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W W W.HELSINKITIMES.FI Available by subscription, on board more than 350 Finnair flights, on Allegro trains and in all top-quality hotels in Finland. HT residing in Finland are suspected of promoting the activities of al-Shabab, the Somali Islamic militant group that has claimed responsibility for Saturday?s mall attack in Kenya, the National Bureau of Investigation and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service have revealed after submitting their pretrial investigation materials for ?nal comments. The suspected crimes include ?nancing terrorism, recruitment for the commission of a terrorist offence and preparation of an offence to be committed with terrorist intent. HT FINNS Party MPs Vesa-Matti Saarak- kala and Jussi Halla-aho have tabled written questions expressing their disapproval of the Government?s decision to increase Finland?s refugee quota to accept 500 refugees from Syria next year. He also argued that previous experiences from the integration of quota refugees into the Finnish society are not entirely positive. In his written question, Hallaaho similarly questioned why ?a secondary task. ISSUE 39 (321) . All suspects have denied the criminal allegations. SIX PEOPLE The Somali Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the recent mall attack in Kenya. Jussi Halla-aho (left) expressed his disapproval of the Government?s decision to increase Finland?s refugee quota to accept 500 refugees from Syria next year. Helsinki Times is also available for sale in more than 140 kiosks across Finland. L E H T I K U VA / V E S A M O I L A N E N DOMESTIC Mothers and students The parental leave policies for Finnish parents, and the attitudes of Finnish students towards immigration. See pages 3,4 BEAUTY & FASHION Creating a shoe scene Three of the most innovative local young shoe designers discuss the current design trends in Finland. See pages 8,9 LIFESTYLE & CULTURE Herring and coffee The annual Herring Market, fishing and the delicious art and coffee culture of Helsinki. See pages 14,15 L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K KO M A A Six people suspected of promoting terrorism in Finland ST T ALEK SI TEIVAINEN . 2 OCTOBER 2013 2013 . Savoy-teatterissa Liput 12/8 . According to him, Finland should rather look to extend aid to refugees in regions near Syria. Orpo slams Finns Party for disregard The disinclination of the opposition party to accept additional refugees was criticised by National Coalition?s Petteri Orpo, who regarded it as a sign of disregard for human suffering. However, the necessary additional appropriations will require parliamentary approval, Helsingin Sanomat reminded on Tuesday. he stated. In particular, Saarakkala highlighted, the additional refugees can become a burden on municipal ?nances. Orpo stated. Grande Finale 4.10. Kaj-Erik Björkqvist, the of?cer in charge of the investigation, says that four of the suspects are only suspected of ?nancing terrorism for providing thousands of euros to the militant group. Authorities also believe people in Finland were prepared to send a foreign citizen to serve and a teenager to train with the militant group. S T T ALEK SI TEIVAINEN . such as the intake of Syrian refugees is immune to austerity cuts. Finland is currently also considering taking part in the Syrian chemical weapons. On Monday, Saarakkala insisted that the decision is not in accordance with the austerity policies adopted in Finland in the wake of economic woes. Citing the Finns Party?s manifesto, Saarakkala suggested that instead of raising the quota Finland should prioritise refugees from Syria. 26 SEPTEMBER . ?The thought of being able to close our eyes as easily as our borders is alien to the National Coalition?s parliamentary group,. destruction process by providing expert assistance or technical support.. If you have to cut public spending, you also have to cut the refugee quota,. ?In [the manifesto] we announce that the number of quota refugees must be proportioned to the prevalent economic situation. ?3 . www.lippupalvelu.? caisa.kulttuurikeskus yhteistyössä Saarakkala has since dismissed Orpo?s allegations. Parliamentary approval required Last Friday, the Government?s Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy decided to increase Finland?s refugee quota by 300 and to dispose 200 slots from its standard quota of 750 to Syrian refugees, thus pledging to accept a total of 500 refugees from the crisis-ravaged country in 2014. In a statement issued on Monday, Orpo reminded that over two million people have already had to leave their homes due to the prolonged crisis in Syria. While announcing the decision, Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen (Christian Democrats) emphasised that Finland must be ready to help its brothers amid extreme human suffering also during economically strained times. The expenses arising from the supplementary quota are an estimated 1.5 million euro in 2014 and 2.8 million in 2015-2017. National Coalition?s Petteri Orpo regarded it as a sign of disregard for human suffering. Finns Party MPs protest refugee quota raise The increase is not in accordance with Finland?s austerity goals, the opposition members argue. PAUL A ROPPONEN, JUKK A ANNAL A
He almost certainly spent a chunk of his youth abroad, most likely in Switzerland. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long (maximum length 10,000). Once it?s started, it?s hard to shut down. The hyper-paranoid Kim dynasty has always been afraid of its own people and quashes any hint of dissent with Sta- ANY Start your weekend with news in English Why not add Helsinki Times to your morning coffee! Stay informed about news and current affairs in Finland by subscribing to the weekly Helsinki Times. To subscribe, e-mail subscribe@helsinkitimes.fi Visit www.helsinkitimes.fi for a daily Finnish news update in English. linist brutality. Foreign business interests want access to modern communications technology, including the Internet, and the result is increasing information penetration from the outside. Bush?s senior adviser on North Korean affairs. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. There?s not going to be a North Korean Spring any time soon. said, tiny cracks are opening. He continues to thumb his nose at international opinion by trying to have his isolated nation accepted as a nuclear power ? one with the boasted ballistic potential to hit targets in the United States. TO THE OF COURSE, one could interpret this as essentially harmless sabre-rattling on the part of a new leader eager to polish his military résumé, burnish his image as a strong leader, and consolidate his authority. But it?s hard to be philosophical about a de?antly nuclear North Korea that has truculently repudiated its 1953 armistice with South Korea and proved its ballistics delivery capabilities by successfully status quo that makes the prospect of a peacefully uni?ed Korean Peninsula at best a distant dream? THE LATTER is arguably more likely, because even an inexperienced leader like Kim Jong-un must know that in the context of a dictatorship, radical shifts of policy, whether external or internal, can have dangerously unintended consequences. own and do not represent the official policy of the Helsinki Times. Victor Cha is the former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House?s National Security Council, and was US President George W. 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. 2 VIEWPOINT 26 SEPTEMBER . And the more people in North Korea who start to grasp what?s really going on, the greater the prospect for change. In any case, after years of systematic brainwashing and isolation, the North Korean people accept the Kim leadership with quasi-religious obeisance. Is he a risk-taker who might turn rhetoric into potentially catastrophic action. He?s said to enjoy many of the accoutrements of a Western lifestyle. Kim Jong-un?s passion for basketball is unbounded, as self-appointed diplomat and best buddy Dennis Rodman would be the ?rst to con?rm. In contrast to his introverted father, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un has made himself widely visible, even appearing in public with his wife. He may not be South Korea?s Psy, but he presents a hip image that held the promise of a new era. NOTHING of real substance, however, has changed. Yet, contrary to hopes for positive change, North Korea remains as much of a problem for its neighbours and the international community as it ever did. KIM JONG-UN?S move to power seemed promising at ?rst. Whichever birth date you subscribe to, of?cial or surmised, Kim Jong-un is young . Cha holds the DS Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and is Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. We have not seen a single sign of serious economic change ? the kind of reform that could lift North Korea out of penury and reverse decades of unimaginable privation for its more than 23 million longsuffering people (all except the privileged elite, that is). exasperation of the United States and even China, North Korea?s increasingly ambivalent ally and primary benefactor, Kim Jong-un has been notably belligerent in his posture towards Seoul. His latest book is The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Ecco, 2013). Where does the future lie for North Korea? IT?S BEEN two years since Kim Jong-un succeeded his late father at the helm of the Hermit Kingdom. Cell phone use, though severely restricted, has been growing rapidly in North Korea. Even ?The more people in North Korea who start to grasp what?s really going on, the greater the prospect for change.? putting a faulty satellite into orbit last December. WORSE still, Kim Jong-un?s youth makes him something of a wild card. But as much as the people in Beijing and Pyongyang resent each other, the collapse of North Korea would be unsettling for China, as it would hold the prospect of a ?ood of refugees and a USbacked South Korea on its border. around 30. We can only hope it will be accomplished peacefully . Nor would China willingly give up its privileged access to North Korea?s considerable mineral resources, which it currently extracts in predatory fashion. FOR THE CHINESE, then, it?s a delicate balancing act. They have an interest in keeping North Korea a?oat, but they don?t want Pyongyang to think it has a blank check. thought right now that change might bubble up from within would be fanciful. but where the current regime is concerned, all bets are off. THAT. They?ve been taught to blame their ills on the outside world. Or will he opt for business as usual ? the kind of unsatisfactory if he were serious about economic and social reform, Kim Jong-un would have to reckon with opposition from those who saw it as a threat to their own carefully protected privileges. AS IS OFTEN pointed out, if China were willing to cut North Korea loose, it would put real teeth in the continuing series of UN resolutions designed to bring Kim Jongun to heal
says Lammi-Taskula. Another step that could improve the situation is to put a stop to the illegal practice of successive ?xed-term employment contracts. According to statistics, most stayat-home mothers only have a low level of education or no job to go back to. The social insurance institution Kela is set to publish a study that reveals that more than a third of mothers with young children have no job waiting for them after parental leave. Many young women currently work under such contract terms, with the contract not getting renewed when the woman starts maternity leave. Government policy ambiguous The government has put forward a proposal for dividing the home care allowance between the pare nts in order to encourage mothers to re-enter working life more quickly. Currently, to qualify for the allowance, a parent does not have to take leave from work. According to Lammi-Taskula, it is possible for the father to draw the bene?t even if the mother or even grandparents look after the child. ?The government has proposed that the allowance should be divided between the parents without specifying whether this also concerns the actual leave from work. The jobs you can do with very little training are IF THE JOB not there anymore,. states Seija Kauppinen, Communications Manager at Kela. In these countries, the time spent at home looking after the children is more evenly divided between the parents. Men with university degrees stay at home Many fathers are prepared to stay at home if the mother wants to return to work quickly. S T T N IIN A W OO L L E Y . Men only take around five per cent of all parental leaves, with the figure having remained at the same level for several years. . The situation has, however, improved since last decade, when less than 50 per cent of women had a job to fall back on. Johanna Lammi-Taskula, a researcher from the National Institute for Health and Welfare, argues that changes to the allowance for home care of a child are not the way to get mothers back to work. ?What we need is measures that help activate mothers and also training for some full-time mothers. commission from 18,50 ?.. A parent on home care leave receives a home care allowance, which amounts to 337 euros. says Nurminen. Nurminen is waiting to meet another father in the playground, saying that fathers are not a rare sight in parks during working days either. ?Sometimes it?s 50-50 between mothers and fathers,? he comments. International communication The content of the new site has been produced in co-operation with different authorities and organisations, including the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Kela. ?Through Infopankki, we at Kela can offer our clients multilingual information about the services we provide,. H T is good enough, only a very few mothers will stay at home for years to look after the children. Educated men also stand out in their views on being a stay-athome father. ?When asked about parental leave, men with a lower-level education emphasised the assistance to the mother and the possibility to take leave from work whereas educated men valued the opportunity to bond with the child. Paternity leave is nine weeks at most, three weeks of which can overlap with maternity leave. . I wouldn?t want to take her to day care when she?s still very small. If it does, we are ap- proaching a situation where the person drawing the allowance actually stays at home.? At least Sweden, Norway and Iceland have designated periods of parental leave for fathers, which last for two to three months. One of the parents can remain at home on child home care leave until the child turns three, without the employment contract being terminated. . ?Infopankki is also an excellent tool for our service advisors.? The range of languages on offer at Infopankki include Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian, Estonian, French, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Albanian, Chinese, Kurdish, Persian and Arabic. Furthermore, Infopankki is currently staging a video competition to mark the occasion of their new webpage. All immigrants are invited to take part in creating a video that provides tips on essential information one should know if moving to Finland. Info-Tel. There are also large regional differences in the numbers of men taking parental leave, with men living in Helsinki twice as likely to stay at home compared with men in other regions.? Educated men value the opportunity to bond with their child. The Taivallahti playground in Helsinki on a rainy day bears witness to this, with the two people pushing prams in the park both being men. DOMESTIC HELSINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES website Infopankki has recently revamped its web page, providing vital information to MULTILINGUAL people planning to move to Finland or immigrants already living in the country. Information within is now categorised into three main themes: Moving to Finland, Living in Finland and Infor- mation about Finland. A four-month maternity leave has been designated to the mothers, starting already before the baby is born. . 0600 30006 (1,78 ?/min + lnp) Tickets 16?32 ?. From 29th Sep to 3th Nov HELSINKI Kaisaniemi ?eld Tue?Fri at 6.30 pm Sat?Sun at 1 pm and 5 pm Mon closed Ticket of?ce open 12 noon to 1 pm and 2 hours before the show. Tickets in advance: Tickets incl. Parental leave lasting around six months starts straight after maternity leave and can be taken by either parent. . 2 OCTOBER 2013 3 L E H T I K U VA / S A R I GU S TA F S S O N Proposal to divide home care allowances between both parents Many fathers will stay at home if the mother is keen to return to work quickly. P II A L E INO . On top of this, the family may receive extra allowance based on their income or the municipality they live in. managed to convince me of that,. This is particularly true in highly educated families where men take parental leave more often than in other families. Aida?s mum, who?s a psychologist by training, has Refreshed info for immigrants Infopankki online service renewed. J A M E S O . The numerous issues covered by the service include the rights and duties of an employee, establishing an enterprise, Finnish and Swedish language courses, buying a home, what to do when you fall ill, how to enrol your child in school, how to vote and what constitutes Everyman?s Rights. The website contains information on services provided by Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kaunianen among others, with the door left open for municipalities to join the service and complete the model with their own information. The site also provides a multilingual communication channel to many authorities. Men still take only a small percentage of parental leave . One of them is Riku Nurminen, 33, on an outing with his daughter Aida Angervo Nurminen, 20 months. Nurminen, who works in a hotel and does freelance acting work, shares childcare with his wife and intends to work shorter days when his wife goes back to work so Aida can stay at home until she is at least two and half years old. ?It?s brilliant to have a chance to watch Aida at home because she learns something new every day
