trust in nine central
institutions of society. Amin Asikainen discusses life after his boxing
career.
See pages 13,14
Military exercise part
of a training exchange
between the two
countries.
J A R M O H U H TA N E N . Arja Pulliainen, special adviser at the
Finnish Transport Safety Agency,
recommends that travellers arrive
at the airport in good time.
?If large numbers of passengers
taking a long-haul ?ight and carrying baby food turn up at the same
time, delays at security checks are
possible,. Only over
a third of respondents announced
trust towards them. The results of the collaboration will be assessed before deciding on the continuation of the
programme in autumn 2014.
Research: Finns trust
the President and media
43 per cent, i.e. explains Pulliainen.. explains Hulkko.
According to the Defence Forces,
the goal of the training cooperation
is to develop the national defence
ability. 15 JANUARY 2014 . SAK predicts
a downturn in the service sector.
See pages 8,9
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LIFESTYLE & SPORTS
Bellies and Asikainen
Japanese baby belly paintings are
gaining popularity. The margin of error was three per cent at its
highest.
Opposition parties
trusted the least.
Singlee
tickets andd
day tickets
L E H T I K U VA / A P F P H O T O / RO B E R T L . The most suspicious group
were supporters of the Left Alli-
FINNS
ance, 39 per cent of whom trust the
government.
The foundation?s research investigated citizens. The
American marines participating in
the programme are non-commissioned of?cers in rank. says Hulkko.
Just like the Finnish Air Forces,
USMC uses Hornet ?ghter jets. 9 . HS
NIINA WOOLLE Y . F I S H E R
US Marine Corps undertaking
winter warfare training in Finland
BUSINESS
ST T . H T
trust the President, a recent
survey by the Foundation for Municipal Development reveals.
95 per cent of supporters of
the National Coalition Party and
70 per cent of all respondents announced that they trust the President. Helsinki Times is also available for sale in more than 140 kiosks across Finland.
Bonus cards
and service redundancies
The FCCA is to undertake a study
of the effects of the K- and Sgroup loyalty cards. The Finnish
Defence Forces will send trainees to
courses organised by the US Navy
later on during the year.
?We can?t reveal at present who
will be sent to the training, and don?t
yet know what courses will be organ-
ised that could bene?t our defence.
Sniper training is something we
would ?nd useful,. It
was least common among supporters of the Finns Party, only 26 per
cent of whom trust the government.
The second most common object of trust was the media. HT
PASSENGERS should prepare for
long queues at airport security
checks at the end of January when
a new EU regulation enters into
force.
Under the new regulation, liquids, including baby foods, liquid
medicines and special diet products
in liquid form, must be analysed
with liquid scanners from 31 January onwards.
Rules on the liquids that can be
carried in hand luggage will remain
the same but the new security procedure may lead to some delays. HT
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Available by subscription, on board more than 350 Finnair flights, on Allegro trains and in all top-quality hotels in Finland. We have a
lot in common,. The new regulation will also bring some bene?ts to transit
travellers, who can take liquids
bought at an airport outside the EU
or on the aeroplane to a connecting
?ight.
?If you buy liquids in Bangkok,
you can carry them in your hand
luggage on a connecting ?ight from
Helsinki for example to Oulu,. ?3 . Over half of
supporters of the Centre Party
and 20 per cent of the adherents of
the Left Alliance trust municipal
decision-makers.
The opposition parties are trusted the least. You can
transfer from one
vehicle to another
with a single ticket
within the validity
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www.hsl.?
US Marine Officer Mark Robinson checks Corporal Ian Juarenas?s equipment in Djibouti in December.
is one of the ?ve US military service
branches, along with the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard.
The ?rst group of Americans will
commence their training with the
Jaeger Brigade this week, focusing
on operations in winter conditions.
Next week and the week following,
the second group will attend training in Helsinki involving battle ex-
ercises in urban environment. Only a third of people expressed trust
towards companies and employer
organisations, mostly among fol-
lowers of the National Coalition
Party and least among supporters
of the Left Alliance.
Decision-makers of home municipalities do not signi?cantly enjoy the trust of citizens. ISSUE 2 (336) . USMC
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. Trust was strongest among
supporters of the National Coalition
and the Social Democratic Party. Trust towards
the President and government differed distinctly for the bene?t of the
head of state: only 39 per cent of respondents trust the government.
Out of the supporters of governing
parties only supporters of the National Coalition Party, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats
declared trust towards the government. says Pulliainen.
Because of the forthcoming reform, the Helsinki airport has
bought a number of liquid scanners,
some of which will be installed in
connection with X-ray machines,
while the rest will be separate de-
vices. 25
per cent of citizens, trust the opposition moderately or very much.
61 per cent of the Finns Party supporters and 50 per cent of the Centre Party trust the opposition.
The survey was executed by TNS
Gallup, and 1,079 interviews were
carried out in December. HT
THE INFANTRY of the Finnish army
is helping the United States Marine
Corps (USMC) train for winter and
urban warfare with nearly ten marines attending training in Finland
this month.
Brigadier General Petri Hulkko from the Army Command says
that the military exercise is part of
a training exchange in which Finland
has already participated before with
the US army Special Forces attending training in Finland last time.
This time the training is organised by the Jaeger Brigade in
Sodankylä, which specialises in
Arctic warfare, and the Guard Jaeger Regiment in Santahamina in
Helsinki, the main task of which is
to train troops in urban warfare.
?USMC is like the Finnish Defence Forces in miniature, comprising all military branches. H S
NIINA WOOLLE Y . Supporters of the Left Alliance
included less people who trust the
government than the supporters of
the Centre Party of the opposition.
New EU rule to cause delays at airport security checks
VIRVE RISSANEN . 74 per
cent of the supporters of the Green
Party, and only 40 per cent of supporters of the Finns Party trust the
media.
41 per cent of respondents declared trust towards the trade union movement, most signi?cantly
among supporters of the Social
Democratic Party and Green Party, and least among supporters of
the National Coalition Party. less than half of
the respondents trust the government. Only a quarter, i.e
Only with a right
approach to history, can the
future be embraced. One can only draw three logical con-
clusions: First, waging wars
against other countries and
killing other people are honorable deeds that should be
?revered and remembered?.
Class-A war criminals could
be hailed as ?heroes?. Yet it
is still worrying that immoral state leaders may take the
country and the people in evil
directions.
a sharp contrast that
Germany?s resolute denouncement of Nazism and
sincere repentance of its
past war crimes to the victim countries and peoples
played a pivotal role in healing the wounds, restoring
trust and promoting regional reconciliation, and laid the
IT IS
DURING the past few decades,
a few Japanese leaders of the
far-right nature have repeatedly attempted to glorify the
aggressive wars toward victim countries regardless of
abundant and irrefutable
historical evidence. Even
in Uruguay, majority opinion
still opposes legalisation, and
other countries . The UN may push back
against the new law.
THE UNITED
PENDULUM of public
opinion currently swings toward legalisation, at least in
THE
the United States. But pendulums swing in both directions.
While US opposition to Uruguay?s new law has so far been
muted . This is an important victory in the ?ght against drug
prohibition: it marks the ?rst
THESE consequences spring
from the illegal markets for
marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and
several other drugs. in the 1980s.
new law constitutes real progress in dismantling prohibition, but it
will not be a lasting victory
unless supporters embrace
more complete legalisation,
and for all drugs.
URUGUAY?S
SUPPORTERS should not restrict their case to claims
about lower crime rates or
increased tax revenue; they
should also argue that, out
of respect for personal freedom, policy must let individuals, not governments,
decide who produces and uses drugs.. More likely, however, these restrictions will
keep the black market alive,
undoing the key bene?t of
legalisation.
URUGUAY?S new law is very
restrictive: Individuals can
purchase no more than 40
grams of marijuana per
month (and must register
in a government database),
and producers can cultivate
no more than six plants unless they join growers. The essence of
the issue of Yasukuni Shrine
is not about paying homage,
but a touchstone about Japan?s attitude towards its
past history of aggression,
a touchstone about Japan?s
courage to assume the historical responsibility, and
IT IS
?entering. This is an impossible
task. 2
VIEWPOINT
9 . perhaps because of
recent marijuana legalisations
in Colorado and Washington
. If
marijuana users and producers have no trouble staying within these limits, then
the limits themselves are irrelevant. The World has taken on a
new look and longstanding
peace has been maintained.
However, recently there
have been some unharmonious voices and actions which
threatened to change the
post-war international order,
trying to erode the principles
of world peace and stability.
ON 26 DECEMBER ,
H.E. Comparing with Germany?s resolution, we may well ask: what
did Japan do to self-examine the war crimes committed to the victim countries?
What is the future for Japan?s
relationship with its neighbours. Recall that 14 states
decriminalised marijuana in
the 1970s, only to see the United States escalate its ?War on
Drugs. own and do not represent the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
Yasukuni Shrine, a touchstone of
Japan?s attitudes towards history and future
II. Miron is the author of
Libertarianism, from A to Z.
ON DECEMBER 23, Uruguayan
President José Mujica signed
a new law that fully legalises marijuana in his country.
Uruguay had already legalised possession, but the new
law legalises production and
sale. It marks the 70th
anniversary of the Battle of
Normandy which was one of
the important turning points
of World War II. not an appropriate realm for government
interference . for the Japanese soldiers.
We believe that the crimes
and responsibilities of the
war of aggression should be
borne by the small number of
militarists, and the Japanese
people are peace-loving and
also victims of the war. Countries around the world are
getting increasingly interdependent. Mr. A new Institute for
the Regulation and Control
of Cannabis will supervise all
of this.
IN FACT,
if marijuana legalisation leads authorities to
increase their enforcement
efforts in other drug markets, then violence, corruption, and other ills due to
prohibition may increase. which,
by the way, appear to bar Uruguay from legalising marijuana. Huang Xing is the Ambassador of the People?s Republic of China to Finland.
Year 2014 has just
dawned. Now, lessons
could still be drawn from
that dark episode of history.
THE NEW
NEARLY 70 years have passed
since the end of World War
2013, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid homage to the
Yasukuni Shrine which was
a symbol of Japanese militarism in its war of aggression and colonial rule during
World War II and still enshrines 14 Class-A war
criminals convicted by the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East. in the textbooks,
and question the legitimacy
and verdict of International Military Tribunal for the
Far East, and deny the fact
of Nanjing Massacre and the
existence of ?comfort women. Weak controls of the legal market have minimal impact, and signi?cant controls
keep the black market active.
Policymakers must accept
that drug use is an individual decision . Marijuana
can only be sold in state-regulated pharmacies and cannot be exported or sold to
tourists. particularly the United States . Since
marijuana has already become de facto legal in many
countries, its contribution to
drug-related crime and corruption is more limited. If we
want to have a peaceful and
prosperous 21st century,
then no country should be allowed to whitewash its past
aggression and turn back the
wheel of history.
HAVING
Uruguay and marijuana legalisation
full legalisation of an illicit drug since worldwide drug
prohibition began in 1919.
However, the broader and
longer-term effects of the
new law are far from certain.
has proven to
have little bene?t, and comes
with a long list of negative
side effects: it generates violent, corrupt black markets that increase the use of
dirty needles and the spread
of HIV and other diseases; it
results in civil-liberties infringements in the form of
warrantless searches, racial
pro?ling, and the unnecessary incarceration of thousands; and governments
waste resources on police
and prisons, and leave potential tax revenue as pro?t for
illegal traf?ckers.
PROHIBITION
Jeffrey Miron is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Cato
Institute. By
paying tribute to these war
criminals, what kind of signals is the Japanese leader
sending to other Asian countries and to the people of his
own country. and that restrictions on the purchase
and production of marijuana
are counter-productive.
IT IS FAR too soon to conclude
THESE
that the argument for legalisation has been won. It
would then appear as though
marijuana legalisation had
exacerbated the problems
it claims to reduce, thereby
supporting the arguments of
prohibitionists.
restrictions on the
legal market are somewhere between irrelevant
and counter-productive. may
yet intervene in Uruguay?s
marijuana legalisation.
States pushed
drug prohibition on the world
via the Treaty of Versailles
in 1919, and its role as ?prohibitionist-in-chief?
has
continued under the UN?s
drug-control treaties . Abe?s act
has gone too far and posed
threats to peace and stability of Asia region and the
world. 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. Second, it is alright to disrespect
and challenge post-war international order. clubs,
which also face strict lim-
URUGUAY?S approach attempts to eliminate the ills of prohibition while still
controlling access to marijuana. This has set off alarm
bells and raised strong concerns across the international community.
of course a very dangerous trend, as one question has to be asked: by
paying homage to the Yasukuni Shrine, where will
Shinzo Abe lead the Japanese
people to?
IT IS
of course a very dangerous trend that challenges
world justice and threatens
to weaken and overthrow
the post-war international order, which is at the root
of peace and stability of the
past 70 years. the next US president may
take a harder line against marijuana. The answers do not
seem to be very optimistic
and encouraging.
entered into the
second decade of the 21st
century, the international
situation continues to be profound and complex. You can submit your articles to viewpoint@helsinkitimes.fi.
