the sales fell by as
much as 12.6 million euros.
and Russia have shared a lengthy border
for many years. Just looks at what we built from that.
Currently we have a startup ecosystem that is capable of digesting and breeding more technology startups that we can ever produce out of this population.
We have entrepreneurs willing to share their networks
and experiences in scaling up their startups internationally, a fast growing business angel community and
an integrated accelerator and early stage investor network. the pithy
announcement reads.
A record store going belly-up may no longer be newsworthy, but it now appears
that not even the most traditional institutions are safe
from the winds of change.
While Tampere is coming
to terms with the collapse
of the 42-year-old stalwart,
Helsinki is mystified by the
fate of Stupido Shop, the remaining stock of which was
sold in a bankruptcy auction
in September.
Even the strongly expanding Levykauppa Äx failed
to turn a profit last year as
its ten stores generated net
sales of seven million euros and operating losses of
155,000 euros. H S
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . Of its three
stores in Helsinki, two have
already re-located to smaller
premises.
Russian
startups, we salute you!
THE aNNOUNCEMENT
Real
estate
market is
slowing
down
M aR JUKK a LIITEN,
JUHaNI Sa aRINEN . Czars,
Kings, Presidents, Commissars, Chairmen . At
present, the Finnish capital
is home to 16 niche record
stores, according to VinylHel.
In fact, a new one was opened
as recently as in late September on Stuurenkatu . Vallilan Stoori, a combination of a
café, second-hand shop and
record store.
HS / SA mI K IlpIö
Plunging sales
The underlying equation is
ultimately very simple: First,
fewer people consume music in physical formats and,
second, music is increasingly
sold by a variety of retailers.
Statistics portray even a
clearer picture: After peaking at 68.1 million euros in
2011, music sales have declined steadily all the way
to 26.7 million euros last
year. We thank our
customers and friends for
the past 42 years,. But
I?ve yet to sell a single one,?
the proprietor said.
Return of the record
Record sales have long been
touted as a lifeline for music shops, and the numbers
are indeed encouraging. And, of course,
with the startups choosing Finland for their stepping
stone for international markets
A second
followed, closer, and then a
third struck across the Iraqi
army?s lines, as the Islamic
State militants zeroed in on
their target.
The volley of mortar fire
outside the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib this week
was not unusual in itself; Islamic State fighters and the
Iraqi army have regularly exchanged fire in this area for
months. ?This is the
gate of Baghdad; if they took
this area, they could mortar
the airport.?
Iraqi officials complain
that media reports claiming
that the Islamic State has advanced on Baghdad through
Abu Ghraib are inflammatory. Gen. Defence Spending, and the US
Public Mood,. John Kirby, a
Pentagon spokesman, said
on 15 October that there is
?no question. said an Abu Ghraib
resident who works as a laborer and declined to be identified for security reasons.
Many residents hoped
that the recent appointment
of Haider al-Abadi as prime
minister would signal a break
from the perceived sectarian
policies of his predecessor,
Nouri al-Maliki, and perhaps
lead to a new level of trust
between residents and the
army. This has created a
gap between the public and
the national leadership.
Nonetheless, while the
most recent polling shows a
plurality in favour of continuing to reduce Pentagon spending, according to the study,
?this may soon change?, especially in the run-up to the 2016
presidential election, given
the ease with which hawkish
political actors have historically framed public debate,
according to the study.
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Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic contender in the run for
Presidency, has taken a more hawkish perspective, which is likely
to shift both media and expert discourse in the same direction ?
potentially affecting public opinion as well.. ?Nobody can talk, as we are too
afraid,. But there is no doubt the
security situation around the
capital is precarious.
On 1 October, four mortar shells struck inside the
Green Zone, a fortified area
in central Baghdad filled with
foreign embassies and government buildings, according to a US Embassy security
official, who declined to be
identified. may be set
to rise again, according to a
new study released here this
week by the Centre for International Policy (CIP).
The study ?Something
in the Air: ?Isolationism,. ?This
will move media and expert
discourse in a more hawkish
direction.?
The public, however, may
still resist higher military
budgets due to the slowness
of the economic recovery;
public disillusionment has
also persisted with the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Conetta.
The study comes less than
a month before mid-term
Congressional elections. ?We think
it could be just a matter of
time before they come.?
Washington Post staff
writers Thomas Gibbons-Neff
and Karen DeYoung in Washington and correspondent
Mustafa Salim in Baghdad
contributed to this report.
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Despite public?s war
weariness, uS defence
budget may rise
WASHINgTON D.C.
J I M L O B E , K I T T y S TA p p . concludes that
the current political moment
appears similar to those between 1978 and 1982 and between 1998 to 2001 when
defence spending spiked upwards after periods of substantial declines.
Like today, the then-incumbent presidents (Jimmy
Carter and Bill Clinton, respectively) appeared politically weakened by domestic
troubles; the foreign-policy
debate was dominated by perceptions that the US was failing to deal effectively with
new challenges overseas;
and Democratic incumbents
in Congress facing re-election assumed more hawkish
positions.
?Already the leading Democratic contender for the
presidency is positioning herself to the right of the [Barack]
Obama administration on foreign policy issues,. The
Republicans, who have become markedly more hawkish than just a year ago, are
expected to gain control of
the Senate, as well as retain
their majority in the House of
Representatives.
It also comes as the Obama
administration struggles to
cope with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine
and, more spectacularly, the
alarming gains by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria
and its brutality against minorities and western captives
(notably, the beheadings of
US reporters and aid workers), against which a reluctant
president has felt compelled
to react with air strikes and
the dispatch of hundreds of
US advisers. 23 . said Talal alZowbai, a member of parliament from Abu Ghraib. Merchants
yelled the price for pomegranates and tomatoes, as families
shopped for food and clothing
in the tangle of stalls. But
Sunnis say the militias mistreat people.
?If 10 members of Islamic
State come, then they will become a thousand, because all
the people of Abu Ghraib will
join them,. But local people said there are underlying tensions that could
lead to support for the Islamic State here.
Residents said Shiite militias moved into the area in
June, after the northern city
of Mosul fell to the Islamic
State, at the beginning of its
rapid advance across northern and western Iraq. But that possibility is
being hurt by the actions of
the Shiite militias, the resident said.
Last week in Khandari . With
the Iraqi army in crisis, militias such as the Iranianbacked Asaib Ahl al-Haq and
Badr Brigade have rushed to
support the government. But the government
still has to establish a legal
framework for the new security force.
?We live in a constant
state of fear. But now, officials
worry that gains by the extremist group in neighbouring Anbar province will
provide momentum for an
assault on the outskirts of
the capital.
Mortar shells fired by the
Islamic State have already
fallen in central Baghdad in
recent weeks, and suicide
bombings have picked up
pace . The Shiite neighbourhood of Kadhimiyah has
also come under mortar fire
in recent weeks.
Rear Adm. to
the city?s security.
?Anbar is important, and
it is proximate to Baghdad.
That is not in any way analogous to Baghdad falling,. Saad Maan,
spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command, confirmed that mortar fire had
hit inside the Green Zone
but said the shells landed on
?empty space without any
buildings.. Gen. And there are worries
that the Islamic State will
find sympathisers in the Sunni-majority belt that rings
the capital, including Abu
Ghraib.
About 200,000 people live
in Abu Ghraib and the surrounding villages and agricultural areas. But maintaining a buffer zone is
essential in protecting Baghdad from longer-range attacks like those on the Green
Zone. Ali alMajidi, a commander with
the Iraqi army?s 6th Division,
said on 14 October as he visited troops on the front line
near Abu Ghraib. the world?s
biggest by far . a wave of blasts killed
at least 50 people in and
around Baghdad on Thursday, local media reported.
While the army is holding its
ground around the capital?s
perimeter, Abu Ghraib is seen
as a weak point, and sympathy for the radical fighters is
growing here, residents say,
because of the heavy-handed
actions of Shiite militias.
Despite US and allied airstrikes intended to crush
them, the Sunni extremists
have been steadily consolidating power in the majoritySunni province to the west.
Islamic State fighters con-
tinued to advance Thursday,
closing in on the Anbar town
of Amriyat al-Fallujah, one of
the last in the province still
controlled by the government. a
neighbourhood near the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, the
center of the prisoner abuse
scandal involving US soldiers
. On Tuesday, Abu
Ghraib?s main market buzzed
with activity, and there was
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W a s h i n g T o n P o s T / L o v e d ay M o r r i s
On outskirts of Baghdad, Islamic
State?s advances raise tensions
An Iraqi solider crouches on 14 October next to an earthen berm dug at a front line with Islamic State
militants in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, near Baghdad.
BAgHDAD
L O v E DAy M O R R I S
The Wa shing Ton Pos T
ABOuT 20 kilometres from
Baghdad International Airport, a mortar shell landed with a thud. and greater military activism, according
to Conetta. about an attack by the Islamic State, said
Umm Jassim, a woman selling beans at the market who
used a nickname because of
security concerns. said
another senior US official
in Washington, speaking on
the condition of anonymity
to discuss security matters.
?That is not going to happen.?
But, he added, ?the more
terrorists that they have
around Baghdad, the more
they can cause mischief.?
Maan also said that the Islamic State doesn?t have the
capacity to seriously penetrate the capital. The growing
anxiety about the Ebola pandemic in West Africa and its
possible spread have contributed to an apparent decline in
public confidence in Obama?s
leadership.
Polls have suggested for
decades that the public is conflicted about Washington?s
global role: on the one hand,
enduring majorities have long
supported the notion that the
US should be the world?s leading military power; on the other hand, strong majorities
have also strongly rejected the
role of ?world?s policeman?,
preferring instead a co-operative, multilateral approach to
foreign-policy issues in which
military power and unilateral
action should be used only as a
?last resort?.
In contrast to the public?s
views, foreign-policy elites
have consistently expressed
support for US military dominance, or ?primacy,. He declined to
give further details but said
an investigation was underway to determine its source.
He stressed that there have
been no further incidents.
But Islamic State mortaring is becoming increasingly frequent, with five rounds
targeting the Shiite neigh-
bourhood of Shula on 16 October, according to security
officials. wrote the
study?s author, Carl Conetta,
a veteran defence analyst, in a
reference to former secretary
of state Hillary Clinton. by militiamen.
But residents say the situation remains difficult.
?They arrest people, and
nobody knows where they
are taken,. The rounds fell a
few hundred yards from the
US Embassy and followed another mortar attack a week
earlier, he said.
Brig. ?This
makes so many people want
to volunteer with Islamic
State to fight the militias.?
The lawmaker argued
that the much-touted national guard, a US-supported initiative that would see
local Sunni forces protecting Sunni areas, needed to be
rolled out urgently to build
local support and trust in the
state. ?Sometimes
they kidnap people and take
a ransom.?
Al-Majidi said he has met
with tribal leaders in the area
in an attempt to smooth over
what he described as ?individual acts. residents held a protest
against the presence of the
militias, whom they accuse of
kidnappings and theft.
At the Abu Ghraib market, a young man whispered
when he spoke about the militias, so as not to be heard
by a nearby soldier. that the Islamic State wants to put pressure on Baghdad but that
the extremist group does not
pose an ?imminent threat. he said. Local officials begged
the government to send reinforcements, warning that
the town could be overrun in
a matter of hours.
?If Anbar falls, it?s going
to have a huge impact, for us
and all Baghdad,. i P s
DESpITE the public?s persistent war weariness, the US
defence budget
There is
more risk of damage to the
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The new iPhone . Then came the
endocabbinoids, the pleasure-inducing molecules released during hard exercise
that turn exercise nuts into
gym rats. that are more
artform than food.
The illusory effect of plate
size on portion size is explained
by the Delboeuf illusion and the
related Ebbinghaus illusion.
The Delboeuf and Ebbinghaus
illusions are thought to critically depend on the contrast
in size between the target (the
circle in the centre) and the
surrounding context.
A portion of food appears
smaller when served on a
bigger plate, encouraging us
to over-serve. iPhone is not water-proof
and it does not come with wireless charging option. Both
models display sharp and clear
images with excellent colours.
The new iPhone is not only a joy to look at but it also
works well. Writing emails, reading eBooks and browsing the
Internet are much easier on a
bigger screen.
What?s more, the display
quality is top-notch, the best
ever seen in iPhones. Its aluminium body with
rounded edges feels light and
pleasant in your hand.
The new iPhone 6 signals a
successful return to a rounded design for Apple, with the
display curving downward at
the edges to meet the slimline aluminium chassis.
The curved shape makes
the phone a joy to use: your finger slides easily from the edge
of the device to the screen,
making browsing through web
pages effortless.
Quality device
The whole phone screams
quality, as it should, considering that the iPhone is one
of the most expensive smartphones on the market.
While iPhone 6, the smaller of the two new models, fits
nicely even into a small hand,
the same cannot be said for
its big brother, iPhone 6 Plus.
While both phones come
with all the same technical
features, the larger size of
the 6 Plus puts it in the phablet category, dominated by
the Samsung Galaxy Note.
