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fears over their own job security eased slightly in April, yet their view on the development of unemployment ?gures in general remained gloomy. Penna Urrila, Senior Economist at the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) states that in recent years, consumer con?dence has been easily swayed by economic news. ?Uncertainty over the direction Europe will take has grown after the Cyprus bailout package sparked turmoil. At the latter location, students saluted the spring with traditional songs, which can be traced back to the Swedish-times? Turku University. May Day also saw the labour movement?s traditional march and the Christian Jesus march taking place in downtown Helsinki. Consumers concerned about unemployment and European economy The downward trend in consumer confidence in Finland and the eurozone continued in April. L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G BUSINESS J A A N A VA A H T I O . Urrila comments. The con?dence indices published by EK on Monday reveal that business con?dence is below the average level for all sectors. We talk to some happy small-business owners and find out how best to go about establishing your own business. 9 MAY 2013 . The number of people expecting to see a jump in the unemployment rate had grown since March, with the negative outlook on the economy shared by more Finns than average. Consumers. says Urrila. HT news on companies. view of the economy has a signi?cant impact on retail and service industries, with declining con?dence in the ?nancial situation prompting people to save for a rainy day rather than spend their cash. In Finland, companies have not reported good results and unemployment ?gures have taken a turn for the worse,. he said. RECENT Gloomy views on economy reduce shopping eagerness, as people prefer to save for a rainy day rather than spend their cash. Concerns over Cyprus and Italy triggered a fall in con?dence in the economy in the whole eurozone in April, which was more severe than expected, according to Reuters. Statistics Finland interviewed more than 1,400 Finns for its survey. ?3 . We also take a look at why shipyard capacity is likely to shrink and how trade unions slam the proposal to interfere with wages. See pages 8-9 WORKING LIFE Becoming your own boss What does it take to become an entrepreneur in Finland. Neither does the downward trend in the employment rate bode well for the near future,. Celebration continued all night long but overall the evening went on peacefully in the entire country and major commotions were avoided. On May Day the bright sunshine attracted thousands to celebrate the holiday with a traditional picnic at Kaivopuisto and Kaisaniemi park. According to the tradition, Finnish speakers headed to Kaivopuisto while the Swedish speakers gathered in Kaisaniemi park. ISSUE 18 (300 ) . con?dence in both their own ?nancial situation and in the Finnish economy as a whole tumbled. White caps, colourful overalls, sparkling wine and music were a common view in this sunny but cool day that celebrates the arrival of the spring. As part of the May Day?s Eve tradition, the representatives from the Student?s Union of the Swedish School of Economics, dressed with the characteristic white overall of the association, were lifted by a crane to crown the Havis Amanda statue with the traditional white cap at 6 pm. con?dence in the economy. Over half of the consumers predict that unemployment will increase in Finland during next year, according to Statistics Finland?s consumer survey. Consumers. predictions on economic trends. Business confidence hits rock bottom Consumers. Retail businesses suffering from a slump in their sales have reported weak results for the beginning of this year. ?The weather is partly to blame for the season not getting off to a good start but consumers are also cautious in their purchases. W W W.HELSINKITIMES.FI Available by subscription, on board more than 350 Finnair flights, on Allegro trains and in all top-quality hotels in Finland Stock market in danger of withering According to Professor of Finance Timo Korkeamäki, the Helsinki Stock Exchange is in danger of withering and it seems that small companies will take the worst hit. 2 . We also take a look at some of the most popular time management techniques that can help you get the work done. See pages 12-14 EAT & DRINK Delicious leftovers Tackle food waste and reinvent your leftovers with our easy yet delicious recipes. See pages 18-21 Vappu brings the promise of sunnier days HEC TOR MONTES HEL SINKI TIMES THIS YEAR?S Vappu celebrations gathered thousands of people around the Senate Square and Esplanade park on Tuesday 30 April after public transport was cut from the area at 5 pm. However, according to Urrila, it is not all doom and gloom with the downward spiral of the industry sector performance having levelled out since the end of last year. ?The steep decrease in the economic situation and the fall in expectations have reached a plateau even if no improvement has been seen yet,. Liquid soap bubbles and music by the band Spruce accompanied the occasion. After the coronation of the Havis Amanda, the crowd slowly cleared off the street of the city centre as they adjourned towards private and public parties. EK monitors companies. S T T NIINA WOOLLE Y . cooperation negotiations and the fall in employment rates are denting Finns
Finnish schools should teach every child the basics of the Cyrillic alphabet. AS THE has been a lively discussion in Finland about Russia in recent months. Being able to relate to the Russian context even TALKING slightly better would be bene?cial for Finland. I very much agree. 2 VIEWPOINT 2 . Even in nine hours of class, one could have an ele- LEARNING of Finland. While Swedish speakers mainly IF INSTEAD Start your weekend with news in English Stay informed about news and current affairs in Finland live along the coast, Russian speakers are more evenly spread in the country. You can check him out on twitter @TeivoTeivainen as well as teivo.net. Cyrillic alphabet for Finnish schools T E I V O T E I VA I N E N tends to be considered a ?ne example of linguistic minority rights. My modest proposal is not meant to provide a solution to all these important questions. Rights of Swedish speakers and Russian speakers should never be seen as a zero-sum game, but comparisons between the groups can be revealing. Most, however, would be better equipped to relate to Russia. Not fully prepared, but suf?ciently to justify the small effort. IT IS HIGH time to think seri- ously about linguistic futures of the Soviet Union, the ratio was seventy-?ve. Why not add Helsinki Times to your morning coffee? by subscribing to the weekly Helsinki Times. To subscribe, e-mail subscribe@helsinkitimes.fi Visit www.helsinkitimes.fi for a daily Finnish news update in English. can never be directly translated into rights. With this in mind, another curious comparison is that there are today over thirty times more Russian speakers than Sami speakers in Finland. He lived for years in South and North America, with overall field experience in over 100 countries. Yet the environment seemed less strange once I could spot teatr, restoran, bank, universitet or telefon where before I had only noticed an alien script. WALKING about the experience to fellow travelers with similar experiences in Russia, I have become increasingly convinced of my proposal. At the same time, in fourteen of them it is Russian that comes next to Finnish as the second biggest language. In all of them, except Aland, everyone needs to learn both Finnish and Swedish at school. In total, there are still almost ?ve times more Swedish speakers than Russian speakers in Finland. This may sound like a major difference, but we should recall that during the collapse Finnish attitudes toward Russia include both admiration toward Russian culture and fear due to security concerns. mentary grasp. He has worked for international agencies, governments and social movements. One signi?cant obstacle is the perceived strangeness of Russian language. a Finnish perspective, there are languages that seem to have a mysterious alphabet covering an equally mysterious vocabulary. Even if I learn the alphabet or Thai, Arabic or Hindi, the feeling of otherness may not diminish dramatically along the streets of Bangkok, Cairo or Delhi. That means an average of less than one hour per year, though it could all be concentrated in a single study period. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi. Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long (maximum length 10,000). It has often been pointed out that we need more Finns who THERE speak ?uent Russian. Helsinki Times reserves the right to accept or reject submissions, as well as to edit or shorten the text. The opinions expressed in this section are the writers. The situation of the Swedish speakers is sometimes even mentioned as a model for other countries. To be honest, here I FROM am sure only about Hindi, as I once learned some basics of it, but let us now assume this is the case about many other languages that use a non-Latin alphabet. There were so many words around that at once started making sense. It simply pretends to increase understanding and break some of the otherness barriers. DURING of total numbers we look at the regional distribution of languages, the importance of Russian is more evident. Finland consists of nineteen regions. In Russia, however, learning the alphabet has different results. the streets of Moscow, having recently made an effort to learn the basics of the Cyrillic alphabet, I had an eye-opening experience. Is there a collective denial of the fact that Russian language has become an increasingly important part of Finnish reality? FINLAND number of Russian speakers will only get bigger, the Finnish mindset about Russians needs to change. There are all kinds of things to be done, but I will now make just one practical proposal. It is about a basic civic education for all. attitudes toward Russia include both admiration toward Russian culture and fear due to security concerns. FINNISH THEY also include racism. While the range of opinions is broad, there are barriers of otherness that prevent many Finns from having a more con?dent and relaxed feeling about Russians. 8 MAY 2013 HELSINKI TIMES Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. Policy conclusions should certainly not include diminishing Sami rights that in fact need much reinforcement. STATISTICS the coming decades, the number of Russian speakers in Finland is likely to increase signi?cantly. What will be the linguistic implications for school curricula, street signs or public sector employment requirements. My proposal, however, is not about fullscale language studies for some. Even in Satakunta, a west coast region facing Sweden, Russian today outnumbers Swedish.. own and do not represent the official policy of the Helsinki Times. Teivo Teivainen is Professor of World Politics at University of Helsinki. If one looks at the fastest growing minority, however, the image of linguistic dreamland is less rosy. Uncovering the alphabet cleared up some of the mystery. Of course, I did not suddenly speak Russian or have any comprehensive understanding of the language. Compared to the bene?ts, my proposal demands only a minor curricular adjustment. the basics of the alphabet would not take many hours in the overall curriculum of the Finnish schools. Sometimes he makes World Political City Walks. Some of the students might of course later forget almost everything whereas others could be encouraged to study the language itself
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Of the ten cities interviewed by STT, only Tampere reported that the number of summer jobs has increased in the past two years at an annual rate of around 50 jobs. ?It is dif?cult to ?nd a summer job elsewhere. The adoption of a policy that would see interest groups represented equally, however, would be unwarranted, Pekkarinen stresses. Among the middle-income voters the support for Katainen and Sipilä was even. Ice cream stands are popular summer job places amongst many young people. Hard to find The cities are offering fewer summer jobs, and so are local companies. For example, Metso Jyväskylä will hire 100 summer employees this year, compared to around 150 in the past. ?This is still a fairly large number of summer employees, considering that the times are tougher now,. Regardless, he encourages committees to scrutinise their hearing policies in order to promote the development of objective knowledge of issues. The youth may be hired for a couple of weeks or for several months. Cities hire both youth who recently graduated from comprehensive school and students of particular sectors. In Turku, lots were drawn to determine who would get the summer jobs for 16-18-year-olds this year. 100 jobs for youth graduating from comprehensive school were also raf?ed in Jyväskylä. In Vantaa, summer jobs for the young are divided into categories based on the required level of education: a little over half of the jobs are for 17-19-year-olds who are students of a vocational school and the rest are given to students of upper secondary schools. The number of summer jobs provided by the cities remained at roughly the same level as last year. However, the current Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen (National Coalition Party) is still leading in popularity. Katainen was supported by 27 per cent of the respondents. This speeds up the employment of people under the age of 18, in particular. The youth can use the voucher when applying for From: Veteli L E H T I K U VA / A N T T I A I M O - KO I V I S T O No urgent need to revise hearing policies, Pekkarinen views Famous for: The Chairman of the Centre Party is gaining support as the next Prime Minister According to the survey by market research company Taloustutkimus Oy, some 22 per cent of respondents supported Juha Sipilä for the next Prime Minister. says Tampere City HR Director Niina Pietikäinen. The number of summer jobs has also slightly increased in Kuopio, Oulu and Vaasa, but in these cities the number of jobs was increased because of consolidations of municipalities. Private companies The authorities try to help young people who cannot be employed by the city to ?nd a job in the private sector by offering them summer job vouchers. 4 DOMESTIC 2 . H T MANY young people are eagerly awaiting the results of their summer job applications. The competition is ?erce in the whole of Finland: for example, in Lahti, only around one in every ten people who have sent an application got a summer job in the city administration. 