Articles should be at least 5,000 characters-with-spaces long (maximum length 10,000). 15 JANUARY 2014
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Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. They describe Japan?s aggression as
foundations for peace, stability and common prosperity
in post-war Europe. Legalising marijuana therefore
addresses but one part of a
larger problem, and may not
reduce the negative effects
of prohibition.
its on production. Third, Abe
does not have to care about
the sufferings and feelings of
other Asian countries.
a touchstone about Japan?s
will to live peacefully with its
neighbors under the framework of the post-war international order
The survey
on Finns. lives with a
half of Finns considering Finland a nanny state gone too
far, reveals a new survey commissioned by Yle. 15 JANUARY 2014
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L E H T I K U VA / P E T R A P I I T U L A I N E N
Negative effects of
alcohol use diminished
slightly in 2012
IR IN A VÄ H Ä S A R J A . values contained 13
questions on topical issues.
In the study, the respondents were asked whether they
agreed or disagreed with the
claim that the state regulates
Finns. views on the nanny state.
?We already have a lot of
freedoms, we should be able
to get by with those. If someone comes up with some
glaring drawback, then they
should go to the barricades,?
Mikkonen told Yle.
The survey also revealed
that 56 per cent of Finns believe that social bene?ts
lead to people not taking responsibility over their own
lives. This is less than the
alcohol tax revenue, which
amounted to 1.38 billion euro in 2012. In
particular, care days result-
ing from withdrawal symptoms decreased.
Instead, substance abuse
counselling services provided detoxi?cation as usual: the number of treatment
days remained the same.
Care days in rehabilitative
substance abuse counselling
services decreased, but the
time spent with related residential services was higher
than the previous year.
The number of drunken
drivers caught decreased by
11 per cent compared to the
previous year. H S
THE RECENTLY published Yearbook of Alcohol and Drug Statistics includes information
about the situation on alcohol
and drugs in Finland in 2012.
Besides the adverse effects the consumption of alcohol also saw a decrease: in
2012 9.6 litres per inhabitant
of 100 per cent alcohol was
consumed in Finland, whereas in 2011 the corresponding
?gure was 10.1 litres.
Days spent in health care
as a result of alcohol use decreased by ?ve per cent compared to the previous year. Tax revenue was
up by a hundred million euro
in 2012.
28 per cent of working-age men, and 7 per cent of women admit to binge drinking on a weekly basis.
Yle: Half of Finns consider Finland a nanny state
HEL SINGIN SANOMAT
NIINA WOOLLE Y . Besides their
view on the validity of the
claim, the respondents were also asked how important they
considered the issue. lives too much through
legislation and that individuals?
rights should be increased. 17.30
Wednesday 5.2.2014 at 16 . Half of
the respondents believed the
extent of the state?s involvement to be an important issue,
a view that was not dependent
on either the respondent?s income or social status.
Some well-known Finns
were also asked to comment
on the results of the survey.
Nina Mikkonen, the wife
of the Finnish TV presenter Timo T.A. DOMESTIC
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Alcohol use of workingage men and women has remained approximately steady
throughout the 2000s according to the statistical publication, but alcohol among young
people and binge drinking has
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According to
Niemi, financial sustainability is a basic requirement for independent journalism.
?We?ve had to make some difficult and far-reaching decisions to keep Helsingin Sanomat afloat amidst the economic
downturn and the changes taking place in the media field.?
Media group Sanoma had initially announced that 70 jobs
might have to be axed but solutions, such as transfers within
the company, shifting to part-time contracts and pension arrangements, helped cut the final number of redundancies. speculates Frank
Johansson, head of Amnesty
International?s Finnish branch.
Based on preliminary data for 2013, Norway received
just under 1,000 asylum applications from Syrian refugees.
?On the whole, it?s dif?cult for the Syrians to enter
countries where they could
seek asylum. They get turned
away at the borders to Greece
and Bulgaria and despite all
the promises, acquiring vi-
sas to Schengen countries is
like drawing blood from of a
stone,. We?ll continue to develop our print paper while aiming
to be a forerunner in the digital field in future. The
need for staff cutbacks arose as a result of savings measures
concerning the whole media group and the reform of editorial
processes required by the workings of a multichannel news service.
?The skills and experience gained from the collaboration
between the Channel Four news and Helsingin Sanomat improves the paper?s online news services. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . We?re looking to the
future. The
polar circle, ?trains operating faithfully on time?, Russia and ?fairy tale design. It has
become slightly more common in Finland for employers
to organise language training,. 4
DOMESTIC
9 . Niemi stated.
Last year, the number of all
asylum applications to Finland
totalled 3,238, while 54,259 refugees sought asylum in Sweden. And my
view is that we have to be realistic regarding the numbers,?
says Arno Tanner, expert
from Helsinki University, who
works as a project manager at
the European Asylum Support
Of?ce in Malta.
Both Tanner and Johansson
are realistic when considering
whether Finland is carrying
its share of the responsibility, noting that, when it comes
to asylum seekers, Finland is
in the group that does not receive a large number of asylum applications and only
accept a few. 15 JANUARY 2014
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L E H T I K U VA / S A F I N H A M E D
Opportunities
for learning
Finnish at work
slowly increasing
Finnish language
skills required
from immigrants
vary greatly across
different lines
of work.
HS/ST T
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . Both ?gures are up from
2012, with Finland receiving 3
per cent more applications and
Sweden 24 per cent.
Sweden was the third
most sought after destination
in Europe for asylum seekers,
behind France and Germany
and in relation to population
it received by far the highest
number of applications.
In 2013, Sweden granted asylum to around 29,000
asylum seekers, Finland to
1,800. he adds,
explaining why the number
of refugees seeking asylum in
Finland decreased last year
even though the Syrian con?ict escalated.
Besides asylum seekers,
Finland will resettle 500 Syrian refugees next year, 200
of whom will be taken within the current resettlement
quota and the remaining 300
by increasing the quota.
?Considering the seriousness of the con?ict, a few hundred refugees is a drop in the
ocean but is on par for the
course when bearing in mind
Finland?s past record. It might make
more sense to compare Finland
and Norway,. says Johansson.
?On the other hand, Finland is far away and we don?t
have a Syrian community
here, unlike Sweden,. HT
received 149 asylum applications from Syrians displaced by continuing
violence in the country, reveal preliminary statistics
given to Helsingin Sanomat
by the Finnish Immigration
Service.
As expected, the ?gures
published by the Swedish
Migration Board look very
different: 16,300 Syrian ref-
FINLAND
ugees applied for asylum in
Sweden last year.
The growing number of
Syrians forced to ?ee the
country is in con?ict with
the number of asylum applications received by Finland,
with the ?gure having gone
down from 183 in 2012.
The Syrian crisis escalated in 2013, forcing 1.3 million
people to leave their homes
during the ?rst half of the
year alone, according to statistics compiled by the UN.
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37 jobs were axed after the cooperation negotiations at Helsingin Sanomat, Channel Four News and Metro, that started
at the beginning of November, drew to a close. Bergbom states.
For example, in Norway employers are obligated
to provide language training for people of a foreign
background.
?Our research indicates
that employed immigrants
would prefer to learn Finnish. Requirements
are stricter in customer service or patient work.
?There are many jobs and
occupations with no of?cial
language skill requirements,
yet employers often demand
ACCORDING
Asylum applications from Syrians
much fewer than in Sweden
Number of applications to Finland less than
10 per cent of neighbouring country.
J A N N E T O I V O N E N . I believe in our
ability to renew,. H S
NIINA WOOLLE Y . Tanner, however,
remarks that explaining away
the small number of asylum
seekers by Finland being on
the periphery could easily be
an excuse.
?It becomes a self-ful?lling prophecy. This is not fully utilised.?. H T
THE BRITISH Broadcasting
Corporation BBC has chosen
Helsinki?s railway station
among the ten most beautiful railway stations.
The story praises the station, which was designed by
Eliel Saarinen and completed in 1919, as an ambitious
and beautiful building. According to the BBC it is magical, peculiar and grand,
also with functionality and
purposefulness.
Composer Jean Sibelius
was also mentioned when
discussing the station. says
Bergbom.
Bergbom points out that
Finland also has many jobs
with English as a working
language. The percentage of accepted applications was similar in both countries and
they usually agreed to resettle Syrian asylum seekers.
Sweden also resettled the
highest number of underage
asylum seekers without a
family in Europe: over 3,800,
while Finland took 156 underage refugees.
Compared with Finland,
Sweden also handles applications at lightning speed,
granting a decision in 120 days
on average whereas in Finland
the process takes 269 days.
Neighbours in
different leagues
When it comes to matters
related to asylum seekers,
Finland and Sweden are in
different leagues.
?Comparing the two countries is like comparing apples
and oranges. H T
to researcher Barbara Bergbom at the
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, opinions
vary regarding adequate language skills. It serves as a
reason for not receiving asylum applications and also as
grounds for not admitting
more asylum seekers.?
Johansson argues that
Finland is sending a clear
message.
?No one with authority
is giving out signals that we
are prepared to take more
refugees.?
BBC includes
Helsinki?s railway
station in the top
ten list of most
beautiful stations
A N N - M A R I H U H TA N E N . are
also mentioned, along with
the men made of stone.
The list also includes New
York?s Grand Central Terminal and the Victorian-era St.
Pancras station in London.
Those representing more
modern architecture are
Santa Novella station in Firenze, opened in 1934, Moscow?s station of Kazan,
completed in 1940 and the
main railway station in Berlin, opened by Angela Merkel
in 2006.
L E H T I K U VA / V E S A M O I L A N E N
Syrian Kurds seeking water at the Quru Gusiki refugee camp in Iraq on 29 December.
knowledge of Finnish,. Russian is also an
increasingly sought after
language in working life.
According to research by
the Institute of Occupational
Health only a few workplaces
organise language education.
?A good place to learn a
language is at work
says
Chief Customs Inspector Juha Paasu. Having anti-virus software
installed on the computer
is not an adequate security
measure if the program is not
updated regularly, along with
the operating system and other software on the computer.
?It?s an arms race as
harmful software programs
are being developed nonstop. It is
L EH T IK U VA / PA BLO P ORC IUNC UL A
Numerous drivers
make the trip in a
car that is too
heavily loaded.. computers,. Moving cargos may also be too heavy for
cars.
Information on a car?s
carrying capacity can be
found the manual as well as
registration. explains Detective
Inspector Tero Muurman
from the National Bureau of
Investigation.
UP TO 30
SUS A NN A R E INB O T H . H T
hacking attempts
targeting a Finnish Internet
bank came to light last week
on Thursday afternoon. 19.8%
No . The Police also checks cars that are
suspiciously packed if they
are detected, reveals inspector Heikki Kallio from the
Helsinki Police Department.
One of those who received
a ?ne at West Harbour was
a man arriving from Tallinn
with an off-road vehicle, a
friend and a load of alcohol.
?We are talking about
two people?s needs for six
months. The
decision on legalising cannabis would remain the responsibility of the parliament.
?There is no such common social need that compels
to deny the association the
right to become registered?,
the court outlines.
The Supreme Administrative Court made the
yearbook decision at the plenary session of the entire
division.
Hackers withdraw considerable sums of
money during holiday season.
L AUR A H A L M IN E N . Knowledge on information security should be part
of people?s general knowledge,. 15 JANUARY 2014
5
L E H T I K U VA / RO N I R E KO M A A
Many bring
overweight carloads
of liquor from Tallinn
IR IN A VÄ H Ä S A R J A . It turned
out that the permitted load is
just over 400 kilos.
Surprisingly few drivers
know their car?s carrying capacity, explains Antero Lammi, Education Manager at
the Central Organisation for
Traf?c Safety in Finland.
?It is rather common for
cars to be loaded with cargos
that are too heavy, and tied
completely inadequately or
not at all,. It?s premature to
claim that other banks are
safe from similar attacks.?
On Friday, police did not
yet have any more detailed
information on the type of
the malware used or on the
way the program works,
making it dif?cult to speculate who is behind the attacks or why one particular
bank has been targeted.
?The malware being able
to be installed on custom-
as the purpose of the association is ?against the opinions
of justice and morality in our
society?.
The purpose of the rules
of the Cannabis Association
is to in?uence intoxicant
policies and legislation so
that the use, possession and
farming of cannabis would
be legal for adults.
The Supreme Administrative Court points out in its
yearbook ruling that according to the European Court of
Human Rights (ECtHR) denying the association the right
to register is a serious restriction on the freedom of
association. In 2011, American
credit cards were used to order massage oil for the thenpresident Tarja Halonen, and
in 2012 the websites of various Finnish media companies
came to a standstill as a result
of deliberate efforts to disrupt
their services.
?People have unusually
large amounts of money on
their accounts before Christmas after receiving their
tax refunds at the beginning
of December. H S
A N N IK A R AU TA KOUR A . Driving becomes unsteady and it is easier to lose control of the car.
