We won?t endorse policies
that weaken social security.?
Voices within the Left Alliance
have been calling for the party to
quit the government if it becomes
apparent that the structural reforms will lead to weaker welfare
services. HT
ST T
Alliance has nominated
17 candidates for the forthcoming
European Parliament elections, after its leadership voted on Sunday
against withdrawing from the Government amid unrest arising from
the planned structural reforms. Its candidates for Finland?s 13 seats in the
European Parliament include MEPs Anneli Jäätteenmäki and Hannu Takkula, seasoned party force
Paavo Väyrynen and former editorin-chief of Helsingin Sanomat Mikael Pentikäinen.
In his address at the party event
in Kuopio, Pentikäinen stated that he
wants to restore voters. 4 DECEMBER 2013 . MEP Eija-Riitta Korhola (NCP)
. You can
transfer from one
vehicle to another
with a single ticket
within the validity
of the ticket.
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SAIL A KIUT TU, ANNIINA LUOTONEN . MEP Tarja Cronberg (Greens)
. HT
will remain in
the government. He also viewed that voters may be perplexed by the architecture of the European Union and
may not understand the impact of a
move from the Government to the
opposition on a party?s political line.
Left Alliance votes against leaving government
Kalevala and media literacy
The new English translation of The
Kalevala is out, and a conference on
media literacy is set to take place.
See pages 16-17
Singlee
tickets andd
day tickets
Validity from 2
hours to 7 days.
Buy from ticket
machines, bus and
tram drivers, as
well as conductors
on commuter trains
or by mobile
phone. Several
Left Alliance members have vocally opposed the planned structural reforms, viewing that they are
essentially cuts in basic welfare
services.
Rehn to decide
on candidacy by Christmas
Similarly on Sunday, the Centre
unveiled a list of 17 candidates for
the elections . Helsinki Times is also available for sale in more than 140 kiosks across Finland.
Centre and Left Alliance
announce 17 candidates
for the 2014 European
Parliament elections.
Archaeology and the Parliament
An amateur archaeologist uncovers an ancient burial site. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy will handle the reform proposal during this week.
. Päivi Storgård, the deputy
chair of the Swedish People?s
Party
. ?Taxation will be our
focus in the spring?s framework session, if more adjustments are needed,. The government is putting together a package of reforms aiming to balance the public spending in the long term.
. MEP Nils Torvalds (SFP)
THE LEFT
Olli Rehn (Centre) has yet to come to a decision regarding his candidacy.
Domestically, the Left Alliance is
to continue working toward a narrower income gap by pursuing revisions to the capital gains tax and
the revival of the wealth tax, abolished in 2006. con?dence
in politics. The party council discussed the possibility
of calling another meeting in one or
two weeks. Arhinmäki himself was
opposed to leaving the government.
?The best way of working for our
voters is to have an in?uence from
within as long as possible,. In addition, the party has demanded that
referendums be held for major European Union decisions.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R T T I K A I N U L A N E N
Parties gear up for EP elections
DOMESTIC
Other confirmed
candidates
. By 2017, spending must be cut or revenue increased by 9 billion euros.
. The party council
and the parliamentary group voted against quitting the government
with a majority of 43 votes to 24.
The future of the Left Alliance
sparked a lively debate in the joint
meeting of the party council and
the parliamentary group on Saturday evening.
The discussion at the meeting held behind closed doors was
described as business-like even
though the split among the participants was clear with the members
of parliament, with the exception of
Anna Kontula, speaking up for the
party continuing in the government
while the party council members
were in favour of leaving.
The Left Alliance is concerned
that the package of structural reforms, which will be published during this week, will weaken essential
public services.
Paavo Arhinmäki, the party
chair, presented the government
plans at the meeting but party members said the discussion remained
on a relatively general level as, for
example, information on the duties
that would be transferred away from
municipalities was not yet available.
Arhinmäki received preliminary
information on the savings pack-
THE LEFT ALLIANCE
age last Friday when the of?cials
involved in the preparation of the
report gave their proposal to the
government.
?I will be talking about the main
lines of the report,. he explained in
the afternoon before the meeting
kicked off.
Achievement of
goals in government
continuously assessed
Arhinmäki said that the Left Alliance regularly assesses whether
the conditions for the party?s involvement in the government are
being met.
?These conditions include tax
and social security decisions that
help stop the income gap from widening. I?m sure it will be an
outspoken and intense discussion,?
he said.
According to Sari Moisanen,
the second deputy chair, it is possible that issues not directly related
to the structural reforms will crop
up during the meeting as there has
been some dissatisfaction with the
government actions in the past as
well.
The party council conference
that lasted until Sunday also discussed the EU elections with the
party set to elect 17 candidates during the weekend.
Reform that may prompt party to quit government
. MEP Liisa Jaakonsaari (SDP)
. Described as formidable by chairman
Paavo Arhinmäki, the candidate
list represents the party?s bid to reclaim at least one seat in the European Parliament after a four-year
absence.
Among the candidates are current Minister of Transport Merja
Kyllönen, MP Annika Lapintie, the
chair of the Left Youth of Finland Li
Andersson and the chair of the party council Hanna Sarkkinen.
The party is expected to campaign for maximum wage regulations akin to the proposal to limit
the wages of corporate executives
that was rejected by Swiss voters
in a referendum on Sunday. International credit ratings agencies monitoring Finnish fiscal policy will
be interested in whether the reform talks succeed.. MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen (NCP)
. 28 NOVEMBER . S T T
NIINA WOOLLE Y . Arhinmäki stated. time but this was decided against.
The ?nal impact of the reforms
will not be known next week either,
with a lot of the details only coming
out during the government talks on
spending limits next spring.
Many party members
still undecided
Marko Varajärvi, the party secretary, said that the party council had
previously held heated discussions
on whether the party should remain
in the government, even though a
large number of members were still
undecided.
?I couldn?t commit myself to a
decision without having seen the
report ?rst. responsibilities will bring
savings amounting to at least a billion euros, accounting for a notable
chunk of the reform package.
. The most controversial issues will be discussed among the chairs of the
governing parties, with the whole government meeting on Friday.
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. MP Jussi Halla-aho (PS)
. The goal is that the reduction in municipalities. ?3 . Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto,
the chair of the Greens
parliamentary group
. said
Arhinmäki, speaking in a press conference held earlier last Saturday.
The government is set to decide
on the large package of structural
reforms this week, with the aim of
clawing back some of the 9 billion
euros needed to balance the public
?nances in the long term.
As the ?nal decision on the reforms has not been made yet, the
Left Alliance had to vote on its future in the government having only
incomplete information. leaving slots open
for a few surprise entries and Olli Rehn, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary
Affairs, who is to announce his de-
cision before Christmas. Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner,
the chair of the Finns Party
parliamentary group
. The Parliament reports an entertaining
slip of hte tongue.
See pages 3,4
BUSINESS
Farmers and fish
Agricultural subsidies are set to be
cut in the following years, while the
fish supply chain will soon be monitored almost in real time.
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LIFESTYLE & EDUCATION
ALEK SI TEIVAINEN
The prospect of improved Iranian-US relations
will allow those who would
bene?t from it to argue in
TO PUT it bluntly: when the
ayatollahs and even the leadership of the Revolutionary
Guards can travel to and own
property in the US, send their
children to college there, and
earn money as consultants
to and partners with US corporations, it is doubtful that
they will want to risk losing
all this for the dubious bene?ts of issuing nuclear threats
or supporting ungrateful and
unpro?table allies such as
Hamas, Hezbollah, or Assad.
Israelis and Saudis (along with their US supporters) reading this will
undoubtedly claim that the
Iranians want to ?have their
cake and eat it too. and probably
other unanticipated . What Israeli and Saudi
leaders now fear is that if Iranian-US relations improve
signi?cantly,
Washington
will no longer act so strongly
to contain Iran.
INDEED,
the US may press
Israel and Saudi Arabia to
soften their own policies toward Iran so as not to hinder the process of Iranian-US
rapprochement or Tehran?s
progress in ?rejoining the international community.?
like this may
well occur. Katz is a professor of government and politics at
George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. through
bene?ting from improved
economic ties with the West
in order to more easily build
up their military strength and
support their militant allies.
FEARFUL
BUT WHILE those who fear
Iran may believe otherwise, it
will simply be impossible for
Tehran to build and maintain
good relations with the US
while at the same time pursuing hostile policies toward Israel, Saudi Arabia, and others.
The rapprochement process
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28 NOVEMBER . Because
US sanctions against Iran
have been so very tight and
because US public opinion
has viewed Iran so negatively
for so very many years, there
have been few vested interests in the US (apart from a
portion of the small IranianAmerican community) willing to lobby for improved ties
between Washington and
Tehran.
SOMETHING
as Iranian-US relations
improve, this will change. Further, the US military
and all those concerned with
containing the Taliban may
see a friendly Iran as a better
route for supplying Afghan
government forces than either unreliable Pakistan or
who now fear Iran will ?nd it
dif?cult to press Washington
to resume a tougher policy toward Iran in the future. What their behaviour reveals is that it is not just Iran
whom Israeli and Saudi leaders don?t trust, but also the
Obama administration and
Washington more generally.
ISRAELI
Israel and Saudi Arabia (among others) have had
good reason to fear the Is-
WHILE
lamic Republic of Iran in the
past, the strong degree of
Iranian-US hostility motivated Washington to contain
Iran . And it might not
just be the Obama administration doing this. and its doing so bene?ted Israel and Saudi Arabia. Anticipation of this state of affairs
is undoubtedly an important
factor motivating Israeli and
Saudi leaders to try to forestall
an Iranian-US rapprochement
now before this occurs.
WHAT they do not appreciate,
though, is that improved Iranian-US relations will lead to
a similar process unfolding
in Iran. An improved IranianUS relationship will not lead
to Iran becoming friends
with Israel and Saudi Arabia (which, of course, are not
exactly friends with each
other).
BETTER ties between Washington and Tehran, though,
offer the best opportunity
to change how Tehran calculates the costs and bene?ts
of hostile behaviour (if not
hostile statements) toward
Washington?s traditional allies in the Middle East.
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Iranian-US rapprochement:
What?s in it for Israel and Saudi Arabia?