23,9% No . says HR Director Jaakko Puurula. Another region with fewer available summer jobs is Pirkanmaa where the local hospital district, which has employed a lot of young people in the past, has cut the number of summer employees to save money. Many companies also state that they get more job applications than before. The Lahti-based beverage company Hartwall received around 200 more applications this year than last year. According to HR Expert Johanna Saarela, the larger number of applications was due to a logistics designer position offered to university students, which raised a total of 120 applications. Vantaa-based paint company Tikkurila has also noticed that the number of potential summer employees has slightly increased. Last Friday, Tikkurila had received a total of 700 applications for its 80 summer jobs.. Anni Sinnemäki (Greens) and Silvia Modig (Left Alliance), speaking on behalf of their parliamentary groups, were the only ones to express their advocacy for the initiative. HT-STT ELY Centre rejects Talvivaara's request to raise drainage quota Talvivaara's plea to sanction the discharge of an additional 620,000 cubic metres of waste waters into the environment has QUESTION OF THE WEEK Statistically foreigners make up disproportionate number of criminals in Finland. Do you think that bias or discrimination is one of the reasons behind these numbers? Yes . Almost 2,700 young people got a job with a voucher last year. ?The idea is to open up new connections and opportunities between young people and organisations,. ?No volume restrictions were imposed,? he said. HT-STT Mauri Pekkarinen (Centre), the chair of the Parliament's Commerce Committee, has rejected the demands for a more balanced representation of interest groups in Committee hearings. According to the veteran politician, representatives are summoned to the hearings principally on the basis of their expertise. 76,1% L E H T I K U VA View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi Who: Juha Sipilä Youth are hired to take care of the green spaces in cities. a job at a company, association, organisation or foundation. The value of the voucher varies from one city to the next, between 200 and 400 euro. The voucher is in use in Vantaa, Espoo, Turku and Vaasa, for example. says Director Outi Söderman-Juvani of the Oulu City Youth Services. Dozens of applications for each summer job Number of summer jobs available in large Finnish cities has not increased much. W O R KG RO U P . 8 MAY 2013 HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / V I L L E M Y L LY N E N been rejected by the Kainuu ELY Centre on environmental grounds. Sipilä is particularly popular among over 50-year-old voters, whereas Katainen got the most support from under 50-year-old voters. However, the regional authority did overturn the interim decision by the Vaasa Administrative Court to limit the drainage of waste waters south, which, according to Talvivaara, would have threatened dam safety. The struggling mining company is hence allowed to drain a total of 1.8 million cubic metres of waste waters into the Vuoksi and Oulujoki waterways and may, if necessary, also rely on its annual quota of 1.3 million cubic metres. Olli-Pekka Nissinen, the head of communications at Talvivaara, says the decision was good and expected. The employer will pay the youth and the city will pay the employer the sum stated on the voucher. This year, 350 summer employees will be hired by the city of Lahti compared to around 380 last year. The number of summer jobs has decreased because the appropriations available for hiring summer employees have decreased, according to Sami Kuikka, the of?cial in charge of HR issues in Lahti. ?I have tried to encourage my superiors to hire more 15-16-year-olds because it is dif?cult for such young people to get jobs in the private sector.? People under the age of 18 have been summertime employees of the city of Lahti in previous years as, for instance, nannies, park caretakers, library assistants and chauffeur?s assistants. Cleaning and outdoor jobs A young person hired by a municipality is usually employed in the care and management sector, cleaning duties, maintenance or an of?ce. Oulu offers a 280 euro summer job voucher to all of the local 15-17-year-olds. Instead of expert hearings, the committees should reserve more time for discussions, he forwards. HT-STT Ban on fur farming unlikely A ban on fur farming appears unlikely after representatives of the parliamentary groups widely voiced their opposition to the citizens' initiative in a preliminary debate on Thursday. S T T TA RU L A I H O . Both Sipilä and Katainen gained higher voting percentage than their parties in the recent parliamentary elections. We want to offer young people the opportunity to get their ?rst job ever so that they would get some experience of working life,
President Niinistö referred to this analysis when speaking in Astana: ?We have the habit of bringing up human rights, which is a positive thing to do. But after these experiences at the UN, with both Finland and Sweden receiving criticism, we have to reassess our approach to these issues.? Niinistö said that he himself liked to adopt the approach of explaining how Finland developed into a de- ing point. He does not think that the promotion of Finnish exports and support for human rights demand any kind of balancing act. ?You must respect the other party and if you feel there are things that are wrong, you should try to imFINLAND prove matters, not lecture,? Niinistö commented at the Kazakh capital, Astana. Speaking at a press conference held by the two presidents last Wednesday, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in power since Kazakhstan gained independence in 1991, compared the situations in Finland and Kazakhstan by saying that Finland has developed its democracy for over a century while in Kazakhstan the process has been going on for only two decades. ?I dare say that we are taking quicker steps on this road than Finland. Instead, the solution is to eliminate the violence that has become an inherent part of ice hockey,? says Olli-Poika Parviainen (Greens of Finland), Deputy Mayor of Tampere. Oulu is not willing to buy a ?exible rink at this point either, according to Riikka Moilanen from the Centre Party, the chairperson of the Oulu Municipal Board. Jyväskylä does not believe that it would be possible for the municipality to participate directly in the funding of a ?exible ice rink. ?The stadium in Jyväskylä is not fully owned by the municipality. H T cannot put itself forward as a preacher of human rights, says Finnish President Sauli Niinistö. The president, who was recently on a state visit to Kazakhstan in Central Asia, believes that Finland is too small a nation to take to the pulpit. S T T N I I N A W O O L L E Y. According to the American research institute IPI, the reason why Finland lost the Security Council membership vote was that Nordic Countries are seen mocracy and how respecting human rights is seen as a source of well-being in Finland. Kazakhstan's growth is third fastest Even if the human rights situation has room for improvement in Kazakhstan, on the economic front the country is ?ourishing thanks to its oil and gas resources: in recent years, it has been the third fastest growing country in the world right behind China and Qatar. Of the Finnish Ice Hockey League teams, Jokerit has already installed a ?exible ice rink at their stadium in Helsinki. One of the anticipated risks of ?exible ice rinks is that the players might take more risks, relying on the ?exible boards to protect them. Some members of the Finnish judiciary have pondered in public whether the police should address injuries in ice hockey and ?ghts in the rinks more often.. Nazarbayev added. UN failure left its mark The Finnish human rights policy might become even more cautious if Finland will take heed of the assessment on its United Nations Security Council membership application. Our glass is half full and now we must top it up,. DOMESTIC HELSINKI TIMES 2 . says Rainer Lehti (Social Democratic Party), the chairperson of the Rauma Municipal Board. Lappeenranta is also willing to use the taxpayers? money. ?If a ?exible rink becomes mandatory, the municipality will have to pay for it, since it owns the stadium. S T T cities of the Finnish Ice Hockey League teams are not willing o start paying for the construction of ?exible ice rinks at their ice stadiums. The boom is particularly evident in Astana, where the of?ce blocks with their glass fronts are so new that their windows await their ?rst cleaning. says Iisakki Kiemunki (Social Democratic Party), the chairperson of the Hämeenlinna Municipal Board. Kiemunki adds, however, that ?there is always room for negotiations?. In early March 2012, the Finnish Ice Hockey League announced that it wants the municipality to pay for ?exible ice rinks in all the Hockey League cities where the municipality owns the stadium. One ?exible ice rink costs 150,000-200,000 euro. Nine of the Hockey League stadiums are fully or partly owned by the local municipality. Splitting the costs? The most positive attitude towards funding safer rinks is in Rauma. ?The municipality of Rauma is willing to participate in the costs, provided that the costs are shared with the Hockey League. More buildings are rising all the time. Finland and Finnish companies have their sights on this economic growth, now that the domestic market and European economy are suffering from a downturn. Niinistö was accompanied to Astana by ten business leaders, who are hoping to do trade with Kazakhstan. An ice hockey team could pay for safer rink edges with the price of one player. P E R T T I M AT T I L A , TA R J A R E P O, JORM A YLÖNEN, JANIK A TIKK AL A . But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the burning question was whether we would survive,. We are currently having a hard time money-wise, and we would have to study whether the Hockey League itself could invest some funds in its future,. says Risto Kakkola (Social Democratic Party), the chairperson of the Lappeenranta Municipal Board. Using more money is not a solution Tampere is not willing to pay for a ?exible ice rink, at least not yet. ?The municipality is of the opinion that the problem of violence cannot be resolved by using more money to buy new equipment. This is why their attempt to try to make society pay for a problem they have caused themselves is trag- THE HOME icomic,. Nazarbayev said. ?Democracy and freedom that prevail in western countries, including Finland, are the ?nal goal, not the start- Finland's President Sauli Niinistö (left) met his Kazakhstan counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakh capital Astana on 17 April. as arrogant and their moral high ground irritating. or checked against the edge of a rink. Discussion on the subject started again recently when HIFK?s experienced forward Ville Peltonen was injured. The idea of a ?exible ice rink is simple: when the boards are ?exible, players who hit them will be subject to less force. 8 MAY 2013 5 L E H T I K U VA / J U S S I N U K A R I Niinistö does not want Finland to be a preacher of human rights State visit to Kazakhstan aiming to boost export. JOHANNA VESIK ALLIO . If a decision to build a ?exible ice rink is made, we hope that no municipal funding for the project will be necessary: the L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K KO M A A Cities unwilling to pay for flexible ice rinks Helsinki Arena, the home stadium of Jokerit team, is currently the only national league stadium with a flexible ice rink. stadium company can hopefully ?nd funding on its own,? says Jaakko Selin (National Coalition Party), the 1st vice chairperson of the Jyväskylä Municipal Board. Lahti is a minority shareholder in the local stadium, and thus Lahti is not giving a green light to direct funding for a renovation either. Helsinki and Espoo are not willing to pay for ?exible ice rinks, but they are both willing to assist in arranging a loan. Pori and Turku are of the opinion that they cannot state anything about the role of the municipality on costs arising from ?exible ice rinks. The Hockey League cities in which the municipality is the sole owner of the stadium are Pori, Tampere, Kuopio, Oulu, Lappeenranta, Rauma and Hämeenlinna. Injuries forced the Hockey League to consider flexible ice rinks The fact that injuries have become more and more common in the Hockey League has forced the teams to consider building ?exible ice rinks. The ?exible edges of the rinks are thought to reduce the risk of concussions, particularly when a player is being ?boarded. Pekka Kantanen from the National Coalition Party, and chairperson of the Kotka Municipal Board, rejects the idea altogether. Hämeenlinna is almost as uncompromising. ?The Finnish Ice Hockey League is the wealthiest league in the country and in practice the only purely professional sports league in Finland. The team could pay for the safer rink edges with the price of one player,. Splitting the costs in half sounds fair,. In a survey by STT, only two of the twelve hockey cities expressed their willingness to fund the new rinks, and even those two had some terms. Kuopio is the least willing to start coughing up the money. ?I?m very critical about the idea that tax payers would have to pay for problems of the sport
The suspect was later apprehended in a nearby ?at. HT-STT Two face life in prison for burning a man to death A 36-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman have been sentenced to life imprisonment for burning a man to death in Kamppi, Helsinki, in July 2011, after the Helsinki Court of Appeal found them guilty of murder. a senior inspector and his superintendent . The series of frauds took place last year and were largely committed by the young man alone. However, a number of accomplices also received less severe punishments for their involvement in the fraudulent scheme: a 19-year-old man and a 22-year-old man from Turku were found guilty of several frauds and handed probation orders of nine and four months respectively, while four other young adults were ?ned for their roles in the wrongdoings. The convicts were also ordered lack of resources is chronic, and the recent economic decisions seem to do little to alleviate that,. prying into documents dealing with the death of cross-country skiing legend Mika Myllylä is currently ongoing.. The man succumbed to his injuries later at the hospital. STT was unable to reach the other two Valvira of?cials for comments. The of?ce of the District prosecutor, L E H T I K U VA / A N T T I A I M O - KO I V I S T O 6 The case of Anneli Auer, who was found guilty of murdering her husband in 2006, is investigated in relation to illicit prying. however, rejected the interpretation, viewing that unsuccessful prying attempts also warrant criminal suspicions. A consideration of charges re- garding police of?cials. The consequent criminal pro?ts of over 50,000 euro were used principally for partying. Police officials suspected of illicit prying Illicit prying of police officers into information has become a frequent headache of prosecutors. ST T HEL SINKI TIMES A pre-trial investigation into dozens of police of?cials suspected of conducting illicit prying into information concerning Anneli Auer and member of Parliament Antti Kaikkonen (Centre) will be launched, Helsingin Sanomat reports. Earlier, the District Court of Helsinki handed the two defendants prison terms of nine years and six months, deeming the second man involved in the incident incompetent. The roughly 40-yearold man was sleeping on a bench at a tram stop in Helsinki when the two men poured windshield wiper ?uid on him and lit him on ?re with a lighter received from the woman. where handed ?nes of 3,120 and 3,900 euro respectively. The District Court of Helsinki found her guilty of negligent bodily injury, attempted infanticide and infanticide but deemed her no longer in need of involuntary treatment. HT-STT Fatal stabbing in Oulu preceded by verbal dispute The stabbing in a restaurant in Oulu on Saturday that led to the death of a 54-year-old man was preceded by a verbal dispute, the regional newspaper Kaleva reports. According to the daily, the man suspected of the homicide entered the restaurant appearing incoherent and was soon involved in a verbal dispute with other customers. he stated. The other two defendants, similarly, cited their heavy workload as reason for the actions. A woman and two children witnessed the stabbing close-up. of 5,000 euro on a man from Tampere, later raised the sum by 4,000 and threatened the man with violence when collecting the alleged debt, the Pirkanmaa police revealed on 21 April. During the detention hearing on 19 April, the court also cited the gang members' histories of violence as grounds for its detention decision. The police believe other residents and businessowners in the Tampere region may also have been harassed in the extortion plot. HT-STT Man detained on suspicion of manslaughter in Joensuu The District Court of Pohjois-Karjala has detained a 50-year-old man on probable cause in the manslaughter of Sanna Pölönen, who was reported missing on 28 March, after she failed to report for work at the Kontioranta garrison. The last sightings of the 38-year-old suspected homicide victim, whose whereabouts remain unknown, date to late March. [?] Our Young man jailed for series of frauds ST T man from Naantali has been found guilty of roughly 200 criminal charges, primarily for fraud, by the District Court of VarsinaisSuomi, which sentenced him A 21-YEAR-OLD to one year and eight months? imprisonment. employment. The defendants were also ordered to pay 37,000 euro to the victim's family for pain and suffering. HT-STT Jussi Holmalahti attended the District court?s hearing on 13 March. Valvira officials fined for negligence Indicted officials bemoan their excess workload in court. PIIA LEINO . Rinkinen, in contrast, revealed that she is considering appealing against what she regards as inadequate punishments for the violations. Elsewhere, the District Court of Pirkanmaa is due to deliver a verdict for one of the unquali?ed doctors in May, while a police investigation into the actions of the other suspect continues. to compensate their victims for the losses incurred. For the most part, the defendants sold non-existent products on the Internet, but they also bagged instant loans with mobile plans subscribed to with stolen identity documents. 