gender and native language. The differences in the statistics provided by the ministry and Statistics Finland are attributable to the distinct metrics used to calculate the labour force ?gures. HT-STT Huovinen: Health care reform proceeds on schedule The reform of Finland?s health and social services system is proceeding on schedule, Susanna Huovinen (SDP), the Minister of Health and Social Services, says. We have about 5,200 clients who need interpreters and they all must receive a similar service,. Almost 14,600 students replied the email survey. Speaking from experience, Tupi states that a client does not have a say on Kela?s interpretation services. ?We follow certain regulations and guidelines when we provide interpreting services. In spite of this, she has to read exam books in Finnish as Kela has not granted her the right to receive interpreting services for voice books. ?Sometimes I wasn?t sure if I had understood everything in the book correctly.? Virpi Thurén, a special advisor from the Finnish Association of the Deaf, knows of a handful of cases where a student has not been able to keep up with the other students because a regular interpreter has not been available. Jaakola explains that one of the problems she has encountered is that the interpreter designated to her might get changed only a day before the event in which case all the preparation work done by the original interpreter is wasted. Riikka Heikkinen from Kela says that such a situation may arise when an interpreter with knowledge of a certain ?eld or a language is needed elsewhere. willing to accept more refugees to Finland, whereas less than one third of the Finnishspeaking respondents were of this opinion. When told about the results, Marina Lampinen, chairperson of the National Union of University Students in Finland emphasised the fact that university students are not a homogenous group opinion-wise. This, however, is not always the case, with deaf and hard-ofhearing students often having dif?culties in ?nding suitable interpreters to assist them on a regular basis. ?I know many people who weren?t as lucky with their interpretation situation during their studies,. In particular, in the event of change of control Elop will benefit 14.6 million euro more than his predecessors, reveal documents submitted by Nokia to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and unearthed by Helsingin Sanomat. Siilasmaa admitted to Helsingin Sanomat that Friday?s statement was misleading and that Nokia should have compared the contracts more thoroughly. Sign language speakers? Finnish skills not adequate Not having a regular interpreter is more than an inconvenience. ST T Students left without regular interpreters with special field knowledge Almost one in ten students needing the services of a sign language interpreter is not designated a regular interpreter. TUIJA SOR JANEN . remain too varied. Lampinen says. ?Immigration and refugee matters are issues linked to global solidarity at a larger scale, and university students often discuss such issues. Last year, however, was grim for students requiring interpretation services, with 22 students left without a regular interpreter. According to Virpi Thurén, a special advisor from the association, Kela?s stringent policy of inviting tenders for all the services they purchase may lead to situations where students are not able to obtain the services of the most suitable interpreter on a permanent basis. EEVA It can also be dif?cult to ?nd an interpreter who is specialised in a particular ?eld. The association argues that the situation clashes with the law on interpretation, which speci?es that the wishes, opinions, bene?ts and individual needs of people using the services must be born in mind when organising interpreting services. In addition, the ministry highlights that unemployment has increased in all parts of the country and particularly in the Uusimaa, Pirkanmaa and Kainuu regions. Both universities and students. This was one of the results of a survey by the Institute of Migration on the attitudes of students in universities and universities of applied sciences towards immigration. ?Tervetuloa Suomeen??, a report by researcher Heli Sjöblom-Immala on the results of the survey was published in Turku recently. Huovinen told STT, while participating in a meeting of the Parliament?s Social Affairs and Health Committee. Women?s attitude towards immigration was on average more positive than that of men, and the attitude of students in universities more positive than that of students in universities of applied sciences. As a result, the ranks of the unemployed fell by 9,000 to 191,000, the labour force survey conducted monthly by the statistics of?ce indicates. The talks were ?rst reported by Yle. HT-STT August brings slight improvement in unemployment rate In August, the Finnish unemployment rate improved by 0.2 percentage points yearon-year to 7.1 per cent, Statistics Finland reports. It is clearly visible in this survey and in the society as a whole,? states Director of the Institute of Migration, Ismo Söderling. Attitudes of language groups differ The survey results show that the attitudes differ based on, for instance, the respondents. The situation was the bleakest in Southern Finland. Kela claims that the shortage of interpreters was due to an exceptionally high number of students with a hearing impairment. Not having a regular interpreter may lead to problems because a new interpreter always has to get to know the client, the practices in lessons and the vocabulary used in the ?eld. The high number of students left without the services was partly caused by a shortage of interpreters in certain regions. This autumn the situation has returned to normal with only 13 students out the 150 in need of the services not having a regular interpreter designated to them. Attitude of female students towards immigration is more favourable than the attitude of male students TUOM A S TIRKKONEN . HT-STT Ministry and berry companies to discuss practices regarding migrant berry pickers Wild berry companies and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will sit down this week to mull over revisions to practices regarding migrant berry pickers, which . On Tuesday, Huovinen assured that the draft reform bill will be ?nalised, as planned, by year-end to allow the Government to present it to the Parliament for consideration in the spring. Although the recent dispute between berry processing ?rm Ber-Ex and 50 berry pickers from Thailand is an apt example of how problems can aggravate, it is not the reason behind the talks, Vasunta also underlines. However, also the ranks of the employed fell by 40,000 on the previous year. QUESTION OF THE WEEK The government is exploring a model where the unemployed would have to participate in tasks suggested by the employment agency. Do you agree that the level of activeness of the unemployed should affect the benefits they receive? Yes . 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I H E LT T U N E N In contrast, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy suggests that August?s 290,000 registered unemployed job-seekers in fact signal an increase of 44,000 on the previous year. unions attempt to make the students responsible citizens.?. explains Riikka Heikkinen from Kela. With around 90,000 applications for interpreting services submitted annually, Kela is able to arrange interpreters for around 94 per cent of the cases. Last year grim for students needing interpreting services The responsibility for organising sign language interpreta- tion services was transferred from municipalities to Kela three years ago, which reduced the regional differences in the availability of the services, according to Heikkinen. A little over 1,100 of them were not Finns. Almost half of the Swedish-speaking respondents would be FOR TIINA JAAKOLA from Heinola sign language is the native language, not Finnish. ?I?m one of the very few who can communicate in Finnish. But my Finnish skills are not always adequate.? Interpretation services are essential to Jaakola, who says that the quality of the services plummeted three years ago when Kela took over the responsibility for organising them. Majoring in public law at the University of Lapland, Jaakola, who is deaf and almost blind, has dif?culties in studying for exams. Vernu Vasunta, the chair of the Finnish whole food association, concedes . S T T TARU L AIHO . H T TUPI from Helsinki counts herself lucky, having been able to use the services of the same, quali?ed sign language interpreters throughout her studies. This was the most extensive survey about immigration in Finland in several years. The results suggest that half of the students are in favour of increasing the volume of work-based immigration, but only less than one third would like it if Finland accepted more quota refugees. ?The attitude towards refugees and workforce coming from abroad has always been bipartite. S T T N IIN A W OO L L E Y . HT THE ATTITUDE of students in Finnish institutes of higher education towards increasing work-based immigration is clearly more positive than their attitude towards accepting more refugees. 26.8.7% L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi Who: Risto Siilasmaa From: Finland Famous for: Chairman of beleagured former giant Nokia, in hot water over misleading comments regarding the bonus payment for former CEO Stephen Elop. Contrary to what Siilasmaa claimed on Friday, the bonus structure of Stephen Elop?s contract differs fundamentally from the contracts of previous Nokia CEOs. 4 DOMESTIC 26 SEPTEMBER . ?I have said repeatedly that [the schedule] is quite demanding, but I am con?dent that we can meet it,. The results do ring a bell for Lampinen, however. ?I?m pleased to be able to say that many university students are fairly broad-minded,. 73.2% No . says Tupi. She calls for more ?exibility in the interpretation services provided by the Social Insurance Institution (Kela). The Finnish Association of the Deaf goes along with Tupi?s views
Referring to a study conducted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Santtila argued Kotka murder suspect denies premeditation REINO PA SANEN . The emergence of the stories coincided with the acquittal of Auer . who had been found guilty of murder by the District Court of Satakunta . on roughly a hectare of land in northern Espoo for several decades. he explained. The details of the children?s statements were considered by the court behind closed doors. Children table demands for damages In addition, the accused may be deemed liable for tens of thousands of euro in damages, as the son is demanding 50,000 euro in compensation for mental distress and his sister 25,000 euro. ?The act was brutal and ruthless. between 2004 and 2010 . The perpetrator then tried to force the lawyer to reveal the PIN code of his cash card by torturing him with boiling water. including wrecked cars, buses, barrels and construction waste . In the ensuing struggle, the perpetrator fell on his back and the lawyer tried to pin him down. The victim was assaulted repeatedly and kept captive for over 12 hours, during which he suffered a fractured orbit that required surgical treatment. On 19 September, the court sentenced Juha Matti Lipponen and Mika Aleksi Mäkitalo to ?ve years. S T T CRACKS were exposed in the prosecutor?s case in Ulvila murder trial last week as the defence summoned Pekka Santtila, a professor of applied psychology at Åbo Akademi University, to scrutinise the evidence presented in the trial On 18 September, Santtila questioned both the statements of murder suspect Anneli Auer?s second-oldest child and psychologists? interpretations of Auer?s demeanour in a recorded emergency call. The child, who was seven years old at the time of the homicide, has described the events of the night in December 2006 on the basis of what he heard through his bedroom door. He has claimed to have heard someone grab a knife, use a tape recorder, break a window and open the back door and the freezer. he argued. witnessed by his tied-up and blindfolded son. ?It seems like his story is impossible,. the accused said in court. imprisonment and Jyri Oskari Lipponen to ?ve years and two months. The prosecutor, in contrast, views that Salin had been appointed to a public of?ce by the city of Vaasa and is demanding that Salin be handed a probation order for approving acquisitions without a public tender. HT-STT Witness abduction spawns jail terms in Tampere Elderly man charged with environmental crimes for hoarding junk in Espoo Three men have been sentenced to jail terms by the District Court of Pirkanmaa for abducting and assaulting a man in order to prevent him from testifying in court. The offences took place in June, when the district court was set to consider the drink driving charge brought against one of the abductors. One night before the hearing, he and two other men invaded the home of the witness and abducted him. Both complainants have received therapy for the psychological symptoms they have manifested after the homicide. he said. Call suggests innocence In addition, Santtila challenged the interpretations of two psychologists, Pirkko Lahti and Lasse Nurmi, of the defendant?s demeanour during the emergency call. by the Vaasa Court of Appeal. One explanation for this, Santtila believes, may be that the children were afraid of their mother and dreaded the possible return to her custody. According to the prosecutor, the accused tied up and blindfolded the son only after forcing him to tie up his father. In addition, they are demanding nearly 20,000 euro in compensation for funeral and renovation costs. The defendant has been deemed competent to stand trial and able to comprehend the repercussions of his actions in a psychological evaluation. Joensuu massage parlour proprietor gets probation for pandering A 36-year-old woman has been sentenced to a six-month probation order for pandering women for prostitution in her massage parlour in Joensuu between 2008 and 2013. the professor summarised. Most sounds indiscernible At the defence?s request, Santtila conducted a study in which 33 7-year-old children and 40 adults were asked to identify 16 sounds in a recording simulating the soundscape allegedly heard by the child. Altogether, the situation of the children is exceptional and shocking, the professor underlined. In addition, the court dismissed the charges of aiding and abetting pandering brought against two defendants and slapped a 180 euro ?ne on a Finnish man for purchasing sexual services. S T T man accused of the murder of a 60-year-old lawyer in Kotka last year has contested the murder charge but pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and aggravated negligent homicide, as well as aggravated deprivation of liberty and aggravated robbery. On 16 September, the ?rst day of hearings, the defendant also calmly recounted the events of the fateful night in November and explained his actions by money troubles and long-term alcohol use. The homicide took place in the lawyer?s home and was The defendant covered his face with a hood as hearings in the murder trial began on 16 September. Hamina man detained for stabbing ex-wife to death Court of Kymenlaakso has detained a man born in 1980 on suspicion of stabbing his ex-wife to death in Hamina on 18 September. imprisonment. In addition, a woman was handed a 60-day probation order for aid- An elderly man from Espoo is suspected of aggravated impairment of the environment for storing junk . The suspect was detained for probable cause of manslaughter after he, according to the police, confessed to the stabbing in police interrogations. The incident took place while the two were meeting as planned at a playground in a Hamina suburb. The statement, Santtila views, cannot be based on the child?s observations but may have been conceived by the child alone or as a result of interaction with other children and adults. 2 OCTOBER 2013 C O M P I L E D B Y A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I PA R TA N E N Expert exposes cracks in Ulvila murder trial evidence Sounds described by the defendant?s child would be indiscernible to most people, a study suggests. M I A P E LT O L A . ?The fact that the process is still ongoing Professor Pekka Santtila offered his views on the evidence presented in the trial on 18 September. represents a failure by our society,. ?Then I swung the knife a couple of times,. ?For example, if you ask for help immediately and speci?cally for the victim instead of the witness, it implies innocence,. The man was apprehended by the police shortly after the incident. Authorities also reveal that the man had threatened his former spouse, born in 1978, before the incident, but the threats were not reported to the police. THE DISTRICT L E H T I K U VA / R E I N O PA S A N E N THE YOUNG Although the accused has ?rmly denied premeditation, district prosecutor Pasi Pälsi believes the elements of the crime of murder are met. The son, who was heard over the phone, largely corroborated the prosecutor?s description of the events. that the demeanour of Auer and her oldest child during the emergency call suggests innocence rather than culpability. The son of the victim was forced to take part. Overall evaluation calls for a severe interpretation,. She was also handed a three-year business prohibition and ordered to forfeit over 38,500 euro in criminally acquired pro?ts. In its ruling on 20 September, the District Court of PohjoisKarjala viewed that her offences were not particularly severe and that her position was not too dissimilar to the women pandered for prostitution. Kari Siivo, the of?cer in charge of the investigation, revealed on 17 September that although the accused began hoarding junk already in 1983, most of the junk had been dumped on the land a few years ago. Due to his old age, however, the police have been unable to interrogate the suspect and expect the motive for the hoarding to remain a mystery. The other owner of the land is not suspected of any offences, the local police department has also underlined. Overall, the subjects fared poorly in the trial: the children were only able to identify the sound of a door opening and closing. ?Relying on hearing alone, it is impossible to understand the complex chain of events described by [Auer?s] child,? Santtila concluded. Similarly to his younger siblings, the child did not begin recounting events linked to the homicide until ?ve years after the death of his father. Salin was employed as the curator of the Tikanoja Art Museum and the Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art and that the alleged deeds were not part of her of?cial duties. CRIME HELSINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . Elsewhere, the Finnish Environmental Institute estimates that cleaning up the junkyard will cost roughly 150,000 euro but that no extensive damage to the soil has been caused. HT-STT 5. The ruling was one of many to come in the case in which several proprietors of massage parlours in Eastern Finland face charges of pandering. HT-STT ing and abetting aggravated deprivation of liberty. HT-STT Former Vaasa museum director denies criminal charges Anne-Maj Salin, a former museum director at Vaasa, has contested the charges of abuse of public of?ce and violation of of?cial duties brought against her for discrepancies in museum acquisitions and the use of the city?s credit account. On 17 September, her defence council argued that at the time of the alleged wrongdoings . The lawyer sustained eight stab wounds to the neck and died due to a severed artery
Over half of Finns are partly or completely of the opinion that immigration in Finland should be limited as long as the country has unemployment. Employers disagree. A separate keyboard is set to be released with the product. ?We cannot get by without im- Apartment sales have been busy, although buyers are cautious. in Turku,. Almost everyone is avoiding a socalled trap between two apartments. ?There may be chains of even four, ?ve or six buyers. ANNI LASSILA Employers: Finland cannot manage without foreign labour cleaning industries have dif?culty in ?nding workers from the population base. The situation has not been changed by the recession. The long queues are caused by a shortage of doctors, among other things.? L E H T I K U VA / P E K K A S A K K I ?QUEUES for cancer treatments have become excessively prolonged, writes the newspaper Kaleva. says Minna Vanhala-Harmanen, CEO of recruitment and coaching copmany Opteam. ?Even though the number of unemployed work applicants has increased, some ?elds are still experiencing a major shortage of labour force. Once an apartment sale is sealed a new one can be bought. KARI HÄNNINEN It is not a phone . For example, the restaurant and L E H T I K U VA / S A N N A H E I K I N TA L O immigration have become stricter, even if the immigrant is arriving for work, Helsingin Sanomat reported. According to recommendations, cancer treatments should be initiated within a month of the diagnosis. describes Managing Director of Kiinteistömaailma Seppo Hämäläinen.? Long queues are caused by a shortage of doctors. KAUPPALEHTI 22 SEPTEMBER. According to Managing Director Risto Volanen of Porvoo-based ?THE EARLY Volanen, the biggest enemy can be found inside one?s head. ?The dif?culty of making a decision is perhaps a mental one. Families with children are likely the group that experience this the most,. The market has a lot of accumulated pressure; for many reasons the purchase of an apartment is delayed,. ?Also, other parts of Finland have work that the Finns will not do, such as the cleaning of ships migrants. ILONA TURTOLA Apartment sales soaring . 6 FROM FINNISH PRESS 26 SEPTEMBER . attitudes towards Helsinki Times Nokia is expected to release a tablet soon.. many hesitate in submitting an offer fall has brought on an emerging positive atmosphere into apartment sales. 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES C O M P I L E D B Y A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A L E H T I K U VA / J A R N O M E L A ILTASANOMAT 22 September Kaleva: Excessively long waits for cancer treatment sociation interviewed by the paper, says that the recommendation is not realised in nearly all hospitals. For example, in the Oulu University hospital the average waiting period for treatment is close to four weeks, yet many patients still have to wait for too long. The population base is simply not adequate enough,. Through it, the main device?s battery should be charged. Nokia is also believed to release a smart phone with a six inch screen next month.? L E H T I K U VA / J A R N O M E L A ?THE FINNS. possibly a new Lumia from Nokia though Nokia sold its cell phone division to Microsoft, Lumia will not disappear from the world of Nokia. At least if there is any truth to Evleaks, the owner of Twitter, previously known to have given accurate information on Nokia releases. Now Evleaks is claiming that Nokia would be in the process of releasing a Windows RT tablet of its own. For example, in the construction ?eld about 60,000 foreign workers have applied for a tax number.? YLE 22 September. The price is said to be within a competitive range. he evaluates. Another large establishment has also detected hesitation among buyers. According to oncologists, delays can signi?cantly weaken the survival chances of cancer patients. According to the Verge the Lumia tablet would have a 10.1 inch display and a Qualcomm processor. Sales are being made but differences between different cities can be found in both sales times and prices. ?After the summer, apartment sales have soared with small and reasonably priced apartments in particular. It is noteworthy that, compared with the same time last year, sale times have become shorter by a few days,? says Antti Asteljoki, Managing Director of the real estate chain Huoneistokeskus. One can still detect some caution among those seeking to buy an apartment. At least in the cleaning, construction and restaurant businesses, the numbers are overtly large. Heikki Joensuu, chairman of an oncology as- Even though the number of unemployed work applicants has increased, some fields are still experiencing a major shortage of labour. HELSINGIN SANOMAT 22 SEPTEMBER. The employees of the cleaning industry giant SOL are almost solely from foreign backgrounds. says CEO of SOL Juha-Pekka Joronen. There are no exact ?gures for the number of foreign people working in the different ?elds. It should be released on 22 October and called Lumia 2520. The device has previously been the subject of leaked information and has been ?EVEN called by a working name of Sirius. The newcomer is supposedly thinner and lighter than the Apple iPad, which is also rather light