ISRAEL, Saudi Arabia, and
some of the other ArabGulf
states are deeply sceptical of
the Barack Obama administration?s efforts to reach a deal
with Iran limiting its nuclear programme and to improve
US-Iranian relations generally.
traditional Middle Eastern allies warn
that the Islamic Republic
cannot be trusted, and that
Washington must not reach a
deal with Iran that either fails
to adequately limit Iranian
nuclear ambitions, or which
Tehran has no intention of
abiding by even if it does.
WASHINGTON?S
BETTER ties offer the best opportunity to change how Tehran calculates the costs and
bene?ts of hostile behaviour
toward Washington?s traditional allies in the Middle East.
and Saudi leaders in
particular are adamant about
this, and are frustrated, angry, and mysti?ed that the
Obama administration knows
of their concerns about Iran,
but is attempting to reach
an agreement with it anyway. own and do not represent the official policy of the Helsinki Times.
Mark N. 4 DECEMBER 2013
VIEWPOINT
HELSINKI TIMES
Viewpoints are commentaries written by experts and authorities about specific topics. and all of Iran?s bene?ts
from it . would quickly end
if it did despite the growing
US and Iranian domestic constituencies seeking better
relations.
of these constituencies, though, could
be powerful forces acting to
forestall counter-productive
Iranian behaviour.
THE GROWTH
HOSTILE Iranian-US relations have not served to put
an end to hostile Iranian policies toward Israel and Saudi Arabia in the past, and are
unlikely to do so in the future. constituencies with a strong interest
in friendly Iranian-US relations in the US arise, then Israel, Saudi Arabia, and others
IF ALL
Better ties offer the best opportunity to
change how Tehran calculates the costs and
benefits of hostile behaviour toward Washington?s traditional allies in the Middle East.
à-vis Turkey and Azerbaijan
(neighbours with which Armenia has long had dif?cult
relations).
AND despite its differences
with Armenia, Azerbaijan ?
as well as Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and US petroleum
companies active in them ?
would welcome the opportunity to export petroleum via
Iran. especially petroleum ?rms . have long
wanted to do business with
Iran, but sanctions and Iran?s
BUT
negative image prevented this. US
corporations . Improved IranianUS relations will result in US
business being more willing
to lobby for reducing sanctions (which, they will argue,
mainly bene?t their competitors in Europe, Russia, and
China).
FURTHER , the prospect of improved Washington-Tehran
ties may free the Armenian-American lobby to argue
that better Iranian-US relations would greatly help their
homeland escape its overdependence on Russia vis-
the long and expensive route
through Russia and Central
Asia.
favour of this process and
against policies that undermine it.
AND BEING a professor, I can-
WHILE it is dif?cult for Iranian actors to argue against
the position that Iran must
remain ever vigilant against
US hostility when US policy
toward Iran is indeed hostile,
it will be easier for them to do
so if they can point to a real
prospect of an improved relationship, or better yet, an
actually improved relationship that has provided bene?ts they do not want to lose.
not help but note that cashstrapped US universities
would very much like to see
the return of large numbers
of full tuition-paying Iranian
students.
these
Gustafsson even
managed to present a question to Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson (Swedish
People?s Party) on the topic.
Anonymous and free of charge
Hackers can even attack through
a workplace canteen?s website
Internet security
breaches are on a
steep increase.
Concentration lapse
When Mauri Pekkarinen
(Centre Party) appealed to
the members of parliament
to stop sniping at each other,
the Speaker of Parliament Eero Heinäluoma lost his concentration for a while, calling
Katainen ?Prime Minister
Vanhanen?.
?Not one of the better days for the speaker,. H T
Printer weakest link
The working group?s report
stresses that PDF ?les, traditionally regarded as a secure
L E H T I K U VA / M I K KO S T I G
INTERNET security breaches
have not only become increasingly common, but also more
complicated than before. based on her quali?cations for the position.
?Selecting
candidates
based on their quali?cations
is not something that was only thought up by the Centre
Party the other day.?
the same policy to appointments to municipal and state
positions.?
Tiilikainen asked whether
Katainen considered the decision to replace the former
Centre Party MP Olavi AlaNissilä with the National Coalition Party?s Ville Itälä in
the European Court of Auditors to be justi?ed, despite
Ala-Nissilä being formally
quali?ed for the job.
Katainen stated that Itälä
ful?lled all the selection cri-
pany information system
without anybody spotting it,
after which the software must
be activated by one of the company employees, for example,
through the lunch menu stunt.
Finally, the hacker has
to transfer the information
out of the company?s data
system.
?Transferring the data
out of the company?s intranet
is the most challenging phase
of the operation for the criminal but perfectly feasible,?
the report states.
Businesses. 4 DECEMBER 2013
3
P E K K A P O H JO L A IN E N . Printers have developed into multifunctional devices that are
connected to the network but
their data protection is not
always updated with similar
diligence to computers.
The problem with ?rewalls is that they must not
interrupt the company?s operation by screening emails
too stringently.
When a hacker wants to
gain an entry into the company?s network, he sends emails
to a few people in the company, avoiding detection by the
Internet security programs.
When the email is credible
and all the recipients are familiar company employees, it
does not arouse suspicion in
anyone who receives it.
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[LZ[ YLZ\S[ PU
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Staff computers are often better protected than printers.
liament Niinistö to the great
amusement of the MPs listening to the proceedings.
Jukka Gustafsson (SDP)
stirred matters further with
the Finns Party by bringing
up the performance of Pekka
Vennamo as the head of the
Post, a position which he acquired through a political appointment. He added that he
had always been of the opinion
that the most quali?ed candidate should be appointed, regardless of party membership.
?And as far as I am concerned we can also apply
teria even though he had acquired his quali?cations
through a different route,
noting that the government
had appointed Hannele Pokka from the Centre Party as
the permanent secretary of
the Ministry of the Environment . Only a small
number of hacker attacks
come to light, and even fewer are reported to the police.
When a hacker attacks a
company he usually has three
goals. H T
debate on
political appointments to
civil service positions was in
danger of turning into a farce
during Thursday?s parliamentary question time.
Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner from the Finns Party
launched the discussion by
questioning the grounds for
making appointments based
on a candidate?s political af?liation. warns a report by
the national business security working group, which has
members from the ministries
and the business sector.
A sharp rise in data
breaches is con?rmed by the
police, with the number of reported hacking incidents up
from 183 in 2008 to 503 last
year. The debate only heated
up when Kimmo Tiilikainen,
the chair of the Centre Party
parliamentary group, seized
on the opportunity to tout the
party leader Juha Sipilä?s proposal of abolishing political
appointments.
Tiilikainen pressed Prime
Minister Jyrki Katainen (Nat
Coalition Party) for a promise to stop using political
af?liation as a selection criterion for the rest of the government term.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R
Heinäluoma
addressed a
comment to ?Prime
Minister Vanhanen?.
L E H T I K U VA / M A R K K U U L A N D E R
Parliamentary debate on political
appointments turned into comedy act
PARLIAMENTARY
Speaker of Parliament Eero Heinäluoma upon his slip of the tongue.
Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen reacts to Heinäluoma?s lapse in concentration.
?Do I dare to recommend
that quali?ed Centre Party
members also apply for posts
when you are picking the appointees?. During the same period, the number of aggravated data breaches rose from
zero to fourteen. S T T
N IIN A W OO L L E Y . data security systems usually focus on
protection against external
threats, neglecting to monitor data moving out of the
company.
A N T T I AU T IO . DOMESTIC
HELSINKI TIMES
28 NOVEMBER . S T T
N IIN A W OO L L E Y . A
hacker may gain access to a
company?s information systems even through the workplace canteen?s website.
?Hackers insert their own
malware code next to a lunch
menu, which then activates if
the person reading the menu
is using a vulnerable Internet
browser,. lamented Heinäluoma,
prompting Katainen to address him as Speaker of Par-
+,*,
6*;6),9
4),9
/0= ;<202,:2<:
<UPVUPURH[\ 2
/LSZPURP
[LS . First of all, he has to deliver malware into the com-
?le format, are nowadays widely used in malware attacks.
The weakest link of the information system, however,
is usually the printer. retorted Katainen,
comparing Tiilikainen?s comment to the classic question
?Have you stopped beating
your wife??
S T T
N IIN A W OO L L E Y . 4 DECEMBER 2013
HELSINKI TIMES
L E H T I K U VA / S I M O VA N H ATA L O
Matriculation
exam answers
leaked online
The answers of two listening comprehension tests in
this autumn?s matriculation
examination were erroneously posted online before
the completion of all tests,
the Matriculation Examination Board has revealed.
The answers of French and
Spanish listening comprehension tests were made
available on the board?s
web-page some 45 minutes
earlier than planned apparently due to a human error,
a probe by the board suggests. These tests may reveal
whether the man?s genes
were of eastern or western
origin and whether he spent
all his life in the Häme region.
Some soil will be collected from around the man?s abdominal area, with the hope
of ?nding traces of pollen
and fossilised plants, possible signs of his last meal.
?The exact order of tests
must be considered carefully
so that we can make the most
out of the remains,. Prior to his presidential
terms, Koivisto served one term as the Minister of Finance
and two terms as the Prime Minister. The board is currently
investigating whether testtakers were able to take advantage of the error. The first Government
led by Koivisto, for example, hammered out Finland?s first
centralised labour market settlement, allowed the sale of beer
in grocery shops and legalised abortion. During his career in
politics, Koivisto was popular across the political spectrum.
Contrary to previous assumptions, Koivisto was also an
advocate of an independent Estonia. 4
DOMESTIC
28 NOVEMBER . Interestingly, lower down in the
grave, researchers found a
newer 120-cm sword originating from around the age
of the crusades.
Vanhatalo?s guess is that
both swords were placed in
the grave at the same time
with the deceased man. doctoral student Tiina Lankila told Kaleva, an Oulu-based
newspaper, on Monday. 91,3%
No . Instead, the lack of
physical activity and the use
of private cars may also have
contributed to the gap. H T
burial site unearthed in Janakkala may
shed new light on life in Finland a thousand years ago.
The rare discovery comprises two swords and bones that
belonged to a large man.
Simo Vanhatalo, a researcher from the National
Board of Antiquities, praises the experienced amateur
archaeologists, who discovered an iron spearhead and
an axe blade in the ?eld with
a metal detector at the end of
October, and called in professionals to carry on with the
investigations.
?Buried under almost half
a metre of soil, you could de-
AN ANCIENT
tect the outline of a rectangular cof?n, which together
with the way cof?n was laid
in east-to-west orientation
suggests a Christian in?uence,. 8,7%
L E H T I K U VA
View details and this week?s question at www.helsinkitimes.fi
Who:
Mauno Koivisto
From:
Turku
Famous for:
President of the Republic of
Finland between 1982 and
1994, Koivisto celebrated
his 90th birthday on
Monday 25 November.