8 MAY 2013 HELSINKI TIMES C O M P I L E D B Y A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N L E H T I K U VA / J A R N O M E L A Gang members detained for extortion plot Three members of the outlaw gang United Brotherhood have been detained on suspicion of attempted aggravated extortion by the District Court of Pirkanmaa for using violent threats when collecting debts. In early March, the gang members imposed a ??ne. Ritva Kujala, the administrative director at Valvira, has revealed that the convictions have no repercussions on the of?cials. The local police continue their investigation into the suspected homicide. HT-STT Mother charged with infanticide ruled incompetent The District Court of Helsinki has decided against punishing a mother accused of infanticide, after mental health experts deemed she lacked criminal responsibility at the time of her daughter's death. ?The wrongdoings were not systematic. The Finnish law stipulates that public of?cials can only access the personal details of citizens. S T T OFFICIALS at Valvira, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health, neglected to scrutinise the quali?cations presented by two doctors despite several detailed reports raising suspicions over their authenticity, the District Court of Helsinki ruled on 26 April. Accordingly, the court found three Valvira of?cials guilty of violation of of?cial duties and imposed ?nes of 3,0004,000 euro on them. In court, prosecutor AnjaRiitta Rinkinen reiterated her belief that the unquali?ed doctors would still be practising medicine had it not been for the Ilta-Sanomat reporter who got a whiff of the suspicions which had been ignored by the supervisory authority. Good, diligent workers Jussi Holmalahti, the director of Valvira?s licensing department, was hit with a ?ne of 3,780 euro, while the two other suspects . ?Valvira?s responsibilities are constantly increasing. Both the District Court and the Court of Appeal highlighted the atrociousness of the homicide in their verdicts. In an interview with the daily on 26 April, district prosecutor Krista Soukola revealed that efforts to determine the number of unauthorised attempts to access the police register are currently underway. The investigation was sparked by a study, conducted by Nelonen roughly a year ago, on the extent of prying by police of?cials, tax authorities and Kela of?cials into personal details. They are good, diligent workers,? she assured. Holmalahti, in an interview with STT, expressed his disappointment with the district court?s verdict, underlining the excessive workload of Valvira of?cials. The altercation was broken up by the 54-yearold man. In court, the defendant cited exhaustion and anxiety as the reasons for the act. The suspect, a man born in 1992, then followed his peers outside but soon returned to stab the victim in the neck area by the restaurant's counter. when necessitated by their of?cial duties. Earlier, the Police Administration Unit ruled that the unsuccessful attempts by of?cials to pry into the details of the con?dential investigations were not criminal. CRIME 2 . The mother suffocated her newborn daughter to death with a pillow in 2011, after two other apparent attempts on her life. According to the psychological evaluation, the mother began manifesting symptoms of post-partum psychosis within a week of childbirth and at the time of the incident her abilities to control her actions was notably reduced. The court, however, considered the reports ?led with Valvira detailed and alarming to the extent that the negligence cannot be considered petty. Holmalahti said he has yet to decide whether to appeal against the verdict
Räihä recalls. Räihä believes the number of Roma beggars in Finland is likely to remain the same or increase from last year?s levels. Räihä reveals.. You can transfer from one vehicle to another with a single ticket within the validity of the ticket. www.hsl.? Salolainen slammed the response of the ministry and the Embassy of Finland in Washington in a contribution to the Kanava magazine, ?This is how I was made a Nazi'. The Simon Wiesenthal Center had requested a report concerning a recent statement by Salolainen in which he claimed that American Jews are relatively in?uential in the media sector and money market. ?It sounds very strange,. Previously, expenses hinder the pro?tability of the trips. Currently, the Ministry of Finance, at the behest of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, is working out the number of dormant accounts in Finland and the funds in them. The European Commission has proposed that funds from the so-called dormant bank accounts be used for social purposes. As the price of a return coach ticket from St. The material includes the names of experts heard by the various committees as well as the issues discussed between 1998 and 2013. ?REPRESENTATIVES The number of Roma beggars in Finland is believed to remain the same or increase. some 500 beggars have operated in the country. In Finland, the funds are managed by banks. An account is considered dormant if no customer transactions have taken place for ten years. She nevertheless regrets that Salolainen was not consulted. ?I apologise for not reviewing the response with Salolainen and not offering him a possibility to respond to the letter directly,. Finns are confused by such shopping tourism; after all, similar products are available today in Russia. Ilja, a shopkeeper from St. In the UK, for example, funds from such bank accounts are currently channelled into so- ILTA-SANOMAT 23 April, HEIDI VAALISTO Roma beggars expected to arrive to Finland in growing numbers of Roma beggars have become more organised and aggressive, Jarmo Räihä, a leading expert for Helsinki?s Department of Social Services, says. The Ice Hockey World Championship organised in Helsinki in May could encourage more Roma beggars to come to Finland, as major sports events typically prove fruitful for bottle collectors. ?THE OPERATIONS ?A few years ago when Finland won the ice hockey world championship, bottle collectors got so much money they treated everyone at the Helsinki Reception Centre to coffee and a bun,. hearings a total of 1,760 times. Koukku-Ronde said.? cial and charitable purposes. Pe- State keen on dormant bank accounts ?THE MINISTRY of Finance and the European Commission are after funds in inactive bank accounts. Some estimates suggest that there are more than ten million unclaimed euro in inactive bank accounts. Essi Ruokanen, a legal adviser at the Federation of Finnish Financial Services, reminds that channelling funds from dormant accounts is not a cinch. Its representatives have been summoned to the committees. More than prices, however, Russian shoppers are after quality in Finland, Ilja reveals. On 26 April, Single e d tickets and day tickets Validity from 2 hours to 7 days. Buy from ticket machines, bus and tram drivers, as well as conductors on commuter trains or by mobile phone. ?Our constitutional protection of property is relatively strong, and it is possible that laws tersburg, says Finnish groceries are more expensive in his home-town than in Lappeenranta. Petersburg to Finland to buy groceries and oth- TURUN SANOMAT 27 APRIL Pertti Salolainen had stated that American Jews are relatively influential in the media sector and money market. SUOMEN KUVALAHTI 26 April, Heikki Vento Foreign Ministry apologises to MP Pertti Salolainen ?THE FOREIGN Ministry regrets not asking for the view of minister Pertti Salolainen (NCP) regarding Finland?s response to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Salolainen is currently the deputy chair of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. According to Ambassador Ritva Koukku-Ronde, the embassy did not provide an explanation for Salolainen?s statement to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Petersburg to Lappeenranta is only 30 euro, not even the travel er daily consumer goods, such as dishwashing liquids and toothpaste. According to a survey conducted a few years ago in Finland, on average the beggars earn roughly 20 euro per day. In Helsinki, the best panhandling spots are in front of the Sokos department store and the railway station. ?Fights over those spots have taken place,. Lauri Lyly, the president of SAK, commented.? The European Commission has proposed that funds from the so-called dormant bank accounts be used for social purposes. concerning the issue would have to be enacted according to the constitutional order.? Currently, banks transfer funds from the accounts that have been inactive for ten years to so-called collation accounts and cease paying interest on the capital. Account holders or their inheritors, however, can access the funds any time.? L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G of major business interest groups or large corporations have been summoned to the hearings of parliamentary committees a total of 6,230 times. Employee representatives, in contrast, have only been summoned 3,250 times. Material incorporating over 93,000 names requested from Parliament by Helsingin Sanomat gives an indication of the relationship between Parliament and interest groups. In Russia, the impression that products abroad are of higher quality still persists." L E H T I K U VA / K I M M O M Ä N T Y L Ä L E H T I K U VA / K I M M O M Ä N T Y L Ä The Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) is by far the most in?uential interest group. FROM FINNISH PRESS HELSINKI TIMES 2 . 8 MAY 2013 7 C O M P I L E D B Y A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G HELSINGIN SANOMAT 28 April, TUOMAS PELTOMÄKI Business lobbyists regularly heard at committee meetings Russians buy groceries and other daily consumer goods, such as dishwashing liquids and toothpaste in Finnish supermarkets. YLE 28 April, SARI LEHTINEN, KALLE SCHÖNBERG Russian grocery shoppers after quality and low prices in Finland ?HUNDREDS of kilos of Finnish groceries are carried across the border to Russia every day as many make the over 200-kilometre trip from St. Representatives of the Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners have been summoned 936 times and representatives of the Federation of Finnish Enterprises 927 times. In contrast, representatives of EK?s main rival, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), were only invited 918 times
Stretching working life a few years longer, slightly increasing pension contributions, and modestly dampening the growth in payments would have major effects over many decades. To use Varma as an example, in 2012 it collected ?4.2 billion in premiums and booked ?3.4 billion in investment income. Last September, the Baltic Dry price index went down to 661 points whereas at its peak in 2008, it was as high as 11,793. The index has not managed to claw its way back up, remaining at 800-900 points.. The shipping markets overheated even more than the shipbuilding industry and the subsequent crash was more dramatic, which is evident in the numbers of orders and deliveries measured in deadweight tonnes. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi The writer is a journalist and columnist for Helsinki Times. He is also a private investor with over ten years of experience. The pension tipping point IN APRIL , Finland passed an unenviable threshold. How low the shipyards. At its highest in 2010, the building capacity reached around 65 million tons. The shipyards. capacity will sink before the markets recover remains to be seen. Ocean freight at rock bottom The unsustainably high number of orders that preceded the bursting of the shipyard bubble also caused a huge overcapacity in freight ships. This led to a downward spiral in ocean freights, which have now reached such a low level that the freight income is hard pushed to cover ship or even fuel costs. +358-9-616 621 info@hotelanna.fi www.hotelanna.fi ?End of crisis not in view? As soon as the orders on new ships declined, the absorption of overcapacity started, aided by the freeze of funding for shipyards and shipping companies, a slump in ocean freights and a steep decline in new orders. building capacity will decline under 50 million compensated gross tons next year. HT THE CRISIS of maritime indus- tries will continue to deepen during this year and the next. The capacity of the shipyard industry will shrink by nearly 10 per cent this year and by 15 per cent next year, predicts the ship ?nancing company Danish Ship Finance. With the orders at the world?s shipyards down to the level of 2005 but the building capacity remaining twice as high as that year, the L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K KO M A A the true tipping point would be very bad. The most obvious reason is that we want to pay our retirees what they have been promised. The prices of new ships are at an all-time low but will start climbing ?either this year or next.? Market researchers estimate that demand for ships will stay around 34 million compensated gross tons until the end of the decade. Hopefully this fact, which has been frequently repeated in the media, will spur our government to ?nally do something. THE TIPPING point is a good sound bite, but there is no immediate danger of pensions going unpaid. Individuals can take responsibility for their retirement. An introduction of more de?ned-contribution plans, instead of de?ned-bene?t schemes, would also help, especially for those just now entering the workforce. THERE is hope, though, even if the Government does nothing. 