An untied load may also cause a lot of harm in an
accident.
The man caught in the
raid at Western Harbour is
pleased with the surveillance
of car loads despite his nineday ?ne. H T
is often an
overweight cargo of alcohol
from Estonia that may exceed the allowed carrying
capacity of a passenger car,
even if it ?ts inside it.
In a customs raid at Helsinki?s West Harbour on
New Year?s Eve ten cars were
weighed, and nearly all were
overweight.
?Six were ?ned and two
received a warning,. says
Muurman.
In recent years, the number
of cyber attacks has increased
during the period running into
Christmas. ?It is an extremely
good thing?, he says.
He was permitted to leave
the harbor only after an acquaintance arrived and took
the friend and extra load into his car.
The arrangements for
the continuation of the other person caught in the raid
were more complicated.
?There were four men,
three of whom had to take a
train to Oulu.?
How much alcohol can a car safely carry?
Example:
A ?koda Octavia Combi station wagon
carrying a driver and four passengers.
27
boxes containing
24 cans of beer,
weighing
9 kg each
Car?s capacity 50 litres
weight with
of petrol
a driver
4 passengers,
each weighing
80 kg
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Alcohol-free January is a popular way to start the year in Finland.
If you normally consume
alcohol, are you abstaining this month?
Yes . says the man, who
wishes to stay anonymous.
The
customs
scale
was merciless: 250 kilos
overweight.
?It was a complete surprise. computers points at the
hackers exploiting a vulnerability in these computers.?
In all cases, the hackers
have tried to steal considerable sums of money.
?We are talking about
sums amounting to 1,000
euros each or more,. reveals Muurman.
?We?re not revealing the
name of the bank yet as doing
so could lull the customers of
other banks into a false sense
of security. 80.2%
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
The hackers may have assumed that the thefts wouldn?t be spotted amidst all other online transactions. The ?gure can
be calculated by subtracting
the mass of the car from the
total mass.
Too heavy a load is a strain
on the car?s springs and
shock absorbers. In their opinion the rules of the association are against good morals,
ACCORDING
The hacker attacks were
discovered by a Finnish bank.
?So far, all the victims have
been customers of one particular bank,. Looking from the outside I did notice that the car
was indeed sunk down a little
under the weight.?
According to the man
it did not cross his mind to
check the carrying capacity,
THE PROBLEM
even though he has had the
car for seven years. Lammi states.
Besides drink loads, construction supplies, such as
bricks and concrete bags
cause problems. Muuranen stresses.
?Perhaps people should
think of using an old computer for sur?ng online and another, newer one for online
banking purposes.?
Supreme Administrative Court:
the Cannabis Association is
not against good morals
not the court?s task to take a
stance on whether the goal of
the association is acceptable
as such, the ruling states. Banks are also closed over
the Christmas holidays.
Dozens of attempted
online bank thefts revealed
ers. Registration can
only be prevented through
heavy social grounds.
The Supreme Administrative Court emphasises
that in?uencing policies on
the use of intoxicants is not
against democratic or constitutional principles. H S
N IIN A W OO L L E Y . Customs raids are
organised every year. DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . The
tabloid Ilta-Sanomat was the
?rst to report the attempted
thefts when the number of
attacks had risen to 20.
The ?rst of the cyber attacks took place in mid-December and the most recent
was around the New Year.
?At the moment it seems
likely that the malware used
in the online frauds was installed on customers. Muurman speculates.
?The hackers may have
assumed that the thefts
wouldn?t be spotted amidst
all other online transactions.
Banks are also closed over
the Christmas holidays.?
Muuranen stresses the importance of computer security. H T
to the Supreme
Administrative Court the
Finnish Cannabis Association should be allowed to
register in the Register of Associations. H S
A N N IK A R AU TA KOUR A . But there was still
room,. The association
is not legally contra bonos
more, although it aims to
change the current law, the
court ruled.
The National Board of
Patents and Registration of
Finland has rejected the Cannabis Association?s notice of
registration. People are also preoccupied with their
Christmas shopping,
the
law can be broken, if it is for
a good cause.
Most Finns appear to believe that the law is to be followed, no matter what one?s
own sense of justice says. 6
FROM FINNISH PRESS
9 . ARI TENHO
?INCREASINGLY
S e e o u r va s t a nd a bs olutel y fabul ous
co u r s e p ro g ra m m e !
h e l a o. These online stores
sell especially brand clothes
for unreasonably low prices.
The police do not compile
statistics on hoaxes in Finland. side by side with France
has dropped its
traditional reference countries and become estranged
in strange company. Defenders emphasised the non-violent nature
of the act and the tradition
of civil disobedience . All parties have done
rather well in that sense?, Ylitalo says, referring to Matkahuolto?s increased ticket
sales, and for example OnniBus and VR.?
L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R
VERKKOUUTISET 5 JANUARY. The price
of a trip from Helsinki to
Tampere could thus cost only 9 euros. Prices of the local
train traf?c went up at the
turn of the year. Competition in bus transportation has
pushed ticket prices down.
Business director of
Matkahuolto Jukka Ylitalo considers competition in
long-distance transportation tough, but also positive.
?Different pricing models
in public transportation are
used for attracting new customers. Finland is no longer in the same
group as Germany and Sweden. Professor of law Panu Minkkinen
is not surprised by the result.
?Comparably we Finns are
law-abiding people who may
grumble, but in the end we
do follow the law,. Was
climbing the Russian oil rig
acceptable or not. During
?FINLAND
this year, several economic experts have bundled Finland together with the more
southern EU countries of
economic stagnation.
The matter was brought
up by the main economist of
Handelsbanken, Tiina Helenius, as early as last spring.
?The new reference country of Finland is France,. In both
countries the increase of salary costs in relation to production quantities has eaten up
prerequisites for operation.
In July the European Commissioner for Economic and
Co m e a n d e n j oy
l e a r n i n g th e ea s i e s t
language in the wo rld!
Fi nn i s h fo r Fo re i g n e r s
Monetary Affairs, Olli Rehn,
had the similar disconcerting
message to convey.
?Finland has been lagging
a few years behind for example France and Italy, but
the symptoms are very similar, i.e. He-
lenius stated, according to
Taloussanomat, basing her
stance on similar problems
of cost competitiveness abilities, for example. Its growth appears to
be the weakest within the region of the Baltic Sea.
France makes up the new
reference group. Residents
of Kerava and Kirkkonummi
currently use tickets of the
Helsinki Regional Transport
Authority instead of VR.
The prices of Matkahuolto remained unchanged along
with the new year. VR increased prices by 2.5 per cent during the
night between Tuesday and
Wednesday.
In practice this means
that for example the Helsinki-Tampere ticket, normally
worth 38 euro, will cost a euro more from now on.
VR will, however, continue to provide reasonably
priced sale tickets. Instead, these crimes
are registered under the
criminal heading of fraud.
The Police Administration
estimates that a large share
of online hoaxes remain
unnoticed.?
YLE 6 JANUARY.
ANU VILKMAN
a proper punishment was
called for. Minkkinen says.
In the survey, civil obedience was mostly demanded
by women, people with the
highest incomes (over 70,000
euro per year) or those working in executive positions.
Education or living place did
not signi?cantly affect the
answers.?
Finns:
Law
bypasses
morality
by Yle news
over half of Finns believe that
the law is not to be broken,
even if it contradicts one?s
morality.
The relationship between
law and morality has recently
been pondered, especially in
relation to the actions of the
Greenpeace activists. According
to opponents of the incident,
?IN A SURVEY
TURUN SANOMAT 6 JANUARY
Prices of train tickets increase
?THE PRICES of long-distance
train traf?c went up after
Epiphany. Companies advertising on Facebook
have been reported to the European Consumer Agency in
Finland. weakened competitiveness and loss of market
share around the world, with
a simultaneously weakened
durability of the public economy?, Rehn stated in an interview by MTV3.
During the last years the
Southern problem countries
have been a cause for amusement. 15 JANUARY 2014
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C O M P I L E D B Y A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A
L E H T I K U VA / G E O R G E S GO B E T
AAMULEHTI 6 JANUARY
Helsingin Sanomat:
Online stores often
provide fake clothes
Olli Rehn is concerned over Finland?s economic competitiveness.
Finland in strange company
. Especially Greece?s ability to make a mess of things
has been a source of complaint
amidst the stimulus packages.
The image of France?s ability to renew its economy also
seems to be very pessimistic
in Finland.?
many Finns
make the mistake of buying
fake name brands, Helsingin
Sanomat reveals.
Credit card company Nets
Oy receives weekly contacts
from customers who have
thought they have ordered a
name brand and instead received a fake one.
According to the paper,
fake products are advertised
in the social media. f i
Institute of Adult Education in Helsink i
Helsingin aikuisopisto
Tö ö l ö nt u l l i n k at u 8 , 0 0 2 5 0 H e l s i n k i
VR increased train ticket prices after Epiphany.
said
Haq, who inaugurated an anti-polio campaign along with
cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan in December in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
?The notion that the oral
polio vaccine (OPV) is a ploy
by the US to reduce the population of Muslims is incorrect,. He noted that
Kiir and Machar belonged to
the same government and the
same party, until they split
due to political differences.. Thousands of people are
feared to have been killed in the fighting, pitting army units loyal to President Salva Kiir against a
loose alliance of ethnic militia forces and mutinous army commanders nominally headed by ex-vice
president Riek Machar.
dence of gross violations of
international human rights
law that have occurred in
South Sudan during the past
15 days,. rather than an
ethnic con?ict. Maulana Tahir Ashra?,
lio workers as well as the policemen protecting them.
?It is a matter of grave
concern that the Taliban disregard edicts issued by acclaimed scholars about the
effectiveness and legality of
OPV,. she said.
?We need to do everything
possible to prevent such a cycle of violence between communities of South Sudan.?
However South Sudan
political analyst Matthew
LeRiche told Al Jazeera the
?ghting is ?very much a political struggle. said Haq.
Of Pakistan?s 35 million
children, 80,000 remain unimmunised, according to Elias Durry, chief of the World
Health Organisation (WHO)
Pakistan polio eradication
campaign. he said.
?On the one hand they
claim to promote Islam, on the
other they defy Islamic scholars. before they retake Bor, which was captured
by rebels.
Fighting is also going on in
other fronts like Mayom and
Malakal, he said.
Violence ?rst erupted in
South Sudan on Dec. for any crimes against
humanity.
Johnson, the UN special representative, has said
there is evidence that South
Sudanese citizens are being
targeted ?on ethnic grounds?.
?This can lead to a perpetual cycle of violence that can
destroy the fabric of the new
nation,. Islam asks its followers
to protect children from diseases. in South Sudan.
?We have seen terrible
acts of violence in the past
two weeks, there have been
killings and brutality, human
rights violations and atrocities
committed,. Maulana Sa-
miul Haq, chancellor of the
Darul Uloom Haqqania, one
of Pakistan?s biggest madrassas or Islamic seminaries,
told IPS.
He too had issued a decree
a month earlier, calling upon
parents to vaccinate children
against poliomyelitis and
prevent disability. It is the basic responsibility of parents to ensure the
good health of their children.?
Not only do the Taliban
expose children to disease,
they also bring Islam into disrepute by refusing to allow
vaccination, Nabi said.
While preaching against
vaccination in Waziristan
Agency in FATA, the Taliban
had said it was an American
tool to spy on them. The
edict bore signatures of top
religious scholars from Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan and
Saudi Arabia.
But it hasn?t helped.
Ali said the attacks on polio workers have escalated.
The Taliban continue to deprive children of much-need
vaccination.
In March 2013, three Pakistani religious scholars
. Gunmen shot dead a health officer supervising an anti-polio
vaccination campaign after storming a hospital where children were being immunised in Pakistan?s
troubled northwest, officials said.
Maulana Samiul Haq and
Maulana Hanif Jalandhri ?
were sent to Cairo to seek
information about OPV in a
religious context. Ali said.
Maulana Muhammad Nabi,
a Peshawar-based cleric, points
out that the Taliban attack po-
From bad to worse
Polio of?cer Anwar Ali says
the situation has gone from
bad to worse because there is
no let-up in Taliban?s attacks
on polio workers.
An international conference of religious scholars in
Islamabad in June had declared that those killing polio workers were in?dels. for talks to
move forward.
Sudanese President
Salva Kiir has declared a
state of emergency in two
states, according to the government?s of?cial Twitter
account.
The decree issued covers Unity and Jonglei, where
government troops and rebel
forces loyal to former vice
president Riek Machar have
been engaged in ?ghting.
The declaration came as
the rival factions were set
to open talks in Ethiopia last
Thursday, aimed at bringing
an end to the nearly threeweek-old con?ict, despite
reports of an imminent military showdown in Jonglei.
Sources said government
and rebel negotiators arrived
in the Ethiopian capital Addis
Ababa on Wednesday 01 Jan.
Ethiopian
government
spokesman Getachew Reda
said the talks would focus on
?monitoring mechanisms for
the cease?re?.