During his term in office, Koivisto limited the powers of
the President, viewing that excessive presidential powers
are an impediment to democracy. In the
study, the researchers monitored a group of people born in
Northern Finland in 1966 who
in 1997 lived either in Northern Finland or the capital region. In addition, information about foreign citizens?
residence permits would be
entered into the information
population system instead of
the register of aliens.
ready undergone cremation
as it showed signs of burning.
The researchers believe
the man may have been a
squire, a knight?s shield bearer, not only because of the
swords but also because, at
1.80 metres tall, he was over
the average height of the time.
?It all matches with the
way squires looked elsewhere in Scandinavia,. H T
FOREIGN citizens applying
for a Finnishresidence permit will be issued a personal
identity code faster than at
present, if a bill on the population information system
tabled by the Government on
Thursday is approved.
The Government proposes that the personal information of foreign citizens be
entered into the population
information system already
during the application process. The ?ndings were similar
in both regions.. Meanwhile, spot strikes
will continue to cause local
delays in postal deliveries.
The nationwide strike has
been scheduled for 9-13 December.
STT-HT
Bus operator
cuts 175 jobs
After completing talks with
its staff, bus and coach operator Jyväskylän Liikenne
has announced that it will
lay off 175 employees, including 160 bus drivers and
15 maintenance workers.
The remaining roughly 100
employees will continue
working on bus routes in Jyväskylä and nearby regions.
The operator has cited the
recent statutory tendering
process in which low-cost
bus and coach operator Onnibus was awarded contracts for the majority of
local transport routes in
Jyväskylä as the reason.
Jyväskylän Liikenne has
lodged a complaint against
the tendering process with
the Market Court. After another unsuccessful attempt
to reach a settlement on
Monday, the collective bargaining talks are scheduled
to continue under the guidance of the National Conciliator. The objective of the
revision is to encourage the
integration of immigrants into the Finnish society and to
cut the red tape they face by
ensuring that they no longer
have to visit a local register
of?ce to receive their identity codes. According to a recently
published doctoral dissertation by Heikki Rausmaa, Koivisto
allowed the Ministry of Education to support the Estonian
pro-independence Tuglas Society to operate behind the
scenes, while Finland was officially backing the Soviet
Union?s stance with regards to the region.
M E R J A Å K E R L IN D . comments Vanhatalo.
Many open questions
The time of the burial has now
been dated to between the
12th and 14th centuries and
radiocarbon dating should
help narrow down the period.
The body will also be studied using X-ray examination
and DNA and isotope test-
University
study finds
that BMI
of people
closer to
city centres
is lowest
ST T
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . Thereby, people applying
for a Finnish residence permit from abroad could be issued a personal identity code
already before their entry to
Finland. explains
Vanhatalo.
Results from the analyses
are expected in the spring
at the earliest, after which
the need for conservation
and further studies must be
decided.
The amateurs also discovered a bronze buckle and
some fabric nearby, suggesting that the location harbours a larger burial site.
from city centres, the higher
their body mass index,. The
differences ?rst become visible when the distance to a city
centre exceeds 5 kilometres
and continue to increase until
the distance is 180 kilometres,
the study shows. The
older sword may possibly be
a family heirloom that had al-
Immigrants to be
issued personal
identity codes faster
ST T
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . Researchers
interviewed by Kaleva maintain that the differences in
body mass cannot be attributed solely to socio-economic factors. HT-STT
Professional archaeologists were called after an experienced amateur archaeologist discovered the burial site.
Amateurs unearth valuable
ancient gravesite in Janakkala
The burial site suggests both pagan and Christian influences.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
The majority of high profile public sector jobs are filled based on
political and partisan affiliations and predetermined by the parties.
Do you think that directors should be selected
according to abilities rather than politics?
Yes . concedes Eikka Urpilainen, a
director at Itella. H T
mass index (BMI)
of people living in inner city
regions is lower than people
living further from city centres, ?nds a study conducted at the University of Oulu.
?The further away people live
THE BODY
ing. HT-STT
Nationwide postal
strike threatens
Christmas
deliveries
The ongoing wrangle over
the terms and conditions of
employees represented by
the Finnish Post and Logistics Union (PAU) could result in a nationwide strike
and threaten Christmas
deliveries, postal services
provider Itella estimates.
?Unfortunately, we wouldn?t
be able to handle the back-
log before Christmas,. explains Vanhatalo.
The two swords found in
the grave, on the other hand,
are pagan with one of them
dating from the Viking era,
from around the 9th century to mid-11th century
In an
interlocutory judgement
delivered by the court
before her psychological evaluation, the court
found the mother guilty of
two homicides. H T
A drug ring suspected of
traf?cking substantial
amounts of cocaine and
other hard drugs in Finland has been busted by
the Pirkanmaa police.
Last summer, authorities
seized nearly half a kilo
of cocaine in Helsinki and
Ylöjärvi, where half a kilo of methamphetamine
was also discovered. Takanen told.
Takanen also af?rmed
that a civil review procedure
will be initiated to determine
whether further disciplinary
action, such as a warning
or discharge, is necessary.
?There are bound to be some
rami?cations. In
accordance, the court ruled on
21 November that the defendants would not have been able
to pull the plug on the performers for defying the curfew and,
consequently, had not acted
deliberately or negligently.
?Excessive?
In an interview with Helsingin Sanomat a few weeks
before the ruling, Nina Castrén, the managing director of Live Nation Finland,
viewed that the charges
brought against individual
employees were unfair. They cannot
simply continue in their duties as before,. Lilo was
sentenced to six years
in prison for his role in
the murder of Jenna Lepomäki but, due to his
young age, was released
recently after serving
two years.
HT-STT
5. The
mother, born in 1985, was
sentenced to life imprisonment, with the court
viewing on 22 November
that the infants were utterly defenceless and dependent on their mother.
After the murders, the
mother proceeded in a
determined manner by
hiding the victims. she told
the daily.
Castrén also emphasised
that the collaboration be-
tween Live Nation Finland
and the City of Helsinki has
improved this year and that
no sound curfews have been
exceeded.
Paatero continues as Police Commissioner
ST T
A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . As part of
it, soldiers playing the hijackers were apprehended
and transported to the multipurpose response ship Louhi
for questioning.
During the interrogations,
one hijacker was doused with
water and stuck with a nee-
Charges over lengthy
concerts dismissed
M I A P E LT O L A . Paatero stated in a
news conference on Monday
afternoon.
Gang leader
jailed in Vaasa
A man born in 1969 has
been sentenced to nine
years. His show at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 31 July 2012 lasted four hours and six minutes.
of regulations; that?s why
this feels excessive,. All suspects are believed to have
ties with another drug
ring tried roughly a month
ago.
HT-STT
Räsänen also reaf?rmed
her con?dence in the National Police Commissioner on
Monday, after initially believing there is reason to suspect
that the Helsinki Police Department has not complied
with the stipulations of the
Police Act and the Police Decree concerning the use of informants. These are professional soldiers, and you
might have thought that they
understood our ways and
methods of operating,. In addition, the court found
him guilty of drug offences and several counts
of attempted aggravated usury. 4 DECEMBER 2013
C O M P I L E D B Y A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N
Pirkanmaa
police bust
drug ring
Harsh interrogation techniques were used aboard the multi-purpose response ship Louhi during a military exercise in June 2012.
Six convicted over military exercise
dle while being handcuffed.
In addition, a nasal trumpet
was inserted into his anus.
Another soldier was repeatedly doused with cold water and had his head covered
with a sack.
The possibility of soldiers getting carried
away during the exercise was not recognised.
SIX SOLDIERS have been con-
victed for using harsh physical interrogation techniques
during a military exercise of
the Finnish Defence Forces
on the Gulf of Finland in June
2012. In addition,
he underlined that he wants to
ensure the smooth implementation of the reform of the police organisation scheduled
for early next year.
The District Court of Hyvinkää has found a mother guilty of the murders
of her newborn twins
in Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi, in June last year. imprisonment for
a series of offences including aggravated robbery and assault by the
District Court of Vaasa,
the local newspaper Vasabladet reports. The other suspects are 23-44-year-old
citizens of Gambia, Norway and Finland. S T T
THE CHARGES of violations of
the Environmental Protection
Act brought against three employees of Live Nation, a liveevents promoter, have been
dismissed by the District
Court of Helsinki, Helsingin
Sanomat reports. The
value of the narcotics on
the street is an estimated
140,000 euro.
During the pre-trial investigation, law enforcement of?cers have reeled
12 people in for questioning, 7 of whom remain in
detention. The presumed
ringleader, a 37-year-old
man, is suspected of orchestrating the smuggling
of cocaine from Sweden
to Finland. CRIME
HELSINKI TIMES
28 NOVEMBER . he viewed.
The soldier sentenced to
a probation order no longer
serves in the navy following
the non-renewal of his ?xedterm contract.
AFTER mulling over his position in the command of the
Police of Finland at the urging of Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen (Christian
Democrats), National Police
Commissioner Mikko Paatero has announced that he will
shoulder his responsibility
by continuing in his current
capacity.
?Over the weekend, I received hundreds of messages from both citizens and my
own administrative sector.
I?d be letting them down, if I
resigned,. The charges stemmed from the live performances of Madonna and
Bruce Springsteen at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium last
year, both of which exceeded the prescribed curfew by
roughly an hour.
Under the conditions of the
environmental permits granted by the Helsinki Environment Centre, both concerts
should have ended by 23:00.
In court, the legal representative of Live Nation argued
that the delays were caused by
the artists: Springsteen played
for four hours, whereas Madonna entered the stage notably later than planned. As
a result, more information about Aarnio?s links
with surveillance equipment manufacturer Trevoc has been uncovered,
prosecutor Jukka Haavisto, the head of the investigation, told in a press
conference on 21 November, while declining to disclose further details. HT-STT
Further
detentions in
investigation
into drug chief
The police have conducted further house searches in the investigation
into Jari Aarnio, the chief
of Helsinki Police Department?s drug squad, currently held on suspicion
of aggravated bribery and
misuse of public of?ce. ?I
have nothing to add to the
bulletin,. bodies,
the court also highlighted.