To use a 6 Plus, two hands
are definitely required but
for such a large device, the
phone is pleasant to hold,
thanks to its curved design.
It slips into the back pocket
of your jeans but is too large
to fit into a front pocket.
A YouTube user created a
video that went viral showing him bending his new iPhone, but in daily use the
device will not bend, even
if kept in a pocket. Philosophers
study them for the challenges
they offer to the nature of being (ontology) and of knowledge (epistemology).
Psychologists study them
for the light they throw on
our understanding of how the
human brain works and its
limitations.
Consumer scientists such
as Brian Wansink and Koert
van Ittersum have been exploring how optical illusions
can be used to help reduce
consumption and tackle the
growing prevalence of obesity.
Reasons unclear
The reason that the illusion
works is not clear, although
it may be related to orientation anisotropy, the wellknown tendency to perceive
a vertical line as longer than
an equivalent horizontal line.
What all this shows is that to
encourage yourself and others to serve less, and to eat
less, you should:
. The idea, it
seems, is to make portions appear bigger because this leads
people to serve and eat less.
Although many such fatfighting claims are fake, this
idea is that a fiction can have
a real effect. It also holds
for pouring drinks . Based on technical
specs, the camera is nothing
to write home about but its
8-megapixel sensor gives the
wrong impression, as in image quality the iPhone 6 holds
its own even against the topof-the-range Lumia phones.
In addition, the iPhone has a
lightning-fast focus function.
How about that battery
life. This may underlie the common criticisms of
nouvelle cuisine as providing
?tiny portions. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
How to
trick
yourself
into
eating less
S TEPHEN S. HS
NIINa WOOLLE Y . Over-serving on bigger plates is also more likely
if there?s a high contrast between the plate colour and
the tablecloth colour.
So, if you are using large
plates, choose plates of a colour different from the food
and similar to the tablecloth.
You also can use these illusions with beverages. Research
shows that a portion served
on a small plate will look bigger than it is, so people tend
to under-serve on small
plates and consume less.
The use of bigger plates
leads to the reverse effect
. If you
want to reduce your intake of
sweetened drinks or alcohol,
for instance, use tall, thin glasses in place of short, wide ones.
People drink less from a
tall, thin glass than a short,
wide glass with the same volume. HOLdEN
THe Wa SHing Ton PoS T
SCIENCE has a simple and incredible trick that will help
you lose weight. In effect, KAT in these
muscled-up mice detoxed
their brain of stress-related
neurochemicals.
?It?s possible that this
work opens up a new pharmacological principle in the
treatment of depression,
where attempts could be
made to influence skeletal
muscle function instead of
targeting the brain directly,?
Ruas said. replacing the need for cameras?
phone from dropping it because of its slippery surface.
aesthetically and
functionally pleasing
Was it then a good move from
Apple to launch a model with
a larger display. Jindal Global
University.
Wa SHiucHo via WiK imedia commonS
Illusion of more
Using smaller plates is a fairly obvious solution to limit portion sizes. ?We actually found
the opposite: well-trained
muscle produces an enzyme
that purges the body of harmful substances. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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Testing the new iPhone
6 and iPhone 6 Plus
TEEMu M a SaLIN . Yes, definitely. The performance
is first class in every way, apps
open in a blink of an eye and
games look brilliant. use smaller plates
. After
five weeks, the normal mice
showed evidence of depressed
behaviour, including lethargy and disinterest in food, but
the genetically modified mice
did not.
The reason, the scientists
believe, was that the modified
mice also had higher-thannormal levels of an enzyme
called KAT, which, under
stress, converts kynurenine
into kynurenic acid, which
cannot cross the blood-brain
barrier. even after training, and even among
experienced bartenders.
Indeed, this illusion is so
persuasive that many people are surprised to find the
volume of large sizes is often
little different from the next
size down.
Sports fans recently revealed how a Seattle stadium
and an Idaho stadium have
sold small and large cups of
beer holding about the same
volume, even though the larger one costs more.
Similar claims have been
made about more mainstream
food retailers such as McDonald?s and the Canadian coffee shop chain Tim Hortons.
Hortons has responded with
its own clip showing there is a
difference.
The Delboeuf illusion is one of the reasons for the effect of plate
size on portion size.
23 . We know that
bigger portions lead us to eat
more (bite-sized version here),
but portions that appear bigger have the reverse effect.
Visual illusions have long
fascinated humans but mostly they are viewed as problems
to be explained. the portion looks smaller than it is. But there?s
more to it than simply providing less space. But the size
contrast is complicated by
the issue of colour contrast.
The tendency to overserve on big plates is amplified when there?s not much
of a contrast in the colour
of the food and the plate,
such as pasta with a creamy
sauce served on a white
plate. Now, decades after
scientists first speculated on
the effects of physical activity on the brain, Swedish researchers have discovered
a new reason for lacing up
those sneakers: exercise not
only feels good, it protects
the brain from depression.
In mouse studies at the
Karolinska Institutet, neuroscientists showed that
changes in skeletal muscles,
incurred through exercise
helped rid the body of a stressinduced amino acid called
kynurenine that has been associated with mental illness.
?Our initial research hypothesis was that trained
muscle would produce a substance with beneficial effects on the brain,. Jorge
Ruas, principal investigator
at Karolinska Institutet?s Department of Physiology and
Pharmacology, told the media
recently. This effect is displayed
by adults and is even stronger
among children. When used actively,
the iPhone 6 battery needs
to be charged daily, packing enough juice to take you
through around four hours
of screen-on-time, while the
battery of iPhone 6 Plus lasts
a little longer.
In some aspects, Apple still
lags behind its main competitors. So in this context the muscle?s function
is reminiscent of that of the
kidney or liver.?
Protein increase
Well-trained muscles mean
increased levels of a protein known as PGC-1(alpha)1.
The Swedish scientists developed a genetically modified
mouse strain with high levels
of PGC-1(alpha)1 in their muscles and exposed them (as well
as normal mice) to a highly
stressful environment of noises and flashing lights. Apple have not
been shouting from the rooftops that the new iPhone has
a mobile processor running
at roughly 1.38 GHz, backed
by 1GB of RAM, which pales in
comparison with the 2 or 3GB
packed by its competitors.
Going purely by the numbers, the iPhone 6 dual-core
compressor does not sound
particularly impressive next
to its high-powered competitors, but the situation is different when the phone is put
to the test. When it
comes to speed, the 6 and 6
Plus are much of a muchness.
Camera and battery
The phone?s camera is also
top-notch. use the same colour plates
and tablecloth, and maximize the colour contrast with
the food being served if using
big plates
. And with
the winter conditions looming,
I cannot help but wish that its
touch screen could be operated
with gloves on, similarly to the
Lumia phones.
Pros
? Bright high-definition
display
? Top-notch performance
and good battery life
? Sleek, stylish design
Cons
? Expensive
? Cannot be operated
with gloves on
? 6 Plus is slightly
too large in height
apple iPhone 6
price 699-899 euros,
iPhone 6 Plus
price 799-999 euros.
Six-pack abs: the next weapon against depression
a MY ELLIS NuT T
THe Wa SHing Ton PoS T
ENdORPHINS came first,
those home-grown opioids
or pain-killers called ?runner?s high.. ?Skeletal muscle
(when activated) can protect
the brain from insults and related mental illness.?
The Swedish study was
published in the online version of the journal Cell on 25
September.. use tall, thin glasses, such
as wine-tasting glasses
To use the over-serve bias to
encourage more consumption
of healthy foods, use big green
plates for vegetables and short,
wide glasses for water.
Many claims about reducing consumption and losing
weight hold little truth, but
the illusions described here
might actually help.
Holden is an associate professor at O.P. HT
HERE IT IS, finally: the new iP-
hone with a larger display!
After dragging its feet for
a couple of years, Apple is following in the footsteps of the
Android and Lumia phones,
launching a new phone with
a larger display.
The iPhone 6 has a 4.7-inch
display but the phone still
does not seem too large to
hold
People in
the weakest position are dependent on services provided
by municipal health care centres, and yet the city is poised
to trim its network of health
care centres.
?There is the perception
that the problems would disappear if people stopped
drinking, smoking and eating unhealthy food. Entrepreneurial tradition has attracted immigration, Närpes currently
boasts 30 different nationalities within its borders.
Culture
The Närpes church is one of
the few medieval churches
in Ostrobothnia. 84.8%
Residents with Finnish
as mother tongue:
approx. If someone sheds light
on the problems, it?s easy to
respond by saying that you?re
labelling districts. As a result,
some of them move away,?
Broman explains.
?If you have no access to
services, no confidence in decision-makers and no work,
you will lose your faith in the
society.?
Eeva-Liisa Broman, the Voice of East Helsinki.
voice of East
Helsinkie choest he
cause of the weak
Decision-makers
don?t do enough for
equality.
K aT j a K u O K K a N E N . 29 OCTOBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
S I R PA R Ä I H Ä
Housing
Forty-five per cent of the
population of Helsinki live
as tenants. The average
Helsinkian earns 31,041 euros per year but the average resident of East Helsinki
only 25,900 euros. 12
PEOPLE
23 . There
is also an open-air museum
called the Öjskogsparken.
Närpes also hosts a variety
of events. The deterioration of the housing situation
is largely due to insufficient
investments in the development of dwelling stock.
?Big immigrant families
and, for example, my son's
family of four, live in cramped
conditions. H S
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . Eating
healthy is difficult on a low
income.?
?The centralisation of services inevitably pushes aside
the weak. If nurses visited associations for the unemployed
or playgrounds, it could show
up in health statistics.?
Employment
and livelihood
The unemployment and
youth unemployment rate
is three to four percentage
points higher in eastern districts than in Helsinki on
average. A guardian
angel who encourages people
to enjoy every second of life.
That is how Suvi Nyström,
the headmaster of Children?s
Cultural Centre Musikantit,
describes Eeva-Liisa Bro-
man, who retired from her
position at the Social Services Department of Helsinki at
the end of August.
With over two decades
of experience in social and
contact work, Broman has
witnessed the upturns and
downturns, as well as the influx of people that has made
East Helsinki the home of
nearly 160,000 people ?
more than a quarter of the
population of the entire city.
To commemorate her retirement, Broman touts
Musikantit as an example of
the excellent work done in
the eastern pockets of the
Finnish capital and speaks
her mind on a number of
themes.
Standard of living
Helsinkians in the highest
income brackets earn three
times as much than their
neighbours in the lowest income brackets. But their children
live in a society with high unemployment and plenty of
prejudices.
Decision-makers
Helsinki recently lavished
over 400,000 euros to organise the disputed MTV Push
Helsinki promotion event.
Meanwhile, the largest event
in East Helsinki, Kontu Fest,
has to fight tooth and nail for
its 20,000 euro subsidy every year.
Why aren?t jobs created in
East Helsinki. Its expenses, however, exceed 500,000 euros.
?The appreciation is there,
but not the money.?
The details of the article
have been provided by Helsinki Urban Facts, the University of Helsinki and Statistics
Finland.
Discovering Swedish-speaking municipalities: Närpes
aLICIa jENSEN
HEL SINK I TIMES
va, Isojoki, Karijoki and Kaskö/
Kaskinen, which are now fourteen independent municipalities. Other industries include farming,
fur farming, and egg production. Along with
its stables, a clergy house and
other similar buildings, the
church area is unique. Meanwhile, many
live very lavishly.?
?Rental apartment buildings are not built on prime
sites but much rather as
noise barriers to the borders
of districts. Its landscape is
dotted with charming villages, farms and of course
greenhouses. In East
Helsinki, 38 per cent of the
population have no post-primary qualifications, compared to the 29 per cent in all
of Helsinki.
?The service system is not
designed for such a significant gap in the standard of
living. It?s easy for successful
people to argue that the gap
is due to the actions of people. The Swedish
dialect spoken in the community carries old distinctions that can no longer be
found in modern Swedish,
with some similarities to the
Norwegian and Icelandic.
Nature
Although the length of the
Närpes coast is 45 km, the
bays and islands make the
coastline about 700 km long
all together. At
the cusp of the Second World
War, sensitive Finnish intelligence material was also
shipped to Sweden from the
village of Nämpnäs to protect
it from falling in to the hands
of the Soviets.
Business
The Närpes website praises its
strong entrepreneurial spirit.
Greenhouse farms in Närpes
produce 60 per cent of Finland?s tomatoes, and 35 per
cent of the nation?s cucumbers. Around 1340, the Ostrobothnian coastal area was divided into Närpes, Korsholm
(Mustasaari), and Pedersöre.
Närpes originally included Sideby, Lappfjärd, Tjöck,
Närpes, Övermark, Pörtom,
Korsnäs, Petalax Bergö, Teu-
Boathouses lining the shore at Närpes.
Närpes has played an important role in Finnish history. The crucifix dates
back to the 15th Century and
can be considered one of the
most unique features of the
church. We also
don?t speak about the problems because it would illuminate how little we?ve done.