8 MAY 2013 BUSINESS HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / P E K K A S A K I David J. The longer we wait, the harder it will become to ?x the problem. The crisis of maritime industries will continue to deepen. IF WE act now, relatively minor changes will have com- pounding effects. With no quick ?x expected, adjustment and return to balanced markets will take a long time. The shipbroker Barry Rogliano Salles presented a laconic view in this year?s market review: shipbuilding has been in the throes of a crisis for four years now and no end to it is in view. The outlook for the maritime industries will start to improve when the cluster of orders has been handled and more ships are due to be wrecked. The biggest dif?culty we face at the moment is the ?Mexican standoff. And you don?t have to wait for politicians to make a decision. ber of orders on new ships. The prices of both ships and ocean freights went skyhigh. S T T NIINA WOOLLE Y . We are now taking more out of our pension system than we are adding to it. Like I mentioned, compounding can do wonderful things. The shipping boom led to an unprecedented num- Cosy hotel in the heart of Helsinki Annankatu 1, 00120 Helsinki tel. But there is another reason why we don?t want our pension system to start running a de?cit: is one of the largest inThe entire Finnish it vestors in our economy. social system Varma alone has some ?700 million Finnish govcould enter a ernment bonds, ?2 billion death spiral. in Finnish real estate and ?4.2 billion in listed Finnish stocks in its portfolio. Even though claims now exceed premiums, the capital in the system is still generating a healthy income. I strongly recommend everyone start their own investment account and save a regular percentage of their income each month. blight has been brought on by the overheating of the maritime markets prior to the ?nancial crisis. The ?nancial crisis and overcapacity then burst the bubble caused by the spiralling growth of maritime industries and pushed shipyards and shipping companies over the edge into a deep ?nancial crisis when the global economic downturn began. shipyards have overcapacity. Deliveries showed a decreasing trend last year. According to the market outlook, shipyards. The entire Finnish social system could enter a death spiral. REACHING THIS IS WHY we need to ?x the problem, and we need to do it now. And this isn?t unthinkable: in this age of austerity, low in?ation and deleveraging, we could be in for a prolonged period of time with abnormally low returns on many investment classes. The price of ocean freight is at a historical low. Shipyard capacity to shrink by a quarter globally Overcapacity resulting from a boom in orders caused a plunge in ocean freight and put a demand on new ships. H E I K K I K A R K KO L A I N E N . 8 2 . in our Government. The National Coalition and Social Democrats, along with their assorted allies, have fundamental disagreements about the pension system, and so have agreed to do nothing substantial. Over the past decade, Varma has averaged a respectable 5.8% return on its investments, so if this average persists it will be decades before expenses outpace income. BUT WITH premiums declining and claims increasing, eventually we will probably reach a true tipping point. Using one scenario with Statistics Finland demographic projections and modest investment returns, I found 2026 to be the year the pension system starts haemorrhaging. Deadweight tonnage is used to describe changes in the freight capacity. The price of ocean freight is at a historical low. If it and other pension funds have to start selling these investments to meet their obligations, there will be a signi?cant negative impact on our economy
The decisions made should re?ect our attitude towards this issue. ?It is a tight schedule,. The feedback given over the past few weeks suggests that a couple of the projects may be postponed or even cancelled.? The dividend decision states that 85 per cent of the dividends of all listed companies will be subject to taxation, while the dividends of unlisted companies will not be taxed until they exceed 150,000 euro. One of the reasons why Rosendahl has criticised the decision is that companies had already started to go public again after the ?nancial crisis. He says that many companies will go public soon in Sweden and the UK, for example. ?I would have wanted to see that happen also in Finland.? Does Finland even need a stock exchange? Lounasmeri also criticises the dividend taxation decision. ?What we should think about now is whether Finland even needs a stock exchange of its own. It is not acceptable that the EU is interfering with free negotiation rights,? Lehto-Komulainen said. Seppo Saukkonen, senior adviser at EK, agreed that it was important to secure the independent status of the labour market organisations, noting that the Commission?s role concerning wage policy should be restricted to monitoring. O L L I K E M P PA I N E N . S T T NIINA WOOLLE Y . HT-STT Food prices rise Daily: Olkiluoto final disposal project to proceed as planned Food prices increased by 4.6 per cent last year, a food basket survey conducted by the National Consumer Research Centre ?nds. In my opinion, we do need the Helsinki stock exchange, but these decisions L EH T IK U VA PA U L I I N A P I E T I L Ä . The prices of vegetables, in particular, rose, while tax hikes also saw the prices of sweets, ice cream and soft drinks creep up. However, frugal consumers can still save considerable sums by comparing prices, as the total price of 73 items in the basket ranged from 126 to 185 euro. Now the ?nancial market is slowly withering away.? Professor of Finance: Stock market in danger of withering The share exchange at NASDAQ OMX Helsinki has experienced a drastic reduction in the past few years. ACCORDING to Aktia Professor of Finance Timo Korkeamäki of Hanken School of Economics, the Helsinki Stock Exchange is in danger of withering. ?Absolutely. Ville Iho, the airline's interim CEO, revealed on Friday that the belt-tightening measures will be presented to staff members later this year, when a number of key collective agreements are set to expire. power. ?According to the EU treaties, matters concerning wages do not come under EU jurisdiction. Vanhanen stated that the generally binding nature of collective agreements should not in any case be strengthened. The Confederation of Finnish Industries stresses the importance of retaining labour market organisations. BUSINESS HELSINKI TIMES Trade unions slam proposal to interfere with wages caused by financial crisis ers in the EU. The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has requested further details of the facility's contingency plans. ?Certain documents will be reviewed and submitted to STUK this year,? Timo Seppälä, a senior manager in communications at Posiva, told Kaleva on Sunday. Posiva ?led the construction permit application late last year to allow 18 months for STUK to inspect the project. As the of?cial export credit agency of Finland, Finnvera is responsible for the lion's share of the country's contribution and is set to inject a total of 292 million euro into the shipbuilding company and 692 million euro into TUI Cruises, the buyer of the two cruise ships. HT-STT The con?dence of consumers in the Finnish economy slipped further in April and is currently below both last year's levels and the long-term average, Statistics Finland's consumer survey indicates. In the survey, 29 per cent of respondents expressed their con?dence in the recovery of the national economy in the next 12 months, while 30 per cent viewed that the economic situation is likely to exasperate further. S T T TA RU L A I H O . An international seminar on the work against tax havens is organised in Helsinki today, on 29 April. President of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd Lauri Rosendahl says that this is a global phenomenon that can be seen all around Europe. H T The trading volume at NASDAQ OMX Helsinki has decreased. 2 . views on the effects of the economic policy coordination reform. Katja Lehto-Komulainen, SAK?s director of international affairs, stated that, in principle, the European Commission may propose imposing a ?ne on a member state if the commission believes that, for example, hikes in wages are excessive under the employment terms agreed on by the labour market parties. organisations want to have social security under national control. Neither party warms to the idea of a European unemployment insurance system as proposed by Herman von Rompuy, President of the European Council, as a possible way to raise funds as a cushion against the economic and monetary union?s problems. The views of the employer and employee organisations differed on some points with the trade unions favouring a tripartite decision-making process between employers, employees and policy-mak- Jenni Karjalainen of AKAVA (left), Rauno Vanhanen of The Federation of Finnish Enterprises, Ralf Sund of ST TK, Seppo Saukkonen of EK, Olli Koski and Katja Lehto-Komulainen of SAK, in the roundtable discussion organised by Parliament?s Grand Committee on 17 April. suggest that the politicians do not deem the Helsinki stock exchange very important.? Professor of Finance Vesa Puttonen of Aalto University says that the dividend taxation decision was only a single obstacle. Maria Tolppanen, MP for the Finns Party, however doubted whether the free movement of labour was bene?cial, having led to an increase in underpaid work. He says that the stock exchange has been withering away for the past decade. ?The overall growth of the Helsinki stock exchange in the 1990s and the 21st century has been mostly led by Nokia. HT-STT The de?ciencies detected in the permit application for the construction of a ?nal disposal facility at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant will not delay the project, Posiva, an expert in nuclear waste management, asserts. Similarly, industrial con?dence remains below long-term averages across industrial sectors, the con?dence indicator of the Confederation of Finnish Industries indicates. HT Social security under national control Both employer and employee L E H T I K U VA / S A R I GU S TA F S S O N FINNISH trade unions are showing a united front in rejecting proposals to touch wages under the pretext of the eurozone crisis. In the roundtable discussion organised by Parliament?s Grand Committee 17 April, the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) also emphasised the importance of the labour market organisations continuing to hold the reins in matters concerning them. During the talks, MPs wanted to hear the labour market organisations. But we do need the infrastructure created around the stock exchange, the ?nancial market, in Finland. President and CEO Sari Lounasmeri of the Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion says that the decrease in volume is starting to matter because Helsinki is such as small place for trading. She points out that small growing Finnish companies require a trading place in Finland to acquire enough funding. ?A trading place is only viable if it seems that there is some share exchange going on.? Listing plummeted The eagerness of companies to go public has also decreased in Finland in the past few years, along with the major decrease in the value of shares exchanged. Small, emerging companies that are not famous enough to be traded abroad will suffer the most.? The trading volume at NASDAQ OMX Helsinki has decreased to one fourth of what it used to be before the ?nancial crisis. STUK's Kai Hämäläinen views.HT-STT Finnair to cut labour costs Finnair has announced its desire to slash personnel costs in the next collective bargaining agreements. This is not acceptable to the employer organisations, which stress the commission?s independent role in preparing labour market matters, stated Saukkonen. Both the labour market organisations and Rauno Vanhanen, director at the Federation of Finnish Enterprises, also invited to the talks, believe Finland bene?ts from EU membership. According to senior researcher Ari Peltoniemi, the lowest prices are typically found in the largest supermarkets. HT-STT Siimes: Tax havens unavoidable Suvi-Anne Siimes, the managing director of the Finnish Pension Alliance (Tela), believes it is virtually impossible for pension insurance companies with international investments to avoid investments in tax havens. 8 MAY 2013 Funding for STX Finland now secure Consumer confidence slips further Finnvera assures Following the con?rmation of the ?nancing agreement on Friday, the funding for the ongoing construction of two cruise ships at STX Finland's Turku shipyard is now secure regardless of the condition of the Korean parent company, Pauli Heikkilä, the managing director of Finnvera, assures. It has been estimated that the new Government decision on dividend taxation presented at the last month will further decrease the willingness of companies to go public. Rosendahl says that the impact of the decision can already be seen, and that around a dozen companies are planning to go public in the lighter trading place and ?ve to six companies on the main list. ?We?ve had some great discussions. The exchange level of an average company on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki has been fairly low for a long time now.? Puttonen says that the stock exchange has only been used as a symbol of the ?nancial market. ?The Helsinki stock exchange is already a subsidiary of the Stockholm stock exchange, which in turn is a subsidiary of Nasdaq. Her statement is a response to Minister of Finance Jutta Urpilainen (SDP), who, in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat on Monday, urged pension insurers to slash their investments in tax havens. Finnish pension insurers, which have invested a total of 14 billion euro in Luxemburg, also highlight that withdrawing the investments would increase the pressure to hike employment pension contributions. Currently, Finnair's labour costs are higher than the labour costs of its main competitors, Iho highlighted. HT-STT 9