According to the police, the woman had concealed the pregnancy
from the father of the
twins, who only heard of it
after the launch of the pretrial investigation. Paatero justi?ed his
decision by arguing that his
resignation might imply mistakes, or even unlawful acts,
on his part or suggest that
the police administration has
somehow failed. ST T
were clearly unable to foresee that something like this
could happen. ?The
staff have very carefully and
meticulously done their utmost within the framework
Further
ramifications likely
In the wake of the trial, Real
Admiral Kari Takanen, the
commander-in chief of the
Finnish Navy, viewed that
the incident shows that even
professional soldiers can get
carried away during military
exercises.
He asserted that the Defence Forces will duly review
the chain of events to prevent similar incidents from
occurring in the future. On 20 November, the
District Court of Länsi-Uusimaa sentenced one soldier to
a three-month probation order for assault and service
offence and handed ?nes of
800-1,240 euro to ?ve others.
The service offence charges
brought against two of?cers
supervising the exercise, in
turn, were dismissed.
The objective of the military exercise, which simulated a hijacking on the Gulf
of Finland, was to have the
special forces board the hijacked oil tanker. ?We
L E H T I K U VA / J E M A L C O U N T E S S
MIA PELTOL A , SAIL A KIUT TU . According to
Vasabladet, the man is
the local leader of United Brotherhood, and his
af?liation with the outlaw criminal organisation
was cited as aggravating circumstances in sentencing.
HT-STT
Klaukkala
mother found
guilty of twins?
murders
Bruce Springsteen performing at New York?s Madison Square
Garden earlier this month. he stated.
A few days earlier, the
District Court of Helsinki
detained Aarnio?s wife on
probable cause of aggravated money laundering.
In addition, a senior detective at the Finnish Security Intelligence Service
and a former chief inspector at the National Bureau
of Investigation remain in
detention.
HT-STT
Homicide convict
held briefly
over derogatory
comments
on victim?s
Facebook page
A man convicted for his
role in the death of a
young Finnish woman
in Costa del Sol, Spain, a
few years ago has been
released by the police after being arrested for
posting derogatory comments on the victim?s Facebook page. The now
22-year-old Joel Lilo was
held in police custody for
a couple of days in an attempt to stem the ?ood of
messages, Jari Räty, the
of?cer in charge of the investigation has revealed.
The comments posted by
Lilo have been removed,
and his access to the webpage has been blocked.
Meanwhile, the pretrial
investigation,
sparked by a request
for inquiry by the victim?s father, continues,
with Lilo tentatively suspected of defamation
and menace
Rinne states.
Both seek measures for
moderating wages. ELINA HILTUNEN
Times change . ?. It is also
bene?cial in terms of self-esteem and brain capacity.
The study shows that
highly athletic people make
up only ?ve per cent of the
population, but correspondingly up to a third do nothing or exercise only 3.5 hours
a week at most. He does not specify the
ratio between the highest and
lowest wages, but sees the bill
as a discussion opener.?
critical limit was set at 17.5
hours.
However, regular exercise
has been proven to have a positive in?uence on physical and
mental wellbeing and reduce
stress and anxiety. In particular, the Centre Party and Social
Democrats took to ?lling posts
with their own people.
?At its worst, the Ministry of
Education and the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs had so-called
crews from both parties working on things,. 4 DECEMBER 2013
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L E H T I K U VA / A N T T I A I M O - KO I V I S T O
YLE 23 NOVEMBER. According to Daily Mail,
experts on geography have
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PAYCHECKS of the
state?s pension insurance
companies have fallen under
scrutiny ever since the salary
and bene?ts of Merja Ailus,
KEVA?s CEO, were publicised.
Chairman of Trade Union
Pro Antti Rinne and MP Ben
Zyskowicz believe that it is
?THE
Excessive exercise may
ruin your ability to work
Vantaa, Kauniainen,
Turku, Tampere,
Mikkeli, Savonlinna,
Pieksämäki, Kuopio,
Kainuu, Oulu,
Rovaniemi
Most people tweeting on flu or influenza were located in areas
where an epidemic was currently raging.
found a way to use the microblog service for noticing and
predicting ?u waves.
Researchers of the University of San Diego recently
saved 16,181 ?u-related tweets
in the United States. The
matter has been brought up
within the current government, and most recently last
week politicians have wished to
give up political appointments.
Professor of political science Jan Sunberg from the
University of Helsinki does
not believe that politicians
will alter the established custom. Also, messages with the word in?uenza
were saved. ?I have heard the same
things over and over, but
when the right person comes
along and a post needs to be
?THE ARCHIVES
KAUPPALEHTI 24 NOVEMBER. wages to
be lowered . ERIK NYSTRÖM
Pro?s Rinne: Executives. 6
FROM FINNISH PRESS
28 NOVEMBER . ?????
Soome sinu keeles
La Finlande dans votre langue
Finska na tvom jeziku
Finland oo ku qoran luqadaada
Finlandia en su idioma
Sizin dilinizde Finlandiya
Finlanda në gjuhën tuaj Helsinki, Espoo,
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amount of the person earning the least. Paloheimo says.?
of news agencies are ?lled with articles on
political appointments. ELISA RIMAILA
Twitter will soon predict flu waves
?MICROBLOG service Twitter has over 500 million users globally who send almost
340 million messages daily.
Researchers have now come
up with a new way to utilise
Twitter?s enormous potential as a producer of statistics. The bill was not
passed, but Rinne believes
that a similar solution should
be approached in Finland.
?It would be excellent to
head in this direction. The study,
headed by Professor of geography Ming-Hsiang Tsoun,
surveyed eleven US cities and
their near surroundings from
June to December 2012.?
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on stands now!
www.infopankki.fi
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Grab a copy from
your nearest pick-up point!
www.6d.fi. Rinne
said. political
appointments remain
?lled, people from the same
party are rewarded.?
Professor emeritus Heikki Paloheimo states that political appointments became
more common in the 1970s.
The labour movement began
to demand equality in terms
of appointments. The
ILTASANOMAT 23 NOVEMBER. unreasonable earnings.
?Income differences have become completely and unjusti?ably ruptured,. To the amazement
of researchers, the connection
between ?u-related messages
and ?u waves became evident.
Most people tweeting on
?u or in?uenza were located in
areas where an epidemic was
currently raging. Thus there is
such a thing as too much exercise, as it may turn against
the person.?
?TEENAGERS who exercise a
lot are more prone to low selfesteem, anxiety and stress.
The situation is worse than
with those who only move a
little or not at all, the British
Daily Mail reports.
Working out excessively may jeopardise anyone?s
health and energy to a state
worse than those who do
nothing, claims a study that
followed the exercising habits of 1,200 Swiss people as
well as their physical and
mental wellbeing.
Those who worked out 14
hours a week at most bene?ted most from exercising. Inspiration
for the discussion can be found
in Switzerland, for example.
On Sunday a law was voted on
in Switzerland that would obligate companies to narrow the
gap between the heads and
employees of companies.
According to the bill the
highest earner of a company would only be allowed
to make twelve times the
Suomi sinun kielelläsi
Finland på ditt språk
Finland in your language
????????. Zyskowicz supports
time to intefere with executives. The atmosphere is such that similar ideas could succeed,. ????. KARI HÄNNINEN
After the salary and benefits of KEVA?s CEO Merja Ailus were made public, the earnings of executives have come under close scruitny.
HELSINGIN SANOMAT 24 NOVEMBER
Now
its time for the United States
to live up to those commitments, she noted.
?All proposed military sales
should be evaluated to ensure
that they?re consistent with
the letter and the spirit of the
Arms Trade Treaty,. bolstered by hefty purchases by
oil-blessed Arab nations such
as Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait
and Qatar . 4 DECEMBER 2013
7
GENEVA
JA SMIN R AMSE Y
IPS
agreement
over Iran?s nuclear programme was of?cially announced shortly before 3:00
local time via Twitter by the
spokesperson for EU foreign policy chief Catherine
Ashton, Michael Mann, on 24
November, after more than
four days of gruelling talks.
The deal occurred after
years of negotiations with
Iran but only three and a half
months after the inauguration of Iran?s moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, who
has already overseen several historic foreign policy
milestones.
?We just ?nished many
days of hard work,. George
Perkovich, a nuclear nonproliferation and strategy
expert focused on Iran at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told IPS.
Under the six-month
phase of the deal, Iran is expected to halt uranium enrichment above ?ve percent;
convert its existing stockpile
of 20-percent-enriched uranium to fuel for its Tehran Research Reactor or dilute it to
?ve percent grade; halt ?further advances of its activities. Natalie J. for commercial jetliners announced at the Dubai,
UAE airshow . For example, she said, any
weapons sales that are likely to
be used for internal repression
should be blocked, consistent
with the Treaty?s provisions.
MIDDLE EAST
THALIF DEEN
IPS
THE MULTI-billion-dollar Middle East arms market . Goldring, a
senior fellow with the Security Studies Programme in
the Edmund A. Still, the administration of
President Barack Obama has
been aggressively pushing US
arms sales, so if they decline it
won?t be for lack of trying on
the part of the administration
and US industry, said Hartung. Walsh School
of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, told IPS the
Dubai Airshow represents
a potential windfall for the
Boeing aircraft company.
However, she said, it is
important to separate the
public relations efforts at
airshows from the actual
deliveries.
?Companies negotiate for
months to reach agreements
that they can announce with
great fanfare at the beginning of the major interna-
Other sales
Other proposed Middle East
arms sales include 4.7 billion
dollars in military equipment
to Iraq; a 1.1-billion-dollar
deal for early warning radar
to Qatar; a 588-million-dollar
package of C-130J airlifters
to Libya; and a 200-milliondollar deal to support Kuwait?s ?eet of F/A-18 ?ghters.
In contrast, the other two
major arms buyers in the
Middle East, namely Egypt
and Israel, are not cash customers but receive virtually all of their weapons at no
cost, as part of US military
aid.
Hartung told IPS the Saudi
deal includes ?ghter planes,
attack helicopters, air-to-air
and air-to-ground missiles,
armoured vehicles, bombs,
guns and ammunition . predicted Senator Bob Corker, the ranking Republican on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, on Fox News Sunday.
In his speech, Kerry said
he looked forward to working with Congress in up-
coming discussions over the
deal but also acknowledged
a presidential ?possibility of
a veto. in an apparent reference to Congress trying to
pass more sanctions on Iran
during this phase of the deal.
Iran?s team, at least, has
returned to much praise
from Iranians, who through
interviews with IPS and various illegal social media in
Iran have been expressing
joy since news of the deal
broke.