Distance has increased.
Making decisions is easier when you haven?t met in
person. Why don?t we
invest. In addition, social problems pile up
in certain districts due to
differences in the quality of
services.
?If some residents really
start to go downhill, others
may grow concerned that the
Immigration
Every-fifth resident of East
Helsinki speaks neither Finnish or Swedish as their mother
tongue, compared to the one
in ten in the entire city.
The expectations of the
first generation are hardly
grandiose. People in eastern districts can only dream of MTV money,. Its oldest
part was built in 1435, although it was developed until
the 1770s. A great
project that no one wants to
take under their wing.?
The celebrated cultural centre receives an annual subsidy of roughly 60,000
euros a year from the City of
Helsinki. The church also displays six tombstones from
the 17th Century. Another major industry
is the metal sector, or more
specifically the trucking and
trailer addition industry. The divide in
learning achievements continues to grow.
Health gap
Residents of East Helsinki experience more health
problems than the average Helsinkian. That brands people as
aid recipients who can be belittled by others.
Certain foreign surnames
are an obstacle to getting a
job interview.
same could happen to them
or their children. The situation can?t
be rectified by adjusting the
housing policy but the entire
service chain is needed. and cucumbers and flaunts a scenic archipelago setting.
History
The first record of Närpes as an
administrative unit existed in
1331. Industry and construction make up 21.9 per
cent and services make up
52.2 per cent. There are small
picturesque harbours with
Närpes
Residents with Swedish
as mother tongue:
approx. H T
aN ICON of contact work. Municipal administration
was first established in Närpes
in 1867, yet its most recent
boundaries date to 1973. It is the home of
Finnish tomatoes ?what they
term ?red gold. may teach
their children that teachers
are servants. We fail to recognise the
significance of differences in
background.?
?Child welfare officials,
for example, are responsible for too many children. In
the early 1900?s, weapons that
were used by the Finnish and
Russian resistance movement
were unloaded from a steamship in the village of Pjelax. The forest and
field terrain used to be the
bottom of the ocean, which
makes the area unique.
The ocean is also in close
proximity. The difference between native Finns and people speaking neither Finnish
or Swedish as their mother
tongue is nine-fold.
People can?t help the fact
that the economy is in a depression and there are temporary lay-offs and lay-offs.
Having people work for
nine euros an hour is not
right. It?s
stressful to be forced to do
your job poorly.?
?Parents in the ?better
neighbourhoods. Allegedly nonprofit constructors of rental apartments are only after
profits, despite being owned
by trade unions and pension
firms.?
Services
Health and social care professionals in East Helsinki are driven to the verge of
exhaustion by their growing
workload. Elsewhere, residents continue to call for
even better services. By
a presidential regulation, the
municipality of Närpes became
a town on January 1, 1993.
JoHANNA N y bERg
NäRPES, or Närpiö in Finnish, is a coastal municipality
on the West coast bordering
Korsnäs. A creek,
covered with water lilies, also flows through Närpes.. . says
Broman, lifting up her arms.
?Like Musikantit. Agriculture and forestry
make up 24.4 per cent of the
workforce. 5.7%
977.15 km2 of land
7.96 km2 of fresh water
1349.04 km2 of salt water
Women: 4621
Men: 4731
For more fun, visit:
www.narpes.fi
rows upon rows of red fishing
huts and beaches. One of the largest
is the tomato carnival, where
they celebrate their ?red gold?.
There are also concerts of the
Närpes school musical society
and at the Fran Mangs Centre,
and they sport a theatre with
revolving bleachers.
Another interesting piece
of culture is the dialect spoken in Närpes. A
carer who gives others the
strength to go on
Furman claims, adding that brief
therapy suits many people
because it does not require
long-term commitment and,
because of its short duration,
it is also cheaper for both the
individual and society.
Furman regards therapists primarily as coaches
who guide their clients to direction they want to take. In the
Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District, the number of
weight-loss operations was
155 last year but the figure is
set to go up to 180 this year,
according to Leivonen.
?But the number should
go up more rapidly. explains Heikkinen.
?We have the necessary
resources to carry out more
procedures. HS
NIINa WOOLLE y . Weight-loss surgery is a routine surgical
procedure.?
Heikkinen says that the
general negative attitudes
towards weight-loss surgery
are reflected in the low number of celebrities who have
13
The number of weight-loss operations grew quickly between 2006 and 2009, but in recent years
the figure has not grown.
for eligibility for weight-loss
surgery are too stringent in
Finland.
And the criteria for claiming Kela compensation for
surgery are even more stringent, with a healthy person
needing to have a BMI of 45 or
more while a person with an
illness must have a BMI of 40
to qualify for compensation.
Heikkinen says that it
seems that Kela have set such
stringent criteria for compensation in order to cut the number of surgical procedures.
?Obesity is a serious condition, which may shorten a
person?s life expectancy by
ten years. Before the actual
operation, potential patients
must be screened and once
selected, they must undergo
a period of therapy aimed at
improving their knowledge
of diet and nutrition and lifestyle choices. explains Marja Leivonen, a
chief physician at Peijas Hospital in Vantaa.
?Fortunately it seems
that the attitudes of medical
professionals referring patients to operations are finally changing.?
Weight-loss operations hit
the headlines in recent weeks
when news service MTV.fi reported that the Finnish actor
and singer Vesa-Matti Loiri
had shed 70 kg, thanks to a
gastric bypass operation.
In Finland, under 900
weight-loss operations, including gastric bypass
surgery and operations to reduce the size of the stomach,
are carried out annually, reveals the statistics compiled
by the Finnish Association of
THE NuMBER
Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery (LIME).
The number of weightloss operations grew quickly
between 2006 and 2009 but
since then, the growth has
stalled.
In the public healthcare
sector, the number of patients referred to surgery for
obesity has, however, been
on a slight increase. Both professionals and people in general regard these operations
as an extreme solution. says Furman.
To claim compensation
from Kela for therapy, the client must make certain that
the therapist is registered
with the National Supervisory Authority for Health
and Welfare, the Terhikki
register for healthcare pro-
fessionals or Kela?s regional
register for therapists.
If this is not the case, the
client will have to foot the
whole bill for therapy but, on
the other hand, a hundred or
two hundred euros spent on
good coaching may well be
enough to open new avenues
in their lives. A visit to a doc-
tor, training session, talking
with a church worker, discussion with a masseur or just a
chat with a hairdresser can
all be therapeutic experiences,. Short-term
psychoanalytic therapies also exist.
?In addition, there are numerous ways of making progress without actual therapy.
On the other hand, sometimes clients meet their therapist every other month or so
for a couple of years.?
People opting for therapy
suffer from a wide variety of
problems, including anxiety,
addictions, substance abuse
and depression.
?Everyone can benefit from brief therapy,. Life feels joyless even
though everything seems to
be just fine. The
criteria for referrals have
been set really high as people are afraid of the numbers
suddenly skyrocketing,. The operations soon pay
themselves and Kela would
be the winner in the end,?
says Heikkinen.
publicly admitted to having
undergone an operation.
?There are several celebrities who have opted for a
weight-loss operation but for
some reason it?s not something that is talked about
even though it can be a lifechanging thing.?
Stringent criteria
To be eligible for weightloss surgery, a healthy person must have a BMI of 40 or
more, or 35 if the patient suffers from an illness, such as
diabetes, that could improve
with weight loss.
The patients must also be
willing to commit to treatment and have no conditions that would put them at
risk during the operation and
anaesthesia.
Leivonen and Heikkinen agree that the criteria
Weight-loss operations
are effective in treating obesity as they have an impact
on both the amount of food
consumed and the sensation
of hunger, making it easier
for the patient to lose weight.
Besides obesity, weight-loss
operations may be beneficial
in the treatment of other, related illnesses.
On average, patients manage to shed around half of
their body weight and some
reach their ideal weight, according to Leinonen.
For a small minority, the
results are not as good.
?That?s often because
people are not committed
to the follow-up treatment.
At the end of the day, losing weight depends on your
mindset. The
goal is to provide clients with
tools to solve their problems
in the environment they come
across them: at work, home or
in relationships with friends.
?Modern-day
therapy
is a far cry from Freudian
analysis.?
Modern approach
Communication between a
therapist and a client can also
take place over the Internet
or phone. Only people in
very poor health or severely obese have been referred
to surgery even though the
risks involved are much lower at an earlier stage,. he says.
Furman applies the methods of solution-focussed psychotherapy in his own life
without regarding it as a
form of therapy.
?I apply common sense in
situations where I seem to
have lost the plot.?
One of the principles of
solution-focussed therapy is
the idea that even the most
difficult of experiences can
be beneficial in the long term.
?People mostly find solutions to their problems either on their own or with
friends. explains Furman.
Among a group of friends,
one may increase their selfawareness through Fourth Way
enneagram. We are seriously lagging behind.?
Six-month wait
In the public sector, the bottleneck is the early stage of
the treatment, for which the
necessary resources are not
available. HT
of weight-loss
operations carried out in Finland is too low, claim healthcare professionals. There?s
no doubt more Finns could
benefit from weight-loss
surgery.?
Leivonen brings up the
other Nordic countries,
where the numbers of surgical procedures are in a different class to Finland, as a
point of comparison.
?In the other Nordic countries, around a thousand operations per million people
are carried out while in Finland, the overall figure is just
about a thousand. The operation does
not shed the weight, but it
helps you do it.?
Even short course of therapy can increase mental wellbeing
MaNy pEOpLE suffer from the
blues without any apparent
reason. LIFESTyLE
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . And peer support is also available for free.
?Whatever the form of
therapy or coaching, the
main thing is that the client
and the therapist hit it off,?
says Furman.
L e H T i k u va / P i H L a L e H M u S j o k i
H E L E N a H I E Ta N I E M I . Clients are usually
given homework assignments
and family, colleagues and
friends are welcome to participate in discussions.
?Creativity is the key to
curing human problems. H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . 29 OCTOBER 2014
L e H T i k u va / M i k ko S T i g
Medical experts:
More w eight-loss
operations
needed in Finland
HENRIK SuNI . HT
People should not let anxiety get the better of them as even
short-term therapy can bring relief.. Weight-loss operations can have a huge impact
on the level of the whole society. Is it time to make
an appointment for therapy and spend possibly years
working through childhood
traumas?
?Therapy doesn?t need to
go on for years and it doesn?t
need to cause suffering,. We all receive help,
support and good ideas from
others without thinking of it
as therapy. Thanks to
old prejudices, surgical procedures to treat obesity are
not gaining in popularity as
rapidly as they should.
?Surgery has been seen as
the last resort. During that
time, the patients also must
lose weight in preparation
for surgery.
?People have to wait for a
long time for these treatment
courses, up to six months.?
Timo Heikkinen, a specialist in gastroenterology at
medical centre Terveystalo,
agrees that patients are not
referred to weight-loss operations often enough.
?It?s as if we had brakes
on in this regard. And
the therapist posing the right
questions and having an appreciative attitude help foster creativity,. People can benefit from many methods that
are not considered therapy but
work in a similar manner.
proven methods
Methods that promote mental wellbeing can work for anyone wanting to find out more
about themselves and figure
out what is going wrong in
their relationships.
Coaching in life skills,
empowering guidance, energy therapy, empowering
photography, peer support
groups, psychodrama and
story theatre can all work as
alternatives to therapy, and
all these activities are relatively easy to embark on.
People should not hesitate
to try out different methods,
without playing down their
problems.
?Keeping a diary can also be a form of therapy even
though it?s not usually called
that,. explains Ben Furman, a psychotherapist and a teacher
of solution-focussed therapy.
He says that many problems can be solved over a couple of appointments when the
person is given an opportunity to see their situation in new
light. Another applies
Neuro-Linguistic
Programming in team leadership at
work and a third draws a treasure map as a way of finding
their identity. So there is no need for
people to entertain concerns
over what therapy may entail
as it can also be a short and
light route to change.
Furman helped introduce
the concept of short-term
therapy in Finland in the
1980s but refuses to use the
term anymore as nowadays
most courses of psychotherapy are short
?I?m certainly
proud to be the champion, especially after losing my first
match.?
?This is a great trophy to
win as so many big names
have won it before,. His closest rival for the monthly award,
Denmark?s Yussuf Poulsen,
claimed 22 per cent of the
votes.
Pohjanpalo has enjoyed an
impressive first quarter of the
2014-2015 Bundesliga 2 season. defended with discipline and
converted its scoring opportunities . he predicted.
L E H T I K U VA / A N T T I A I m O - KO I V I S T O
14
Romania?s Vlad Chiriches (6) celebrates the 0-1 goal by team
mate Bogdan Stancu (not in picture) during the Uefa 2016 European Championship qualifying football match on 14 October.