Following the fall of Bor,
Jonglei?s state capital, into the
hands of the rebels on Tues-
Fierce battle imminent
For his part, Kiir named eight
negotiators to represent his
government in the proposed
talks in Ethiopia, Al Jazeera?s
Mohammed Adow reported from the South Sudanese
capital Juba.
Despite the preparations
for the talks, thousands of
government troops were
making their way to Bor in an
effort to wrest back control
of the Jonglei state capital,
setting up another possible
?erce battle with rebels.
Our correspondent quoted government sources as
saying that ?it is just a matter of time. it said in a statement, reporting ?extra-judicial killings of civilians and
captured soldiers. Many parents believe
OPV is harmful. Hilde Johnson,
UN special representative to
South Sudan, told Al Jazeera.
The con?ict has been
marked by an apparent
surge in ethnic violence pitting members of Kiir?s Dinka
tribe against Machar?s Nuer
community.
Continuing ?atrocities?
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said ?atrocities are continuing to occur?
across the country despite efforts to negotiate a cease?re.
?UNMISS is gravely concerned about mounting evi-
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / S A M I R B O L
South Sudan declares emergency in two states
A group of South Sudanese soldiers pose as they patrol the streets of Juba. This is mostly due to
the refusal to administer vaccine by parents suspicious of it
due to socio-cultural reasons.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
which has a population of 22
million, about 22,000 children have not been vaccinated. 15, when
Kiir accused Machar of attempting a coup.
Machar has denied this,
in turn accusing Kiir of conducting a violent purge of his
opponents.
DOHA,
SOUTH SUDAN
SOUTH
The ?ghting has since
spread across the country,
with the rebels seizing several areas in the oil-rich north.
Thousands of people are
feared dead, UN of?cials said,
while close to 200,000 civilians have been forced to ?ee
their homes . in Juba, Bor
and Malakal, the main town
in oil-producing Upper Nile
state.
UNMISS has said it is ?actively collecting information. Since their
return, they have been trying to persuade the Taliban
to allow vaccination, but to
no avail.
The United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF), which
supports the government?s
polio immunisation efforts,
has brought out a booklet
containing nearly 40 religious
decrees supporting vaccination so as to make parents administer polio drops.
?People can be convinced
about vaccination if the Taliban accepts religious decrees
in favour of OPV,. tries to
?ght the crippling disease.
Not even top Islamic
scholars have been able to
make a dent as militants continue to kill polio workers,
and ask parents not to vaccinate their children.
The Taliban are hampering
vaccination work in all provinces, say health workers. many seeking refuge with badly overstretched UN peacekeepers.
Jacob Kurtzer, a representative of the International
Committee of the Red Cross,
told Al Jazeera that refugees
need immediate help.
The UN has said it will do
everything it can to prevent
further ?terrible acts of violence. The disease is infectious and mainly affects children under ?ve.
?We appeal to the Taliban
to stop killing polio workers for
the sake of our children,. The
situation is particularly grave
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and
the Federally Administered
Tribal Areas (FATA) in the
north of Pakistan.
?It is a matter of concern
that the Taliban carry on despite the decrees issued by
religious scholars in favour
of vaccination,. 15 JANUARY 2014
7
L E H T I K U VA / A F P P H O T O / A M A J E E D
Pakistan?s polio
campaign runs
into taliban wall
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN
A SHFAQ YUSUFZ AI
IPS
THE TALIBAN are proving to
be a huge stumbling block for
Pakistan as the South Asian
nation . And the Taliban have only made things
worse.
Taliban militants have
killed 17 people in polio-related incidents in the province
from December 2012 to December 2013, and continue to
block vaccination.
Pakistani rescuers shift an injured health worker wounded while on duty on anti-polio vaccination
campaign, at a hospital in Peshawar. one of only three remaining polio endemic countries in the world . INTERNATIONAL NEWS
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . They argued that the US ran a vaccination campaign through
Shakil Afridi to trap and kill
Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in 2011.
Muzam Khan, an immunisation of?cer in FATA, believes decrees will not boost
the ?ght against polio as long
as the Taliban don?t support
vaccination.
?In 2012, we had 22,000 refusals, and in 2013 the number
of refusals went up to 28,000.
The Taliban are unlikely to pay
any heed to the decrees.?
Israr Madani of the NGO
International Council for Religious Affairs (ICRA) said,
?We have been working with
madrassa publications to understand the extent of the
Taliban?s in?uence on vaccination and the role of decrees?.
IPS
day 31 Dec, the government
and rebels loyal to Machar
agreed to meet for talks.
The South Sudan government, however, refused to
call it a cease?re, saying negotiators must ?rst agree on
?mechanisms. on the atrocities to
be used for future of?cial
investigations.
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has already
given warning that senior
South Sudanese ?gures ?will
be held personally accountable. and the
?discovery of large numbers of bodies
The Baltic states have
an excellent opportunity to grow, with exports, hightech, low labour costs and geographic advantages. As a dominant market position cannot be used
against smaller competitors,
it is easier for the FCCA to intervene with suspected limitations on competition in the
trading business from now
on.
is looking to recruit 30 new
employees.
The company received its
largest order to date a year
ago when it signed a contract
on a dozen 19.5-metre transport boats for the Finnish
Navy. Another is the surrender of their monetary policy. It is common knowledge
that membership systems do
have their effects, but the extent will be discovered with
this research,. The in?ation rate in Finland dropped after our membership, and
other nations have had a similar experience. Economic growth has returned, although real GDP per capita
hasn?t returned to 2007 levels.
LATVIA has some economic advantages in their arsenal.
They are small and open, and Latvians are also crazily
productive. It was a painful
experience. Thanks
to an intense price war, the
company?s pro?ts have remained low in relation to its
13-million-euro turnover.
According to Haro, banks
are unwilling to guarantee
loans if the trading partner
comes from outside the Nordic countries or Germany.
The company, which designs the frames and electric
systems of all their boats, is
aiming to gain a competitive
edge by focusing on vessels
with specialist equipment. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi. Their long-term interest rates are low, too, even
below Italy?s. This can be serious, as is demonstrated in Greece
and Spain. 8
BUSINESS
9 . He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
Welcome
to the euro, Latvia
has joined the Eurozone, becoming the eighteenth country to throw its destiny into the common
pot. Finland gave a loan of
I?m looking forward
?324 million, similar
to the era of the Bal- to the arrangement
we had with Iceland.
tic economic tigers.
YET LATVIA
LATVIA had to embark upon a strict austerity program under the terms of the loans, as well as to meet
the criteria for Eurozone membership. One is the slow creep of a loss of ?scal sovereignty. Their labour productivity took a hit during
the crisis, but quickly returned and surpassed pre-recession levels.
JOINING the Euro should help their international busi-
nesses and tourism as they now don?t have to worry
about the costs and uncertainties of currency ?uctuations. According
to Haro, the mobile giant Nokia
attracted most job-seekers in
the Salo region to its payroll.
Now the boat company is
working together with a local adult training centre to
?gure out which duties the
people who lost their jobs at
Nokia could be retrained to
take over at the shipyard.
David J. It is now impossible to devalue currency,
and only internal devaluation can be used.
has experience with internal devaluation,
because they went through the process during the ?nancial crisis. Results
should be completed by the
end of the year.
Investigating the effects
of the bonuses and pluses of
S and K groups is a relevant
part of the amendment on
grocery shops in the law on
competition, which came into effect early this year.
The amendment rules
that a market share of at
least 30 per cent denotes an
automatic dominant market
position in grocery shops.
In other ?elds the dominant
market position is evaluated
individually.
Both S and K groups exceed the 30 per cent market
position. In the old
shipyard hall, two nearly ?nished boats are waiting to be
shipped, one of them a rescue
boat to Norway and the other a police vessel to Germany.
Despite booming business, Marine Alutech battles
with the same problems as
the larger shipyards. What can Latvia expect,
and what does this mean for Finland?
Membership cards of K- and S-Groups are being scrutinised, the Ykkösbonus card is not.
LATVIA
THEY do have other things to be concerned about,
though. So unless
Latvia is an aberration, I don?t think they should worry
too much about consumer price increases.
Bonus cards may
have restrictions
LATVIA?S low labour costs and high productivity should
enable them to have a strong export-led economy. whether the K and S groups have a
better market position due
to bonus and plus cards,?
states Director-General of
the Finnish Competition and
Consumer Authority Juhani
Jokinen.
The investigation refers
to a survey aimed at consumers, undertaken by FCCA?s
own researchers.
According to Jokinen the
research focuses on consumer behaviour, especially
in grocery stores, such as Kand S-Markets, Alepas and
other shops of the groups.
The survey also includes
the bonus and plus cards?
bene?ts and discounts given
Cooperation
negotiations with
a positive twist
A local shipyard
success story.
JUHANI SA ARINEN . They had a ?7.5 billion bailout, which
consisted of IMF and EU loans, as well as bilateral aid
from the Nordics. places of business. I?m
looking forward to the era of the Baltic economic tigers, which should also bene?t Finland. A
pilot boat delivered to Norway
late last autumn was in use
during the severe storms towards the end of the year when
the gusts of wind reached the
speed of 44 m/s and the wave
height was 10 metres.
?The navigation system delivered by a product
provider couldn?t take the
knocks and didn?t work reliably,. In the early years of the common currency the
bene?ts of membership were clear, and more recently
we have learned of the risks. HT
breaking news
when a shipyard in Salo starts
cooperation negotiations.
What makes the negotiations at the boat man-
IT IS HARDLY
ufacturer Marine Alutech
newsworthy is their goal: the
company undertook the negotiations with its staff to
?nd a way for the family-run
company to ful?l the incoming orders.
Large shipyards in Finland have been struggling for
some time but the small boat
manufacturer currently employing 70 people in Teijo, in
Salo is planning to expand
over the next few years. It
SA MI KILPIÖ
THE MOST common fear among Latvians is that joining the Euro will cause in?ation to increase. This
might not be the best news for Finnish manufacturing
plants, but Finnish businesses should be looking closely at Latvia for potential deals. This is almost a universal belief around Europe, but the truth is
that in?ation typically drops with the Euro. Many of their other large partners, like Estonia, Germany and Finland, already use the common
currency.
FCCA to investigate
the practise of
maintaining
customer loyalty.
M A R T TA N I E M I N E N . H T
THE FINNISH Competition
and Consumer Authority (FCCA) is to initiate an extensive
investigation of the effects of
K and S groups. 15 JANUARY 2014
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to customers of cooperation
partners.
If it is discovered that
membership cards commits
the customer too tightly to
a company group, the cards
may be implemented with restrictions and their bene?ts
cut back.
?Restrictions are possible. Unemployment was about 6% prior to the
crisis, peaked at 20%, and is still around 11%. Frosterus ponders.
The S-Etukortti card is
not called a membership
card, but the cardholder is
one of more than two million
?customer owners. Welcome to the
Euro club, Latvia.
Niko Haro, managing director of Marine Alutech, is feeling
confident about the company?s future.. HS
NIINA WOOLLE Y . S-Etukortti
collects bonus from purchases at S group and its af?liates. The
card also yields discounts.
K-Plussa is a membership
program that yields K plus
points and bene?ts from not
only grocery shopping, but also sports, hardware, interior
design and shoe shops, as well
as glasses, electricity etc.
K plus cardholders amount
to over 3.8 million Finns in almost 2.2 million households.
Researching
membership systems is one of the
top ventures of The Finnish
Competition and Consumer
Authority this year. Lithuania is their largest trading partner, who also plans on joining the Euro in a couple of
years. Work on the boats will
start soon in a hall currently under construction at the
shipyard, with the 31-million
euro order set to be completed in 2016.
?We?re feeling pretty con?dent about the future,?
states Niko Haro, the company?s managing director.
Focusing on the construction of patrol, pilot and transport boats used by maritime
authorities, Marine Alutech
generates over half of its income from export. Haro explains.
In contrast, the electric
control system developed by
Marine Alutech withstood
the test presented by the severe weather conditions.
Some of the work phases
are carried out in countries
with lower labour costs with
the boat frames manufactured in the Baltic States or
Poland.
Around ten years ago, the
company outsourced some
of the metalwork it needed
to subcontractors abroad because it could not ?nd quali?ed staff in Finland. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A . of the cooperative shop. Jokinen says.
Specialist researcher Heli Frosterus says that it is
important to know whether
the cards have effects that
result in unreasonable bene?ts for K and S groups and
prevent competitors from
performing better in the
marketplace.
?Do the cards have qualities that drive consumers to
even deeper loyalty for S and
K groups, insofar as they can-
not even make supplementary purchases from other
shops?. customer loyalty cards on competition.
?We will investigate what
effects the membership systems have on the behaviour
of consumers, i.e. The writer is a journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times
The most recent
numbers of Eurostat, the statistical of?ce of the EU, are
based on last year?s prices.
ST. H T
DENMARK is the most expensive EU country, reveal statistics published by Statistics
Denmark.