You simply do not include in the of?cial statistics anyone bene?tting from employment measures, participating in labour market training or receiving unemployment pension, yet all these people are available for work and would accept a paid job if one was offered. WHILE we have around half a million people out of work, there are also close to 200,000 foreign employees in the country. 24 April Finland is ranked first globally in the Networked Readiness Index is ranked ?rst in the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) of The Global Information Technology Report published by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD. Finland has reached the top of the NRI rankings for the ?rst time, thanks to improvements across twothirds of the 54 indicators of the NRI, showing an impressive level of excellence and ?FINL AND consistency, according to the report. Finland appears in the top three of each of the four sub-indexes and in the top 10 of nine of the 10 pillars, and topping two of them . These workers lived in substandard accommodation provided to them by the employer and did not enjoy full freedom of movement. I do not think so. Knowing this, it is dif?cult to understand all the talk about labour shortage and the government?s keen interest in attracting work-based immigrants. For example, Finland ranks ?rst on go with incidence of 1000 per 100,000 inhabitants per year.? Kuusi: ?Based on the National Infectious Disease Register, the incidence of Lyme disease in Finland has been about 30/100,000 during the past few years. We have to get our young to work and get a start on their lives and we must create job markets that do not discriminate against capable older workers. i.e. but they do not reveal the whole truth. While a quarter of people available for work are unemployed, the country is importing labour from the Philippines, Spain and the Netherlands. 25 April KATI POHJANPALO Finland says Euro can survive Cyprus exit as strict rules sought region would be able to survive Cyprus leaving the bloc as members need to ensure rules are adhered to, the head of Finland?s highest parliamentary committee said. ?THE EURO Finland rejects the notion that the area can only survive if there?s also a ?scal union, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, who chairs the Parliament?s Grand Committee, said recently in an interview in Helsinki. ticks HUFFINGTON POST recently interviewed Jarmo Oksi, Finland?s leading researcher in the ?eld of Lyme disease at the University of Turku and Markku Kuusi, Chief Medical Of?cer from Finland?s National Institute for Health and Welfare. ?What is the annual incidence of Lyme disease in Finland and in Europe at large? Oksi: ?Laboratory reports on Lyme Borreliosis cas- es (based on positive serology) have doubled in 10 years and are now about 1,500. Of these young people, half have registered as unemployed with the other half, roughly 40,000 people, not being ?on the books?, most likely living off their parents or working in the shadow economy. The euro region can?t continue to be hampered by political brinkmanship and instead should allow automatic triggers to be observed, she said?? HUFFINGTON POST 25 April C.M. The explanation is simple: it is the Finnish way to tidy up statistics to make them more palatable. This is not sustainable development but a road that will lead the country to ruin. Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Chair of the Parliament?s Grand Committee. BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK. 8 MAY 2013 HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / P E K K A S A K K I THE ECONOMIC TIMES. 25 April Employees at TCS Finland offices stage protest over job cuts at the Finland of?ces of India?s largest software services exporter TCS staged a walkout last week protesting against job cuts even as the company said it has started consultations on the issue with their representatives. About 160 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employees based at its of?ces in Espoo and Salo in Finland reportedly staged a walkout at the company?s premises protesting over the decision to cut around 290 jobs...? ?EMPLOYEES Maria Tolppanen from Vaasa has been a Finns Party MP since 2011. She is also a Vaasa city councillor, a deputy member of Parliament?s Grand Committee, member of the Employment and Equality Committee, member of the Finnish Delegation to the Nordic Council and member of the Administrative Council of the Finnish Broadcasting Company. There are nearly 300,000 unemployed people in Finland, according to of?cial ?gures . I believe that it is the case of companies and organisations looking to make easy pro?t using cheap labour. FINLAND FINNISH companies have employed foreign labour so cheaply that it approaches slave labour. Another example emerged in Olkiluoto where Polish electricians worked for an hourly rate of less than two euros. THE FINNISH labour market is skewed. In terms of the annual incidence in other Nordic countries, in Norway it has been about 6/100,000 and in Denmark, 1 - 2/100,000??? L E H T I K U VA / S A R I GU S TA F S S O N Half a million Finns without work WWW.OFFSHORE-MAG.COM 23 April Finland plans new oil spill/ icebreaker vessel FINNISH Transport Agency has contracted Aker Arctic Technology to design a new icebreaker vessel for the Finnish government. In co-operation with ILS, Aker Arctic will also prepare technical documents needed to arrange the tender for the vessel?s construction, take responsibility for the vessel?s performance, and assist the Transport Agency with shipyard negotiations this fall. The government has set aside $162 million for construction of the new vessel by winter 2016. The real number is not far short of half a million. The estimated number of Lyme Borreliosis infection cases is about four times this number . But why do the of?cial unemployment statistics lie. Among other duties, it will be equipped for oil spill response operations and will perform emergency towing missions 95 per cent of the time in the open water and ice conditions prevailing in the Baltic Sea?? ?THE HUFFINGTON POST. 25 April 29, 13 Outokumpu cuts 2,500 jobs to save $455 million ?FINNISH metals group Outo- Finland ranks first in the Networked Readiness Index of the Global Information Technology Report. the indicator capturing the extent to which ICTs create new services and products?? kumpu Oyj says it will slash 2,500 jobs worldwide in the next four years to cut costs by 350 million euros ($455 million) and improve pro?tability as stainless steel demand continues to fall. The world?s leading stainless steel maker says about a third of the job cuts will be applied this year, mostly in Germany, Sweden and Finland, in line with production capacity reductions and streamlining??. All the young people could be trained for those ?elds that are in need of labour, and as for the over-55year-olds, it is sheer madness to exclude their skills and experience from the job market. IN has a population of 5.5 million, with 1.5 million working and a further 0.5 million willing to work if they could ?nd employment. With 30,000 people of foreign origin registered as unemployed jobseekers as we speak, this seems unfathomable. It is sheer madness to exclude their skills and experience from the job market. FINLAND, unemployment is mainly the plight of the under-25s and over-55s, with more than a third of the jobless falling in one of these groups. 10 FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS 2 . It does not feel right to listen to discussions about raising the retirement age while people over the age of 55 are being pushed out of the job market. skills and economic impacts. According to the report, the impact of ICTs in Finland also extends well beyond innovation, permeating the entire economy and society. The question that springs to mind is whether, from the half a million people of working age who are willing to work, we really cannot ?nd employees to ?ll the vacancies in those ?elds that are now seeking labour from abroad. Not long ago, a case came to public attention in Ostrobothnia, where nearly 50 people worked ten-hour shifts six days a week without compensation for overtime or evening work. To get the ballooning unemployment under control, we need national and political will. But sweeping 200,000 people under the carpet smacks too much of sleight of hand. THIS is how it is done. RUBIN The global search for education: Finland . estimated incidence in Finland is 5,000-6,000 annually (population 5.5 million), which is about 100 per 100,000 inhabitants per year. However there are areas in the Southwestern Archipela- INVEST IN EU
?It would put them all together in blocks of 800 units, which of course weren?t created to the needs of these communities,. Dariga Nazarbayeva, the director of the forum, referring to the diverse program of the two-day session. Diverse were the speakers and panelists as well, including: Mohammad Yahya Maroo?, Minister and Political Affairs Advisor to the President of Afghanistan; Greg Palast, New York Timesbestselling author; Yuri Moseikin, Director, Institute of Global Economics and Business, Russia; Hooshang Amirahmadi, President of the American Iranian Council (AIC); Arik Bachar, Secretary General of the Israel Press Council; George Galloway, Member of the UK Parliament, and Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow for THE ELEVENTH Russian & Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy, Heritage Foundation, USA. Younas Gill, a tax accountant whose house was burnt to ashes, told IPS. Clauses introduced in the 1980s by former President Muhammad Zia-ulHaq opened the door to a broad interpretation of the so-called blasphemy laws, regulations that prescribe the death penalty for defamation of the prophet Muhammad and life imprisonment for those who desecrate the Quran. As Pakistan?s cities expanded and businesses settled across Christian communities around the country, the land became lucrative and started attracting the attention of Pakistan's urban land ma?a. According to Peter Jacob, Secretary of the National Commission for Justice and Peace, and other experts, blasphemy laws allegations are often used by clerics and other religious leaders to incite mobs to attack Christian communities. IPS. Dariga Nazarbayeva (left) and the organisational staff of the forum. A recent IPS article discussed the proposal of the Israeli Ministry of Defense to relocate almost two dozen Bedouin communities living in the Jerusalem periphery. ?The Bedouin have been ?ghting to exist here since 1967 and Israel has been trying to displace us since then,. 8 MAY 2013 Resisting Israeli shove Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan is a modern city, and the host of several international forums every year. Kazakhstan, reviving the Silk Road Eurasian Media Forum took on difficult questions without prejudice for the 11th time. ASTANA ALE XIS KOUROS HEL SINKI TIMES Eurasian Media Forum was held in Astana on April 25 and 26. INTERNATIONAL NEWS HELSINKI TIMES 2 . critics has been the American agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto. ?Monsanto really did themselves a major disservice by slipping this into a continuing resolution,. said President Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan in his opening remarks. The aim is to get other regional coun- tries involved, with China being one of the top candidates. A customs-free region expanding from China to Europe will ease transfer of goods which will be twice as fast as a sea route. Eid Hamis, a Jahalin Bedouin told IPS. The main arguments, from both Bedouin and supporters of their situation, have been that the proposal involves the use of force to relocate roughly 3,000 Jahalin Bedouins to an area in Nwei?mah, near Jericho, a region that would be under Palestinian Authority control. said US Senator Jon Tester. The target, alongside President Obama 11 and the US Congress and Senator Barbara Milkulski, the committee chair who allowed the amendment, of the activist groups. in 2014 following the end of an active phase of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan,. But on the Forum agenda we tried to ?t in the most important, the most pressing and relevant problems affecting Eurasia and other parts of the world,? said Dr. ?I absolutely do not believe that the countdown has already been turned on to bring our region to some sort of an ?X hour. on its own scale . Luxury cars and ?vestar hotels speak of growing international trade and a wealthy upper class. From 1995 to 2013, Kazakhstan?s GDP?s Annual Growth Rate has averaged 5.61 per cent, making it one of the fastest growing economies in the world and in the region. in the minds of the media, analysts and some politicians. The change and progress taking place in the region can easily be seen in a ?rst look at Astana. It does seek to protect farmers.? IPS Religious intolerance toward Christians escalates The 2.9 million Christians living in Pakistan represent a tiny minority compared to the country?s 170 million population. Built from scratch in the last decade or two, Astana is a modern and vibrant city. Initiated by Kazakhstan, this common economic space could empower the countries involved and have dramatic effects on the transfer of goods and services. In exchange, China is already promising to provide Kazakhstan with a port in the Paci?c Ocean. Kazakhstan has clearly taken an active role in stabilising the region and increasing regional co-operation. The city of Almaty hosted the P5+1 talks around the Iranian nuclear program last month, and at the same time as the Media Forum, a ministerial conference on Afghanistan was taking place in Almaty. Kazakhstan Location: Central Asia, south of Russia and northwest of China Total Area: 2,717,300 sq km Land Area: 2,669,800 sq km Comparative Area: Ninth largest in the world, equivalent to the size of Western Europe Independence: December 16, 1991 National Holiday: Republic Day, October 25 (1991) Population: 14.9 million Ethnic Diversity: Kazakh 51.8%, Russian 31.4%, Ukrainian 4.4%, Tatar 1.7%, German 1.6% There are over 100 other nationalities. Religions: Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, other 9% Languages: Kazakh, spoken by over 52% of the population, is the state language. Russian, spoken by two-thirds of the population, is used in everyday business and enjoys official status under the Constitution Literacy: 98% Monetary Unit: Tenge (KZT) . Dave Murphy, founder of Food Democracy Now, told IPS. In its defense, Monsanto released a statement saying that ?It [the provision] contains no reference to Monsanto, protection of Monsanto, or bene?t to Monsanto. ?Our optimism is embodied in the strategy ?Kazakhstan 2050?. It puts forward our main goal . In addition, the size of the designated areas appears to be problematic as well. remind the visitor of Shanghai or Dubai. In recent times, the country has witnessed an escalation of intolerance and violence toward Christian communities. In the beginning of March, a mob of Muslims tore a neighbourhood apart, torching homes and displacing over 150 families in the district of Lahore, the country?s second largest city. said Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, an architect with Israeli planning right group Bimkom. While the Israeli government stated that moving the Bedouin from their current location would improve the quality and level of services they receive, demolition orders and other restrictions don?t seem to have intimidated or convinced the Jahalin Bedouin community to move. IPS Monsanto Protection Act causes activist rage The decision of the US Congress and President Barack Obama to approve the so-called Monsanto Protection Act has generated a wave of outrage among American activists. As reported by IPS, the provision in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 requires the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue temporary permits allowing the continued planting of GMOs by farmers, even when a court rules that the agency erred in its environmental impact review of the GMOs. ?The United States Congress is telling the Agricultural Department that even if a court tells you that you?ve failed to follow the right process and tells you to start over, you must disregard the court?s ruling and allow the crop to be planted anyway,. The ?rst session of the forum dealt with the regional security of Central Asia after withdrawal of US and ISAF troops from Afghanistan in 2014. Other sessions dealt with the situation in the Middle East, the Arab Spring, which was increasingly referred to as Arab Weather by the speakers and delegates, Kazakhstan and the region?s economic development potential, the impact of the media and social networking on global politics, cleantech, and ?nally the Eurasian Economic Union. ?Modern world is contradictory. The forum?s MC was Riz Khan, TV Host and Producer of Al-Jazeera International. Despite the grim predictions and fear of the spilling over of the Afghan con?ict to regional countries, the tone of the discussions in Astana was not pessimistic. ?The provincial government helped with the reconstruction of our house and NGOs and relief organisations are constantly supporting the locals since the tragedy,. equal to 100 tyins. Exchange rate is 145-155 KZT to the dollar. Capital: Astana (since December 10,1997) Major Cities: Almaty, Shymkent, Taraz Climate: Dry continental climate. Dr. to become one of the 30 most developed countries of the world.? Lack of geopolitical understanding and inability to see the enormous change in the region was brought up by other participants and commentators of the forum in several occasions. At the same time as Turkey has been staring at the gates of the European Union to no avail, Kazakhstan has been working on a regional union. Enormous oil resorts, natural resources and agricultural potential have contributed to its growth. ?Kazakhstan is self-con?dent today as ever before,? said Nazarbayev. High rise buildings and abundant infrastructure . He then went on to point out the roots of the misconceptions as the ?archaic thinking stereotypes. A customs union between Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus will be followed by an Eurasian Economic Union