In-form Pohjanpalo
voted Player of the
Month for September
HS-HT
JOEL POHJaNPaLO has been
named Bundesliga 2 Player
of the Month for September
after the Fortuna Düsseldorf striker claimed 52 per
cent of the votes cast by a selection panel. I needed a
big win to reach my goal, and
now I have one,. ?If we win
our next game against Hungary, we will be well-poised in
the group. The 20-year-old Finn has
already taken his goal tally for
the season to six by scoring a
hat-trick as Fortuna Düsseldorf beat Darmstadt 4-1 in the
last league game before the
recent international break.. Ilonen commented on
his established opponent.
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Helsinki Times. Stancu then put
the final gloss on the scoreline with a delicious screamer from distance with 84
minutes on the clock.
Romania have proven an
insurmountable obstacle for
the Eagle-Owls, but the early
exchanges on 14 October suggested that Finland could yet
stem the tide, as they maintained possession in the final
third. 29 OCTOBER 2014
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / G LY N K I R K
Mikko Ilonen celebrates with the trophy after beating Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson in the final of
the Volvo World Match Play Championship at The London Golf Club in Kent, south-east England, on
19 October.
Masters awaits proud
match play champion
mikko Ilonen secured his biggest payday on the European Tour by
beating world number five Henrik Stenson in the final of the Volvo
World match Play Championship on Sunday.
JuSSI-PEKK a REPONEN . I simply
made no mistakes in the final,
that was key,. 2-0
at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 October.
Finland
consequently have only four points to
show for their three qualifying games, while Romania remain within touching
distance of Group F leaders
Northern Ireland, who on 14
October clinched an unlikely
away win against Greece.
With the exception of their
bright start, Finland have little positivity to take away
from their performance.
After going 1-0 down to a
Bogdan Stancu header in the
54th minute, Finland went
from bad to worse as Alexander Ring picked up his second yellow card of the night
for bringing down Lucian
Sânm?rtean with a clumsy
challenge. SPORT
23 . he analysed.
?I?ve played so much golf
with Henrik over the years, so
I felt like we were playing just
a friendly match. he said.
In addition, the victory effectively guarantees Ilonen
an entry to the first major
tournament of next year, the
Masters, his first since his
appearance at Augusta National as an amateur in 2001.
In fact, he is all but guaranteed an entry to every major
tournament of next season,
with the exception of the US
Open, as well as a handful of
lucrative tournaments in the
United States.
The victory was also the
most lucrative of Ilonen?s
career, the first prize of
650,000 euros being nearly
double his previous biggest
cheque from his triumph at
the Irish Open in June. Only
375,000 euros, however, will
count toward his ranking on
the Race to Dubai.
Altogether, the victory
was his fifth on the European Tour. HS
a L E K S I T E I va I N E N . H T
MIKKO ILONEN seemed his
usual calm and collected self
at London Golf Club on Sunday after seeing off top-seeded Henrik Stenson in the
final of the Volvo World Match
Play Championship to secure
his most lucrative and pres-
tigious victory to date on the
European Tour.
He did, however, sound
understandably
overwhelmed after Stenson had
conceded the 17th hole to
guarantee him a win.
?As you can imagine, it?s
impossible to describe how
I?m feeling, and it will take a
long time to sink in,. to snatch the allimportant away points.
Both Paatelainen and
midfielder Roman Eremenko
said that the corner that preceded the opening goal may
have been a bad call by the
referee. Ilonen
commented a few hours later, as he joined the likes of
Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Seve Balles-
teros, Nick Faldo and Greg
Norman on the roll of honour.
The victory will take the
Flying Finn to 37th on the Official World Golf Ranking and
one step closer to his goal for
the season, a goal he refuses
to reveal until the end of the
season. in 2007
and 2013 . Every team will yet
drop points,. before his two
victories this season.
Including his bogey-free
four-under-par final round
on Sunday, Ilonen carded a
total of 35 birdies and one eagle in the 105 holes of golf he
played over five days at London Golf Club.
?I managed to stay relatively calm. As the first half grew older, however, the visitors asserted their influence on the game
and began to frustrate Finland,
who appeared to have neither
the pace or guile to penetrate
their well-drilled defence.
?I?m very surprised that
we were able to domineer the
game and show that we were
the better team. H S
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Stancu brace enough
to see off Finland
Finland?s hopes of qualifying for the Uefa
Euro 2016 were severely dented by Romania
on 14 October.
Ta P I O K E S K I Ta L O . We
kept on trying until the end,?
said Eremenko.
?If we make mistakes and
fail to capitalise on our dominance, we don?t deserve to
be in the final tournament,?
continued Paatelainen.
Despite the defeat, it is
premature to abandon all
hope, he reminded. He sealed his maiden win in Indonesia in 2007
and has triumphed twice at
the Nordic Masters . ?I still have some way
to go, but this allows me to
reach that. This crowns what
has been by far the best season of my career. I see Henrik
as one of the top players in the
world, but I also see him as a
friend,. ?It didn?t look like
a corner, but who cares. Ilonen
admitted. analysed
Mixu Paatelainen, the manager of Finland.
The visitors similarly
struggled to create any clearcut chances and seemed content to sit back waiting for an
opportunity to hit Finland on
the break.
Ultimately, Finland were
left to rue the couple of individual mistakes that led to
the goals, while Romania did
what was necessary . H T
ROMaNIa dealt a heavy blow
to the hopes of Finland of advancing to the 2016 Uefa European Championship by
beating the ?Eagle-Owls. We didn?t
have the necessary guile in
the final third,. I felt strong and never
gave away anything
A
similar phenomenon can be observed in Finnish restaurants.
TIMO HÄ M ÄL ÄINEN
It is possible to unwittingly consume
too much arugula, or even baby food?
The choice of words on a menu reveals the restaurant?s target
crowd.. Even 47 grams
of arugula may be too much,
when a small arugula package contains 50 grams. Money also matters when it comes to
the language used by restaurant critics. According to Jurafsky,
the pronoun ?we. the bad kind.
This type of genetic inheritance is more common in
Eastern than Western Finland. Crisps contain approximately 1.4 grams of salt
per 100 grams, and some rye
breads and many diet and
regular cheeses contain even
more salt. and ?pumpkin and basil?.
Jurafsky and his colleagues have also studied
language used in online restaurant reviews. It can be had
from as little as 50 grams of
sugar, which is contained
within half of a chocolate bar,
half a litre of soda, or a little
over three decilitres of flavoured yogurt daily.
2. and
?voluptuous?, perhaps in an
attempt to demonstrate that
they too were sensuous and
hedonistic, speculated the
researchers.
Metaphors in the mix
But in positive reviews of
cheap restaurants, meta-
grams, when the intake of the
average Finn has been determined to be less than six micrograms. Reviewers of expensive restaurants went for
multisyllabic words and described the food and restaurant at considerable length.
When writing a positive
review of an expensive restaurant, writers often picked
metaphors of sex and sensual pleasure, peppering their
text with words such as ?orgasmic?, ?seductive. The clear and colourless liquid, which smells
like aether, is linked to cancer. Yet with some Finns this
is not the case due to genetic reasons. Egg
The effect of egg on cholesterol has been a subject of
debate for long. Sugar
Drinking over half a litre of
soda in a single day is too
much for you. They
also found that expensive
crisps were more likely to use
comparisons (?less fat?, ?best
in America?) or negations,
listing ingredients or manufacturing methods that had
not been used. on the packet.
According to the researchers, this observation
supports French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu?s theory that refined taste in food
has the role of distinguishing the rich from other classes. Nitrite, which stems from
nitrate reduces blood?s ability to intake oxygen. As pikes amass
mercury, it is recommended
only once or twice a month
for those under 40. Soy sauce
Friends of oriental food are
more commonly exposed to
the harmful 3-MCPD, which
may result in kidney damage. Here
are seven surprising foodstuffs that one can unwittingly consume too much.
Did you know that half a
litre of soda makes up half
of a human?s daily need for
sugar?
1. Eggs, and yolk in
particular, may increase LDL
cholesterol, i.e. The
accepted limit for nitrate intake for an adult of 70 kilos
is 259 milligrams. Trout or salmon from the Baltic are recommended for eating only 1-2
times a month due to harmful dioxin and PCB compounds. The maximum recommended intake
amount has not been determined, but a child of 20 kilos
has been estimated to consume 0.4-6.2 micrograms of
furan in a day.
6. This is due to furan,
which the food preparation
process can lead to in small
amounts. The abundance of
adjectives on the menus of
mid-priced restaurants is an
extra assertion of the tastiness of the food, while only
the cheapest restaurants, in
which the quality of the food
is not a given, must go all out
to convince the customer
of the deliciousness of their
dishes.
The top-of-the -range restaurants in Finland also have
menus of very few words.
For example the menu of
Chef & Sommelier, awarded
a Michelin star recently, describes its dishes as ?cabbage
and cheese?, ?lamb and tomato. Soy sauces prepared with
the traditional fermentation
method contain little 3-MCPd
or none at all.
V I L L E M Ä N N I K Kö
The more expensive the restaurant,
the fancier the language on the menu
Adjectives used in restaurant menus to describe the food on offer
reveal how pricey the restaurant is, says a new American study. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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PÄ I v I A L A - R I S K U . It has to be apparent with
one look that the contents
of an expensive crisp packet
US
are no ordinary crisps, giving
the buyer a feeling of being
above the hoi-polloi.
A new study by the research team shows that the
same phenomenon is also
evident in restaurant menus: the more expensive the
restaurant, the fancier the
words describing the food.
Dan Jurafsky, a linguistics
and computer science professor at Stanford, takes a
closer look at the topic in
his new book The Language
of Food: A Linguist Reads the
Menu, published last month.
Jurafsky?s research team
analysed thousands of US
menus and found that difficult foreign words are more
commonly used in the menus
of high-status restaurants.
According to the researchers
these words send an implicit signal of the menu writer?s
educational level and give
the customer a sense of belonging to an exclusive club.
Short and direct
The menus of expensive restaurants were also shorter
and less direct. These people should
limit the consumption of
eggs or yolk to two a week.
5. Alternately the
same amount of ungutted
herring of over 17 cm may be
consumed. The
researchers suggested this
may be because women feel
more under pressure to eat
healthily and by referring
to food as a drug they could
avoid taking responsibility
for succumbing to sugary or
fatty temptations.
When people gave a restaurant a ?1-star. was over-
represented in bad reviews
(?we were ignored?, ?we were
yelled at?, ?none of us will ever go back?) to highlight the
shared sense of upset and
solidarity.
The researchers pointed
out that these bad reviews
were generally not complaints about the quality of
food or atmosphere but rather a mechanism for coping
with a minor trauma arising
from personal encounters in
which the customers had felt
under attack. The recommended
maximum daily intake of salt
is five grams, but many convenience foods contain this in
a single portion.
3. This means that it
is safe to consume soy sauce
in large quantities before
maximum intake becomes
an issue. By contrast,
the menus of mid-range restaurants were wordier and
chock-a-block with adjectives (?fresh?, ?crisp?, ?tender?, ?golden brown?), while
positive but vague descriptions (?delicious?, ?tasty?
and ?savoury?) were common in the menus of the
cheapest restaurants.
The researchers say that
expensive restaurants want
their customers to expect
food to be fresh, crisp and
delicious. If you eat
lake fish daily, also cut back
on perch, zander and burbot.
4. Salmon and many other fish
Fish is healthy, and according to recommendations, its
intake should be increased,
but the environmental toxins fish gather may produce
PEKK A ELOMA A
Crisps contain approximately 1.4 grams of salt per 100 grams.
health issues. 3-MCPD can be formed
in soy sauces made with acid
hydrolysis and other seasoning products in significant
amounts.
The maximum intake for
an adult of 70 kilos has been
determined as 140 micro-
Large consumption of arugula presents the danger of excessive
nitrate consumption.
JOHANNA TIKK ANEN . The researchers
emphasised the importance
of taking this into consideration in customer service.
es. Salt
It would seem logical that salt
levels would be easily exceeded when one constantly dips
their hand in a bag of crisps.
In reality, many foods that
seem healthy contain much
more salt. The current
opinion is that the cholesterol of eggs does not impact
cholesterol levels of the blood
among healthy individuals. If a child eats a lot of
jarred baby food, the intake
of furan can even be up to 15
micrograms daily. Arugula
typically contains over 450
milligrams of nitrate in 100
grams of arugula, whereas
spinach contains 100 milligrams on average.
Consuming half a litre of soda is makes up half of a human?s daily
need for sugar?
PEKK A ELOMA A
7. HT
RESEARCHERS
have
looked at advertising texts
printed on the side of crisp
packets and found that the
more expensive the crisps,
the fancier the language. Baby food
Jarred baby and children?s
food should always be heated on a flat plate, never in
the jar. Sugar should
make up 10 per cent of the
daily energy intake. What
this means is that an average
person who consumes 2,000
kilocalories daily is allowed
to eat only 200 kilocalories
worth of sugar. H S
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23 . tongue
lashing, they resorted to the
language usually employed
in talking about a tragedy
such as the death of a loved
one. The researchers calculated that consumers
paid 4 cents extra for every
additional ?no. If one wishes to play
it safe, though, it is worth favouring traditional soy sauc-
Sources include Finnish food
safety authority Evira?s dietary
advice, Finnish Food Composition Database and the National Nutrition Council.
phors of drugs or addiction
were added to the mixture,
particularly by women. Arugula
Large consumption of arugula and spinach are in danger of excessive nitrate
consumption. HS
NIINA WOOLLE y . H T
ExCESSIvE consumption of
certain salads can be detrimental to health, and rye
bread can often contain
more salt than crisps. It dissolves easily when
heated and the food is mixed.