is the Turkish name given to the northern part of the Kurdish town Serekaniye. This would avoid the automatic cutoff conditions that will be imposed if the US government declares that a coup has in fact taken place, she said. ?If the US government fails to respond to these human rights abuses, it risks emboldening other countries. ?I will end my days here. he asks as he pulls the blinds down in his shop for the sunset prayer.. have forced several of his neighbours to migrate to Istanbul and to Antalya, Turkey?s main beach tourist spot 500 kilometres southwest of Ankara. They left behind a cluster of grey and uninspiring barracks distributed alongside straight and unpaved streets that house the Afghans in Ceylanpinar. ?May god curse all those who make war,. says this 42-year-old man born in Baglan, 200 kilometres north of Kabul. ?My father is Afghan and my mother is Kurdish but Uzbek is the main language spoken at home,? says Emirhan Celikale, a young man in his early twenties. to Egypt is a no-brainer,. Between them they are like cold war Berlin, although the wall is replaced here by a railway line with barbed wire erected on both sides. ?So far we?ve already had four residents killed and over 40 have been wounded...? This was the railway line which determined the border between Syria and Turkey in 1921. One of the core principles of that treaty is that countries should not transfer weapons when there is an overriding risk that the weapons will be used to commit human rights abuses, said Goldring. The intent of the ATT is to prevent exactly the sorts of killings that are taking place in Egypt right now. She said current and past Egyptian human rights abuses have been documented by Human Rights Watch and others. ?Given that such abuses are already taking place, cutting off US military aid It?s Afghanistan again in a Turkish town TURKEY K ARLOS ZURUTUZ A IPS PEOPLE run back home at dusk, just when the shooting intensi?es. speci?cally for military needs. Dr. But he knows how the Afghan community of about 2,000 sprang up here. ?In 1982, Kenan Evren, coup general and former president of Turkey, travelled to Afghanistan on an of?cial visit. Goldring declared. The bare minimum the US government should do is to publicly declare that it is reassessing its policies and aid toward Egypt, while suspending all military aid, contracts, and deliveries, she argued. Natalie J. These weapons included MiG-21 ?ghter planes and reconnaisance aircraft, Mi8 helicopters, Antonov military transports, SA-6 and SA-7 anti-ship missiles and T-54 and T-62 battle tanks. In a wide-ranging military modernisaton programme over the last 34 years, these weapons were gradually phased out and replaced largely with US arms. But with the current strain in the political relationship with the United States, there is speculation the interim military government may be forced into the arms of the Russians . ?We often tell our people to stay at home when ?ghting is intense but several have been hit even within their walls.? Arslan says the Turkish government is indeed funnelling Islamic ?ghters across the border. she said. Regardless of whether the US government declares that a coup has taken place, ?We shouldn?t be supplying weapons to Egypt right now,. ?Is it true that Turkey is helping Al-Qaeda to ?ght on the other side?. Once back in Turkey, he decided to build 300 houses for our families here.? But lack of opportunities and the war ?just a few metres away. ?We left our village for Helmand, 731 kilometres southwest of Kabul. says Yadigar Arzupinar. Local Kurdish and Arab families were divided by the line. INTERNATIONAL NEWS HELSINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . From there we went to Iran, where my wife and I spent more than one year until we ?nally got here.? Önder says he?s not keen on moving back to Afghanistan. The Syrian side is called Ras al-Ayn. To Sha Mehmed the experience is familiar. He was 11 when he left his native Afghan village to settle in this small Turkish town on the border with Syria. ?We are all very scared because three bombs have already fallen very close to here,. A common Central Asian origin makes both Turkish and Uzbek languages mutually intelligible, something that has eased the integration of this group in the country. Not all among the local elderly long for their homeland. Abdullah Önder boasts a long white beard, and his light blue turban perfectly matches his loose light clothes. Have you seen any improvement at all in Afghanistan?. 2 OCTOBER 2013 7 K H A L E D M O U S S A A L- O M R A N I / I P S Preoccupied with Syria, US still saddled with Egypt EGYPT THALIF DEEN IPS THE UNITED STATES, which is preoccupied with the ongoing political and military developments in Syria, is still saddled with an unresolved problem elsewhere in the Middle East: the military takeover of Egypt?s ?rst democratically-elected government. A three-member US Congressional delegation of Republicans from Iowa, Texas and Minnesota, visiting Cairo recently, pledged to defend the 1.3 billion dollars in US military aid which was under threat following the army coup last month and the killing of over a thousand civilians. According to published reports, the leader of the military takeover, General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, is contemplating a run for the presidency of Egypt, potentially legitimising the coup in a country described as one of the strongest US allies in the Middle East, after Israel. The administration of President Barack Obama, which has refused to cut off military aid to Egypt, has so far only meted out token punishment, suspending deliveries of two key weapons systems, namely F-16 ?ghter planes and Apache attack helicopters. Taking its cue from the United States, Germany has also suspended arms supplies to Egypt, representing over 17.6 million dollars in contracts for the ?rst half of 2013. Because Sovietware accounted for nearly 50 percent of Egypt?s previous inventory, the US has been helping Egypt modernise its military inventory through the gradual substitution of US equipment. Egypt planned to have an all-Western military force structure by 2005, but this was delayed in implementation, so large amounts of Soviet-era military equipment remain in inventory, mainly aircraft and ordnance, said Auger. Goldring told IPS the US government and US military contractors have built the modern Egyptian military over the last three decades, an effort that has been funded by US taxpayers. ?Egypt would have to reconstruct its military if it were to change major suppliers,. Goldring, a senior fellow with the Centre for Security Studies in the Edmund A. ?The area is now heavily packed with Jihadists. Turkey backs them logistically and even evacuates their wounded in Turkish ambulances to the local hospitals.? The goal, he says, is to prevent the Kurds of Syria from taking control over their territory in Syria. From the beginning of the Syrian uprising in March 2011, Syria?s three million Kurds have taken a neutral position, distancing themselves from both Damascus and the armed opposition. They are instead ?ghting for control of the areas where they are compact. Musa Çeri, district governor and member of the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) in Turkey, says his country is ?far from looking forward to Syrian Kurds building an autonomous region on Turkey?s borders similar to that in northern Iraq.? But he strongly denies the mayor?s accusations. ?My government would never do such a thing,. He arrived in Ceylanpinar at the age of 27, ?just married?. ?We lived right on the border of Tajikistan in a beautiful stone house by a stream,? recalls Önder from the small grocery shop he runs. The European Union has done likewise, with Britain revoking some of its arms export licenses, while Sweden has favoured freezing all aid to Egypt. When Egypt signed the US-brokered peace treaty with Israel in 1979, it was forced to switch political loyalties: from the then-Soviet Union to the United States. And following that peace accord, Egypt abandoned its longstanding Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Moscow under which the Soviets supplied billions of dollars worth of weapons. Since 1982, he?s lived in Ceylanpinar, a small border town 800 km southeast of Ankara. This is the Turkish town most affected by the Syrian war. ?Ceylanpinar. exclaims Gulshan, a 75-year-old woman originally from Kunduz, 230 kilometres north of Kabul. she said. While any weapons contracts with Russia might be seen as important political statements, Goldring said, such contracts are unlikely to be militarily signi?cant. Nicole Auger, a military analyst covering Middle East/Africa at Forecast International, a leader in defence market intelligence and industry forecasting, told IPS Soviet arms deliveries continued at a pretty fast pace for more than 10 years after the initial 1955 transaction between Egypt and the Soviet Union. Then the unwillingness of the Soviet Union to supply greater quantities of arms severely strained SovietEgyptian relations. Egypt?s current military modernisation programme The killing of Muslim Brotherhood supporters has only strengthened resolve within the party to resist the current regime. is driven by the process of refurbishing or replacing its ageing Soviet weapons systems purchased before it turned to the United States, she said. Goldring said. The whole Afghan community here is of Uzbek origin, the third biggest Afghan group after the Pashtuns and the Tajiks. Çeri tells IPS. Despite their contradictory versions on the sensitive issue, both agree that the local Afghan community is peaceful and hard-working, and that the rest of the population has never had any complaints with them. Some have married local residents. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, is sceptical. She told IPS the Russian government would presumably be delighted if Egypt turned to it for weapons purchases, particularly given the strains in the current USRussian relationship. ?But I don?t think Egypt is likely to undertake a wholesale restructuring of its military at this point,. She raises a rumour that has been criss-crossing the town the last months. True or not, co-existence in this border city has been visibly affected by the war across the railway line. Ismail Arslan, mayor of Ceylanpinar and a member of the dominant coalition among the Kurds of Turkey, says he is ?deeply concerned? about the current situation. ?So far we?ve already had four residents killed and over 40 have been wounded,. leaders to continue or worsen their own human rights abuses,. she pointed out. The Obama administration has strongly supported the new UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), and may well sign the treaty in the next few weeks. he tells IPS. They paid the price for connecting Berlin and Baghdad by train. Today Ceylanpinar is an innocent victim of stray bullets and lost bombs from literally across the street. ?I was only three when I arrived so I hardly have memories from Afghanistan,
In three days, we received 400 posters with the subjects ranging from animals to more graphic, text-based designs. People should be rewarded for the good job they do. Not many go to a shopping centre without planning to spend money either on services or products. JCDecaux has been innovative and brave in experimenting with the outdoor spots. While the payment may be justi?ed due to the letter of the contract, it certainly isn?t justi?ed by the spirit. This is, unfortunately, common practice, and Nokia was no exception. The style was free, the only restriction was that the poster had to give a reply to the question ?What would I like to see in the street scene?. This is such an obvious con?ict of interest I don?t know how it has gone on for so long. Instead it is up to the shareholders to make sure such severance clauses are sane. The third essential trend is the exponential growth in the number of smartphones, not only in Finland but also globally. In 1964, ?Papa De- caux. I believe Nokia and Microsoft agree, and this is why Microsoft is going to pay 70% of it. OUTDOOR advertising is probably the oldest way of publicising both commercial and public messages. Interaction between consumers and advertisers will increase also in outdoor advertising. You gave people the chance to make their own adverts and had a digital screen where people could vote on Guggenheim museum. One of the main trends affecting the growth of outdoor advertising is the amount of time consumers spend outside their homes, which has gone up by a third during the last decade. Risto Siilasmaa, the chairman of the board and acting CEO, said Nokia had to pay this amount because it was in Elop?s contract. ACCORDING to documents released by the company, Nokia must pay Elop 18 months of base salary and management short-term cash incentives of ?4.1 million. They needed a channel for expressing their views on the plan and we could provide one in the form of two tram stops. Around 15,000 people voted in just a week, with the majority of the votes opposing the museum. A couple of years ago, we collaborated with the Flow festival on a project, in which the visitors could design and make a poster. Apparently, the sale of Devices & Services constitutes a ?change in control,. If they don?t do good work, they shouldn?t be rewarded. GENERALLY IN MY personal investing I have tracked executive pay among Finnish companies very closely. We own the company. although I don?t necessarily agree with that idea. speaking, a company?s top executives are paid with a salary and bonuses contingent upon how well they do. How do they differ from other spaces like streets or bus stops in the way you approach the visitors or present advertisers? Shopping centres are a new kind of urban space, with the centres focusing more on entertainment services . Around 65 per cent of Finns have a smartphone, with most of them using their phones when out and exposed to outdoor advertising. Digitalisation is entering every sector of media and pr, how is it affecting the outdoor sector? Digitalisation is one of the driving forces behind the growth in our sector, making the process ?exible and fast for advertisers and offering the chance to customise adverts to suit the situation. Helsinki Times talks to ms. Laine Spellman, marketing manager at JCDecaux, the market leader in outdoor advertising. Where is outdoor advertisement going and what are the new trends? Just like any other media, outdoor advertising is in?uenced by several trends. this is part of a bigger trend related to the growth of the Finnish experience economy. We fund the bikes by selling advertising space. Some parents are worried about their kids being exposed to undesirable advertisements in public places. How do you deal with this problem? We always comply with the current, applicable legislation. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi The writer is a journalist and columnist for Helsinki Times. He is also a private investor with over ten years of experience. Stephen Elop?s ?18.8 million payoff STEPHEN ELOP is probably the most hated man in Finland at the moment. It is our money being spent. It is our job as responsible investors to make sure pay and performance are in harmony. Then, when this failure was ?nally acknowledged and the handset division sold off, he is paid ?18.8 million. 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES David J. as long as it is set up shareholders to make correctly . The purpose of this is to make sure management pay is tied to real value added to the company. We can?t trust management consultants who are hired to give opinions, for the obvious reason that they are paid by the same people they have to suggest salaries for. Pol- iticians, Nokia employees and investors have all criticised the payoff. This was clearly something that divided the opinions of people in Helsinki. (Jean-Claude Decaux) had the bright idea of constructing a bus stop by a street in Lyon, funding the project by selling advertising space on the stop. Its ef?ciency as a communication channel, based on its visibility in consumers. 8 BUSINESS 26 SEPTEMBER . Broadly, though, executives tend only to be paid big bonuses when their ?rms prosper. HOWEVER, this relationship between pay and performance is severed when it comes to ending service contracts. Finally there is the accelerated vesting of his outstanding equity awards, which should total about ?14.6 million. THE REASON Elop is eligible for this payoff is because his employment contract is being severed and a change of control is happening. You can do almost anything with digital adverts, the only limit being your imagination! Where do you have your digital screens? At the moment, we have digital screens in the metro and trams in Helsinki and shopping centres across Finland. Shopping malls seem to be one of the focus areas for JCDecaux. We wanted to be involved in promoting a view on urban surroundings where the city is seen as a whole formed by architecture, green spaces and other public spaces and buildings. Do you really build the bus stops in exchange for the right to puts ads in them? That is true. In Nokia?s case, as with so many other companies, we failed. JCDecaux builds bus stops in exchange for ad space. hour when visiting a shopping centre. He will get an extra ?0.1 million in bene?ts. We sign a contract with the City on the delivery of the bikes and on operating the system and in return we obtain good advertising spots. Most of the posters were put on view in the streets to cheer up the residents. The overall look, pleasantness and use of urban spaces are in?uenced by many factors. Tell us more about these. The idea about a vote on Guggenheim museum was sparked by the heated public discussion on the topic. this is the proper way to pay not sure such severance only managers, but clauses are sane. even regular employees. In fact, bus stops were the starting point for JCDecaux. With our adverts reaching more than 300,000,000 consumers every day, we are the largest outdoor advertising company in the world. What about the city bikes, how does your co-operation with the city work? Like bus and tram stops, city bikes are added value products for the residents. In our sector, we ?nd shopping centres attractive because they are locations where advertisers can reach consumers at the moment they are making a decision on a purchase. Some companies do this well, some pay their executives too much, and some don?t pay enough. According to surveys, Finns spend on average an POLITICIANS rant and rave about how much executives are paid, but this is not their responsibility. That is valuable time for advertisers, you could even talk about primetime in consumption. everyday lives, will remain the number one strength of outdoor advertisements.. There are several authorities that monitor adverts, such as the Council of Ethics in Advertising of the Chamber of Commerce. Citizens can turn to these authorities if necessary. Steadily gaining signi?cance, self-regulation by advertisers is another central way of guaranteeing that advertising is ethical. How will outdoor advertisement evolve in the future? Technological developments will have an impact on the future of outdoor advertising. Now Decaux employs over 10,000 people around the world, in altogether 57 countries on all the continents. I believe It is up to the . First he failed spectacularly in turning around Nokia, the pride of Finland. How can this payment be justi?ed? Laine Spellman, marketing manager at JCDecaux. Taking it out to the masses HEL SINKI TIMES MANY people don?t seem to think it is reasonable. Egyptians used stone obelisks to publicize treaties and Hammurabi had his code engraved on a human size stone and put in public squares. How has this ancient form of advertising changed. We build our advertising equipment network to cover areas that have people out and about. Another trend that has an impact on our business is urbanisation, with 70 per cent of purchasing power in Finland located in cities. The rest is history