That depends on how you de?ne language. When Patricio Deuma, a Chilean telecommunications engineer with a passion for dance, arrived in Finland in 2005, he didn?t speak Finnish or English particularly well. Tanssikoulu Salsa Latina. ?Here in Finland it is so dif?cult to ?nd a job if you don?t speak Finnish, but I was so lucky to have the chance to teach Latin Dance, where the spoken language is not so important, you just have to use your body language and everybody will understand you.? On a more negative note, one interviewee now living in Helsinki but originally from France told that, ?the reality is, they [Finns] want you only for the duration of the gig/job, take your expertise and then say good-bye, no matter how stellar your performance.? Taking all of the above into consideration, there is still much balancing to be done when it comes to making the Finnish labour market work better for expats, and foreigners more generally. Of these foreign unemployed jobseekers, EU/EEA citizens accounted for 4,200 at the end of November, up 200 from the year Remaining in Finland to work? After his initial employment contract expired, Vanjinathan Ramalingam, who came to work for a wellknown Indian software company, found himself isolated from everything. I found love and many good friends. However, those expats who choose to remain in Finland after their initial ?xed-term contracts have expired, face simiL E H T I K U VA / M AT T I K A I N U L A I N E N MOVING to Finland with a job to walk into is an opportunity not to be sniffed at, especially if the salary enables you to enjoy the trappings of a comfortable lifestyle. Mostly I spend time with foreigners but I truly believe the knowledge of Finnish increases simultaneously with the number of Finnish friends.? Without longer-term employment opportunities, working life in Finland may become very unpredictable. lar challenges to the foreign population, the main one being securing another job, let alone getting help ?nding one. The end of the contract? Within the tumultuous labour market, Finland?s foreign workers face difficult times. GARE TH RICE HEL SINKI TIMES before. Be a pioneer and join HELBUS! Apply now to secure your place in August 2013. Find out more at helbus.? or call Kari Jääskeläinen at +358 40 5017627 The cumbersome Finnish bureaucracy may seem overwhelming for a jobseeker.. Visiting professors from @ HELBUS COME! nine prestigious universities worldwide challenge you to think globally. Admissions are based on essay questions and interviews. It is not uncommon for foreigners to ?nd themselves struggling within the tumultuous world of unemployment and tearing their hair out over cumbersome Finnish bureaucracy. ?I am very happy in Finland. ?There is no guarantee or even assistance for the next job?It?s really dif?cult to get a visa extension if we don?t ?nd the next job and we don?t get any social bene?ts after the contract term has expired while the visa process is ongoing?, he tells. Until then, for expats at least, building a meaningful career will remain uncertain. Your stepping stone to global opportunities Are you considering business studies? HELBUS is a new private business school in Helsinki offering a BBA degree in O English to be completed in just over SARASVU . 24.4 two years. According to the Employment Service Statistics of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, at the end of November 2011 the total number of foreign citizens among unemployed jobseekers in Finland was 17,500, up 500 from November a year ago. However, without longer-term employment opportunities, working life in Finland will become more unpredictable, as evidenced by statistics on foreigners and experiences of members from the smaller expat community. According to the of?cial statistics, in 2010 the proportion of foreigners living in Finland was 2.9 per cent, much lower than in other Nordic countries and the EU- 27 average of 6.5 per cent. Finland could be doing more to calm the waters in its existing pool of talent before taking measures to deepen it. At present, these statistics remain largely unchanged. Everything else then seemed to fall into place. Expats are more likely to have been recruited to Finland, many on ?xed-term contracts, to work for established corpo- rations like Nokia and Kone, smaller IT companies, and the academic sector. This marks another key difference: it is common for the organisations that employ expats to help with bureaucracy and other matters, such as relocation, health care and social networks, whereas for immigrants it is largely up to families to fend for themselves. Expats also tend to be more globally mobile and thus more likely to up sticks and move to new employment wherever opportunities arise. MAY 2013 12 8 MAY 2013 12 2 ?28? WORKING LIFE HELSINKI TIMES HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G ish labour union is to provide counselling services to those posted workers, rather than tackling the working practices of the companies. Other expats had more positive stories to tell. An Italian who arrived in Vaasa in 2006 to work on a 10-month contract with a marine solutions company subsequently moved to Helsinki to ?nd another job and to study Finnish. These increases are disproportionate when compared with total unemployment in Finland: jobseekers registered at Employment and Economic Development Of?ces totalled 230,000, down 13,000 from the previous year. Expats or foreigners? Expats are a smaller group (there are currently no of?cial statistics) who see themselves as distinct from Finland?s larger foreign population that includes immigrants, precarious workers and asylum seekers. Needless to say these challenges affect personal life, because little can be planned under the duress of ?nancial uncertainty. Some workers have also experienced that management treats immigrant workers, particularly fellow countrymen, differently than Finns in terms of rules on overtime or dress code. ?Companies have the mindset that posted workers should do everything and they should not oppose anything when management pushes them to do anything, even no wages for extra working hours?, Ramalingam tells. More often than not, the typical response from the Finn- Language barriers But how high a barrier is language in terms of getting another job. After a number of temporary contracts teaching salsa in several dance schools, gyms, and universities, he started his own business . Thanks to an internship in the retail industry, he now speaks ?uent Finnish, which undoubtedly helped him to get his permanent contract at another Finnish company
Perustayritys www.perustayritys.fi: Free, easy, fast and reliable online service for setting up the basic documents, bank accounts and insurance policies needed to start a business. . ?Being my own boss has more ups than downs and sometimes I?m at work 24/7, but what matters the most is that when I go to bed at nights I?m proud of myself.? Links of interest All the following links contain information in English, Finnish and Swedish, except where indicated. . Having the right professional advice is key to advance in this issue, García says. Spanish entrepreneur Ramón Tejeda arrived in Finland during spring 2011 without any knowledge of English, Finnish or Swedish. After several months performing minor jobs, he ?nally was able to register himself as private trader in the contracting sector with the help of a fellow-countrywoman. Information available only in English.. He later associated with other compatriots and formed RT-Ratkaisut Oy, and they have since expanded their operations to importing Spanish delicacies. ?I am very grateful for all the people who kick-started me?, says Tejeda. The research shows that 55 per cent of Finnish adults, particularly Outside looking in In Finland, the formal process of starting a company is well regulated and easily accessible to the general public. In Finland, limited liability company and sole trader name are the most common types for new businesses, followed by general partnership and limited partnership. the highly educated, perceive good opportunities for entrepreneurship in the country. Not surprisingly, out of the 300,000 businesses that exist in the country, roughly 98 per cent are small and mediumsized enterprises, according to Harri Jyrkiäinen, Chairman of the Finnish Association of Small Businesses. Nani Härkonen is the owner of one of these small initiatives, Nani Annette Photography. Enterprise Finland www.yrityssuomi.fi: Service coordinated by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy to help aspiring entrepreneurs and businesses that are already running. . of a country?s economy. says Na- ni Härkonen. Maybe Rovio and Angry Birds. ?I became a private trader already in early 2011. Or maybe a couple of guys in their twenties becoming millionaires overnight by inventing a groundbreaking mobile phone game. Or the avalanche of IT initiatives developed by former Nokia employees. Becoming an entrepreneur is not about reinventing the wheel, but, like any other job, putting your talents to work. Look in the mirror Are you suitable entrepreneur material. The Finnish Association of Enterprise Agencies (Suomen uusyrityskeskukset ry) lists some qualities an entrepreneur should have: ?hard working, creative, bold, works on own initiative, strives for good results, determined, knows how to sell his/her product, prepared to take risks, and can cope with uncertainty.? Provided that you have or are willing to nurture the For a foreigner resident of Finland, the formal matters don?t differ from those for a Finnish citizen, but due to language and culture factors the case might be more complex. Clara Llamas has started two rather different initiatives in Finland: Vaibmu, an international consulting company, and Alambique Oy, which imports unique food to Finland from Llamas. Different online services such as Enterprise Finland and the Trade Register offer detailed information of the process that has to be followed by an aspiring entrepreneur. Motivations, challenges and formal matters for the regular citizen starting a business. HEC TOR MONTES HEL SINKI TIMES WHAT comes to your mind when you think of Finnish start-ups. ?Absolutely!. Her talent hasn?t gone unnoticed: she was recently awarded with The Best Photograph of Animals prize at the Baltic Photo Contest 2013. Why start your own business Small businesses have been regarded by many, including US President Barack Obama, as ?the backbone. . Detailed information for the registration of new businesses, associations and foundations. . ?Without speaking Finnish, I thought it would be dif?cult for me be employed in Finland; that made me focus more on becoming an entrepreneur.? The main challenge for Llamas was introducing new products into the Finnish food market: ?not speaking the of?cial languages represented a barrier, but I have learned how to ?nd local allies and overcome this obstacles.? For Argentinean Alejandra García, owner of the jewelry company ONA, starting your own company is very easy from the formal point of view. Finnish Business Information System www.ytj.fi: Information on the currently valid Trade Register and Tax Administration entries for any company. WORKING LIFE HELSINKI TIMES HELSINKI TIMES 22 ? 8 MAY 2013 25 APRIL ? MAY 2013 13 13 J O H A N N A H I E TA N E N Helsinki region?s joint service centre for startups and acting entrepreneurs ?Become an Entrepreneur in Finland. At that time I had a full time job in an NGO, but when my business grew quite a bit in the last quarter of 2011, I knew I had to choose?, says Härkonen. native land, Spain. Possible in Finnish, English, Swedish, Russian, Estonian, German, French or Arabic. Before counselling please attend information session first. Evening courses for acting entrepreneurs Labour Legislation (2 evenings) starts 20.5. Business Model (2 evenings) starts 21.5. Schedule available on our website. Courses are also free, but sign up first. Virtual Business Incubator Services For innovative starting companies with an interest and potential for high growth. Call 09-310 36360 yrityshelsinki@hel.fi Schedule for info sessions and courses in www.enterprisehelsinki.fi program called Mikolo of the Workers. ?Our intention now is to continue growing, not for the sake of economic ambition, but to produce jobs and to give others the same chances that were given to me.? Alejandra García of ONA follows the same train of thought: ?when this little venture of mine began to grow, I decided to hand the preparation of the jewellery to unemployed women, mainly foreign, who participated in a Business Counselling Counselling is confidential and free of charge, but only by appointment. Depending on the magnitude of your operations, the capital you require to start and how many partners you will have, among other things, these are the main forms of enterprise allowed by the Finnish authorities: sole trader; general partnership; limited partnership; limited company; co-operative; and branch of a foreign enterprise. ?The hard part comes later on, when the company is already working. project organizes: Information sessions about how to start your own business Last information session held this spring in English 30.5. Free of charge, but sign up first. Nani Härkonen, the owner of Nani Annette Photography decided to turn her passion for photography into a business idea. Becoming your own boss in Finland attributes listed before, you should now choose what kind of business you will establish. You can also change your company?s address and contact details online in the BIS Service (this latter service is available only in Finnish and Swedish). . The case is no different in Finland, as a study by the University of Turku states. Beyond how little or much knowledge you have of the language, it takes time to understand and know the intricacies of norms and taxation.. Finnish Trade Register www.prh.fi: Public register that contains official information of businesses all over Finland. Education Association of Finland [TSL].? Happy bosses Is it worth it being your own boss. Startup Sauna www.tartupsauna.com: Founded in 2010, it is a non-profit organisation for startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in Northern and Eastern Europe and Russia, with the aim of implementing a blooming startup ecosystem and a pay-itforward culture in the region in order to make it the best place to be a startup. ?I decided to jump.