Furan levels in food are rarely dangerous to adults, but it
is most common in children?s
food
The hold of the vessel has yet to be explored
and may reveal various riches,. The method is tailor-made for
hearty autumn and winter vegetables: Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, winter squash and, as in this recipe, root vegetables
such as potatoes, carrots and parsnips.
Here, I step up the seasoning with an aromatic mix of warm,
vibrant spices: cumin, coriander, ginger and cinnamon, plus a
generous kick of cayenne pepper to contrast with the vegetables. That is why the beverage was so well preserved. Eventually, the flavours of bygone
days began to re-surface, and
the development and commercialisation of the recipe
began.
Wilhelmson is proud of
the outcome, which she believes resembles closely its
19th-century precursor.
?The original beer was
somewhat exclusive. Serve as a main course, or with roast chicken, turkey
or pork. Roasting mellows
and deepens a vegetable?s flavours, caramelises it outside and
keeps it tender and moist inside. she touts.
Stallhagen has bottled 120,000 bottles of the historic beer for the markets in Inland Finland and
the Åland Islands.
A lot of detective work
went into historic brew
M ARK AuTIO . explains
Wilhelmson.
Next, it was realised that
all yeast cells in the bottle
had died.
?However, we were able to
isolate microbes on the basis of physico-chemical and
micro-biological analyses.
The key to the solution was
the discovery of living lactic acid bacteria in the liquid.
Such bacteria are characteristic of beers from the pe-
riod in question, and thus
they formed the basis for the
re-construction.?
The isolated samples were
sent for further analysis to
the University of Leuven, a
pioneer in yeast and bacterial fermentation. Serve warm.
Krieger?s most recent cookbook is Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). She blogs and offers a weekly newsletter at www.elliekrieger.com.
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A centuries-old flavour has returned to the Finnish beer market.
There are two kinds of easy recipes: fast-easy, in which minimal effort gets food on the table in minutes; and slow-easy,
in which there is a little work involved but the timing is a bit
more laid-back. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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L e H T u K u vA / M A R T T i K A i n u L A i n e n
?The brewery could have
produced a beer and sold it
under the cover of the story.
Instead, 19th century production methods were used.
A variety of yeasts and microbes contributed to the
fermentation process. Hopefully, we can dive to the wreck
someday. In that time,
their transformation seems almost magical. HS
A L E K S I T E I vA I N E N . An amateur is only likely to detect
the near-complete absence
of hoppy notes . inherent sweetness and a touch of honey to enhance it.
Nutrition Per serving (based on 6): 230 calories, 3 g protein,
40 g carbohydrates, 7 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 240 mg sodium, 6 g dietary fibre, 18 g sugar
L e H T u K u vA / M A R T T i K A i n u L A i n e n
The ship sank outside the
island village of Föglö in the
Åland Islands some time between 1840 and 1846, taking
with it to the bottom of the
Baltic Sea cases of alcoholic beverages apparently intended for the celebrations of
Russian officers stationed on
the western coast of Finland.
170 years elapsed.
Divers discovered the
shipwreck in the summer of
2010, salvaging nearly 150
bottles of champagne and 5
bottles of beer.
The Provincial Government of Åland, which owns
the wreck and its cargo,
sent two of the bottles to the
Technical Research Centre of
Finland (VTT) for analysis.
?We used practically all possible means to determine what
the bottle contained and, most
of all, what the liquid might
have been. We
then thought about how the
compounds might have reacted over time and, thereby,
managed to shed some light
on the secret,. I
reckon we got pretty close.?
In particular, VTT is interested in how and why the
lactic acid bacteria survived
under such extreme conditions, Wilhelmson reveals, for
the bacterial strains may have
an application in the modern
food and drink industry.
She also expresses her
gratitude to Stallhagen for
giving the research team a
free hand.
Sweet and spicy roasted root vegetables
4 to 6 servings
The dish is practically effortless, but the flavour payoff is tremendous. It was
a bold choice that is true
to the original production
method,. she adds.
Thirsty for more
Thus far, the Åland Islandsbased microbrewery has bottled 120,000 bottles of the
historic beer for the markets
in Inland Finland and the
Åland Islands.
If the public is thirsty for
more, the production will
continue.
?The commercial launch
of the beer was obviously a great moment, but a lot
of questions remain unanswered. We know hardly anything about the background
of the sunken vessel. This is a
unique beverage: a pale, delicate beer for celebrations,?
Ekholm says, takes a sip and
sighs.
Roasted vegetables with
a warm, vibrant edge
Itämerenkatu 12, Helsinki
Near Ruoholahti metro station
Mellow and deep flavours can be enjoyed with sweet and
spicy roasted root vegetables.. It?s difficult to say for sure because
beers also from that period are perishable and, after all, over one hundred
years had passed,. Beer in
the 19th century was primarily sold by the cask, whereas this one had been bottled
and sealed with a champagne
cork. From nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.
Ingredients
? ½ teaspoon ground cumin
? ½ teaspoon ground coriander
? ½ teaspoon ground ginger
? ½ teaspoon salt
? ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
? ¼ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
? 2 tablespoons honey
? 3 tablespoons olive oil
? 5 medium parsnips, scrubbed well or peeled
? 5 medium carrots, scrubbed well or peeled
? 2 medium sweet potatoes (about 285 grams each)
Steps
? Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
? Whisk together the cumin, coriander, ginger, salt, cinnamon,
cayenne, honey and oil in a large mixing bowl.
? Cut the parsnips in half from top to bottom, then cut each in
half horizontally (to create a total of 20 quarters; you might
need to further cut the thicker upper parts of the parsnips).
Cut the carrots in the same way. Peel the sweet potatoes,
then cut them into 2 cm pieces. Add the vegetables to the
bowl and toss to coat evenly.
? Spread the vegetables on a large rimmed baking sheet in a
single layer, drizzling over them any spice mixture left in the
bowl. Roast for 40 to 50 minutes, stirring once or twice, until
the vegetables are tender and browned in spots but not dried
out. Then the oven takes over and you can
relax until they are done, usually within an hour. H T
THE STORY is fascinating.
Setbacks for taste
The first setback was the realisation that salt water had
gotten into the bottle.
?By determining salinity we were able to estimate
that the original beer had
been quite mild, maybe 3-5
per cent in strength. ?In particular, we succeeded in giving such a mild
beer depth and a rich flavour.
The flavour profile is dissimilar to the pale beers available in stores [?]. 16
23 . Roasted vegetables, a highlight of cooking in
the cooler months, fall into the latter category.
All a basic recipe requires is cutting up a mix of vegetables,
tossing them with olive oil, salt and pepper, and spreading
them on a baking sheet. says Jan Wennström, the
CEO at Stallhagen.
What about the taste
of Stallhagen Historic Beer
1843?
Not dissimilar to a relatively ordinary beer. We analysed its simple aspects, such as colour and
acidity, but also its more unusual aspects, such as flavouring substances, which give the
beer its characteristic taste,?
tells Annika Wilhelmson, a key
account manager at VTT.
?It required quite a lot of
detective work because the
compounds we discovered
were not what the original
product had contained. but not a
whiff of history.
Yet, the beer offers much
more, insists Mats Ekholm,
the master brewer at Stallhagen
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Thu 23-Sun 26 October
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Alexander Theatre
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Strauss´ Olympic Hymn.
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Hämeentie 3
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American
cinema
J A M E S O . Espoo Museum of
Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.emma.museum
Until Sun 18 January
#snapshot
Photographs taken by ordinary
people, images sourced from the
internet, historic snapshots and
selfies as well as an overview of
the history of the selfie.
The Finnish Museum
of Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
Tickets ?0/6/8
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Until Wed 28 January
Edward Munch - The Dance of Life
Exhibition of one of the major
visual artists in Northern Europe
of the 20th century.
Didrichsen Art Museum
Kuusilahdenkuja 1
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?0/8/13
www.didrichsenmuseum.fi
Until Sun 22 March
Sibelius and the World of Art
Exhibition explores the links
between the composer?s work
and the art scene of his time.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 10:00-17:00
www.ateneum.fi
OTHERS
Until Sun 26 October
Cinemaissi
Latin American film festival.
www.cinemaissi.org. Julian
Lage, Jorge Roeder and Marcus
Gilmore (USA)
Jazz.
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
Tickets ?48
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Wed 29 October
Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu & Jouko Harjanne.
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?9.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 23-Wed 29 October
Sirkus Finlandia
One of Finland´s oldest circus
companies.
Kaisaniemen puistokuja 3
Tickets ?16-32
www.sirkusfinlandia.fi
Fri 24-Sun 26 October
Marita Liulia & Co. This has
all contributed to a greater interest in other cultures
and international cinema. Jarkko Partanen:
Dirty Dancing
Contemporary dance.
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SAK ARI VIIK A
Contemporary
dance at Alexander Theatre
Wed 29 October
Tero Saarinen Company &
Avanti! : Gaspard | Wavelengths |
Vox Balaenae
A triple bill of Finland?s most internationally acclaimed contemporary
dancer-choreographer.
Alexander Theatre
Albertinkatu 32
Tickets ?17.50-48.50
www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
Alexander Theatre fills up with brilliant contemporary dance between 21 October and 1 November. Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
Fri 24 October
Club Kultabassokerho
Ruger Hauer & Kalifornia-Keke.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?10
www.kuudeslinja.com
Sat 25 October
Club Hang the DJ
Big Wave Riders.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Tickets ?6
www.kuudeslinja.com
Sat 25 October
Paleface & Räjähtävä Nyrkki
Hip hop.
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Tickets ?22.50/23
www.sellosali.fi
Mon 27 October
Fink (UK)
Indie/folk.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?18
www.kuudeslinja.com
Tue 28 October
Mike Stern (USA)
Jazz.
Helsinki Music Centre
Black Box
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?17.50-37.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Tue 28 October
Edda Magnason (SWE)
Jazz.
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Tickets ?41/46
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Sat 25 October
Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto 40v.
Asa & Band, Joose Keskitalo, Yona
& Liikkuva Pilvi.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?14.50
www.korjaamo.fi
Tue 28 October
Ville Leinonen
Death Black Dream Halloween tour.
Elmun Baari
Telakkakatu 8
Tickets ?6.50/7
www.elmunbaari.fi
Sat 25 October
Moon Boots (USA)
Nu disco.
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki
www.lebonk.fi
Tue 28 October
Lecherous Gaze (USA)
Punk/hard rock/stoner.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Tickets ?11.50
www.kuudeslinja.com
Wed 29 October
Migis & Kopone
Hip hop.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?8.50
www.semifinal.fi
Wed 29 October
Diandra
Pop.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?15.50
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 29 October
Gary Burton Quartet feat. The
number of newcomers arriving from abroad has increased, as well as people
travelling overseas. with artists like Tim
Hecker (CAN), Cold Cave (USA),
The Fall (UK) and OFF! (USA).
Various venues.
www.supermassive.fi
Fri 24 October
Lada Nuevo, Antti Autio
Folk/rock/pop.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?7.50
www.korjaamo.fi
Sat 25 October
Entombed A.D (SWE)
Metal.
Nosturi
Telakkakatu 8
Tickets ?22.00
Helsinki
www.elmu.fi
Fri 24 October
Softengine
Pop/rock.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
www.virginoil.fi
Fri 24 October
Yona, Viitasen Piia
Folk/pop.
Gloria
Pieni Roobertinkatu 12
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50
www.gloriahelsinki.fi
Sat 25 October
Apulanta
Rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?24
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 24 October
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Red Nose Day concert.
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?22.50-43.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sun 26 October
Lord of the Lost (GER)
Metal.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?22/23
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 24 October
Richard Strauss
150th anniversary
Anniversary concert
with top vocalists.
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?21.50-62.50
www.opera.fi
Mon 27 October
Anna Kokkonen, Viitasen Piia,
Laura Airaksinen
Pop/folk.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 24 October
Smash Into Pieces (SWE)
Hard rock.
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
www.lebonk.fi
Fri 24 October
Raul Saaremets & Rhythm
Doctor
Legendary Mutant Disco dj from
Tallinn.
Club Kaiku
Kaikukatu 4
www.clubkaiku.fi
Cinemaissí has now become
an important multicultural
event on the calendar.
On offer until Sunday 26
October, once again films from
all around Latin America are
being be screened, covering a
wide range of themes and topics. During the Aleksanteri Tanssii (?Alexander Dances?) festival, an impressive line-up of dance pieces from top Finnish choreographers
and dance artists will be seen on stage.