tickets and home municipalities for the purposes of transport planning and development. public transport meets their travel needs so well. Most of the respondents would like to develop public transport in the area, with cycling paths and conditions also ranked high as a development area. The respondents were also strongly in favour of reducing emissions and traffic noise and concentrating land use along good public transport connections. Trams have been able to run past the worksite throughout the entire renovation project but tracks running north of Hakaniemi have been closed one at the time, which led to diversions on some tram routes. 9. website now adapts to different devices without the user having to use a separate mobile app. One of the cornerstones of the reform has been the typical situation when the services are used: a passenger searching for information on a mobile phone while waiting The most popular services on the HSL website are lists of ticket prices and search functions. The same trend can be seen in other major cities internationally.? The popularity of public transport has increased in all municipalities in the area, on both commuter and leisure journeys, among men and women and in almost all age groups. Private motoring is increasing faster than the use of public transport only among the over-65s. More public transport, fewer cars HSL also carried out a barometer survey to determine residents. For example a map-based search of sales at a stop or onboard a public transport vehicle. The share of public transport on all journeys made by car or public transport has gone up since the previous survey in 2008. The result is surprising as HSL has previously forecast that the relative share of public transport would continue to decrease until 2035. Good service, strong brand ?The shift is a result of the sustained development of public transport in the Helsinki region over several decades. The survey examines what tickets the Metro passengers use, where they live and what is the average journey length. The survey is conducted by HSL?s ticket inspectors along with normal ticket inspections at one Metro station at a time. The inspectors ask passengers to present their tickets and to inform of their home municipality and destination of their journey. The survey provides information about passengers. Now there has been a remarkable shift in travel behaviour, reveals the recently published Traffic Survey 2012 by HSL. The tram route partly runs above the Hakaniemi Metro ticket hall. The renovation work started at the beginning of April and was carried out in two phases. The share of mobile users is increasing rapidly for all online services. points is a new feature allowing the user to ?nd the nearest ticket machine, sales point or HSL service point easily. HSL conducts a ticket survey on the Metro HSL is conducting a ticket survey on the Metro in September and October. It is seen as an essential part of a well-functioning, convenient and clean urban environment,. attitudes to transport. Ticket prices are now available as tables that are updated dynamically. 09 4766 4000 (Mon-Fri 7am-7pm, Sat-Sun 9am-5pm) Advice on public transport routes, timetables and tickets, Travel Card assistance and lost Travel Cards HSL Helsinki Region Transport PO BOX 100, 00077 HSL www.hsl.? Public transport gaining popularity For the ?rst time in 50 years, the share of public transport is increasing faster than motoring in the Helsinki region. Since the 1960s, when private motoring ?rst started to increase in the metropolitan area, the use of public transport has decreased steadily. says HSL?s Executive Director Suvi Rihtniemi. ?An increasing number of young people decide not to get a driver?s license or purchase a car because New HSL website launched Launched at the end of August, the new www.hsl.. Timetable searches are still directed to Journey Planner where all the essential information on the HSL routes and timetables has been compiled. Over 60 per cent of the respondents were for and less than 20 per cent against mitigating the growth in motorised transport. Work on Hakaniemi tram stops approaching completion The construction work that has made use of the Hakaniemi tram stops more difficult is approaching completion. The renovated stops will be opened to public at the beginning of October when also the trams 1, 1A, 3 and 9 return to their normal route along Porthaninkatu and Kaarlenkatu. During the work, the tram tracks and the insulation in the roof of the Metro ticket hall were replaced. 26 SEPTEMBER . 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES Customer service points Rautatientori Metro Station (by Central Railway Station) Itäkeskus Metro Station Pasila, Opastinsilta 6A Monthly review HSL Customer service tel. Today, public transport has a very strong brand
We are now starting to explore the Japanese market as well. And the USA has been good in the beginning, so I will try to maintain activity there. It?s very comforting when you see that everyday there is somebody new liking the Facebook page from a very distant country. Thus, in the end she applied to the Helsinki University of Art and Design (now part of Aalto University). However, there is also a downside to that which is that competition often pushes you and, when you don?t have it, you don?t get those adrenaline bursts that help you to be pushing and pushing ?cause the people around you are doing this, or that thing. In the UK I found out that, in general, designers are quite helpful to each other, and that is the only way forward. I don?t even know where they get the information from. Though, unfortunately, then you see the ?nal result and it?s more like, ?No, you can?t?. that?s a very essential point. The only way to make it work is to focus on my own style, otherwise you start getting lost, especially if you think what a customer in Japan would like to wear. When you ask if they can make a particular product they always give a positive answer like, ?Yes, sure, we can?. This is not a country where people would traditionally spend so much money on clothing, but once they see something that they really take as their own, then it can be a good opportunity. Pölkki: Amen to that! People who work on marketing are always suggesting new potential markets for the product, but you never know how things are going to be until you try them out. Europe, for instance, is closer . I produce my shoes in Portugal, as well as the clogs in Finland. Huurinainen: In my case production is done in Finland. Sometimes I feel it?s easy because it?s nearby, but at the same time I have had experience producing other items outside of Finland and the attitude can be very different. Sometimes the ?ow is better in other countries. We don?t have the pace of a big city here. Pölkki: The thing with Finland is that you are a bit far away from what is happening outside, so it?s easier to focus on your own thing. Your designs suddenly start How does the production process differ here and abroad? Pölkki: In order to start a business here in Finland sometimes you have to ?nd the way to take the production outside, so it?s not so straightforward. London was also the place where she discovered the secrets of the profession. The hectic city had been a longtime dream of hers and so she moved there to experience its cultural sphere. In January 2008 she graduated from London College of Fashion. One day her sister told her that somebody can make a career out of making shoes, and the rest is history. I considered this was a very safe place for that, because everything works. When you go to a trade fair and compare your products to other designers, you realise that you are doing something different. Huurinainen: Going back to the organisations, I am now part of the Aalto start up centre. It might make the beginning a bit easier if there would be somebody to ask so all of us don?t need to be working individually inventing the wheel over and over again. Thus, she enrolled in in- ternational politics, aiming to eventually become a diplomat. But we always ?nd the solutions.[Laughs] Huurinainen: In the beginning everything seemed complicated here, but after being in the business for many years they start to take you seriously. How has the shoe design industry evolved over the last decade in Finland? Parikka: Finland is still such a small market that you really have to ?ght to be international. Since then, her daring aesthetics have been stocked in over 20 countries worldwide. There, surrounded by her famous coiled-wooden soil shoe creations and inspired by the presence of sweet buns and coffee, the three Finnish designers discuss and share ideas on the cutting edge of the local shoe industry. Does Helsinki offer an entrepreneur-friendly atmosphere for new talents? Parikka: I was away for six years and then I returned to start my business in Helsinki. But I feel it?s quite challenging at the moment. Huurinainen: Japan is our main market in Asia. We have our own web shop, which is available pretty much everywhere, but the customers that we have right now are mainly from Europe. So, if you get into the hearts of Finnish women, they can be really good customers. You need to narrow it down to stick with what you feel and love. Huurinainen: Whenever I design a new collection and send the drafts to the people in charge of managing the Japanese market, they always want to change something. and it?s easier to ship the products inside the EU. After designing for premium UK brands such as Topshop for over three years, the ?Terhi Pölkki. The biggest market we have is online. But, on the other hand, I feel Helsinki is a good place to have your fashion brand because there is so much space and no so much competition. SEPTEMBER 2 OCTOBER 2013 . It is pretty stiff in Finland; when you come up with something new and daring, people always hesitate at the beginning. Pölkki: In Portugal it is the other way around. Especially with shoes, even the size differs from one country to another. Actually, social media is helping us to keep growing. Besides, people keep wondering about the shoes. Somehow she makes it look easy. Terhi Pölkki?s trajectory offers some parallels to Parikka?s. Earning a Master?s Degree in Cordwainers, the institution changed her whole perception of learning how to design shoes. Having arrived a few minutes before our agreed meeting time, fortunately she is not waiting alone. She has worked as a designer for various companies, but since the beginning of this year she is fully focused on developing her own brand. Huurinainen proposes to hold the meeting at her showroom located in a picturesque corner in Bulevardi. It?s fascinating ? and a very important way to promote the product. But of course they are! I consider the combination of beauty and functionality one of the main principles of the Finnish essence. Pölkki: In my case I spent some time designing shoes for. These new tools make it easier to interact with potential distributors and customers. How do you approach the internalisation of the market? Parikka: We are all small brands, so we cannot create different collections for different markets. comfort, and until they have tried them out they don?t believe them to be functional. When you ?nd the factory, the business idea gets serious. Of course, the Internet is a key tool to develop this global approach. Coco, her very friendly black dog is keeping her company. When the time came for Marita Huurinainen to decide upon her professional career she thought it would be better to study a ?serious degree?. clean lines and the use of wood being two of its characteristics. They are now more experimental, and more up for new things, looking for something special, and they are not afraid to pay for it if they ?nd it. This is a very good starting point for the future growth of the industry. Six years later, she decided to return to Helsinki to launch her own brand. However, the desire to create grew stronger and stronger, until it was impossible to avoid. brand was launched in Helsinki in the autumn of 2011. We are ?ve design companies there, but so far their program has been more oriented towards the IT sector. Finland?s shoe scene is buzzing, thanks to the likes of Marita Huurinainen and her innovative designs. One coffee, one croissant and many pairs of shoes Breakfast with the three women who are redesigning the local footwear scene. E VA B L A N C O HEL SINKI TIMES commenced sketching shoes at the age of 15. We have shop departments in Asia, but customers usually go online. Then, one of the main things that I consider to be changing in Finland is the attitude of the consumer. She arrives to our meeting place riding a retro bicycle in her black high heels that are replete with bunny ears. 2?OCTOBER 2013 10 102626SEPTEMBER BEAUTY & FASHION HELSINKI TIMES HELSINKI TIMES E VA B L A N C O to re?ect who you are. It?s really easy to ?nd information about having your own business, but it?s not that easy to ?nd concrete information on the fashion industry. Fun, ?irty and independent is how she de?nes MINNA PARIKKA ? ? ? ? Name of the brand: Marita Huurinainen Year of creation: 2009 Main products: WAVE shoes and wooden accessories, WILD fur accessories. Main markets: Finland, Japan, Germany, Austria, Sweden. Awards: Ornamo Design Award 2009 for the best design product of the year, Baltic Fashion Award 2005 (or experimental fashion), Marimekko Design Awards 2002 and 2006. her creations. I think it?s so inspirational in a place like London where everybody is having their brand and at the same time they are doing ten other things on the side. At ?rst I listened carefully to all the suggestions, but now I try to ask myself ?rst if I really want to make some changes or not, because it?s very dangerous if you start changing so much. Would you say there are any common principles or characteristics in the Finnish design scene? Huurinainen: Well, I think my designs are quite close to the Finnish heritage, because of the technique and the style. Even sometimes I thought of myself as a boring designer because my background is highly based on traditional Finnish values . That?s the only way to get noticed globally. Pölkki: Now I have customers in the USA, in Europe, and I will be trying the Japanese market. So you don?t need to be looking at what other people are doing, and that way you can really focus on your own style, your own brand. When she turned 19 she moved to the UK to pursue a degree in footwear design. As a teenager her interest in fashion saw her trying out many different looks, from punk to skater. She began drawing clothes as a teenager, but, after high school, she decided to concentrate solely on shoes. We don?t really have an organisation that would give advice to new designers who want to start up on their own. When you start a company you need to establish a relationship with a factory, which would believe in your product . In terms of the design, one of the main goals is that the product has to re?ect something that is happening in the market, but it has to have a voice of its own
Especially when I started in 2005 I felt that I was breaking the rules a bit more. So for me that was kind of a starting point to think about my own brand. Everything seemed to be done in a very Scandinavian style: black and grey, and not that ?ashy. ????? Soome sinu keeles . Now that it?s settled, it is more fun because it?s easier to cook on top of it . But luckily I was wrong; women here have also that kind of character that they can pull it off. ????. At the moment that feels suitable for me. They have the guts to wear things that are a bit extravagant. Pölkki: I agree. But then you come back to Finland, start your own business, and somehow change to a more Scandinavian style. the technique for the treatment of the sole is solid. La Finlande dans votre langue Finska na tvom jeziku . So I thought that nobody was going to buy my shoes and that I would be based here and then sell my creations abroad. Finland oo ku qoran luqadaada Finlandia en su idioma . Sizin dilinizde Finlandiya Finlanda në gjuhën tuaj . 2 ?OCTOBER 2013 26 SEPTEMBER 2 OCTOBER 2013 E VA B L A N C O Topshop in London, and I did a lot of crazy stuff. I don?t believe in a ?Helsinki Fashion Week. you have to go beyond the ecological bases. It?s not that I am paying special attention to minimalistic lines, with pale colours or simple shapes; it just comes from inside. Huurinainen [addressing Parikka]: Have you been freed from all that. The discussion about the Finnish fashion scene is starting to take shape. So the ?rst thing I established was that I wanted my manufacturer to be in Europe in order to make it easy to travel there and make sure that you know what is going on. You start assuming those aesthetics that you feel naturally beautiful or attractive. My collections are really fun, ?irty, independent? there is always like a promise ? ? ? ? Name of the brand: Terhi Pölkki Year of creation: 2011 Main products: Women?s shoes and bags made of chrome-free vegetan leather. Main markets: Europe, USA, Japan. Awards: Shoe designer of the year 2008 in Finland. of a new adventure. ????????. But the process is very long, because you really need to work on the wooden sole. They say, ?It?s up and coming?, I don?t know about that. Finland på ditt språk Finland in your language . [laughs] Parikka: Well, the truth is that I do use a lot of colour and detail and fun components. it just happened to be there. It was more about the shape and the technique. You have to do what you love, you can?t calculate. When designing my shoes I ?rst decide upon the shapes, the materials, and the colours. 1111 BEAUTY & FASHION HELSINKI TIMES HELSINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . Then I started to think about the materials I was going to use and I came up with the idea of vegetan leather [the chrome-free one]. The concept behind it was that it was going to be me de- ciding how and where my shoes would be produced. These were the values for every collection, but then when you are doing something related to fashion you have to think of what is the current climate . I create new things from wood. Though sometimes you just draw a shoe and fall in love with it. Huurinainen: As I said before my starting point wasn?t the creation of a shoe . [laughs] For us is more like an extension of the character, like a lifestyle. Pölkki: Yes, I also consider that to be one of the main features that makes us different. They are trying to promote the idea of Helsinki being the new fashion capital of the world, I don?t know what to think about it, but what I do know is that we have a different approach to the industry. ??????? Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen, Turku, Tampere, Mikkeli, Savonlinna, Pieksämäki, Kuopio, Kainuu, Oulu, Rovaniemi www.infopankki.fi JULKAISIJA HELSINGIN KAUPUNKI PUBLICERAD AV HELSINGFORS STAD PUBLISHED BY THE CITY OF HELSINKI. So, instead, you have to believe, ?If I love this somebody else would love it too.? Parikka: But, if there was a Swedish designer here there would be a great discussion about why we are doing things for passion and not ? ? ? ? Name of the brand: Minna Parikka Year of creation: 2006 Main products: Shoes and leather accessories. Main markets: Global ? present in over 20 different countries worldwide. Awards: Elle Style AwardsAccessory designer of the year 2012, Best emerging Designer-Fuenso Spain 2011, Timagni Young Entrepreneur of the year, Second place-Ministry of trade (Finland), Young British Glove Designer of the year 2002-British Glove Association. for money. From left: Terhi Pölkki, Minna Parikka and Marita Huurinainen. zil, China, and India, so I got to see the mass production side of it, when it?s only the quantity that matters. The idea is you put on a pair and you don?t know where it is going to take you. Suomi sinun kielelläsi . just yet, but it?s a pretty positive discussion anyway. What does a shoe mean to you? Pölkki: While working for other brands I got familiar with very big factories in Bra- The shoe fits. ?. I have tried to push myself to do more crazy creations and it doesn?t feel natural. My style is lighter and the shape characterises my products. Parikka: I get very easily bored, so I want to do a different collection every single season
