Räsänen claims equal marriage up to Parliament.
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Juha Sipilä, the chairperson of the
Centre Party, believes there are too
many public servants in Finland.
A 31-year-old man was detained on Monday for probable cause of manslaughter for stabbing to death a 16-year-old
student in Utsjoki.
Utsjoki stabber had
a long list of prior
run-ins with the law
l a SSE kERkEl ä , tEPPo moISIo . It?s an indication
that the private sector cannot sustain such a large public sector,. Sipilä explained to Helsingin Sanomat.
He refrained, however, from identifying any areas in which the number
of public servants could be reduced.
Instead, he underscored that the key
to enhancing productivity is to utilise
information technology more efficiently, to reduce red tape and to increase data system compatibility.
President Sauli Niinistö expressed his concerns over the size
of the public sector in January.
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of the Centre
Party, Juha Sipilä, has stirred debate by estimating that there are
too many public servants in Finland.
The opposition leader stated in
an interview with Yrittäjät.fi last
weekend that the number of municipal and state officials should be
reduced by tens of thousands. H T
thE DIStRIct Court of Lapland has
detained a 31-year-old man with a
long list of prior run-ins with the
law for probable cause of manslaughter for stabbing a 16-year-old
student to death at a general upper
secondary school in Utsjoki on Friday. HS
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war & famine
American airdrops in Syria intercepted by ISIS. On
Monday, he specified that over the
coming ten years the number could
be reduced by 20,000 due to improvements in productivity.
?We have a sustainability deficit
of ten billion euros. H T
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was sentenced to his first suspend-
ed prison term for a series of car
thefts in the 1990s and has since
then been convicted of dozens of
property, drug and violent offences, among others.
He had moved to the northernmost municipality of Finland to
study but had been evicted from the
school dormitory for creating disturbance. In addition to the general
upper secondary school, the Utsjoki School Centre houses a primary
school and a nursery school.
The 31-year-old man was arrested in an apartment near the school
centre soon after the incident on
Friday. HS
a l E k S I t E I va I n E n . Ebola causing a
food crisis in West Africa.
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The joys and challenges of raising
someone else's child. Local parents had also asked
that he be expelled from the school
because their children were afraid
of him. The suspect had to be removed from the local village house
on 23 October for inhaling intoxicants. 30 OCTOBER . He has confessed to the stabbing in interrogations. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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facilities were missing essential supplies and medicines;
health care workers often
had no sutures or gloves, nor
running water nor soap, and
were using cell phones to
provide light during surgical
procedures.
NOR IS IT a coincidence that
more than half the population in each heavily affected
country lives in abject poverty (53 percent in Sierra Leone, 55 percent in Guinea, and
64 percent in Liberia). pathophysiology or epidemiology
of the disease.
a coincidence that,
in addition to the legacy of
colonial exploitation, and pillaging by their own corrupt
IT IS NOT
suffer from the mass deprivation of economic and social
rights that those numbers
reflect.
I WaS in Sierra Leone when
the evidence of the horrific atrocities during that civil war were everywhere to be
seen: roadblocks which had
previously been strung with
human intestines, and beggars at street corners missing hands that had been cut
off by the insurgents.
there after the
end of hostilities, when the
humanitarian aid groups had
I WaS aLSO
WHEN I visited in 2009, close
to 50 percent of primary
health care providers in Sierra Leone were receiving
no salary. fundamental
and unaccountable governments in recent history, Liberia and Sierra Leone are
two countries that have been
ravaged by brutal civil wars.
These conflicts were fuelled
by the rapacious global demand for precious minerals,
and destroyed communities, dissolved family units,
and disrupted farming,
livelihoods and migration
patterns.
mostly pulled out, leaving
among other things a health
system incapable of dealing with even the most basic
health needs. These limit
the possibility of people enjoying their human rights even in
the best of times, and can help
set the stage for these horrific
social calamities.
EBOLa has shown vividly
that we live in an invariably
globalised world. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long
(maximum length 10,000). We owe it
to those with whom we share
this planet, and to future
generations, to establish a
Sustainable Development
Agenda that, as the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights says, promotes a ?social and international order
in which the rights and freedoms set forth [in that Declaration] can be fully realised?
by everyone.
This article originally appeared on openGlobalRights.
Alicia Ely Yamin is Lecturer
on Global Health and Policy
Director at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health
and Human Rights, Harvard
University, and Chair of the
Center for Economic and Social Rights.. making the links
K I T T y S Ta P P
IP S
THE CaTaSTROPHIC Ebola cri-
sis unfolding in West Africa
offers many lessons, not least
for global anti-poverty efforts. Liberia, the hardest-hit nation, has
seen 3,000 cases of Ebola and almost 1,600 deaths, with health workers turning people away from
treatment units due to chronic shortages of beds and staff.
Ebola, human rights and
poverty . and the enjoyment of . experienced their poverty and
marginalisation.
aLL OF WHICH
HuMaN rights advocates
have argued that there is a
need to shift power relations
to promote greater equity, to
invest in strengthening in-
THE INadEquaTE , and now
decimated, health systems,
and the rippling effects of
the crisis on education, housing, and food, all raise issues
of access to . Health systems are not
just a means for the technical delivery of goods and services; they are part of the
THE uNIMagINaBLE suffering we are witnessing is in no
way simply an inevitable result of the ?natural. especially
women and children . Yet both
are highly touted solutions
to global poverty, and likely
to be part of the SDG agenda.
?pay for performance?, whereby health
NOR WOuLd
workers are supposedly incentivised to be more
productive by having compensation linked to quotas
and outcomes.
core social fabric of societies.
They can either give expression to norms of solidarity
and equality, or they can exacerbate social exclusion.
brings us to
a third lesson from the crisis: silver-bullet solutions
that focus on short-term outcomes, and often produce
so-called ?vertical. And,
as noted above, women and
children disproportionately
THE WORLd HEaLTH Organization recommends a minimum
of 23 healthcare workers per
10,000 people, but there is still
a desperate shortage of health
care workers in the affected countries; in Sierra Leone,
there were just 0.2 physicians
and 1.7 nurse/midwives per
10,000 people at the outset of
this crisis.
It is not a coincidence that, in addition to the legacy of colonial
exploitation, and pillaging by their own corrupt and unaccountable
governments in recent history, Liberia and Sierra Leone are two
countries that have been ravaged by brutal civil wars.
stitutions, to open spaces for
meaningful participation by
the people who are affected
by health and development
policies, and to construct effective and accessible accountability mechanisms.
economic and social rights.
These are just as important as the violations of civil
rights, including unwarranted restrictions on movement,
which might stem from the
Ebola epidemic.
THOugH often dismissed as
airy-fairy, unmeasurable and
utopian in mainstream public health and development
circles, the Ebola catastrophe illustrates exactly why
these investments are crucial. These will culminate in
a set of targets, to be agreed
by the United Nations in 2015,
known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
of all, the crisis should
lead to a re-think of the triumphalism that has marked
some of the global health debate in recent years, with
some projecting a ?grand convergence within a generation?
between North and South,
rich and poor countries, based
upon the ?end of preventable
mortality, including from infectious diseases?.
FIRST
a coincidence that,
in addition to the legacy of
colonial exploitation, and pillaging by their own corrupt
and unaccountable governments in recent history, Liberia and Sierra Leone are two
countries that have been ravaged by brutal civil wars.
IT IS NOT
SECONd,
neither universal
health insurance, without
real access to public health
as well as effective care, nor
cash transfers, without connections to functioning systems, would have thwarted
Ebola or the social devastation it is wreaking. 2
VIEWPOINT
30 OCTOBER . own and do not represent
the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / PA S C A L GU YO T
Women and children attend a mass in Monrovia in September . interventions (that is, those de-linked
from the broader context),
actually do not work in the
long term, or in the face of
crises.
IN THE THREE most affected countries in West Africa,
the health systems were all
dysfunctional before Ebola hit, and were often a place
where people . 5 NOVEMBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. To survive they
charged illicit fees, and for
drugs, or sold bed nets on the
private market.
WE MuST learn lessons from
the Ebola crisis: not just to
build temporary structures
staffed by foreigners, which
will disappear like sand castles when the crisis is eventually contained, or other
horrors on our television
screens draw our attention
away.
THIS time, let?s make sure
we do not accept the status
quo ante as ?normal?, and instead make long-term commitments to strengthening
health systems, including
public health measures.
These will create not just
more productivity and
healthy years of life expectancy, but also promote people?s own voice and agency
and the possibility of living
lives in dignity.
aNd LET?S take the time in finalising the SDGs to consider
how best to tackle the rules of
the global economic order, including the unfair terms for
global trade, that drive the
structural inequalities between countries
H S
NIIN a W O O L L E y . explains Jaakko Ristola, the managing director
of Wereldhave Finland, which
owns the Itis shopping centre,
formerly called Itäkeskus.
customers. Puumalainen
also owns a jacket made by
the company.
As the shops in Sello fail
to offer anything new to Puumalainen, she is more likely
to visit the cafés at the mall
and meet her friends there.
?Shopping centres are increasingly becoming activity
hubs,. preferences really are . ?Our plan is to draft a
counter-proposal to the memorandum of the Legal Affairs
Committee,. H T
MORE well-known international chains, better services
and more entertainment. H T
THE FaTE of equal marriage
rights in Finland is likely to be
decided some time next month
as Members of the Parliament
convene to vote on two opposing initiatives: a memorandum
drafted by the Legal Affairs
Committee and a counter-proposal drafted by proponents of
equal marriage rights.
Aino-Kaisa Pekonen (Left
Alliance) on Thursday invited
all members of the Legal Affairs Committee who advocate
equal marriage rights to mull
over the phrasing of the proposal. Shops, which are the
main tenants of shopping
centres, must be able to attract customers and for that,
visitors must be offered a
wider range of shopping experiences, something that
could be provided by popular
global chains.
?The basics must be in order. 14.3%
No . Turku School of Economics. Shopping centres are also investing more
in children?s play areas while
in Sello, a shopping trip can
be combined with a visit to
the library.
Multi-channel future
Ristola firmly believes that
Finland will have a multichannel retail sector also in
the future, with brick-andmortar shops jostling for
space with online shops. Having been postponed, the
project should have an update in late november.
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The Government is set to cut back on institutional elderly care.
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Turun kauppakorkeakoulu . To
compete with the attractions
of online shopping, shopping
centres must find new ways
to respond to growing consumer expectations.
Shopping centres need
to stand out from the crowd
more, say experts in the retail sector.
The professor of marketing at Aalto University, Arto Lindblom, claims
that currently Finnish shopping centres tend to be carbon copies of each other, with
a Stockmann and a Prisma
found at every mall. 85.7%
view details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
Close vote expected on
equal marriage rights
M a R T Ta N IE M INE N . Roosa Puumalainen, 15, is critical in her
initial judgment of the brand.
?Basic stuff for the masses,. Popular among
young consumers, the brand
has yet to expand to Finland, even though the chain
is well-known among shoppers milling around at the
Sello shopping centre in Leppävaara, in Espoo. says Lindblom.
While additional services are gaining significance,
the business fundamentals
will remain the same in the
future. She would rather cooperate with
the landowners, and establish a positive relationship.
Grahn-Laasonen halted the finalisation of the programme
just before the draft of the programme was going to face its first
consultation. The current solution, she outlines, perhaps unnecessarily pits landowners and
conservation objectives against each other.
Pausing the programme will allow Grahn-Laasonen to find
out if there exists other, voluntary means to protect the endangered swamps, by for example allowing landowners to offer
their swamps for protection. the way online shops
currently do.
Johanna Aho, the executive manager at the Finnish
Council of Shopping Centers,
says that people are increasingly looking to be entertained
when they visit a shopping
centre, with the Kamppi shopping centre serving as a perfect example of a mall that
regularly organises events.
Even though the woes
that plague shopping centres have been in the news
recently, empty shop spaces
are not a noticeable problem
as consumers find their way
to good shopping locations,
according to Aho. DOMESTIC
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Minister for environment
Grahn-Laasonen recently put a halt to a swamp conservation
programme which aimed to preserve swamps in Finland, half of
which are already endangered.
The pause, she says, regards controversy over the issue which
she says has been ?dramatised and politicised?. she confirmed.
?I try to remain optimistic
and confident that we can receive the necessary support,?
she added.
According to Pekonen,
the first signatory of the
proposal will be Jani Toivola
(Greens), who succeeded his
party comrade Oras Tynkkynen on the committee.
A citizens. The success of a shopping centre is rooted in the
variety of shops it offers.
Shopping centres should be
bolder in making changes to
their selection,. Lindblom
comments.
Shopping centres are turning into activity hubs where people not only go to shop but also to see a
film, visit a library, have a coffee and meet friends.
uS setting the example
As an example of an international chain that could spice
up the shop offerings in Finland, Lindblom mentions
the US brand Abercrombie & Fitch, which has several hundred branches all over
the world. Feedback received from landowners would have
been followed by a final proposal. she says, adding that the
company?s clothes are, however, pretty nice and many
of her friends have bought
them online. initiative for
equal marriage rights, which
was turned down by the Legal Affairs Committee by a
10-6 vote in June, will serve
as a basis for the parliamentary discussion.
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A Journey Far Starts from Near
3
Finnishs hopping centres
turning into activity hubs
While shopping
centres are investing
in additional services,
having an interesting range of shops
continues to provide
a competitive edge.
Ju H a RO p p O L a . Shopping centres that are
willing to renew themselves
will be successful in the future, thanks to a handy location and good additional
services, says Lindblom.
Consumers are becoming increasingly interested
in the cafés and restaurants
available at shopping centres, a trend which is also
seen internationally, according to Ristola. It
will be possible to pick up
products ordered online
from a conventional shop
without an extra charge.
Products can also be tried on
or returned, Ristola says.
New mobile phone applications will also allow retail
businesses to send information on their campaign
offers to the phones of customers who are browsing
the selection in the shops.
Shops would also be able to
plan their selection and design their lay-out more effectively, as they could gain
more insight into what their
Everyone deserves
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Who:
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen
30 OCTOBER . Ristola
agrees, saying that customers who temporarily disappeared when Itis underwent
a major overhaul have found
the shopping centre again.
Professor Lindblom endorses the views presented
by the retail sector, saying that shopping centres in
the capital region are mainly well-thought out complexes. This monotony fails to whet shoppers?
appetites.
?Many of the shopping
centres have the same companies as their main businesses,
The research states that Finland
managed to collect 95 per
cent of expected VAT income
in 2012.
?The result is not a surprise for those familiar with
the operation of the tax administration, as productivity
and efficiency have consistently increased for a couple
of decades,. Empathy is probably lower with men. PERTTU KOISTINEN
child receives a transplant
from a sibling. Although cancer
treatment has improved and
fewer patients need a transplant, rare blood diseases
which can also be cured with
transplants have become
more common. We are happy and honoured to act as the gateway to Finland.
Regea institute under the University of Tampere focuses on tissue banking, stem cell research and
tissue engineering.
THE REGISTER of stem cell
donors, vitally important
for cancer patients, desperately lacks new volunteers.
Three quarters of donors are
women, so male donors are
the greatest shortage. Receptive to the outside
world, Ohkola is a
modern rural village,
The number of Uusiwhich has long parmaa residents with a
ticipated in various
projects, student exlanguage other than
change programmes
Finnish, Swedish or
and exchange proSami as their first
grammes
related
to recreational aclanguage has grown
tivities with great
more than ten-fold
open-mindedness.
In 2013, the Ohkola
between 1990 and
was involved
2013, from 14,000 to school
in more than 30 pro158,500.
jects with numerous
countries, including
Azerbaidzhan, Tunisia, Russia, Sweden and Estonia, which has clearly increased open-minded attitudes towards, and interest
in, other cultures.
CURRENTLy, two thirds of net migration to Uusimaa is
due to immigration. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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YLE NEWS 24 October. With the modern world growing increasingly more international, Finland will be enriched by
multiculturalism.
in small populations, such as
in Finland, geography plays a
significant role in the likelihood that the transplant will
agree with the patient.