On average, prices are 41
per cent higher in Denmark
than in the EU. Companies in the industrial sector
had undertaken the highest
number of negotiations.
ages cost 19 per cent more for
us than on average in the EU.
Number two on the list is
Sweden, with fourth place
shared by Ireland and the
UK. HT
THE CENTRAL Organisation of
Finnish Trade Unions (SAK)
predicts that service industries are facing a gloomy year
with a high number of redundancies. Therefore, the retail sector and other service
industries may be hit with
mass redundancies this coming year,. Out of the top three Finland and Luxembourg are EU
countries. The most
extensive negotiations were
held in the facility service
company ISS Palvelut, which
resulted in temporary layoffs for almost all of the company?s 12,000 employees.
In a survey carried out
by SAK in December, 48 per
cent of shop stewards said
that negotiations concerning lay-offs or redundancies
had taken place in their company during the year. PETERSBURG
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NIINA WOOLLE Y . says Tukiainen in a
press release.
According to statistics
compiled by SAK, 14,500 employees lost their jobs last
year while the year before
the number of redundancies
reached 15,800.
Axing 1,157 jobs last year,
Metso came in ?rst in the
ranking of companies based
on staff cutbacks, with Renesas Mobile taking second
place with 808 lost jobs, followed by STX with 670 and
Nokia with 579 redundancies.
Staff cutbacks at listed
companies accounted for 45
per cent of all redundancies,
which is ten percentage points
less than the previous year.
As SAK collects its data
from stock exchange releases and other public sources, redundancies in small
and medium-sized enterprises are not included in the
statistics.
Last time the number of
redundancies recorded by
SAK exceeded the ?gures for
Finland the third most
expensive EU country
Prices in Finland are
22 per cent higher
than the EU average,
placing us in 3rd
place, after Denmark
and Sweden.
EU?s most expensive countries
with Luxembourg. In Finland,
the prices are 22 per cent higher than on average in the EU.
Food and non-alcoholic bever-
the last year or the year before was in 2009 when nearly
20,000 people lost their jobs.
Technology
industries
suffered the heaviest job
losses, followed by private
companies in the service
sector, where the number of
redundancies increased towards the end of the year.
Last year, cooperation negotiations concerned nearly
120,000 employees. Particularly
pricy are groceries.
Finns have no reason to rejoice either; Finland shared
third place on the list of the
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I snap the
picture before it has a chance
to ?y away, and Amin cranes
in to see it.
?Perfect!. he
sighs disappointedly, while I
am still trying to ?gure out
which tree he meant.
Much of what he shouts
is lost on me. Although it may seem easy to
overlook, the Gambia is to
bird watching what Italy is to
Formula One or Wembley is
to football. S U L L I VA N
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WHILE hassle free travel is a lux-
The Finnish passport: the gateway to visa-free travel.
ury enjoyed by the majority of
citizens of Western countries,
Finns have come out on top of
a list that compiles such information. he declares
proudly, ?I know people who
have been coming here for 10
years and who have not seen
such a thing!?
Back at the lodge, staff
clamour around to admire
my picture. Rooms are 460 Dalasi (?11), with excellent meals
and drinks available at good
prices.
L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
Finnish passport . Whimbrels. It offers accommodation in home-made
stilt houses perched a few
inches above what at low tide
is mud and at high tide is a river. As in Bay
City. I point. As the sun begins
to set the trees ?ll with life
and sound.
I quickly realise that I
might not be very good at
this. Finnish passport
holders also enjoy visa-free
access to Vietnam, without
the need for application.
All of the Nordic countries
enjoy excellent visa-free travel options to almost anywhere
in the world, with Denmark
rounding out the Top 5 with
visa-free access to 172 countries. People travel from
all around the world to see the
thousand species of birds that
breed here, and I?ve decided to
join them.
Pelicans can be spotted among the various birds.
The Gambia has plenty
of national parks, scattered
from the stunning Atlantic beach coast to the dense
mangrove swamps in the
far east of the country. The camou?age gear
I can live without, but the
thrill of spotting gorgeous
tropical birds in a magni?cent landscape; now that I
could get used to.
Bintang Bolong is 100kms
east of the capital city of
Banjul. Amin shrieks,
pointing at some ?ash of
red feathers. European nationals in
general have a leg up on the
rest of the world as they enjoy permanent access to the
nations of the EU, whereas
foreigners have restrictions
placed on their length of stay.
At the bottom of the list,
possessors of a passport from
Afghanistan have visa-free access to only 28 countries, with
Iraq (31), Pakistan and Somalia (32 each) passports also
having restrictions on their
free-movement.. Bird
watchers can skip from one
to another in a hopscotch
game of subtly changing
ecosystems.
For Europe?s migratory
birds the river basin forms a
kind of smorgasbord, rich in
delights such as grasshoppers, mice, berries and fruit
alongside the usual staple of
small ?sh.
After trying one or two
coastal parks, I head inland to
Bintang Bolong. I have no idea what I am
looking for.
I take a number of photographs of empty branches
and blurred trees. ?See there! At the top
of that tree!. 10
TRAVEL
9 . The survey was conducted by Henley & Partners,
a consultancy in residence and
citizenship planning.
Offering visa-free travel
to 173 countries, the Finnish
passport comes in as a threeway tie with that of Sweden
and the United Kingdom.
However, it offers more commonly used visa-free travel
options, including receiving
a visa-on-arrival when entering India. 15 JANUARY 2014
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DAV I D B RO W N
Watch the birdy
Gambia offers a plenthora of bird life to enjoy for visitors.
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DAV I D B RO W N
I AM A LITTLE suspicious about
bird watching. Like trainspotting and stamp collecting, it brings to mind images
of nerdy men in camou?age
gear with multiple pairs of
binoculars. the most valuable in the world for visa-free travel
A recent study has shown that Finns are in possession of the
hassle-free key to the most countries around the globe.
J A M E S O . My bed sits on a slight angle
that suggests that if I roll over
at night, I might not stop.
Amin suggests that we
head out on foot ?rst, guiding
me out through rice paddies
and small stands of mango
into large, ?at ?elds punctuated by massive baobab and
king trees. Either that or
the birds are getting bigger.
We spot a white heron, some
egrets, harrier hawks and
a stunning ?sh eagle on the
prowl.
A second attempt
Better still comes at dawn,
as I roll out of bed amidst a
chorus of fruit bats and into
Amin?s waiting canoe.
In the ?rst rays of the
sun we spot black hawk-like
DAV I D B RO W N
Bird watching in Gambia starts at dawn, continues throughout the day, and ends late at night.
A fruit bat, visible at dawn.
kites overhead, the odd pelican and the much rarer African darter. ?It?s gone. Rollers. On foot at one
point we spot plovers and
whimbrels paddling in the
shallows. Herons I have
heard of, but shrikes. It just isn?t me.
I?m relieved when my guide
Amin turns up barefoot, in
shorts and a T-shirt and looking quite normal.
The Gambia is a tiny country; a mere 50 kilometres
wide and around 400 kilometres long, a thin ?nger of land
carved out of the Senegal. Halfway up
the tree, its head peering out
of a hole, sits a beautiful Senegal parrot, silver-headed
and green-necked. It may have been
a complete ?uke, but I do feel
thrilled. After an
hour my best picture is of a
donkey, and that was tied up.
As the light fades it gets
a little easier. Most excitingly, we
spot three dolphins breaking
the surface en route back to
the ocean.
We are walking back
to the canoe when I see a
strange ?ash from a tree, and
instinctively motion Amin to
silence
Bring your own ?ashlight if you expect to use the
outdoor toilet at night, as well
as your own toiletries for the
communal shower. These are the spices of late night conversation among
Finns, which are almost always missed by foreigners.
The book is based on the Finnish After Dark series published in SixDegrees over the past few
years. In recent years, it began
hiring local favela residents
to work as guides, an effort
that created a more authentic experience for travelers,
and provided some income
for members of the community. The shantys are childfriendly, and come equipped
with heated ?oors, free Wi-Fi,
and spa services.
connected complex of shanty
homes. Walk a mile in a
homeless person?s shoes,
in Amsterdam
Mokum Events
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tour starts at
?11.50 per person
Tastelessness: Moderate
(though Mokum?s advertising
language gets a High)
If you want a more textured
experience of homelessness
than a single night under a
bridge can accomplish, you
might trek on over to Amsterdam, where an entertainment
company is offering city tours
guided by an actual homeless
person. The series continues to receive excellent feedback from readers.
ry predecessors. That said, it?s still a little
creepy to pay for the experience of watching poor people
like animals in a zoo.. And lest
you question the ethics of
this pastime, the company
reassures tourists that ?your
homeless person is not unhappy!. Seven euros per night will
get you a room, a mattress,
and a fan within this inter-
5. Be warned, though:
Increasing tourism has helped
to transform Rocinha from a
sprawling shantytown into a
semi-developed urban slum,
so it?s perhaps less gritty than
the average poverty tourist
might prefer.
3. ?London slumming brought to the notice
of the rich much suffering,?
The New York Times reported
in 1884, ?and led to sanitary
reforms.?
Modern day slumming,
by contrast, is often characterised at the outset as a socially responsible endeavor
. a plantation village
just minutes outside of Jakarta. T R AY W I C K
W A S H I N G T O N P O S T- B L O O M B E R G
Marie Antoinette
wanted to escape the con?nes
and pressures of courtly life,
she retreated to her quaint
Petit Hameau where she and
her companions donned their
?nest peasant frocks and pretended to be poor. Patrons
aren?t even expected to sleep
in the spots they book . While the
original London slumming
parties were unabashedly
voyeuristic and exploitative,
they nevertheless revealed
an upside: The parting of the
veil between rich and poor
moved some members of
the upper classes to charitable action. Emoya, a luxury hotel in Bloemfontein, may be
just what you?re looking for:
A quaint little shantytown
tucked safely away on a game
preserve. and just how tasteless these options are.
WHEN
1. Hotel proceeds go
towards programmes that
bene?t Gothenburg?s homeless population. Enjoy San
Francisco?sgrittiest
neighborhood alongside
its homeless
Vayable
San Francisco, California
Tour is ?14.50 per person
Tastelessness: Relatively mild
Most visitors to San Francis-
In Bloemfontein, South Africa, a mere $82 per night will get you
a private shack, made of corrugated tin sheets, so you can experience the charm of living in a post-apartheid shantytown, without ever having to set foot in one.
HANDOUT
Slumming it abroad
Faktum Hotels, has mapped
out 10 of their favorite places
to sleep, and is renting them
out to intrepid travelers who
want to experience Sweden
from the perspective of its
most destitute. 15 JANUARY 2014
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HANDOUT
21st century slum
tourism is a far cry
from the back
alley excursions
of yesteryear.
C AT H E R I N E A . but
it?s probably fair to assume
that at least a few bold souls
have given it a try.
Gothenburg, Sweden, has more than 3,000 homeless people. In Sweden, book a spot
below an overpass like a
homeless person
Faktum Hotels
Gothenburg, Sweden
Lodging starting from ?11per
night
Tastelessness: Moderate
Gothenburg, Sweden, has
more than 3,000 homeless
people. One man, Milton
Aparicio, is trying to change
that, by offering tours that
highlight the Tenderloin?s
unique culture of homeless.
?We?ll go to a couple of shelters, day centers for children,
soup kitchens, . A dozen or so Hñahñus act out different roles: fellow migrants
in search of work, as well as
police on the lookout for border crossers. including hot springs, kayaking and camp grounds ?
but the Night Walk seems to
be the biggest draw.
4. often purporting to bene?t impoverished communities. If that?s
not authentic enough for you,
the Airbnb posting notes that
?In December, the ?oods arrive. Like
most other examples of slum
tourism, it promises an eyeopening experience that will
certainly lead to personal
growth and enlightenment.
In that respect, contemporary poverty tourism still
resembles its 19th centu-
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on being plösö or paksuna?
Sick of not knowing your Kossu from your skumppa?
Not sure whether to käydä vieraissa or to käydä vierailulla?
Buy online: www.6d.?/fad
or in Gaudeamus bookstore
in Kaisaniemi or other major
bookstores.
Finnish After Dark is here to help, with everything from cool slang to chat up lines, tips on how
to avoid being beaten up in taxi queues and the latest excuses for why you are late for work.
Finnish After Dark is a humoristic look at various Finnish-language terms and phrases that
are almost impossible to translate. A 5-star South
African shantytown
Bloemfontein, South Africa
Lodging from ?60 per night
Tastelessness: Very high
Have you ever wanted to steal
away to a cozy tin shack in
one of South Africa?s sprawling shantytowns . The company claims that
some of the proceeds bene?t
a local school, so tourists can
rest assured that they?re doing their part to help Rio?s urban poor. nocturnally
touring East London?s slums,
where they gawked at ladies
of the night and coined the
phrase ?slumming it.. In Indonesia, an authentic,
bare-bones (and sometimes
?ooded) getaway
Banana Republic Village
Jakarta, Indonesia
Lodging ?7 per night
Tastelessness: High
Travelers looking for a more
realistic third-world experience may ?nd it at ?Banana
Republic,. The park has
many other attractions, too
. Book a corner at the abandoned paper
mill, curl up under a bridge, or
camp out in a public park (conveniently situated near several trendy cafes). The rusty roofs
leak and leave the homes
damp.. The idiosyncratic pastime eventually
made its way across the pond
and, before long, New York
City socialites were hitting
the Bowery in search of opium
dens and low-brow adventure.