2 OCTOBER 2013 FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / K I M M O M Ä N T Y L Ä ARUTZ SHEVA. 20 September ARI SOFFER Finland: Apology for ?AntiSemitic? Athletics Ruling in 1938 A Doctor of Philosophy by training, Päivi Lipponen is a second-term Member of Parliament, a member of Parliament?s Commerce Committee and the chair of the Committee for the Future and the chair of the International Falcon Movement and the Helsinki Clubhouse. Before career in politics, she worked as a history teacher at the Eira High School for Adults. Results obtained during an expedition by the research vessel Aranda in early summer shows an increase in salinity strati?cation in the Gulf of Finland, which has weakened the oxygen situation. During the expedition in August, water layers close to the sea ?oor were found to be anoxic at these same sites. He is going back to Microsoft, where he will essentially do exactly the same job . The school leaving age will be raised by a year, which means that all teenagers will have to participate in some form of education after the comprehensive school. When Finland was last in the throes of recession many young people were left without work and education and an alarmingly large number of these people have not been able to get back onto the labour market ever since. SUL chairman Vesa Harmaakorpi said in a statement published on September 18. A photo reprinted in the Finnish press recently showed Abraham Tokazier of Finland crossing the ?nish line ?rst in a competition held to inaugurate Helsinki?s Olympic Stadium?? ACT MEDIA. ROMANIAN NEWS AGENCY. 23 September 2013 Prime Minister Victor Ponta THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. the Government?s press of?ce informed?? ?PRIME. 21 September Bob Mizer And Tom of Finland: First American Museum Exhibition Celebrates Homoerotica ?MOCA , The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is mounting a new exhibition celebrating ?homo-erotic? masterworks by Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland. running the company?s handset division. and ?lms, as well as a comprehensive collection of his groundbreaking magazine Physique Pictorial, where drawings by Tom were ?rst published in 1957?? minister Victor Ponta will be paying of?cial visits to Finland and Lithuania on Monday and Tuesday, with the objective of consolidating the political dialogue, making more dynamic the economic cooperation and ensuring a permanent coordination on European topics. ?The objectives of the two visits are consolidating the high-level bilateral political dialogue, making more dynamic the cooperation, especially in the economic area, and ensuring a permanent coordination on European topics, in the context in which Lithuania is currently holding the Presidency of the European Union and Finland will be part of the countries together with which Romania will ensure EU?s Presidency in 2019,. 12 26 SEPTEMBER . The an broadcast giant Mod- actual price tag will depend ganization with several ?THE OXYGEN situation on deep-sea ?oors, in open seas in the Gulf of Finland, has deteriorated compared to last year. phases have a huge impact on the development of a young person?s identity and growth as a citizen. ?NOKIA?S AFTER FINLAND has not escaped the recession that has brought many Southern European countries to their knees, with the youth unemployment rates in Greece having reached 58.7 per cent and 56.1 per cent in Spain. The situation in Finland is not, however, quite as bad. On the European scale, 5.5 million EU citizens under the age of 25 are unemployed. WHILE the ailing European economy must be steered on- to the road to recovery, it is also essential to attack youth unemployment. Rehabilitation services have been set up to help those young people who have more serious problems, with outreach youth work aiming to ?nd those adolescents who may otherwise fall through the gaps. Workshops are a new form of youth work that gives young people the opportunity to plan ahead while engaged in motivating and interesting activities. government initiative is the Sanssi card, which allows employers to hire an unemployed person under the age of 30, subsidised by the state and with less red tape. ANOTHER NOW that the government has rolled up its sleeves, companies will hopefully do the same and hire more young job seekers. 20 September No significant changes in the status of the Gulf of Finland?s coastal waters compared to last year ?IN A SMALL but symbolic gesture, the Finnish Amateur Athletic Association (SUL) has apologized for revoking an obvious 100 meter victory from a Jewish athlete in Helsinki in June 1938. ?Any manipulation of the results is shocking and goes against our fundamental values in sports ...On behalf of the SUL, I present my sincerest apologies to those who have suffered injustices and to their families,. The measure is not a quick ?x for the problems but at least a year will allow teenagers some growing-up time. THE government has implemented a youth guarantee, under which under 25s and fresh graduates under the age of 30 will be offered either work or a work experience position or a place in a workshop or in rehabilitation within three months of becoming unemployed. Everyone leaving comprehensive school is guaranteed the opportunity to participate in education provided by an upper secondary school, a vocational college, an apprenticeship, a workshop or a rehabilitation centre. USING the youth guarantee, the skills programme for young adults and employment services as tools, the goal is to help young people to enter education or working life. Nobody wants this to happen again. OF EACH generation, up to 10 per cent fall through society?s safety nets, a ?gure which is generally considered intolerably high. At these sites, zoobenthic communities had also declined compared to last year. Hydrogen sulphide was found at sites on the Estonian side of the Gulf?? on a variable component related to certain operating pro?t levels at Nice for 2013 and 2014. The remaining 13.2 percent of the company not owned by MTG will remain with Nice founders and management. fully-owned production subsidiaries across Scandinavia and specializes in the development and production of both small-screen dramas and of reality formats, including Norwegian Idol, Celebrity Babysitter and cooking show The Grill Masters?? ?SWEDEN ern Times Group (MTG) has outbid its rivals to acquire a majority stake in Finnish production ?rm Nice Entertainment Group. The deal will see MTG acquire a 86.6 percent stake in Nice for an enterprise value of $114.2 million (?84.4 mil- ARTLYST. A mother of three daughters, she lives in Helsinki and lists exercise and literature as her hobbies. Youth guarantee is necessary THERE ARE scores of young people in Finland who have Elop is set to receive almost 19 million euros in compensation for his contract ending early. not found their own place in society or who do not get enough support from home in developing their life skills. 23 September SCOTT ROXBOROUGH starts today Sweden?s Modern Times Group an official visit to to Acquire Finland?s Nice Entertainment in $114 Million Deal Finland and Nice is an umbrella or- Lithuania -based Europe- lion) in an all-cash deal. A disadvantaged home background leaves children without ?nancial or other support, according to the latest Youth Barometer, which states that parents? socio-economic background and level of education are factors in children?s social exclusion. EURONEWS. Most of all, young people must grab the new opportunities that are now available. Anger in Finland over huge payoff for Nokia boss outgoing boss Stephen Elop is set to receive almost 19 million euros in compensation for his contract ending early. The Finnish company?s phone making business is being bought by Microsoft where Elop used to work until he moved to Nokia three years ago to try to save the company. These ?dropping out. This is the ?rst American museum exhibition devoted to the art of Bob Mizer (1922-1992) and Touko Laaksonen, aka ?Tom of Finland. (1920-1991), two of the most signi?cant ?gures of twentieth century erotic art and forefathers of an emergent post-war gay culture. The exhibition features a selection of Tom of Finland?s masterful drawings and collages, alongside Mizer?s rarely seen photo-collage ?catalogue boards. During his time at Nokia Elop had the company adopt Microsoft?s Windows Phone software for its smartphones and cut a third of the workforce?? PHYS.ORG. 20 September analysing the Youth Barometer, Professor Helena Helve points out that problems cluster around gap years between studies, periods of being out of work and prolonged stretches of unemployment
Here, humble crop duster Dusty (voiced by Dane Cook) dreams of becoming a great air racer. The timing couldn?t have been better for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks star, in light of the veteran?s recent announcement of extending his career by a further season. Aimed at the whole family, the works in the exhibition have been chosen from the museum?s collections, drawing speci?cally on the collections of Finnish art collectors Alexander von Collan and Adolf Gustaf Ramsay. With seafaring the primary source of prosperity in the Dutch society during that age, agriculture and cattle farming also held a high place in society. But hey. Continuing Matthew McConaughey?s somewhat astonishing about face from the doldrums of rom-com purgatory in recent times, director Jeff Nichols follows up his impressive Taking Shelter (2011) with Mud. Here two 14-year-old boys growing up in a small town beside the Mississippi stumble across McConaughey living on a small island. a career in racing, more speci?cally. Coughlan can Mary Coughlan returns for a fifth time of headlining the festivities. be seen onstage in Turku on Saturday 5 October and Helsinki?s Savoy Theatre on Monday 7 October, with an appearance in Tallinn sandwiched in between. With a career that spans over 25 years and ten albums, the jazz and blues great continues to produce uncompromising sounds for grateful audiences around the globe. Detesting the Irish culture represented by the likes of Riverdance, U2 and The Corrs, Coughlan remarkable voice has butted heads with aspects of Irish culture exported to the wider international audience during her career. Meanwhile, back on the local scene for a moment, the Irish Festival in Finland also features Cormac Cannon and Breda Keville from the west of Ireland. Taking a glance at the NHL superstar?s life story, director Jukka Pekka Siilin follows up his previous efforts Härmä (2012) and 2007?s Ganes. Johannes Arnoldus Boland (1838-1922) A peacock and pullets. Various animals housed at Sinebrychoff J A M E S O . Thus domestic animals became popular subjects with artists, along with both peasant and bourgeois life. Mud sees Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, and Michael Shannon rounding out a ?ne cast. Po- sitioning the animals in the forefront, Dujardin?s work would include Italianate mountains, castles and ruins ?lling the background. Elsewhere, prints created by Nicolas Berchem and Marcus de Byen featured a variety of animal subject matter, with pigs in the backyard, sheep on the pasture and proud, noble-looking horses among the various depictions. Younger vistors to the exhibition can ?nd the opportunity to indulge their own sketching skills at the Red Basement, with a sketching corner on offer for the little ones to try their hand at illustrating their own animal images. Animals in the Sinebrychoff Art Museum Until 19 January 2014 Sinebrychoff Art Museum Bulevardi 40 Helsinki W W W. Performing on stages in various cities around the country, the duo will be joined by the local maestro of Irish music, Samuli Karjalainen, for the majority of the dates. Irish Festival in Finland 28 September-7 October www.finnish-irish.fi. S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES THE ARTISTIC pairing of couple Selänne Release Date: 27 September Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili A time to get Irish mals, such as camels, bears and eagles also created interest among artists. S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES Hands up who wants a history lesson at Zodiak. The History of a Love 27 September-8 October Zodiak . S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES BRINGING together a total of 67 Dutch 17th-century prints, Animals in the Sinebrychoff Art Museum features a range of pigs, cows, sheep and horses on display, all under the same roof in downtown Helsinki. Center for New Dance Cable Factory Tallberginkatu 1 B, 1st floor Helsinki compliment and egg one another on, drawing on the fundamentals of their individual ?elds of art in order to create a brand new whole. ARRIVING with the onset of autumn, the annual Irish Festival in Finland is being staged for the 28th time, arriving this year between 28 September and 7 October. Events are being held around the country in celebration, once again offering visitors the chance to indulge in various aspects of Irish culture, This year, in keeping with tradition, singer Mary Coughlan is once again returning to these shores, headlining the festival for the ?fth time. Throw in Reese Witherspoon (as McConaughey?s one true love, amusingly titled Juniper) and more than a few Huckleberry Finn references and the McConaughey doubters left out there are bound to be converted. After 2011?s The Lincoln Lawyer saw the Texan putting an end to his career slide, following it up with strong performances in the likes of Killer Joe, Magic Mike and The Paperboy, McConaughey has transformed his career in recent years. S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . F I N N I S H - I R I S H . Set in Ahvenanmaa, Ulrika Bengts. Equipped with a modest engine and intense fear of heights, which keeps him closer to the ground, when a veteran aviator helps him qualify for a race against the reigning circuit champ, things begin to look up for our winged protaganist. Featuring the likes of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Cleese, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Brad Garrett on vocal duties, Planes has broken the shackles of its DisneyToons origins to be- come one of the rare ?icks out of the studio to make it to the cinema. The percussion and rhythm in motion 13 HEIK K I TORK K ELI, T HE CEN T R AL AR T ARCHIV E S, SINEBRYCHOFF AR T MUSEUM Film J A M E S O . Otherwise, if you are still resisting the validity of McConaughey?s acting chops, perhaps you can wait until he appears alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese?s highly-anticipated Wolf of Wall Street later this year. Elsewhere this week, just in case your little ones haven?t enough Disney paraphenalia lying about your home, Cars gets its own spin off with Planes. Spending most of his days ?ying low, his eyes are on the prize . Center for New Dance. With performances stretching from 27 September until 8 October, here an encounter between two people is depicted in movement and rhythm, seeking to articulate their wills, emotions and pulses. Set against a backdrop of polyphonic music, the music not only colours the performance palette, but informs and challenges the movement onstage. F I Time for another season, and the big screen, for Teemu Selänne. choreographer Hanna PajalaAssefa and musician Abdissa ?Mamba. A further two instalments are planned, with next year witnessing the arrival of Planes: Fire & Rescue. On the local scene, Oppipoika takes a bow on the big screen, arriving in the shadow of the news that it has been chosen as Finland?s entry into the Best Foreign Language Oscar race for next year. Assefa ?nd themselves in harmonious collaboration once again, with the goal of entertaining and challenging their audience with The History of a Love at Zodiak . Well, this week at your local cinema offers the opportunity to cheer one on, albeit one whose ?lms have made a combined box of?ce gross somewhere in the vicinity of 1.2 billion dollars in the US alone. ?lm takes viewers back to the summer of 1939, and the tale of a friendship between two boys. Finally, local hockey star done good Teemu Selänne is the focus of locally produced documentary Selänne. CULTURE HELSINKI TIMES To all the doubters, here?s Mud in your eye EVERYBODY likes an underdog, right. Furthermore, a number of more exotic ani- Mud (K12) Release Date: 27 September Director: Jeff Nichols Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon Planes (S) Release Date: 27 September Director: Klay Hall Feat. 2 OCTOBER 2013 J A M E S O . Intrigue is stirred up for the youngsters when McConaughey claims to be on the run from brutal bounty hunters after killing a man in Texas. Specialising in their own subject areas, many artists worked in pairs, with one creating the animals and the other responsible for the landscapes. Notable artists of the time included Paulus Potter, who specialised in painting and producing prints of cows. Meanwhile, Karel Dujardin was a leading artist in creating Italianate landscapes. brushes. The Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century was the outcome of great social and economic change, with the market for artistic works expanding as a direct result. Buyers of art works now included in their number the new social grouping of the middle-class bourgeoisie. The number of artists and the quantity of their art increased enormously to meet this demand. the voices of Dane Cook, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Oppipoika (K12) Release Date: 27 September Director: Ulrika Bengts Starring: Erik Lönngren, Patrik Kumpulainen Dance duet in history J A M E S O
A jury consisting of both experts and regular people selects the best ?sh in several categories. A few weeks afterwards, the herring celebration will move to Turku for the Herring Market. Fishermen do the ?angling. Simply walk in and experience one of Finland?s most sophisticated museums. At the end of the 19th century, while Finland was seeing the establishments of the ?rst museums, the Ostrobothnian historical museum association began collecting items and literary materials from western Finland. At the Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair, ?sherfolk working on the Baltic Sea will bring their traditional salted herring to Market Square, while the Herring Market will bring ?sh delicacies and handicrafts to Turku?s riverside. The Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) is a species of herring found only in the Baltic Sea. Today, it is one of the most popular ?sh in Finland and the Nordic Countries. ring, as well as a delicious selection of herring marinades and other ?sh products to Helsinki?s Market Square. Every year, dozens of ?shermen from the South Coast and Åland islands invade the capital to sell goods directly from their boats. In addition to herring and other ?sh treats, handicrafts and clothes are sold at the Baltic Herring Fair, bringing a maritime atmosphere to town. Over 3,600 items, such as jewellery, watches, ceramics, porcelain and glazed earthenware, are permanently displayed on the ?rst ?oor of the museum?s old wing. Furthermore, the Ostrobothnian museum showcases the Silver and Numismatic collections. Just as it happens in Helsinki, regional ?shermen and small businesses will sell a wide selection of ?sh and other products. The celebration of seafood is a very popular Finnish happening. The main focus was on collecting ancient ?nds, ecclesiastical items, books, money, costumes, furniture and household objects. Professor Karl Hedman, a doctor and enthusiastic collector of art and antiques, was chosen to be on the museum board of directors and created its guidelines. That signals that a herring has bitten and the ?retrieving. About the herring alone, there are markets, fairs and other events taking place in cities such as Helsinki, Turku, Vaasa, Rauma and Pori. The success of such events can immediately be spotted in the numbers: every year, thousands of people visit the Herring Fair and Market in Helsinki and Turku, celebrations that, combined, sell almost 100,000 kg of ?sh products per year. Those interested in ?shing and those who want to experience something different and enjoy delicious ?sh recipes should not miss the Herring Fair and Market. Herring is the queen of these events, but other ?sh products, handicrafts, clothes and archipelago-style dark bread can be found there too. Let the herring celebration begin! Ostrobothnian Museum Museokatu 3 Vaasa Tel. +358 (0)6 325 3800 Email: museoinfo@vaasa.fi Open: Tue-Fri 12:00-18:00 Sat-Sun 12:00-16:00 (until 1 September) From 2 September: Tue-Sun 12:00-17:00 Wed 12:00-20:00 Tickets ?5-7 Free on Fridays and for young under 18 years of age L E H T I K U VA / M A R J O S O R M U N E N The Baltic Sea?s fisherfolk sell the traditional salted herring, Archipelago-styled dark bread and other products straight from their boats. NOT MANY VENUES offer a deep look into a wide variety of ?elds, like the Ostrobothnian Museum does. It can be eaten freshly salted, fried, baked or smoked, as well as salted, pickled or marinated. Smaller than the traditional herring (silli in Finnish, Clupea harengus) that can be found in the North Atlantic or North Sea, it contains less fat. Despite its relatively small size and rather low market value compared to other ?sh, the Baltic herring is high in fatty acids and minerals, protein and vitamin D. . of the insect exhibition. using rigs equipped with several hooks speci?cally designed for Baltic herrings. Good spots for herring ?shing include sounds and steep rocky shores, where the water is four to eight metres deep. In fact, it may happen that no bite at all is gotten at the surface. In addition to the 5,500 pieces of money, the collection also contains numismatic literature and several medals. Textiles are featured at the Ostrobothnian Museum too. butter?ies, beetles and ants . The Herbarium, which consists of approximately 40,000 plant sheets, focuses on the region?s ?ora. Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair 6-12 October, Market Square Fish and seafood lovers should not miss the Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair held at the Market Square on 6-12 October. Turku Herring Market 24-27 October Turku riverfront Clothes and accessories from both the countryside and higher social classes are displayed at the Ostrobothnian Museum.. The Hedman collection, one of the venue?s gems, consists of both art and antiques. On 2427 October, it will be time for Finland?s former capital to be invaded by the maritime culture. part can begin. Celebrating the Baltic herring Fishing is a very popular recreational activity in Finland throughout the whole year. Across the country, about 50 different ?sh fairs and events are held annually to celebrate both the art of ?shing and seafood. Herring might not have the same market value of other species like salmon, but they are very popular and celebrated nonetheless. Since 1743, the Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair has been held in the capital, making it the city?s oldest traditional event. The numismatic exhibition presents an overview of the history of money in Finland. There is metal money, coins from the period when Finland was ruled by Sweden and Russia, and Finnish marks that date back some 1000 years. In this case, a ?sherman should gradually sink the rig toward the bottom, until the tip of the rod starts to shake. The ?rst is comprised of more than 300 objects and features silver articles from Finland, Vaasa and Europe. 14 26 SEPTEMBER . a method that uses a hook attached to a ?shing line, which is often attached to a ?shing rod . Its oneof-a-kind collection ranges from textiles to animals, going through ceramics and silver items. The purpose of the Vaasa-based initiative was to stimulate interest in the cultivation of patriotism and patriotic remembrance in all social classes. This year, it will take place on 6-12 October. The ?sherfolk working on the Baltic Sea will bring the traditional salted herL E H T I K U VA / P E K K A S A K K I IT?S HERRING season! After stops in Rauma and Pori, the herring-celebrating events are ready to bring the maritime atmosphere to Finland?s capitals of the past and the present. It includes Finnish arts from 1870-1930, as well as foreign artifacts that date back to the 15th-17th centuries. 2 OCTOBER 2013 LIFESTYLE L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R HELSINKI TIMES Looking west Autumn brings fish and joyful maritime celebrations in Helsinki and Turku. YA N N I C K I L U N G A HEL SINKI TIMES A sea of herrings The Ostrobothnian Museum presents western Finland through clothes, silverware and animals. YA N N I C K I L U N G A HEL SINKI TIMES Herring fishing The Baltic herring is by far the most numerous species of ?sh found in Finland?s coastal waters. In addition, he contributed, with his own collections, to the venue?s rise to prominence. Today, the Ostrobothnian Museum is one of Finland?s most eclectic museums. Some might think that ?shing could not get easier than this?and they would be wrong. The Lauttasaari bridge, located in the western part of Helsinki, is probably the capital?s most popular place for anglers looking for herring. The Lillholmen drawbridge in Parainen, in the Archipelago Sea (southwestern Finland) and Vaasa?s Raippaluoto bridge are other locations that attract hundreds of ?shermen every year. Sometimes, a school of Baltic herrings can be found right below the surface. The plant and wildlife of south Ostrobothnia are represented by the bird collection, with its almost 600 specimens and over 100 bird nests with eggs, the 80 animals of the mammal collection, and the 37,000 insects . Selling and buying ?sh and goods is not the only activity this event is about though. Every year, hundreds of ?shermen try to catch the best herring they can ?nd, from the South Coast to Vaasa. The herring ?shing season usually starts toward mid-May in Southern Finland, while it begins a month later on the latitude of Vaasa. During the summer, the traditional rod tackle is the most common gear used to catch herrings. In the second part of the herring ?shing season, from September to October, ?shing rigs are used instead. The venue?s extensive collection of about 10,300 textiles includes items from both the countryside and higher social classes, as well as pieces of Karl Hedman?s personal collection. Table cloths, oriental rugs, wool and silk scarves and sofa cushions, among other things, were all donated to the museum by Hedman?s wife Elin and the Hedman Foundation, and are now displayed for visitors to see. Last, but not least are the natural science collections. In fact, tasting also takes place at the Market Square
As one of the biggest consumers of coffee in the world, it seems like a nobrainer that you?d do well running a shop catering to it. EAT & DRINK HELSINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . m a n h a t t a n s t e a k h o u s e . The blend that I am partaking today is Malawi Geisha and it is ?delicate and complex. (09) 694 4207 Mon-Fri 10.30-21.00 Sat 10.30-19.00 Sun 11.00-19.00 BEST STEAKS IN TOWN H E L S I N K I ? L A H T I ? T A M P E R E Welcome! w w w . PUBS . Gone are the days when coffee in Finland came in two ?avours: wet and hot, or wet and cold. So there certainly is a growing café culture in Finland, and with it a breed of coffee drinker that knows Americanos from double ?at white lattes. THERE K AI KUUSIS TO PHOTOGR APH Y Coffee culture from scratch What of the café owner in this Nordic corner of the world. The cooler autumn weather means that the locally made ice creams have now been replaced with a heartier menu featuring goodies from a local bakery in Vallila as well as salads and coffees of all sorts. Local blend So what sort of brew are we to expect from Made in Kallio. having found a new partner who he promises would bring a surprising twist to the café . And the café is buzzing, with artists mingling in with customers, an ongoing art exhibition mingling with the day-to-day café happenings. Eckford-Prossor smiles at the question. ?The whole café is supported by word of mouth without a cent on marketing . ?Our blend is roasted just a short 500 meters away . Eckford-Prossor Factory Street Gallery café is supported by word of mouth. A taste elsewhere Another great concept café is Made in Kallio located right on the notorious and always colourful Vaasankatu in the heart of the Sörnainen-Kallio-Alpila district. (09) 611 217 Mon-Tue 10.30-23.00 Wed-Sat 10.30-24.00 Sun 12.00-23.00 Forum Mannerheimintie 20 tel. What drives Finns to want to partake their daily brew in the company of others when so much else happens in seclusion. my friends and customers are my main source of advertising.? More often than not, passersby come in to have a coffee and when they notice the art on the walls they get interested in the framing and gallery side of the business, which is Eckford-Prossor?s real passion. ?The whole idea is to have local artists feature their work, with a pop up store to sell stuff on the small scale, keeping prices low so people feel comfortable enough to come in, have a cup of good coffee and maybe support some local artists.? With his ?ngers in so many pies, how does the café fare. Julian nods, emphatically. 2 OCTOBER 2013 15 K AI KUUSIS TO PHOTOGR APH Y RESTAURANTS . a whole array of Argentinian and Belgian delicacies along with Factory Street Gallery?s delicious and unique blend of coffee. with ?hints of black pepper, bergamot, blueberries and dark chocolate?. The real surprise lies in the desire to take things to the next level, help others in the community to come into their own and showcase local talent. Next time you feel a hankering for a cup of coffee, maybe you should set off to your local café. After seeing a spate of recessions chew a hole in the Finnish psyche he decided to set up a café-framing business with a friend, an undertaking he describes as ?an exercise in optimism.. Made in Kallio also offers the option to drink one?s espresso ?on the go?, as is custom in Italy, for those on the run but in such a comfortable space many seem quite happy to linger over their lattes, while checking out the latest designs that are featured on the ?oor space of the café. ?Made in Kallio isn?t just a café, it?s really a community of friends and friends of the community, and anyone can rent the space if they have a project they want to showcase or an event they want to hold,. that really appealed to us.. Why the need for optimism. Founder Jon Sundell, a tall and impossibly energetic man is all about the multi-concept artist space / gallery and café which is Made in Kallio. ?The idea behind this place is to invite people into the artist?s working community and to show them what?s happening in Kallio, and give people direct contact with makers and artists.. tel. Strictly local, as keeping with the theme . BARS Made in Kallio seeks to invite people into the artist?s working community and show them what?s happening in Kallio. Cuppa of choice TA N I A N AT H A N HEL SINKI TIMES is a de?nite bite to the air as the trams rumble past in their wet tram tracks, but in this cosy café overlooking the sea the air is warm and coffee scented. The smiles, like a proud father. Do Finnish customers really appreciate his attention to detail, plus the desire to support artists in the community to showcase and sell their work. +358 9 635 732 www.juuri.fi Transforming Finnish gifts of nature in an innovative manner to suit modern tastes. The world of beer in all its glory BEER HOUSE KAISLA Vilhonkatu 4 Factory Street Gallery Tehtaankatu 19 Made in Kallio Vaasankatu 14 Mon-Thu 13?02, Fri-Sat 13?03, Sun 13?02 www.oluthuone.com. the good people of Helsinki Kahvi Paahtimo Vallila provide us with our coffee.. Sundell says, ?with all kinds of workshops to reach out and form a sort of cultural center for activities in Helsinki. +358 9 6128 5900 w w w.royalr avintolat.com Eteläesplanadi 24 tel. With concrete ?oors and retro armchairs, the space is uber-cool and features works of art for sale from one-off light ?xtures to repurposed motorbike parts made into jewellery. ?We use a very special blend of coffee that?s grown only in three places in the world and roasted in the Latin style of roasting by our supplier, Cafetoria Roastery,. Eckford-Prossor has big plans . f i Korkeavuorenkatu 27 Helsinki Tel. There isn?t as much help given to small businesses starting out in Finland as say, in the UK. So it?s really important to give back and people appreciate it happening in their communities.? Not to mention that it doesn?t hurt to have a great cup of coffee while checking out the local art scene. space that houses Factory Street Gallery café is serene, huge windows overlook the slim strip of sea at the intersection of Tehtaankatu and Huvilakatu and the walls are decorated with the artwork of local artists framed by Julian himself. Yet what you see on the café ?oor is merely the tip of the iceberg. Sharing the 350sqm space are ?lmmakers and the StadiTV studio, plus a carpenter, 3D printers, an electronic studio, shoe and textile manufacturers plus a photography atelier. It doesn?t hurt that they also have a common sauna for the use of all in the basement. Maybe it isn?t such a shocker that Finland?s café culture is booming. Who knows who or what you might ?nd waiting for you there. SPAIN IN THE HEART OF HELSINKI mon-fri 11.30 ?24, sat 14?24 So?ankatu 4, Helsinki . Having grown up in Detroit and London he found himself back in Helsinki in the ?90s. Sundell enthuses. ?It?s really about promoting the maker culture,. Providing the whole chain from design to manufacturing to marketing to retail all under one roof . And can small businesses survive the double bite of a prolonged recession plus Finland having the dubious honor of being one of the most expensive food countries in Europe? Julian Eckford-Prossor seems to think so. ?Oh de?nitely
PUBS . Buen Provecho y Olé! E VA B L A N C O Tervasaari Island 00170 Helsinki tel. The amaz- *China Tiger Authentic Chinese food in the heart of Helsinki Mon-Fri 11am-11pm, Sat Noon-11pm . +358 (0)9 7425 5574 Tue?Sat 18?23 Dream chocolate with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. La Parrilla Española Eerikinkatu 4 00100 Helsinki Tel. www.dongbeihu.fi ing Solomillo Santanderina (?29.00), such exquisite and tender beef ?llet, melts in my mouth, combined with a slightly spiced pepper sauce and garnished with sautéed potatoes and vegetables. While I enjoy my luxurious Solomillo, Eva tucks into a gorgeous Pikeperch ?sh a la Vasca (?24.00), garnished with shrimps, mussels and sautéed vegetables. Last but not least, two different desserts, starting with a rich Catalan Cream (?9.00). Sun 2pm-10pm Korkeavuorenkatu 47 . Tel +358 (0)9 495 098 hu@dongbeihu.fi . As the name suggests, originally from the Catalan region, this sweet delicacy could be considered crème brûlée?s twin sister, although slightly different in ?avour due to the added cinnamon and a slightly thicker consistency; a custard-like base and caramelised crisp sugar topping delivering a strong vanilla scent. Helsinki . Thus La Parrilla Española, situated in Eerikinkatu, was born. A step inside Red is the colour of Spain and La Parrilla is a faithful representation of Spanish culture. Its snow-white painted walls, its clay tile ?oors and bright red paintings transported us to the south of this bull?ghting country. As we walk in, co-owner (and Mika?s mother) Katriina Kavekari welcomes us with a warm smile. All seats were divided in cubicles, giving a great sense of comfort and intimacy, and soon photographer Eva and I are seated in a cozy corner. ?Buen Provecho? Mother and son soon set about offering us a threecourse meal that delighted and satis?ed. His pioneer spirit and ideas made him establish, among other restaurants, the very ?rst Spanish Restaurant in Finland, Paella Española de Torni. 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES E VA B L A N C O E VA B L A N C O RESTAURANTS . After HOK Elanto bought the hotel, he decided to open a new Spanish restaurant in the city. BARS Taste of Autumn in the old tar storehouse Elk Feast 1.10.?9.11. for all size ?hunting teams. ?This comes from Galicia,. she observes while tasting our chorizo. Our main course was the star of our meal. (09) 603 305 Mon-Fri 11.30-23 Sat 17-23.30 www.parrillaespanola.fi. If you ask Mika, however, he might suggest a Solomillo with red wine sauce and garlic potatoes, which he confessed to be closest to his heart. Bottom line is, no matter what you order, you will not be disappointed. So. A delicate mint leaf gives a extra touch to the palate. Second-up is the Dream Chocolate (?10.00), a gorgeous chocolate fondant, accompanied with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream and a few dots of deep red raspberry sauce that gave a wonderful colour touch to the plate and a unique extra fresh punch to the ?avour. Tradition become legendary After this fantastic feast, Mika joins us for a quick chat. Having studied Restaurant Management for two years, he?s the fourth generation following his family business and doesn?t see himself doing anything else but being part of this traditional and cosy restaurant that has been his home for 20 years, now. One fo the two head chefs, Kari Mämmilä, is the king of the kitchen today at this wonderful and genuine Spanish restaurant. Having worked at la Parrilla since 1977, this Finnish cook really knows how to capture Spanish flavours to the core; he was taught and mentored by three Spanish chefs who used to work at the restaurant, during the third generation back in the day, and needless to mention Mämmilä learned well. This being my ?rst experience tasting Spanish gastronomy, I recommend a visit to La Parrilla Española restaurant and try the Solomillo Santanderina with pepper sauce, the highlight of my meal. Right: Solomillo with a light pepper sauce. Spanish sensation www.asrestaurants.com Local stalwart soon celebrating 40 years of serving flavours a la Española. VA L É R I E B RU N HEL SINKI TIMES Pohjoinen Makasiinikatu 7 Helsinki, tel: 045 325 0850 www.daynite.fi A CLASSIC mon-fri: 11:00-22:00 sat: 12:00-02:00 sun: closed SINCE 1932 Et. I was amazed at the quality of food that was brought to us, with its variety and freshness. The entrée consists of a Tapas platter (?24.00) mainly with Spanish chorizo, Mancheco cheese (brought directly from the city La Mancha), Serrano ham and delicious white bread garnished with ?nely chopped tomatoes and onions. Never having tasted Spanish gastronomy before, I trust Eva?s opinion and she, being of Spanish origin herself, assured me that the ?avours transported her back to Spain. 16 EAT & DRINK 26 SEPTEMBER . This fruitful family business has been delighting palates for four generations. The story began when current owner Mika Kavekari?s grandfather owned Hotel Torni up until 1972. with pre-order Left: Tapas platter with chorizo, Mancheco cheese and other savoury sensations. Hesperiankatu 22 tel. +358 9 6128 5200 mon-thu 11-24, fri 11-01, sat 13-01, sun 13-23 www.royalravintolat.com LA PARRILLA ESPAÑOLA has offered exquisite Spanish quality food in Helsinki since 1973
DJ Mojito 2130hrs. Pie n a Pint, need we say more Dj Mojito from 2130!!! Sunday . EAT & DRINK HELSINKI TIMES RESTAURANTS . 135 4148 www.kolumbus.fi/zinnkeller www.ryanthai.fi Open: 14-02 Sunday-Tuesday 12-03 Wednesday-Saturday mon-fri 11-15 lunch buffet 9,50 ? Vuorikatu 18, Helsinki Tel. PUBS . Sat 13-22.30 Season?s Menu 46 ? Bear consomme in Kuksa cup *** Whitefish on a Lappish slate *** Roasted rump steak of reindeer *** Parfait of smoked cloudberries Two more pints please! Welcome! Buresboahtin! Bulevardi 34 00120 Helsinki Tel. 2 OCTOBER 2013 RESTAURANTS . +358 (0) 9 737 373 E-mail: aussiebar@aussiebar.net www.aussiebar.net. +358 9 6871 8840 MON-FRI 11-22 SAT-SUN 12-22 WHAT?S ON AT THE AUSSIE BAR: Thursday . 09 694 0750 Mon-Fri 11-23, Sat 12-23, Sun 12-22 www.tandoor.fi Open Mon-Fri 11-23, weekends 12-23, Lunch: Mon-Fri 11-15 Contact Ratakatu 1B, 00120 Helsinki. Book your table tel. Live Music With George Rigby from 2130hrs. Saturday . BARS 26 SEPTEMBER . We have our Jugs out and it?s game time. The months end is nigh. Wednesday Live Music with Gary Law!! Rockin form 2130hrs. Come and have a Tooheys or two! AUSSIE BAR Salomonkatu 5, Kamppi 00100 Helsinki, Finland Tel. Puh. Friday . The Original and Best Sunday Session, Footy comes free!! Monday . BARS Serving traditional Japanese food in Helsinki for 25 years Nepalese Cuisine Since 1993 The Oldest Nepalese Restaurant in Finland Salomonkatu 19, Helsinki Tel. www.lappires.com Mon-Fri 12-22.30 . 00100 HELSINKI Tel (09) 645 550 . Monday mean Monday Club, never a dull moment!!! JP Working his moves for your pleasure. Like we Ever do a quiet night in! Come Fill The Gap. PUBS . Tuesday . +358 9 7425 5544 Mon?Sat 18?23 Keskuskatu 6, Citykäytävä, Helsinki oluthuone.com www.asrestaurants.com Proudly sponsored by: Das Lokal mit der besonderen Note Neben Spezialitäten aus den verschiedenen Regionen servieren wir Ihnen Deutsche Biere und Weine HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN Meritullinkatu 25, 00170 Helsinki. 09 646 080 Culinary journey to the north Magic of Lapland Genuine tastes from Lappish nature LAPPI RESTAURANT Annankatu 22 . BARS HI YA L MA A 17 RESTAURANTS . PUBS . (09) 647 551, mob 040 7347 638 www.himalaya.fi Japanese Restaurant Koto Lönnrotinkatu 22, Helsinki t
