ISSUE 16 (146) • 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 • €3 • WWW.HELSINKITIMES.FI HEALTH & WELLBEING DOMESTIC LIFESTYLE CULTURE EAT & DRINK Special Breaking the Star-studded Visions Tasting health cycle of April Jazz of former the delicious issue bullying festival Helsinki Burgundy pages 12-13 page 5 page 14 page 15 page 16

LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI Growing worries over healthcare inequalities STT ALEKSIS TORO – HT ropean average. However, struc- tural problems related to shortages of doctors in the public health sys- THE FINNISH healthcare system is tem, enhancing trends towards pri- founded on the constitutional re- vatisation, and the threats posed by sponsibility of public authorities to cuts to state subsidies in the wake provide medical services and pro- of the recent economic recession mote the health of all residents re- are compounding worries that uni- gardless of place of residence and versal and fair distribution of public ability to pay. In addition to offering health services is no longer feasible. comprehensive, universal coverage The ensuing discussion centres on of health services, Finnish health- worries about growing welfare dis- Finnair flight AY006 from New York landed in Helsinki on April 19. It was the first flight to do so after the closure of air- care policy has also long aimed at fair parities and the ever more thorough space due to the safety risk posed by the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland. distribution of services and costs. social exclusion of the minorities According to the patient safety who are already worst-off and ever and health service quality survey more in need of the dwindling pub- published by the EU Commission lic health and social services. on 16 April Finns are generally con- Air traffic slowly recovers fi dent about the national health Read the related article in our spe- services, and perceive them to be cial issue on health and wellbeing STT “If Katla begins to erupt the con- The air traffi c paralysis is al- of a higher standard than the Eu- on pages 12-13. ALEKSIS TORO – HT sequences could be very similar. The ready hampering the operations of difference is that Katla has more of several Finnish businesses. This is THE ERUPTION of volcano Eyjafl alla- everything: it has a thicker glacier most evident in the travel industry. fruit compote on presentation, ba- jökull may, however, be only a prel- and potential for a large eruption. If On the morning of Wednesday 21 byfood manufacturers regard Fin- ude to the spate of problems caused the eruption begins all the effects will April Finavia announced Finnish air- Homemade land as a world-leading market. But by the area’s volcanoes. Finland’s air probably be one degree greater than space to be open for traffi c for the despite having great confi dence in traffi c restrictions will be gradual- here, says seismologist Heidi Soosalu time being. Finnish airports were ex- their nutritional benefi ts, some at- ly loosened over the weekend. How- from the Geological Survey of Estonia. pected to be running normally by babyfoods titudes among Finns are changing. ever, if Eyjafjallajökull and nearby The volcano of Eyjafjalla-glacier 12:00 noon, but all airports south of The do-it-yourself babyfood volcanoes remain active for an ex- last erupted in 1821, followed by Katla Tampere were to be closed again by movement has grown in popular- tended period the air traffi c of Fin- two year later. According to estimates 15:00 due to another plume of ash ap- make a ity, often on the back of concerns land and the rest of northern Europe the present eruption may continue proaching Finland from the south. Fi- over the nutritional value of man- is in for some tough times. This is be- for months, but on Tuesday 20 April navia advised passengers to monitor comeback ufactured foods. While readymade cause the winds typically blow in Icelandic authorities said the volcano airline websites and its own updates. meals are produced to strict pro- these directions. appeared to be settling down. NICK BARLOW duction criteria, many parents are “Most of the winds in Iceland “At the moment it’s diffi cult to Read more on page 3. HELSINKI TIMES discovering that it is cheaper and blow eastward. This is typical for make a prediction. But if earth- healthier to prepare these same those latitudes,” explains research quakes begin to occur in Katla, we – The eruption of volcano Eyjaf- CONSUMPTION of ready-made baby foods at home. In this issue Helsinki professor Jaakko Kukkonen from have to take it seriously. Researchers foods in Finland is more than double Times speaks to a nutritionist, ba- the Finnish Meteorological Institute. will remain on their toes probably for jallajökull on 14 April has caused that of Norway, 58 per cent higher by food manufacturers, and a pro- The volcano has been settling down at least a few years,” Soosalu says. an unprecedented paralysis of than in Sweden and ten times great- ponent of ready-meal abstinence and the eruption has shallowed, but By Tuesday 20 April Finnair had European air traffic; only about er than in Denmark. With a vast to gain some insight into one of the the institute warned against getting cancelled about 1,300 fl ights, which 4000 flights were able to take range of products available, with world’s biggest food industries. overly excited as the decline in in- affected over 120,000 passengers. off on Sunday 18 April. In nor- everything from beef stroganoff tensity may only be temporary. In- A cancelled Finnair fl ight can be re- mal conditions about 24,000 and chicken with pasta to organic Read more on page 4. termittent lulls and fi erce periods scheduled to a time prior to 30 No- planes are airborne in European are typical for volcanic eruptions. vember by contacting the seller of the airspace in one day. Changes in the quantity of ash will ticket. The reservation can be can- – If volcanic ash gets into the en- also only become noticeable in Fin- celled for a full refund if departure is gine of an airplane it becomes land with a two day delay. scheduled for 25 April or earlier. lodged in preventing the air In the vicinity of the volcano now The effects of the halt in air traf- from circulating as designed. erupting lies volcano Katla, which fi c are not yet visible in the avail- The engine may shut down or ro- KRISTA SIHVONEN were it to erupt would in the ex- ability of products in stores. The tation may be reduced and the pert’s view cause chaos on at least Federation of Finnish Commerce es- plane cannot be flown normally. the same scale. The effects could, timates, however, that if prolonged – A volcanic eruption may also in- however, be considerably greater. the effects of the air traffi c restric- troduce poisonous gases into Historically the eruption of Eyjaf- tions will fi rst be felt in spare part the cabin and cause damage to jallajökull has always been followed and electronics and technological the plane’s other structures. by an eruption of Katla. wholesale trade. 2 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 VIEWPOINT HELSINKI TIMES

terror-centric so-called “Is- With the fall of the Sovi- lamism” and do not differ- et Union, also the common entiate that from Islam. The transcontinental enemy dis- second stream focuses on Is- appeared. And in this absence VESA MOILANEN lam as a religion and a sys- of a common enemy, Islam tem of cultural expression, has been taken as a surrogate while conceding that with- for a very weakened conti- in Islam there is also an ex- nental common destiny. tremist fringe. Behind all of this, of A new study presented at course, lurks the diverging Gothenburg University ex- American and European view amined how different world of international institutions religions are depicted in the as well as involvement in the daily press. It found that 60 Middle East. But looming too per cent of articles about Is- is the somewhat paradoxical lam during the period studies view that a growing European Nils Erik Forsgård is a docent in history of science, Direc- were negative. This could be sentiment of anti-American- tor for Magma, the Swedish Think Tank in Finland. He has compared with that of Chris- ism is a direct result of the Is- held a position as guest professor at Humboldt Universität tianity and Judaism, with 20 lamic presence in Europe. zu Berlin, has been professor of history at the University of and 30 per cent respective- Among those who regard Helsinki, and has published several books in Swedish. ly containing negative un- Muslims as a threat against dertones. There is no reason western-European lifestyles to believe that a compara- there exists a particularly tive study in Finland, Norway frequent recurring and well or Germany would reveal a worn argument: that of Euro- conclusion different from pean demography. Sweden. Everything relating to de- Muslim minority enclaves mography is always ammuni- have emerged in several tion in the European debate. Reflections on Islam and Europe western-European countries Thus there are assertions of during the 20th century. a much higher (and there- France gained a signifi - fore threatening) birth rate cant Muslim minority in the among Muslims than among There are now many people across Europe who see immigration by Muslims as a threat 1960s. The majority of all of the European populations. against what one could call “the original European peoples” and against the European Muslims in France come from But in reality, statistics its former colonies in north- show that the declining birth way of life, writes Nils Erik Forsgård. ern Africa. Today there are rate among Muslim women is an estimated 5 million Mus- greater and faster than the lims living in France, rep- decline among western-Eu- MOST OF the world’s 1.3 bil- implication that Islam is a know, but the bells clang re- ing against and oppressing resenting 8 per cent of the ropean women. lion Muslims live across 57 religion unwilling to reform. gardless, perhaps as a remind- women. country’s population. In 1970, women in Alge- countries in Asia, Africa and This is not so. er that Europe and Europeans Similar accusations were President Nicolas ria and Tunisia gave birth to the Middle East, where they At the end of 2005, Amina distance themselves increas- made against Catholicism in Sarkozy has often used Islam an average of 7 children. To- constitute a majority in all of Wadud in New York formed ingly from their own identity the 19th century. Catholics and Muslims as a scapegoat day that fi gure is 1.8. Among those countries. an initiative that she called and cultural roots, as well as were perceived as a danger to in domestic political debates French women the birth rate There are just over 15 mil- “gender jihad”, a gender rev- that coming face to face with a state and society, and doubts even if many of those debates is 2 children each and among lion Muslims in Europe. In olution. With this uproar Wa- strong and self-conscious reli- were cast of their loyalty and had no religious dimensions. Algerian women living in Finland the number of Mus- hud broke a 1400-year-old gion such as Islam is where the patriotism, and they were He has had much success, France the rate is 2.54. lims is around 40,000, or tradition and became the diffi culties lay. subjected to widespread per- but perhaps mostly because Equally, many Muslims in roughly equal to the number fi rst woman to lead a mixed It is also clear that the Is- secution and discrimination. questions of immigration France do not adhere to Is- living in the Malmö region in congregation during Muslim lamic Sharia, is not compat- This process continued into have been linked with those lam’s laws and decrees. southern Sweden. Friday prayers. ible with every element of the 20th century, and a re- related to the recession. There are studies (Finan- The broad geographic But there is the other side western principles of free- al shift in attitudes towards Germany gained its Mus- cial Times, 3-4 October 2009) spread has a particular sig- of the coin; a few years ago, dom. On the other hand, Catholics only came with lim population at approx- demonstrating that around nifi cance for modern Islam. a court in secular France al- one must naturally question the election of Catholic John imately the same time as a fi fth of all French Muslims One therefore should not lowed permission for a Mus- whether the western enlight- F. Kennedy as president in France. This was mostly in can be described as such be- speak of a single Islam, but lim man to separate from enment tradition is compat- 1960. the form of Turkish guest cause they do not follow any multiple forms of Islam. his wife because she has not ible with religious tolerance. Islam is today the third- workers coming to Germany or many of the decrees set Muslims in Britain, for ex- been a virgin on their wed- Can freedom of expression, largest religion in the US, and to work with the view to re- out in the Koran. ample, are predominantly of ding night. This raises the under certain circumstanc- in Europe, only Christianity turning home. And fi nally, according to Indo-Pak origin. In France question, is the problem in es, be transformed into a has a larger following. But most nonetheless Jonathan Laurence and Justin there are Muslims of North such cases with Muslims, negative fundamentalism in This should not necessar- did not want to return. They Vaisse in their book Integrat- African origin, in Sweden and or with the western under- the same way that theocrat- ily matter because accord- stayed put. Because of this, ing Islam, fewer than 5 per cent Denmark the majority are standing and judiciary? ic faith can? ing to the western tradition Germany already has Mus- of all Muslims living in France Bosnian and in Norway Paki- Under Christian teaching, I believe that we must be of enlightenment mosques lims of third and fourth participate in Friday worship. stani Ahmadiyya-sect Mus- there is an understanding careful about viewing dem- should be able to co-exist generations. The majority of Mus- lims dominate. of individual freedom, con- ocratic fundamentals and side by side with churches. There are now many peo- lims living in France consid- The world is changing, science and responsibility. ideals as holy orders or dei- This same tradition can ple across Europe who see er themselves, with time, and Islam with it. The western forms of judici- ties. The risk is large that this nevertheless also mean immigration by Muslims as French rather than Algerian For many in the western ary are based upon Christian then results in the same form that a ban on crucifi xes a threat against what one or Tunisian. Islam in Europe world, Islam is nevertheless principles, but these Chris- of fundamentalism as that of can be followed by a ban on could call “the original Eu- therefore has the same prob- identifi ed with a medieval tian principles are untenable radical Islam. headscarves. ropean peoples” and against lems as Christianity in Europe and ancient form of theol- across all of Europe. In a recently published In Europe and the west the European way of life. – that much of what is, what ogy. It is said to be ill-suited In Spain and Italy, and in book, North American the- today, two main streams of These threats drawn up happens and what appears is to modern and enlightened southern parts of Germa- ological sociologist José thought are surrounding Is- around Islam across Europe no more than hearsay. societies, implying that it is ny, church bells toll at noon Casanova shows that Islamo- lam. The fi rst demonises Is- today often constitute the For the majority of those regressive. and again at six o’clock in the phobic attacks display many lam, whereas the second form of a neo-conservative Muslims living in Europe, The solution to Islam’s dif- evening. This is the so-called similarities with the Protes- tries to avoid the creation of European fear of the west’s economic political marginali- fi culties in western societies, Angelus Bell, which is a re- tant attacks on Catholicism new threats. ruin and ultimate fall. sation is a far more acute and according to many, would be minder of the angels call to in the past. The Islamophobes’ para- The imagined fall of Eu- material problem than the an Islamic Martin Luther, a Maria that she will one day be Islam is today accused of noid worldview is born and rope has grown strong since teaching of the Koran, morn- reformer capable of renew- mother to baby Jesus. authoritarianism, of ignor- fed by constant fresh re- the Second World War, and in ing prayers and minarets. ing both the religion and the But do the Europeans ing individual freedoms, of ports of planned new Islam- its wake is the great Europe- Muslim world. All of this is themselves even know why seriously undermining de- ic terrorist attacks against an fear that the United States Translated from Swedish easy to say, and carries the the bells toll? No one seems to mocracy, and of discriminat- the west. They focus on the will leave Europe to its fate. by Jesse Karjalainen. HELSINKI TIMES DOMESTIC NEWS 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 33

LEHTIKUVA / TIMO JAAKONAHO It is time to check your pre-completed tax return!