Back then, slum tourism was
sort of a DIY diversion.
Today, it?s an all-inclusive destination vacation.
21st century slum tourism
is a far cry from the back alley excursions of yesteryear.
For the right price, discerning travelers can experience
?rsthand how the poorest of
the poor live -- without ever
having to sacri?ce ?rst-world
conveniences like WiFi, heated ?oors, and jacuzzi tubs.
Here are details of seven
of our (least) favorite poverty-chic getaways, including what a vacation or tour
will set you back, where to
book . Called ?Night Walk,?
the strange excursion lasts
about four hours and takes
groups on an imaginary journey through the desert and
across the Rio Grande. Vacation like a
border crosser, in Mexico
Parque EcoAlberto
Hidalgo, Mexico
Lodging from ?76 per night
?Night Walk. Now, one company, Faktum Hotels, has mapped out 10 of
their favorite places to sleep, and is renting them out to intrepid travelers.
co try to avoid the Tenderloin,
a downtown neighborhood
once notorious for its high
crime rate but now better
known for its population of
vagrants. He?ll even show you
where he sleeps and ?point
to the rubbish bins of restaurants, where at times a royal meal can be made from
hearty scraps.?
7. but not before you get the
chance to enjoy both.
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9 . Now, one company,
6. As advertised on its
website, Mokum Events ?has
found a homeless person in
Amsterdam who experienced
it all?. According to the ad,
your seven euros will go towards unclogging the river
and repairing damaged roofs
. he advertises, offering ?a guided experience of what it?s like to
be homeless from a friendly homeless person.. Admittedly,
the enterprise is a tad tonguein-cheek. For a fee, you can take
a walk with this man, beg for
food together, and hear all
about the ups and downs of
living on the street. only to
change your mind over concerns about crime, noise and
generally poor infrastructure. Tour Rio de Janeiro?s largest favela with some of its
very own residents
Favela Tourism Workshop
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tour starting from
?22 per person
Tastelessness: Moderate to
Mild
A Brazilian company called Exotic Tours was the ?rst to offer
sightseeing tours of Rio de Janeiro?s biggest slum, Rocinha. A century
later, fashionable Londoners
took that pauper fantasy to a
new extreme . Tour
?14 per person
Tastelessness: Moderate
In Southern Mexico, an ecopark owned by Hñahñu Indians offers tourists a chance
to live out the drama and tension of an illegal border crossing. A mere ?60 per
night will get you a private
shack, made of corrugated tin
sheets, so you can experience
the charm of living in a postapartheid shantytown, without ever having to set foot in
one. Heavy rain causes the
river surrounding the village
to over?ow..
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NHL. Prices start
at ?10,840 (£9,175) per person
and participants must make
their own way to Helsinki airport . 31 December. Participants then take the wheel
for two days of sideways dra-
L EH T IK U VA / LUDV IG T HUNM A N
THE challenges
ma with an instructor sitting
next to them.
How to do it: Perfecting
the art of sliding a three-ton,
600-brake-horsepower car
through a series of bends at
speed begins by contacting
Bentley through its website or
via a local dealer. the limits on frozen
lakes in northern Finland, on
the edge of the Arctic Circle.
Just once a year, when conditions are perfect, motoring enthusiasts can try their
hand at controlling powerful 200mph rear-wheel-drive
cars in the most slippery con-
THERE are already a number of methods in place to
compensate for the reduced work ability of a person.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. What we need is tolerance and personal
motivation among persons with partial work ability.
cordance with the Belgian tax
legislation. Roughly 10 per cent of them received
a partial disability pension. Even the Swedish
tax authority targets to tax
the same revenue. The action programme to boost
the labour market participation of persons with partial
work ability offers a response to these problems.
ACCORDING TO the new operating model, the employer or the relevant Employment and Economic Development Of?ce (TE Of?ce) will appoint a personal work
ability coordinator for a person with partial work ability, who will act as a ?catcher. There is not necessarily an expert body that could create a tailored, continuous chain of
services for persons with partial work ability at the right
time. 6, or exactly one month from this
announcement??
of Finland is
warning that the euro area?s
best-rated economy risks
sliding down a path that
could see its debt burden rival Italy?s.
Finland has little room to
deviate from a proposal to ?ll
a 9 billion-euro ($12.3 billion)
gap in Europe?s fastest-aging
economy if it?s to avoid debt
levels doubling in the next
?THE BANK
decade and a half, according
to the central bank.
The northernmost euro member risks joining the
bloc?s most indebted nations
if the government fails to reform spending, according to
calculations by the Helsinki-based Bank of Finland.
Without the measures, debt
could exceed 110 per cent of
gross domestic product by
2030, according to the bank.
The ratio was 53.6 per cent in
2012. She has diverse
experience from work in the social welfare and health care sector.
Suitable work taking
into account work ability
RAPPORTEUR ad int. in the situation. Occupational health
care, rehabilitation and training provide means to promote people?s work ability and knowledge and skills.
employment and economic development administration and the social insurance system can cover a
part of the expenses required for training, rehabilitation and workplace arrangements. Guests are
greeted by Bentley staff and
transferred by private plane
and four-wheel drive to their
accommodation at the exclusive ski resort of Kuusamo??
?WHILE hockey fans in Finland were still celebrating a
landmark victory in the 2014
IIHF World Junior Championships, the country received
a bit of sobering news barely
more than a month away from
the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Mikko Koivu, captain of
the Minnesota Wild and possibly captain for Suomi in
Russia next month, will miss
?approximately. About 25,000 persons are
granted a national disability pension in Finland annually.
THERE are tens of thousands of people in receipt of disability pensions who would like to work if they could ?nd
employment that suits their remaining capacity for work.
Winter adventure:
ice driving in Finland
THE MINISTRY of Social Affairs and Health has initiated
an action programme to boost the employment of persons with partial work ability and their staying on at
work. According
to the international taxation
principles, taxes are to be paid
in the country where the revenue is earned, and the same
?FORTUM Corporation has re-
ceived a tax assessment decision from the Finnish tax
authority regarding the revenue earned by Fortum?s subsidiary in Belgium in 2007.
The same revenue has already
been taxed in Belgium in ac-
THE VANCOUVER SUN. She is a Doctor of Health Sciences, a health care teacher and nurse by education. armed with thermals
to withstand temperatures
that drop to -20C, worn under Team Bentley ice jackets
issued on arrival. she said??. Structural reforms are needed if ?the Finnish welfare state has a chance
to survive,. 12
9 . This would help, in particular, young persons who have dif?culties with access
to training and education or the labour market.
CERTAIN
Fortum taxed for the same revenue in
Finland, Belgium and Sweden-Clarity
in taxation in the EU countries needed
ed to promote the employment of persons with partial
work ability. 3 January KASPER VIITA
Finland stuns Sweden
Bank of
in overtime to win world Finland
junior hockey title
warns debt
, Sweden . He is projected to be Finland?s top
center in Sochi, and was likely going to be named captain
for his country. Rasmus when he tucked a backhand- level poised
Ristolainen scored one of the er by Swedish goaltender Osbiggest goals in Finnish world car Dansk 9:42 into overtime.
to double:
Then he lost his mind.
junior championship history
?I don?t remember what I
did,. said Ristolainen of his Nordic
celebration following the 3-2
win in the gold-medal game. 6 JANUARY
Mikko
Koivu
surgery
sobering
news for
Finland
Paula Risikko is the Minister of Social Affairs and Health in Prime
Minister Jyrki Katainen?s Cabinet. Success with the plan
would help restrain debt levels to about 70 per cent by
2030, the bank said.
The central bank?s assessment shows that the government?s plan would have a ?real
impact,. Minnesota?s
?nal game before the Olympic break is Feb. Extreme driving instructors . 6 January DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN
revenue cannot be taxed multiple times. The large scope and
variety of the methods available is, indeed, one of the
problems of the system.
THE
AT PRESENT, the components of this system function independently from each other. demonstrate what can be
done with the required skill,
daring and miles of specially prepared tracks. credit
?Hopefully it?s not stupid.?
INTRODUCTION of the new operating model requires
additional resources, but even more resources will be
needed if people take up an early pension.
ABOVE all, changes to practices and attitudes are need-
ditions known to man, as
the lakes freeze to a depth of
about 60cm. Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen said in an emailed response to questions
via her aide. a month of
NHL action after surgery to
repair a broken ankle, the
Wild announced Monday.
Koivu sustained a broken ankle during a game Saturday
against the Washington Capitals, though he did ?nish the
game.
Koivu leads the Wild with
35 points (eight goals) in 44
games this season. In addition, the introduction of support measures often takes too much time. The coordinator will, together with the person with partial work
ability, tailor a functional whole from the various methods, services, training and bene?ts that are available.
amendments to legislation are also needed.
For instance the criteria for access to vocational rehabilitation should be relaxed. Mika Vuorela has de?ned a person
with partial work ability as ?a person who has part of his or
her work ability left and is also willing to use that ability?.
Similar to the Finnish World Rally, motoring enthusiasts can try their hand at controlling powerful
200mph rear-wheel-drive cars in the most slippery conditions known to man.
IN 2011,
THE TELEGRAPH. The action programme includes support services
for persons with partial work ability and proposals for
legislative amendments to eliminate obstacles to ?nding employment.
?THE ADVENTURE: Power on
Ice is an exhilarating chance
to drive swishes Bentley
Continentals to . and beyond . Countries should
clarify and align their taxation principles, so that multiple and heavy adjustment
processes could be avoided.
In 2012, Fortum paid a total of
EUR 560 million in taxes.
?MALMO
Finland?s Rasmus Ristolainen,
who shot the winning goal, jubilates with the trophy after
winning the World Junior Ice
Hockey Championships final
match against Sweden at Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden.
After the puck crossed the
goal line, Ristolainen bolted
down the ice, threw his stick
in the air, took off his helmet
and threw it, before ?nally jumping into the far-end
boards.
The tally gave Finland
its ?rst gold medal at the
tournament since 1998 and
?rst medal since a bronze in
2006??
?It seems to us that the
economic recession has
tightened the tax environment in Europe and various countries are taxing the
same revenue multiple times
although it has been agreed
between countries that income will be taxed only once.
For international companies operating in multitude
of countries, the situation
brings uncertainty and prolonged taxation processes,?
says Reijo Salo, Head of Tax,
Fortum Corporation??
BLOOMBERG. DAVID WILLIAMS
the persons on disability pensions numbered
almost 260,500. worldclass competition experts,
led by four-times world rally
champion Juha Kankkunen
. 01 January
of the ageing society cannot be solved
by practices that lead to totally excluding even persons
with a minor reduction in their work ability from the
labour market.
MUCH can be done at workplaces to improve matters.
The working conditions can be adjusted, job tasks adapted, and working hours rearranged
Let it sit for 15
mins and rinse thoroughly with warm water. The ?rst
breastfeeding time may be
tried as soon as the mother and child are ready for it,?
Ekström lists.
According to Ekström the
increased number of those
giving birth can be seen in
the fact that a larger share
of them wish to have an anesthetic of some kind. She is usually at her studio in Tokyo, but also travels
to Hokkaido, Kyoto Prefecture and other regions.
Tome has painted the bellies of more than 300 pregnant women so far. Her daughters, A and B,
were born in the middle of
the night and in a hurry, but
personnel has had time to advise with breastfeeding matters, for example.
?I have received good
treatment. You can also add 1-2
tbsp of olive oil to loosen the
honey. In 2008,
she participated in an international body paint tourna-
ment in the United States and
began painting professionally in Japan from the following
year. These
help replenish the keratin
bonds. Fruits, dairy products,
oils and even beer can do
wonders for your hair.
Eggs, yoghurt and olive oil
may sound like ingredients for
an interesting entrée, but they
also play an important role in
hair treatment. Its oils are light and
moist like our own natural
skin secretions, plus its proteins add up to a great combination of nutrients for
smoothing and weighing
down unruly hair.
Mash up half an avocado and massage into clean,
damp hair. She designed a picture with a theme
of changing landscapes.
?When my baby grows
up, I want to show her a picture of this painting and tell
her, ?You were blessed even
before you were born,. Use
one can of beer with one tsp
of light sun?ower or canola oil, and one raw egg. The baby
gets to have skin contact as
soon as possible. Apply it to
damp hair and let it sit for
20 minutes. For extremely damaged hair, you can add 1-2 tbsp
of avocado or egg yolk. situations in
which patients in labour have
to be transferred to other
hospitals, than last spring,
when the renovation did not
affect the number of patients
at the hospital.