one problem. Cirko Kaasutehtaankatu 1 Helsinki Tickets ?15/20 www.cirko.fi Wed 2 October Karttunen Kollektiv: Lacrimae Jyrki Karttunen and Sari Lakso nterpret famous baroque opera death scenes. Stoa Turunlinnantie 1 Helsinki Tickets ?12/20 www.stoa.fi From Wed 2 October Transformation: Towards a Sustainable Future How to you build or renovate your home to balance human needs with the demands of ecological sustainability? Museum of Finnish Architecture Kasarmikatu 24 Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00 Wed 11:00-20:00 Tickets ?0/3/6 www.mfa.fi Until Mon 21 October The Invisible Lady Four young Finnish artists . Espoo Museum of Modern Art Ahertajantie 5 Helsinki Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00 Wed 11:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/8/10 www.emma.museum Until Sun 12 January 2014 Trees Are Poems Kristoffer Albrecht, Taneli Eskola, Ritva Kovalainen & Pentti Sammallahti. Sinebrychoff Art Museum Bulevardi 40 Helsinki Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00 Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0-10 www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi OTHERS Until Sun 29 September Rakkautta & Anarkiaa - Helsinki International Film Festival New films from well-known filmmakers and fresh talents. www.hiff.fi. Center for New Dance Tallberginkatu 1B Helsinki Tickets ?14/22 www.zodiak.fi Wed 2 October Krepsko Theatre Group & Henna Kaikula . 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES COMPILED BY ANNA-MAIJA LAPPI EXHIBITIONS M I C H A E L W E I N T RO B Richard Bona (CMR) Cameroonian jazz bassist and singer-songwriter Richard Bona will visit Helsinki on Tuesday 1 October and fill the stage of Savoy Theatre with his unique sound that combines African polyrhythms, harmonic virtuosity, and accessible melodies. Aurora Reinhard, Pilvi Takala, Erkka Nissinen and Hans Rosenström ? have come together to build an exhibition. Amos Anderson Art Museum Yrjönkatu 27 Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00 Wed 10:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/2/8/10 www.amosanderson.fi Until Sun 10 November Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg A blend of fantasy and nightmare created by the Swedish contemporary artist duo. Kunsthalle Helsinki Nervanderinkatu 3 Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00 Wed 11:00-20:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Tickets ?0/9/12 www.taidehalli.fi Until Sun 17 November Timo Heino Installations and collages by one of the most uncompromising Finnish contemporary artists. Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace Salomonkatu 15 Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00 Tickets ?0/8/10 Until Sun 15 December Surreal Illusionism ? Photographic Fantasies of the Early 20th Century Fascinating exhibition presenting photographic fantasy postcards from the early 1900s. The Finnish Museum of Photography The Cable Factory Tallberginkatu 1 Helsinki Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00 Wed 11:00-20:00 Tickets ?0/6/8 www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi Until Tue 31 December Mad about Helsinki A unique overview of the city´s history and beloved places. Helsinki City Museum Sofiankatu 4 Helsinki Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00 Thu 9:00-19:00 Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00 Free entry Until Sun 12 January 2014 Aesthete Extarordinaire Birger Kaipiainen´s ceramic fantasies. EMMA . His arrangements create a musical kaleidoscope and hypnotize the audiences with the unexpected colors of voices and instruments. Born in a tiny village of Minta in Cameroon, Bona started playing balafon at an early age, and by the age of six, he was performing regularly. [heresy] Contemporary circus. Cirko Kaasutehtaankatu 1 Tickets ?15/20 www.cirko.fi Fri 27 September . My Brazilian Heart Tribute to Brazilian music. Koko Jazz Club Hämeentie 3 Tickets ?11.50-16.50 www.kokojazz.fi Thu 26 September Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Schubert and Berlioz. Music Centre Concert Hall Mannerheimintie 13 Tickets ?6-25 www.musiikkitalo.fi Thu 26 September Club Hori Smoku Crocodiles (USA), Night Beats (USA). Kuudes Linja Hämeentie 13 Tickets ?16.50 www.kuudeslinja.com Thu 26 September Eurocrack (Julma Henri & RPK) Finnish rap. Le Bonk Yrjönkatu 24 Tickets ?9.50 www.lebonk.fi Thu 26 September The Fabulous Thunderbirds (USA) Blues/rock. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Tickets ?35/38 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Cameroonian jazz bassist and singer-songwriter Richard Bona. Fri 27 September Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Tugan Sohijev, conductor & Sergey Khachatryan, violin. Music Centre Concert Hall Mannerheimintie 13 Tickets ?7-25 www.musiikkitalo.fi Fri 27 September Risto Juhani Acoustic folk/pop. Korjaamo Culture Factory Töölönkatu 51 B Tickets ?7.50/8 www.korjaamo.fi Fri 27 September Kombat Katz (SWE), The Shrieks, Black Magic Six ?Psychobilly?/punk. Semifinal Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Tickets ?7.50 www.semifinal.fi Fri 27 September Pariisin Kevät Pop. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Helsinki Tickets ?19.50/20 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Fri 27 September Klamydia, Hybrid Children Punk rock. The Circus Salomonkatu 1-3 Helsinki Tickets ?16.50/17 www.thecircus.fi Tap into untouched human potential Helsinki Times can help you find international and motivated workforce In today?s labour market the most difficult task is attracting the best possible applicants for the vacancy on offer. To place recruitment adverts in Helsinki Times, please contact adv@helsinkitimes.fi or phone +358 9 689 7422 www.helsinkitimes.fi Fri 27 September Turmion Kätilöt Industrial metal. Virgin Oil CO. Mannerheimintie 5 Tickets ?16.50/17 www.virginoil.fi Fri 27 September Girlschool (UK) Legendary female hard rock group. Nosturi Telakkakatu 8 Tickets ?22 www.elmu.fi Fri 27 September Igudesman & Joo: Big Nightmare Music Violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo. Sello Hall Soittoniekanaukio 1A Tickets ?42.50/44 www.sellosali.fi Fri 27 September Deep Space Helsinki Solenoid (GER) & Thomas Hessler (GER). Kuudes Linja Hämeentie 13 Tickets ?10 www.kuudeslinja.com Fri 27 September & Wed 2 October Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale Comic opera. Finnish National Opera Helsinginkatu 58 Tickets ?26-115 www.opera.fi Sat 28 September We Love Helsinki Syystanssit Traditional dances from tango to humppa with an urban twist. Korjaamo Culture Factory Töölönkatu 51 B Tickets ?11.50/12 www.korjaamo.fi Sat 28 September Hoedown featuring Anna Puu & Tuure Kilpeläinen Country, folk, blues and rock?n?roll. Sello Hall Soittoniekanaukio 1A Tickets ?22.50-27 www.sellosali.fi Sat 28 September Clinic presents Uto Karem (ITA) Techno. Venue Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21 Tickets ?10.70-20.70 www.clubvenue.fi Sat 28 September 1993 Club Terveet Kädet live. Bar Loose Annankatu 21 Tickets ?8.50 www.barloose.com Sat 28 September Viikate Metal. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Helsinki Tickets ?19.50/20 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Sat 28 September Covenant (SWE) Energetic synth pop, gloomy post-industrial sound and electro. Nosturi Telakkakatu 8 Tickets ?24 www.elmu.fi Wed 2 October Vapaat Äänet Innanen & Kantonen Duo and Christophe Monniot Station Mir. Kanneltalo Klaneettitie 5 Tickets ?9/13 www.kanneltalo.fi Sat 28 September Hang The DJ-club The New Tigers´ album release. Kuudes Linja Hämeentie 13 Tickets ?8 www.kuudeslinja.com Wed 2 October Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu, conductor & Alina Ibragimova, violin. Music Centre Concert Hall Mannerheimintie 13 Tickets ?7-25 www.musiikkitalo.fi Sun 29 September the GazettE (JPN) Japan rock superstar. The Circus Salomonkatu 1-3 Tickets ?55-85 www.thecircus.fi Mon 30 September Editors (UK) Indie rock. The Circus Salomonkatu 1-3 Tickets ?37/38 www.thecircus.fi Mon 30 September Jesu (UK), JK Flesh (UK) Post-metal/shoegaze. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Tickets ?22/24 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Tue 1 October Richard Bona (CMR) Jazz bassist and musician from Cameron. Savoy Theatre Kasarmikatu 46-48 Tickets ?34/36 www.savoyteatteri.fi Tue 1 October A Place To Bury Strangers (USA) Noiserock/shoegaze/post-punk. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Wed 2 October Svenska Talande Klubben Hoffmaestro (SWE). Korjaamo Culture Factory Töölönkatu 51 B Tickets ?13.50/15 www.korjaamo.fi Wed 2 October Matti Johannes Koivu, Pimeys Rock. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Wed 2 October Karkkipäivä Punk rock. Semifinal Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Tickets ?6.50/7 www.semifinal.fi Wed 2 October Sean Nicholas Savage (CAN) Multilayered pop from Montreal. Kuudes Linja Hämeentie 13 www.kuudeslinja.com THEATRE & DANCE Thu 26 September Seven Brothers The riotous brothers of Finnish lore collide with the world of ballet. Finnish National Opera Helsinginkatu 58 Tickets ?19-105 www.opera.fi Fri 27 & Sat 28 September Dance United The Finnish National Opera opens its doors to two visiting Finnish dance companies. Finnish National Opera The Almi Hall Helsinginkatu 58 Tickets ?12/23 www.opera.fi Fri 27 & Sat 28 September Sirkus Supiainen . When Bona was 11, his family moved to the big city of Douala, where Bona fell in love with the sound of guitar and played in local bikutsi and makossa bands. Today, after many happy incidents, Bona is a world-renowned jazz musician who has toured around the globe, recorded several albums and collaborated with various artists such as Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Tito Puente. Tue 1 October Savoy Theatre Kasarmikatu 46-48 Tickets ?34/36 www.savoyteatteri.fi MUSIC Thu 26 September Timo Hirvonen . Assefa. Zodiak . Tue 8 October Hanna Pajala-Assefa: Erään rakkauden historia (?History of a Love?) A duet based on movement and rhythm by the artist couple choreographer Hanna Pajala-Assefa and musician Abdissa ?Mamba. Alma & Amanda Two minds . one secret, two moods . 18 WHERE TO GO 26 SEPTEMBER
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Oscar winners Rober Redford and Dustin Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein whose investigation into the Watergate scandal set the stage for President Richard Nixon?s eventual resignation. USA/2009. 23.00 Scott Walker: 30 Century Man DOC This is a documentary about the influential musician Scott Walker. NELONEN 07.00 Children?s Programming 09.45 Princess 10.20 Sibling Rivalry 13.20 Princess 13.55 Sibling Rivalry 15.00 Dance Your Ass Off 16.00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 21.00 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad FILM Directed by: David Zucker Starring: Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley. Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden. Starring: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee. (K16) 00.00 Shameless (K16) Paul Abbott?s critically acclaimed, offbeat drama about the rollercoaster lives and loves of the dysfunctional Gallagher clan. 01.00 The Simpsons The Eiger Sanction Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this international intrigue action thriller that takes place on the Swiss Alps. (K16) 00.00 Smallville (K16) 01.00 48 Hour Mystery 00.10 01.10 Dog Rescue Animal ABC Good Luck Charlie Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 FILM Directed by: Alex Zamm. 2 OCTOBER 2013 HELSINKI TIMES Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television. thursday TV1 YLE TEEMA World Cafe: Middle East T V1 19.00 10.00 15.05 17.08 19.00 friday 26.9. Heartbeat Yle News in English Heartbeat World Cafe: Middle East Today Bobby cruises through Istanbul, tasting specialties such as kebabs and pilafs, filo pies, yoghurt and cucumber salads, milk puddings and nutty-syrupy pastries, which originated from the Ottoman Empire. MTV3 09.45 The Young and the Restless 10.35 Emmerdale 14.10 Jamie at Home Settle in with Jamie Oliver, one of the world?s favorite chefs, as he opens his home to viewers to show how simple home cooking is. 14.45 Oliver?s Twist Jamie Oliver invites friends and relatives for some mouthwatering food. 15.20 Middle 17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 21.00 Broadchurch 23.20 Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead (K18) FILM When four friends embark on a road trip to Vegas looking for fun, they have no idea that they are about to fall into a blood-drenched charnel house of tension, torture, and the darkest depths of pure primal fear. Directed by: Louis Morneau. Starring: Nicki Aycox, Nick Zano, Laura Jordan. USA/Canada/2008. 01.15 V SUB 08.25 Children?s Programming 09.25 Eastenders 13.55 Mythbusters 14.55 The Moment of Truth 15.55 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals 16.25 Eastenders 18.00 The Incredible Mr. one very overweight and the other severely underweight ? swap diets in an attempt to change the way they view food and eating. 23.00 C.S.I. Moses. Starring: Erik Palladino, Michael Madsen, David Moscow. USA/2008. 01.15 The Only Way Is Essex 01.50 My Boyfriend, the Sex Tourist (K16) saturday 27.9. TV1 YLE TEEMA The Paradise T V1 19.00 10.00 15.05 15.55 17.08 Heartbeat Yle News in English In the Belly of the City DOC Heartbeat A British police drama series that is set in the 1960s, in the fictional Yorkshire town of Aidensfield. 19.00 The Paradise When Miss Audrey develops a mysterious illness, her absence creates a vacancy for a temporary head of ladieswear. 22.55 The Kennedys This controversial miniseries takes a look at one of America?s most enduring political dynasties. MTV3 09.45 The Young and the Restless 10.35 Emmerdale 14.10 Top Gear 15.20 Don?t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 22.35 The Eiger Sanction (K16) FILM Directed by: Clint Eastwood. Hemlock (Eastwood) is a retired professional assassin who is suddenly forced out of retirement to hunt a deadly double agent who murdered a close friend. USA/1988. 23.10 Secret Window FILM Directed by: David Koepp. Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello. USA/2004. 01.10 Lost (K16) TV5 06.35 The King of Queens 07.05 Rules of Engagement 07.30 3rd Rock from the Sun 08.20 Matlock 12.10 Kitchen Boss 12.35 Say Yes to Dress 13.05 My Strange Addiction 14.05 Smile TV 14.35 Hale and Pace 15.05 Matlock 16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun 17.00 The King of Queens 17.30 Rules of Engagement 18.00 That ?70s Show 19.00 Down to You FILM Directed by: Kris Isacsson. Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Freddie Prinze Jr., Henry Winkler. USA/2000. 21.00 How Do You Know FILM This film revolves around a passionate athlete who finds herself romantically torn between a narcissistic baseball star and a straightlaced businessman. Directed by: James L. Brooks. Directed by: Alan J. (K16) 00.00 Chuck 18.00 The Art of Russia: Out of the Forest DOC 19.00 Lark Rise to Candleford 20.30 Stephen Fry: Gadget Man DOC Today Stephen Fry looks at how technology can make shopping and cooking easier and more entertaining. 21.00 Myth or Science Scientist Jennifer Gardy turns her critical eye towards the myths, lies, misunderstandings and errors behind the headlines, putting the science of the daily news to the test both in the lab and on the streets. NELONEN 07.00 Children?s Programming 09.45 Princess 10.20 Sibling Rivalry 13.20 Princess 13.55 Sibling Rivalry 15.00 Dance Your Ass Off 16.00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 17.30 Dr. Starring: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee. The hunt takes Eastwood on a breathtaking journey up the beautiful but punishing range in Swiss Alps. USA/1998. 20.00 Men at Work 21.00 The Fast And The Furious 4 (K16) FILM Directed by: Justin Lin. Starring: Gal Gadot, John Ortiz. USA/2009. 23.05 Sexcetera (K18) 00.15 High Priced Housewives (K18) 01.50 The Client List All the President?s Men All the President?s Men is one of the most suspenseful political thrillers of the ?70s directed by conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula. Starring: Marcus Coloma, Erin Cahill, Susan Blakely. USA/1976. YLE Teema 21.00 Saturday 28.9.2013. Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows. UK/USA/2008. Nashville Cursed (K16) FILM Directed by: Wes Craven. Starring: Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg. USA/2005. TV5 06.10 Smile TV 06.40 Blackadder Goes Forth 07.15 3rd Rock from the Sun 08.05 Matlock 11.55 Coupling 13.20 Keasha?s Perfect Dress 13.50 Say Yes to Dress 14.15 Extreme Cheapskates 14.45 Long Island Medium 15.15 The Wedding Shop 16.10 Cake Boss 16.40 My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding 17.30 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 18.00 Emma?s Wish FILM Directed by: Mike Robe. Starring: Joanna Kerns, Harley Jane Kozak, William R. Starring: Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd. USA/2010. 23.30 Mardi Gras: Spring Break FILM Directed by: Phil Dornfeld. Starring: Nicholas D?Agosto, Josh Gad, Bret Harrison. USA/2011. 01.00 Spartacus: Gods of the Arena 02.00 Just for Laughs 28.9. TV1 YLE TEEMA 15.35 16.30 18.00 21.00 Lemony Snicket?s A Series of Unfortunate Events Sub 20.00 08.05 In the Belly of the City DOC 15.05 Yle News in English 16.00 Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth gets a chance to try some social climbing while borrowing her sister Violet?s cottage for the weekend. 17.05 The Paradise 19.38 New Tricks 22.00 A Touch of Frost (K16) 23.15 The Pillars of the Earth (K16) Waleran and Regan put their minds together to find a way to remain on the winning side of the war and they come up with the idea of a prisoner exchange. Yle Live: Kings of Leon Myth or Science Treme All the President?s Men FILM Directed by: Alan J. Pakula. Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden. USA/1976. 23.15 Page One: Inside the New York Times DOC Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity. NELONEN 13.25 14.30 15.00 15.30 16.40 MTV3 21.30 08.05 Children?s Programming 12.05 Jamie at Home 16.00 Top Gear 21.00 Survivor In this reality game show contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. 00.20 The Killing (K16) SUB 07.00 Children?s Programming 11.00 Will & Grace 13.00 Bleep My Dad Says 13.30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter 14.00 Whitney 14.30 Up All Night 15.00 Flipping Out Jeff Lewis buys houses and sells them for a profit after fixing them up. 16.00 Jamie?s Great Britain Jamie Oliver concludes his journey around Britain in the west of Scotland, where he discovers a food culture just as distinctive as the rugged landscape. 17.00 Gordon?s Ultimate Cookery Course 20.00 Lemony Snicket?s A Series of Unfortunate Events FILM When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents. USA/1975. MTV3 22.35 Friday 27.9.2013 19.00 Prohibition: A Nation of Drunkards DOC 20.45 Space Files 21.00 Taking Woodstock FILM Directed by: Ang Lee. Starring: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert. vast fortune. Directed by: Brad Silberling. Starring: Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken. USA/Germany/2004. 23.00 C.S.I. Directed by: Clint Eastwood. When Woodward and Bernstein are determined to get out the story of the crime and its presidential cover up they are led to deeper and deeper into a web of corruption and intrigue, danger and disbelief. USA/2011. The Bank Job (K16) FILM This film is based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. Directed by: Roger Donaldson. Goodwin Jonathan Goodwin is a new breed of escapologist and professional danger-man, putting himself in the most extreme situations and dodging death, to leave your mind reeling every time. 19.30 Two and a Half Men 20.00 Big Bang Theory 20.30 The Simpsons 21.00 Project Runway 23.00 C.S.I. USA/1975. 01.05 Undercovers SUB 08.25 Children?s Programming 09.25 Eastenders 13.55 Mythbusters 14.55 Pineapple Dance Studios A fly on the wall series following the lives of the teachers, pupils and staff of the world famous Pineapple Dance Studios. 15.55 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals 16.25 Eastenders 18.00 Glory Daze 19.30 Two and a Half Men 20.00 Big Bang Theory 20.30 The Simpsons 21.00 Supersize vs Superskinny A series in which two extreme eaters . Pakula. Phil 20.00 Once Upon Time 21.00 Criminal Minds (K16) 23.50 Nurse Jackie A drug-addicted nurse struggles to find a balance between the demands of her frenetic job at a New York City hospital and an array of personal dramas. 01.05 All in the Family 01.40 The Deadliest Roads TV5 06.35 The King of Queens 07.05 Rules of Engagement 07.30 3rd Rock from the Sun 08.20 Matlock 12.10 Kitchen Boss 12.35 Cake Boss 13.05 My Strange Addiction 14.05 Smile TV 14.35 Hale and Pace 15.05 Matlock 16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun 17.00 The King of Queens 17.30 Rules of Engagement 18.00 That ?70s Show 19.00 Las Vegas 20.00 C.S.I. 21.00 Mardi Gras: Spring Break FILM Directed by: Phil Dornfeld. Starring: Nicholas D?Agosto, Josh Gad, Bret Harrison. USA/2011. 22.40 Bitches and Bastards (K16) 23.45 Crash and Burn (K16) FILM Directed by: Russell Mulcahy. 20 TV GUIDE 26 SEPTEMBER . While Hemlock is an experienced mountaineer and willing to make the climb, he is troubled to discover that he does not know which of the other three men scaling the Eiger is his true target. This film guarantees some of the most exciting mountain climbing sequences ever filmed