The demand for new donors has also increased due
to internationalisation. It is
challenging to find a donor
of the right tissue variety for
a child whose parents come
from different ethnic backgrounds. Numerous organisations operating
in different fields pulling together makes it possible
for the Metropolitan area to meet the needs arising
from growth in international activities, giving Finland
a competitive edge on the global corporate and expert
market. Nowadays, due to the decreasing
number of children per family, only every third Finnish
VERKKOUUTISET 25 October. Even with
siblings, the tissue variety within a family might be
so different that a stem cell
transplant would cause a
rejection.
Help is also received
through international cooperation. A fear
of needles presumably also
plays a part.?
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FROM
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Tel. In
his newsletter, the chairperson of RKP (Swedish Party)
Carl Haglund demanded a report from Räsänen regarding
the statement.
According to Räsänen,
she was misunderstood and
she did not speculate the processing of a civic initiative.
?The future of the marriage law is now in the hands
of the Parliament, not the
Government,. chairperson Kirsi Huhtamäki says.
aCCORdING
According to Huhtamäki, the amount of tax revenue
could decrease next year as
additional savings on expenditure indicated by the tax administration will also result
in additional cutbacks on personnel expenses. The Medical Superintendent Matti
Korhonen wishes that every
healthy man under 40 years
old of age would take a look
in the mirror over the matter.
?As a man I?m a bit
ashamed that men are not as
keen on helping ill people as
women are. 044 990 0009
Päivi Räsänen says equal marriage is in the hands of Parliament.. However, a suitable tissue variety can often
be found nearby; even with-
MTV 26 October.
finland?s tax management Räsänen:
estimated to be among the Equal
most efficient in Europe
to the Association of Tax Administrators,
Finland?s tax administration
is a model student whose disciplining will cost the society
dearly.
The Association of Tax
Administrators reports that
the EU?s latest research indicates that Finland?s tax management is among the most
efficient in Europe. The region
has also invested in its role as the gateway to Finland,
ensuring that overseas connections are good, the region is easy to relocate to and integration happens naturally. This will present us
with our next challenge - one that we are eager to tackle as Uusimaa has plenty to recommend it to overseas
tourists.
is a big question for the future of
Uusimaa and one that requires us to develop our activities continuously. She also acts as the President of the Uusimaa
Regional Board and the Chair of the Nurmijärvi Municipal Board.
Uusimaa ?
Gateway to finland
UUSIMaa, with the Metropolitan area at its heart, is a
natural gateway to the rest of the country. SANNA CORTÉS
L E H T I K U VA / V E L I - M AT T I PA R K K I N E N
Stem cell register calls for men to donate
Outi Mäkelä is a second-term Member of Parliament for the National Coalition Party. More
stem cell transplants received from men could save
many young boys from donor
cell rejection as the number
of options grow.
Stem cells have been
transplanted for young pa-
tients at Lastenklinikka
(Children?s Hospital) for forty years now. In 2006, the distribution was even, with
half of the customers being Finnish and half foreign
travellers, but the global financial crisis made a dent in
the number of overnight stays by foreigners in 2009.
The figures started to bounce back soon after that but
the number of foreign tourists has yet to catch up with
the number of Finnish travellers. In her opinion,
disciplining the model student is not responsible policy,
and will only be a cost to society in the future.
?Unfortunately, the exemplary operation of the tax administration does not seem to
suffice for policymakers, considering that saving objectives
are progressively being added
despite strict discipline in expenditure and efficiency.?
marriage
law in the
hands of
parliament
aCCORdING to the chairperson
of the Christian Democrats,
Päivi Räsänen, the future of
the equal marriage law is in the
hands of the Parliament.
The issue arose as Turun
Sanomat published an inter-
view with Räsänen, which
gave the impression that the
Christian Democrats would
leave the Government if the
marriage law was altered. Over those
decades, nearly 800 transplant procedures have been
performed. We must not only have expertise in export but also be able to attract
the interest of investors and international workforce
alike. On the whole,
the amount of transplant
procedures is on the increase
both in Finland and globally.
Finland?s stem cell register contains 25,000 names,
which is not enough. Räsänen said
in her bulletin.
Räsänen views it important that the Government remains able and concludes the
structural reforms.
L E H T I K U VA / S A M I H A L I N E N
TO CREaTE new opportunities for itself, Finland must
bolster its international relationships. 4
fROM fINNISH pRESS
30 OCTOBER . The number of Uusimaa residents
with a language other than Finnish, Swedish or Sami as
their first language has grown more than ten-fold between 1990 and 2013, from 14,000 to 158,500.
IN THE UUSIMaa region, over half of the customers of
accommodation services are Finns, and the rest overseas visitors. Of Finland?s 150
child cancer patients, a third
are treated at Lastenklinikka, with excellent results.
Many donors are strangers to the patients. Organisations operating in the region have been
involved through various projects, which has led to the
creation of numerous practices and models that can also be applied elsewhere in the country.
a pERfECT example of a community that has excelled
in work to embrace internationality is the village of
Ohkola in Mäntsälä, the 2014 winner of the Uusimaa
Village of the Year award. Huhtamäki
estimates five million euros
in expense savings will result
in a decline of 63 million euros
in tax revenue. The global register
of stem cells contains 25 million people. More
men in particular are needed, as the slight majority of ill
children are boys
Even the
recession that Finland experienced in the 1990s did not
hit the country as hard as the
current economic problems.
Performance figures regarding the economy have remained stagnant since 2008,
and if the economy does not
start to make progress soon,
experts are implying that a
decade may be lost in growth
possibility. ?If the countries
owe money to banks how stupid are the countries to pay?
Like, the country has an army. Illinois, does that
ring a bell?
According to Statistics
Finland, the national economic output for Finland saw
a contraction of 0.8 per cent
this July in comparison to the
previous year, and industrial
Finland
comic wins
world?s
funniest
competition
?THE WINNER of the Funniest
Person in the World competition is a brown-haired, slightly rotund stand-up comic
from Finland who boasts he
has hit on the perfect solution to the planet?s international monetary woes.
?Countries don?t owe money to each other, countries
worsen for several years into
the future.
However, if the economy in the Eurozone recovers,
then Finland?s GDP has the
potential to grow by 0.8 per
cent in 2015. Still, it?s nothing
to write home about.
Credit issues
and government debt
Recently, the government
in Finland pushed austerity policies through that are
around 2.8 per cent of the
projected GDP for 2018. she said,
making reference to Finland?s
plans to build the nuclear
power plant with Russian energy company Rusatom.
She added that if Russia
cuts the gas supply to Europe,
it would not affect Finland.
She pointed out that all of
Finland?s natural gas comes
from Russia but its share
is only 9 percent in Finland?s
total energy consumption??
Stand up comic ismo Leikola poses with his prize at The Laugh
stand up competition.
owe money to banks,. We
have a target of 38 percent
of all our energy will be produced by renewable sources
by 2020,. The Russian economy has seen a downturn due
to the Ukraine crisis... In 2013, this quantity
rose to 447 megawatts of capacity and the number of wind
turbines increased to 209, according to VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Vaskunlahti said that Finland?s relations with Turkey
are good and if Finnish companies can offer anything in
the field of renewable energy
market and cleantech, Turkey would be a good market.
?Renewable energy is really important for Finland. EW NEWS DESK TEAM
Finland could see a
third year of negative
economic growth
?...AFTER two years of negative growth, the estimation
is that Finland?s GDP will decline by a further 0.4 per cent
by the end of 2014. destination, where autumn is short of spectacular
There?s only one flight
a day into Finland?s Kittilä
airport, which thoughtfully
supplies its passengers with
a relaxing row of rocking
chairs to wait for the plane.
Snooze, and you?ve missed it.
Up here in Lapland,
the ruska, Finland?s autumn
season, is a bit like that too.
While autumn can be a damp,
malingering affair elsewhere
in the northern hemisphere,
above the Arctic Circle
the ruska completes its whole
glorious performance in concentrated, accelerated form.
In a couple of short September weeks it makes a final spurt across summer?s
finishing line, going out in a
blaze of glory before the door
of winter clangs shut behind
it. ANDREW EAMES
Autumn?s brief glory
in Finnish Lapland
?HIgH above the Arctic Circle
is an alternative ?leaf-peeping. A
major one, mentioned above,
correlates with their socialised health care program.
But another reason is that
the exports for the country
have not returned to their
expected growth rates. Therefore we
think we should continue our
cooperation that we already
had with Russia,. FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
HELSINKI TIMES
30 OCTOBER . she said.
Vaskunlahti underlined
that Finnish energy resources are diversified and Finland doesn?t depend only on
one source. The result is a spectacular
display but one that won?t be
seen again until next year ?
even as I write this, the place
is already under snow.
For Finns, this short season is special enough to warrant an annual pilgrimage
north, because in Lapland
the autumn colours are not
just bright but multi-layered:
around your ankles are burried carpets of crimson and
orange, at eye level there is
foliage of silver and gold, and
above your head (if you?re
lucky) are the Northern
Lights. The bank has four cashiers and a cleaning lady.?
When Leikola told that joke
in the semifinal round of the
competition last week at the
Laugh Factory in Hollywood
it got the biggest laugh of the
night. Nowhere else in the
world does autumn colour
come with quite such range.
Which is why I?m ignoring the allure of those rocking
chairs at Kittilä airport and instead taking a taxi ride farther
north, like a ruska pilgrim, to
see if I can see all three??
Now in Heureka!
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output is 2.6 per cent lower
than in 2013.
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WORLD BULLETIN 23 October
Finnish companies look
forward to Turkish energy market
?FINNISH ambassador said
that Finland?s relations with
Turkey are good and if Finnish companies can offer
anything in the field of renewable energy market and
cleantech, Turkey would be a
good market.
Finnish companies experienced in wind power technology are seeking energy market
opportunities in Turkey, according to Finland?s ambassador to Turkey on 22 October.
Finnish companies have a
high level of technological expertise and experience, Ambassador Nina Vaskunlahti
said.
At the end of 2012, Finland
had 257 megawatts of wind
power and had 151 wind turbines. This
has delivered approximately 8.1 billion dollars worth
of tax increases and spending cuts to the country since
2011 in an attempt to hold a
AAA rating.
However, the government, which last month
shrank to four parties after
initially beginning with six,
has failed to offer much in the
way of economic policy goals.
Many people are wondering;
what will it take for a European country such as Finland
to drop their generous social welfare infrastructure
which just degrades entire
economies?...?
Lapland in September.
FINANCIAL TIMES 24 October. The energy production of Finland consists
of coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear power and renewable
energy sources
Discussions on
Russian nuclear power
The Finnish ambassador also spoke about the sanctions
imposed by the EU on Russia
and Russia?s counter measures along with Finland?s
relations with the Baltic
States.
ECONOMY WATCH 22 October. In
particular, exports to Russia
have seen a serious drop...
...Furthermore, problems
with the Finnish economy
are not being helped by the
fact that Eurozone growth remains slow. From there the Finnish
comedian bankrolled himself
to victory at Friday night?s final round, a five-comic showdown at the Laugh Factory in
Las Vegas...?
GOING UNDERGROUND
Interactive exhibition on geology, mines
and underground construction
WWW.HEUREKA.FI/EN. and international sanctions.
If these issues continue,
then economic activity could
The Finnish government
decided to grant permission to build a new nuclear
reactor with Russian energy company Rusatom last
month, which caused a political dilemma in the country.
Following the decision, the
Green Party left the government coalition.
?With the economic sanctions on Russia, the EU does
not stipulate that member
states should not cooperate
with Russia. says Ismo Leikola
They are not content to simply sell
maps to smartphones and vehicles, but are investing
in predictive analytics, connected vehicle technology
and traffic flow management for municipal authorities, among other things.
NOKIA
THEY have new leadership, too. HERE sold 3.2
Hope springs
million in-vehicle navigation
eternal.
systems in the third quarter
for an impressive 80% market share. +358-9-616 621, info@hotelanna.fi
www.hotelanna.fi
arriving in the Nordic country come from its eastern
neighbour, more than three
times as many as from Sweden and Germany combined.
Overnight stays by Russians
are down 11 per cent through
July, according to Statistics
Finland, and 8.4 per cent fewer people crossed the demarcation between the countries
through September, Border
Guard data shows.
That drop is especially
acute for Lappeenranta. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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l e H T I K U VA / m I K Ko s T I g
David J. We have learned from Nokia?s downfall
that nothing stays the same forever, but hope springs
eternal.
Cosy hotel in the heart of Helsinki
Annankatu 1, 00120 Helsinki
tel. While he was at TomTom he was responsible for
the consumer market and hardware development ?
something which may signal the future of HERE. One
in every three euros spent
by Russians in the country goes to shop and hotel
owners in the area, which
enjoyed Finland?s fastest retail-sales growth per capita
in the decade through 2010.
That coincided with a boom
in the oil-producer?s economy, which grew on average
4.9 per cent a year.
Nowadays, Russian travellers often cut their journey short, with 72 per cent of
tourists limiting their trip to
a single day, compared with
58 per cent a year ago, the
Finnish Commerce Federation said.
A slowdown in Russia,
with the ruble down 16 per
cent this year, is hurting purchasing power for the middle class and hampering
tourism. Alex
Zezulin, 27, said he drives
across the border about twice
a month to buy fish, taking as
much as 3 kilos home to St. she
said. Petersburg, where the weaker
ruble and a sanctions dispute
between the European Union and Russia is taking an
especially big bite out of the
economy.
The town of 70,000, which
boomed with tourists from
the east in the two decades
since the Iron Curtain was
pulled down, is now struggling with a different reality. They
had good sales growth in the third quarter thanks to
their focus on the automotive industry. ?The
prices for fish are good.?
It?s consumers like Zezulin the town is banking on to
get through the downturn,
with the hope that the hordes
of big spenders start coming
back at some point.
?The potential purchasing power in Russia is vast,?
Jarva said. now it is known as
HERE. Two clothing stores
are closing this year, said Sa-
ri Mustapää, who runs the
centre. They also signed an agreement with former archenemy Samsung to provide maps on some
smartphones.
FINALLY
is investing heavily in HERE, spending the
equivalent of 58% of its sales on research and development this autumn. For a while management considered
selling it off, but Stephen Elop wanted to keep it.
SINCE
it seems as if HERE has found its path. Navteq was a fine company,
but Nokia paid 74 times earnings for it . He?s cut the hours for
some of his staff because of
a revenue drop that?s ?clearly connected to the collapse
of the ruble.?
The average Russian tourist now spends about 150 euros when visiting the area
. 6
BUSINESS
30 OCTOBER . Petersburg residents
started flocking west in the
1990s, passing 1 million annually in 2000. We may have lost Nokia mobile
phones, but we may be soon carrying Nokia technology
around with us once again.
I DON?T
I THINK this is a good metaphor for Finnish adaptabili-
ty. an absurdly
high price.
NOKIA
then their location-based business hasn?t had
the easiest of times. There?s always a
recovery.?. No euro nation is more reliant on
trade with Russia than Finland, which has the longest
border with the eastern-European country of the 27 EU
members.
?One of the things that
companies in this area follow
daily is the ruble rate,. The current 52 rubles per euro is past what Peltonen calls the 50-ruble ?pain
threshold for Russians.?
At the Galleria shopping
centre in the heart of the
city, a resounding male voice
on the loudspeakers touts
winter fashions in Russian
as few shoppers roam the
aisles. down about 40 per cent
from the peak of the economic boom, said Mika Peltonen,
head of the local chamber of
commerce.
Acute drop
Almost a half of the tourists
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SEVEN years ago Nokia was on an acquisition spree in
Most cars parked outside Disas Fish near the border have Russian
plates.
believe we should expect a Nokia-branded
tech gadget for the consumer market any time soon.
Instead, HERE will probably partner with other consumer product companies. ?Growth is inevitable for us. I am particularly interested
in how HERE will take advantage of the new wearables technology sector. This may have been a wise move,
as the HERE division may have the greatest growth potential going forward.
had been working on location-based services
for some time, but their effort took a huge step forward when they bought the Chicago-based Navteq for
about ?5.3 billion in 2007. Lappeenranta decided then to make a
conscious effort to lure the
5 million inhabitants of Russia?s second-biggest city.
?The visitors spend about
the same amount of rubles
as before, it just buys fewer goods,. On several occasions Nokia admitted they paid
too much for Navteq and wrote down billions of euros
worth of goodwill. Kimmo Jarva,
the town?s mayor, said in an
interview.
Russian tourist spending
on shopping, food and hotel
nights in the region will drop
about 10 per cent this year to
320 million euros, Jarva said.