If you earned income from Finland last year, you are bound to receive a pre- completed tax return. When you do, please check that the income and the withheld amount of tax is correct. You may also be entitled to cer- tain deductions. Read more in www.vero.fi/artikkeli/5460 Helsinki Airport closed on Thursday 15 April only to open temporarily for Monday afternoon and evening.

a fl ight of a couple hours for the trip, passengers can ex- pect their travel time to be 34 Or come and visit Flight ban hours. Blue1 is also arranging us at Kontupiste on bus trips through Tallinn, but Finncomm Airlines says that April 22nd and 29th they generally do not provide> >> alternate transport. and May 6th to learn wreaks Some of Finland’s airports were able to open for a time, more. but at least one airline vent- ed its frustration at apparent If you need a tax havoc on inconsistencies at Finavia’s handling of the situation. card, we’ll tell “Mariehamn is still closed despite the fact that the air- business ports in Stockholm, Turku you how to get it. and Helsinki now are open,” Air Åland fumed on its web- Both services are Volcanic ash grounded planes, causing some site on Monday. “We don’t companies huge losses while others in- have information about why available also the airport in Mariehamn creased sales. still is closed.” online at tax.fi Ferry demand jumps DAVID J. CORD ists to southern Europe and While some companies are HELSINKI TIMES then put them on long bus bleeding cash, others have rides back to Finland. Au- found a great opportunity. Log in with your ICELAND is once again mak- rinkomatkat has been bring- Railways and bus companies ing itself felt across the Eu- ing their customers in the are reporting signifi cant in- ropean economy. This time it Canary Islands to mainland creases in passengers. Ferry personal web is not insolvent banks but the Spain to wait for a chance to and shipping fi rms have also country’s majestic volcanic fl y them home. gained business. Viking Line bank code. landscape that is traumatis- Airlines are bearing the has announced exception- ing the world of business. brunt of the shutdown. An es- al sales for their Helsinki – An erupting volcano in Ice- timate from the Internation- Stockholm routes. Finnlines land has spewed ash across al Air Transport Association is kept their call centre open much of northern Europe. putting the cost to airlines at longer hours while huge de- Aviation offi cials, worried 150 million euros per day. mand briefl y crashed their about potential damage to “The interruption of Fin- online booking services. planes and danger to passen- nair’s air traffi c due to the Investors have taken no- gers, have grounded the vast closure of airspace will re- tice. Finnair shares were majority of fl ights throughout sult in losses to the company down almost 7 per cent over the union. The impact on busi- of around two million euros two trading days, while Vi- ness could be immense. per day,” Vice President Ta- king Line was up 2 per cent. The total cost to businesses neli Hassinen said in a stock Finnlines was also up a frac- of the airspace closure is diffi - exchange release. tion. Some energy prices fell cult to measure. Some indus- “Our fl ight traffi c has nev- on the expectation of re- tries may particularly suffer, er before been halted for duced demand: the European such as those dependent up- three days,” Finnair CEO Mi- jet fuel spot price fell 2.50 US on just-in-time manufactur- ka Vehviläinen said in an- dollars to 48 dollars a ton. Do it ing. Some electronics, mail, other release. “The situation With travel practically fl owers and pharmaceuticals for us is totally exceptional. halted, some business execu- are often shipped by air, and The journeys of 100,000 of tives are turning to alternate these companies may suffer if our customers have been can- ways to hold meetings. Tech- the air transport closures are celled and around 15,000 pas- nopolis Business Director prolonged. Meanwhile many sengers have not yet been able Laura Krusius says demand businesses fi nd executives to return home. Our most im- for their video conferencing stranded overseas or impor- portant priorities are safety facilities has skyrocketed. tant negotiations postponed. and our customers. In this sit- “We normally have one online! uation, it is the civil aviation person that runs the reser- Airlines battered authorities who decide when vation centre, but we have Travel operators are one and where we can fl y.” had to add a second per- group feeling the pain. TUI Besides the trouble of son,” Krusius reports. “We Travel Group, which oper- idle planes, some airlines are have ten rooms throughout ates the popular Finnmatkat scrambling to fi nd ground Finland, and we are getting in Finland, estimates its dai- transportation for stuck many calls about them. Peo- ly costs due to the shutdown passengers. Finnair has ar- ple are asking questions on are up to 6.8 million euros. ranged bus and ferry trans- how they work, the prices, Finnmatkat and Tjäreborg port between Helsinki and and how to arrange long-dis- have fl own stranded tour- Berlin via Tallinn. Instead of tance videoconferences.” 4 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 DOMESTIC NEWS HELSINKI TIMES Readymade baby foods highly popular

KRISTA SIHVONEN supermarket shelves is due bies – babies and toddlers more to marketing and ag- are not mini-adults, they ricultural policy than good need specialised nutrition to science. enable them to grow and de- “The vegetable oils used velop healthily.” in RMBFs, like sunfl ower or rapeseed oil are dirt cheap Broadening tastes compared with good-qual- Clearly, the question of nu- ity, real fats like butter, ex- tritional value is paramount. tra-virgin olive or coconut Nutritionist Anette Palssa oil. Cereal grains, heavi- is ambivalent about the pros ly present in RMBFs, are a and cons of mass-produced good food for creatures with cuisine. “The bottom line beaks. Babies can’t even di- is that baby foods are safe, gest cereal until they are one there is no harm in them,” year old, and even then these she told Helsinki Times. Baby are a poor choice of food. Ag- food is popular because par- ricultural policy and market- ents fi nd it convenient, she ing dictates what we feed our believes, but also because kids, not biochemistry and of an ingrained but mistak- common sense as it should en impression of its superior be.” nutritional values. She underscores the im- Home-made alternatives portance of children’s devel- Unsurprisingly, kilo-for-ki- oping food preferences. The lo, RMBFs tend to be more world abounds in tastes and expensive than home-made fl avours whereas industrially puréed food, and Konstig be- made food potentially accus- lieves that illnesses and sick- toms children to a restricted nesses are more common in palate. “A child used to eating babies fed with such foods only the carrot and potato rather than freshly-made mash you can buy at the shop Finnish-made commercial baby food appeared in 1952. Finland is now the world’s top consumer of these products. food. His own daughter is may have a hard time get- just over a year old. “We feed ting used to the family’s own her the same food we eat: dietary culture and to dif- Balancing the needs of your offspring with the need to maintain sanity can be tricky at the scrambled, organic eggs for ferent seasonings. The famil- best of times. When it comes to feeding their young children, Finns have developed a world- breakfast, and meat-based, iar canned vegetable mash natural fat meals.” will taste completely differ- leading taste for readymade baby foods. Mekkonen of Nutricia ar- ent from the one prepared gues that RMBFs are in fact at home, and we have to re- produced strictly with nutri- member that the processing NICK BARLOW in the world for baby food in “Our brands are devel- positive aspects of their tional ideals in mind. Speak- of foods reduces their nutri- HELSINKI TIMES terms of retail value is the oped in close co-operation products, there are those ing on the Muksu brand, she tional content,” Palssa says. US, with 3.7 billion euros’ with Finnish paediatricians who argue against the use says: “Our savoury-meal rec- While the products are FINNISH consumers have worth of sales (out of a to- and nutritional specialists,” of such foodstuffs on the ipes are always developed supposed to provide nu- long had a love affair with tal market of around 15.5 bil- states Karri. “Baby food grounds they do not contain by baby food experts tak- trition for the young and readymade baby meals. lion), Finland leads the way must fulfi l far stricter quali- the optimum nutrients that ing into account nutritional infants, a trend not unno- While it is becoming more ap- on a per capita basis. ty requirements than normal a growing human requires. recommendations and spe- ticed by manufacturers is pealing for many parents the “In Finland the consump- food. For instance, pesticides One vocal critic is author Joo- cifi c baby-foods legislation. the growing consumption of world over to prepare foods tion of baby food in jars is are not allowed. Only one per nas Konstig, a father-of-one In the development of baby RMBFs by older customers. at home, Finns actually lead about 136 kilos per baby per cent of raw fruit materials on who has taken a keen ama- savoury meals we have set Recently the German-based the world when it comes to year. In Sweden, babies eat the world market can there- teur interest in baby foods ourselves a goal in product Hipp, one of the world’s larg- the consumption of industri- about 86 kilos of the same fore be used in baby food since the birth of his daugh- development to always use est baby food manufacturer,s ally made baby foods. products; in Norway 55 ki- production, and always only ter three years ago. a high proportion of vegeta- announced that adults were While the exact reasons los; and in Denmark only after careful analysis.” “Industrial baby food is bles in our recipes, and less becoming signifi cant con- for this are debatable, there is 13 kilos,” says Anna Karri, Sanna Mekkonen, mar- like any industrial food: a water.” sumers of their products. no doubt that baby food man- the marketing manager for keting director for Nutricia processed, refi ned food-like Konstig’s argument about “Not so long ago, we had ufacturers see Finland as a Nestlé babyfood in Finland. Baby in Finland, agrees: “Or- product,” he argues. “The meat proteins also holds little twice as many births as now, positive market. There are “There are several rea- ganic ingredients also need whole idea behind business appeal for Mekkonen. “Meat and that, of course, has a also even those who argue sons why consumption in to be tested to see if they is to sell something for more content is kept limited as ba- knock-on effect. As our soci- that readymade baby foods Finland is so high,” she con- follow the strict quality re- than it makes to produce it. bies should not consume an ety gets ever older, baby food (RMBFs) are hardly food at all. tinues, “including the long quirements for baby foods. With the readymade food in- excess amount of protein. is showing that it has a future history of local brands, a Nutricia’s baby food prod- dustry, this means cheap ma- For babies up to 12 months, in the adult market,” compa- High consumption widespread acceptance of ucts are designed by infant- terial at a high price. Water the most important source of ny chief Claus Hipp said. The fi rst Finnish-made com- baby food among parents nutrition experts to match is the cheapest and water is protein should still be breast Stewed apple is appar- mercial baby foods appeared and healthcare profession- the needs and nutrition- the number-one ingredient milk. This is also one of the ently a favourite among the in 1952. Since then, brands als, and a wide assortment al recommendations of each in every single RMBF can out reasons ordinary cow’s milk elderly, and dieticians have such as Muksu (produced by available for consumers.” age stage. The texture of the there. Every cook knows that is not suitable for babies – it suggested that such puréed Danone), and Piltti and Bona baby food products is also starch is cheap and protein is is too high in protein. Care- food can benefi t certain peo- (Nestlé) – and more recent- A question of nutrition tailored for each stage, and expensive. So they use a lot of ful raw-material selection is ple, such as those who have ly organic varieties such as Naturally, as with most things further, baby foods do not potatoes, wheat and rice. The needed in baby-food devel- diffi culty swallowing due Semper Organic – have be- child-related, manufacturers contain preservatives or ar- problem with this is that these opment. The selection takes to old age, dementia, or a come popular, not to mention are constrained by various tifi cial colours.” are all empty calories. Tubers, into account various aspects, stroke. offering a vast array of fl a- regulations concerning the grains and rice do not provide there included nutritional vours for your little ones. purity and content of their ba- Parental concerns many nutrients for anyone, let and organoleptical aspects. Common sense is best According to the Infant by foods. This is, of course, an While it is scarcely surpris- alone a growing human being.” Recipes for baby foods need Meanwhile, Palssa encour- Food Manufacturer’s asso- angle that the companies are ing that manufacturers of According to Konstig, the to take into account the spe- ages parents to try cooking ciation, the largest market willing to extol. RMBFs want to stress the abundance of RMBFs on our cifi c nutritional needs of ba- for their babies at home. “It may seem like a hassle but, An example of the ingre- in the end, it is surprising- Finland strong market for industrially made children’s foods dients of the Piltti “Potato ly simple. In the long run it is and plaice” (for 8 month- – Finland leads in the world in the consumption of industri- also cheaper,” she explains. olds), 200 g / jar. ally made children’s foods with 136 kilos per child per year. She herself prepared vari- – About half of Finnish parents feed their kids with ready- ous mashes for her children, Ingredients: made foods, which equals some 2-3 jars a day per child. but occasionally gave them Water, potato, skimmed – In 2007 baby food was sold in Finland 9.9 million kilos, canned foods as well.