TV GUIDE HELSINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . USA/2010. Yle Teema 18.00 Sunday 29.9.2013 Nelonen 21.00 Monday 30.9.2013. When a young American woman (Amanda Seyfried) travels to Verona ? the city where Romeo and Juliet first met - she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill. USA/1942. NELONEN 07.00 Children?s Programming 09.45 Princess 10.20 Sibling Rivalry 13.20 Princess 13.55 Sibling Rivalry 15.00 Dance Your Ass Off 16.00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 17.00 Wild Life at the Zoo 20.00 America?s Next Topmodel 21.00 Letters to Juliet FILM Directed by: Gary Winick. Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal. USA/2010. 23.30 Once Upon a Time 00.30 All in the Family 01.05 The Deadliest Roads TV5 06.40 Matlock 08.20 My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding 12.10 Kitchen Boss 12.35 Extreme Cheapskates 13.05 My Starnge Addiction 14.05 Smile TV 14.35 Hale and Pace 15.05 Matlock 16.00 3rd Rock from the Sun 17.00 The King of Queens 17.30 Rules of Engagement 18.00 That ?70s Show 19.00 Las Vegas Ed uses his past connections and some old-school tactics to hunt down the man who stole a priceless work of art from the Montecito. 20.00 C.S.I. 21.00 You, Me and Dupree FILM Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. After answering one letter dated 1957, she inspires its author to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love, and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined. Directed by: Gary Winick. Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal. holiday brochures. Afterwards, Onslow decides to take Richard in hand and show him how to enjoy life. 16.00 Land Girls Connie becomes concerned that a young evacuee is in danger, while Joyce is still in shock, as the German on the run has been shot dead. 20.45 Lottery and Joker MTV3 08.05 Children?s Programming 11.20 At the End of My Leash 11.50 Jamie at Home 13.30 Parenthood 14.45 Post Grad FILM Ryden Malby graduates from college and is forced to move back into her childhood home with her eccentric family, while she attempts to find a job, the right guy, and just a hint of where her life is headed. Directed by: Vicky Jenson. Starring: Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Michael Keaton. USA/2009. 21.05 Survivor 22.35 Lottery and Joker 22.40 C.S.I. 23.40 Glades SUB 07.00 Children?s Programming 11.00 The Simpsons 13.30 How I Met Your Mother 14.00 Flipping Out 15.00 The Moment of Truth 16.00 Undercover Boss USA Kevin Sheehan, the CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line, one of the world?s largest cruise companies, goes undercover posing as an unemployed taxi driver competing for a job within the company. 17.00 The Incredible Mr. Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Palow. England/1961. 21.00 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet DOC When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig?s Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he would not live to see his 25th birthday. 22.30 Yle Live: Cee Lo Green TV1 NELONEN Dog Rescue Animal ABC Wild Life at the Zoo The Office Super 8 FILM A group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town. Directed by: J.J. Miami 23.35 Royal Pains 00.35 Mike & Molly SUB 08.25 Children?s Programming 09.25 Eastenders 14.00 Mythbusters Two Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk urban legends by directly testing them. 14.55 Gordon?s Ultimate Cookery Course In this practical home cookery series Gordon Ramsay strips away the graft and complexity to show how to cook 100 simple, accessible and modern recipes to stake your life on. 15.55 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals 16.25 Eastenders This series follows the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East of London. 18.00 Supersize vs Superskinny 19.30 Two and a Half Men 20.00 Big Bang Theory 20.30 The Simpsons 21.00 Gordon Ramsay Behind Bars 23.00 Nikita (K16) 00.00 Bones 01.00 The Simpsons 01.30 Southland (K16) 20.00 The Art of Russia: Out of the Forest DOC 21.00 The House the 50s Built DOC This series examines the ingenuity and lifechanging technology behind the 1950s inventions that launched drab, black-and-white post-war Britain into a Technicolordrenched world of the future. 23.20 Treme NELONEN 07.00 Children?s Programming 09.45 Princess 10.20 Sibling Rivalry 13.20 Princess 13.55 Sibling Rivalry 14.55 Dance Your Ass Off 16.00 America?s Next Topmodel 21.00 Elementary When Sherlock?s exdrug dealer, Rhys, comes around for help, Watson is concerned about Sherlock?s sobriety after Rhys implies that Sherlock on drugs made a better detective. 22.00 NCIS 23.20 NCIS Los Angeles When Deeks goes missing on his LAPD undercover operation, the NCIS team begins their search to find one of their own. She reports it to the police but they find no evidence of a killing and write off Marple as a doddering eccentric. Determined to prove that she is not imagining things, Marple investigates the area around the stretch of railroad track where the murder occurred. She winds up on the estate of James Robertson-Justice, disguised as a maid. Starring: Erik Palladino, Michael Madsen, David Moscow. USA/2008. 01.05 Badass! (K18) 01.30 Las Vegas 02.20 Baby Faced Bodybuilders Murder, She Said Letters to Juliet Old miss Marple is on a train ride when she witnesses a murder being committed in a passing train. 2 OCTOBER 2013 21 Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television. sunday monday 29.9. TV1 YLE TEEMA Look Who?s Talking Too TV5 18.25 15.05 Yle News in English 15.30 Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth takes a trip to the travel agents for some ?quality. Starring: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Elias Koteas. USA/1990. 02.00 The Cave (K16) FILM Directed by: Bruce Hunt. Starring: Morris Chestnut, Cole Hauser, Marcel Iures. USA/2005. 03.40 Flashpoint (K16) 1.10. TV1 YLE TEEMA Women in Love T V1 21.00 10.00 15.05 17.08 19.00 Heartbeat Yle News in English Heartbeat In the Belly of the City DOC 21.00 Women in Love (K16) SERIES BEGINS. This series focuses on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they struggle with love, passion and commitment in the build up to the First World War. MTV3 09.45 The Young and the Restless 10.35 Emmerdale 11.35 Grand Designs 15.20 Ben and Kate 17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 21.00 Broadchurch Miller notices an inconsistency in the evidence handed over by Jack Marshall, while an article in the Herald suggests that he is a sex offender. 22.35 C.S.I. Their designs are judged, and one or more designers are eliminated each week. 16.25 Eastenders 19.30 Two and a Half Men 20.00 Suburgatory Tessa gets excited when someone steals Sheila Shay?s Shirley Temple doll collection but then not so thrilled when Dallas and Dalia crash with her because they are afraid of being burglarized. 20.30 The Simpsons 21.00 Supersize vs Superskinny 23.00 Unnatural History 00.00 It?s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 00.30 How I Met Your Mother 01.00 The Simpsons 17.00 Prohibition: A Nation of Drunkards DOC 22.00 Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon FILM Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands. Directed by: Roy William Neill. LAPD wants NCIS to stay out of its case when a LAPD Detective is killed. 00.50 Elementary 01.50 All in the Family TV5 06.55 The King of Queens 07.20 Rules of Engagement 07.45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08.35 Matlock 12.25 Kitchen Boss 13.25 My Strange Addiction 14.25 Smile TV 14.55 Hale and Pace 15.25 Matlock 16.20 3rd Rock from the Sun 17.10 The King of Queens 17.40 Rules of Engagement 18.05 That ?70s Show 19.00 Las Vegas 20.00 C.S.I. 21.00 First Blood (K16) FILM Directed by: Ted Kotcheff. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna. USA/1982. 22.55 69 Things to Do Before You Die (K18) 23.30 Crash and Burn (K16) FILM Directed by: Russell Mulcahy. Many family skeletons are exhumed by Miss Marple before she proves that she indeed saw a murder and pinpoints the guilty party. Directed by: George Pollock. Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Palow. England/1961. Romance starts to blossom all around in this delightful romantic drama film set in unimaginably beautiful Italian countryside. Maura Isles team up to solve crimes in Boston. 23.35 White Collar 00.35 Work It SUB 08.25 Children?s Programming 09.25 Eastenders 14.00 Mythbusters 14.55 Project Runway Heidi Klum hosts a reality series where contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme. Starring: Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon. USA/2006. 23.10 Sam & Evan: From Girls to Men 00.30 Look Who?s Talking Too FILM Directed by: Amy Heckerling. Goodwin 18.00 Gossip Girl 19.00 Suburgatory George joins the ParentTeacher Association (PTA) and quickly becomes queen bee of the PTA, making former queen bee Sheila Shay feel threatened. 20.00 Mythbusters 22.30 Terra Nova 23.25 In Plain Sight 00.20 Chase 01.20 Human Target (K16) 18.00 Murder, She Said FILM Directed by: George Pollock. Abrams. Starring: Joel Courtney, Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning. USA/2011. 23.35 Elementary 00.35 Defenders 01.35 Lost 11.30 12.35 13.05 13.35 21.00 TV5 07.50 Cake Boss 08.15 Kitchen Boss 09.05 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 12.30 Matlock 14.20 Betty White?s Off Their Rockers 14.50 Chestnut: Hero of Central Park FILM Directed by: Robert Vince. Starring: Abigail Breslin, Barry Bostwick, Christine Tucci. USA/2004. 16.20 Zoo Days 16.50 Blackadder Goes Forth 17.25 Men at Work 18.25 Look Who?s Talking Too FILM This time, a new baby is on the way, and it is a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new sister. Directed by: Amy Heckerling. Starring: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Elias Koteas. USA/1990. 20.00 BASEketball FILM Directed by: David Zucker. Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone. USA/1998. 22.00 The Client List 23.00 Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (K18) 00.10 Last Resort 02.40 Emma?s Wish FILM Directed by: Mike Robe. Starring: Joanna Kerns, Harley Jane Kozak. USA/1998. YLE TEEMA The House I Live In T V1 21.30 10.00 15.05 17.08 21.30 tuesday 30.9. Heartbeat Yle News in English Heartbeat The House I Live In DOC From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America?s criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of US drug policy. MTV3 09.45 The Young and the Restless 10.35 Emmerdale 11.35 Find My Family UK 14.15 Raising Hope 17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful 18.00 Emmerdale 21.00 House An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits. 22.35 Rizzoli & Isles Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Dr
Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22. Emergency Numbers. To make things worse, Aliena has to choose between her love for Jack and the promise she made to her father. MTV3 09.45 The Young and the Restless 10.35 Emmerdale 11.35 Jamie?s Great Britain Jamie?s trip around Britain takes him to the West Country - famous for its pasties, cheddar and cider. 14.15 Survivor 15.20 I Hate My Teenage Daughter 17.00 The Bold and the Beautiful The drama set in the glamorous world of the Los Angeles fashion scene and focusing on the wealthy and powerful Forrest family. 18.00 Emmerdale 21.00 C.S.I. Operator number 118. (K16) 23.10 Mythbusters 00.15 Men of a Certain Age SUB 08.25 Children?s Programming 09.25 Eastenders 14.00 Mythbusters 14.55 Top Chef 15.55 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals Jamie Oliver shows how to cook a complete and delicious meal in just 30 minutes. 16.25 Eastenders 18.00 Gordon Ramsay Behind Bars Gordon has given himself six months to set up a successful food business behind bars. His aim is to get prisoners cooking food on the inside, to sell on the outside. 19.30 Two and a Half Men 20.00 Big Bang Theory 20.30 The Simpsons 21.00 The Incredible Mr. Goodwin Jonathan Goodwin is a new breed of escapologist and professional danger-man, putting himself in the most extreme situations and dodging death, to leave your mind reeling every time. 23.00 Shameless 00.10 Hellcats 01.00 The Simpsons HELSINKI TIMES FINLAND INFO 2.10. TV1 10.00 15.05 17.08 22.00 TV GUIDE 26 SEPTEMBER . The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station is open Mon-Sun 8-21. See www.forex.fi for more information. +5 +5 +7 +5 +4 Thu 9/26 Grocery stores. Both telephone cards and Finnish SIM cards for mobile phones can be bought at R-kioski shops. Tourist Information. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights. Public Transport. For more information, see www.visithelsinki.fi. Wanha Kauppahalli ("Old Market Hall") at the Market square and Hakaniemen Kauppahalli (?Hakaniemi Market Hall?) are the most popular. 09 100 23. +6 +7 +6 Tue 10/1 06.55 The King of Queens 07.20 Rules of Engagement 07.45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08.35 Matlock 12.25 Kitchen Boss 12.55 Keasha?s Perfect Dress 13.25 My Strange Addiction My Strange Addiction gives a face to addicts suffering from peculiar addictions. 14.25 Smile TV 14.55 Hale and Pace 15.25 Matlock 16.20 3rd Rock from the Sun 17.10 The King of Queens 17.40 Rules of Engagement 18.05 That ?70s Show 19.00 Las Vegas 20.00 C.S.I. 23.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 23.55 Identity (K16) FILM Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a rainstorm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they are being killed off one by one. Directed: James Mangold. Starring: Alfred Molina, Amanda Peet, John Cusack. USA/2003. 01.40 My Strange Addiction 02.40 Las Vegas (12) Medical services. 0300 20200, calls are charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24. Airport busses. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but are closed on Sundays. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783 (between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and 6:00). Telephone. 2 OCTOBER 2013 18.30 Stephen Fry: Gadget Man DOC Today Stephen examines devices that make work easier and more fun and meets up with Lord Sugar to road test some of the latest work-saving gizmos. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 10-18. For more information, see www.hsl.fi. Pharmacies. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge. Sat 9/28 +15 +6 Post Offices. Hietaniemen kauppahalli ("Hietalahti Market Hall") holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli. Restaurants. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. sudoku Made in Germany Sun 9/29 Mon 9/30 Tue 10/1 Wed 10/2 +17 +8 Internet. Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 min., ?5.90 or ?3.80 with Helsinki Card. 09 3101 3300. 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. +16 +16 +17 +17 +29 +30 +27 +28 +29 +28 +25 +32 +31 +32 +31 +30 +31 +33 +28 +29 +27 +28 +27 +28 +28 +25 +24 +23 +25 +24 +25 +21 +12 +13 +14 +14 +14 +14 +14 +18 +17 +20 +21 +19 +19 +19 +22 +15 +17 +17 +15 +16 +16 +30 +30 +30 +30 +31 +31 +32 +13 +13 +13 +14 +14 +14 +14 +31 +33 +33 +32 +31 +30 +32 +34 +33 +33 +34 +34 +34 +33 +18 +17 +18 +17 +17 +18 +18 +24 +24 +24 +21 +18 +18 +20 +13 +14 +14 +14 +14 +14 +14 +30 +29 +30 +31 +29 +28 +31 +26 +23 +23 +24 +24 +24 +19 +23 +21 +21 +22 +21 +22 +22 +16 +17 +17 +17 +17 +17 +17 +25 +26 +29 +28 +28 +28 +25 +24 +25 +25 +26 +26 +25 +25 +27 +26 +17 +18 +20 +21 +24 +5 +28 +28 +27 +27 +28 +27 +27 +4 +26 +27 +27 +27 +28 +27 +26 +22 +24 +23 +22 +22 +22 +22 +17 +19 +19 +21 +14 +17 +14 +8 +8 +10 +7 +8 +8 +8 +17 +17 +20 +17 +16 +17 +18 +20 +20 +20 +16 +24 +24 +23 +10 +10 +9 +8 +10 +10 +10 +22 +24 +24 +20 +20 +21 +21 +8 +5 +4 +6 +6 +7 +8 +22 +23 +24 +24 +25 +27 +24 +26 +26 +25 +24 +24 +25 +25 +22 +23 +21 +22 +21 +27 +24 +33 +32 +31 +30 +32 +32 +31 +9 +10 +12 +11 +10 +10 +11 +6 +8 +8 +7 +6 +7 +7 +7 +9 +9 +8 +7 +7 +8 +24 +24 +26 +26 +26 +25 +25 +23 +20 +21 +21 +19 +22 +22 +16 +12 +14 +14 +14 +12 +12 +19 +14 +15 +16 +13 +14 +14 +5 +7 Fri 9/27 +5 +5 +6 +8 +8 +8 +9 Sat 9/28 +4 +7 +6 +8 +7 +10 +8 +9 Sun 9/29 +5 +5 +4 +7 +8 Mon 9/30 +3 +4 +3 +3 +4 Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of what to do) . 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5, tel. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891. Market halls. There is also a coffee machine that talks to your phone. 19.00 Once Upon a Time in Odessa NELONEN 07.00 Children?s Programming 09.45 Princess 10.20 Sibling Rivalry 13.20 Princess 15.00 Dance Your Ass Off 16.00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 21.00 Nashville Rayna wants her music to have a fresh sound, so she contacts a producer with a solid track record. Meanwhile, Juliette tries to get good publicity by dating an NFL player with a pristine reputation. 23.20 NCIS Los Angeles The death of an NCIS agent is assigned to the team and they soon discover the assassination is the work of a hit squad. 00.20 Defenders 01.20 All in the Family TV5 WEATHER Banks and Bureaux de Change. 22 wednesday YLE TEEMA Survivor MTV3 14.15 Heartbeat Yle News in English Heartbeat The Pillars of the Earth (K16) When Richard returns from war he finds Aliena ruined and not longer able to support his knighthood. See www.posti.fi Fri 9/27 +15 +6 Passion for Technology Sales 010 229 17 99 Lauttasaarentie 54, Helsinki Thu 9/26 SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. Health centres around the country are open Mon-Fri 8-16. 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). +2 +4 +4 +4 +5 +6 +6 +6 Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. Public phones are scarce. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. Sin- AUTUMN SALE Cyclocross Mares AX 4.0 Disc Frame: Focus Cyclo Alu Parts: New! Tiagra 20 Brakes: Disc brakes Wheels: Ex Cyclo Light Handlebars: FSA Gossamer Now it?s autumn, mudguards included! Autumn price ?1049 (Norm ?1299) Electricity consumption in Finland 77.66 Take your CYCLOCROSS bike everywhere, it's Light, Easy and Fun! Find more models at billion kWh (2009 est.) Country comparison to the world: Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10-18, Sat 10-15 Our new service centre at Lauttasaarenmäki 2 Service phone number: 010 229 1791 +5 +6 +5 37 Thursday 9/26 7:12 am 7:09 pm 7:10 am 7:05 pm 7:23 am 7:19 pm 7:10 am 7:04 pm 7:17 am 7:13 pm 7:05 am 6:58 pm gle ticket 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. Night buses have an extra fee. Dial 112. Night buses operate extensively at weekends. Banks are usually open Mon-Fri 9:15-16:15 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is open 6-22 daily. Most hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General Post Office have a computer terminal. Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau (Pohjoisesplanadi 19, Aleksanterinkatu 20) is open Mon-Fri 9-20 and Sat-Sun 10-18 between 15 May and 14 September; at other times of the year, Mon-Fri 9-18 and Sat-Sun 10-16, tel. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat 7-18 and Sun 12-21. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. 09 471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. 09 4711. Wed 10/2 +2 +6 +5 +3 +5 Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. Finland?s international country code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. The currency exchange counter at the harbour in Katajanokka, Helsinki is open every day (Mon-Sat 10-11:30, 1617:30 and 19:30-21:15, Sun 10-11:30, 16-17:30 and 6:30-8)
But I seriously doubt it! Have you got expat views? Helsinki Times runs a column series called EXPAT VIEWS, where we publish voluntary contributions written by expats, and we?re interested in your experiences. Share your funny, memorable, frustrating or great experiences of Finland with our readers. Something which England sadly misses, at least the ?rst two anyhow. So how did I end up here, swimming exclusively in my own lake on a beautiful summer?s day with only nature as my companion? Rewind the clock back nearly seven years and an Englishman walked into an Irish bar in the middle of downtown Manhattan, a drink was offered to a lady and the rest, as they say, is history. Eight weeks later, (as that was my next leave from Afghanistan), and I found myself looking through the In this series expatriates write about their lives in Finland. window down onto a country that seemed to be ?lled with neverending forests with still frozen but slowly thawing lakes. 2 OCTOBER 2013 23 WELLBEING SERVICES Celebrating three years of Chinese holistic massage in Helsinki Our beautiful facility in Helsinki is a genuine Chinese oasis to which you are heartfelt welcome. Success of the largest chain of spas in China, Liangtse, continues in Europe. In England, every- WANTED body knew of Sweden and Norway, but Finland never seemed to be as popular, apart from when the conversation concerns Santa Claus of course! But I?m sel?shly glad: I want Finland to stay quiet, an unspoiled gem. For me, the hot days in the Middle East as a private security contractor are now over, and so I eagerly await my ?rst full legendary Finnish winter. Then I was introduced to the world of Fazer, and my life changed forever. It is 51 degrees, nice if you were on holiday, lazing by the pool drinking an ice-cold beer, but I?m not. It is mid-afternoon and I am on the streets of downtown Baghdad fully clothed in my protective allin-one jump suit complete with body armour, gloves, helmet and ri?e. This is a different time, could even be a different world to the one that I call my home now, as I close my eyes and start to think back to only a few days earlier... ...As I take a deep breath before diving into a cool, crystal clear lake surrounded by granite rock and lush green forest. No more dreaming for me, as I am here permanently, hoping to start college in a few weeks, so it is time to learn something that I have been dreading: the impossible (to me) Finnish language! Hopefully a degree in the future, as the education system is world class, just like the public transportation. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES HELSINKI TIMES 26 SEPTEMBER . I can only try in vain to tell my English friends how amazingly delicious this chocolate really is. At least for to- day anyhow, seeing as I was the only swimmer around. For those few precious moments, I could have been the only living soul on the planet and it was during those times as I looked around the woods that I understood why the Finns love their space, quietness and the outdoors. As I was to learn, this is one of around one hundred and eighty two thousand of?cial lakes, and this one, I would claim for myself. The mixture of pure green and brilliant white was embedded into me forever, and I knew from that moment, that I would love this country. And that country was Finland. Within hours I was sampling the tasty Finnish beer, salmon, rye bread and other delights that were put in front of me. And of course, not forgetting the mighty Hesburger. My knowledge of Finland before I arrived was somewhat lacking, as it was never really a country I considered visiting. 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