The selection of merchandise
has also changed.
Most cars parked outside Disas Fish near the border have Russian plates. Times have certainly changed for Nokia, but they
have held onto their location-based services business
through the turmoil. They have lost a cumulative ?3.1
billion. Petersburg from each trip.
?It?s enough for a few
weeks, I?m not talking about
huge containers,. he said,
while perusing displays of
smoked salmon, halibut, roe
and caviar at the longest seafood counter in Finland. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Nokia?s HERE finds its way
the mobile services sector. Cord (david@helsinkitimes.fi) is a writer, journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. In the summer Halbherr announced he would
leave, and last week Nokia announced Sean Fernback as his replacement. Purveyors of luxury
goods, such as handbags and
designer shoes, are closing
their doors, and business is
down even for fish handlers
and stores selling inexpensive fashion.
?People used to come
from Russia to buy fur coats,
now they buy food,. The former head of
HERE, Michael Halbherr, had a disagreement with CEO
Rajeev Suri about the direction of the mapping division. One of those purchases was
Navteq, a company which specialised in digital mapping. During the company?s near-death experience it
was rebranded a couple of times . The economic impact has worsened since the
March annexation of Crimea,
the crisis in eastern Ukraine
and trade sanctions. In my
opinion this means that Suri has decided the division
should begin to focus more on the consumer market.
Russian customers at Prisma in Lappeenranta in September.
Fur coats lose to food as ruble?s
decline hits Lappeenranta
K A S p E R V I I TA , K AT I p O H J A N pA L O
BloomBerg Ne w s
NESTLED in the southeast
corner of Finland is a pristine
region dotted with lakes and
pines that?s the eurozone's
first point of call for many
Russian shoppers.
It?s here in the town of
Lappeenranta, just 200 kilometres away from St. said Ville
Maunula, who runs Safar, a
company specialised in processing tax-free refunds and
foreign exchange for tourists. That?s a first for the
seven-year-old mall, where
customer numbers are down
about 10 per cent.
?Russians buy less,. said
Peltonen. Fernback was an executive
at competitor TomTom before joining Nokia early this
year. Business is ruthless, but Finns have the ability to get
back up, dust themselves off, and find their niche, their
way to profit. And when they do, ?they
consider purchases more
carefully.?
Long history of trade
The borderlands between the
two nations have a trade history going back hundreds of
years, with such products as
animal pelts, textiles, wood
products and butter being
swapped.
St
I don?t have to do what they do, but I can
act more like they act. Since its humble beginnings in 2008 with 300 participants, Slush is now
one of the largest events in the Nordics and attracts
attention the world over.
Finnair and Marimekko announced last week that they will continue their design co-operation.
The question asked by the
journalist highlights the significance of understanding
the local markets in China. Suri said in an interview. Nokia, vying with Ericsson and Huawei
Technologies to supply base
stations, antennas and related services, increased sales
in North America 53 per cent
as carrier Sprint upgraded to
faster networks.
?It?s overall robust, solid across the line,. Nokia raised its profitability forecast for the
network division, saying its full-year operating profit will be
slightly above 11 per cent.
Beijing. Opium is acquired from poppies.
Tiina Alahuhta-Kasko, the
chief operating officer at Marimekko, replies to the question
by telling the story of the iconic print. Why did you de-
cide to paint poppies on your
airplane??
Spokespersons from Marimekko and Finnair have
just talked about their cooperation to a group of over
30 Chinese journalists in the
conference room of a hotel in
over the unit?s strategy with
Suri, people familiar with the
matter said in August. Both the airline and the design company have invested notably in
Asia. said Per
Lindberg, an analyst at ABG
Sundal Collier in Stockholm.
?Nokia is now regaining market share at a rapid clip.?
The adjusted operating
margin at the network unit,
which makes up about 90 per
cent of Espoo-based Nokia?s
sales, expanded to 13.5 per
cent from 8.4 per cent a year
earlier. The journalists were
told that Finnair will decorate one of its aircraft with
the iconic Unikko print by
Marimekko. of Clash of Clans
fame . According to AlahuhtaKasko, Armi Ratia, the founder
of Marimekko, had prohibited
the use of floral patterns in textiles, but designer Maija Isola
was persistent and eventually
won the approval of Ratia.
?Therefore, the Unikko
print symbolises creativity
and freedom of expression,?
Alahuhta-Kasko explains.
my own 12 year old is brimming with excitement for entrepreneurship. China has become one
of the world?s hottest markets for consumer goods and
services as its ever-wealthier urban middle-class has begun to embrace shopping and
travelling.
FINNAIr
A CHINESE journalist phrases
his question politely: ?Here
in China, poppy is considered
not only beautiful but also
dangerous. BUSINESS
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30 OCTOBER . right up there with teachers, pop singers and ice
hockey players.
SLUSH
Flying the flag. See you at Slush!
This article is provided by Helsinki Business Hub
www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi. Revenue at the divi-
NOKIA
Nokia?s President & CEO Rajeev Suri arrives for the company?s Annual General Meeting in Helsinki
back in June.
FOR ME, Slush is a celebration of entrepreneurship.
A great excuse to take a moment and learn from the
entrepreneurs amongst us . There
was internal debate over
whether the unit should focus on automotive and enterprise clients or also continue
to target consumers, the people said.
Nokia?s research and development unit, which collects fees for licensing the
company?s patents, boosted
operating profit 17 per cent
to 98 million euros as revenue rose 9 per cent to 152 million euros.
l e H T I K U VA / J U s s I N U K A r I
Profitability on the up
Nokia raised its profitability forecast for the network
division, saying its fullyear operating profit will be
slightly above 11 per cent. Her sixth-grade class
just completed Me & MyCity, an award-winning educational concept, which gives kids an immersive
experience of entrepreneurship, the economy and
society. Folks like Omoniyi Olawale, founder
of IroFit, who has figured out how to enable mobile
point-of-sale transactions in areas where Internet
connectivity is spotty or non-existent, or Mario Aguilera, founder of Tespack, makers of beautifully designed solar-powered bags, which allow you to keep
your devices charged at all times.
is also a reminder of the sweeping cultural change in attitude that has recently taken place
in Finland. Nor should we. Sales increased
13 per cent to 3.3 billion euros, beating the 3 billion-euro estimate.
Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Suri, who took over in May
after Nokia sold its mobilephone business to Microsoft
for 5.44 billion euros, is boosting profit by focusing on more
lucrative contracts. The stock jumped.
Third-quarter profit, excluding some items, rose to
9 cents a share from 6 cents
a year earlier, Nokia said
Thursday. The Chinese consumer appreciates products with a
story. Successful entrepreneurs are
tenacious, passionate and visionary. A decade ago, starting and running your
own business was what you did if you couldn?t get a
?real job?. And finally, my personal favorite, entrepreneurs
need to be willing to fall down and get right up, only
to fall down and get up again.
PERHAPS
wE CAN?T all be entrepreneurs. (As a result, she?ll be opening her very own
chocolate-covered frozen banana stand in our backyard during an upcoming Restaurant Day, a food carnival when anyone can open a restaurant for a day.)
EVEN
I too can be more like the entrepreneurs
I admire. and to celebrate them.
Hail ye job creators, innovators, lives-changers, society transformers!
wHERE else can you meet rock stars such as Ilkka
Paananen, Supercell co-founder . It
is beneficial to know, for example, that the opium trade
carried out by British merchants in the 19th century
contributed to the fall of the
Chinese Empire. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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Full-year operating
profit is set to be
slightly above 11 per
cent for the Finnish
company, as it regains
market share at a
rapid pace.
l e H T I K U VA / ro N I r e Ko m A A
Nokia earnings top analysts?
estimates as network sales rise
Micah gland is the deputy Ceo of Helsinki Business Hub and an
avid fan of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship fan
A dA M E w I N g
BloomBerg Ne w s
reported earnings
topping analysts. It
previously projected the adjusted margin to be at or
slightly above the high end of
a target range of 5 per cent to
10 per cent.
The company said this
month it signed a 970 millionUS dollar (765 million-euro)
contract with China Mobile
to provide fourth-generation
equipment, software and
services through 2015. ?Rollout will continue
along with our other customer T-Mobile.?
Nokia is also betting on
its two other businesses to
boost margins and lift its
Finnair and Marimekko
seek growth in China
M I K KO PA A K K A N E N . Analysts had predicted 6 cents, the average
of estimates compiled by
Bloomberg. Nowadays, it?s what all the kids want to do
. who sold 51% of his company last year for $1.5
billion, or Sami Inkinen,
co-founder of online reAs the weather
al estate marketplace
turns grey and
Trulia, which is currently being acquired for
dreary in Finland,
$3.5 billion?
we are once again
gearing up to go
startup crazy.
OR
MAyBE the
excitement is brushing
shoulders with stars-inthe-making. The aptly-named Slush is
a two-day startup event with a single purpose . H T
debt rating from junk status.
Its digital- map business provides data to Amazon.com,
Microsoft, Yahoo and four
out of five car-navigation
systems. But we
can all be more entrepreneurial. They tolerate
the unknown, believe in themselves and are flexible. As the weather turns
grey and dreary in Finland, we are once again gearing up to go startup crazy. This year, a remarkable ten
thousand people will brave the slushy streets of Helsinki to attend the event. Thirdquarter sales in North America benefited from Sprint
building out a 4G network.
?We?ve initiated the
Sprint project and that was
part of the third-quarter
bump,. to
connect entrepreneurs with top-tier investors, corporate execs and media. The division broke
even as sales rose 12 per cent
to 236 million euros.
The company named Sean Fernback as head of the
maps business on Thursday.
Fernback, who joined Nokia
earlier this year from Dutch
navigation-device
maker TomTom NV, replaces Michael Halbherr, who left the
company after disagreeing
sion rose 13 per cent, also bolstered by a 38 per cent rise in
China and a 9 per cent gain in
Europe.
Nokia has a market value
of 25.5 billion euros.
IT?S THAT time of year again. H s
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . estimates
as rising network spending
by phone carriers in the US
and China helped the Finnish
equipment maker to its first
quarter of sales growth since
2011
In theory, military
contractors could profit from
the market for replacing the
captured weapons.
?But in reality, even
though the contractors
might benefit financially, it
could be a public relations
disaster for manufacturers
if their weapons were used
Ebola outbreak threatens food crisis in West Africa
T H A L I f D E E N , K I T T y S TA p p . he asked.
?Until and unless the US
understands that the answer to the world?s problems
is not war and that arming
the world will lead the US to
continuous wars and kill millions of innocent, we will not
see an end to an increasingly
unstable world.?
As was said by the prophet Hosea: They that sow the
wind, reap the whirlwind.
to food is severely affected,?
IFPRI warned.
These safety nets, which
could be in the form of cash
or in-kind transfers (context-specificity is important), should be accompanied
with nutrition and health
interventions.
For example, a conditional cash transfer programme
linked to health can help improve access to nutritious
foods, particularly when
prices are high, while promoting health service use, he
added.
In the post-Ebola era, Dr.
Fan said, social protection
and agricultural support interventions will be crucial
to build resilience to future
livelihood shocks.
Recent efforts by the
World Food Programme
(WFP) to provide food assistance to around 1.3 million
people in these three countries indicate an idea of the
scope of the current crisis.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is also providing food assistance
to nearly 90,000 farming
households to abate the food
security crisis.. Shenggen Fen, director-general of the Washington-based International Food
Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said the crisis is expected to be confined mostly to
the countries directly affected by the spreading disease:
Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Guinea, already plagued by
poverty and hunger.
He said Ebola is triggering a food crisis through a series of interrelated factors,
including farmer deaths, la-
had officially declared Nigeria
free of Ebola virus transmission, after 42 days without a
single case.
?Such a story can help the
many other developing countries that are deeply worried
by the prospect of an imported Ebola case,. said Ratner, who is president of the
Berlin-based European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights.
He pointed out that former US President Jimmy
Carter and his national security advisor armed the mujahideen rebels in Afghanistan
as a means of pushing back
the then Soviet Union.
?Ideology trumping common sense and with dire results, including ultimately
9/11 and the continuing wars
we face today,. Goldring said.
Ratner pointed out the
United States did likewise in
Libya, supporting and arming some of the very forces
that attacked the US embassy in Benghazi. The
death toll is highest in Liberia (2,484), followed by Sierra Leone (1,200) and Guinea
(862).
UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters
on 20 October that the WHO
Alice Jallabah, head of a bushmeat seller group, sits next to dried
bushmeat on 7 October in Monrovia as the outbreak of the Ebola
virus in Liberia has resulted in the banning of eating bushmeat,
eliminating a traditional source of protein and nutrition from local diets.
In a statement released
on 21 October, however, IFPRI painted a grim picture of
the situation facing all three
countries.
Schools in Sierra Leone
have closed, shutting down
critical feeding programmes
for children. They reportedly
chose to destroy the weapons,. In fact, we?re
only aware of one bundle that
did not. Goldring, a
senior fellow with the Security Studies Programme in
the Edmund A. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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US destroys its own weapons in enemy hands
An image taken from a video released on 21 October by Aamaq News, a YouTsube channel which posts videos from the areas under the Islamic State (IS) group?s control, purportedly shows an IS militant displaying the contents of a crate from a US military airdrop of weapons.
USA
T H A L I f D E E N , K I T T y S TA p p . Natalie J. In total, 43.5
million dollars have been
pledged.
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / Z O O M D O S S O
WASHINgTON D.C.
bour shortages, rising transportation costs, and rising
food prices. known
as Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPAD) . so long as
the disease itself is not transmitted, Dr. And restrictions
on the consumption of bush
meat, the suspected source
of Ebola, have eliminated a
traditional source of protein and nutrition from local
diets.
?In addition, the costs of
staple foods including rice
and cassava are rising precipitously in the affected areas as crops are abandoned
and as labour shortages
grow,. ?So, ISIS and
presumably other factions
and groups are now well
armed with US weapons,?
Ratner said.
As for arming the Kurds,
that will be interesting, he
said. have not always
reached the Kurds.
At least one of the malfunctioning
parachutes,
loaded with weapons, drifted into an area controlled by
ISIL.
Dr. she said.
She said the US military?s
explanation of the operation
was not reassuring.
Rear Admiral John Kirby,
spokesman for Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, told reporters on 21 October: ?We are very
confident that the vast majority of the bundles did end up in
the right hands. said Goldring, who
also represents the Acronym
Institute at the United Nations on conventional weapons and arms trade issues.
Michael Ratner, president
emeritus of the New Yorkbased Centre for Constitu-
tional Rights, said ISIS using
American-supplied
arms
is not a new story, but one
would have thought the US
might learn a lesson.
?Stop giving or selling
arms to the world, but particularly to militaries or groups
that ultimately will turn
against the United States or
who are too weak to hold on
to the weaponry,. the statement added.
Food that would be imported from these areas is
not making its way to other
regions, either.
?The global community
must come together to ensure that there are safety
nets to protect not only those
infected with the disease,
but also those whose access
against US military personnel,. I P S
WHEN the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured a treasure trove of US
weapons from fleeing Iraqi
soldiers last month, one of the
rebel leaders with a morbid
sense of humour was quoted
as sarcastically saying: ?We
hope the Americans would
honour their agreements and
service our helicopters.?
As fighter planes continue
attacking ISIL targets, some of
the US airstrikes are, paradoxically, aimed at US-made helicopters, Humvees, armoured
personnel carriers and antiaircraft artillery guns originally supplied to the Iraqi armed
forces and currently deployed
by the rebel group.
The whole military exercise has degenerated into a
political farce compounded by last week?s airdrops of
weapons to Kurdish forces
battling ISIL, also known as
the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS), in Kobani, Syria.
The Wall Street Journal
reported on 22 October that
arms and ammunition parachuted from over 10,000 feet
high above the skies . I P S
THE WIDESpREAD outbreak of
Ebola in West Africa, which
has resulted in over 4,500
deaths so far, is also threatening to trigger a food crisis.
Dr. he said.
Dujarric said the announcement comes only a
few days after Senegal was
also declared Ebola-free.
He said the trust fund set
up by Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon to battle the deadly disease now has about
8.8 million dollars in deposits and 5.0 million dollars in
commitments. And the expected
happened.?