LEHTIKUVA / MARJA AIRIO milk, carrot, plaice (10%), costing 61 million euros. “I am not dead-set in leek, corn starch, – The high consumption is partly explained by the fact that these things but it is good to vegetable oils(rapeseed, the fruit and berry mashes are popular snacks eaten by use common sense. My prin- sunflower), dill, adults. ciple is that because I my- lemon juice – Making the equivalent food at home is cheaper than buy- self do not want to eat large concentrate, ing in jars. amounts of canned foods, I white pepper – The nutritional superiority of ready-made baby foods is widely do not want to feed them to and thyme. perceived in Finland. my children, either,” Palssa says. HELSINKI TIMES DOMESTIC NEWS 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 55

Bullying is another phe- nomenon ill-suited to enlarged COLUMNCOLUMNIN BRIEF Bullying starts early group sizes. Experts have come up with an equation for the ideal group size: the child’s age Deputy justice ceive their deposits back. plus two–three children. Ka- chancellor slates According to FSA the bank Child welfare advocates stress the importance of early intervention lland is sceptical that munici- has suffi cient funds to pay in order to stop exclusion from becoming a habit. pal decision-makers will take social affairs back at least 85 per cent of note of the equation unless it is ministry the deposits and the rest enshrined in law. On Tuesday 20 April Mik- will be accounted for by the TOMI ORAVAINEN – STT form of name calling, phys- tify bullying. Mirjam Kal- Aside from examples provid- ko Puumalainen, Finland’s Deposit Guarantee Fund, MATTHEW PARRY – HT ical violence, criticism of land, MLL’s secretary gener- ed by the study, Kalland stress- deputy chancellor of justice, with a cap of 50,000 euros clothes, threats and manipu- al, raises the issues of group es research shows good day strongly criticised the so- per customer. SOMETHING silly often hap- lation, and bribery. size and staff training. care has a positive infl uence on cial affairs and health min- Sofi a Bank is to pay its pens when adults are unable to “We found a fi ve-year- “A crèche can create sim- a child’s development. For chil- istry for processing social share by the end of May and see or are too busy, say crèche old boy who paid three other ple rules to manage playing dren at risk of marginalisation, security appeals too slow- the Deposit Guarantee Fund children. Most often the vic- boys to play with him,” Kir- and birthday invitations, for the signifi cance is even greater. ly. Puumalainen demand- compensation is to be paid tim is excluded from games. ves says. example.” “We could talk to crèche ed the ministry to provide by the end of June by the lat- According to a study by the They also reminded the A personal carer model children about the spirit of a detailed plan by the end est, FSA added. Sofi a Bank’s Mannerheim League for Child boy to bring money on fol- is being trialled in Helsinki community, so that children of May on how to solve the operations were suspended Welfare (MLL) and Folkhäl- lowing days. and Espoo, which, according also learn to feel responsibil- congestion problem. in March when the FSA can- san, a social welfare and health General mischief around to Kalland, has seen positive ity as members of a group,” The social security ap- celled its deposit bank li- care NGO, bullying is an every- birthday parties was uncov- results. suggests Laura Kirves. peals committee takes ap- cence after the bank’s funds day reality even in crèches. ered at each of the crèches. proximately one and a half fell below the minimum re- “Almost all incidents of “We found one boy, for years to process an ap- quired level a credit institu- teasing take place during example, who had been ma- peal and in the worst case tion must hold. STT free play inside or outside. nipulating the group’s so- the process can stretch When guided activities fi n- cial makeup over several to 2.5 years. Puumalain- ish and the teacher says that months,” Kirves continues. “It en said he considered this Increased now you can play freely,” ex- wasn’t just a question of if you unconstitutional. incidence of skin plains planner Laura Kirves. play with me, you can come to The committee process- Then children decide who my birthday party. You also es appeals on decisions by cancer

gets to play with whom, and have to tell that other one that LEHTIKUVA / SARI GUSTAFSSON the Social Insurance Insti- The number of skin can- this is when exclusion occurs. he can’t play with her, and tution of Finland (Kela) and cer cases in Finland contin- Children may also change the then you get to come.” employee’s sick funds. Sev- ues to increase, according rules of the game midway Intervention into cases of eral complaints have been to a statement by Finnish through so someone can be bullying should be as swift fi led against the appeals Cancer Organisations on shut out from the group. as possible before the victim committee, and the depu- Monday 19 April. Last year “For children, belonging begins to view it as a normal ty chancellor of justice has around 700 Finns suffered to the group is everything,” part of life. already had to step in to from melanoma, a ten per Kirves explains. “This circle of bullying make decisions in 11 cas- cent increase compared to There is no such thing as a should be broken before it es due to excessively long the previous year. Accord- deliberately excluded “loner”. goes that far. Every crèche is processing periods. STT ing to the Finnish Cancer For this reason Kirves stress- capable of this,” she argues. Organisations, nine out es that children who are con- Prolonged bullying pro- of ten cases of melanoma tinually left alone or excluded duces the same sorts of Children’s definitions of bullying Shop strike could be prevented if skin need adult support to ensure symptoms in children as pro- Boy, 3 years: “Bullying is when Elias doesn’t let me do anything.” was protected from the they participate. longed violence. On the other Boy, 4 years: “Taunting, shoving.” averted sun. STT Girls are guilty just as often hand, even a single friend can Boy, 4 years: “Akseli calls me stupid.” A strike threatening large as boys of excluding others. help a child survive bullying. Boy, 5 years: “That we play tricks, always on the same people.” shops was averted on Tues- The study drew on inter- Girl, 5 years: “You might hit, kick and knock over, and hit some- day 20 April when the Far-right politician views with 61 children and 29 Regulating group sizes one in the back with your fists.” Federation of Finnish Com- to seek Supreme employees from eight differ- One problem is that crèche Boy, 5 years: “It means being quiet and not speaking to your mate.” merce and the Service Un- Court appeal ent crèches. Parents were al- staff don’t always differ- Girl, 5 years: “It’s when Pia is mean and says that I don’t under- ion United (PAM) accepted so involved. entiate between incidental stand anything.” a mediation proposal by Olavi Mäenpää, a Turku city bickering and bullying. One Girl, 6 years: “One boy teased me outside when he showed me a Esa Lonka, the national council member, said on Fri- Birthday party mischief interviewed employee main- dead bee, it was all slimy.” conciliator. The new three- day 16 April that he is plan- The interviews revealed bul- tained that one needs to know Source: Do small children also bully? MLL & Folkhälsan year labour agreement will ning to appeal his sentence lying in crèches takes the the child in order to iden- increase this year’s wag- for incitement to racial ha- es twice, once in the spring tred at the Supreme Court. and once in autumn. STT The court of appeals decid- ed to uphold the Helsinki district court’s original sen- Extended opening hours a success Laaninen aims for tence, which Mäenpää in- Centre Party post sists constitutes a breach Suppliers yet to respond of the freedom of speech. Predicting the perfect location for a shop is harder than it looks. Producers and suppliers re- Finnish weekly Suomen Ku- Mäenpää was given a fi ne of port that the new opening valehti reported on Friday 600 euros last year for mak- hours have yet to affect the 16 April that Timo Laanin- ing derogatory and slan- MAIJA PAIKKALA – STT out that K-Extra on Helsinki’s er of HOK-Elanto Alepas and way they operate. But they en, editor-in-chief of Centre derous remarks towards MATTHEW PARRY – HT Fredrikinkatu is already open S-Markets in the capital area. will have to arrange a further Party organ Suomenmaa, is immigrants in an election Wednesday through Saturday “If we’d had to guess be- day of production and distri- aiming at becoming the Cen- debate held in 2007. STT GROCERY shoppers have quick- from 07:00 to 05:00. forehand which areas would bution, since Sunday will be- tre’s next party secretary. ly grown accustomed to shops’ If service stations are ex- lend themselves best to ex- come a trading day like any According to the mag- extended opening hours. The cluded, the only shop oper- tended opening hours, I other. azine the claim is based Fair trade sailing extra hours worked by small ating round the clock is an wouldn’t have been able to. “Sunday will become on information from Cen- ship to be sold shops on Saturday evenings Alepa in Helsinki. At this There isn’t a single case where proper trading day, so mak- tre Party sources. Laanin- have been most successful in stage, HOK-Elanto is not you can say for sure that a ing products available is an en is expected to announce Estelle, a Finnish fair trade fi nding a large customer base. planning to implement ex- shop would work here. It’s not unconditional requirement. his decision publicly next sailing ship, is to end its op- The popularity has tended opening hours in its always down to whether there The shelves will have to look week. Laaninen neither erations and be put up for prompted the opening of a few other shops. are people about or wheth- the same as they do on Thurs- confi rmed nor denied the sale, the Finnish Broad- round-the-clock shops, oper- er there are easy transport days,” says Juha Gröhn, CEO claims to the Finnish News casting Company (YLE) re- ated by Siwa and Valintata- Significant differences connection.” of Atria Suomi Oy. Agency (STT) on Friday. The ported on Friday 16 April. lo supermarkets and planned between areas Centre is to choose its next The sailing ship, which by the Suomen Lähikauppa But the new opening hours party secretary at the par- is made entirely of recycled chain, as early as this spring. have not found customers Opening hours extended at the beginning of this year ty conference in June. STT materials, has been car- “Of course, we’re talk- everywhere. – Shops under 400 square metres have been allowed to trade rying the fl ag of fair trade ing about larger cities where “Some consumers shop round the clock since the beginning of the year. by bringing products from there is a population base and at the same times as before, – Opening hours for larger shops were also extended at the be- Sofia Bank Africa to Finland since consumers who are out and but others are more active ginning of the year, when shops over 400 square metres were account holders to 2002. However, Uusi Tuu- about at night. We want to get and are happy to take advan- given permission to open on Sunday until 18:00. be reimbursed li, the non-profi t organisa- a grasp of what sort of plac- tage of the improve opening – There is currently only one shop in Finland open 24 hours a tion currently operating es we’re looking at,” explains hours,” Backman says. day, seven days a week: Alepa, located at Mannerheimintie The Financial Superviso- the ship, no longer has the Kimmo Backman, a manager According to Svensk, the 102. In addition, some shops operating out of service stations ry Authority (FSA) said in a resources to keep the ship at Lähikauppa. decisive factor is whether the are open through the night. statement Monday 12 April sailing, according to YLE Ari Svensk, a chain man- shop is located in a city or in – In addition, in Finland there are almost 500 shops with a floor that most customers of sus- Turku. The ship is to be sold ager at K Market, reports sim- the country. But within cit- area of less than 100 square metres, and they fall under legis- pended Sofi a Bank are to re- in the coming autumn. STT ilar discussions are under way ies, too, there are differences lation governing kiosks. They are allowed to be open on holi- at Kesko, but no decisions between areas, according to days, such as May Day and Ascension Day. have yet been made. He points Kimmo Nikula, chain manag- 6 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 FROM THE FINNISH PRESS HELSINKI TIMES TRANSLATIONS BY MICHAEL NAGLER LEHTIKUVA / MARKKU ULANDER TURUN SANOMAT 18 April Lethal air rifles sold as “efficient”

Over 10,000 permit-free weapons have already been sold, the Turku-based daily Turun Sanomat reports.

“LETHALLY effective air ri- of rifl e can be purchased at a as a sales argument,’ Leh- fl es are being advertised store without any weapons tonen says. on the internet as ‘very permit whatsoever. A police sergeant who con- effi cient’ or ‘extremely Project Manager Mika Leh- ducts weapons checks for the effi cient.’ One importer ad- tonen’s working group in the Turku Police Department points vertises his air rifl e as the Finnish Ministry of the Interi- out that permit-free weapons most effective ‘air cannon’ or is considering making the are also a marketing ploy. on the Finnish market. The most effi cient air guns sub- Finnish Air Gun Shooters bullet of an effi cient air rifl e ject to a licence. (SIHRY) are opposed to mak- penetrated a pig’s skull from ‘Since you’re not allowed to ing air guns subject to a per- a distance of 34 metres in a hunt with them in Finland the mit because air guns cannot police test in 2008. This kind effi ciency is a bit redundant be equated to fi rearms.”

Despite PM Matti Vanhanen’s public endorsement of rival Valio, Arla Ingman has come out on top. HELSINGIN SANOMAT 17 April. TEIJA SUTINEN KAUPPALEHTI 14 April. KYÖSTI JURVELIN Arla Ingman wins milk war Forsius details irritate PM Contrary to his claim, Matti Vanhanen did not originally admit to his Despite the row Arla Ingman’s domestic milk sales have increased, role in the campaign funding of MP Merikukka Forsius in 2008, the the financial paper Kauppalehti reports. national daily Helsingin Sanomat reports.