Mother of week-old twins
Matleena Frisk con?rms that
it is mostly calm at the hospital. Amp up
moisturising power by combining the mashed avocado
with 1-2 tbsp of a liquid ingredient such as yoghurt, egg
yolk or mayonnaise.
This treatment should be
applied every two weeks.
L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
Egg yolk
Egg yolks contain fats and protein, which have moisturising
properties. Apply
this mixture to clean, damp
hair. says midwife Inge-Maj
Ekström.
Doctor Maija Jakobsson estimates that there are
DURING
less blocks, i.e. . On normal hair,
you should use at least two
whole eggs and spread them
evenly on your damp hair after
washing and leave in for about
20 minutes. For instance, the
oils in avocados more closely resemble our own skin?s oils
than any product you can ?nd
in the beauty aisle.
This being said, here are
a few homemade treatments
that are both useful as well
as cost-effective.
WHO SAID
L E H T I K U VA / P E K K A S A K K I
Honey
Massage approximately 150 g
(1/2 cup) of honey into clean
damp hair. Jakobsson says.
This is because in a large unit
the labour room or specialist
is always close and ready to
act in case of an emergency.. LIFESTYLE
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . Let it sit for about 15
minutes and rinse with cool
water. However, we got
a family room because of the
twins. Each work takes her
about 30 minutes to ?nish.
?I put thought into each
brushstroke. Mäkinen said in the labour room.
Besides family rooms
Kätilöopisto has given up
the long labour trainings at
Haikaranpesä.
The labour rooms have
otherwise seen short tours.
The hospital wants to hold
on to the so-called soft baby
policies.
Professionals feel that a
maternity hospital cannot be
run like a factory.
?It is still important to us
that, for example, breast-
feeding counseling is given
the time it needs. Shampoo
hair normally. Everything has
gone very smoothly,. Typical
motifs include healthy babies and ?ower petals, which
are done in soft brushstrokes.
She uses special pigments for
watercolor painting, which
do not harm pregnant women?s skin. Shampoo hair as normal. Many others have a
YO M I U R I S H I M B U N
Beer
This fermented favourite
contains generous supplies
of yeast, which works wonders to plump tired hair. Massage thoroughly and rinse with warm
water, followed immediately with cold water. H T
the renovation of
Women?s Hospital the hospital handles about 8,000
births in a year. It
has, at times, been crowded as
in other maternity hospitals,
but mostly everything works.
?Things are somewhat
easier to organise with more
personnel. Tome
said.
Kätilöopisto
maternity hospital
full of babies
Helsinki?s Kätilopisto is currently one of
Europe?s busiest maternity hospitals.
M A I J A A A LT O . This is to be
repeated once a week.
Hair care
treatments
that are
food for
thought
Lemon juice
If you have an itchy scalp, a
lemon juice and olive oil mixture is the best medicine. Then, rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water
before you shampoo your hair
again. 15 JANUARY 2014
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YO M I U R I S H I M B U N
Yoghurt
Plain or Greek yoghurt
should be ?ne. This treatment should be
used every other day.
The yeast in beer works wonders to give volume to thin and tired hair.
Artist Tomoka Tome, left, paints a belly at her studio in Tokyo. This treatment should
be applied once a month.
Eggs contain protein and rich
moisturising properties that
add shine and strength to
your hair.
Avocado
Avocado is a perfect treatment for damaged and frizzy hair. As a precious memory of their pregnancy, mothers-to-be are
lifting their shirts for artists to paint a cute picture on
their bellies, as a blessing for
safe delivery and the healthy
growth of their baby.
Artist Tomoka Tome, 26,
is one such artist. Previously people have come to
Kätilöopisto for gentler pain
alleviating methods.
Other methods, such as
acupuncture or a bath tub
for reducing pain, are still
offered.
Ekström and Jakobsson
believe that the renovation is
especially good in the sense
that the personnel of the two
hospitals exchange information naturally on the best
care procedures.
?I would consider a large
hospital the safest option in
childbirth,. Let it sit for about
20 minutes and rinse with
warm water, then shampoo
normally. Do this once a month in
order to get the best results. Yano said as she gently stroked
her belly.
more dif?cult time when the
father has to go home for the
night,. It
will give extra shine and will
nourish your hair.
Cornstarch
For oily hair, pour 1 tbsp of
cornstarch (or cornmeal) into an empty saltshaker and
sprinkle onto dry hair and
scalp until it is all used up.
Leave it in for about 10 minutes and use a paddle hairbrush to completely brush it
out. This treatment should
be done every other week.
Options that are
good on the body
and on the budget.
VA L É R I E B RU N
HEL SINKI TIMES
that food was only to be enjoyed by our taste
buds. Just
add two tbsp of water to this
lemon mix and massage into a damp scalp. I want my work
to be an opportunity to deepen the family bond,. Shampoo normally.
The body painting can be transferred onto a gauze cloth and
kept as a souvenir.
Sachie Yano, 36, who visited Tome?s studio with her
husband from Kofu, will
name their ?rst daughter
Shiki (four seasons). We have more
helping hands when a rush occurs,. As a precious memory of their pregnancy, mothers-to-be are having the
paintings done as a blessing for safe delivery and the healthy growth of their baby.
Belly blessings
Artist paints hopes
on mothers-to-be.
KO J I I T O
T H E YO M I U R I S H I M B U N
A FE W brushstrokes on the
round, swollen skintone
canvas, and soon a colorful
painting appears. All one needs
to do is a little research about
ingredients and the bene?ts
they bring us. The role of the
father is not adequately appreciated according to Frisk, if he
only gets to visit his child immediately after childbirth, at
least if it is the ?rst child.
Anne Mäkinen from Vantaa, expecting the birth of
her ?rst child on Saturday,
also believes that everything
is working ?ne.
?The maternity clinic has
lots of people, but I have always received an appointment quickly. Unlike previously anticipated, liveliness
has not resulted in chaos. Frisk says.
She considers this to be a
step backwards. Let it sit for
about 20 minutes and then
rinse. Not only are
homemade products easier on
the wallet, they are also all natural and chemical-free: Have
you read the labels of your
shampoo and conditioner bottles and other liquid soaps?
Allergic reactions to harsh
cleaning agents are common,
and the natural choice can often prevent this. H S
A N N I K A R A U TA KO U R A
Helsinki . 1 large clove garlic
. a mixture of dark and white meat, preferably ?
then toss it in after the yogurt has been added.
Serve with a green salad.
Chicken and Rice in Lemon Zest Yogurt
3 to 4 servings
Ingredients
. 1/2 cup water
. While you are stirring, you?ll want to scrape/
dislodge any browned bits from the bottom of the pot. Later
that same year, the production conditions of pork were
discussed after the videos of
poorly treated pigs, ?lmed
by animal activists, became
public.
Now, salmonella has been
kept under control almost
L E H T I K U VA / T I M O J A A KO N A H O
Meat industry wants to
improve pork?s reputation
completely and pig diseases have been kept outside of
Finland.
The quality certi?cation
label is a marketing campaign, mainly funded by the
EU, and it seeks to increase
the pro?tability of the meat
industry.
Sales of pork have been
steady and prices have gone
up, however the industry is
still not pro?table. HS
L A U R A KO R H O N E N . Wright (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
The meat industry wants to improve the profitability of pork with a new quality certification.
KRIS TIINA M ARKK ANEN . Stir in the water and rice; cook (at a boil) until the water has
evaporated. The increase of expenses, structural change and cheap
imported meat are keeping
down the results of the meat
houses.
The launch of the quality certi?cation label starts
with a three-year campaign,
which is carried out with
joined funding from the meat
industry, the government
and the EU.
Of the 1.7 million euro
campaign, the EU covers half,
the government one-?fth and
the meat industry one-third.
In addition, the meat industry has received an independent
300,000-euro
subsidy from the government for newspaper advertising and the production of
other informative material.
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Chicken and rice in lemon zest yogurt.
Mon-Fri 11am-11pm, Sat Noon-11pm . If you have leftover roast turkey or
chicken, skip the fresh poultry steps; pull apart the meat with
your fingers . 1 large egg white, lightly beaten
. 3 cups plain whole-milk yogurt
. Cut off and discard all large
pieces of fat from the chicken thighs, then cut the meat into
large chunks. Cut the onion in half, then into very thin half-moons (or cut
into 1.5 cm pieces; your choice). 1/4 cup slivered almonds (skinless)
. The
meat industry would have
wanted to include wellbeing
as well, but Evira did not approve it.
The label sets the domestic meat apart from the imported meat better than
before. Sun 2pm-10pm
Korkeavuorenkatu 47 . Taste, and add
salt as needed. The label indicates
that, during meat production, the animals have been
treated better than what is
minimally required by law.
The criteria, put together by the meat industry and
the Association of Animal
Disease Prevention and approved by Evira, the Finnish
Food Safety Authority, takes
into account the pigs. Add
the yogurt, stirring until well blended.
. EAT & DRINK
HELSINKI TIMES
9 . Transfer to a large serving bowl.
. 2 teaspoons cornstarch
. 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs
. 1 cup frozen peas
Jenni Häyrinen, writer of the Liemessä food blog, buys pork shoulder blade from Jarkko Oittinen. said Häyrinen at Kamppi shopping centre in Helsinki.
Steps
. Reduce the heat to medium-low; cook for 8 to 10 minutes, stirring a few times. H T
RECENT newspaper advertisements informed that
packages containing pork
will have a label added in the
coming spring informing of
its Laatuvastuu quality certi?cation. The purpose is to increase consumers. 1/3 cup long-grain rice such as basmati
. Mince the garlic; those ingredients can be piled together. 15 JANUARY 2014
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B O N N I E S . www.dongbeihu.fi. 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
. B E N W I C K / W A S H I N G T O N P O S T- B L O O M B E R G
Dinner in 40
minutes: chicken
and rice in lemon
zest yogurt
Whether you?ve been busy or cosied up to a fire during the start
of the year, here?s an omnivore?s dish that just might work for
you. Add the chicken, almonds and turmeric, stirring to coat; cook
for about 8 minutes, stirring often, until the chicken has lost
its raw look. Finely grate the zest from the lemons.
. 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
. says project leader
Antti Lauslahti, who is responsible for the campaign
made for Lihatiedotus, an association promoting Finnish
meat food culture.
The wellbeing of the animals and their stimuli are not
included in the criteria. ?The breeding conditions of the
animal influence the purchase decision even more than whether the meat is domestic or not,. It cooks in a single pot and manages to provide warmth
and brightness in every bite. Cook for about 5 minutes,
stirring often, until the onion has softened.
. health
and the prevention of animal
diseases on farms.
?We want to tell the meat
buyer how Finnish meat is
bred,. Whisk together the egg white, cornstarch and 3/4 teaspoon
of salt in a measuring cup, then stir into the pot, moving in
only 1 direction (clockwise, for example). Increase the heat
to high; cook for 2 minutes, stirring in that one direction, to
keep the yogurt from breaking. Nutrition per serving (based on 4): 450 calories, 34 g protein, 32 g carbohydrates, 21 g fat, 6 g saturated fat, 120 mg
cholesterol, 600 mg sodium, 3 g dietary fiber, 12 g sugar.
Adapted from One-Pot Wonders,
by Clifford A. 2 lemons
. Serve hot, at the table.
. Reduce the heat to medium,
then return the chicken to the pot along with any collected
juices; cook, stirring constantly, for about 10 minutes or until the rice is al dente.
. Once the oil shimmers, add the onion and garlic, stirring to coat. 1 medium onion
. The rice should be tender. trust in
domestic meat and get higher prices.
Consumer surveys have
indicated that customers are
happy to pay more for their
pork, if the meat has been responsibly produced.
In 2009 a lot of damage
was caused to its reputation,
when salmonella was discovered in several farms. Use tongs to transfer the pieces to a plate.
. Add the lemon zest and peas, stirring to incorporate. Heat the oil in a Dutch oven or wide, heavy-bottomed pot
over medium-high heat. Tel +358 (0)9 495 098
hu@dongbeihu.fi . 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, or more as needed
The do-
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3OUP . Handmade mayonnaise was fast becoming
quaint: spurred by the condiment?s popular momentum
and the spread of refrigeration, hundreds of industrial manufacturers ?ooded
the packaged mayo market.
Hellmann?s, a New York City
brand with fat jars that could
accommodate giant spoons,
came to dominate the sector. One of focuses is on
nutrition.
The researchers noticed
that a certain gene variant appears to be connected
with the susceptibility to favour sweet ?avours. could be partly governed
by genes.
Study: sweet tooth
could be in the genes
Eating sweet foods
can be particularly
rewarding for
certain people.
E S S I K Ä H KÖ N E N . As I
detail today in ?Mayo-phobia,?
there are some people who despise mayonnaise ?with the
passion of a thousand burning
suns,. War. he said.
The study suggests that ?sweet tooth. wrote the novelist
Gabriel Roth (a friend of mine)
in a 2003 column for the San
Francisco Bay Guardian. observed an industry publication in 1937.
Mayo had come to the
great slathering masses.