As the US backed an ?awful sectarian president. in
Iraq, he said, violence increased and weapons were
everywhere. ?Will those weapons be
turned on Turkey and what
will the outcome of that war
be?. Walsh School
of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, said recent reports suggest that
weapons the US military had
dropped for the Kurds have
been seized by ISIS forces.
?This left the US military with the uncomforta-
ble choice between allowing
the ISIS forces to keep the
weapons or trying to destroy
the very weapons it had just
dropped. he said.
Ratner said the United States allowed itself to
believe it was really training an army when it was in
fact training a kleptocracy. he said.
According to the Washington-based Defence News, US
arms sales to Iraq last year
included 681 Stinger antiaircraft missiles and 40 truck-
mounted launchers, Sentinel
radars, three Hawk anti-aircraft batteries with 216 Hawk
missiles, 50 Stryker infantry
carriers, 12 helicopters, and
hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of maintenance and logistical support for thousands
of US-made military vehicles.
Additionally, Washington
has also struck arms deals for
the sale of Hellfire missiles,
M1A1 Abrams battle tanks,
machine guns, sniper rifles,
grenades and ammunition ?
all worth billions of dollars.
How much of this will
wind up with ISIL forces is
anybody?s guess.
Goldring has made a similar observation, saying the
US government, once again,
appears to have been slow
to learn important lessons
about the unintended consequences of its actions in the
Middle East.
?A policy reassessment
that gives much more weight
to the long-term risks that
accompany
open-ended
transfers of weapons around
the world is long overdue,?
said Goldring.
?In addition, as by far
the world?s largest arms exporter, the United States
has a special responsibility
to refrain from transferring
weapons when they are likely to be used to violate international human rights and
humanitarian law.?
She said excessive weapons flows vastly increase the
risk of blowback, in which
US weapons may be used
against its own military personnel. Yet Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia are
all net food-importing countries and small markets on a
global scale, so the transmission effect of food prices is
unlikely to pass beyond their
own boundaries . Fen said.
According to the latest
figures released by the World
Health Organisation (WHO),
there are over 9,000 cases of
Ebola, including 4,262 cases
in Liberia, 3,410 in Sierra Leone and 1,519 in Guinea. The invasion
of Iraq was also a war crime,
killing untold numbers in
that country and unleashing violence throughout the
region.
?Selling arms to Iraq for
American companies was as
easy as selling candy to little
kids . if we
can confirm that this one is
or isn?t, we?ll certainly do that
and let you know.?
?Surely, the world?s foremost military can and should
hold itself to a far higher
standard,. 8
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
30 OCTOBER . ?No country with any
sense would have loaded
up the Iraq army with such
weaponry. he
warned.
Global food prices tend
to have transmission effects on regional or national
food prices. Again, we?ll . and billions in weapons were sold to a country
that had become, because of
US actions, unstable at its
core,. ?The food crisis
may persist for decades,
The effect was most
marked for aspects of behaviour such as irritability, lethargy, repetitive movements,
hyperactivity, awareness,
communication, motivation
and mannerisms.
Even though the experiment was carried out as a
randomised, blinded trial,
meaning that even the scientists did not know which
of the patients were given
the actual active compound,
the team could soon guess
the patients who were part
of the sulforaphane group.
Changes in behaviour were
remarkable, with some patients for example looking
the researchers in the eye
and shaking their hand as
a greeting for the first time
ever.
After the experiment
stopped, the symptoms returned, as happens also in
the case of a fever.
The researchers sounded
a note caution for the parents
of autistic children not to
raise their hopes yet, as this
was only a small preliminary
clinical trial and the results
must be confirmed in a much
larger group of patients.
to other circumstances, such
as infections, inflammations, exposure to environmental toxins, famine and
a lack of oxygen suffered by
cells. All the tests were re-run
4, 10 and 18 weeks after the
beginning of the experiment.
The results were impressive. diversifamilia
from A. Although unable to exclude it,
Only half the results
It must also be borne in mind
that sulforaphane only improved the symptoms of autism in half of the patients.
So the finding is not a final
breakthrough in the treatment of autism but a longawaited signpost for the
right route to take in the
search for a therapy.
If scientists succeed in establishing the mechanism
behind the beneficial effect of the heat-shock reaction on autistic symptoms,
we can talk about a real
breakthrough.
The researchers also cautioned parents against trying
to medicate autistic children
with broccoli as the quantities given to the participants
of the study were so large
that they are impossible to
achieve by eating the vegetable as part of a normal diet. The link between oral sex and mouth and
throat cancer is explained
by human papillomavirus
HPV16, transmitted via oral
sex. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
New species of
hermaphrodite snail
named in support of
same-sex marriage
R a C H E L f E LT M a N
THe Wa SHing Ton PoS T
CHiH-Wei Huang
afTER OVER a century of being confused for another
species of snail, Aegista diversifamilia finally gets its
place in the limelight. For
example children who normally were not able to speak might
say individual words when
they had a high temperature.
The beneficial effect of fever
on behavioural problems related to autism has also been
shown in scientific studies.
Heat shock response
But why does having a fever
improve the symptoms of autism. The presence of HPV16
infection was detected with a
mouth wash to collect throat
9
Research: Compound found
in broccoli may improve
symptoms of autism
H S / K i m m o Ta S K i n e n
J a N I K a a RO . urine and blood
samples for biomarkers related to use of tobacco products. H S
NIINa WOOLLE Y . The group receiving sulticipants smoking four
cigarettes a day, the likelihood of infection climbed 68
per cent.
Even though smoking increases the risk of viral infection, the virus is not
transmitted via tobacco
products but oral sex.
The researchers believe
that the infection may be
more common among smokers because once they have
contracted the virus their
bodies are not able to clear it
off. The participants also answered survey
questions on their smoking
habits and sexual practices.
Common discovery
The research team found
that the viral infection was
considerably more common
among participants who
both used tobacco products
and practised oral sex than
among non-smokers.
The risk of viral infection
grew along with the number
of cigarettes smoked. This increases the risk of
the person developing throat
or mouth cancer caused by
HPV16 infection, which develop slowly over a number
of years.
Another possible explanation is that smokers are more
likely to engage in oral sex. A fever increases
the body?s temperature, triggering a heat-shock reaction.
Heat-shock proteins become activated not only as
a result of high temperatures but also as a response
Research: Combination of oral sex and
smoking increases risk of mouth cancer
J a N I K a a RO . Participants who smoked three
cigarettes a day suffered a
31 per cent higher risk of being infected, while for par-
Broccoli has provided a long-awaited signpost for the right route to take in the search for a therapy.
foraphane showed signs of
improvement after 4 weeks,
and their symptoms continued to improve as long as
they were taking the compound. H S
NIINa WOOLLE Y . Subchinensis was
thought to exist in two populations on either side of a
mountain range and a river, but the snails on the eastern side were larger in shell
size and flatter in shell shape.
In investigating the genes of
the two populations, the researchers found that they
were actually distinct species.
Co-author Yen-Chang Lee
of Academia Sinica in Taipei
said in a statement that he
named the snail in honor of
the diverse forms that a human family can take.
?When we were preparing the manuscript, it was a
period when Taiwan and many other countries and states
were struggling for recognition of same-sex marriage
rights,. Now a
new study has found that the
combination of oral sex and
smoking carries an even higher risk of cancer. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
and mouth cells. Lee said.
He and his team thought
it fitting to use the snail ?
which is a hermaphrodite,
possessing sex characteristics associated with both
male and female animals ?
to support the cause.
?They represent the diversity of sex orientation in
the animal kingdom,. he said
in his statement.
A new species of hermaphrodite snail is named in support of
same-sex marriage.
have known for
some time that oral sex increases the risk of mouth
and throat cancer. Tobacco was an obvious
candidate for a cofactor as
smoking is known to increase
the risk of certain cancers.
The study, published in the
medical journal JAMA, examined data from almost 7,000
volunteers, more than 2,000
of whom were smokers.
Researchers tested the
participants. The heat-shock response refers to a cascade of
events used to protect cells
from the stress caused by
high temperatures, including
the production of protective
proteins. If the viral infection persists, with time it can lead to
the development of tumours.
But the practice of oral sex
is common while the cancer
SCIENTISTS
is rare, which prompted researchers at Johns Hopkins
University to embark on a
search for additional risk factors. HT
US SCIENTISTS have taken a
first step towards a breakthrough in research into autism, shedding new light on
the mechanisms behind the
condition.
The small-scale pilot
study produced more promising results than any other
drug experiment in the past.
?We believe that this
may be preliminary evidence for the first treatment
for autism that improves
symptoms by apparently correcting some underlying cellular mechanisms,. A less-known trigger
of the heat-shock response
is sulforaphane, a compound
found in broccoli.
The observation of the link
between broccoli and a fever
kick-started the new study.
If the heat-shock response
was behind the amelioration
of autistic symptoms, it followed that broccoli would
have a similar effect.
Altogether 44 males with
moderate to severe autism
and aged between 13 and 27
were selected for the study.
Before the experiment, the
participants underwent assessments to measure their
sensory sensitivities, ability to relate to others, verbal
communication skills, social
interactions and other behaviours related to autism, including ritualistic behaviour.
Impressive results
In the study, 26 of the patients
were given a 9-27-gram sulforaphane capsule a day while
the rest received a dummy
pill. HT
30 OCTOBER . Broccoli can of course be
recommended for its known
health effects. subchinensis, a similar land snail discovered
in 1884. said Dr
Paul Talalay, a professor of
pharmacology and the leader
of the research team at Johns
Hopkins University.
The starting point for the
study was the observation reported by many parents with
an autistic child that the symptoms of autism improved
when the child ran a fever. the
fight for same-sex marriage
legalization.
This new classification
separates A. Talalay and co-investigator Andrew Zimmerman
from the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical
Center looked into the body?s
heat-shock response to find
an answer. In a recent paper in ZooKeys, Taiwanese researchers named it
as a new species.
While many researchers
would use the opportunity to
give a shout-out to their favorite celebrity, this team of
scientists chose to highlight
a human rights issue . Other vegetables are also known to be rich
in sulforaphane and their
ability to bolster the body?s
natural defences against oxidative stress partly explains
their beneficial effect on
health.
The study was published
in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of
Sciences.
L e H T i K u va / m i K Ko S T i g
HELSINKI TIMES
The risk of viral infection grows along with the number cigarettes
smoked.
the researcher did not believe
this explanation to be likely.
The study could not provide evidence for a cause-
and-effect
relationship
between smoking and oral
HPV16 infection, only a link
between the two.
If she?s not allowed to form strong emotional bonds with the foster
family while maintaining her
relationship with the biological family, she will be balancing between the two, like on
a seesaw.?
In the best-case scenario,
the child gains a new family
she lives with, along with an
extended family with people
from both the biological family and foster family that she
has strong emotional bonds
with.
Currently, Linna acts as
a project manager for the
Keinu project at the Finnish
Family Services Association
and travels around Finland
with Koponen to talk about
the model to foster parents,
biological parents of foster
children and child welfare
professionals.
Linna says that her own
family will not grow anymore. ?That
phone call must have been
difficult for her. HT
MaRJa-RIITTa LINNa, 43,
from Laukaa, became a
mother with one phone call.
?The social worker said that
they had a girl for us. The concept of twinning cities is an
aim to promote culture and
trade among cities across international borders.
Nature
Two thousand years ago,
the first cliffs that currently
make up the islands of Larmso appeared above the ocean.
Located in the archipelago, Larsmo tempts tourists
with forest trail and beautiful coastal scenery. When Linna was
growing up, her own family welcomed other people to
their home. The
road connecting the island
based municipality to the
rest of the world is called the
road of Seven Bridges. HS
NIINa WOOLLE y . Their doors
are always also open to other people close to the children. Larsmo also
has a church built in 1787 by
Jacob Rijf, located in a picturesque area.
Larsmo is twinned with
two cities, Klaebu in Norway
and Malå in Sweden. ?Blonde
hair and big eyes?, that?s how
she described her,. A couple of years
ago, the family expanded
when they received twins
Aada and Veeti, now three,
who had been fostered by another family.
As foster parents, the Linnas have occasionally gone
against advice given by experts. ?She was too small to
have words for expressing
her emotions or dealing with
her experiences.?
On the other hand, occasionally Soile could express
her feelings much better than
anyone could have expected.
?When she was four years
old she saw Simberg?s painting of the wounded angel being carried by two little boys
and she said to me: ?Mummy,
that?s me.??
Not an easy
path to motherhood
Linna tells the story calmly
and quietly. Now
we have that and plenty of
life around us.?
Sharing the wisdom
Now Linna and another foster mother, Taina Koponen,
want to make all the knowledge and wisdom they have
gained from their experiences in fostering available to other people. When she was given
guidance on fostering, she
was told that foster parents?
relationship with the child?s
biological parents was often
strained.
?We were told to bear in
mind that we were there for
the child.?
When Soile had just come
to live with them, her father
asked if he could stay with
the girl over the weekend. It was bought by a
Japanese army officer, enemy to Russia.
On 6 September the
Grafton, with its name concealed, arrived at the Larsmo
archipelago following a brief
landing at Kemi, and many
of its weapons were unloaded in the Larsmo archipelago. Families are often
told not to form too strong
ties to their foster children
and to keep their distance
from the children?s biological parents, says Marja-Riitta Linna. The
visits by the children?s moth-
ers went well and soon after,
one of the mothers phoned
her to ask if she would love
the child like her own. 10
PEOPLE
30 OCTOBER . 5 NOVEMBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Pe T TeRi KiviMäKi
Being a mother to other mothers. A
foster parent has to learn to
accept that the child?s biological parents are involved.?
Soile is now an 11-year-old
schoolgirl. That weekend helped forge a strong
trust between all the adults
involved.?
Soon other parents also visited their children. To cope with it, they
have had to work continuously on their own attitudes and
emotions.
?It?s a demanding task
to arouse feelings of love in
a child who has learned not
to rely on adults. I
was told off by social workers
but I think I was right to rely
on my instincts. The
boat and fishing museum displays boats, engines, hunting
and fishing gear. It
was decided that the ship
had to be blown up before
the Russians would find out
about it, so it was transported close to Sweden
and exploded at 4 pm on 8
September.
Soon after the incident,
newspapers across the country reported on the mysterious exploding ship. The main residential areas are Risö, Holm,
Eugmo, and Bosund.
For a brief moment in
history, Larsmo claimed international fame with the
mysterious Grafton Affair.
In 1905, as Finnish separa-
The picturesque Lake Larsmo is in the east of the municipality.
the main land in small boats.
The next morning as the
Grafton was disembarking,
however, it ran aground. ?We have made a commitment to be available to
these children for the rest of
our lives.?
Discovering Swedish-speaking municipalities: Larsmo
aLICIa JENSEN
HeL SiNK i TiMeS
LaRSMO,
or Luoto in Finnish, is a municipality which
consists of 360 islands, with
a shoreline of approximately 500 km. The
largest islands are Larsmo
and Eugmo. The model employs
methods such as art therapy.
?These methods allow people
to work through even some
very painful feelings in a gentle manner.?
When a child goes to a foster home, she suddenly has
two sets of parents and has
to create a new family identity, explains Linna. The
Bjärgas museum includes a
village shop from the 1950s,
and displays local war history. It is a perfect place to visit in the summer, its kitchen offering the
delicious traditional salmon
soup and other treats.. The story
was even picked up by international media, including the
Times, Deutsche Tageblatt,
and the Daily Mail.
Although the effort
failed to some extent as a
lot of weapons were lost, the
Grafton Affair is often referred to as the first step towards the fight for Finnish
independence.
Business
The service industry makes
up 55.9 per cent of the labour force in Larsmo, along
with small local industries.
The importance of traditional industries of fishing,
hunting and agriculture
have diminished over time.
An important industry in
Larsmo is the boat building
industry.
Culture
There are two museums in
Larsmo, the Bjärgas local museum, and the Bosund boat
and fishing museum. It is the
last monolingual municipality that will be considered on
mainland Finland, as the rest
of the Swedish monolingual
municipalities belong to the
Åland islands.
tist movements were gathering momentum, the ship
S/S John Grafton was organised to bring weapons to aid
nationalists in an armed uprising against Tsarist Russia,
which Finland belonged to at
the time. She is a teacher
by training, which has given
her the tools for dealing with a
troubled child. They were transported to
L a R S M o Ko M M u N
History
Larsmo was founded in 1867.