Iran?s Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei also expressed his
blessing through a tweet and
a letter addressed to President Rouhani.
Mideast airline deal may
overshadow military sales
tional airshows like Dubai,?
Goldring said.
that large US producers are
looking to foreign sales to ?ll
in gaps that are occurring as a
result of the downward trend
in Pentagon weapon spending
over the past few years.
?That being said, it?s hard
to see how arms sales to the
region can continue at this
pace . The 100-billion-dollar
deal . INTERNATIONAL NEWS
HELSINKI TIMES
28 NOVEMBER . has also
been a large boost to US producers, said Hartung. He said
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monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA).
In return Iran will gain
approximately 7 billion dollars of sanctions relief; Iran
will be given relief from US
sanctions on its auto industry as well as spare parts and
repairs for its aviation industry; no further UN, EU or US
nuclear sanctions will be issued; and a channel will be
established to better facilitate humanitarian trade.
But any gains would be
?provisional,?
cautioned
Perkovich, adding that ?the
ultimate measure will be in a
?nal agreement.?
A Dassault Aviation French made Mirage 2000 belonging to the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force performs during the Dubai
Airshow. Alireza Nader, an international policy analyst at the RAND
Corporation, told IPS.
Although Kerry stressed
that this agreement will
bring security to the region
and make US ally Israel ?safer?, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu today called
the deal reached in Geneva ?a
historic mistake?.
Key members of US Congress also criticised the deal
shortly after it was announced.
?Unless the agreement
requires dismantling of the
Iranian centrifuges, we really haven?t gained anything,?
tweeted the hawkish Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, who features in media
coverage of US foreign policy debates.
?You?re going to see a bipartisan effort that enrichment is not in the ?nal
agreement,. Hartung said.
However, the funds from a
given deal are generally spent
out over a ?ve- to 10-year period, so there will be a steady
income to US ?rms from the
deals announced in 2010 to
the present for some time.
The signing of the Arms
Trade Treaty this fall by US
Secretary of State John Kerry was welcome news. US
President Barack Obama
said in a late-night statement
from the White House.
In Geneva, US Secretary
of State John Kerry praised
Zarif?s role in the talks and
Tehran?s decision to ?come to
the table?, which he credited to the very sanctions Iran
has vehemently dismissed as
a motivator.
He emphasised to reporters that the ?rst-step agreement aimed at reaching a
?nal, comprehensive solution
includes signi?cant limits on
Iran?s nuclear programme
and addresses the international community?s concerns.
Reciprocal accord
?All sides would gain [from
this deal], except those few
who believe that it?s feasible
to expect that Iran could be
sanctioned enough to give up
enrichment entirely,. they are certainly saturating the Saudi market,
which is far and away the
largest in the region,. said
Iran?s lead negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the
night?s ?rst press conference
shortly after signing a fourpage agreement with his
P5+1 (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China
plus Germany) counterparts
at the Palais des Nations.
?Now we are in the process of moving forward the
resolution based on mutual
respect and equal footing,?
the veteran diplomat, who
has enjoyed consistent support from Iranians and Iran?s
Supreme Leader Ali Khame-
A MOMENTOUS
nei since talks resumed in
October, added.
?While today?s announcement is just a ?rst step, it
achieves a great deal,. was signed
by Emirates and Etihad airlines (of UAE) and Qatar Airways, with deliveries slated
for 2020.
The total contracts for
commercial jet sales to countries in the Middle East were
estimated at more than 150
billion dollars, according to
one published report.
Boeing, which is based in
the United States, said it had
orders for 342 planes just on
the ?rst day of the airshow.
Dr. virtually enough to upgrade the
entire Saudi armed forces.
Boeing, he said, was the biggest bene?ciary of the deal.
The only missing items in
the Saudi package were combat ships and a large-scale
missile defence, which are
now in the works.
The rearming of Iraq ?
drawing from Iraqi oil revenues, not US aid . he said.
And most notable, he
pointed out, is a 60-billiondollar package to Saudi Arabia the US Congress was
noti?ed of in 2010.
?It was the biggest arms
deal ever concluded by the
United States with any country,. Emirates Airline?s appetite for aircraft purchases will not
cease, the airline?s president Tim Clark told AFP a day after the
Dubai-based carrier ordered 200 planes from Boeing and Airbus.. has always been
one of the biggest bonanzas
to the US defence industry.
But a staggering 100-billion-dollar deal last week for
the sale of Boeing?s new 777X
commercial jets to three airlines in the UAE and Qatar
threatens to outpace US military sales.
William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security
Project at the Centre for International Policy, told IPS
US arms sales to the Middle
East and Persian Gulf have
reached record levels in recent years.
?They have elevated the
United States to a position of
dominance in the world market, controlling 78 per cent,
as of 2011,. Goldring
said. said Hartung.
Last week?s multi-billiondollar deals for commercial
airliners may supplant arms
sales as the largest source of
income from US aerospace
deals to the region over the
next few years, he predicted. at its Natanz and Fordow
Fuel Enrichment facilities
and at its Arak reactor; and
implement further, advanced
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Historic Iran deal aims at final nuclear resolution
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle,
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov react after a statement on early
24 November in Geneva.
Criticism and relief
?We can expect a strong
amount of pushback from
critics in the US and Israel, and we?ll have to see how
hardliners in Iran react,
The Motorola networks acquisition turned out well, and now
they have a good foothold in North America and Japan.
Pig farmers will be the worst off after the implementation of this agreement, as they won?t be receiving coupled support.
Farmers must agree on how
to level out losses caused
by dwindling subsidies
The 141 subsidy for farmers in Southern Finland will be abolished.
SUSANNA JÄ Ä SKEL ÄINEN . The next time
you hear someone say foreigners ruined Nokia, point
to Rajeev Suri and say a foreigner actually saved the
company.
NSN HAS about ?10 billion in annualised sales and almost ?800 million in operating pro?t. He is also a private investor with over
ten years of experience.
The new Nokia
ONE PART of the new company will be Advanced Technologies, the licensing apparatus for Nokia?s patents.
They have some 30,000 patents, one in ten of which
provides them with royalties to total about ?500 million annually. More acquisitions are a possibility, but I hope Suri doesn?t buy Alcatel-Lucent. Pro?tability has
been increasing incrementally, too, as Suri continues
to cut costs and focus upon mobile broadband. S T T
NIINA WOOLLE Y . I
believe they will clean up their terrible balance sheet
in an attempt to get the company closer to an investment grade credit rating once again. The writer is a journalist and
columnist for Helsinki Times. HERE has about ?800
million or so in sales, and in the third quarter they had
a small operating pro?t.
NOKIA Solutions and Networks will now be the main
body of the Nokia organism. HT
between farmers is called for when a decision is made on who will
end up out of pocket as agricultural subsidies are cut by
tens of millions of euros in
the coming years. At the same time,
the total amount of EU subsidies received by Finland will
SOLIDARIT Y
coupled support for farmers from the EU may provide
means of doing this.
be cut from its present level
of 550 million euros.
In practical terms, this
means that the state will
save tens of millions of euros annually but the dwindling EU funds will have to be
distributed among a larger
number of agricultural producers than previously.
The Central Union of Agricultural Producers and
Forest Owners (MTK) has
calculated that, when both
EU and national subsidies
are taken into account, the
amount received by Finnish
farmers in subsidies in 2015
will be down by 70 million euros from this year.
Talks on how to level
out the losses among farmers in different regions will
be launched between agricultural producers and the
ministry. Koskinen told the
Finnish media.
The European Commission has considered the 141
support system a temporary
measure to help Finland adjust
to its EU membership which is
why it has been gradually cut.
The new Finland clause does
not mention Finland?s accession to the EU anymore.
The Finland clause has
turned into a political hot
potato. This was entirely too much money, as they ?nally acknowledged
with a gigantic billion-euro writedown in Goodwill.
Navteq has been ?eshed out with some of Nokia?s own
home-grown location-based services, and now they
are undoubtedly a world leader. The national agricultural subsidies
paid to these farmers will go
down to 16 million euros in
2015 and to 6.5 million euros
in 2020.
?It?s a glaring ?aw that a
Finnish pork producer will be
receiving less money per kilogram of pork than his German colleague,. The development
fund for the countryside and
L E H T I K U VA / K I M M O M Ä N T Y L Ä
WITH shareholder approval to sell the Devices & Services business to Microsoft, Nokia is one step closer to
embarking upon their new life as a changed company.
Although it is sad to see the great success story come
to an end, the new Nokia is well-positioned to grow and
prosper in the future.
ONE of Siilasmaa?s ?rst duties going forward will be
to ?nd a permanent CEO. MEP Petri Sarvasmaa from the National Coalition Party pushed the clause
through with the talks on the
agricultural reform held at
the same time as the actual
negotiations on subsidies.
The Finland clause has
been slammed by the Centre Party MEPs, who are concerned over the agricultural
agreement being in force only until 2020 after which new
terms must be agreed on.. Cord david@helsinkitimes.fi. They are
stuck with French labour laws, and he would never be
able to whip them into shape like he did with NSN.
Jari Koskinen expressed the importance of finding a new basis
for talks on agricultural subsidies .
Pig and poultry farmers
hit hard by the reform
The current 141 payments will
be stopped as in future the
national support for farmers
in southern Finland will be
based on the so-called Finland
clause of the new EU agricultural agreement. This is the skeleton of Navteq, which
they spent about ?5.7 billion for in 2007. The European Commission made it
clear during Thursday?s talks
that it was not willing to negotiate on an extension to the
141 subsidies, according to
Koskinen.
Now Finland was granted
a permission to pay national subsidies to farmers in the
south of the country on the
basis of a new Finland clause
in the agreement.
?We might not have had
any news to give you if we
had kept hitting our heads
against a brick wall on the
141 issue,. Nokia has a sometimes-followed tradition of naming the heir apparent President.
CFO Timo Ihamuotila has this title now, and I wouldn?t
be surprised if he is eventually named head of the new
Nokia. The Networks side had a historically tight relationship with the Nokia Research
Center, so we might see some more innovations come
out of that.
THE SECOND part of Nokia will be HERE, their locationbased services. This is the renamed Nokia
Siemens Networks, a former joint venture that was almost
unremittingly unpro?table until
The new Nokia is
NSN chief Rajeev Suri
well-positioned to
took his gloves off
grow and prosper
and beat it into shape.
in the future.