“DESPITE being at the centre Despite the growth in man’s domestically produced “PRIME Minister Matti Van- of the milk war Arla Ingman sales there has not been milk as Swedish. hanen (Centre) was annoyed has not suffered from it. On an increase in profits, ‘People have begun to pay on Friday that Merikukka the contrary, the amount of however. attention to milk suppliers. Forsius’ (Greens) campaign milk sold by the company has ‘Retail prices are under No longer is the product ha- funding affair resurfaced in grown. pressure. Although sales vol- bitually chosen from the shelf. Helsingin Sanomat. ‘From the beginning of ume has grown, profi tability Instead, milk prices are com- ‘This was already discussed the year our sale of domestic has slumped.’ pared with each other and back in 2008. At the time I ex-

milk has grown by about sev- The milk war started in people look at where the milk plained my part in this. Now LEHTIKUVA / KIMMO MÄNTYLÄ en per cent. In March the rise March when HOK-Elanto de- comes from,’ Fagerlund says. HS is trying to present this as continued at the same lev- cided to accept only Arla Ing- According to Fagerlund if it were a new thing, and I el,’ says Arla Ingman’s Com- man’s milk in its stores. This the company’s sale of milk won’t accept that,’ Vanhanen munication Manager Outi caused a row, which resulted imported from Sweden has told journalists on Friday. Fagerlund. in an attempt to brand Ing- remained the same.” In reality Vanhanen has never previously admitted to having recommended to the Kehittyvien maakunt- Merikukka Forsius and Matti Vanhanen on 4 March 2007. ien Suomi (KMS) campaign fi nancing association that tion from KMS. She was the matter back in 2008 Van- they support Forsius. He ad- only Green candidate to re- hanen alluded to a press con- mitted this to a reporter ceive funding from them. ference he held in June 2008. from Helsingin Sanomat on KMS backed her on Van- At that time Vanhanen did Thursday, and on Friday the hanen’s suggestion. not admit to recommending paper reported the matter. According to information KMS funding, however. In- ‘It’s not true that I recom- received by Helsingin Sa- stead he told the press gather- mended money to be given nomat this happened when ing that he had raised money to another party,’ Vanhanen Vanhanen gave a piece of pa- to meet the expenses of a joint said in the 26 May 2008 edi- per with Forsius’ name on it environmental conference. tion of Iltasanomat. over the table. Forsius is now a mem- Forsius received 5,000 eu- With his previous state- ber of the National Coalition ros for the 2007 general elec- ment about discussing the Party.”

Iso Omena is good for you! ILTASANOMAT 16 April Despite his harrowing ex- perience Herlin says that ‘you Fitness centre, couldn’t make me a xeno- hair and beauty salons, phobe even though my knee- Niklas Herlin mugged cap is busted, my foot is in a natural products, movies, library cast and my motorcycle sea- son is over before it even and other healthy offerings. The Uusi Suomi publisher was beaten and began.’ robbed behind the Kiasma museum in the cen- Yet Herlin too experi- Over 115 nice stores enced spontaneous xeno- tre of Helsinki, the tabloid Iltasanomat reports. phobia toward the duo that featuring fashion and delicacies. robbed him. ‘Already before I was beat- “UUSI SUOMI publisher Nik- my back and said in English en and robbed I was partially las Herlin says he was that you can take what you against foreigners, and now assaulted and robbed in Hel- like; I wouldn’t care to die for I’m even more so. This organ- sinki on Wednesday 14 April. something like this. The tall- ised ‘beggar immigration’ is Herlin told of the incident er of the two confi scated my repulsive. These young pro- on Uusi Suomi’s web page. He wallet from my breast pock- fessional criminals also claim 22002200 freef parking lots, accuses two young Romanian et. They only took the mon- to have come to Finland to parkingppar always free Roma of being the perpetra- ey. The wallet and the cards beg. During the short time forfo up to 5 hours. IsoIsIsoso Omena,OOmenana, PiispansiltaPiispa 11, Espoo tors. They are also suspected inside, the phone, even the they have been here they have wwww.isoomena.fiw of mugging four other peo- cigarettes were left alone,’ hurt helpless old people and ple, all of them elderly. Herlin described his ordeal in caused me bodily harm, per- ‘The fi rst kick hit my his Näkökulma (Viewpoint) haps permanently. What is OpeningOpeOpeninn ghg hours:hourrs: Mon-FriMon-Fri SatS Sun knee from behind. I fell to column in Uusi Suomi. completely intolerable is that grocerygrocererysy sstorestoress 88a a.m.a.m.m – 9 pp.m..m. 8 a.m.a.m. – 6 p.m.p.mm. noon – 6 p.m my right, injuring my oth- The mugging occurred Finland accepts so-called ref- other stores 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. noon – 6 p.m er knee as well as an elbow. late in the evening in the cen- ugees whose only motive is Check the stores’ individual opening hours from the Internet. As I rose to my knees a sec- tre of Helsinki on the steps to organise the drug trade, or ond, powerful kick hit me behind the Kiasma museum some similar criminal activi- on the shoulder. I rolled onto leading to Mannerheimintie. ty,’ Herlin says in his column.” HELSINKI TIMES INTERNATIONAL NEWS 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 77 UN Bhutto probe claims government cover-up

A report recently made public suggests new involvement in the assassination of the popular Pakistani leader, and first female head of state in the Muslim world, Benazir Bhutto.

which they knew, as profes- Shortly before the release sionals, they should have of the report, a UN offi cial taken,” he said. told IPS it was likely to cause The commission’s report, a political storm in Pakistan based on interviews with 250 because it strongly criticis- people in and outside Pakistan es the actions of the army RAWALPINDI as well as other evidence, says leadership. the offi cial investigation fo- Pakistan, an artifi cial na- cused on “low-level operatives tion carved out of British In- and placed little or no focus on dia in 1947, has been ruled investigating those further up by military dictators for well HAIDER RIZVI the hierarchy in the planning, over 30 years. Almost all of IPS fi nancing and execution of the them enjoyed full backing assassination”. from Washington. Bhutto’s Former premier Benazir Bhutto at an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi, 27 December 2007, the AFTER leaving a campaign father, Zulfi qar Ali Bhutto, day she was assassinated. rally on 27 December 2007, A brutal tale was the only Pakistani lead- two weeks before gener- Within hours of the killing, er who openly clashed with was cut short again by anoth- out by a suicide bomber. Lat- in the neck. Her husband, Asif al elections, Benazir Bhut- carried out by a teenage su- the US. He was hanged by the er president close to the army er, offi cials said she was killed Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s current to was assassinated. A new icide bomber who also fi red military dictator Muham- leadership. In both cases, she when the force of the bomb president, refused to allow an report made public by an in- shots at her, the Gen. Per- mad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979. was thrown out of the offi ce blast knocked her head against autopsy on her body. quiry commission established vez Musharraf government Bhutto was 25 when her fa- on corruption charges that the sun roof of her vehicle. Muñoz said it was now up by the UN last July suggests claimed a Taliban leader with ther was executed. She spent were never proven. Leaders of Bhutto’s Pakistan to Pakistani authorities “to al Qaeda, the Taliban or the links to al Qaeda named Bait- fi ve years in solitary confi ne- After living in exile for People’s Party have consistently do what has to be done”. But country’s military leadership ullah Mehsud was involved - ment before her captors let eight years, she reached an said she was killed by two bul- many long-time observers of may be involved. a charge Mehsud denied. her seek medical treatment understanding with Mushar- lets, one of which pierced her Pakistani politics doubt the “The investigation was The Musharraf govern- in London in 1984. When she raf that would have allowed skull and another which hit her truth will ever come out. severely hampered by intel- ment was a staunch ally of returned home in April 1986, her to run for prime minister ligence agencies and other the George W. Bush admin- millions of people took to the and him to remain in offi ce government offi cials, which istration in its so-called “war streets to show their support as president. But the US- impeded the search for the on terror”, and the US initial- for her determination to chal- brokered deal did not work. truth,” Heraldo Muñoz, chair ly backed its assertions that lenge the army rule. During her 2007 election of the Bhutto Commission of Islamic extremists were be- campaign, Bhutto not only Inquiry and permanent rep- hind the killing. Making history posed a strong challenge to resentative of Chile to the The three-member com- Bhutto won national elections religious extremists, but al- UN, told reporters Thursday mission’s report notes that in 1988 and became the fi rst- so attacked Musharraf for

15 April. Bhutto faced threats from a ever woman prime minister, cracking down on the judici- LEHTIKUVA / FAISAL MAHMOOD “These offi cials, in part number of sources, including but could not complete her ary, media and civil society. fearing intelligence agen- al Qaeda, the Taliban, local ji- fi ve-year term due to mount- The Musharraf regime cies’ involvement, were un- hadi groups and “potentially ing hostility from the army es- changed its version of events sure of how vigorously they from elements in the Paki- tablishment. Bhutto regained leading to Bhutto’s death. First Policeman on duty near an image of former Prime Minister ought to pursue actions stani establishment”. power in 1993, but her term it said the attack was carried Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi.

used open desert conditions as an immigrant deterrent. Migrants risk life and limb at desert crossing Engracia Robles, a nun with Sisters of the Eucharist, deported to Mexico and tional law has been deemed helps run a small volunteer wanting to return to their illegal. walk-in centre for deportees. After bill was passed in the United States on Tuesday 13 April crimi- families in Arizona make In 1994, with the pas- With no money, a location nalising undocumented immigrants, many Arizona occupants have dangerous treks across the sage of the North American to sleep is hard to fi nd, she been deported to Mexico and are trying to make the dangerous desert. Free Trade Agreement, then says, “people often sleep in President Bill Clinton offi - the cemetery” just a few hun- desert journey back. Rising migrant deaths cially militarised the border dred feet away. According to US civil rights with ‘Operation Gatekeep- “People come in with their groups, the number of mi- er’ and ‘Operation Hold The feet blistered, cuts on the his deportation he attempt- tion with Mexico’s Secretari- grants who die each year at- Line’. By redirecting govern- face and bruised. They are ed to cross the desert but was ade Securidad Publica”, in an tempting to enter Arizona ment resources to the major hungry, destitute; shoes are captured by US border patrol investigation that has “im- increased from nine in 1990 US/Mexico urban crossing broken from walking in the agents and jailed for another plicated high-level mem- to over 200 by the mid-2000s. sites – Tijuana/San Diego, desert for days,” she said. eight months. He has no fam- bers of human smuggling The Barack Obama ad- Nogales/Nogales, El Paso/ Nearby, at the Maripo- NOGALES ily ties in Mexico’s frontier organisations”. ministration has continued Juarez – where water, food, sa port-of-entry, hundreds states, he explains that his With urban border cross- its predecessors’ policy of and shelter are more readily of trucks pass fuming up the life is in Arizona. ing points such as Nogales using death as a deterrent, accessible, successive US ad- hill crossing the border. heavily fortifi ed, migrants which under US and Interna- ministrations have explicitly “This is a NAFTA bor- The life changing bill der,” explains Connie On Tuesday 13 April, the Romero, a volunteer with Ar- JEB SPRAGUE harshest anti-immigrant izona-based No Mas Muertes. IPS bill in the country, SB 1070, “Money moves freely, people passed through Arizona’s with money do too, but the AS HE DROPS his last puri- state legislature. Criminal- poor are pushed into a dan- fi cation tablet into a pail of ising people for not hav- gerous cycle of crossing the swirling, murky water, Ser- ing proper identifi cation, desert.” gio, 26, stares out toward the the bill requires police to Corey Jones, a local, un- desert. Recently deported check the legal status of an- dergoing a training semi- from Arizona, where he has yone they suspect of being nar with Good Samaritans lived for the majority of his undocumented. Project, a migrant advocacy life, he explains, “I have to re- Two days later, a huge LEHTIKUVA / AFP PHOTO / JEFF TOPPING organisation, says, “Arizona turn, it’s my home.” operation with 800 agents is the site of a social strug- Lacking offi cial US docu- and offi cers from nine fed- gle. On one hand you have mentation he is unable to get eral and local law enforce- very powerful wealthy peo- a driver’s license. Using a fake ment agencies arrested 50 ple that benefi t from the la- ID, he was originally deported people working in the shut- bour of a super-exploitable to Mexico after being pulled tle service sector, in what class of workers, and on the over in a routine traffi c stop US Immigration and Cus- other hand you have some of and jailed for four months. toms Enforcement (ICE) of- the poorest people in North In fl uent English, he ex- fi cials described as including Popular US/Mexico borders are secured with steel walls, as seen here in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico America seeking to make plains that immediately upon “unprecedented coopera- and Nogales, Arizona, US. Others are secured with dangerous open desert conditions. a living any way they can.” 8 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 BUSINESS HELSINKI TIMES

LEHTIKUVA / MARKKU ULANDER COLUMN

David J. Cord is a writer and columnist for the Helsinki Times. He is also a private investor with over ten years of international experience.