It borders Lake Larsmo to the
East, the Gulf of Bothnia to
the West, the City of Karleby
in the North and the City of
Jakobstad in the South. There are
times when you can?t help
feeling pangs of pain over
your own childlessness. children
Marja-Riitta and Joel Linna act as foster parents to Veeti (front), Soile (back) and Aada (right).
Marja-Riitta Linna learned how to be a parent by providing a home for foster children.
Ja aNa L aITINEN . I promised to
do so.?
Now the Linnas sometimes spend weekends with
the children and their biological parents. The surrounding area also features a windmill and a
carpenter?s workshop. Working
together they have developed a Keinu model, which
is aimed at ensuring a good
start to a foster relationship.
?The model puts the child to
the forefront in child welfare
work and guarantees that
what is best for the child is
done in fostering.?
In the Keinu model, the
child?s families and all family
members are given an opportunity to talk about and work
through their emotions and
feelings. They had a foster
girl living with them, along
with ?several grannies and
granddads?.
?Responsibility over people who needed looking after
was rooted in me early on.?
She and her husband decided to foster when they
learned that they could not
have children of their own.
?We always dreamed of
having a large family. But sometimes
it is clear to see that the path
has not always been easy.
Being a foster parent has
been a learning curve, she
says. Soile, who was two
years old, and her new parents were given some time
to get to know each other
before she came home with
them. Linna
explains.
And that is the girl Linna
and her husband Joel met in
a children?s home nine years
ago. There are
possibilities for hiking, fishing, canoeing and biking.
Köpmanholmen is a recreational area situated on an island at rowing distance from
Larsmo
Percentage of residents
with Swedish as mother
tongue:
92.5%
142.44 km2 of land
34.07 km2 of fresh water:
677 km2 of salt water
Women: 2474
Men: 2597
For more fun
visit: www.larsmo.fi
the mainland of Larsmo.
There is also a taxiboat if
you don?t want to brave the
Finnish waters. ?I
thought about it for a minute
and then said it was okay. ?That?s when we started to grow into parents.?
The new foster daughter
turned the couple?s life upside down. For me, it
was like a gift. ?In a situation like that, the child needs
all the familiar adults there
to support her. It is located in the
Ostrobothnia region. She brought with
her not only great happiness
but also difficult moments.
The little girl, who had gone
through some stressful experiences, sometimes channelled her emotions into
anger
The
upper part of the seat belt
should run against the shoul-
L E H T I K U VA / V I L L E M y L Ly N E N
fascinating music Is your child car seat safe?
(without musicians) Tips for travelling in car with child
A newborn baby should always be in a rear-facing infant carrier
and the airbag must be switched off.
der, not across the neck and
the belt should not be placed
under the child?s armpit or
behind the back.
Should I buy a new car seat or
will a second-hand one do?
After five years, the seat?s
structures will start to wear
so seats older than this
should not be used. Liisa?s pastries became
well known in the area, and
brought delicatessen lovers
and music enthusiasts to the
venue. by international tourist guidebooks, it
presents the history of mechanical music from 1850 until the modern times.
At the venue, considered
a must-see for all those visiting Varkaus and music enthusiasts especially, visitors
get an overview of how music
was played before the various Hi-Fi systems, compact
discs and mp3 players.
?Our museum is the only one of its kind in the Nordic
Countries,. H S
NIINa WOOLLE y . What should you do differently when your child is not
a baby anymore but a boisterous three-year-old toddler?
When can you stop using a car
safety seat?
Helsingin Sanomat compiled tips for driving your
child safely in a car.
What kinds of car seats
are available for children of
different ages?
A car seat must be selected
on the basis of the child?s size.
Instructions for installing the
seat vary between models so
they must always be read. Infant carriers are always installed so that
the baby is facing towards the
back of the car. The time of manufacture is printed on the
side of the seat. is how Dr. where sounds
and feelings of the old times
live. If you use just a booster cushion without a backrest
you must make sure that the
car?s neck rest supports the
child?s head. The latter plays unforgettable compositions by
legendary pianists, including
examples such as Josef Hoffmann and Ferruccio Busoni.
?The guidance style and
items presented to the visitors during tours can be adjusted depending on guests?
preferences,?
concludes
Kempf. In an ideal situation, the child could test the
seat before it is bought.
There are five
weight groups:
Group 0: under 10 kg
(under 9 months)
Group 0: under 13 kg
(under 18 months)
Group 1: 9-18 kg
(6 months-4 years)
Group 2: 15-25 kg
(3-6 years)
Group 3: 22-36 kg
(5-11 years)
Car seats can be divided
into three categories: Rearfacing infant carriers: This is
the car seat you can use for
taking your new baby home
from the hospital. Most car seats
meet the criteria set for the
groups 1 and 2, but this and
the correct way to install the
seat must always be checked.
Booster seat and group
3 car seat: Now the child is
ready to sit facing forward.
Usually children are around
four years old at this stage.
The child can wear the car?s
seat belt. Hoffman
and his colleagues randomly
selected 267 mother-infant
pairs for their study.
They found that a whopping 93 per cent of parents
made mistakes when transporting their baby in a car.
?You take the most vulnerable person you could, a newborn, and the most vulnerable
of caretakers, a family that
has just had a baby, and you
just take them to the door and
just say good luck,. 020134 4408 and 040 525 1510
Sami.haverinen@sato.fi. Whatever the age of a used car seat
it should not have been in an
accident: a seat?s structures
have suffered fractures and
belts have become stretched
in the accident, making it unsafe to use. The rear-facing infant carrier should be
used until the child reaches
the upper weight limit or his
or her eyes are level with the
top of the seat. The lower part
of the seat belt must rest on
the child?s thighs and run
at the level of the hip bone,
not across the stomach. If you cannot
find the marking it is better
to steer clear of the seat.
Should the seat be installed
in the back or front seat?
It is recommended that children travel in the backseat. LIfESTyLE
HELSINKI TIMES
30 OCTOBER . In that case,
you must bear in mind the airbag and not put the child in a
rear-facing car seat if the car?s
front seat has an airbag. ?Our experiences
show that a tour is also a refreshing and awakening experience for groups with
special requirements. HT
?If yOu wanted to create the
perfect storm for misuse, this
would be it,. If you
like music, you will love the
Mechanical Music Museum.
Welcome!?
Mechanical
Music Museum
Pelimanninkatu 8
Varkaus
www.mekaanisenmusiikinmuseo.fi
Open:
Tue-Sat 11:00-18:00
Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?7-14
J O N E M AT I L A I N E N
How it all began
The Mechanical Music Museum was born from Liisa and
Jürgen Kempf?s passion for
music and antiques. mark indicating
that it meets the EU safety
standards. adds Pawel Kempf. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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Automatic pianos,
pastries and the
world?s largest
orchestration.
ya N N I C K I L u N G a
HEL SINK I TIMES
THE MECHaNICaL MuSIC MuSEuM is one of the countries?
hidden gems. The
law recommends that a child
less than 135cm in height
should have a safety seat of
some kind. Even
at the height of 140cm the
child is still at risk from the
car airbag, which should be
switched off if possible.
Looking for further info on
installing the seat?
You can find links to videos
showing how to install car
seats of different kinds on
the website of the Finnish
Road Safety Council.
Source: liikenneturva.fi
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the museum collection has
been growing to over 300 mechanical music instruments.
Globally, we are among the five
largest collections.?
Where sounds and
feelings of the past
and present live
By visiting the museum, visitors can take a closer look
at the world of mechanical
music. A child?s head is
heavy in relation to their body
weight and the risk of serious
or even fatal injury increases
if a small child travels in a car
facing forward. each
decorated with the style of a
different era . The child must
always be positioned in the baby carrier as shown in the instructions that come with it.
A toddler car seat: When
the child can sit unsupported, he or she is ready to move
up a step in the seat category.
The safest way to install a toddler seat is facing the rear of
the car, which is what should
be done as long as possible but
at least until the child is three
years old. Whether you?re coming solo or with a family,
SATO HotelHome enables a quick and flexible move to Helsinki. Established in 1981, when the family relocated to Finland from
Germany, it initially opened
as a small museum in Tuusniemi, and quickly raised
interested because it is an
exotic idea in Finland.
In 1983, in addition to the
items that had been on display, a café was established
as a supplementary service. The seat must
have an ?E. From a piano playing without a player to the
world?s largest orchestration, a 75-man Popper Goliath, this fascinating side of
music is presented in an informative and entertaining
way.
?Next year, we will have
an automatic orchestra,
which includes a real cello and violins,. Benjamin Hoffman describes the situation when parents are sent
home from a maternity hospital with their newborn baby.
He is a professor of paediatrics and one of the main
authors of a new study that
looked into how well new parents cope with taking their
baby home in a car. explains
Hoffman, who saw so many
small children coming to hospital with injuries resulting
from a traffic accident that
he actually became a car seat
technician in his spare time.
News service today.com
was the first to report the
study.
But then what is the right
way to position a baby in a car
seat after that first journey
home from the maternity hospital. says Pawel Kempf
of the Mechanical Music Museum. ?Our guided tours,
presented with a touch of humour, take visitors on a journey across seven halls . Our tours are suitable
for visitors of all ages, from
children to pensioners!?
During a tour, museumgoers and music enthusiasts are
able to see the 5-metre Poppers Goliath orchestration,
the colourful and flamboyant street barrel organ Amadeus and a Steinway-Welte
automatic piano, among other items. Most seats in this
group have been approved
for children weighing 15 to
16 kg. Located in
Varkaus, between Jyväskylä and Joensuu, and dubbed
?one of the top ten destinations in Finland. Two years later, in order to raise the recognition
of the museum and mechanical music in general, Liisa
and Jürgen Kempf organised
a hurdy-gurdy festival in
Joensuu.
The event made surrounding towns and municipalities
aware of the museum, which
relocated to Varkaus three
years and some 100,000 visitors later.
Today, the Mechanical Music Museum has served as a
family business for over thirty years and it has become
one of Finland?s most eclectic
and unique museums.
Over 300 mechanical music instruments are on display in different sections, each decorated with the style of a different era.
J O S E R I I KO N E N
Are children simply props to us. Hobin?s controversial art will have you reconsidering important questions about childhood and society?s take on children . Tuomas
Kantelinen: The Snow Queen
Wintery ballet for the whole family
Finnish National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?21.50-107.50
www.opera.fi
?The Twins?
Thu 30 October
Vimma Allstars, Antti Kokkomäki
& Tammikuun Lapset (trio)
Folk
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
www.semifinal.fi
Thu 30 October
Asa & Band
Hip-hop
Sello Hall
Soittoniekanaukio 1A
Tickets ?16/18
www.sellosali.fi
Wed 5 November
Salla Pesonen & Sanne
Tschirpke: Slow down, let it go!
Music to rest and relax
Helsinki Music Centre
Black Box
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?6.50-17.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 31 October
Halloween Happening XX
22-Pistepirkko, Black Lizard
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
www.semifinal.fi
Fri 31 October
Manna
Pop
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Tickets ?13.50
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 31 October
Jarkko Martikainen
Rock/pop
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Tickets ?13.50
www.lebonk.fi
Fri 31 October
Erin
Pop
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Tickets ?21
www.thecircus.fi
Fri 31 October
Jukka Poika & Dj Stormy,
Raappana & Dj Leimasin
Reggae
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?13.50
www.virginoil.fi
Fri 31 October
Jorma Uotinen:
Sous le ciel de Paris
Uotine n sings Edith Piaf, Jacques
Brell and Leo Ferre
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
Tickets ?28
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Fri 31 October
Pharaoh Overlord, Superfjord
Stoner rock
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/13
www.kuudeslinja.com
Fri 31 October
Etnosoi! Kick-Off
Iva Nova (RUS), Celenka
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50
www.korjaamo.fi
Fri 31 October
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Julian Steckel & Robert Spano
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?7.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Mon 3 November
Reeds from Catalonia / Khyal
Metamorphoses
World music á la Sibelius Academy
Helsinki Music Centre
Black Box
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?6.50-17.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sat 1 November
Kaiku & La Persé Halloween
Fummer, Lauri Soini & Jaakko
Kestilä
Kaiku
Kaikukatu 4
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50
www.clubkaiku.fi
Mon 3 November
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with The
Guilty Ones
Rock
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
Tickets ?46
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Sat 1 November
Arabia Maskerad 2014
The Bollywood Hospital
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki
Tickets ?14.50/15
www.lebonk.fi
Mon 3 & Tue 4 November
Fork - X
Impressive a cappella show
Alexander Theatre
Albertinkatu 32
Helsinki
Tickets ?41.50/48.50
www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
Sat 1 November
Papagaio 25 Years
Helsinki-based samba school
celebrates its´ 25th birthday
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Tickets ?15/20
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Tue 4 November
The Holmes Brothers
Blues, gospel, soul, r&b,
rock and country
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
Tickets ?35
www.savoyteatteri.fi
Sat 1 November
Lordi
Hard rock
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?25-33
www.thecircus.fi
Sat 1 November
Goofin. Have we constructed an innocence which
doesn?t exist. The project
began 4.5 years ago.
As the title suggests, the
film sees the Moomins heading to the Riviera, rubbing
shoulders with high society.
?One reason for choosing
Moomins on the Riviera was
that it had never been shown
before,. Today,
the Jansson legacy lives on
through Lars. Center for New Dance
Tallberginkatu 1B
Helsinki
Tickets ?14/22
www.zodiak.fi
Fri 31 October
Jesper Dahlbäck aka. and internationally.
?The film has been most
admired for its colours, design, animation style, music, and sound. The book was
made in cooperation with her
brother Lars Jansson. It has an oldfashioned, delicate charm to
it . Festival
UMO Meets Sibis & Teemu
Viinikainen solo
Helsinki Music Centre
Black Box
Manneheimintie 13
Tickets ?11.50-27.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 30 October
Joonas Haavisto Quartet feat.
Mikko ?Gunu. The
Persuader (Svek, Stockholm),
Jori Hulkkonen
Techno
Kaiku
Kaikukatu 4
www.clubkaiku.fi
Thu 30 October
Approach & Attack Afterparty
Death Hawks
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Tickets ?8.50/9
www.barloose.com
Thu 30 October
Luonto-Liiton susiryhmän
20-vuotiskeikka
Hexvessel, Horse Latitudes,
Caskets Open, Kaleidobolt
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?11.50/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fri 31 October
Santa Cruz
Hard rock
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Tickets ?13.50/14
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Thu 30 October
DIG. As the
French have a long tradition
with both comic strips and animation film, it had occurred to
her that they might be interested in a Moomin adaptation
Having French animation
director Xavier Picard?s number in her phone book saw the
project become a reality when
he came on board. those chubby, hippo-like creatures,
known for their philosophical thinking and peaceful
way of life. Nonetheless, the
film has proved to be highly
successful both in Finland ?
where it was the most popular
film on the weekend it premiered . The project is part of
their curator Tove Jansson?s
100th birthday celebrations.
The film, Moomins on the
Riviera, is based on a comic
book first published in 1955,
inspired by Jansson?s holiday
in the region. and the rest
of society . a fitting tribute to Tove
Jansson?s beloved work.
Thu 30 & Fri 31 October
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J O N AT H A N H O B I N
In the Playroom
Two block towers; a toy plane; two pairs of eyes gazing straight into yours. daughter Sophia
Jansson.
?A few years ago, Sophia
told me that it was a pity nobody had been interested in
making any films based on
the original comic strips,. Karjalainen
Jazz
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/16.50
www.kokojazz.fi
French
Riviera
seduces
Moomins
M ARI S TORPELLINEN
HEL SINK I TIMES
THE MOOMINS . The
conflicts they have on the
Riviera reveal more clearly
what kind of characters the
Moomins are.?
The film has, however,
stirred upset among some
parents. It features Moominpappa getting drunk and
Snorkmaiden gambling and
flirting. are now featuring in a hand-drawn animated film. What he shows us is a dark reality. For me, the
best thing about making it
was the enthusiastic team,?
Hemilä says.
Moomins on the Riviera is
a clever film, full of surprises and humour. playing games of torture, murder, among other tragedies that we might otherwise consider belonging only to the adult world.
Are children not as innocent as we presume. A
gaze which is impossible to avoid, a connection holding you . to account. His
photographs show children at play . in a playful manner.