Swan Song, a new work from media artist Marita Liulia, will be getting its
world premiere at Alexander Theatre on Friday 24 October
Directed by Wes Ball,
a creator of animated shorts
and visual effects making his
feature debut, the adaptation
of James Dasher?s novel is visually stylish, suspenseful and
original. search for answers
to the questions of who put
them there and why. a somewhat grandiosesounding pedigree that turns
out to be surprisingly apt.
The Maze Runner is set inside a bucolic compound surrounded by a massive wall.
Known as the Glade, this village of thatched huts and
hammocks appears to be a
prison of sorts, inhabited by
a gaggle of apparently amnesiac adolescent boys . who is quickly recruited as
a Runner after he discovers a
previously unknown portal
. stated Greve
in a release back in 2012. 29 OCTOBER 2014
gReg K aDeL
Film
?The Maze Runner?: No
escape from this cliffhanger
LIKE the book that inspired it
. worth of supplies.
But something is different about Thomas, as several
of the other boys note.
This observation, in and of
itself, makes Thomas sound
exactly like the hero of every other teenage drama.
But Thomas isn?t especially fast, smart, strong, talented or brave. As the saying goes,
curiosity may kill the cat, but
without it, how are you going to kick down the door onto the next of your nine lives?
The Maze Runner defies
expectations on several levels, not the least of which is its
avoidance of the now seemingly requisite teen-romance
subplot. In fact, he?s just
as scared as everyone else,
as he tells us. rules and enters the
maze, where he not only survives a night inside, but comes
out having killed a Griever.
The sequences set inside
the maze are viscerally claustrophobic, yet Ball evokes a
visual mood that?s closer to
the interior of a cathedral.
The filmmaker has a knack
for chills and thrills, ratcheting up the stakes and excitement every time Thomas
. In
keeping with his unpredicta-
The
Queen
of the
Opera
His tenth studio album,
Strut, dropped earlier this
year. Thomas, as it happens,
isn?t the only one dying of curiosity here. He?s the latest inmate to arrive via the subterranean freight elevator that
ascends, once a month, into
the middle of the Glade, carrying one more kid who can?t remember anything except his
name, along with another 30
days. Yet he?s also so
willing to question the status quo that, three days after
his arrival, Thomas defies the
Gladers. retired hot man gets back
on the horse in John Wick. Spearheaded by singles
The Chamber and Sex, Kravitz
marks his return to the spotlight with a perfromance at
Hartwall Areena on Sunday
26 October.
The gig is also Kravitz?s
first appearance in Finland
since a cancelled gig in 2012
at the same venue, due to his
filming commitments that
ran overtime.
Lenny Kravitz
26 october, 20:00
Tickets ?53.50/67.50
hartwall arena
areenankuja 1
helsinki
saK aRi ViiK a
M I C H A E L O . The Maze
Runner movie is one heck of
a cliffhanger. here isao Takahata retells the oldest recorded Japanese narrative (from the 10th-century), as a damsel arrives on earth from the moon,
Finally, some viewing of the guilty pleaser-kind, as Keau Reeves. Although a girl (Kaya
Scodelario) shows up in the
Glade soon after Thomas does,
there is, refreshingly, no canoodling, merely an understandable perplexity among her male
peers, who have been living so
long in their enforced man cave
that they?ve forgotten what anything else feels like. asks one of the
youngest boys (Blake Cooper)
with a tone of reverence and
awe, as the new prisoner showers her cohort with a barrage
of rocks, mere minutes after
climbing out of the elevator.
So do they get out?
That would be telling. As it turns
out, the wall conceals a maze,
the door to which opens every day between sunrise and
sunset. ?My
wish is not only that children will be enchanted by the
thrilling adventures of this
ballet, but also that parents
will look in the mirror after
the performance and perhaps
see themselves in a new light.?
Given the fact that his
production has returned to
the stage on numerous occasions, it appears as if both
boxes have been ticked.
Performed in Finnish,
surtitles in Finnish, Swedish
and English.
The Snow Queen
25 october-29 november
Tickets ?21.50-107.50
Finnish national opera
helsinginkatu 58
helsinki. If the theatre
had been selling tickets to the
next instalment of the dystopian thriller (already greenlighted by 20th Century Fox,
although no release date has
been set), I would have bought
one before I left the lobby.
That?s about the worst
thing I can say about the film:
It?s not quite a full meal. and no one else ?
are tasked with exploring the
maze?s contours, mapping
them while looking for an exit. S U L L I vA N
The Wa shing Ton Pos T
J A M E S O . As the closing credits roll, you likely will be too.
After the disappointment of 2012?s cancelled gig, Lenny Kravitz is returning to Finland on 26 October.
Sounds like a revisionist
The Maze Runner (K12)
Release Date: 24 october
Director: Wes Ball
starring: Dylan o?Brien,
Will Poulter
This Is Where I Leave You (K12)
Release Date: 24 october
Director: shawn Levy
starring: Jason Bateman,
Tina Fey
And So It goes (K7)
Release Date: 24 october
Director: Rob Reiner
starring: Michael Douglas,
Diane Keaton
Kraftidioten (K16)
Release Date: 24 october
Director: hans Petter Moland
starring: stellan skarsgård,
Bruno ganz
The Tale of Princess
Kaguya (K7)
Release Date: 24 october
Directors: isao Takahata /
Pekka Lehtosaari
Feat. Ball has described the
film as Lord of the Flies meets
Lost . Part machine
and part muscle, Grievers will
kill anyone who gets stuck inside the maze after dark.
Into this dead-end scenario lands a boy named Thomas
(Dylan O?Brien). However, reliably he bounced back
a handful of years later and
2011?s Black and White America saw him tackle funk with
intriguing results.
J A M E S O . Sure, The
Maze Runner unravels a few
mysteries, but it spins even
more. But if
the soup course is as satisfying as the salad, I?ll gladly wait
a year for the next serving.
As incomplete as the narrative is, The Maze Runner
delivers on almost every other level. The cast is extremely promising,
with Jason Bateman and Tina Fey joined by the likes of Jane Fonda, adam Driver and Rose Byrne.
The stars should have aligned in this tale of a family reunion brought on by the death of the patriarch, but early word suggests that for this comedy, they are all out of whack.
hoping to put a halt to the gradual decline of the once brilliant director Rob Reiner, And So
It Goes looks the goods at first glance, with Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton providing some
classic hollywood star wattage. Fingers crossed a few chuckles rear their head also.
Kraftidioten offers some quality viewing from norway, as stellan skarsgård?s plough driver
wins a citizen of the year award moments before embarking on a killing spree.
Japanimation comes to the big screen, as The Tale of Princess Kaguya offers viewers what Variety described as ?a visionary tour de force?. S U L L I vA N
heL sinK i TiMes
ARRIvINg on the scene at the
end of the ?80s, initial press
surrounding Lenny Kravitz raised an eyebrow to the
fact that his sound seemingly
cribbed previously released
ideas from an earlier era.
The public cared little,
however, and after a couple
of releases sold reasonably
well, the arrival of his third
album, Are You Gonna Go My
Way, saw Kravitz propelled
to the stratosphere in 1993.
With its extremely catchy title cut of the same name, the
album went on to sell four
million copies worldwide. After Kerttu finds the missing piece of
the Snow Queen?s mirror, the
Snow Queen kidnaps Kai in
Returning to the stage yet again, The Snow Queen follows
a perilous journey across Finland.
an effort to get it back. the first of a trilogy that includes The Scorch Trials and
The Death Cure . And
given the torque of the twisty
ending, it isn?t a yes-or-no
question either. who have, over the
course of their mysterious,
three-year incarceration, developed a highly regimented
tribal social structure featuring assigned jobs.
The most elite of these is
the job of Runner. the voices of:
Krista Kosonen
sanuki no Miyatsuko ?
Markku huhtamo
John Wick (K16)
Release Date: 24 october
Director: Chad stahelski
starring: Keanu Reeves,
Willem Dafoe
Elsewhere on screens
in what should be packed with comedy gold, This Is Where I Leave You limps into view, having
been on the receiving end of some scathing reviews stateside. Wandering far and wide in search
of her firend, Kerttu eventually finds her way to the Snow
Queen?s frozen castle.
?The Snow Queen is my
tribute to the Finnish culture
and way of life,. ?Are all
girls like this?. During daylight hours,
Runners . Gladers . S U L L I vA N
heL sinK i TiMes
RETURNINg to the stage once
again, Kenneth Greve?s ballet for the whole family can
be enjoyed at Finnish Opera
from Saturday 25 October
until Saturday 29 November.
Based on the tale by H.C.
Andersen from 1845, Greve
has set the story in early
twentieth century Finland,
setting the main characters of the story on a journey
from Helsinki through foreign lands to Lapland.
The story focuses on a pair
of good friends. The supporting cast isn?t too shabby either, with the likes of Michael
nyqvist ian Mcshane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe all taking a bow.
JO'S
ble nature, rather than follow
this up with a fan-pleasing
clutch of tracks, Circus saw
the singer bogged down with
his disillusionment with the
music industry at the time.
1998?s 5 saw the singer back on form, however,
with the album going on to
sell over six million copies
and snagging two Grammy
Awards in the process. steps inside the maze.
But the movie is about
more than a puzzle, or the
Gladers. CULTURE
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23 . Subsequent albums saw Kravitz?s audience gradually
dwindling, with 2004?s Baptism in particular receiving
a critical drubbing. It?s a job made more complicated by the fact that the
maze changes configuration
while they sleep, and more
dangerous by the fact that
its corridors are patrolled by
monstrous, spiderlike sentries
called Grievers. It?s a
parable about the power of
curiosity
USA/2005.
23.30 5D: My Baggy Body
00.30 Tough Love
01.30 Overhaulin
02.30 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
14.40 Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
21.30 Real Housewives of New
York City
Five glamorous Manhattan
housewives balance envious
social calendars, challenging
careers, and motherhood,
with the hustle and bustle of
the big city all around.
23.30 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
saturday
24.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Black Widow
MT V3 22.40
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
14.35 Mike & Molly
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.40 Black Widow FILM
A federal investigator tracks
down a gold digging woman
who moves from husband
to husband, kills them and
collects the inheritance.
Directed by: Bob Rafelson.
Starring: Theresa Russell,
Debra Winger, Sami Frey.
USA/1987.
00.50 24: Live Another Day (K16)
SUB
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Anthony Bourdain: Parts
Unknown
18.00 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
19.30 Dinner for Schmucks FILM
An ambitious executive
accepts an invitation from
his boss to attend a dinner
party where high-powered
professionals make fun
of unsuspecting dimwits.
Directed by: Jay Roach.
Starring: Steve Carell, Paul
Rudd, Zach Galifianakis.
USA/2010.
23.00 Arrow
00.00 Cheaters
01.05 Catfish
JIM
11.25 Top Secret Recipes
12.20 American Pickers
The show follows antique
and collectible pickers
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz
as they travel around the
United States.
14.10 Shark Tank UK
15.10 MasterChef Australia
16.05 New York Ink
Miami Ink veteran Ami
James will be the center of
this Big Apple iteration of
the tattoo business.
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank UK
21.00 Rude Tube
22.00 Pawn Stars UK
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 JIM D Crime: Gang Life
(K16)
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Gene Simmons Family
Jewels
02.30 Border Security:
Australia?s Front Line
03.00 Bondi Rescue
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress XL
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Fashion Star
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
17.50 The Hotel Inspector
21.30 Beverly Hills Cop FILM
A freewheeling Detroit
cop pursuing a murder
investigation finds himself
dealing with the very
different culture of
Beverly Hills.
Directed by: Martin Brest.
Starring: Eddie Murphy,
Judge Reinhold,
John Ashton.
USA/1984.
23.40 Red State (K18) FILM
Directed by: Kevin Smith.
Starring: Michael Parks,
Melissa Leo. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 American Pie: Band Camp
FILM
Matt Stifler, younger brother
of Steve Stifler is sent to the
infamous band camp, where
he is compelled to change
his ways. This time the
teams compete in Thailand.
22.15 Lottery and Joker
00.25 Southland (K16)
01.25 Reckless
SUB
11.00 Suburgatory
12.00 Two and a Half Men
14.30 Undercover Boss
In this hidden-camera
show an executive goes
undercover in his or her own
company to get a raw look at
how people really work.
15.35 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
Jamie Oliver and Jimmy
Doherty open a pop-up
cafeteria, where they serve
up the best of British food.
16.45 X Factor UK
19.05 Top Gear
20.00 Win Win FILM
A struggling lawyer and
volunteer wrestling coach?s
chicanery comes back to
haunt him when the teenage
grandson of the client he
has double-crossed comes
into his life. Canada/
UK/2009.