Why you should be investing right now

IF YOU aren’t investing at present, you should be. Major changes are occurring in Finnish society that means it Various studies show that every fifth Finnish citizen, some 860,000 people, owns funds. is becoming more and more important for individuals to take responsibility for their fi nancial future. Here are eight major trends that support investing right now: Investment funds popular in Finland 1) YOU will have to work longer. Faced with a demo- were able to name the correct graphic crisis of fewer workers and more pensioners, Funds can be a good investment, provided you do your homework. rate, but a third were incapa- Finland is forced to raise the retirement age. This is ble of saying anything about happening now and will undoubtedly happen again in the scale of the tax rate. the future. For example, if you are in your twenties it is ARJA JOENPOLVI – STT the Federation of Finnish Fi- “The information on of- One factor that weighs certainly feasible that your offi cial retirement age will MATTHEW PARRY – HT nancial Services (FK). fer may be high-quality, but heavily in the minds of inves- eventually be somewhere in the 70s. In 2005 the aver- He marvels at the way it goes right over the custom- tors is the ease with which age retirement age was 59.1. DISCUSSIONS with the bank some people throw the same er’s head,” Savikko says. the investment can be con- adviser can be superfi cial. sort of money into funds that He argues that fi nancial verted back into cash. The 2) TAXES will go up. The era of easy money for sover- The sales talk sounds con- could be spent on a new car, education should begin much criterion is astonishing, since eign states is over. Income taxes will increase, and the vincing, and it’s easy to con- without any forethought and more thoroughly as early under half of those surveyed lengthening of the retirement age means that Finland ceal one’s own ignorance in great haste, when they as primary school, and one by the FK knew that fund in- will take money from you for a longer period of time. with a steady nod. If you’d would scarcely just grab the of the key aims of teaching vestments can be redeemed just put a little money into a fi rst model they saw in the should be an improved un- as cash on a daily basis. 3) PENSIONS will go down. Although it is political sui- fund, and when there’s such a car salesroom. derstanding of market logic, The typical fund investor cide to actually decrease state-provided pensions, the hurry, too. Investing in funds is popu- because customers who are is aged 40-64 years and has same result can be achieved by delaying their payment. But when the hoped-for lar, with various studies show- disappointed at their fund’s diversifi ed his investments The end result is that you spend less time in retirement profi ts are not as ready as ing that around 20 per cent of results do not always under- into three different funds. and so take less from the public retirement system. expected, many end up com- Finns – some 860,000 people stand the fund’s fall in value. The most important motive plaining to the Finnish Secu- – own funds. Savikko feels that The signifi cance of the for investing is the desire to 4) YOU will live longer. With advances in health care life rities Complaint Board. training should be improved hard sell is greater still given prepare for a rainy day or for expectancies are extending. Even though the retire- “One familiar aspect of for investment advisors and that recommendations from retirement. A desire for prof- ment age is being pushed back, it is likely that you will complaints made to the Se- others in the business of sell- the bank or the fund compa- it is only the third most im- still spend more time in retirement than your parents. curities Complaint Board is ing funds. There is a consen- ny affect choices, even if the portant motive. The more time spent in retirement means the more that the investor has made sus in the sector that the fl ash internet is now an important Investors face no short- money you will need. his decision in a hurry,” says sales talk should be translated source of information. age of choices: as of the end Eight major trends Markku Savikko, Director at into layman’s language. of last year, there were a to- 5) YOU will be healthi- Capital gains tal 482 Finnish investment support investing er in your old age. Going tax unclear to many funds. right now. with the previous point, According to an FK-commis- The study on investment advances in health care sioned survey, many inves- funds was carried out by mean that you will be more active in your retirement tors do not know what sort of Otantatutkimus Oy on behalf years. Don’t expect to be able to afford holidays in investment fund they own. of the Federation of Finnish Spain or expensive golfi ng green fees on a paltry pub- Taxation of fund profi ts is Financial Services. The study lic pension. unclear to many, as are the drew on interviews with 423 expenses and fees associated people with personal expe- 6) FINLAND is encouraging long-term investing. The with investment funds. rience of investing in funds. state is pushing people to save for their retirement in Many survey respond- the form of tax-advantaged self-funded accounts. Of- ents overestimated the fees fi cials are gradually coming around to the idea that in- charged by funds. Half of re- dividuals can fund part of their own retirement, and spondents were unable to list expect more changes to make it even more advanta- the sorts of fees or expenses geous in the future. investment fund companies charge. JAAKONAHO TIMO 7) IT IS becoming easier to invest. Competition between The capital gains tax rate asset managers and fi nancial innovation has slowly – 28 per cent – is not very pushed down the costs of investing. For instance, index well known among investors. mutual funds are almost always cheaper than active- Less than half of respondents ly-managed alternatives. One can set up a plan with a bank to automatically invest every month. A short guide to funds 8) TIME is on your side. Supposedly, Albert Einstein – A bond fund invests in interest-yielding targets. The fund once said that the greatest force in the universe was may be either a short-term or a long-term bond fund. compound interest. He was right, by the way. Investing – Short-term bond funds invest their assets for example in is delaying current consumption so you can consume governments’, banks’ or companies’ interest-yielding in- more in the future. The beauty of compound interest struments, whose loan term is no greater than 12 months. means that you will be able to consume more in the fu- – Long-term bond funds invest in long-term bonds issued by ture than you are giving up today, as long as your in- the government, public bodies or companies, with a maturi- vestments return more than infl ation. And practically ty of greater than 12 months. any investment, even “risk-free” government bonds, – Bond: companies, government, municipalities and other offers a real rate of return over time. That is indeed a bodies may draw loans from the public by issuing bonds. powerful force. – An equity fund is an investment fund that invests its assets primarily in shares. – A combination fund is an investment fund that invests in [email protected] both shares and interest-yielding targets. Source: The Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion. HELSINKI TIMES BUSINESS BUSINESS BUSINESS 422 – 10– 28 MARCH APRIL 2010 99 HELSINKI Business Hub www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi

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sectors. As examples of some Widenius’ MySQL. Their of the uniquely Finnish tools, fi ve-year investment in Cardwell cites the Founda- MySQL gave them a 69 per tion for Finnish Inventions, cent return each year. They Swedish Scope invests incubation fi nancing, and tend to be active inves- Tekes programs such as GAP, tors and use no, or minimal, Born Global and Finnvera. debt fi nancing. Scope has Clearly this system is pro- about 120 million euros cur- millions in Finnish Footbalance ducing companies of interest rently committed in their to international investors. investments. The large foreign investment highlights the success of creating knowledge-intensive companies. “This is a vote of confi - Vote of confidence dence towards our team, our DAVID J. CORD resources to hire the best ually moulded insoles. These to a product of the Finnish “Footbalance has a unique product, our concept and people in each market to en- insoles help correct and sup- “Innovation System” in ten value proposition and has our business strategy,” sums sure our success. During 2010 port the foot position and years. “By ‘Innovation Sys- proven itself on the inter- up Pihlakoski. “We are very THE SWEDISH private equity Footbalance will continue to walking gait. It creates these tem-born’ we mean that national sports market,” honoured to have a respect- fi rm Scope has invested 7 mil- grow in its existing markets insoles through computer- the innovator, founder and says Scope Partner Andreas ed and professional investor lion euros in the young Finn- and enter new markets.” aided foot analysis and in- main owner Erkki Hakka- Ossmark. “We believe that on board. We are proud of our ish company Footbalance. The The investment will allow store production. The insoles la was able to leverage many Footbalance will continue Finnish roots and see Footbal- investment will allow Foot- the company to hire new per- are available through Road of the excellent tools availa- to benefi t from the current ance as a Scandinavian brand. balance to accelerate their sonnel for their expansion. Runner Sports in North Amer- ble uniquely in Finland since health and exercise trend We are happy that as Scope is global expansion and empha- “This growth will create posi- ica and Intersport in Europe. the company was founded in and that the company will a Swedish company they are sises the success of the Finn- tions in the target markets and Pihlakoski says that this year 2003,” Cardwell writes. further strengthen its lead- close to us both geographi- ish start-up system. in the headquarters in Helsin- they will expand to Austral- The Finnish “Innovation ership in new markets and cally and culturally. We al- “Since its early days Foot- ki,” continues Pihlakoski. “Cur- ia, Austria, Germany, Sweden, System” is a national strat- segments. We look forward so wouldn’t be where we are balance has been growing rently we are looking to hire six Switzerland and the UK. egy designed to promote to taking an active role as today without Tekes, which rapidly, and internationalisa- more people in Helsinki.” According to Will Card- knowledge-intensive indus- an owner and being involved have given us both fi nancial tion started in 2008 in Nor- well of Technopolis Ventures, try. It places strong empha- in the company’s continued and advisory support.” way,” explains Footbalance Finnish model who acted as an advisor to sis on education, funding and development.” CEO Antti Pihlakoski. “The Footbalance works with Footbalance, this deal marks research and development Scope has a strong track- investment enables even health care and exercise pro- the largest fi rst round in- through a partnership be- record in its past invest- www.footbalance.com faster growth as we have the fessionals to develop individ- ternational investment in- tween the public and private ments, such as with Monty

Millennium Technology Prize list of nominees announced DAVID J. CORD a cash prize of 800,000 euros Michael Grätzel of Ecole Selection Committee is each while the other laureates are Polytechnique Fédérale de innovation’s benefi cial infl u-

MICHAEL G STEWART granted 150,000 euros each. Lausanne was named for his ence on both the largest pos- THREE names have been put The award is funded by the role in developing the third- sible number of people and on the short list for the 2010 Finnish state and industry. generation of dye-sensitized sustainable development.” Millennium Technology Prize. Richard Friend of the Uni- solar cells. The goal of the prize is to The winner will be announced versity of Cambridge was “Interest in the Millen- promote research and in- in Helsinki on 9 June and the nominated for his work in nium Technology Prize has novation in technology that recipient will receive his plastic electronics that has remained high,” says Foun- has a positive impact on the award from the President of revolutionised optoelectron- dation President Ainomai- quality of life. It is adminis- Finland. ics. Stephen Furber from the ja Haarla. “We have received tered by Technology Acade- The largest technology University of Manchester be- nominations from a wider ge- my Finland. prize in the world is award- came a laureate for his work ographical area and all fi elds Previous Millennium Technology Prize winners. From left: Tim ed every two years by the on the ARM 32 bit RISC mi- of technology. The most im- Berners-Lee (2004), Robert Langer (2008) and Shuji Nakamu- Technology Academy Fin- croprocessor that is used in portant criterion to be con- www.milleniumprize.fi ra (2006). land. The winner is awarded 98 per cent of mobile phones. sidered by the International 10 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 FINLAND IN THE WORLD PRESS HELSINKI TIMES

LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI GLOBEST.COM 15 April. Technopolis expands to Estonia

“HELSINKI-LISTED Finnish de- is located next to Tallinn lays an excellent foundation veloper Technopolis has ex- Airport, including about for further growth in Esto- panded into Estonia in a joint 506,000 square feet of mod- nia. The Technopolis growth venture with Tallinn-based ern office buildings. On strategy calls for estab- Smart City and its subsidi- completion of the deal, ex- lishing operations in two- ary Ülemiste, which holds a pected in June, Technopolis- three new countries outside 753,000-square-foot proper- Ulemiste will become part Finland by the year 2014.’ ty portfolio valued at 86 mil- of the Technopolis Group, Technopolis provides busi- lion US dollars. and will hold about 10 per ness and development Technopolis will acquire cent of the Tallinn office services for knowledge-in- a 51 per cent stake in a JV space market. tensive companies and or- to be set up by Smart City, Technopolis Chair- ganisations, and has centres with Ülemiste holding 49 man Pertti Huuskonen in Espoo, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, per cent. The new compa- commented: ‘Technopolis Lappeenranta, Oulu, Tam- ny, Technopolis Ülemiste, Ülemiste will be our fi rst in- pere and Vantaa in Finland, will hold the property which ternational acquisition and and St Petersburg in Russia.”

FINANCIAL TIMES 16 APRIL. HUGH CARNEGY. less than the retail price in the Finland residents can expect a free nationwide wireless broadband service by 2015. highly taxed Nordic countries. Magnusson, a senior executive TMCNET.COM 14 APRIL. KELLY MCGUIRE at Rautaruukki, the Finnish Baltic booze cruise steel company, had fl own in from Stockholm on Thursday. beats no-fly zone He was trying to get back to Broadband to fully his home in southern Sweden. “TAKING a Baltic Sea ‘booze and dozens of other busi- ‘If Stockholm airport is open cruise’ to Mariehamn in the ness folk taking the same di- tomorrow, I’ll try to fl y. But if Åland Islands between Fin- version stood out among the not, I’ll try to get a rental car. cover Finland by 2015 land and Sweden is not the regular crowd of leisure trip- But today, it was impossible to obvious way to get to Istan- pers drawn by duty-free alco- get a rental car anywhere in “BY YEAR-END 2015, all res- businesses, small business- are not possible, and Com- bul. But that’s what I found hol that costs on board much Sweden. It’s crazy…’” idents in Finland will be es and their overall internet munications Minister Su- myself doing on Friday night, equipped with high-speed in- usage. According to informa- vi Lindén said many of the thanks to Iceland’s geother- ternet connections. According tion from telecoms compa- some 800 projects await- mal incontinence. to the communications minis- nies, more than 86 per cent ing government fi nancing Jan Magnusson, a Swed- try, the target set by the gov- of Finnish households are al- would begin in the next few ish businessman, found him- ernment will be reached on ready within two kilometers, months. In addition, Finland self in the same boat, literally, schedule, or even ahead of it. or 1.24 miles, of a commercial telecom companies have re- as he, too, sought to beat the With a plan to offer Fin- fi ber-optic cable network. portedly estimated over 94 cloud of volcanic ash drift- land residents a minimum of Public fi nances will be per cent of households and ing through the atmosphere. LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI 100 megabytes per second used to build networks in businesses to be within reach ‘I had to get out of here. That by the end of 2015, users will sparsely populated areas, of commercial networks by stuff is coming east and Hel- be able to expand at-home where commercial projects the end of 2015.” sinki is going to be cut off,’ he said. ‘I think I got the last cabin.’ We met as we queued to board the Silja Symphony, one of the cruise liners that plough back and forth nightly between Helsinki and Stock- holm. In our suits and tout- The Silja Symphony became a final escape route for some strand- ing laptops and mobiles, we ed travellers in the wake of the volcanic ash situation.