31 October . Jarkko Partanen:
Dirty Dancing
Contemporary dance
Zodiak . ?Another reason was that the comic strip takes the family out
of the Moomin Valley. 18 January
Finnish Museum of Photography
The Cable Factory
MUSIC
Tallberginkatu 1 G
The Cable Factory
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 30 October
Anni Klein . How much do they know about the
world. Hemilä says. Though the scene appears to have caught two children innocently at play, the scene is striking when you realise they are playing a game of 9/11.
Jonathan Hobin is a Canadian photographer who uses the concept of play, a way
for children to process the world around them, to challenge his audience to reconsider the vulnerable concept of childhood. says
producer Hanna Hemiä. Records
30th Anniversary Party
High Noon (USA), Wildfire
Willie & The Ramblers (SWE), etc
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?32.50
www.virginoil.fi
Wed 5 November
Eero Koivistoinen Quintet feat.
Jukka Eskola
Jazz
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/16.50
www.kokojazz.fi
Wed 5 November
Prince of Assyria (SWE)
Indie pop
Le Bonk
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50
www.lebonk.fi
Sat 1 November
Risto
Rock/pop
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 5 November
Mew (DNK)
Pop/rock
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?34.50/35
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 1 November
Hanzel und Gretyl (USA)
Industrial metal
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/12
www.ontherocks.fi
Wed 5 November
NoNoNo (SWE)
Indie pop
The Circus
Salomonkatu 1-3
Helsinki
Tickets ?23.50
www.thecircus.fi
Sat 1 November
Hymnien yö
?The night of the hymns.?
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?15/20
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Wed 5 November
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Slav Melancholy
Helsinki Music Centre
Concert Hall
Manneheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?7.50-32.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 30 October-Sat 1 November
Tero Saarinen Company &
Avanti! : Gaspard | Wavelengths |
Vox Balaenae
A triple bill of Finland?s most internationally acclaimed contemporary
dancer-choreographer.
Alexander Theatre
Albertinkatu 32
Helsinki
Tickets ?17.50-48.50
www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
Thu 30 October-Sun 2 November
Sirkus Finlandia
One of Finland´s oldest circus
companies
Kaisaniemen puistokuja 3
Helsinki
Tickets ?16-32
www.sirkusfinlandia.fi
From Sat 1 November
Moving in November
Contemporary dance festival.
Various venues
Tickets ?15-32
www.liikkeellamarraskuussa.fi
EXHIBITIONS
Until Sun 16 November
Kiasma goes Kunsthalle
How do the works from
Kiasma look like when they
are exhibited outside their
own museum?
Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3
Helsinki
Open:
Tue 11:00-18:00
Thu 11:00-18:00
Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat 11:00-17:00
Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/7/10
www.taidehalli.fi
Until Sun 11 January
Ceramics & Space
Exhibition of contemporary
Finnish ceramics
Design Museum
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
Tue 11:00-20:00
Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00
Tickets ?0/5/8/10
www.designmuseum.fi
Until Sun 22 March
Sibelius and the World of Art
Exhibition explores the links
between the composer?s work
and the art scene of his time.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 10:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
OTHERS
Until Sun 2 November
Night Visions Film Festival
The biggest and the oldest
festival in Finland to focus on
horror, fantasy, science fiction
and action cinema.
www.nightvisions.info. 12
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30 OCTOBER
Observations can be re-
The greatest deviations in
corded electronically and a pic-
quality were observed in the con-
ture of the quality deviation can
dition of walls and handrails, but
be included in the report when
problems were also observed in
necessary, considerably speed-
the condition of windows and
ing up the fixing of any prob-
seats. Other
partners participating in the campaign included Kuvaamo, Irokeesi, Into-Digital, GrilliFilms and RagnarFilms.
The renovation
of the Myllypuro
Metro Station
continues
Low demand
for HSL?s
timetable
booklets
As part of the ongoing renovation of the Myllypuro Metro Station, the existing northern entrance
located at the end of Jauhokuja
will be demolished and a new one
built. Once the construction work is completed, the
platform level can be accessed
by two new lifts and a staircase.
During the renovation the platform level can be accessed from the
southern end of the station through
the Myllyaukio entrance as well as
from Myllypurontie by a temporary
staircase. The switch from printed materials to online services also supports
HSL?s efforts towards environmental
responsibility.
HSL offers information on timetables free of charge through various channels. This
year, the competition attracted
more than one thousand entries
from over 20 countries.
?The Faces of Public Transport
is a unique campaign, something
HSL Customer service tel. 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.fi
completely different from traditional advertising. I?m delighted
that the campaign has been noted
also outside Finland and that it received recognition in such a highly competitive competition,. The goal is to improve the
fect comfort and image of public
quality of the public transport
transport are also recorded.
fleet.
Previously shortlisted in several competitions, the campaign,
which has sparked interest both
at a national and international level, came second in the outdoor advertisement category.
Golden Drum is one of Europe?s
most renowned advertising festivals and competitions held every
autumn in Portoroz, Slovenia. Timetables are available online at hsl.fi and in the Journey
Planner, which is HSL?s most important timetable service.. In previous years, HSL has delivered 500,000
timetable booklets to households.
The funds raised through the 3-euro fee charged per booklet have been
put towards covering the production
costs.
Around 25,000 copies of timetable
booklets were sold in August?September. The exhibition can still be viewed online
at joukkoliikenteenkasvot.fi.
The campaign was designed
by advertising agency 358. says
HSL Director of Marketing and
Communications Mari Flink.
More than 500
people had their picture taken
In November 2013, photographer
Lauri Eriksson took pictures of
HSL?s customers at pop-up studios
set up at stations. The 526 pictures
taken during the campaign were
compiled into an exhibition, which
toured Helsinki region shopping
centres and other public premises
in the early part of 2014.
The exhibition also featured a
mini documentary and nine interviews with HSL customers talking about their expectations of the
public transport services. Smaller deviations that af-
lems. This is the first year that a fee
was charged for the booklet. The accessible entrance
is at the Myllyaukio end of the station. Scheduled to open in summer 2015, the new entrance will
be built in connection with the
Jauhokuja bridge. The tool allows HSL ex-
In spring 2014, around 4,200
perts and operators to process
checks were carried out, includ-
reported observations immedi-
ing 3,500 inspections of buses.
ately. 30 OCTOBER . The campaign
is a beautiful and moving story
about ordinary people and everyday public transport. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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Customer service points
Rautatientori Metro Station
(by Central Railway Station)
Itäkeskus Metro Station
Pasila, Opastinsilta 6A
Monthly review
HSL?s Faces of Public
Transport campaign receives
an international award
HSL?s Faces of Public Transport campaign
from last year was awarded at the prestigious
Golden Drum advertising festival.
HSL monitors fleet quality
HSL carries out public transport
All the observations are re-
fleet quality controls to monitor
ported in real time via a new
the condition and cleanliness of
web tool, Jola Web, created by
the buses, metro trains and trams.
HSL
Giving anonymous
comments is also too easy a
way to shoot someone down,?
he says.
HI
Henri Alén blocked reviews of restaurant
Muru on the site, as he did not deem the
critique professional.
writer is an advanced critic,
and the words are not simply
based on the current feeling.?
Alén admits to being sensitive and being intolerant towards criticism. I think this is
wrong.?
Alén reports to having
once written a defensive review on Demo?s restaurant
page after someone had
anonymously crushed the establishment on Eat.fi.
?My comment was, of
course, removed,. in apple cider and
an aromatic drizzle of pure maple syrup, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Its operation is similar to its larger foreign competitors, such as Yelp
and Foursquare.
Restaurateurs are unable
to remove single comments
from the service. 14
30 OCTOBER . he laughs.
Restaurateurs have expressed a wish for Eat.fi to
add a feature to allow the
restaurant to respond to
comments from reviewers.
The matter is now in consideration, and the feature is being tested.
?We see it as quite a risk.
When a passionate restaurant keeper responds to a
customer, they may be causing themselves damage.
On the other hand, the feature would provide the ability to truly deliver feedback,?
Brander says.
To celebrate fall?s fruit,
here?s an apple brown
betty on the healthy side
Nepalese Cuisine
Since 1993
The Oldest Nepalese Restaurant in Finland
Welcome to enjoy our exotic food
Open
Mon-Fri 11-23, weekends 12-23, Lunch: Mon-Fri 11-15
Contact: Ratakatu 1B, 00120 Helsinki.
Book your table
tel. Their names can be confusing because
they are often are interchanged, but their toppings officially define them, with crisps and crumbles having a streusel-like crust
(crisps typically with rolled oats and crumbles without) and cobblers studded with biscuit dough. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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when the reviewer held information on the company
which a normal consumer
would not have access to,
Brander reveals.
According to Brander,
there have been cases where
a restaurateur has ?systematically praised their own restaurant and put down their
neighbour.. Comments are not
inspected beforehand.
?Comments that are unrelated to the culinary experience itself, such as the
server?s pay, the treatment
or clothing of staff, are removed,. He
describes this as one of the
reasons why he blocked reviews of Muru.
?Competition is tough,
and when a new establishment is opened, the restaurant manager can write a five
star review on their own establishment. She blogs and offers a weekly newsletter at
www.elliekrieger.com.
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A NuMBER of Helsinki restaurants have prevented reviews
of their restaurants on the
Eat.fi website, a Finnish site
where anyone can write about
their restaurant experiences.
Henri Alén?s Restaurants Muru and Presto, part of Royal
restaurants, are among them.
The Eat.fi service covers over
10,000 restaurants. The
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Nepalese
cuisine in Helsinki
Lunch time 10:30-15:00
Monday-Friday
Opening hours
mon-thu 10:30-22:00
fri 10:30-23:00
sat 12:00-23:00
sun 12:00-22.00
tel/fax: 09-693 3010
e-mail: yetinep@gmail.com
www.yetinepal.fi
Itämerenkatu 12, Helsinki
Near Ruoholahti metro station
ALA
The brown betty is a cousin of the crisp, crumble and cobbler, all
homey fruit dishes baked with some variation of a sweetened,
flour-based topping. I
also did not feel that the critique was valid, and lacked
expertise. Suspicions have been sparked
Anonymous feedback
Alén has heard of people
working in the business using the service to put each
other down anonymously. But if there is
a strong cause for suspecting that the motive behind a
comment is something else
besides reviewing food, such
as harming the restaurant,
the comment is deleted.?
Cases where a former employee has wished to slander
their former workplace have
also been witnessed. made, conveniently, from basic whole-wheat
sandwich bread . he also wishes to protect himself
and his employees from reacting to people?s reviews
recklessly in public.
He admits that sometimes reviews have been educational. Brander says.
?If someone states that
the fish soup was bad, it is
not removed. Then there is the
visual appeal of the crisp, golden-brown crust with the applecranberry mixture bubbling beneath it.
Its taste is a celebration of the seasonal fruit, in which the delicate sweetness of the apples and tart punch of the cranberries really shine through and are elevated to an apple-pie-like experience.
I like to serve the brown betty with a small scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt for dessert or, I confess, with a dollop of Greek
yogurt for breakfast.
Apple cranberry brown betty (6 servings)
The topping, a mix of crumbs made from whole-grain sandwich
bread, walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon, bakes up crisp and
golden brown, turning the seasonal fruit, easily and healthily,
into an apple pie-like experience.
Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt.
From registered nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.
Ingredients
2 slices wholewheat sandwich bread, 2 tablespoons unsalted
butter, melted, 3 tablespoons chopped walnuts, 2 tablespoons
dark brown sugar, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 2 pinches salt, 4
large (unpeeled) Golden Delicious apples, cored and cut into 1/2
cm-thick slices, 1/4 cup pure maple syrup, 1/3 cup unsweetened
apple cider, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 cup fresh cranberries
Steps
? Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Have a 20-cm pie plate or
ceramic baking dish at hand.
? Tear the bread into pieces (crusts included), letting them fall
into a food processor. Pulse for about 15 seconds or until the
pieces are reduced to crumbs. The yield should be about 2
cups. Transfer to a medium bowl along with 1 tablespoon of
the melted butter, the walnuts, brown sugar, ½ teaspoon of
the cinnamon and a pinch of salt; toss to incorporate.
? Combine the apple slices, maple syrup, apple cider, vanilla extract and the remaining ½ teaspoon of cinnamon and
pinch of salt in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.
Cook, stirring occasionally, until the apples are tender but
still retain their shape, about 5 minutes. Stir in the cranberries and the remaining tablespoon of melted butter. If they wish
to hide all reviews, they must
contact maintenance at Eat.
fi. Brown bettys are topped, and
often layered, with sweetened breadcrumbs or cracker crumbs,
which makes them the simplest and most accessible of the bunch.
This brown betty involves briefly cooking fresh apples . For example, all racist comments
are removed when they are
spotted. Brander
says.
Alén states that he prohibited commenting on Muru
for several reasons.
?I wanted the restaurant,
which has taken its place
among the current trends, to
be able to operate in peace. This year 4-5 restaurants
have requested reviewing to
be disabled, says the service?s
Director Annika Brander.
According to Brander?s estimate, restaurants that have
forbidden reviews amount to
a few dozen.
?The reasons are rather
obvious. Alén states that it
is good for the restaurateur
to know if customers consider portions to be too small,
for example.
The policy at Eat.fi allows customers review restaurants as long as they
adhere to the matter. and enriched with walnuts, brown sugar and
a bit of butter and cinnamon.
After 30 minutes in the oven, what hits you first is the enticing, warm fragrance that fills your kitchen. As ?a
flammable character,. A handful of cranberries is tossed into the mix, along
with just enough butter to add a modest layer of richness.
The slightly softened fruit is then sprinkled with a mixture
of breadcrumbs . If someone goes to a
Nepalese restaurant with a
four euro menu and considers it to be the best culinary
visit of their life, and then
calls a star-rated restaurant
crap, the latter was simply the
wrong place for them.?
Alén appreciates Washington Post?s restaurant reviews, for example, as they
are justified.
?The reviewer possesses
a certain notion of gastronomy, wines and so forth. They are able to
use IP addresses to see where
the reviews originate from.
Yet Brander states that
most comments left in the
service are genuine customer experiences.
Helsinki-based chef Henri Alén believes that critique should be based on facts, not subjective observations based on feeling.
Some restaurants
block reviews on Eat.fi
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Justified by facts
Alén believes that critique
should be based on facts,
not subjective observations
based on feeling.
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Allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.
Nutrition per serving: 220 calories, 2 g protein, 40 g carbohydrates, 7 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 10 mg cholesterol, 150 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fibre, 29 g sugar
Krieger?s most recent cookbook is Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2013). People do not want
to have negative reviews on
their restaurants, they may
strongly disagree on the
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or they may feel that the
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just-boiled water with an
instant-read thermometer.
OOLONG
82 to 93 degrees.
3 to 5 minutes
1-to-2-minute rest
Pearl-size bubbles, good
amount of steam.
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The perfect cup of tea is
merely a dunk away.
BLACK TEAS
(not including Darjeeling)
96 to 100 degrees
3 to 5 minutes
No resting time
A constant stream of large,
swirling bubbles.
N
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different water temperatures and steeping times.
Included in this chart are
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some experts say it?s best to
buy loose-leaf teas in twoounce amounts, so you?ll refresh your supplies in a timely manner. The tea should
be kept away from heat,
light and moisture; a Japanese paper-wrapped container holds that amount.
JAPANESE GREEN
71 to 77 degrees
30 seconds to 1 minute
5-minute rest
Pinhead-size bubbles,
barely visible steam.
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strainer (read on) or create
your own custom tea bags.
CHINESE GREEN
77 to 82 degrees
2 to 3 minutes
3-minute rest
Water bubbles the size of
crab eyes, vertical wisps of
steam.
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Ideally, loose-leaf tea needs
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best choice
WHITE
82 to 88 degrees
3 to 5 minutes
2-minute rest
Pearl-size bubbles, good
amount of steam.
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five factors that go into
brewing a good cup of tea
DARJEELING
93 to 96 degrees
2 1/2 to 4 minutes
1-minute rest
Bubbles are connected to
one another in a steady
stream.
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The best Nepalese Restaurant in Helsinki
. +358 9 635 732
www.juuri.fi
5. 00100 HELSINKI
Tel (09) 645 550 . Use a kitchen timer or
the stopwatch function on
your smartphone.