02.20 Conspiracy Theory Jesse
Ventura
TV5
06.45 Must Love Cats
07.35 Top 20 Funniest
11.30 The Deep End of the
Ocean FILM
Directed by: Ulu Grosbard.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer,
Ryan Merriman, Treat
Williams. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
MTV3
Hell?s Kitchen USA
Sub 18.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
14.35 Back in the Game
17.30 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Reckless
A legal drama set in
Charleston, South Carolina
pitting two lawyers against
eachother, and their
growing mutual attraction.
23.35 Those Who Kill (K16)
Thomas obsesses over an
ominous letter that puts his
career and family in jeopardy.
00.35 Terriers
SUB
14.00
14.55
16.00
18.00
Undercover Boss
Mythbusters
Walker, Texas Ranger
Hell?s Kitchen USA
SERIES BEGINS. Directed by: Steve
Rash. Instead,
he finds himself accompanying
the landlord?s daughter, Shannon
(Nicole Kidman). Starring: Billy Bob
Thornton, Greg Kinnear,
Marcia Gay Harden.
USA/2005.
15.30 90210
17.55 Once Upon a Time
21.00 The Twilight: Eclipse FILM
Directed by: David Slade.
Starring: Kristen Stewart,
Robert Pattinson, Taylor
Lautner. Starring: Adam Sandler,
Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob
Schneider. USA/2010.
23.40 Under the Dome
00.35 Dolan?s Cadillac (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Jeff Beesley.
Starring: Christian Slater,
Wes Bentley. 20
TV GUIDE
23 . Picking up
where they left off, they discover
why growing older does not
mean that they have to grow up.
Adulthood is what you make of
it and no one at the lake house
is eager to be the grown-up of
the gang. USA/2011.
01.30 Frasier
02.00 Castle
TV5
06.40 Matlock
07.35 The King of Queens
12.00 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.30 Kitchen Boss
13.30 MacGyver
14.30 Matlock
15.25 Rules of Engagement
15.55 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.25 Married... The two run
off to America together where
the Shannon expects to claim a
piece of land for herself in the
Oklahoma Land Rush. Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman,
Thomas Gibson. Meeting at
a lakeside cottage where they
celebrated their championships years earlier, the friends
re-connect with each other, their
spouses and children. Starring: Arielle
Kebbel, Crystle Lightning,
Eugene Levy. 100 young
criminals that have been
living in space have been
sent to Earth to test if it has
become inhabitable after 97
years of being abandoned
after a nuclear war.
00.00 Supernatural (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.20
12.20
14.10
15.10
16.05
18.00
friday
23.10
Crocodileman
Modern Marvels
Shark Tank UK
MasterChef Australia
New York Ink
MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia
gives budding chefs the
ultimate once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to develop
their cooking skills, and be
mentored by the best.
19.00 Shark Tank UK
20.00 Talent USA
21.00 Undercover Boss
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.30 Guinness World Records
02.25 Strange or What?
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress XL
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
Cooks to Market gives
amateur cooks the chance
to turn their homemade food
products into a life changing
business.
14.50 Britain?s Best Bakery
15.50 Hoarders
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
00.00 Beyond the Headlines:
Cleveland House of
Horrors (K16)
01.00 Oz (K16)
02.10 Frasier
02.40 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
03.35 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.20 MacGyver
07.20 Matlock
08.10 The King of Queens
12.30 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
13.00 Kitchen Boss
14.00 MacGyver
MacGyver follows the
adventures of a secret agent
armed with almost infinite
scientific resourcefulness.
15.00 Matlock
16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
16.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
17.00 Married. However,
things do not bode well for either
of them. Directed
by: Thomas McCarthy.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Amy
Ryan, Bobby Cannavale.
USA/2011.
23.00 C.S.I. New York (K16)
00.15 Grimm (K16)
01.10 The Simpsons
JIM
09.25 MasterChef Australia
12.10 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
13.10 American Restoration
13.40 Ball Boys
14.10 Ice Road Truckers
16.05 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
18.00 Undercover Boss
19.00 Kitchen Nightmares
21.00 Guinness World Records
Gone Wild
The series features average
citizens who attempt to
break records which could
allow them to be in the
Guinness Book of World
Records.
22.00 Ax Men
23.00 Rude Tube
00.00 Deadliest Roads
07.40 Children?s Programming
08.30 Sea Rescue
10.00 Dogs of Manhattan
11.00 The Hotel Inspector
12.00 Wipeout
13.05 Bad News Bears FILM
Directed by: Richard
Linklater. Directed by: Dennis
Dugan. USA/2010.
Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an
impoverished 19th-century Irish
tenant farmer, whose father is
shot while protesting high rents.
Young Joseph is determined to
take his revenge and sets out to
kill the local landlord. World
renowned chef Gordon
Ramsay puts aspiring young
chefs through rigorous and
devastating challenges at
his restaurant in Hollywood.
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
Sheldon is forced to go
behind Leonard?s back to
spend time with Penny
following their breakup.
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Arrow
23.00 The 100
SERIES BEGINS. Yet the chance of a
better future still beckons, and
they head out West, still aiming
to stake their claim in the wide
open spaces of Oklahoma.
Directed by: Ron Howard. USA/1992.
TV5 21.00
Friday 24.10.2014
AVA 21.00
Saturday 25.10.2014. With Children
17.25 The King of Queens
18.30 EDtv FILM
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Matthew
McConaughey, Jenna
Elfman, Woody Harrelson.
USA/1999.
21.00 Grown Ups FILM
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
Starring: Adam Sandler,
Chris Rock, David Spade.
USA/2010.
23.05 The Blacklist (K16)
00.05 Not Easily Broken FILM
02.05 Overhaulin
03.00 Operation Repo
03.55 3rd Rock from the Sun
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 It?s a Brad, Brad World
14.40 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
This time the two meals
cooked up in a quarter of an
hour are sausage gnocchi,
warm kale and bean salad,
plus Mexican chicken, wicked
mole sauce, veg and rice.
16.30 Biggest Loser
23.00 First Dates
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
25.10.
MTV3
NELONEN
Amazing Race
MTV3 21.00
08.05 Children?s Programming
21.00 Amazing Race
This is a reality television
show in which teams of
two people race around the
world in competition with
other teams. USA/1999.
13.30 Dawson?s Creek
14.30 Your Style in His Hands
15.25 Keasha?sPerfect Dress
16.00 Lindsay
17.00 My Crazy Obsession
17.30 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 Jack and Jill FILM
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
Starring: Adam Sandler,
Al Pacino, Elodie Tougne.
USA/2011.
23.00 Sexcetera (K18)
00.10 Kelly?s First Nudist
Retreat (K18) FILM
Directed by: Francis Locke.
Starring: Jadra Holly, Amber
Michaels, Frank Fortuna.
USA/2008.
01.55 Knight Rider
02.50 Head Over Heels FILM
Directed by: Mark Waters.
Starring: Monica Potter,
Freddie Prinze Jr.,
Shalom Harlow.
USA/2001.
04.15 Rules of Engagement
AVA
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
14.55 Jamie?s American Road
Trip
15.55 Grand Designs Australia
19.00 Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
21.00 Far and Away (K16) FILM
Directed by: Ron Howard.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole
Kidman, Thomas Gibson.
USA/1992.
23.35 Modern Family
00.35 Ladies of London
Grown Ups
Far and Away
Adam Sandler stars in this
hugely popular American
comedy film which revolves
around five friends and former
basketball teammates who, three
decades later, reunite to mourn
the death of their highschool
basketball coach
Epatha Merkerson.
USA/2003.
AVA
11.00
15.00
15.30
16.30
Building the Dream
Lucky Dog
Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
18.30 Real Housewives of New
York City
20.00 Ladies of London
21.00 Going the Distance FILM
A romantic comedy centered
on a couple who tries to
keep their love alive as
they shuttle back and
forth between New York
and San Francisco to
see one another.
Directed by: Nanette
Burstein. With Children
08.15 Dawson?s Creek
15.00 United States of Bacon
15.30 The Goldbergs
16.00 Monk
17.00 Knight Rider
18.05 House
19.05 The Flintstones in Viva
Rock Vegas FILM
The Flintstones and the
Rubbles go on a trip to
Rock Vegas, where Wilma
is pursued by playboy Chip
Rockefeller. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
23 . one very overweight
and the other severely
underweight . Sunshine
02.15 Fame
03.10 Tough Love
04.00 Chicago Fire
04.45 Rules of Engagement
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Gallery Girls
Gallery Girls follows
the lives of 6 young,
20-something women that
work in New York City?s
hippest art galleries.
14.40 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.40 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
22.30 First Dates
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Bean
Erin Brockovich
British comedy genius Rowan
Atkinson stars as Mr. Directed by: Steven
Soderbergh. Directed by:
Brian Levant. New York
23.30 The Originals (K16)
00.30 The Simpsons
01.00 Cheaters
JIM
08.55 MasterChef Australia
12.15 Ice Road Truckers
14.10 Talent USA
This reality show
features singers, dancers,
magicians, comedians,
and other performers of
all ages competing for the
advertised top prize of one
million dollars.
15.05 Undercover Boss
16.00 Ax Men
18.00 Pawn Stars UK
20.00 Hotel Hell
22.00 Mountain Men
Eustace Conway lives on a
parcel of land in the Blue
Ridge Mountains and hosts
people to whom he teaches
basic wilderness survival
skills.
23.00 Strange or What?
00.00 Rude Tube
01.00 American Restoration
01.30 Ball Boys
02.00 Master Shooter
03.00 Modern Marvels
07.40 Children?s Programming
09.00 Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition
13.00 Sea Rescue
15.30 Body Proof
21.00 Captain America: The First
Avenger FILM
Directed by: Joe Johnston.
Starring: Chris Evans,
Hayley Atwell, Sebastian
Stan. Right while
teaching a class.
23.35 The Good Guys
00.35 Super Fun Night
SUB
14.00 X Factor UK
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
Chaos ensues when a
nymphomaniac physicist
visiting Sheldon hooks up
with Leonard.
20.30 The Simpsons
23.00 Grimm (K16)
Nick and Hank have to
protect Wu?s friends when
they become the target of
Wesen, without giving away
the existence of Grimms and
Wesen to Wu.
00.00 Gang Related (K16)
01.00 Shameless (K16)
02.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.00 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
Jeff Corwin travels around
the world taking viewers
below the surface to explore
the Earth?s least understood
resource, our oceans and
waterways, and the animals
that call them home.
12.00 American Pickers
14.00 Shark Tank UK
15.00 MasterChef Australia
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank UK
20.00 Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant
in an attempt to revive the
business.
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 NCIS Los Angeles (K16)
02.00 JIM D Crime: Gang Life (K16)
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
10.20 Say Yes to the Dress XL
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Once Upon a Time
In the fairy tale world, a
young Rumplestiltskin
receives a magic item that
will help him resolve his
issues with his father.
16.45 Excused
17.15 Frasier
22.40 Oz (K16)
Ryan and Stanislofski go
to war over a cell phone.
McManus is fired in the
aftermath of the shooting.
23.50 NCIS
00.50 Beyond the Headlines:
Cleveland House of
Horrors (K16)
01.50 Frasier
02.25 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.25 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. Starring: Aaron
Eckhart, Albert Finney, Julia
Roberts. Finally she convinces
attorney Ed Masry (Albert
Finney) to hire her and promptly
stumbles upon a monumental
case against a giant corporation. a
number of unfortunate mishaps
happen: Bean almost breaks
up a marriage, operates on an
injured American policeman
and accidentally destroys the
painting, although a brilliant
plan results in these mistakes
being rectified and concealed.
This film brings you a lot of
laughs. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
20.00 Breaking Amish: Los
Angeles
21.00 Charlie?s Angels: Full
Throttle FILM
Directed by: McG. USA/2010.
00.00 Those Who Kill (K16)
01.15 The Americans
02.15 Political Animals
SUB
11.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
The Simpsons
Adventures of Merlin
The Face
Catfish
Pretty Little Liars
X Factor UK
Anthony Bourdain: Parts
Unknown
Tony and his friend explore
the far reaches of the
indigenous Andes in search
of a rare variety of wild
cocoa that is said to be the
best in the world.
20.00 Mythbusters
In this series two Hollywood
special effects experts
attempt to debunk urban
legends by directly testing
them.
22.30 C.S.I. USA/2000.
23.50 Chicago Fire
01.45 Mr. Starring: Janeen
Damian, Connie Dolphin, Gil
Netter. New York (K16)
A spinoff of Crime Scene
Investigations set in New
York City.
23.35 Suits
00.35 Glades
01.35 Legit (K16)
SUB
14.00
14.30
14.55
16.00
United Bates of America
The Capones
Mythbusters
Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, a martial artist,
and his partner Trivette
are Texas Rangers. Directed by: Mel Smith.
Starring: Rowan Atkinson,
Richard Curtis, Peter MacNicol,
Burt Reynolds. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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sunday
monday
26.10.
MTV3
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Flicka 2
MTV3 13.20
08.00 Children?s Programming
13.20 Flicka 2 FILM
A city girl finds herself in
the country not by choice
and befriends a horse.