MEDICAL NEWS TODAY 14 April. processing’ whereupon we become aware of them, have thoughts about them, make Neuron synchronisation decisions, and put things in long term memory. fuels working memory The frontal, parietal, oc- cipital, and temporal regions “NEW RESEARCH from the tenance and the contents of of the cerebral cortex (the Neuroscience Center of the working memory; and the re- ‘grey matter’ on the surface University of Helsinki sug- searchers able to predict in- of the brain) maintain VWM gests that working memory dividuals’ working memory through a sustained neuron relies on synchronizing brain capacity by studying images activity in a complex net- ,QWHUQDWLRQDO)XOO7LPH0%$ cells or neurons to link up of their brain activity. work that links them togeth- different parts of the brain The working memory, or er. However, we know very IRU7HFKQRORJ\'ULYHQ%XVLQHVV and help them communicate as the researchers term it, little about the workings and with each other and that this the visual working mem- capacity of the underlying %HFRPHDQH[SHUWLQFUHDWLQJQHZJOREDOEXVLQHVVDQGUHFHLYH mechanism also determines ory (VWM), of the aver- brain cell mechanisms that DQLQWHUQDWLRQDOO\UHFRJQL]HGEXVLQHVVTXDOLÀFDWLRQ working memory capacity. age human being can only coordinate these distributed The synchronisation of neuro- hold about three or four ob- and networked processes so 3UHUHTXLVLWHV nal activity in different brain jects at any one time before they can hold coherent men- DSSURSULDWHEDFKHORU·VRUKLJKHUOHYHOGHJUHH areas affects both the main- they are sent to ‘cognitive tal images in VWM.” JRRGFRPPDQGRI(QJOLVKODQJXDJHVNLOOV ZRUNH[SHULHQFHQRWUHTXLUHGEXWPD\EHFRQVLGHUHGEHQHÀFLDOIRUDFFHSWDQFH 7KH0%$3URJUDPPHFRQVLVWVRIRQH\HDURIIXOOWLPHVWXG\ DQGUHTXLUHVDWWKHPLQLPXPRQH\HDUUHVLGHQFHLQ2XOX Readers' letters 7KH0%$3URJUDPPHLVWDXJKWFRPSOHWHO\LQ(QJOLVK Helsinki Times welcomes your views on current issues, comments on news $SSO\QRZ articles, anything of interest from a multicultural perspective. A selection ZZZRXOXEXVLQHVVVFKRROÀPEDBSURJUDPPH of readers’ comments are published in the Readers' letters section. $QWWL.DXSSLODWHODQG.HUWWX.HWWXQHQWHO Commentaries should be no longer than 2,000 characters with spac- HPDLOÀUVWQDPHODVWQDPH#RXOXÀ es. Helsinki Times reserves the right to edit and shorten all submissions. Comments can be sent by e-mail to: [email protected]

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Finland’s domestic football league has not always been the most entertaining sporting series, but a host of big names will be look- ing to change that in 2010. win LEHTIKUVA / MARKKU ULANRED EGAN RICHARDSON capacity stadium in Tapiola, HELSINKI TIMES sealing Honka’s status as the forward-looking, progres- THE CONTENDERS for the sive club of the moment. tickets league title may be the same On the pitch they look ca- but if Finland’s football jour- pable of challenging, with nalists are to be believed the two of the league’s best scor- HJK’s experience carried them to victory last year but Honka’s to the NHL season balance of power has shift- ers Hermanni Vuorinen and youth from nearby Espoo may well beat them to it in the coming ed since 2009. Last spring all Aleksandr ‘Boris’ Kokko and season. premiere in Helsinki! eyes were on HJK who were a ridiculously young and tal- expected to sweep all before ented midfi eld. Their main ri- ther is the coach there. His European competition but them as 30-somethings Aki vals for the title, HJK, have Metalist Kharkiv team-mate, their fi nancial problems may Riihilahti and Valeri Popo- a strong squad again, and Ivorian forward Venance well dictate their course this vitch looked for one last glo- more of a winning mental- Zézé, has joined him on loan season. rious title. ity. Honka have fi nished in in Pietarsaari and the inter- Lastly, it would be remiss Things look different this the top four for the last four national pair could turn Jaro not to mention the recently time. Rookie Juuso Simpanen seasons and had never giv- into top fi ve material, provid- announced league reorgani- and his Honka team are en the impression their fail- ed they stay past the transfer sation. From 2012 Veikkaus- widely tipped to contend for ure to capture the title is a window. Jonatan Johansson liiga will be a 12 team series, victory, as the 18-year-old’s problem for them. Although could make a big difference with teams playing each oth- youthful looks have been pa- HJK coach Antti Muuri- to TPS, but is more likely to er three times. The fi rst divi- raded in the media and have nen holds to his usual “safety fi nd his level and become ac- sion will contain ten teams fi tted the agenda of renew- fi rst” outlook the champion- climatised to Veikkausliiga. playing three times, as will al in this landmark season. ship last year combined with the second, entailing a big re- Honka are seen as the young new blood on the HJK coach- Planning ahead duction in the number of clubs pretenders to HJK’s capital ing staff should make them a At the bottom of the table, JJK involved at high levels of Finn- area crown. They play pass- formidable contender. and AC Oulu look to be bet- ish football. If the plan works, ing, fl owing football, they ter than the usual relegation standards will rise, clubs will give young players a chance Wild cards fodder, and new candidates stabilise and youth develop- much earlier than their Hel- The returnees are the re- for the drop will probably ment will improve. The FA’s sinki counterparts, and they al wild card this year. Alex- be FC Lahti, Tampere Unit- Head of Elite Football Petri recently hit what is usual- ei Eremenko Junior is far ed and VPS, along with the Jakonen and General Secre- ly regarded as paydirt for too talented to be playing in hapless KuPS. The fi rst three tary Kimmo J Lipponen have Finnish football clubs, get- Veikkausliiga, and is only on have been mainstays of the staked a lot on things panning The NHL season kicks off in Helsinki when Min- ting approval for a new 8,000 loan at FF Jaro because his fa- league and have a history of out just like that. nesota Wild meets Carolina Hurricanes on 7 & 8 October in the Hartwall Arena. Care to be there there are tests or P.E. class- support as that given to mu- for some of the world’s best hockey from two star- es scheduled at school, the sic classes?” studded teams? Sports clubs and sports club could adjusts its Kalaja feels that this type activities accordingly,” Kala- of sports school would bring ja explains. talents to the fore. We want to improve our sport page to fi t our readers’ schools “should Kalaja, who works as a “We take good care of our interests. To do this we need your input on the sport lower secondary school prin- weakest students, and right- topics and themes that you would like to read about. cipal, is fi nishing his thesis ly so. But our system isn’t co-ordinate” on the learning and teaching very good at meeting the Send us feedback and make a suggestions for a storiy by 28 of physical education. He ar- needs of talented students gues that these days sports interested in testing their April 2010 to sport@helsinkitimes.fi . Among those who re- Physical education teachers claim that stu- clubs and schools follow their limits.” spond we will raffl e out 2 tickets to the NHL season opener own schedules. This can re- Kalaja points out that tal- in October. The tickets are worth (starting) 99 euros a piece. dents are not getting enough exercise. sult in overlap. Kalaja offers ent in sports is more often More information on the NHL Season kick off in Helsinki at an example of this from a associated with enthusiasm www.jokerit.com couple of years ago: and diligent training than PÄIVI SEESKORPI – STT Jyväskylä. To this end he “I held a very effective genetic gifts like oxygen up- MATTHEW PARRY – HT recommends regular meet- weights training session for take. A working group lead ings and an electronic com- ninth graders. One of the kids by Risto Nieminen, CEO of twice a week for 45 minutes. P.E. students tend to be those SPORTS clubs and schools munications system which involved was an ice hockey the Finnish lottery Veikkaus, And some of that time is lost who practice sports in a should signifi cantly increase would show the sports play- player in the national team. advocates a thorough shake- mucking about in the show- sports club in their free time co-operation so that sports- er’s camps, practices and the When the two-hour ses- up of elite Finnish sports. ers,” Kalaja says. – an expensive hobby. playing youths don’t come school’s P.E. classes. sion came to a close, the boy An important element of Both teachers regard The signifi cance of friend under unreasonable pres- “If a young person comes stayed behind loitering at the the working group’s recom- school P.E. as important be- numbers is emphasised when sure in their everyday lives. home late at night from a gym. When I asked what was mendations – submitted on cause it offers students pro- the group is divided into This is the opinion of Sami tournament, there’s no need up, he told me he had weights 14 April – is diversity in the fessional guidance on exercise. teams. At the moment this typ- Kalaja, a teacher of physical to drag him to school fi rst training with the team. It range of exercise offered to “Recess, clubs and school ically involves the P.E. teach- education and health from thing the next morning. If made no sense at all.” children and young people by trips are all added exercise. er nominating team captains schools and sports clubs. But they pale in comparison who then choose their team Sports schools should to professionally guided, suf- mates in turns. Being chosen be an alternative P.E. teachers fi ciently long P.E. sessions,” last can be humiliating. School Sami Kalaja would also like advocate more classes Kalaja argues. bullying can also take place to see schools support young P.E. teachers would like to see in this context, when the cap- athletes’ sporting careers an increase in the number Implications tains avoid choosing bullied with constructive solutions. of school hours dedicated for inequality students for their team. He would implement the type to physical education. Kari There is also a connection This type of neglect and of system used in sports-spe- Kattelus, a primary school between school P.E., sports the resulting psychologi-

LEHTIKUVA / ROOPE SALONEN cialised secondary schools as teacher in Oulu, would raise hobbies, and the number cal suffering are familiar early as primary school. the number to at least four of friends a student has, in sights in school P.E. Account- “After all, we already hours each week. which P.E. teachers rarely ing for the social implica- have music classes that be- “The amount varies from intervene. The pattern has tions of school P.E. in lesson gin in the third grade. Why one class to the next, but implications for inequality: planning is manifestly im- couldn’t we also have sports during the decisive peri- according to a thesis pub- portant, and responsibility classes starting at the same od in terms of sports – the lished in January by Päivi for this cannot be left to stu- point with the same social cusp of adolescence – it is Berg, the most successful dents themselves. 12 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 HEALTH & WELLBEING HELSINKI TIMES

LEHTIKUVA / JAAKKO AVIKAINEN cational opportunities. She latter. “I’ve been very hap- says the state should borrow py with the service although money to increase subsidies it’s a bit expensive some- to municipalities for a few times. When I hurt my foot years, because social exclu- playing football a few weeks sion will turn out to be even ago I went in to get an x-ray more costly. and I paid 150 euros for that, and the guy just told me to go Private care home!” means options Brown’s work as a jour- New Zealender journalist nalist takes him to Africa David Brown has been liv- and the Middle East, which is ing in Finland for nine years. when the ease of getting pre- He has only used the pub- scriptions right away from lic health system once, just private providers is invalua- when he got here, for an ble. “I can see a tropical dis- acute tooth ache, for which ease specialist if I need one. service was immediately Last year I needed one to deal available. “The service I got with a couple of tropical dis- here with my tooth was ter- eases and the service was re- rifi c, you phone and you go ally good so I’m happy to pay straight in.” However, get- for that specialist service.” ting a dentist check up is a different story. “They basi- Public service: The Finnish public health sector has been struggling to attract and retain doctors and other healthcare professionals. cally said I had no chance for a check up in Helsinki with a – Services are free for chil- six month waiting list. I was dren under 18 and expect- amazed that the public sector ing mothers. Finland’s three-tier healthcare system dentist told me to go to the – The single payment for private sector. I got the im- medical reception by a doc- tor is 13.70 euros for the TOMI ORAVAINEN – STT ties, which provide universal Non-emergency exami- compounded the problems pression that it might be the ALEKSIS TORO – HT access to a broad array of nation has to be available in of the public healthcare sys- same with doctors.” first three visits of a year, health services for their resi- health centres within a stat- tem, which often comes un- Brown says his long work after which there is no fee. THREE OVERLAPPING but dis- dents. Due to their responsi- utory timeframe of three der criticism from patients, hours lead him to prefer the – Alternatively patients may tinct healthcare systems bility for the long-term costs days of making an appoint- most commonly for long private sector as he can ar- make an annual payment are currently in place in Fin- of disease, the municipal sys- ment, while non-emergency waiting times. range to see someone when- of 27.40 euros. land: public healthcare pro- tem favours disease preven- treatment has to be arranged ever it suits him and it is – The fee for emergency vided by municipalities, the tion. Municipalities provide within three months and Recession leads usually very easy, where- services is 18.80. National Health Insurance primary and preventive care, specialist treatment with- to cost cuts as with the public sector one – The patient may incur system, and the Occupation- rehabilitation and dental care in six months. Hospital serv- Municipalities resumed cost- has to take the appointment costs for other services in al Health Act. as well as long-term care in ices require a referral from cuts to social and health time one can get. the public health system The tax-funded Finnish municipal health centres, a health centre or private services last year, accord- In his native New Zealand to an annual maximum public health system is op- and run 20 hospital districts physician. ing the social barometer to the situation is somewhat limit of 633 euros. erated by the municipali- which provide specialist care. which almost 600 social, similar. “It’s a little bit like Less rosy reality healthcare, employment here – if you need something Private service: In practice both geography service and Social Insurance for an emergency then you Private providers set the and socioeconomic factors Agency (KELA) managers re- go public.” In less acute cas- cost of their services freely, constrain access to health- sponded. Operational direc- es the waiting times come in part of which is reimbursed care and have widened tor of the Finnish Federation again. “Sure it costs me may- by the obligatory Nation- China Liangtse disparities in healthcare de- for Social Welfare and Health be 50 euros to go private, if al Health Insurance (NHI) livery among municipali- (SKTL) Riitta Särkelä says an I lose that worth of work to system administered by the Wellness ties in recent years. These increase in state subsidies is go to the public sector then Social Insurance Institution are due in part to variation needed to avoid the mistakes there’s no benefi t.” (KELA). NHI provides Med- Celebrating one year of in the evolution of care deliv- of the previous recession. Brown has used the pri- ical Sickness Insurance and Chinese holistic massage in Helsinki ery systems and in the avail- In social services cuts vate providers Deacor and Income Insurance. ability of staff and fi nancial have been made to care of Mehiläinen, and now uses the resources. the elderly and families with A perfect gift for your mum Many problems stem small children and transpor- from policies taken up dur- tation services. In healthcare In earlier issues, Helsinki Times has had several special Our broad selection of regenerating, stress-removing and revitalizing ing the early 1990s reces- cuts have concerned medi- themes under which we have covered many different topics. treatments has been very well received in Finland. – What did you think of the topics discussed? We welcome You to experience the benefi cial effects of our sion, when fewer doctors cal receptions, says SKTL re- – Could we have done better? treatments on your health and well-being and to breathe new life were trained, and from de- search director Anne Eronen. into the spring together! mographic trends towards A quarter of health centre – Do you have a suggestion for a subject that you would like urbanisation and an aging and social care management to see featured in a future issue? Present this coupon population. The current na- predicts that services will be Please send any feedback and suggestions you have to tional shortage of physicians cut further this year. Unem- [email protected] and you will get a 10 euro and nurses is more severe in ployment management also rural municipalities, in part looks dire, while things look disount of all treatments because as they lose the tax- to get worse for the aging and Back and neck massage: 39€/30 min income from younger resi- long-term unemployed. dents who move to the cities Särkelä points out that Warm and heartfelt care for the elderly Meridian massage: 69€/30 min they are less able to meet the as cuts are made econom- We provide all kinds of home care and living services for the elderly Offer valid until 31 May healthcare needs of their ag- ic hardship increases the and long-staying patients. Call a trained nurse to come to your own ing populations. In the cities need for services. Those home to support you in your day-to-day activities and help you lead unemployed people cannot who are already worst off an independent life. Or come share in our stimulating daily life at the afford private care and do – long-term unemployed, Harmonia nursing home. not have access to occupa- substance-addicted and Information tional healthcare. mentally ill citizens – will Debora Harmonia Nursing Home Although record numbers suffer the most from the (09) 75180200 of doctors have been trained cuts. Särkelä reminds us Debora Home Care (09) 45590096 in recent years, more than that this group of hundreds www.debora.fi half of them have opted to of thousands of people is at China Liangtse Wellness Oy Iso Roobertinkatu 8, LH 1, Helsinki work in the private sector, risk of growing again. She Tel: 09 2784201 I info@liangtse.fi I www.liangtse.fi whether in hopes of greater is especially worried about pay or more effi cient admin- young people who are unem- istration. These trends have ployed or left without edu- HELSINKI TIMES HEALTH & WELLBEING 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 1313