HERBAL/TISANES
100 degrees
5 to 10 minutes
No resting time
A constant stream of large,
swirling bubbles.
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23.00 Arrow (K16)
00.30 Cheaters
01.30 Catfish
JIM
11.20
12.20
13.15
14.10
15.10
16.05
17.00
18.00
Crocodileman
American Pickers
LA Ink
Shark Tank UK
MasterChef Australia
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LA Ink
MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia
gives budding chefs the
ultimate once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to develop
their cooking skills, and be
mentored by the best.
19.00 Shark Tank UK
21.00 Rude Tube (K16)
22.00 Pawn Stars UK
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 JIM D Crime: Gang Life (K16)
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Gene Simmons Family
Jewels
02.30 Border Security:
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03.00 Bondi Rescue
03.30 LA Ink
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07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 For Rent
13.20 For Rent
13.50 Say Yes to the Dress XL
14.20 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Fashion Star
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
17.50 The Hotel Inspector
21.30 Beverly Hills Cop II FILM
Directed by: Tony Scott.
Starring: Eddie Murphy,
Judge Reinhold, Jurgen
Prochnow. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
21.00 Scream (K16) FILM
Directed by: Wes
Craven. USA/1987.
23.40 The Tournament (K18)
FILM
Directed by: Scott Mann.
UK/2009.
01.35 Frasier
02.05 Castle
03.05 Ice Road Truckers
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.25 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. Starring: Neve
Campbell,Skeet Ulrich, Drew
Barrymore. Starring: Julia
Roberts, Julia Stiles, Kirsten
Dunst. The students are all
very bright but they seem to
show more interest in marrying
well than in achieving intellectual growth or artistic freedom
and Watson feels they are not
reaching their potential. USA/1996.
23.45 Mona Lisa Smile FILM
Directed by: Mike Newell.
Starring: Julia Roberts,
Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst.
USA/2003.
02.05 5D: Virgin Diaries
03.00 Overhaulin
03.55 Rules of Engagement
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
14.40 Real Housewives of New
York City
This series follows five
glamorous Manhattan
housewives who balance
envious social calendars,
challenging careers, and
motherhood, with the
hustle and bustle of
the big city all around.
15.40 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.30 Real Housewives of New
York City
22.30 How to Find Love Online
Dawn O?Porter presents the
definitive guide to online
dating.
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
saturday
31.10.
MTV3
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Sub 16.00
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Lily Cole?s Art Matters
14.35 Mike & Molly
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
The drama set in the
glamorous world of the Los
Angeles fashion scene and
focusing on the wealthy and
powerful Forrest family.
18.00 Emmerdale
22.40 The Road to Perdition
(K16) FILM
Directed by: Sam Mendes.
Starring: Tom Hanks,
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul
Newman. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
thursday
friday
30.10
MTV3
David Attenborough:
Kingdom of Plants
MT V3 13.35
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 David Attenborough:
Kingdom of Plants
SERIES BEGINS. 16
TV GUIDE
30 OCTOBER . Directed by:
Mike Newell. USA/2003.
The Road to Perdition is a
gangster crime thriller set in the
American Midwest in the 1930s
during the Great Depression.
Mike Sullivan (Tom Hanks)
works as a hit man for Chicagobased Irish-American mobster
John Rooney (Paul Newman).
Rooney raised the orphan Mike
as his own child and loves him
more than his biological son,
the unstable Connor. This show
features Jodi Gilmour as she
helps people find places to
rent that are within their
budget.
13.50 Cooks to Market
14.50 Rules of Engagement
15.50 Hoarders
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
22.00 Hellboy FILM
Directed by: Guillermo del
Toro. New York (K16)
01.00 Grimm (K16)
JIM
09.20 MasterChef Australia
12.05 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
Jeff Corwin travels around
the world taking viewers
below the surface to explore
the Earth?s least understood
resource, our oceans and
waterways, and the animals
which call them home.
13.05 American Restoration
13.35 Ball Boys
14.05 Ice Road Truckers
16.00 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
18.00 Undercover Boss
In this hidden-camera
show an executive goes
undercover in his or her own
company to get a raw look at
how people really work.
19.00 Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant in an
attempt to revive the business.
21.00 Guinness World Records
22.00 Ax Men
23.00 Rude Tube (K16)
00.05 The Deadliest Roads
NELONEN
07.40 Children?s Programming
08.30 Sea Rescue
10.10 Dogs of Manhattan
11.10 The Hotel Inspector
12.10 Wipeout
13.10 Avalon High FILM
Directed by: Stuart Gillard.
Starring: Britt Robertson,
Joey Pollari, Gregg Sulkin.
USA/2010.
15.00 How to be a Gentleman
SERIES BEGINS.
Alan must learn to live his
life with the help of his old
high school friend, Bert.
15.30 90210
17.55 Once Upon a Time
21.00 Twilight: Breaking Dawn,
Part 1 FILM
Directed by: Bill Condon.
Starring: Kristen Stewart,
Robert Pattinson,
Taylor Lautner.
USA/2011.
23.25 Under the Dome
00.20 Daybreakers (K18) FILM
02.25 Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura
TV5
08.00 Must Love Cats
08.50 Your Style in His Hands
12.45 At the End of the Day: The
Sue Rodriguez Story
FILM
Directed by: Sheldon Larry.
Canada/1998.
14.30 Dawson?s Creek
15.30 Your Style in His Hands
16.30 Keasha?s Perfect Dress
17.00 5D: My Crazy Obsession
17.30 Top 20 Funniest
21.00 Battleship FILM
Directed by: Peter Berg.
Starring: Alexander
Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker,
Jesse Plemons.
USA/2012.
23.45 Dracula (K16)
SERIES BEGINS. Starring: Ron Perlman,
Selma Blair, John Hurt.
USA/2004.
01.25 Oz (K16)
02.35 Frasier
03.05 Conspiracy Teory with
Jesse Ventura
04.00 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.15 MacGyver
07.10 Matlock
08.05 The King of Queens
12.25 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
12.55 Kitchen Boss
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. Directed by: Sam Mendes.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Paul Newman.
USA/2002.
TV5 23.45
Thursday 30.10.2014
MTV3 22.40
Friday 31.10.2014. Starring: Will
Ferrell, Jon Heder, Craig T.
Nelson. Watson is a very
modern woman, particularly
for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her
students. Altough a strong bond is formed
between teacher and students,
Watson?s views are incompatible with the dominant culture
of the college. This series
introduces Dracula as he
arrives in London, posing as
an American entrepreneur
who maintains that he wants
to bring modern science to
Victorian society.
00.45 My Soul to Take (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Wes Craven.
USA/2010.
02.40 Sexcetera (K18)
03.40 Knight Rider
04.30 Rules of Engagement
AVA
10.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
14.55 Jamie?s American Road
Trip
15.55 Grand Designs Australia
19.00 Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
21.00 Interview with the
Vampire (K16) FILM
Directed by: Neil Jordan.
Starring: Tom Cruise,
Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst.
USA/1994.
23.15 Modern Family
Mona Lisa Smile
The Road to Perdition
Katherine Ann Watson (Julia
Roberts) has accepted a position as an art history teacher
at the prestigious Wellesley
College. USA/2002.
01.00 24: Live Another Day (K16)
SUB
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Anthony Bourdain: Parts
Unknown
Travel with Anthony
Bourdain as he takes
incredible adventures to
extraordinary locations.
18.00 Jamie and Jimmy?s Food
Fight Club
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.05 Blades of Glory FILM
Directed by: Josh Gordonja
Will Speck. Directed
by: Roland Emmerich.
Starring: Dennis Quaid,
Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm.
USA/2004.
01.05 Those Who Kill (K16)
02.05 Terriers
SUB
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Arrow (K16)
23.00 The 100
100 juvenile prisoners
have been exiled to Earth
from international space
stations to test whether it is
habitable.
00.00 Supernatural (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.20 Crocodileman
12.20 JIM D: Modern Marvels
Modern Marvels focuses on
how technologies affect and
are used in today?s society.
14.10 Shark Tank UK
15.10 MasterChef Australia
16.05 New York Ink
17.00 LA Ink
Kat Von D has come home
to Los Angeles to fulfill her
dream of opening up her
own tattoo shop.
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank UK
20.00 Talent USA
22.45 Shark Tank UK
23.45 Guinness World Records
01.10 Strange or What?
02.10 Master Shooter
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Cooks to Market
09.50 Container Wars
13.20 For Rent
SERIES BEGINS. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Blonde Ambition FILM
Directed by: Scott Marshall.
USA/2007.
21.00 Terminator 2: Judgement
Day (K16) FILM
Directed by: James
Cameron. USA/2005.
01.50 The Blacklist (K16)
02.40 Scream (K16) FILM
04.30 Overhaulin
05.20 Operation Repo
05.45 Rules of Engagement
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 It?s a Brad, Brad World
This series follows a former
Rachel Zoe?s assistant,
Goreski, as he embarks on
his new business venture
and tries to maintain his
personal life.
14.40 Real Housewives of New
York City
15.40 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
23.00 First Dates
00.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
1.11.
MTV3
How to be a Gentleman
Nelonen 15.00
08.05 Children?s Programming
21.00 Amazing Race
This is a reality television
show in which teams of
two people race around the
world in competition with
other teams.
00.15 Southland
Southland is a police drama
which takes a look at the
lives and work of Los Angeles
detectives and beat cops.
01.15 Reckless
SUB
11.00 Suburgatory
12.00 Two and a Half Men
14.00 Undercover Boss USA
17.00 X Factor UK
19.05 Top Gear
20.30 The Sitter FILM
A college student on
suspension is coaxed
into babysitting the kids
next door, though he is
fully unprepared for the
wild night ahead of him.
Directed by: David Gordon
Green. Starring: Jonah Hill,
Max Records, Ari Graynor.
USA/2011.
23.00 Formula 1: USA Grand Prix
SPORT In Finnish.
00.00 C.S.I. One day
Mike?s 12-year-old son Michael
witnesses a brutal slaying
carried out by Connor and soon
Mike finds him self on the run
trying to save the life of his son
and at the same time looking for
revenge on those who wronged
him. Starring: Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Edward
Furlong, Linda Hamilton.
USA/France/1991.
23.55 Hostel (K18) FILM
Directed by: Eli Roth.
Starring: Jay Hernandez,
Derek Richardson, Eythor
Gudjonsson. David
Attenborough explores the
lives of plants and their
fascinating world, from the
most bizarre to the most
beautiful.
14.35 Back in the Game
17.30 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.40 The Day After Tomorrow
FILM
When global warming
causes world wide disasters
and leads to an ice age, a
climatologist tries to rescue
his son who is trapped
in New York
Starring: Leonardo
DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben
Kingsley. Directed by:
Peter Segel. Directed by: Martin
Scorsese. As Teddy quizzes Dr.
Cawley (Ben Kingsley), the
head of the institution, he
begins to suspect that the
authorities in charge might
not be giving him the whole
truth, and that a terrible fate
may befall all the patients.
Complicating things further,
Teddy has a secret of his own,
the arsonist who murdered his
wife is incarcerated on Shutter
Island. Women
This documentary takes
a look at the women who
influenced the lives of the
Fab Four and were often the
muses behind some of the
Beatles. This
series tells the story of the
rise of the House of Batiatus
and its champions before
Spartacus entered the
picture
00.05 House
01.05 Blonde Ambition FILM
Directed by: Scott Marshall.
Starring: Jessica Simpson,
Luke Wilson, Penelope Ann
Miller. USA/2004.
23.00 Spartacus: Gods of the
Arena (K18)
SERIES BEGINS. Starring: Drew
Barrymore, Adam Sandler,
Rob Schneider. USA/2010.
01.50 NCIS
02.50 Fear Factor
TV5
06.55 Growing Up
07.50 Dawson?s Creek
15.30 The Goldbergs
16.00 Monk
17.00 Knight Rider
18.00 House
19.00 Baby Geniuses
Directed by: Bob Clark.
Starring: Christopher
Lloyd, Kathleen Turner, Kim
Cattrall. Directed by: Garry
Marshall. USA/2007.
02.50 The Soloist FILM
Directed by: Joe Wright.
USA/2009.
AVA
11.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
Building the Dream
Lucky Dog
Auf Wiedersehen, My Pet!
Real Housewives of New
York City
20.00 Versace
21.00 Sleepers (K16) FILM
After a prank goes
disastrously wrong, a
group of boys are sent to a
detention center where they
are brutalized.
Directed by: Barry Levinson.
Starring: Kevin Bacon,
Robert De Niro,
Dustin Hoffman.
USA/1996.
23.50 Modern Family
00.20 First Dates
tuesday
3.11.
MTV3
Welcome to Sweden
AVA 21.30
09.50 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.15 Emmerdale
11.15 Formula 1: USA Grand Prix
SPORT
In Finnish.
13.45 Amazing Race
14.45 The Millers
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
22.35 Rizzoli & Isles (K16)
While Maura is away at
a Medical Examiner?s
convention, Susie uses her
skills to help Jane solve the
perfect murder. While
with Georgia, Rachel reveals a
traumatic secret from her past
that explains her rebelliousness
and brings her mother back
to Idaho to check whether her
daughter is telling the truth. USA/2010.
Georgia Rule stars Lindsay
Lohan as Rachel, a rebellious
and uncontrollable teenager
who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the
summer with her grandmother,
Georgia (Jane Fonda). Starring: Cary Elwes,
Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman,
Dylan McLaughlin. New York
accountant Bruce moves to
Sweden after falling in love
with a Swedish girl.
23.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
4.11.
MTV3
NELONEN
The Capones
Sub 14.30
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Undercover Boss
14.35 Modern Family
15.15 Jamie?s Great Britain
Jamie visits Leicester, where
he discovers the impact the
British Empire has had on
Britain?s food culture.
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
21.00 Mentalist
22.45 C.S.I. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
21.00 8 Mile (K16) FILM
A young rapper, struggling
with every aspect of his
life, wants to make the
most of what could be his
final opportunity but his
problems give him doubts.
Directed by: Curtis Hanson.
Starring: Brittany Murphy,
De?Angelo Wilson, Eminem.
USA/2002.
23.15 5D: My Big Breasts & Me
00.35 50 First Dates FILM
Directed by: Peter Segel.
USA/2004.
02.30 Twin Peaks
03.25 8 Mile (K16) FILM
Directed by: Curtis Hanson.
USA/2002.
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Flipping Out
14.40 Jamie?s American Road
Trip
15.40 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
19.00 Grand Designs Australia
21.30 Welcome to Sweden!
SERIES BEGINS. Matriarch
Georgia lives her life by a
number of unbreakable rules
and wants anyone who shares
her home to do the same. Evans.
Starring: Judge Reinhold,
Julia Sweeney, Joe Pichler.
USA/2000.
22.20 Lottery and Joker
00.10 Those Who Kill (K16)
01.20 The Americans (K16)
The series follows two
KGB agents posing as
Americans in the suburbs of
Washington DC.
02.20 Political Animals
SUB
11.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
The Simpsons
Adventures of Merlin
The Face
Catfish
Pretty Little Liars
X Factor UK
Anthony Bourdain: Parts
Unknown
20.00 Explorers
In a world in which all
boundaries seem to
have been conquered,
adventurers and extreme
sports people restlessly seek
out new challenges.
22.30 C.S.I. USA/1999.
21.00 50 First Dates FILM
A Hawaiian island playboy
has to use his imagination
to win over the girl of his
dreams when he discovers
she has no short-term
memory. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
19.00 Lindsay
The series follows
actress Lindsay Lohan?s
rehabilitation recovery and
return to the entertainment
industry following a public
period of struggles in her
personal life and career.
21.00 Georgia Rule FILM
Directed by: Garry Marshall.
Starring: Cary Elwes,
Lindsay Lohan,
Felicity Huffman,
Dylan McLaughlin.
USA/2007.
23.15 Chicago Fire
01.10 Fame
02.15 Chicago Fire
03.00 Rules of Engagement
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 Gallery Girls
Follows the lives of 6 young,
20-something women that
work in New York City?s
hippest art galleries.