The writer is a doctoral
student at Columbia University?s school of public health.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R
17th century [French] recipe collections. ?Mayonnaise, which had
heretofore been considered
a luxury, has now become a
staple and a table necessity,
not only in the homes of the
rich, but also at the workingman?s table,. is ketchup?s
dark twin . Other advocates
of French authorship suggested the name came from
manier, meaning ?to handle,?
or moyeu, an old French word
for yolk. But
Andrew Smith, the author
of several histories of mayonnaise, is not so sure: ?All of
the early recipes say French. H T
A CANADIAN study has followed a group of women and
their children, from the children?s birth, with the study
continuing until the children
turn ten. as one in?amed mayo
critic recently attested on YouTube, while others (like me)
adore the sauce and incorporate it into our bodies with piggish abandon.
While this blistering debate
over the merits of mayonnaise
reached its boiling point only
in recent decades, controversy has haunted the egg-based
sauce from the very beginning.
However, originally the disagreement was not about whether the condiment was good
or bad, but rather who could
claim bragging rights . for ?rst spreading
mayo?s gelatinous gospel.
Some love it and others despise it. loved by some, reviled by others, setting brother against brother wherever it
is spread,. 16
EAT & DRINK
9 . Either way, there is much to
discuss with regards to mayonnaise.
es, holds that the condiment
was born in 1756 after French
forces under the command of
Duke de Richelieu laid siege
to Port Mahon, on the Mediterranean island of Minorca, now a part of Spain, in the
?rst European battle of the
Seven Years. By the 1920s, the
Spanish were lashing back: a
prominent Madrid chef published a pamphlet calling on
his countrymen to reject the
phony francophone term
mayonnaise in favor of salsa
mahonesa.
Present day food writer Tom Nealon emphatically
endorses the Spanish view.
?The fact that mayo doesn?t
show up in any of the initial
Nepalese
cuisine in Helsinki
Mediterranean
cuisine influenced
with Finnish
traditional cuisine
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Spreading the word
There is no question that
the French popularised the
sauce. The Duke?s
chef, upon ?nding the island
lacked the cream he needed for a righteous victory
sauce, invented an egg and
oil dressing dubbed mahonnaise for its place of birth.
(Another version claims the
chef learned the recipe from
island residents.)
This creation tale came
under assault a couple of generations later from a French
gastronome who sniffed that
Port Mahon was not exactly
known for its haute cuisine.
He felt Gallic provenance
was more likely, and that the
sauce might originally have
been called bayonnaise after Bayonne, a town famous
across Europe for its succulent hams. does seem
to con?rm that the French
didn?t have the ?technology?
for mayonnaise until the 18th
century,. which took off as a
brown-bag lunch staple following the invention of the
mechanical bread slicer in
the 1920s. Starting in the very
early 19th century, the word
mayonnaise (or magnonnaise) began to appear in
German and British cookbooks dedicated to French
cuisine. By 1923, the great
white condiment?s star was
rising so fast that President Calvin Coolidge was inspired to tell the press that
the one treat he simply could
not do without was his Aunt
Mary?s heavenly homemade
mayonnaise.
The president?s nostalgia
for his aunt?s luscious sauce
was a re?ection of broad
changes that were afoot in
the American food production system. 15 JANUARY 2014
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F O T O O S VA N RO B I N
Whether mayonnaise is a French or a Spanish invention is still debatable, but one thing is certain:
it is a staple and a table necessity in many dishes.
Egging on
The origins of
mayonnaise.
DAV I D M E R R I T T J O H N S
W A S H I N G T O N P O S T- B L O O M B E R G
Back to the beginning
One origin story, repeated in
countless secondary sourcRO S W I T H S S I E D E L B E R G
?MAYONNAISE. he explained. I
believe it,. mayo?s second great platform . Talk of mayo quickly made its way to the United States, often on the lips of
migrating French chefs, such
that by 1838 the gourmet
eatery Delmonico?s in Manhattan was offering both a
mayonnaise of lobster and a
chicken mayonnaise.
The salad provided the initial beachhead for mayo?s
colonisation of American
cuisine. Beginning in the
late 19th century, elite eaters went bonkers for mayodrenched potato salads,
tomato salads, and Waldorf
salads, an elegant mélange
of apple, celery, walnuts and
mayonnaise. H T
L A U R A KO R H O N E N . France
or Spain . The sauce was
terri?c for disguising ?aws
in vegetables, and its superior binding capacity made
it a natural for sandwiches
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mothers.
The differences in genes
between the two groups
were visible also in the eagerness to eat vegetables,
nuts or whole wheat bread,
for example.
The study suggests that
having a ?sweet tooth. The
researchers stress, however, that nutritional habits are
mainly the result of upbringing and surroundings, and
at least at this point of the
study, conclusions cannot be
made about whether the girls
with a stronger craving for
sweetness would gain weight
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paminergic reward system of
the brain was activated more
strongly by sweet foods in
those four-year-old girls who
had a certain variant of the
gene DRD4.
These girls chose more
frequently not only sugary
but also fatty foods from the
test snack table, than girls
that did not have this gene
variant
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Mon-Fri 10.30-21.00
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HELSINKI TIMES
RESTAURANTS . Monday ?We don?t do Manic Monday, Good Times Though. Hesperiankatu 22,
Tel. DJ Gabriel Miller in the house to rock your world. PUBS
The retrospective
takes the viewer on a journey through Tuija Lindström?s career, from
the 1980s black-and-white vintage prints to the 2010s large, colorful
works.
Lindström?s works often deal with classic subjects in photography:
the landscape, human portraits and the human body. 23 and Messiaen´s
Turangalîla.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?7-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sat 11 January
Eclipse (SWE)
Hard rock.
On The Rocks
Mikonkatu 15
Helsinki
Tickets ?7.50/8
www.ontherocks.fi
Wed 15 January
Oireklubi
Haaga Folk Machine.
Siltanen
Hämeentie 13 B
Helsinki
Free entry
www.siltanen.org
Wed 15 January
Club Albumiklassikot
(?Album classics?)
Waltari plays Torcha!
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 15 January
WÖYH! feat. Espoo Museum of
Modern Art
Ahertajantie 5
Helsinki
Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
www.emma.museum
Until Sun 12 January
Trees Are Poems
Kristoffer Albrecht,
Taneli Eskola, Ritva Kovalainen &
Helsinki Times iPad edition
Helsinki Times iPad edition. Quintet
Jazz.
Koko Jazz Club
Hämeentie 3
Tickets ?11.50/16.50
www.kokojazz.fi
Thu 9 January
Tumppi Varonen & Rane Raitsikka
Punk rock.
Bar Loose
Annankatu 21
Tickets ?8.50/9
www.barloose.com
Tuija Lindström, Pia, 1983.
Thu 9 January
Folklandia Cruise pre-concert
Habadekuk (DNK), Kardemimmit,
Marcelo ?Patalino. 15 JANUARY 2014
HELSINKI TIMES
COMPILED BY ANNA-MAIJA LAPPI
T HE FINNISH MUSEUM OF PHOTOGR APH Y
In The Beginning
There Was Everything
Until Mon 13 January
Jeppe Hein . Titled as In The Beginning There
Was Everything, the exhibition presents the works by Tuija Lindström,
one of Sweden?s most well-known photographers, a professor in photography, and a highly influential figure in photography in Finland as
well.
The exhibition, featuring works from 11 series including Lindström?s
breakthrough series The Girls at Bull?s Pond (1991), is the artist´s first
comprehensive retrospective to be held in Finland. Pieni Suomalainen
Balettiseurue
A blend of progressive rock and
black metal ballerinas.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?13.50/14.50
www.korjaamo.fi
Wed 15 January
Eldis + torvisektio,
White Knuckles Trio
Blues.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50
www.semifinal.fi
THEATRE & DANCE
Thu 9 & Sat 11 January
The Snow Queen
Kenneth Greve?s ballet for the
whole family is based on the tale by
H.C. At the core of
the works presented in the exhibition are the themes of beauty and
death, as well as life and humanity.
From Wed 15 January
Tuija Lindström:
In The Beginning There
Was Everything
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
MUSIC
Thu 9 January
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
D?om le vrai sens, composed by Kaija Saariaho for clarinet wizard Kari
Kriikku.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?7.50-22.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Thu 9 January
J.K.L. Andersen from 1845. Rasta and Elias Kaskinen &
Päivänsankarit.
Kuudes Linja
Hämeentie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?7/8
www.kuudeslinja.com
Sat 11 January
Constables
Indie rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?7.50
www.semifinal.fi
Fri 10 January
Häxjesus
New wave dance rock.
Semifinal
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?8.50
www.semifinal.fi
Fri 10 January
Risto
Pop rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?11.50/12
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Sat 11 January
Turku Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor &
Charlotte Hellekant,
mezzosoprano.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?9.50-27.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Sat 11 January
Kauko Röyhkä Solo,
The Munsons, Kari Peitsamo
Road Hogs
Rock.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?13.50
www.virginoil.fi
Sat 11 January
Kolmas Nainen
Rock.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?26.50
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Mon 13 January
Ensemble mosaik
One of Germany´s most
interesting contemporary
music groups.
Music Centre
Camerata
Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki
Tickets ?5/10/15
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Tue 14 January
Kylesa (USA),
Sierra (CAN),
Jagged Vision (NOR)
Rock/Metal/Hardcore etc.
Tavastia
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6
Helsinki
Tickets ?21.50/22
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Wed 15 January
Rytmihäiriöklubi
Raoul Björkenheim Triad.
Juttutupa
Säästöpankinranta 6
Helsinki
Free entry
www.juttutupa.com
Sat 11 January
Barry Andrewsin Disko,
Hulda Huima ja Mustat Kalsarit,
Lokit
Unique (indie)pop newcomers.
Korjaamo Culture Factory
Töölönkatu 51 B
Helsinki
Tickets ?6.50/7
www.korjaamo.fi
Wed 15 January
Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Mozart´s Piano Concerto
No. 18
WHERE TO GO
9 . Amos
Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27
Helsinki
Open:
Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/2/8/10
www.amosanderson.fi
Spring season´s first exhibition at The Finnish Museum of Photography opens on Wednesday 15 January. Finnish
National Opera
Helsinginkatu 58
Helsinki
Tickets ?19-98
www.opera.fi
Sat 11 January
Jyrki Karttunen: Youth
and Freedom
Dream-like dive into the world
of emotions.
Helsinki City Theatre
Pieni Näyttämö
Eläintarhantie 5
Helsinki
Tickets ?18-29
www.hkt.fi
EXHIBITIONS
Until Sun 19 January
Kiasma Hits
Classics of Finnish contemporary
art and famous international
artworks.
Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2
Helsinki
Open:
Tue 10:00-17:00
Wed-Fri 10:00-20:30
Sat 10:00-18:00
Sun 10:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/8/10
www.kiasma.fi
Until Sun 2 February
Transformation: Towards a
Sustainable Future
How to you build or renovate your
home to balance human needs
with the demands of ecological
sustainability?
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Kasarmikatu 24
Helsinki
Open:
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/3/6
www.mfa.fi
Until Sun 9 February
On the Shores of the Lake
Exhibition dedicated to the
fascinating artist community
that lived on the shores of
Lake Tuusula at the turn of
20th century.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
Until Sun 2 March
Rafael Wardi
Retrospective exhibition
of painter Rafael Wardi.
Ateneum Art Museum
Kaivokatu 2
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0/10/12
www.ateneum.fi
From Wed 15 January
Dorothée Smith
French artist´s melancholy
and haze images exploring the
themes of absence and presence.
The Finnish Museum
of Photography
Tallberginkatu 1 G
Helsinki
Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00
Wed 11:00-20:00
Tickets ?0/6/8
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Until Sun 12 January
Aesthete Extarordinaire
Birger Kaipiainen´s ceramic
fantasies.
EMMA . There are No
Ordinary Moments
Solo exhibition of the renowned
Danish artist Jeppe Hein, winner of
this year Ars Fennica Prize. Rosa, Väkevä
Kollektiivi & Siba Folk Big Band.
Music Centre
Black Box
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?6.50/12.50/17.50
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 10 January
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor & Alice
Sara Ott, piano.
Music Centre
Concert Hall
Mannerheimintie 13
Tickets ?7-25
www.musiikkitalo.fi
Fri 10 January
Kuningasidea
12-piece rhythm combo influenced
by reggae and rap.
Virgin Oil CO.
Mannerheimintie 5
Tickets ?11.50/12
www.virginoil.fi
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Pentti Sammallahti.
Sinebrychoff Art Museum
Bulevardi 40
Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00
Wed, Thu 10:00-20:00
Sat, Sun 11:00-17:00
Tickets ?0-10
www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi
Fri 10 January
Club Fury
Hard EDM.
Venue
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21
Helsinki
Tickets ?10.50
www.clubvenue.fi
Sat 11 January
Lisa Lystam (SWE)
Blues.
Juttutupa
Säästöpankinranta 6
Helsinki
Free entry
www.juttutupa.com
Fri 10 January
Club Tule Sellaisena Kuin Oot
St