What he did is nothing
less than astonishing,
and I strongly suspect interim-CEO Risto Siilasmaa?s
number one goal is to keep Suri happy. 4 DECEMBER 2013
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28 NOVEMBER . Suri has to be a possibility, too, if he is interested in the HERE and Advanced Technology side of the
business.
ANOTHER thing the new Nokia has to think about is all
that cash they are getting from Devices & Services. commented
Juha Marttila, the chair of
MTK.
MTK is looking in to alternative ways of subsidising
the sector as the market pric-
es of pork are too low to allow
a farmer to manage without
additional support.
Koskinen: the 141
subsidy could not
be negotiated on
Minister of Agriculture Jari
Koskinen (National Coalition
Party) says it was pivotal to
?nd a new basis for the talks
on agricultural subsidies for
Southern Finland to replace
the old 141 payment. Article 141
in Finland?s accession agreement will not be abolished but
the European Commission
has interpreted the article to
refer to temporary funding,
which was set up to help Finnish farmers to adjust to Finland?s EU membership.
From 2015, milk and beef
producers in the south of the
country will receive coupled
EU funding instead of national agricultural support. Owners should
get a special dividend. This
change will not affect the
amount of subsidy for this
group of agricultural producers, with some of them possibly even better off under the
new system.
Pig and poultry farmers,
on the other hand, will end
up on the losing side under
the new agreement as they
will not be able to receive
coupled support. The fear
is that farmers in the north
will have to foot the bill for
dwindling national subsidies for farming in Southern
Finland.
The decision on the national agricultural subsidies for farmers in Southern
Finland reached on Thursday means that from 2015
onwards, a large number of
farmers currently receiving
the national 141 subsidy will
come under the EU support
system. Apparently they have no plans to continue much research in the handset business, so this will
decrease over the years
The
goal is to make Finnish lake
?sh more easily available to
consumers.
The supply chain from the
?sherman to the processing
company was monitored in
June, and now the chain has
been expanded to cover the
store/restaurant as well. Call us today and you could move in tomorrow.
. BUSINESS
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of?ce space can be tailored to ?t your business whatever the future
holds. This procedure
will be applied at each stage
of the supply chain.
The data will be transferred to the web server whenever they are read,
and the data can be checked
from the server in almost real time.
?This means that consumers will be able to view the data on a monitor at the store
or they can use their own
smart phone to check how the
?sh has gotten to the store
and how many times it has
Information about
freshness with
your mobile phone
in real time.
R E I N O PA S A N E N . In the case of ?sh
caught from a lake, knowing from whom the ?sh was
bought and to whom it was
sold suf?ces.
The law does not require
full transparency of the lake
?sh supply chain, but the
monitoring system can become a competitive edge
and a guarantee of good
quality for ?sh processing
companies.
A similar monitoring system for cod?sh from the ?sherman to the store has been
tested in Sweden. When customers were able to view the
data at the store, the sales of
cod?sh increased from a couple of kilograms per day to
around 150 kilograms.
L E H T I K U VA / S E P P O N Y K Ä N E N
SOON, consumers will be able
stopped on the way,. S T T
NIINA WOOLLE Y . The
developers are also studying
the consumers. 4 DECEMBER 2013
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Does your
of?ce ?t your
business?
In the Mikkeli region, the supply chain of lake fish has been monitored from Lake Saimaa to the local
Citymarket store.
Lake fish soon
traceable online
into the box containing the
?sh.
When the processing
company receives the shipment, they will acknowledge
the data with their phone.
When the ?sh leave the processing company, the data
will be logged into the system again and the temperature measuring feature will
be restarted. reaction to
the system.
To use the system, you will
need a mobile phone, an ID
card to measure the temperature of the ?sh, software on an
online server and a database.
In practice, the ?sherman
will enter the type of ?sh he
has caught, the quantity and
the lake from which the ?sh
was caught into the database
using his phone, start the ID
card?s temperature measuring feature and place the card
Good experiences
from monitoring
fish from the sea
The legislation on processing of ?sh caught from the
sea requires traceability of
the entire supply chain from
the ?sherman to the store or
restaurant. Project
Manager Teija Rautiainen explains the system?s bene?ts to
the consumers.
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to monitor the transfer of ?sh
caught from Finnish lakes all
the way to the store in almost
real time. Mikkeli University
of Applied Sciences has developed an electronic monitoring system that will make the
supply chain transparent
The electronic monitoring system will make the supply chain
more transparent.
Social security benefits to be extended
to workers from non-EU countries
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A L E K S I T E I VA I N E N . The revision
is part of a bill presented by
the Government on Thursday
and is estimated to concern
approximately 1,500 foreign
citizens per year. Presently,
people from non-EU countries
working in Finland are covered by the national health insurance scheme but not by the
social security scheme unless
their residence in Finland is
permanent. Their eligibility for social security bene?ts
would cease upon the end of
employment.. H T
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the European Union who have
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security bene?ts, provided
that their employment in the
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point of
view. Some of the partners of Invesdor also joined
the adventure and, in the end,
they raised around 300,000
euros through our platform.
I consider the company could
have faced some problems
getting funding in a more
traditional way . To the
point that big supermarkets
(like Tesco in the UK) with
their massive warehouses,
are actually looking ?ve to
ten years ahead and they understand that, with people
doing so much shopping online, no one is going to come
to those places anymore. Kaarle Vanamo, CEO ClimbStation.
www.climbstation.com
Professional indoor climbing wall designed by ClimbStation.
most attractive initiative
from the investors. in the framework provided by PicthHelsinki 2013.
clear about what
you are trying to achieve,
and surround yourself with
people who are really good.
No one person is ever right.?
That is Alan Moore?s advice
for entrepreneurs struggling
to attract funding. This series was fully redesigned and
packed with new technology, so the funds really came at a
time of need.
This year, we have entered the Japanese, Canadian and
French markets. The
non-pro?t Worldreader is
distributing e-books to children in Africa, so that they
can gain access to tens of
thousands of books at a price
point which is a fraction of
what normally would cost to
buy a book and ship it. This annual event gives
prominent start-ups the opportunity to publicly present
their ideas and connect with
potential investors.
Held on 20 November at
the Helsinki city hall, the
?BE VERY
evening saw a total of 26
companies gather with a
common goal: network and
exhibit their forces. We also ensured that the crowdsourcing service was most appropriate for us. Retail is also evolving. After the
initial contact, the core part
of the programme then arrived when 13 pitchers took
over the stage, and in short
turns of ?ve and three minutes tried to convince the
audience their take-off companies would be worth hundreds of millions just a few
years down the road.
The latest edition of PitchHelsinki has introduced a
novelty. The ?target
group. Part of the discussion is based on how we can
educate kids in poverty. I have since then
established contact with some of the investors and I realise
the great potential behind these kinds of cooperation possibilities and valuable know-how. The experience completely
surprised me because it turned out to be a great success in
terms of financial support to our business. In the West
we have an aging population,
but services are failing to adjust to this huge demand. by the jury were Playmysong and Uniqul. Instead, we attracted the interest of several private investors along with dozens of smaller particulars, who made
a very significant contribution.. of investors we had in mind to provide us the biggest
portion of funding, was not in the end the largest group of at
all. The round proved as a financial mechanism to
work quite well for our purposes. On the other hand, after receiving the investment, we were able to participate in the FIBO exhibition (an important trade show for
fitness, wellness and health held in Germany), and we started
a bigger production run, simultaneously making 5 new units
which later were sold. We gathered over 132,000
euro of seed funding via Invesdor, and found it to be an excellent vehicle to reach out to private investors in terms of time
and efficiency. transactions are
done in a second, down from
the current average of nearly
half a minute.
Furthermore,Playmysong
also turned out to be the
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Suppilog
Suppilog application connects marketers, manufacturers and importers
with the buying customer companies
to a joint procurement channel through
cloud service.
?Suppilog crowdfunding round ended in the beginning of October this year. One company that
constitutes a good example of this is ?gTIE?, a Finnish
fashion brand specialised in
neckwear, created by Jenni
Ahtiainen.
Their own customers believed in the pro?tability of
the idea, so they wanted to
invest in it. Moore states. This helped to a great extent
regarding the production and marketing processes to enter into a bigger business scale. 4 DECEMBER 2013
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Makers of the future
PitchHelsinki: narrowing the gap between start-ups and investors.
TalentMatch
Oscar Tuutti, CEO at Uniqul, receiving the mention of ?best start-up pitch. There is an interesting and growing market
potential.. Six of the participating start-ups have opened
one-day rounds on Invesdor,
an equity-based crowdfunding online platform through
which companies get more
funds in exchange for shares.
High efficiency solar system backpacks created by Tespack.
People interested in investing can do so with as little as
20 euros.
?In Finland, the ?nancial community has typically understood better mobile
data, Internet and technology-oriented business proposals,. Mikko Mäkirinne, member of
the board in Suppilog Oy (Ltd).
www.suppilo.fi
ClimbStation
Indoor climbing made possible virtually everywhere.
?We raised 64,000 euro from 46 persons through the Invesdor crowdfunding platform. The start-up received
24,900 euros out of the total
43,000 that were raised during the day of the event.
?Some people are entrepreneurs because they are
really passionate about what
they do, they want to change
the world, but they are not
traditional business people.
And that?s absolutely ?ne,?
Moore says before ?rmly
concluding: ?We need makers of the future, not consumers of the past.?
Types of crowdfunding
Equity Based:
Investors receive a stake in
the company.
Donation Based:
Contributions go towards a
charitable cause.
Lending Based:
Investors are repaid for their
investment over a period
of time.
Reward Based: Investors receive a tangible item or service in return for their funds.
Source: UTR. ?We
are seeing people completely reimagining, for instance,
what a manufacturing company could look like thanks
to 3D printing technology.
On the other hand, access to
education is fundamentally
changing. So, I
see innovation and transformation happening in every
single industry.?
?I think that if I was an investor the ?rst thing I?d ask
myself would be: what is the
real need this company is
trying to solve?. Naturally, we worked hard on preparing the
necessary materials and the business plan prior to starting
the round over the summer. Actually, one investor has
even been quite active in marketing our product. The ?rst
one is developing a mobile app
that allows people to request
songs and control the music
at bars and parties, whereas the latter consists of a face
recognition system which enables payments with one tap
of a button . The British educator and author of
the book ?No Straight Lines:
making sense of our non-linear world?, a journey through
a new way for social, economic and organisational innovation, was guest speaker at the
eighth edition of PitchHelsinki. for example, through business angels
and capital networks.?