?Well, if you have employees present at the of?ce, how can the boss tell that they are working ef?ciently or just fooling around. Mackenzie recommends writing a daily plan to guide you, prioritising your tasks and having a backup in case of interruptions. Relationships . Meetings . our policy is not to participate in this . Small talk . We experience a continuous time pressure and a feeling of not being able to meet the expectations demanded from us. Adding to these external pressures, our distractions have grown exponentially over the years with Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and other social media. But forward-looking openness is exactly what is needed in these times, so let?s talk about teleworking . Crises . taking work to the people, not vice versa. ?Work is not a place but a series of tasks.? When it comes to big business, Microsoft is among the biggest, and they are fully supportive of teleworking, as exempli?ed by their statement that ?Work is not a place but a series of tasks,? and also in view of the fact that they are not brushing the teleworking concept under the carpet, away from staff eyes. ?Our company supports ?exible workplace arrangements; the place does not matter, as long as the work gets done. With our people, the more probable issue is how they can avoid working too much. The GTD method rests on the idea that the clearer our mind is of tasks and projects, the better it will be able to concentrate and be more productive. MAY 2013 14 8 MAY 2013 14 2 ?28? WORKING LIFE HELSINKI TIMES HELSINKI TIMES A LVA RO S O T O M AYO R Teleworking is only half Greek to us Employees love it, the environment likes it, powers-that-be support it, so get to it. and need to have the required services installed and running. Allen explains that the ability to be productive is proportional to the ability to relax. Accidents . Teleworking could thus bring about a substantial reduction in traf?c emissions. SYKE, together with Microsoft, is in charge of the National Teleworking Day, a campaign encouraging employees to stay home. Some phone calls A LVA RO S O T O M AYO R Not Important Important Urgent A daily plan helps you to prioritise tasks and manage time. 25 min. Even though time management might seem like common sense at work, it still requires self-discipline and practice. Time management techniques can help us increase our productivity and prioritise tasks. A LVA RO S O T O M AYO R HEL SINKI TIMES WE OFTEN ?nd ourselves struggling with deadlines or unable to carry out our daily tasks. Many interruptions . Luckily there are a number of time management techniques to increase the ef?ciency of our work hours and help us have everything done by the end of day. Time Management Matrix Not Urgent . ?At the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), for example, teleworking is applied successfully,. A task can be distinguished as one of four types, for example an urgent and important task like a report due the next day needs to be dealt with immediately. Time management expert Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, popularised a model called the time management matrix. Personal development . of pure work A technique to ef?ciently manage time while studying or working is Francesco Cirillo?s Pomodoro Technique. We do have targets and clear indicators to measure them, both at employee and team level and on the level of the Finnish subsidiary, to make sure that the company can meet its ?nancial goals.? What technologies does Microsoft apply for telework. ?More than one million Finns travel to and from work every day and three-fourths of this is done by car.. This was the strand of the commentary from a good handful of Finnish companies when approached about teleworking. Perhaps it is the recession and the layoffs that make companies cautious. So tasks should be moved out of our mind by recording them externally in a trustworthy system that keeps them organised and structured on a continual basis. ? ? ? ? ? Sayings about time management 20% of the average workday is spent on important things, while 80% of the average workday is spent on things that have little value. One hour of planning will save 10 hours of doing. The average person gets one interruption every eight minutes, or approximately seven an hour. It almost always takes twice as long to complete a task as what we originally thought it would take. 9 out of 10 people daydream in meetings. Source: Productivity Institute Teleworkers are not public enemies The Finnish public sector has not been slow to facilitate teleworking. unfortunately we cannot comply at this time.. The key to being more productive is to develop realistic ways to relax. Kokko explains. ?This system was developed in-house, with contributions from every rung of the staff ladder and complete commitment by the management.? Companies will still need premises, but can adjust how they use them. Some of the people based in our Espoo of?ce live in different Finnish cities, and this is no problem. Organising the tasks in these quadrants helps identify which are important and deciding what should be made a priority. Relax Dave Allen is the author of the best seller book Getting Things Done, which later turned into the productivity method known as GTD. says Riku Lumiaro, Communication Expert for SYKE. This technique enhances concentration by cutting down interruptions and improves the work and study process. Urgent and Important Managing time effectively means spending your time on things that are important and not just urgent. He got a kitchen timer in a shape of a pomodoro (Italian for tomato) and bet himself to study non-stop for 10 minutes, and that is how he came up with his technique. It later evolved into setting the kitchen timer for 25 minutes of pure work (a Pomodoro), with no interruptions or splitting of time allowed. After the ?rst Pomodoro we take a 3-5 minute break and after four Pomodoros Carillo recommends taking a 15-30 minute break to reorganise our minds. Watch TV . says Pertti Kokko, Sales Manager for Microsoft Finland. Microsoft Finland introduced teleworking to provide their staff with freedom and ?exibility in work arrangements and explore the possibilities of technology; they were also able to avoid relocating or renting another ?oor in the building. How does Microsoft ensure that work gets done when out of the of?ce. Exercise and health . Most of them telework on 1-2 days per week, depending on the situation,. Hard disks are protected with BitLocker, and DirectAccess guarantees data security in Intranet use. In addition to Exchange (email) and Calendar, we use Lync software, which really is the red thread here; it transmits presence data (like traf?c lights, a green icon means ?I?m available?) for timely quick messaging, VoiP calls and video conferencing, so you are not obliged to travel to every internal meeting,. ?Our teleworkers connect directly to our Intranet The place does not matter, as long as the work gets done.. Control is not the answer; it is more a question of leadership and self-management. According to Mackenzie, the absence of a plan is likely to result in unproductive time use and mentally wandering around all our tasks. Daydreaming . Projects . Alec Mackenzie, author of The Time Trap, a bestselling book on time management, states, ?A daily plan, in writing, is the single most effective time management strategy.. If you missed it last time, you can stay home one Friday in September this year. L E H T I K U VA / S A R I GU S TA F S S O N With an increasing amount of distractions, many find it hard to manage the work load. ?WE REGRETFULLY decline comment . Some emails and phone calls . During his ?rst year in university Cirillo found himself struggling with exam deadlines and distractions while studying. Tasks are categorised as urgent/ not urgent and as important/ not important. ?Teleworking has allowed us to apply new ideas in our premises; instead of desks for everyone, today we successfully apply hot-desking and have premises for different purposes, which has helped us to use the space more ef?ciently,? Kokko says. MIK A OK SANEN HEL SINKI TIMES Getting work done Dr. Due report
It adapts to different patterns.? Neuroplasticity is how neural pathways and synapses change. It presents this information in a form which enables the individual to perceive changes in the state of the brain and learn to modify abnormal patterns. The sum of this merger is neurogaming, and it is revolutionising both ?elds. Neurogaming doesn?t involve the old inputs of pressing buttons, manipulating joysticks or swiping touch screens. ?This is not competing with gaming companies. He already has one company working in Finland in the ?eld, but now he is The player has her brain activity recorded along the scalp via an electroencephalogram, or EEG and plays the game by controlling her thinking. planning a new company to take the idea international and is looking for investors. ?The idea is to combine the knowledge and skills of the Finnish gaming sector and neurological research,? he says. explains investor and entrepreneur Ville Tapio. bridging the gap between gaming and health care,. One participant?s scores in the game improved 56 per cent during the course of the study. Some of the feedback from the ADHD sufferers include: ?I am able to concentrate better,. In addition, he thinks Finland is the perfect incubator for new neurogaming companies. Moreover, the medicine will help, but when the patient stops taking it the symptoms can come back. With neurogaming therapy, the effects last longer. This could be a platform to use Finnish companies? games.? The strengths of the Finnish gaming industry are already well-known, thanks Computer-enabled neuroplasticity treatment uses real-time digital technology to measure electrical activity in the brain. www.helsinkibusinesshub.? This page is provided by Greater Helsinki Promotion. to the global success of companies such as Rovio and Supercell. Or salt and pepper. This is happening today in Finland as the gaming and mental health care industries join forces. It instead uses other methods, such as pupil dilation or heart rate. ?It will be an entirely new ecosystem.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Some areas for therapeutic neurogaming research Alzheimer?s symptoms Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder Addictive behaviour Anxiety Depression Fibromyalgia Head injury symptoms Insomnia Migraine headaches Post-traumatic stress disorder Source: Ville Tapio. ?Some medicines that treat ADHD are narcotic, have side effects, and are extremely expensive. One study has taken ?fty adult sufferers of attention de?cit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and put them through 40 sessions of neurogaming. Previous studies have determined that sufferers of ADHD often have abnormal brain activity. ?I have learned to calm down,. concludes Tapio. Finnish research in neuroscience is also respected around the world, with a host of studies being published by University of Helsinki researchers in international journals. ?This will be connecting the two areas . But one of the most interesting of the new inputs is brain waves. The player has her brain activity recorded along the scalp via an electroencephalogram, or EEG. Brain functions are not con?ned to ?xed locations, and this allows neurogaming to be a unique form of therapy for some brain disorders. Tapio?s company, Mental Capital Care, is involved in a research program which is funded by Tekes, the Finn- ish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. 2 . ?The brain can renew or improve how it operates. In Europe, the aggregate cost of mental disorders tops 600 billion euros. CORD The odd couple that isn?t so odd: gaming and neuroscience TalentMatch Due to its strengths in diverse fields, Finland is the global vanguard of neurogaming. IT IS LIKE wine and cheese. Partnerships between two supposedly incongruous things often yield the most unexpected bene?ts. 8 MAY 2013 HELSINKI TIMES P H O T O : DA N I E L L O E W E HELSINKI Business Hub 15 T E X T: DAV ID J. By using neurogaming, Finnish researchers are seeing how a computer program encourages people to think in ways that changes the operation of certain areas of the brain. Floating ball Computer-enabled neuroplasticity treatment uses real-time digital technology to measure electrical activity in the brain. he says. The neuroplasticity therapy is instantaneous, so the user can immediately work towards more favourable brain states. The games are simple yet challenging, and most importantly focus on modifying brain wave patterns. Or a stint in a blazing hot sauna followed by a dip into a cold lake. and ?The environment does not disturb my concentration as much as before.? Benefits of neurogaming therapy There are other treatments for ADHD, but Tapio stresses the comparative bene?ts of neuroplasticity treatment. ?This reduces the need for medication,. The game Simple Ball has users attempt to make a ball levitate on their screen. By controlling her thinking, she plays the game. The interface is a new and fun way to play, but neurogaming is much more than entertainment. Another application could be controlling prosthetic limbs via brain activity. Gigantic market Tapio believes the potential market for therapeutic neurogames is huge. In true Finnish fashion, the program contains a variety of partners from the public and private sectors, including researchers from the University of Helsinki. It can also be used to treat neurological processes. Treating ADHD ?The brain?s operations are not static,. There are huge savings.? Neurogaming may treat other disorders as well. Studies have explored the bene?ts of neuroplasticity treatments for brain injuries and chronic pain, among others. When their electrical impulses reach the correct frequency, the ball rises into the air and the player gets positive feedback. Although the study is still in its ?nal stages and the results have not been analysed, preliminary results are promising
(the six top-ranked men?s ice hockey national teams) alongside Sweden, Russia, Canada, USA and Czech Republic. The top four in each preliminary group will advance to the quarter?nals. However, Finland has only twice won gold at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships. Finland won its ?rst gold medal in 1995 when Leijonat (the Lions) demolished their arch-rival Sweden (4-1) at the Globen arena in Stockholm. Soon afterwards a Swedish song ?Den glider in. It exhibits fossils, minerals, rocks and meteorites. M I K KO H E I K K I N E N Will the Lions control the puck this year? ural History is an independent research institution functioning under the University of Helsinki. The history of life exhibition tells about the development of living organisms in the light of fresh scienti?c results. live show by Ledokol Lenin and DJ Herkules Tatti Club Liberté Kolmas linja 34 00530 Helsinki meeting new people and getting to know different cultures, all in a laid-back atmosphere. Just make sure that you are near the screen before ?it glides in?. Kaisaniemi Botanic garden maintains a collection of live plants for use in research and teaching. Natural History Museum Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13 Helsinki Open Tue-Sun Entrance 10/5 euros Botanic garden Kaisaniemi Unioninkatu 44 Helsinki Open Tue-Sun Kumpula Botanic Garden Jyrängöntie 2 Helsinki Open: 1.5.