KRISTA SIHVONEN acupressure and joint ma- ble here. I think Chinese med- nipulation, resulting in a icine could be a very good relaxing and powerful- alternative therapy to com- ly energising massage,” Wu plement the Finnish system.” explains. Wu says that he hopes “About a third of my pa- to make further links with tients come solely for mas- Finnish western medical sage, and after the initial practitioners, and in time ex- treatment many of them re- pand his Helsinki clinic in- turn for regular wellbeing to a larger treatment centre massages, once a week or – and establish branches in even once a month.” other Finnish cities. “I think many more peo- Chinese-western ple could really benefi t from co-operation? acupuncture treatments, but Wu uses acupuncture to tar- expertise in Chinese medi- get specifi c ailments and cine is not widely available in pain locations, and says the Finland. One of my patients two methods can be com- lives close to Jyväskylä, and bined to great effect. In drives for four hours to vis- about 80 per cent of cases, it my clinic every week. It his patients say they notice a would be nice if one day pa- signifi cant improvement af- tients could access acupunc- ter the fi rst session. This is ture and Chinese massage helped, he explains, by the closer to their homes.” personal attention he gives Ultimately, for Wu, his each of his clients. acupuncture clinic allows “It is great working in Fin- him to make a difference in land because I am able to people’s lives, whether that devote a lot of time to each involves improving their patient. One hour of continu- overall wellbeing, or tack- Dr Xuefei Wu shows some of his therapeutic tools: disposable needle, fire-cup glass jar and scrapping (Guasha) plate. ous treatment can make a re- ling specifi c health problems, al difference. Back in China, such as helping people with the clinics are so busy that chronic pain so that they can it is diffi cult to give more lead a more active life. than a few minutes to each “I just want to help peo- Pointing the way, Chinese style person.” ple. I’m lucky to have so Wu explains that in Chi- many nice clients, and their out the body. These meridians actually it is not. It’s relaxing. na, there is an acupuncture feedback helps me to devel- contain an energy fl ow, known People are sometimes nerv- department in almost eve- op my practice. It’s very sat- Find an alternative route to good health with as Qi. With the insertion of ous the fi rst time, but when ry hospital, and healthcare isfying for me to know that the help of Chinese medicine at the Xuefei fi ne needles at various points they come back for their sec- services use a combination of someone’s quality of life has on the meridian, the energy ond treatment they are usual- western and traditional Chi- improved as a result of my Clinic in Helsinki. can be moved or redirected to ly quite relaxed – some even nese medicine. treatment.” where it is needed most. fall asleep during the treat- “There is a lot of research “Western medicine has ment! I always explain to the into acupuncture being car- LOUISA GAIRN Having spent ten years different opinions on how ac- patient what kind of sensation ried out in China,” he says. Xuefei Clinic HELSINKI TIMES studying acupuncture and upuncture works, but in tri- they should expect before be- “Most of this is published in Toinen linja 3, 2nd floor massage, Wu is a high- al after trial it consistently ginning. There is no pain, but Chinese, so I would like to www.xuefei.fi A FRIENDLY and relaxed at- ly qualifi ed practitioner of proves its effectiveness,” Wu there will be a strange feeling make that knowledge availa- mosphere awaits at the Chinese medicine, with a explains. under the needle. If you can’t Xuefei Acupuncture and medical degree and PhD from feel anything, it isn’t being Massage Clinic. Owned and the Shanghai University of Suitable treatment done properly,” he says. run by Dr. Xuefei Wu, the traditional Chinese medi- for many conditions Xuefei Wu also uses Tui clinic uses traditional Chi- cine. He spent four years as a Acupuncture can be used Na massage for chronic nese medicines to treat postdoctoral research fellow to treat a variety of painful problems such as back pain, KRISTA SIHVONEN patients suffering from a va- at the neuroscience centre at conditions such as slipped which he says is a common riety of health problems. the University of Helsinki be- discs, rheumatoid arthritis problem among offi ce staff fore opening his Chinese acu- and post-operative pain. Wu and IT workers, as well as puncture and massage clinic has also successfully treat- those whose jobs involve a lot in Helsinki in 2009. ed patients with digestive of bending and lifting, such Acupuncture has been problems, tinnitus, sleeping as daycare nurses and con- practiced in China for thou- disorders, allergies, hormo- struction workers. sands of years and is one of nal conditions and gynaeco- Though relatively un- KRISTA SIHVONEN the main tools of Chinese logical problems. known in the west, in China medicine. According to Chi- Wu says he has found Tui Na massage is regarded nese philosophy, disease and that Finnish people are open as one of the main branches pain occur because of an im- to the concepts of Chinese of Chinese medicine along- balance between two princi- medicine, and most of his side acupuncture and herbal pal forces of nature, namely patients come to the clin- medicine. Dexter Hu receives acupunc- Yin and Yang. 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be the fi rst solely dedicated to his work. Bird’s Suomenlinna has been the property of three sover- eye view eign states. Most of the build- ings date back to the late 18th LIISA SAHAMIES century, and are now home HELSINKI TIMES to over 800 permanent res- idents. Today it is a UNESCO SUOMENLINNA stole the World Heritage Site, and best heart of English journalist known as a popular tourist and photographer Tim Bird. attraction. After arriving to Helsinki by ferry in 1982, Suomenlinna soon became Bird’s favourite part of the city. BIRD TIM Situated on a group of rocky ridges on an island off of Helsinki, the Suomenlin- na fortress has a lengthy his- tory of ownership, and a rich history of importance. Catching Bird’s eye and his camera, the Visitor Cen- tre in Suomenlinna Museum is returning the compliment by dedicating an exhibition to his photography of Suomen- The fortress in winter linna in the winter months. Until 9 September Bird’s photographs have ac- Tickets € 5/4. companied his travel features Under 18 are free in other sources of media and Suomenlinna have been included in sever- Museum Visitor Centre Roy Haynes will be performing at April Jazz. He’s had a 60-year career, and is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz. al other exhibitions. The for- www.suomenlinna.fi tress in winter exhibition will April Jazz pulls out all the stops some of the hottest artists on Jukka Perko’s Akseli in Afri- Love of the genre Once again April Jazz brings in some of the the world music scene. Orig- ca, an audio-visual art per- inally an a cappella quintet, formance, promises to be a JAMES O’SULLIVAN the reigniting of a stale mar- hottest artists on the music scene. Zap Mama evolved over the unique experience. The con- HELSINKI TIMES riage. Now don’t be put off by years to create a very urbane cert is based on Perko’s se- director Shawn Levy’s résu- and captivating sound that ries of compositions that are NOW I HAVE a confession: mé which does contain the ROBIN DEWAN Heavies, are also performing takes audiences by storm. inspired by the African peri- I really enjoyed romantic Steve Martin clunker Cheap- HELSINKI TIMES on the opening evening, 28 Fronted by visionary Marie od of the painter Akseli Gal- weepy The Notebook a cou- er by the Dozen, here should April. Though still a force to Daulne, the group blends in- len-Kallela, together with a ple of years back. Based on contain enough laughs and MUSIC LOVERS are in for a be reckoned with, they have tricate vocal harmonies with video installation by Jenni Nicholas Sparks’ novel, here set pieces to pass by a breezy treat this spring. The pro- been around for decades, so contemporary musical ar- Valorinta. was the sweet and enjoyable 90 minutes or so. gramme of this year’s April the “brand new” element of rangements, combining Af- If you have yet to make tale of Ryan Gosling romanc- With the ever-watchable Jazz festival in Espoo looks to their name no longer rings rican and European music your way out to Espoo Cul- ing Rachael McAdams, with Steve Carell teaming up with be truly outstanding. Anyone true. The band has been dish- cultures. tural Centre in Tapiola for an ending that stung with re- Tina Fey (forever known as interested in the history of ing out a unique blend of funk Things might get a bit April Jazz, this is a good year al emotional resonance. Not Sarah Palin from now on), to- jazz will not want to miss the and soul since the 1980s, now weird – or at the very least to give it a go. The only prob- to be outdone, up this week gether they attempt to spice performance by the Roy Hay- rejoined by original vocalist a bit funky – when George lem with the programme is is Dear John, another in what up their marriage by embark- nes Fountain of Youth Band. N’Dea Davenport. Duke hits the stage on May that with so many featured is now a long line of recent ing upon the date night of the At 85 years young, the percus- Another major star on Day (1 May). After all, the artists, at times playing si- Sparks adaptations. title. Things go awry when sionist’s band is aptly named. this year’s bill is Stanley Jor- pianist and composer has multaneously, choosing your Based on the novel of the they become embroiled with Roy Haynes is a major legend dan. His double-handed tap- collaborated with none oth- preference is not always same name, here the normally a motley crew of characters who was there with the Char- ping technique has kept er than Frank Zappa, Son- easy. Whichever way you very reliable Lasse Hallström including gangster Ray Li- lie Parker Quintet the day guitar fans enthralled for de- ny Rollins, Stanley Clark, turn, however, you are bound directs Channing Tatum as otta and the hilarious James New York’s famous jazz club cades. An environmentalist Cannonball Adderley and to be entertained. he re-enlists to the army af- Franco, all the while cement- Birdland was founded in 1949. and therapist, Jordon com- George Clinton. ter the 9/11 attacks on New ing their bond together. Light Six decades later he was up bines his music with the deep Closer to home, some ma- York. Promising to maintain on logic but quick with the on Birdland’s stage again for issues facing our times, as jor talents from Finland and April Jazz contact with new love Aman- laughs, advance word has their 60th anniversary par- evidenced on his latest album the Nordic countries will al- 28 April-2 May da Seyfried, we are subject been very positive. Now, if ty. Considering all he has seen from 2008, State of Nature. so be performing, includ- Espoo Cultural Centre to the trials and tribulations only the two leads could fi nd and done, hopefully he will de- ing Anna-Mari Kähärän Kaupinkalliontie 10 of a long distance relation- their way to star in the next liver a few anecdotes between So much to Orkesteri, the ever-clever Ji- Tickets: €15-35 ship set against the backdrop Sparks adaptation. the master drumming. see, so little time mi Tenor & Kabu Kabu and www.apriljazz.fi of current warfare. That is, of The rather less apt- In keeping with tradition, the acclaimed Swedish sing- course, before our man Tatum ly named, The Brand New April Jazz once again brings in er Lina Nyberg. In addition, is on the receiving end of a Dear John true ‘Dear John’ letter from Release Date: 23 April his sweetheart. Director: Lasse Hallström The fi lm abruptly drops its Starring: Channing Tatum, sudoku SOLUTION ON PAGE 18 soppy tone as C.T. becomes a Amanda Seyfried wanted one man army dedicated to ‘taking out the trash’ by de- Date Night Have you got expat views claring war on long distance Release Date: 23 April relationships, resulting in a Director: Shawn Levy genre-bending Rambo-esq Starring: Steve Carell, quest to avenge his damaged Tina Fey ego. Ok, maybe not. Unfortunately, back on mother earth, word- Helsinki Times runs a column series Expat of-mouth has been less views with rotating expat column writers than positive. Critics have and we are interested in your experiences. baulked at the fi lm’s overly- familiar concoction of a trag- Share your funny, memorable, frustrating or great experienc- edy or two, some wartime es of Finland with our readers. Please send us a brief e-mail refl ection and a sprinkling of to [email protected] with a piece of information about the power of love. Better luck yourself and what kind of experiences you would like to write next time I suppose, with two about and we will give you more information on how to pro- more Sparks novels current- ceed with your story. ly slated for release in the near future. Helsinki Times Oy Vilhonvuorenkatu 11 B 00500 Helsinki Date Night, however, www.helsinkitimes.fi tackles relationships from a different light altogether – HELSINKI TIMES CULTURE 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 1515