Innovation is in the air
What are the most promising areas to start a business
nowadays. explains Lasse
Mäkelä, one of the ceremony hosts and CEO of Invesdor.
?In that sense, crowdfunding has provided many companies from different ?elds
with a new ?nancing alternative. From technology companies such as
Tespack, with their high ef?ciency solar system backpacks that provide wireless
energy, to Audrey: according
to their slogan, ?the world?s
?rst real identity online dating service?.
However, the two initiatives named ?best start-up
pitch. Then,
on the other scale of that is
MIT giving away entire curricula online for free under
creative commons licenses.
Healthcare is also facing
huge challenges. Moore adds.
?It?s about doing much better,
but with a lot less money and
a lot less resources employed
in the process.?
Throwing the ball
To illustrate the previous
point we can have a look at
the long list of participants
at PitchHelsinki, among
which a wide and varied
range of business proposals can be found. ?Honestly, all of
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Ring Around the Rosie! Cute brown
bear cubs play in Finland forest
?VALTTERI
I RECENTLY visited the
warm welcome and probably
a few drinks and laughs too,
all in good fun and joy.
With a slightly misleading name suggesting the proximity of a ?erce battle, the
Rubicon Forum business summit will be held for over a 100
Russian business professionals on November 28-29, 2013.
MULKAHAINEN
photographed the adorable
animals in the middle of what
looked like a session of the
schoolyard game near Suomussalmi, Finland.
A family of brown bears
looked as if they were play-
ing Ring around the Rosie,
the playground singing game.
They also seemed a bit like
the real-life incarnation of
a bumper sticker for America?s favorite jam band. Without work and
ARTICSTARTUP. The potential in innovation and manufacture of highly adBy replacing some
vanced products in
of the imported fossil Finland is almost
unlimited.
fuels with domestic
renewable energy
sources, we can
help not only climate
but also our
budget balance.
HOARD of determined
Russians is about to pierce
through Finland?s borders
and make a run for Helsinki?s
Finlandia Hall.
No, this time they are not
armed and there won?t be
anyone ?ghting them back.
Quite on the contrary actually: they will be greeted with a
?A
forest industry company UPM?s factory in
Lappeenranta, where
it was inspiring to see
the latest achievements of their R&D
work. growth being utilised by our industry at the moment. Why then is the bioeconomy sector not booming the way that has been
expected of it. Pietilae
said he expects small companies to grab the opportunity
when the market framework
is operational.?
?INVESTORS
MORNING SUN.
24 November
MORNING SUN SPORTS
Alma
College
women
tripped up
by Finlandia
?THE ALMA College women?s
basketball team dropped a
back-and-forth non-conference tilt Sunday afternoon at
Finlandia University by a ?nal of 88-83.
Finlandia?s Brierra Ruska connected on a 3-pointer
with 41 seconds left in regulation to give the Lions an 8683 edge. Meanwhile, traditional wood construction still
has a lot of untapped potential, which Finland should
seize upon to become a forerunner in the ?eld.
BESIDES UPM, the fuel companies Neste Oil and ST1,
as well as other actors in the ?eld, are doing excellent
work in the development of biofuels. One way of improving the situation is to establish a growth fund proposed by the
Centre Party, increasing the fund?s size gradually to 3
to 5 billion euros. The mobile
hear some combination of: ing my trip to Helsinki, the phone manufacturer was so
cold, vodka, reindeer, snow, one word that stuck with me instrumental to the counafter a week long visit was: try?s economy that it alone
expensive and cold.
contributed 25 per cent of
While there is no doubt innovation.
The country on the north- Finnish growth for almost a
that Finland can be cold (it
can reach minus 30 degrees ern edge of Europe, which decade, from 1998 to 2007.?
Finland?s startup scene: Making
the most of its unfair advantage
seeking higher yields in Finland, the euro
area?s best-rated nation, are
lining up to join a new market place that will offer junk
bonds from smaller companies for trading.
Nasdaq OMX Helsinki, which runs the country?s
stock exchange, will open a
bond marketplace in Finland
on the First North platform
next quarter, the ?rst venue for trading debt of small
and medium-sized enterprises in the country. Marissa Burke, who
posted a game-high 32 points
in the win, would seal the
game at the charity stripe
with a pair of makes with 20
seconds remaining.
The Lions (1-4) entered
Sunday?s game having lost
their ?rst four contests by an
average of 102.5-46, but scored
the ?rst eight points Sunday.
The Scots (0-5) managed to
claw back and take their ?rst
lead of the day at 20-19 when
Faith Weir hit a jumper with
11:48 to go in the ?rst half.?. 4 DECEMBER 2013
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BLOOMBERG.
22 November KASPER VIITA
Finland
Priming
Junk-Bond
Market
to Sate
Demand:
Nordic
Credit
Antti Kaikkonen is a third term Centre Party MP from Tuusula,
Uusimaa constituency. This fund could also support growing start-ups in the bioeconomy and clean technology sectors.
FINL AND
BY INVESTING in the bioeconomy, we help both our
economy and environment thrive. Senior guard
Ashton Harrell (Houston,
upon the adorable sight in a
forest near Suomussalmi in
the Nordic country of Finland.
Two male cubs and one female gathered in a circle with
their paws stretched out toward each other, as their mother rested behind a nearby tree.?
L E H T I K U VA / H E I K K I S A U K KO M A A
bioeconomy to refer to all utilisation of renewable natural resources. One means of creating new jobs
that has been long neglected is offered by the bioeconomy with its large potential.
Business summit gathers over
100 Russian businessmen
in Helsinki?s Finlandia Hall
WHILE the prevention of climate change in itself is a
compelling argument for making the bioeconomy one
of the national spearhead projects, from the perspective of ?scal policy, taking the bioeconomy a step further will have an even bigger impact. 25 November DAVID GILBERT
shares a land border with Russia and has a population of just
5.5 million, is a shining example
of how to succeed in adversity.
The one other word peoin winter) and I was served ple typically associate with
?ASK someone to describe
Finland, and you?re likely to both reindeer and vodka dur- Finland is Nokia. The fault does not lie with a lack of
natural resources or shortage of know-how, rather
it is the question of legislation and also attitudes not
promoting enterprise. The bioeconomy
sector will bene?t the whole of EU as well as the globe.
Representatives of Russian
companies are heading to their
western neighbour in search of
business strategies, opportunities and most of all, pathways
to enter the European markets
through Finland, which may
also be interesting for Finnish
start-ups interested in reaching the Russian markets.?
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Timo Pietilä, head of
Helsinki-based Pohjola Bank
Oyj?s debt capital markets
unit, said by phone. We are still too dependent on oil and coal.
I USE
Lahti?s Aleksi Alanen (21) and
Honga?s Villematti Kopio (25)
compete in Finland.
Texas) added 14 points, with
?ve rebounds and three
assists.?
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES. 12
FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS
28 NOVEMBER . Secondly, our education system
produces skilled professionals. Minnesota
Crookston had four different
players score double ?gures
on the night.
Senior forward Brandon
Burns (Baton Rouge, La.) led
the way with 18 points on
7-of-13 shooting and chipped
in ?ve boards. He is a member of the Environment committee, Commerce Committee and the Finnish Delegation to the Council of Europe.
Potential of bioeconomy
Finlandia Hall, designed by Alvar Aalto, will host the summit.
FINLAND is in dire need of new jobs. 21 November RAFAEL LEMARCHAND
tax revenue generated by it, our welfare society will
shrink and shrivel. 21 November TIMES REPORT
Men?s basketball: UMC
beats Finlandia 81-61
of Minnesota Crookston men?s basketball team used balanced
scoring from all-around and
strong play in the paint to
defeat Finlandia University
81-61 Wednesday night in a
non-conference tilt at Lysaker Gymnasium. The Golden
Eagles improve to 2-1 in nonconference play while Finlandia drops to 0-3.
The Golden Eagles had a
strong second half, as they
?THE UNIVERSITY
connected on 15-of-24 attempts for 62.5 percent to
out-score the Lions 41-26 after leading by just ?ve (4035) at the break. By replacing some of the imported fossil fuels with domestic renewable energy sources, we can help not only climate
but also our budget balance. As a further
boon to the nascent market,
the industry made a new proposal this month on standardised terms for the credit
instruments to ease the entry of smaller companies to
the ?xed-income market.
?Investor demand for
bond issues based on highyield documentation is growing,. First of all, Finnish nature offers
a wealth of raw material, with for example only half
of the forests. By next decade,
the ?eld will have grown into a signi?cant sector also
on the level of the EU.
boasts two factors that give the country
a competitive edge in the bioeconomy sector compared with others. Mulkahainen, a 52-year-old physical
education teacher stumbled
CROOKSTON TIMES. The world?s ?rst biodiesel plant using wood as
raw material is being built in the town while novel composite materials are gaining popularity in construction. Measures for the prevention
of global warming are pivotal worldwide and Finland
must also shoulder its share of the burden. To do this, we
must develop new ways to use wood for example as a
replacement for plastic, as raw material for textiles
as well as for chemical and pharmaceutical industries
and to use it as a substitute for concrete and steel in
construction
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Faces of public transport
In November, HSL invited passengers
of various ages to have their picture
taken. The photos will also form a colourful collage of
public transport users, in which passengers can try to spot themselves
or people they know,. HSL?s Kutsuplus is a new kind of
on-demand bus service offering tailored rides in minibuses that can be
booked online with a computer or
mobile phone.
At the beginning of 2014, the Jouko neighbourhood routes in Helsinki will be replaced by new routes
operating in the same areas. There
will also be a physical exhibition touring
the Helsinki region shopping centres
and other public premises next year.
A mini-documentary will be produced on the project, in which the passengers featured in the pictures will
give their views on public transport
and its future.
A million encounters a day
Public transport is the mode of travel
in favour with everyone: almost a mil-
lion journeys are made on HSL?s transport services daily, amounting to 345
million journeys a year.
A typical HSL customer appreciates
public transport and is happy with the
services. The
buses 90N, 92N, 94N, 96N and
97N serving East Helsinki will not
operate all the services on Friday
and Saturday nights.
The number of guards on the
weekend night trains will be increased and ticket inspectors
will also be patrolling on them.
HSL offers additional late evening
bus services on weekends during
the pre-Christmas party season.
Additional services will operate on
several Helsinki internal and regional bus routes until mid-December.