Directed by: Michael
Damian. for an answer. swap diets in
an attempt to change the way
they view food and eating.
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Catfish
23.00 Nikita (K16)
00.00 Shameless (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
12.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
American Pickers
Shark TankUK
MasterChef Australia
Modern Marvels
Modern Marvels focuses on
how technologies affect and
are used in today?s society.
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark TankUK
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Ax Men
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Beverly Hills Nannies
SERIES BEGINS.
Caregivers of wealthy
Beverly Hills families deal
with the over-the-top
demands of their employers,
including tasks like ironing
designer baby clothes
and working closely with
personal chefs.
23.30 NCIS
A dead ensign in
Chesapeake starts the team
on a twisted plot involving
murder and sexual assault.
00.25 Rescue me
01.25 NCIS
02.20 Elementary
03.45 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.25 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. After being
fired from the Royal Gallery
because he was sleeping on
the job, Mr. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 Mr. The
two begin an incredible fight
that will bring a small town to
its feet and a huge company to
its knees. UK/1997.
Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts)
is an unemployed single mother,
desperate to find a job to
support herself and her three
children. UK/1997.
23.00 Spartacus: Blood and Sand
(K18)
00.10 House
01.10 Dirty (K16) FILM
Directed by: Chris Fisher.
Starring: Keith David, Cuba
Gooding Jr, Brittany Daniel.
USA/2005.
03.00 Radio FILM
Directed by: Mike Tollin.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard,
S. Starring: Aaron
Eckhart, Albert Finney, Julia
Roberts. Bean in
this hilarious romp through the
California art world. Starring:
Jane Krakowski, Joan
Collins, Kristen Johnston.
USA/2000.
21.00 Bean FILM
Directed by: Mel Smith.
Starring: Rowan Atkinson,
Peter MacNicol, Burt
Reynolds. They
make it their business to
battle crime in Dallas and all
around the State of Texas.
18.00 Supersize Vs Superskinny
A series in which two extreme
eaters . Bean arrives in Los
Angeles to unveil the greatest
U.S. Now Erin is determined to
take on this powerful adversary
even though no law firm has
dared to do it before. While in L.A. USA/2000.
TV5 21.00
Sunday 26.10.2014
TV5 21.00
Tuesday 28.10.2014. And while
Ed does not want anything to
do with the case, Erin will not
take ?no. USA/2011.
01.30 NCIS
02.30 Fear Factor
03.30 Bizarre Crimes
TV5
06.20 Overhaulin
07.15 Married. Starring: Drew
Barrymore, Justin Long,
Christina Applegate.
USA/2010.
22.55 Modern Family
23.55 First Dates
tuesday
27.10.
MTV3
Charlie?s Angels: Full Throttle
T V5 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.45 Amazing Race
14.45 The Millers
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
The drama set in the
glamorous world of the Los
Angeles fashion scene and
focusing on the wealthy and
powerful Forrest family.
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles
A wealthy woman with
terminal cancer and only
months to live is murdered.
Maura meets someone who
might be Mr. painting of all-time, Whistler?s Mother. Sunshine
20.00 Lindsay
The series follows
actress Lindsay Lohan?s
rehabilitation recovery and
return to the entertainment
industry.
21.00 Erin Brockovich FILM
Directed by: Steven
Soderbergh. Starring:
Cameron Diaz, Demi
Moore, Drew Barrymore.
USA/2003.
23.05 Virgin Diaries
00.15 Jack and Jill FILM
Directed by: Dennis Dugan.
USA/2011.
02.00 Twin Peaks
02.55 Spartacus: Blood
and Sand (K18)
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Flipping Out
Flipping Out takes a look
at a peculiar real estate
speculator, Jeff Lewis who
buys houses and ?flips?
them, selling them for a
profit after fixing them up.
14.40 Jamie?s American Road Trip
15.40 Jamie?s 15 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
19.00 Grand Designs Australia
21.30 Real Housewives of New
York City
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
28.10.
MTV3
Beverly Hills Nannies
Nelonen 15.50
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Undercover Boss
14.35 Modern Family
Three different, but related
families face trials and
tribulations in their own
uniquely comic ways.
15.15 Jamie?s Chef
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 The Mentalist
The Mentalist revolves
around Patrick Jane, who is
employed as an independent
consultant working with
the California Bureau of
Investigation to solve crimes.
22.35 C.S.I
For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. See www.forex.fi for more
information.
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Grocery stores. 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. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. 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. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. Single ticket
sudoku
Stargate
Stargate is a French-American
adventure science fiction film
following a small group of US
troups and an Egyptologist who
use an ancient ?Stargate. See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. Starring:
Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore.
USA/2003.
02.55 My Crazy Obsession
03.25 Overhaulin
04.20 Call Me Fitz
05.15 Rules of Engagement
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 All on the Line
14.40 Royal Inquest
15.40 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of New
York City
22.30 How to Find Love Online
Dawn O?Porter presents the
definitive guide to online
dating.
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Weather
Banks and Bureaux de Change. 09 3101 3300. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. Restaurants in the Helsinki area can be found from
the internet service www.eat.fi, which provides information on restaurants, their menus, opening hours and some user rating etc.
Internet. Wanha Kauppahalli (?Old Market Hall?) at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?)
are the most popular. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent medical treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health
centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital
(Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. Operator number 118. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. 29 OCTOBER 2014
wednesday
Finland inFo
29.10 .
MTV3
NELONEN
Under the Dome
Nelonen 21.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Nigel Marven?s Penguin
Safari
In spring, the breathtakingly
beautiful island of South
Georgia becomes a vital
breeding oasis for the
greatest concentration of
wildlife on the planet.
14.35 How I Met Your Mother
15.15 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
23.15 Royal Pains
Evan and Paige?s wedding
is finally here but there
are a few snags in the
preparation. device,
found in 1920?s Egypt, to transport
themselves to a distant planet
where humans resemble ancient
Egyptians. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. After the team arrives
on the planet, they find a culture
ruled by someone pretending
to be the Egyptian sun god Ra.
Soon, Ra captures the team and
takes control of a nuclear weapon
brought to the planet in case of
the discovery of hostile aliens. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. 09 100 23.
Medical services. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. The bachelor
and bachelorette parties
both unexpectedly end up in
Las Vegas.
00.10 Revolution (K16)
SUB
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Catfish
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Hell?s Kitchen USA
23.00 Sons of Anarchy (K16)
A man in his early 30s
struggles to find a balance
in his life between being a
new dad and his involvement
in a motorcycle club.
00.00 Star-Crossed
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.00 Extreme Fishing
This series follows Robson
Green who travels around
the world to some of
the greatest fishing
destinations, where he
challenges local masters of
their craft over five rounds
of competitive fishing.
12.00 American Pickers
14.00 Shark Tank UK
15.00 MasterChef Australia
16.00 New York Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank UK
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 JIM D: Sandy Storm
01.10 Ice Road Truckers
02.10 Mountain Men
03.05 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
HELSINKI TIMES
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
13.20 Container Wars
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Rules of Engagement
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
21.00 Under the Dome
New sheriff Big Jim suspects
that someone is after him
and enlists Junior and
Rebecca to help him.
00.00 Castle
00.55 Frasier
01.25 Rescue Me
02.20 Brad Meltzer Decoded
03.15 Undercover Boss
04.10 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.30 Matlock
07.25 The King of Queens
11.55 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
The series follows a
successful sports writer Ray
Barone, whose oddball family
life consists of a fed up wife,
overbearing parents, and an
older brother with lifelong
jealousy.
16.55 Married. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
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Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of
what to do) . Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. 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). 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. Dial 112. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
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Thursday 10/23
8:18 am 5:48 pm
8:34 am 5:27 pm
8:30 am 5:58 pm
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8:27 am 5:49 pm
8:55 am 4:55 pm
Telephone. Starring: Jaye Davidson,
Viveca Lindfors, Kurt Russell.
USA/France/1994.
TV5 21.00
Wednesday 29.10.2014
Airport buses.Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central
Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 minutes, ?6.
On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to
the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Households?
financial assets stood at
?413
billion
at the end of 2013.
Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. 09 4711.
Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. The
team leaders escape and must
fight Ra and his army of warriors
to save Earth from being destroyed
by Ra. Directed by: Roland Emmerich. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.30 United States of Bacon
20.30 Brooklyn 99
21.00 Stargate FILM
Directed by: Roland
Emmerich. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
Post Offices. Starring: Jaye
Davidson, Viveca Lindfors,
Kurt Russell.
USA/France/1994.
23.25 The Blacklist (K16)
00.30 Brooklyn 99
01.00 Charlie?s Angels: Full
Throttle FILM
Directed by: McG. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietaniemi Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
Restaurants. For
more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. Public phones
are scarce. 22
TV GUIDE
23
I love seeing snow
around me. here everyone is
treated in the same way.
My first trip to Finland
was to visit a friend for a few
weeks. Whenever I visited offices, English-speaking staff
were very helpful, which impressed me a lot. Shopping
is also out of reach . I was so impressed by
the country, the weather (I
came in the summer), and the
system and customer services. There is a lot to appreciate here, especially the
attitude, the cooperation and
a lot more.
To me, it didn?t seem
like Finns don?t talk much.
Whenever I needed to talk to
someone, I got a proper response and a healthy discussion started in a friendly
way. It helps me forget
the deserts of the Middle East
burning around me. Equipped
with modern HVAC technology and household appliances. I have lived both in Poland and the UAE for a long
time, and was expecting
something similar; to live as
an expat. It?s possible to go on excursions, and there are plenty
of fun activities that everyone
plans for in the winter.
www.6d.fi
SixDegrees
is on stands now!
Grab a copy from your
nearest pick-up point!. It is
nothing like what I am used
to eating- the spices and chilli used in food in Asia. If you would
like to see the contrast, visit
a Eastern European country.
You feel handicapped without
speaking the local language.
You?ll see how difficult it is to
even buy a bus ticket, and appreciate how easy it is here.
My view of Finland is positive and I think Finland has
adopted me well.
In terms of food, I am sorry to say, in my opinion it
is not tasty here at all. It was all amazing and high
class. Yet it seems that in
Finland, there is no great difference between expat and
citizen . Tourism is also
helpful for the economy.
In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland.
Send us your story to expatview@helsinkitimes.fi
The working atmosphere
here is amazing, and the
rights of workers are the best
as far as my past working experience in different countries is concerned.
For me, who has lived in a
climate of +45 degrees Celcius
in the Middle East, even snow
and low temperatures are a
blessing. Located in the centre of Jämijärvi. Success of the largest chain
of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. Suitable to reside in
all-year-round, the house is situated on charming Finnish landscape. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES
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that I could learn, as someone
who has lived in a very different culture and with different
ONCE
traditions. A lake, a beach and
a sports ground are all located nearby.
Jämijärvi offers excellent opportunities for active outdoors life, with fishing and hunting possibilities close by. 29 OCTOBER 2014
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WELLBEING
Celebrating
five years of Chinese
holistic massage in Helsinki
Our beautiful facility in Helsinki is a genuine Chinese oasis to
which you are heartfelt welcome. everything is so expensive. I find it refreshing after the
hot climate of the Gulf region
in the summer. So going out to eat is not possible
due to both the taste of food,
and the cost of it. It?s a paradise
on earth with lakes, trees and
forests. The Jämi ridge (under
5 kilometres away) provides the perfect environment for jogging, orienteering and skiing (a skiing tube is available for use all-yearround). Some people complain about the cold
weather here, but me - not at
all. The trains are empty, as are the shops, so why
not fill them by attracting
customers with better deals?
If other countries can offer
better deals on travelling and
shopping, why not Finland?
If it wouldn?t be so expensive to live and visit Finland,
it would really help tourism
from abroad. I can
only go shopping when I?m
abroad. Hundreds of customers visit our facility in Helsinki each month to receive holistic treatment and relaxing massage.
Choose the one you want from two facilities in Helsinki or
visit our brand new facility in Lappenranta.
Back and neck massage: 39?/30 min
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A recently built detached house with three rooms, kitchen and sauna is for sale
in the Satakunta region. Furthermore, there is a glider flying and parachute jumping centre for those into more extreme sports.
For more information please contact Lea Ala-Peijari: gsm 050-5124435, lea.ala-peijari@kolumbus.fi
China Liangtse Wellness Oy
Open: Mon-Sat 10:00-21:00, Sun 12:00-20:00
Arkadiankatu 17 LH B, Helsinki
Tel: 09 454 6301 I info2@liangtse.fi
Iso Roobertinkatu 8, LH 1, Helsinki
Tel: 09 278 4201 I info@liangtse.fi
Kauppakatu 40 D 6th floor, 53100 Laapenranta
Tel: +358 544 3111, lpr@liangtse.fi
www.liangtse.fi
EXPAT VIEW
A Pakistani who has lived most of his life out of Pakistan, Aftab Khan has fallen in love with Finland.
Why I came to Finland
I arrived in Finland,
I could not believe such a
friendly country and such
friendly people existed on
Earth