14.40 Grand Designs Australia
15.40 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
22.00 First Dates
23.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Shutter Island
Georgia Rule
Shutter Island is an American
psychological thriller starring
Leonardo DiCaprio as US
Marshal Teddy Daniels, who is
investigating the disappearance of a patient from a remote
psychiatric facility on Shutter
Island. New York
23.45 Suits
Suits is a legal drama that
follows college drop-out
Mike Ross, who accidentally
lands a job with one of New
York?s best legal closers,
Harvey Specter.
00.45 The Glades
01.45 Legit
SUB
14.00 United Bates of America
14.30 The Capones
The spirit of the infamous
gangster Al Capone still lives
on in Chicago in the form of
his drama-filled, lasagnaloving dysfunctional family,
the Capones.
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
18.00 Supersize vs Superskinny
A series in which two extreme
eaters swap diets in an
attempt to change the way
they view food and eating.
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Catfish
23.00 Nikita (K16)
00.00 Shameless (K16)
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
12.15 JIM D: The Beatles. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
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Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English broadcasting on Finnish television.
sunday
monday
2.11.
MTV3
Gordon?s Great Escape
JIM 20.00
08.00 Children?s Programming
13.15 Beethoven?s 3rd FILM
Directed by: David M. The son of an
old friend visits Korsak which
brings up unfinished business.
23.35 Reckless
00.35 The Good Guys
01.35 Super Fun Night
SUB
14.00 X Factor UK
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
This megahit comedy
revolves around four
intelligent physicists and
their beautiful neighbour
Penny who shows them how
little they know about life
outside of the laboratory.
20.30 The Simpsons
23.00 Grimm (K16)
An archaeology researcher
at the local university
uncovers a shocking find at
a nearby construction site.
00.00 Gang Related (K16)
01.00 Shameless (K16)
02.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.15 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff
Corwin
12.15 American Pickers
The show follows antique and
collectible pickers Mike Wolfe
and Frank Fritz as they travel
around the United States.
13.10 LA Ink
14.05 Shark Tank UK
15.05 MasterChef Australia
17.00 LA Ink
Kat Von D has come home
to Los Angeles to fulfill her
dream of opening up her
own tattoo shop.
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank UK
20.00 Kitchen Nightmares
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 NCIS Los Angeles (K16)
01.55 JIM D Crime: Gang Life
(K16)
02.50 LA Ink
NELONEN
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Shake It Up
08.50 Hoarders
09.50 For Rent
13.50 Say Yes to the Dress XL
15.25 How to be a Gentleman
15.55 Once Upon a Time
21.00 The Truman Show FILM
An insurance salesman
discovers his entire life is
actually a T V show.
Directed by: Peter Weir.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura
Linney, Noah Emmerich.
USA/1998.
23.10 Oz (K16)
Schillinger anticipates
a new war between he
and Beecher and strikes
first, by hiring his son to
kidnap Beechers two oldest
children.
00.20 NCIS
02.20 Blue Bloods
TV5
06.15 Cats 101
07.10 MacGyver
08.05 Matlock
12.30 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Disappeared
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married. USA/2007.
Nelonen 21.00
Sunday 2.11.2014
TV5 21.00
Tuesday 4.11.2014. New York (K16)
23.30 The Originals (K16)
00.30 The Simpsons
01.00 Formula 1: USA Grand Prix
SPORT
In Finnish.
02.00 Cheaters
JIM
09.05 MasterChef Australia
12.30 Ice Road Truckers
13.30 Mountain Men
14.25 Talent USA
This reality show features
singers, dancers, magicians,
comedians, and other
performers of all ages
competing for the advertised
top prize of one million dollars.
16.05 Ax Men
Ax Men follows a group
of hardworking loggers
who use both old and new
technology along with a
considerable amount of
muscle.
18.00 Pawn Stars UK
20.00 Gordon?s Great Escape
Gordon Ramsay takes the
trip of a lifetime, setting out
on gastronomic adventures
in India and South East Asia.
22.00 Mountain Men
23.00 Strange or What?
00.00 Rude Tube (K16)
01.00 American Restoration
NELONEN
07.40 Children?s Programming
09.00 Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition
13.00 Sea Rescue
15.30 Body of Proof
The team must make
sense of the unknown
drugs in a 17-year old high
school student after he?s
discovered dead following
a rave.
21.00 Shutter Island FILM (K16)
Directed by: Martin
Scorsese. Starring: Leonardo
DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben
Kingsley. TV GUIDE
HELSINKI TIMES
30 OCTOBER . In
the midst of this crisis the three
woman start to become closer
than ever... greatest songs.
13.15 LA Ink
14.10 Shark Tank UK
15.10 MasterChef Australia
16.05 JIM D: Modern Marvels
17.00 LA Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank UK
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 Ice Road Truckers
01.00 The Squad: Prison Life
01.30 Ax Men
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Good Luck, Charlie!
09.50 For Rent
13.50 Say Yes to the Dress XL
15.50 Beverly Hills Nannies
16.55 Excused
17.25 Frasier
17.55 Criss Angel Believe
This series is centered on
stunts and street magic acts
by magician Criss Angel.
23.30 NCIS
The series follows the
cases of the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service.
00.30 Rescue Me
01.30 NCIS
02.25 Frasier
02.55 Elementary
TV5
06.15 Dogs 101
07.10 MacGyver
08.05 Matlock
12.30 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Disappeared
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
The series follows a
successful sports writer Ray
Barone, whose oddball family
life consists of a fed up wife,
overbearing parents, and an
older brother with lifelong
jealousy.
16.55 Married
Banks are usually open Mon-Fri
10-16:30 except for the bank at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is
open 6-22 daily. Hietaniemen kauppahalli (?Hietaniemi Market Hall?) holds until summer 2014 the majority shops from Wanha Kauppahalli.
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Restaurants. The currency exchange counter at the harbour in
Katajanokka, Helsinki is open everyday (Mon-Fri 15-17:30 Sat-Sun
10-11, 15-17:30). 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. For non-urgent ambulance services, dial 09 394 600, and non-urgent police matters, dial 09 1891.
Market halls. Yliopiston apteekki (tel. 09
471 67371; Espoo: Jorvi hospital, Turuntie 150, tel. A plague
sweeps across the land and
threatens the stability of
the kingdom. They
make it their business to
battle crime in Dallas and all
around the State of Texas.
18.00 Catfish
19.30 Two and a Half Men
20.00 Big Bang Theory
20.30 The Simpsons
21.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay is invited by
the owners to spend a week
with a failing restaurant
in an attempt to revive the
business.
23.00 Sons of Anarchy (K16)
00.00 Star-Crossed
01.00 The Simpsons
JIM
11.25 Extreme Fishing
This series follows Robson
Green who travels around
the world to some of
the greatest fishing
destinations, where he
challenges local masters of
their craft over five rounds
of competitive fishing.
12.20 American Pickers
13.15 LA Ink
14.10 Shark Tank UK
15.10 MasterChef Australia
16.05 New York Ink
17.00 LA Ink
18.00 MasterChef Australia
19.00 Shark Tank UK
23.00 Shark Tank UK
00.00 Mountain Men
01.00 Gordon?s Great Escape
02.00 Anthony Bourdain: The
Layover
02.55 LA Ink
HELSINKI TIMES
07.00 Children?s Programming
08.20 Good Luck, Charlie!
This show is about the
Duncan family and how
their lives are turned upside
down with the arrival of a
new baby.
09.50 For Rent
13.50 Say Yes to the Dress XL
16.50 Excused
17.20 Frasier
21.00 Under the Dome
00.00 Castle
01.00 Frasier
01.30 Rescue Me
02.30 Brad Meltzer Decoded
03.30 Undercover Boss
TV5
06.15 My Cat from Hell
07.10 MacGyver
08.05 Matlock
12.30 Here Comes Honey Boo
Boo
12.55 Disappeared
This show follows the ups
and downs of missing
person cases, showing the
progression of cases that are
opened to try and find out
why people disappear.
13.55 MacGyver
14.55 Matlock
15.55 Rules of Engagement
16.25 Everybody Loves Raymond
16.55 Married... See www.posti.fi
Emergency Numbers. The Tourist Bureau provides information about the city and its sights.
Pharmacies. Both are open Mon-Fri 8-18 and Sat 8-16 but
are closed on Sundays. In a number of Finnish towns public internet posts are
quite rare due to extensive per-person internet use at home. Things get
out of hand as Rambo?s old
commanding officer, Colonel
Samuel Trautman arrives to
shed light on the situation.
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone,
Brian Dennehy, Richard
Crenna. Grocery stores in the Helsinki Central Railway
Station tunnel are open Mon-Sat 7-22 and Sun 10-22.
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Telephone. Stenbäckinkatu 11, 09 471 72783
(between 6:00 and 22:00), 09 471 72751 (between 22:00 and
6:00).
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Grocery stores. Most grocery stores are open Mon-Fri 7-21, Sat
7-18 and Sun 12-21. Finland?s international country
code is +358 and to ring abroad from Finland dial 00. Both telephone cards and Finnish SIM cards for mobile
phones can be bought at R-kioski shops.
fares: Helsinki (one zone) ?2.80/?2.20 from ticket machine, Helsinki-Espoo or Helsinki-Vantaa (two zones) ?4.50 and whole area
(three zones) ?7.00. Post offices are usually open Mon-Fri 8-20 and SatSun 10-14. Rambo
(Sylvester Stallone) who
fought in Vietnam and won
the Congressional Medal of
Honor. 18
TV GUIDE
30 OCTOBER . After escaping
from to the woods, Rambo
must rely on his old army
skills to survive. Public transport operates in Helsinki and its surrounding regions
from around 5:30 (6:30 at weekends) until midnight. In the evenings and at weekends adults in need of urgent medical treatment in Helsinki should go to emergency health
centres at Haartman hospital (Haartmaninkatu 4) or Maria hospital
(Lapinlahdenkatu 16).
Emergency clinics in Helsinki and Uusimaa area hospitals that are
on call 24 hours a day: Helsinki: Meilahti hospital, 2nd floor, Haartmaninkatu 4, tel. 09 471 72432; Töölö hospital, Topeliuksenkatu 5,
tel. While
visiting in one town he is
accused of a crime and sent
to prison. Meanwhile,
Francis and Lola aren?t
allowed back home because
of the quarantine.
22.00 Real Housewives of New
York City
23.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
Weather
Banks and Bureaux de Change. Public phones
are scarce. At these public terminals internet use is usually free of charge.
Fri 10/31
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Health advice and information call centre (if you are unsure of
what to do) . Dial 112. For more information, see www.hsl.fi.
Tourist Information.Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau
(Pohjoisesplanadi 19, Aleksanterinkatu 20) is open Mon-Fri 9-20
and Sat-Sun 9-18 between 15 May and 14 September; at other times
of the year, Mon-Fri 9-18 and Sat-Sun 10-16, tel. Operator number 118. Health centres around the country are open
Mon-Fri 8-16. 0300 20200, calls are
charged), Mannerheimintie 96, is open 24 hours; its branch at Mannerheimintie 5/Kaivopiha is open daily 7-24.
Public Transport. USA/1982.
TV5 21.00
Wednesday 5.11.2014
Airport buses.Finnair?s airport bus operates daily between Helsinki Airport and Helsinki city centre (platform 30 at Helsinki Central
Railway Station, just beside the restaurant Vltava), 35 minutes, ?6.
On its way to the centre it stops several times but on the way to
the airport only at Scandic Hotel Continental, close to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
In August the number
of new passenger
cars registered was
2.8%
down from the year before.
Statistics Finland
SOLUTION ON PAGE 23. Most
hotels as well as the Helsinki Tourist Office and Helsinki?s General
Post Office have a computer terminal. The Forex desk at Helsinki Central Railway Station
is open Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat-Sun 9-19. Helsinki?s General Post Office is also open at the weekend 10-18. Single ticket
sudoku
Rambo: First Blood
This explosive action-thriller
follows a disorientated
former United States Special
Forces solder John J. 5 NOVEMBER 2014
wednesday
Finland inFo
5.11.
MTV3
NELONEN
Royal Pains
MT V3 23.15
09.45 The Bold and the Beautiful
10.10 Emmerdale
11.10 Doctors
13.35 Nigel Marven?s Penguin
Safari
14.35 How I Met Your Mother
15.15 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
17.25 The Bold and the Beautiful
18.00 Emmerdale
23.15 Royal Pains
A down and out surgeon has
a chance to redeem himself
as a small town physician
in the wealthy beach
community of East Hampton.
00.10 Revolution
SUB
14.00 Obsessive Compulsive
Cleaners
14.55 Mythbusters
16.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, a martial artist,
and his partner Trivette
are Texas Rangers. Includes commuter trains, buses, trams and metro. With Children
18.00 The King of Queens
20.30 Brooklyn 99
21.00 Rambo: First Blood (K16)
FILM
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone,
Brian Dennehy,
Richard Crenna.
USA/1982.
23.00 Deadly Affairs
00.00 5D: My Crazy Obsession
00.35 The Natural FILM
Directed by: Barry Levinson.
Starring: Robert Redford,
Glenn Close, Kim Basinger.
USA/1984.
03.10 Call Me Fitz
04.10 Rules of Engagement
AVA
09.30 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
10.00 Biggest Loser
12.00 Beverly Hills Pawn
12.50 Doctors
13.40 All On The Line
14.40 Royal Inquest
15.40 Jamie?s 30 Minute Meals
16.30 Biggest Loser
18.00 Trinny & Susannah?s
Makeover Mission
21.00 Reign
SERIES BEGINS. 09 471 87383; Vantaa: Peijas hospital, Sairaalakatu 1, tel. 09 100 23.
Medical services. Night buses operate extensively at weekends.
Night buses have an extra fee. Rambo is hitchhiking
from town to town to see
friends from the war. 09 4711.
Children in need of urgent medical treatment should be taken to
Lastenklinikka children?s hospital. See www.forex.fi for more
information.
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Post Offices. 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.
Internet
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EXPAT VIEW
Heidi Cozma is a Finnish anthropology student who moved
back to Finland to spend some time with her family.
All roads lead back to Finland
I wAS BORN in Helsinki and
lived here like any normal
Finnish child with typical
hobbies (gymnastics, ballet
and that hilarious attempt at
violin). 5 NOVEMBER 2014
19
wELLBEING
Celebrating
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Our beautiful facility in Helsinki is a genuine Chinese oasis to
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in Finland at age 17 to finish
off my high school degree,
it was like being thrust into
a play where you?re the only
one without a revised script.
Everything was familiar but
you?re still out of sync with
everyone. But also
less impulsive adventures,
like getting off a stop or two
early and walking the rest of
the way home.
I love to walk. It is an option I will take over a car any
day.
But after re-settling in
Finland and living here happily for three years, I left
once more. My Finnish was
outdated and clunky, compared to my English. I started school here
and dreamed of that near
distant day when as a sixth
grader I would take a trip to
England with my friends.
I was eight when my road
took a sharp turn. I didn?t
know anything about Finnish pop culture or politics
and even taking the bus by
myself scared me.
But what frightened me
the most about re-settling
in Finland was the freedom.
The simple fact that I could
walk out my house by myself
and go anywhere. CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES
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30 OCTOBER . This included, to my mother?s shock, an
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shop on a school morning to
get my first tattoo. It?s my blue and
white port in a storm.
When the bags get heavy
and foreign food doesn?t
tempt me anymore, there is a
place I know will always welcome me back.
All the roads I?ve walked
on whether under the
blue sky of Johannesburg,
through the sand storms of
Dubai or my beautiful Bucharest where my last name
hails from, I know all these
roads lead me back to my anchor, Finland.
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privileges of living board, this
had not been one of them.
Being spontaneous was
not part of my vocabulary.
But that is what Finland
became to me, the ability to
be spontaneous. A big move
to a different country, so I
hugged my friends goodbye
and promised to back in time
for six grade and that trip to
England.
I wasn?t.
Instead next came nine
years of moving, like a bingo
card of collecting all the continents. I still
don?t know which I detest
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more. The years in Africa and
the Middle East did somewhat spoil me.
This summer when I graduated and moved back home
once more, on my final flight
I asked myself a question:
What it is Finland to me?
Because to be honest, I
probably will never settle
here full time.
And this is the answer I
came up with.
To put it simply, Finland is
my anchor. Perhaps it was
that six-grade trip that kept
nagging me all those years
or something entirely different but I did end up in the UK.
For three years I bounced between Finland and Wales, between snow and rain