The additional services will run
also on the night of Thursday 5
December, the eve of Independence Day.
the Helsinki region want public transport to be developed further, supporting the reduction of emissions and
traffic noise and the focusing of residential areas and jobs near good public transport connections.
The popularity of public transport is
evident not only in attitudes but also in
practice. The majority of residents in
Home by public transport
after a Christmas party
The Metro operates until 1.30
am on Friday/Saturday and Saturday/Sunday nights. The
routes will be operated with minibuses that can, in addition to designated bus stops, stop anywhere
along the route, within traffic regulations.
The new routes will mainly provide the same connections as the
current Jouko routes. HELSINKI TIMES
28 NOVEMBER . On some
routes the number of departures
will be increased and the operating
hours will be extended.
In Lauttasaari, the Jouko routes
J20 and J21 will not be replaced by
new routes because of a low number of passengers. The extended nighttime service is being tried out until June 2014, after which its continuation will be decided based
on the experiences.
During the extended metro operating hours, there will be no
separate feeder services. For the ?rst time in 50 years,
the use of public transport is growing
faster in the Helsinki region than private motoring.
HSL?s Journey
Planner ranks
again among
top online services
Jouko routes
replaced
by new
bus routes
HSL?s Journey Planner has once again
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Rautatientori Metro Station
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Itäkeskus Metro Station
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HSL?s Director of Marketing and Communications.
Faces on view
The portraits have been compiled on
the HSL website: www.hsl.?. Nearly 3,000 internet users replied to the survey.
In a competition for the Best Mobile Service in Finland 2013 organised by Teleforum, HSL?s Journey
Planner and Kutsuplus applications
were among the three best applications in the Utility & Productivity Services for Consumers category. It came in fourth in a poll on the
most valued online brands in Finland
conducted by Taloustutkimus Oy,
with only Google, Yle Areena and the
Finnish Meteorological Institute ?nishing ahead of it. Photographer Lauri Eriksson set
up pop-up studios at the Central Railway Station and the Sello shopping
centre, with over 500 people accepting the invitation.
?Each of our million passengers deserves to be in the spotlight. They are also on view in posters exhibited at Metro
stations and the Kamppi Terminal
The
increasing range of sources,
forms of media and ways of
communication undoubtedly
challenge approaches to education in the 21st century.
Amidst this backdrop, the development of media literacy
has become an integral part
of the discussion.
?Media literacy represents access to the media, to
understand and have a critical approach towards different aspects of media
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Kotilainen.
The focus is also on gaining attention and visibility for
media education, according to
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and local circumstances,?
states Professor Sirkku Kotilainen from the School of
Communication at the University of Tampere. Toivonen, one of the
conference secretaries.
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As a consequence, media
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content. Also
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In the Finnish education
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is incorporated ?as a crosscurricular theme?, Kotilanen
observes.
Many efforts have been
made in terms of enhancing media literacy in Finland.
This year the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture drew up Cultural Policy
guidelines to promote media
literacy for 2013-2016. The many messages from these forms of
media are required to enhance youth awareness and
a critical understanding of
the media, the purpose of the
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In addition, the Finnish Society on Media Education, founded in 2005 by
Finnish researchers, continuously supports and develops different practices
concerning media education,
creating the opportunity to
share media education experiences online and of?ine.
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Consisting of 22,795
verses and divided into ?fty songs, it is one of the most
signi?cant titles in the local
literature due to the role it
played in the development of
the national identity.
The earliest translation
of the classic, by English entomologist W.F.Kirby, dated back to 1907 . 4 DECEMBER 2013
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devising as a way to make
the text accessible to the international readers. They can
also bring to life Balinese
songs.?
Multicultural harmony
Indonesia constitutes a great
example of how to embrace
and promote a multicultural society. ?90 per cent of the
population are Muslim but, for
instance, I myself am Catholic. ?Very
few people would ever get to
know about this book were
it not for Sibelius,. by occupation
Agriculture: 38.9%
Industry: 22.2%
Services: 47.9% (2012 est.)
Agriculture . ?Sooner or later somebody would have done it, and
Keith, as a former BBC World
Service presenter has the
skills and the voice for it,. ?Living permanently in Finland, there are 450
Indonesian citizens, some of
whom were previously invited to my residence in order to
discuss which kind of an event
we should celebrate to promote
our country. products
Rubber and similar products,
palm oil, poultry, beef, forest products, shrimp, cocoa,
coffee, medicinal herbs, essential oil, fish and its similar
products and spices.
P E K K A R A N TA K A R I
GDP per capita:
$5,100 (2012 est.)
nity in Helsinki, recreated a
magic atmosphere that made
the audience swoon into the
pleasant arms of the Indian
Ocean.
Dressed up in traditional out?ts from different regions of the country, the
performers brought a mesmerising mix of colours into
the spotlight.
The show began with a
Janger dance, originally from
Bali, which is usually performed by young people in
pairs. Good proof of this is
that belonging to the Catholic
minority wasn?t a problem for
me in becoming the Ambassador in Finland.?
According to Ginting, the
celebration of cultural meetings can also contribute to
the strengthening of the economic cooperation between
countries, and, in the case of
Indonesia, dance performances are one of the main tools to
get this message across. Alongside his own poetry and works in French, after
graduating he started to get
familiar with the oral poetry tradition from the Nordic
country.
Bosley began to explore
this genre by translating titles such as ?Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic. Folklorist
Senni Timonen of the Finnish Literature Society was an
invaluable help.?
Considering it impossible
to copy the original metre of
The Kalevala, Bosley decided to use a metre of his own
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British translator, poet and
former BBC presenter Keith
Bosley and his Finnish wife
Satu Salo.
?The Kalevala. In it, con?icts are
solved by magic rather than
violence.?
One last question for Bosley, ?What makes the Finnish
epic so special to you??
?Its intensity.?
Listening
to The
Kalevala
For the first time,
an audiobook of the
literary classic can
be found on the
market.
Dancer performing the Janger dance. We manage to have all religions coexisting peacefully
together. The same
institution that approached
him in the autumn of 1982
with a titanic proposal: write
his own translation of The
Kalevala.
This work of epic poetry,
compiled by Elias Lönnrot
in the 19th century, provides
a compelling insight into the
myths and folklore of Finland. Republic of Indonesia?s ambassador, Elias Ginting, exclaimed during his
opening speech at the Indonesia Cultural Evening event
he attended on 22 November.
?So, welcome to our country,
and feel free to stay for 48
years . The translation took me
four years; the ?fth was for
correcting and writing the
introduction. Nine more choreography variations followed,
all of them characterised by
their agile and hypnotic corporal movements.
With regards to some of
the challenges that had to be
overcome facing the event
Ketut Negara, composer and
choreographer of the Cultural Evening commented,
?We had very little time to
practice; we just met twice a
week for two months. I have heard many of
my English speaking friends
say that without the audio
they would not have got to
grips with the text. One is ?Bhinneka Indonesia?, more focussed
on semi-modern dance, and
the other is ?Banyu Petak?, representing the Balinese dance
roots.
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A scene of the Jaipong coreography, traditionally a freindship dance performed by groups of
females and males.
TRANSLATOR, poet and former BBC presenter Keith
Bosley studied French philology at the university. I decided to divide the text into
100-line sections, which I did
during my night shifts in the
BBC. Mysterious facial expressions and very delicate hand movements are some of the components of
the popular Indonesian dances.
Outpouring of passion
An evening of Indonesian dance performances to bring cultures together.
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Indonesia
Population
251,160,124
Javanese
40.6%
Sundanese
15%
Madurese
3.3%
Minangkabau 2.7%
Betawi
2.4%
Bugis
2.4%
Banten
2%
Banjar
1.7%
other or
unspecified 29.9%
spent one
day of their life in each one
of the islands of Indonesia,
in the end it would require a
time investment of some 48
years,. We have a lot of
traditional music and customs.
So, that is how the idea came
for the creation of two groups
of performers. audiobook
is out now.
Translated and read by
Keith Bosley
12 CDs
Total time: 13:23:04
More information:
www.naxosaudiobooks.com. The one thing that
did worry me was the enormity of the project. However, The
Kalevala also has relevance
in today?s turbulent and insecure world. Ginting
explained. Bosley had
previously come across Kirby in a second-hand bookshop, while a more recent
one, by Francis Peabody Magoun Jr, appeared in 1953.
?It was felt in Finland that
a more contemporary English translation was needed,?
Bosley comments via email.
?I was also dissatis?ed with
the previous attempts on the
?eld, so I decided to take the
task on. ?Not
too many people know about
all the things we have to offer at an international stage,?
Ginting states. 18
28 NOVEMBER . People digest information in different ways;
some are audio, some visual and some kinaesthetic
learners.?
The latter principle inspired Satu Salo, Bosley?s
wife, to pursue the idea of
an audiobook on The Kalevala. Satu says.
?His understanding and
love of the text is second to
none. we will provide you
with a visa!?
The Indonesia Cultural Evening, organised by the
Embassy in cooperation with
?Kultturit Kohtaavat ry?
and Caisa Cultural Centre,
where the event took place,
provided attendees with the
perfect framework to familiarise themselves with some
of the most representative
aspects of the character of
this far-off, exotic country.
Life music, frantic rhythms
and popular dances, performed by members of the
Indonesian expat commu-
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Languages
Bahasa Indonesia (official,
modified form of Malay),
English, Dutch, local dialects
(of which the most widely
spoken is Javanese).
Capital city
Jakarta
Total land mass
1,904,569 sq km
Labor force . Thus, we decided to
temporary use Javanese instruments instead. audiobook
is out now.
Produced by NAXOS,
?The Kalevala. For others the book is the key, but
both of them together are a
very powerful tool. Both books were
published by the Finnish Literature Society. Plus,
we weren?t able to use original Balinese instruments,
because they would have required more than 25 players on stage, and we didn?t
have capacity for that many
people. ?There are six religions in our country,. says the
British translator.
?His music is globally admired and it is precisely through it that non-Finns
have learnt of some of the
stories. and ?The Great
Bear?, the latter handles poems from all Finno-Ugrian nations. However, he had been fascinated by
Finnish ever since an uncle
bought him a Finnish-English dictionary in the early
1950s, when he was a teenager. We Finns
are too close to the subject to
fathom how alien this mythological world is for the rest
of the people. After typesetting, the publisher, Oxford
University Press, sent the
proofs and ?nally the book
was out in 1989