-29.9.2013 Tue-Sun Mineral cabinet Snellmaninkatu 3 Helsinki Open Tue-Sun Free entrance a garden of cultivated plants and geobotanical garden, and is open during the summer. FINAL (Stockholm) ched some games in Café Mascot in Kallio and I really enjoyed the atmosphere? states Saalasti. Helsinki offers plenty of bars such as Elmo, Sports Academy and Ravintola Väentupa, where you can watch live games on a big screen and enjoy the atmosphere with likeminded people. The celebration of the gold medal culminated with a national party organised in honor of the Lions and more than 100, 000 Finns gathered at Helsinki?s Market Square to celebrate the victory. Who is going to control the puck this year. Russia-Finland 11.5. The emotions and hopes tend to run high when the enthusiastic Finns gather to watch the games at the bar and the excitement becomes tangible when Finland faces its neighbours to the east and west. Finland and Sweden will once again co-host the IIHF World Championship (3-19 May 2013) and the games will be played both in Helsinki (Hartwall Arena) and Stockholm (Globen). ?Last year I wat- Multicultural hockey nights: bridging cultures through sport Live screenings of IIHF World Championships in a fun, intercultural environment. YA N N I C K I L U N G A HEL SINKI TIMES the success of last year?s edition, the multicultural hockey nights are coming to Helsinki once again. AFTER The project, organised by Liikkukaa! ry, Kallio-liike and Moniheli ry, aims at bringing together sports fans, in a joyful international and intercultural atmosphere. ?This year we?re hosting the event in Club Liberté,? explains Pia Grochowski, cocoordinator of the project, who is also a volunteer at Liikkuakaa! Ry. Do we see again a big national celebration from Helsinki to Rovaniemi. The collections of the Geological museum?s Mineral Cabinet are on display in the Arppeanum building, Snellmaninkatu. According to a supporter of Leijonat, Antti Saalasti, ?Finland has a great chance to play at medal games this year, especially if the team is as strong as the last year?s team, but winning a gold medal may be a more distant dream.. Finland-Germany 4.5. ?We?ll have live music before and after the screenings.? On 6 May, everyone is welcome to join the live broadcast of Finland-France, starting from 20:15. (meaning: it glides in) became a very popular song to sing for the Finns while watching ice hockey games. However, the euphoria of victory faded away in the following years and the Finnish ice hockey fans needed to wait 16 long and tearful years before the Lions made the comeback in 2011 and won the gold medal again against their eternal rival. Ice hockey unites Finns, melting the ice between them. USA-Finland 10.5. Saalasti predicts that Finland will be a bronze medalist this year. ?The strongest opponents are Russia, Sweden and Canada?, says Saalasti. If you were not lucky enough to get tickets to watch the big games at Hartwall Areena, there are still many places where you can follow the championships. Your home sofa, ?atscreen TV, drinks and snacks may sound like the best combination, but sometimes it is better to head to sports bars, especially if the sofa-sport toleration level of your partner is not very high. Saalasti usually watches the games with friends in somebody?s ?at or in a bar. However, according to Saalasti it may be dif?cult to enter bars in Helsinki during the games as they are very crowded. (the name of the Swedish men?s national ice hockey team) were trashed 6-1 and the exciting ?nal games saw a legendary ?air hook. 20:15 screening of Finland-Russia . After the game, that will be screened from 20:15, there will be a live show by the Turkubased Russian language rock band Ledokol Lenin and Estonian-based DJ Herkules Tatti. Multicultural hockey nights are a different way to experience ice hockey, while The two groups are as follows: Stockholm: Czech Republic, Sweden, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Belarus, Slovenia Helsinki: Russia, Finland, Slovakia, USA, Germany, Latvia, France, Austria. Important days for the Finns: 3.5. Latvia-Finland 16.5 Quarter-Finals (Helsinki/Stockholm) 18.5 Semi-Finals (Stockholm) 19.5 Bronze Medal Game (Stockholm) 19.5. 16 LIFESTYLE & SOCIETY 2 . Finland belongs to THERE the ?Big Six. The museum also gives a glimpse of the world of bones. The University of Helsinki Botanical Garden at Kaisaniemi is another department of the natural museum, which has also a gallery used to host temporary exhibitions, mostly on themes connected to the natural world. The Kumpula Garden collection comprises two parts, 6 May . by the then 19-year old Mikael Granlund. Let the fun begin! The history of life exhibition tells about the development of living organisms in the light of fresh scientific results.. Finland-Slovakia 6.5. It is also one of the three central national museums in Finland and responsible for the national collections in its ?eld. The collections, which include botanical, zoological, geological and paleontological specimens from all over the world, serve research in the ?elds of biology and geology as well as educational purposes. This year there are 16 teams, divided into two groups of eight. Finland-France 8.5. Preced- ing the match, there will be a performance of BenineseFinnish group Vodou Land Band. Two semi?nals and the big ?nal (19 May) will be played in Stockholm. It is no question that Finland can be a hockey-proud country as it claims second place in the 2012 Men?s IIHF World Ranking, with Russia in ?rst and Czech Republic in third. DJ sets 10 May . 8 MAY 2013 HELSINKI TIMES L E H T I K U VA / V E S A M O I L A N E N Museums and galleries The Finnish Museum of Natural History is a trip into nature. DA DE RO T Natural philosophy BANAFSHEH R ANJI HEL SINKI TIMES THE FINNISH Museum of Nat- Time to glide it in again E VA P E LT O N E N HEL SINKI TIMES are a few things that lift the national mood of Finns, especially after a long and dark winter, but luckily there is at least one: the annual excitement of the Ice Hockey World Championship. 19:00 live show by Vodou Land Band . This time, the ?Three Crowns. Finland-Austria 14.5. After the screening, the party will continue with DJ Super Mazembe. The second game of the multicultural hockey nights will be Finland-Russia on 10 May. 20:15 screening of Finland-France . The Museum is divided into four departments: the Natural History Museum, Kaisaniemi Botanic garden, Kumpula Botanic garden and Mineral Cabinet. The Natural History Museum exhibits the world and Finnish nature in the form of a trip from Helsinki to an outer archipelago, continuing to a broadleaf forest of south-western Finland, to the middle of spring
S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES DAUGHTER of the legendary Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash makes a welcome appearance at the Old Student House on Monday 6 May. While her music has often been referred to as country, Cash incorporates a number of genres, including blues, pop, folk and rock into her sound. S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES FRENCH singer and actress Pa- Käpy selän alla (K16) Release Date: 8 May Director: Mikko Niskanen Starring: Kristiina Halkola, Kirsti Wallasvaara Identity Thief (K12) Release Date: 3 May Director: Seth Gordon Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy tricia Kaas will be performing a highly anticipated concert at Finlandia Hall on Friday 3 May. Having successfully updated the French chanson tradition during her career The photography crowd J A M E S O . With rumours of another ?lm set to come out this year, things may get back on track for Malick, with a musical drama starring the not too shabby line-up of Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Cate Blachett and Natalie Portman. Meanwhile, if its some light comedic trash you are looking for, then look no further than Identity Thief, featuring the paring of two of the hottest comedians currently on ?lm, Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. The duo brings us the tale To the Wonder (K7) Release Date: 3 May Director: Terrence Malick Starring: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko French singer and actress Patricia Kaas will be performing two highly anticipated concerts at Finlandia Hall on 3 May. Honouring Piaf J A M E S O . Breaking through with 1981?s single Seven Year Ache, this success was merely the tip of the ice- would go on to top the French charts for three months. Subsequent years have seen her star continually rise, playing sold out concerts all around the globe. debut album Mademoiselle Chante achieved platinum status in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Critics have been spectacularly harsh. Finally, Mikko Niskanen?s 1966 Finnish classic Käpy selän alla has received a digital restoration as four city youngsters go camping, exploring themselves and their sexuality in the forest. The school offers a comprehensive overview of works by today?s photography students. Summer School 8 May-28 July The Finnish Museum of Photography The Cable Factory Tallberginkatu 1G Helsinki Daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash makes a welcome appearance at the Old Student House on Monday 6 May. bum received widespread critical and commercial acclaim. Roseanne Cash 6 May Old Student House Mannerheimintie 3 Helsinki. Surprisingly, this time around his ?lm doesn?t arrive on the back of plaudits, with critics suggesting that with To the Wonder he has stumbled for the ?rst time in his highly impressive and acclaimed career. Here Ben Af?eck ?nds himself choosing between the loves of his life, set against a typically beautiful backdrop. S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES a comprehensive overview of works by today?s photography students, the exhibition Summer School is on display at Finnish Museum of Photography from 8 May until 28 July. The works on display collectively ask the question, ?What is it like to be a photographer, when everyone is a photographer?. Meanwhile, her followup full-length, Scene de Vie, ® tography and the world that is processed through photographs looks like right now. The exhibition presents works of 55 future names in photography, all of them training to become photographers and build their futures on photography in a time that requires and produces more visual communication than ever before. all within earshot of his acclaimed Tree of Life (2010). 8 MAY 2013 17 FLORENT SCHMIDT Film JUST in case you had resigned director Terrence Malick to the doldrums of releasing a ?lm every 5-10 years, along he comes with his ?rst of two ?lms for the year . Advance word has been lukewarm, yet his trademark visuals and contemplative musing continue to strike a chord with certain sections of ?lmgoers. CULTURE HELSINKI TIMES 2 . So, is the world of photography as democratic as the Finnish school system? Viewers are invited to observe and discuss what is happening at the cutting Cash at hand J A M E S O . Her most recent release, 2009?s The List, featured songs from a personal list of what her father considered the 100 most essential American songs that her father had given her when she turned 18. S U L L I VA N HEL SINKI TIMES berg, which saw her going on and enjoying a number of chart-topping hits during the decade. Winning a Grammy in 1985 for I Don?t Know Why You Don?t Want Me (and receiving a further nine Grammy nominations during her career), Cash?s pop country tunes came to an end by the start of the following decade, with the sparse Interiors. Subsequent years have seen Cash move from Nashville to New York City and expand her horizons as an acclaimed author. With various forms of photography on display, the exhibition contemplates the artistic position amidst the ?ood of amateur photographers in the digital age. If anyone can make a photographic record of anything, what is it that is recorded? Summer School presents various forms of photography and discusses what is being photographed. The al- L I V E N AT I O N A diverse trio of an accounts representative who embarks on a quest to reclaim his identity from the thief who not only stole it, but has also chewed up his credit during a colossal spending spree. Thus she arrives in Helsinki, as part of a concert series that sees her touring 45 countries in a worldwide celebration of Piaf?s music. Patricia Kaas Kaas Chante Piaf Tour 3 May, 19:30 Tickets ?49-69 Finlandia Hall Mannerheimintie 13E Helsinki edge of photography right now. In the midst of this crowded landscape, the exhibition allows the viewer to see what pho- OFFERING In To the Wonder Ben Affleck finds himself choosing between the loves of his life, set against a typically beautiful backdrop. with elements of pop, blues and jazz, Kaas has sold over 16 million records worldwide. Following her ?rst national hit in 1987, Mademoiselle Chante le Blues, Kaas. Her career took an unexpected turn in 2009, when Kaas represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and ?nished in 8th place. Back on more familiar, digni?ed ground, Kaas announced her Kaas Chante Piaf project last year, which would see her honouring the 50th anniversary of Edith Piaf?s death with a show and an album. Yep, that?s about it. The works invite viewers to stop and study the images; constitute a community; experiment and seek; and change into records of performances, as photographers point their cameras at themselves or their loved ones. H E R T TA K I I S K I J A M E S O
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Add the peeled kiwi to a large jug (or jug/bowl of your blender) with a dash of water and blend until smooth, then pour into a glass. . Brush the remaining olive oil over the bread and grill on both sides until toasted. 8 MAY 2013 19 PIRK K A M Y L LY N PA R A S Honey-Mustard Chicken Salad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Ingredients: 300 g farfalle or other pasta shape 3 tbsp reduced-fat mayonnaise (use full-fat if preferred) 1 heaped tsp wholegrain mustard 1 tsp clear honey 300 g cooked chicken, torn into rough pieces 4 spring onions, thinly sliced (or ½ red onion, thinly sliced) Small bunch basil, leaves roughly torn 4 tomatoes, quartered, then each chunk halved Cooking instructions: . Gently mix together and serve. Delicious leftovers Reinvent your leftovers with easy yet delicious recipes. YA N N I C K I L U N G A HEL SINKI TIMES ACCORDING to the Ruokahävikki Suomalaisessa Ruokaketjussa study, carried out by MTT (Maa- ja elintarviketalouden tutkimuskeskus), Finnish households throw away between 120 and 160 million kg of food every year. Serve with rocket leaves scattered over the top. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Cooking instructions: . Beat the eggs together with the milk in a bowl and add salt. Dip the slices of bread in the mixture. . Boil the pasta, then cool under running water. 1 red and 1 yellow pepper, mushrooms) 3-4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 heaped tsp dried oregano Good pinch pepper 200 g tomatoes, chopped (fresh or tinned) 125 g ball mozzarella, thinly sliced (or any grated cheese) Multi-Fruit Smoothie Poor Knights. It?s also a creative way to encourage children to eat more fruit, due to its appealing and colourful look. With summer approaching, and temperatures rising, a salad de?nitely represents a quick, yet tasty and healthy, meal to have during lunch. The cream will look like a thick sauces at this point. Stir in the chives. . French toast (Köyhät ritarit) ? ? ? ? ? ? Ingredients (for 4 portions): 4 thick slices of white bread or pulla 2 eggs 2 dl milk ¼ tsp salt Butter for frying Strawberry or raspberry jam Cooking instructions: . and ?best before?. warm with strawberry or raspberry jam (and whipped cream, if you wish). ? ? ? ? ? Ingredients: 2 ripe kiwi fruit (peeled) Dash of water 1 ripe banana (peeled) 75 ml apple juice 100 g berries (frozen or fresh) Cooking instructions: . 4 thick slices of white bloomer-style bread . Serve the ?Poor Knights. like Love Food Hate Waste, BBC Good Food and Big Oven . Add strawberry or raspberry jam, and the sweet course is ready. Online, there are plenty of websites . 125 ml double cream . EAT & DRINK HELSINKI TIMES 2 . ?Use by. for meat and ?sh). ?Best before?, on the other hand, indicates the date until which the product retains its expected quality. 10-12 slices leftover Brie or Camembert . By using ingredients that are about to expire, one can create a variety of delights. To avoid bad surprises, it is important to know the difference in the packaging terms ?use by. Add the pasta, chicken, onions, basil and tomatoes, season to taste. . 2 tomatoes, sliced . means that food is only safe for consumption until the indicated day (e.g. Add the oil to a pan with the onion and cook for 2 minutes, then add the other vegetables and stir regularly for 5 minutes ensuring they are evenly cooked. . Small bunch chives, snipped . 2 tbsp olive oil . Put the ciabatta onto a baking tray and spread the vegetables evenly over the top. All this, while the FAO has estimated that, between 2010 and 2012, 868 million people were in a condition of undernourishment. There are plenty of different ways to tackle food waste, but cooking probably is the simplest and most ef?cient one. Top each slice with some tomato, then cheese, Serrano ham and finally spread over about 1 tbsp of the thickened cream to cover the ham. . A good way to decrease food waste, by using old ingredients to create culinary fantasies, as well as saving some money on groceries that would have ended up in the garbage. VA L I O MICHAEL SPENCER Bruschetta with tomato and basil Ingredients: . On a frying pan, brown the slices in butter for approximately 2 min on each side, until golden brown. . By combining all sorts of fruits, it creates a sweet shake drink full of vitamins. There are different combinations of ingredients, but brie, serrano ham and herbs are some of the most appropriate for spring and summer. Want some pizza for dinner. Add the garlic, oregano, black pepper and chopped tomatoes and mix well, bring to the boil then turn down the heat, cover and simmer for 3-4 minutes. . 4 slices Serrano ham or prosciutto . Just take an old loaf of ciabatta, a few mushrooms and a yellow pepper, add mozzarella, tomatoes, garlic and a touch of oil to create a pizza that will taste like that of a real Italian pizzeria. To conclude the evening, nothing is better than ?poor knights?, or French toast. Usually known as a salty treat for breakfast in the US and UK, the Finnish version . Food products are still safe to consume even after the indicated ?best before. Place back in the over/hot grill until the cream starts to colour and glaze, and the cheese has begun to melt. . Then arrange the cheese and bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C for 8-10 minutes. PIRK K A Presto Pizza using leftovers Ingredients: 1 ciabatta loaf, cut in half lengthways Dash of olive oil 1 large onion, thinly sliced 250 g vegetables, roughly chopped (e.g. Turn on the grill/fan function in the oven. Carefully pour over the back of a spoon into the glass, on top of the kiwi. . named köyhät ritarit . On average, a Finn discards 23 kg of food annually, while in other regions of Europe and North America, for example, the numbers rise to 250 kg per capita. 2 shallots, finely chopped . Still have some chicken left from last night