HELSINKI SITY MUSEUM / SIGNE BRANDER of Culture. Winner of an Perhaps the most surpris- Academy Award, two Emmy ing award on Newman’s man- Sticking Awards and four Grammy telpiece would be the Emmy Awards he has enjoyed a pro- that he won in for Achieve- to the lifi c career as a recording art- ment in Music and Lyrics in ist, songwriter and composer 1991. Bringing together rock of fi lm soundtracks. n’ roll and the police for what story Celebrated for his irony- was probably the fi rst and drenched lyrics, which often only time, Cop Rock exists as JAMES O’SULLIVAN refl ect ambivalence towards an indication of the diversi- HELSINKI TIMES the American dream, New- ty of projects he has under- man will be performing for taken. Perhaps one shouldn’t BRINGING his own special the fi rst time ever in Finland. anticipate any selections to blend of satirical observa- Having released ten al- be played at Kulttuuritalo, tion and storytelling, Randy bums of original studio mate- however. Newman performs Tuesday rial and a live album over the His work has continued 27 April at the Helsinki Hall course of more than 40 years, with the 2008 album Harps Newman has written hits for and Angels, selections from other artists including Three which form a part of his cur- Dog Night’s Mama Told Me (Not rent live repertoire. Draw- To Come) and Joe Cocker’s You ing upon a rich catalogue of ANDY CLARK ANDY Can Leave Your Hat On. music spanning almost fi ve In the early 1980s New- decades, this seasoned per- man turned his attention to former promises a most scoring fi lm soundtracks and memorable evening. had the dubious distinction Signe Brander took 906 photographs of Helsinki in the early 1900s portraying the everyday lives of of receiving 15 Oscar nomi- residents. This 1907 photo shows a backyard in Helsinki’s Kruununhaka district, Kristianinkatu 15. nations without a single win Randy Newman before fi nally receiving the 27 April 19:30 Academy Award for Best Orig- Helsinki Hall of Culture inal Song in 2001, for If I Didn’t Sturenkatu 4, Helsinki Randy Newman Have You from Monsters, Inc. New light on old Helsinki

Kuti assumed the crown of Nearly one hundred treasured and enhanced Signe Brander Helsinki Afrobeat, further adding photographs from the early 1900s are on display at the Helsinki City The beat goes on spices of musical styles to this mash-up of genres. Museum until 29 August. JAMES O’SULLIVAN rican chants and rhythms Never losing sight of his HELSINKI TIMES pioneered by his father, father’s fi ght against the Afrobeat maestro Fela Kuti. corruption of the Nigerian LIISA SAHAMIES 1900s are compared from to Helsinki from Parkano in HELSINKI TIMES THE WALLS of Kulttuuritalo Born in London and raised Government, Kuti opened the same angle. It provides a 1891 when she was 22 years on Wednesday 28 April will in Lagos, Nigeria, Kuti began New Africa Shrine in La- chance for viewers to make old. During the 1930s the city be thumping to the pulsing his musical career playing in gos in 2000. A communi- MAJOR changes in develop- their own comparisons of the commissioned Brander for rhythms of Grammy-nomi- his father’s band Egypt 80, ty centre during the day and mental structure due to a city from a century ago, to a only a few photographs. In nated Nigerian musician Fe- before establishing himself concert venue at night, the large population increase decade ago to the city today. 1942 she died of hunger in a mi Kuti; bringing with him independent of his father’s shrine is a tribute to the pi- in Helsinki during the ear- Also available at the ex- hospital due to war-related the intoxicating fusion of legacy with his own band and oneering music and political ly 1900s had residents con- hibit is a new book, published circumstances. jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, subsequent solo outings. Up- views of his father, central cerned as the city landscape with about one hundred of and traditional West Af- on his father’s death in 1997, in “propagating the cause of began to transform. Fol- Brander’s photos, some of human rights, justice, eman- lowing this public unease, which are not included in the Foto Signe Brander cipation, and for the spread the city council of Helsinki museum. Until 29 August of Afrobeat to the world.” founded a Committee of An- Brander attended school Hakasalmi Villa Femi continues his father’s tiques in 1906. at The Art Society of Fin- Mannerheimintie 13 D fi ght against corruption Their solution was Signe land, and worked with ac- Free entrance within the Nigerian govern- Brander, a self-taught pho- complished photographer www.hel.fi JAAKKO AVIKAINEN ment, whilst passionately de- tographer who had recently Daniel Nyblin. She moved fending Pan Africanism. transitioned her focus from Kuti further consolidates portraiture to cityscapes his movement from out of and landscapes. She was his father’s shadow with his commissioned by the city to most recent album, Day By photograph and document Day; stepping onto a stage the everyday life of people in that is rightfully his. Backed the city, and the changes in by a 13-piece band, he storms landscape. through a series of songs The documentation with a political tint that em- project started in early brace his culture, whilst 1907 and produced 250 pho- making good on the proc- tographs in the fi rst year.

lamation that “music is the Brander continued until 1913, HELSINKI SITY MUSEUM / SIGNE BRANDER weapon of the future.” and in conclusion of her fi rst major project she assembled 906 photographs. Femi Kuti Located in central Hel- 28 April 20:00 sinki, the free exhibition at Helsinki Hall of Culture Hakasalmi Villa in Töölö, Sturenkatu 4, Helsinki houses nearly one hundred Signe Brander often photographed children. Iso-Roobertinkatu Femi Kuti of the newly digitalised re- in Punavuori from 1908. produced photographs of Brander’s work from the ear- ly 20th century. The project New online forum for writers in English compromises of city street scenes featuring intersec- WILL SILLITOE versity are welcome as mem- world. This means that the tions, streetlights, court- HELSINKI TIMES bers too. We welcome anyone material we get is wonderful- yards, vacant lots and 360 who writes original materi- ly diverse in terms of subject degree panoramic views of A WEBSITE for writers has al in English, or who simply matter and perspective,” Ko- the city’s shorelines and mar- been launched by students at wants to come to listen and ttonen adds. ket squares. Helsinki University. The site, discuss,” says group chair- The group was original- Brander’s photographs which features poetry and woman Katariina Kottonen. ly set up by students disap- capture the traditional rural

prose by members of the Stu- The new site is the culmi- pointed at the lack of creative Helsinki, now enveloped by HELSINKI SITY MUSEUM / SIGNE BRANDER dent Union Writers’ Group, nation of efforts to make the writing courses offered by today’s urban city. is the fi rst offi cial showcase group an established port of the university. The group is The villa also houses a for work done over the past call for writers in the Helsin- especially keen to attract tal- Time Machine slideshow year. ki area. “Our members are ented young writers to their compromised of Brander’s “It’s great that people can from different backgrounds meetings, and to feature photographs of the most click on and see what we’re and different parts of the their best work online. popular areas in Helsinki. doing. We hope the site in- Side by side, her photographs spires more people to join us. www.helsinki.fi/jarj/writersgroup from the early 1900s and In this photo two boys retrieve water from a well in Helsinki’s People from outside the uni- photographs from the late Kallio on Viides-linja 5, right behind you see Kaikukuja 5 in 1911. 16 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 EAT & DRINK HELSINKI TIMES

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COSY ITALIAN RESTAURANT Domaine René Lequin-Colin is located in the southern part of the Côte de Beaune in France. Francois Lequin, vintner. IN THE HEART OF HELSINKI self-regulate their own nu- ter with age, although with a trient and water needs. Con- price tag approaching 70 eu- version to organic cultivation ros if one were even able to Burgundy fields forever commenced last year and the fi nd it in Finland, you would winemaker plans to begin bi- perhaps expect that to be odynamic culture this year. the case. Alko extends its assortment with a new selection of majestic Burgun- The trio of reds comprised RAVINTOLAR AVINTOLA dies from one of the smaller, distinguished family-owned vineyards. Limited production, of a Bourgogne Pinot Noir excellent quality 2008 (bottled one month pri- The tasters were offered or to the tasting, with ripe, NICK BARLOW dition combine to give us ly nine hectares located in three whites and three reds. round tannins), a Santenay VESPA RISTORANTE HELSINKI TIMES wines with the potential for Santenay, in the southern Two Lequin-Colin vintages ‘Vieilles Vignes’ 2008 (uses ETELÄESPLANADI 22 immense depth of fl avour. On part of the Côte de Beaune, are currently available in Alko old vines, more ‘serious,’ says 00130 HELSINKI OVER the last year or so, the other hand, the low pro- where they produce 55,000– stores but the six bottles here Lequin), and a Pommard ‘Les Tel 020 7701 460 wines from burgundy have duction quantities of many 60,000 bottles a year. The did not include that pair in Noizons’ 2007 (well balanced, www.ravintolavespa.fi appeared on the shelves of wineries results in general- family has made tradition- their numbers. The whites be- deep, vibrant and lovely col- Alko with increasing fre- ly, shall we say, robust pric- al Chardonnays and Pinot gan with a Bourgogne Char- our). Jonas Salminen, own- quency. Subtle variations in ing structures. Noirs since 1679 and their donnay 2008, a Santenay ‘Les er of wine importers Concept Their limited production re- this region’s soil and a cen- Domaine René Lequin-Co- wines have recently been in- Hates’ 2008, and a stunning Wines, via whom Lequin’s sults in excellent quality,” he turies-old wine-making tra- lin is a small vineyard of on- troduced to Finland. Helsinki Corton Charlemagne Grand vintages arrive in Finland, told us. Times was invited to a tast- Cru 2007. All three were most told HT he expects the mar- Of the three reds at the ing presented by Francois enjoyable but the fi nal white, ket for Burgundies to contin- tasting the Santenay 2008 Lequin held in the coastal the 2007, was truly amazing. ue increasing. “Burgundy is a is possibly most like the red town of Ekenäs. The tasting Served a bit too cold for Le- rather well-known area these on offer in Alko – a Sante- was held at a relaxed bistro, quin’s liking, after 20 minutes days,” he said, “and the avail- nay Premier Cru ‘Le Passe- Sippan, on the town square. of approaching room temper- able range has really broad- temps’ 2007. This premier Lequin, an amiable and ature it frankly exploded in ened in the last 12 months. cru is available for a reason- enthusiastic vintner, gave a an astonishing mouthful of Personally, it is one of my fa- able price of a fl at 20 euros, short talk on the philosophy subtle citrus tastes and mod- vourite wine areas.” which is moderately priced and techniques of his fam- erate acidity. No doubt a wine For Salminen the chance when it comes to burgundy ily’s winery. More ‘trendy’ that likes to breathe. to work with Lequin was ac- wines. The white Lequin-Co- methods of winemaking are Lequin explained that cepted with pleasure. “Le- lin in Alko is a Chassagne- eschewed in favour of tra- all of their wines are pro- quin-Colin wines are from Montrachet ‘Clos Devant’ ditional vineyard-manage- duced with the aim of be- a very small winery but are 2007, available at 33.70 eu- ment techniques, Lequin told ing at their most drinkable very well known. Their ped- ros. These wines aren’t us. Herbicides and synthetic between one to seven years igree is impressive, and they cheap, but they are excellent, fertilisers are not used and after bottling. I can only im- make classic wines known and with Burgundies you re- Grape sorting during harvest time. the vines are encouraged to agine the 2007 getting bet- for their excellent grapes. ally get what you pay for.

which means that travellers most commonly mentioned the best aspects of dining in are unable to choose an eat- negative aspect was, howev- Finland. Foreign diners prefer Finnish ery themselves. er, the high price. Identify- The study spanned 1 June ing positives proved easier. and 31 December 2009, and in- those interviewed, 57 per Finnish fish firm favourite The overwhelming favourite terviewed more than 300 indi- cent reported choosing Finn- Respondents were also asked was fi sh – particularly salm- viduals from Russia, Sweden, A survey of overseas visitors’ dining habits ish food when eating out in to name the worst and best on and related dishes, such Estonia, Germany and the UK. in Finland discovers a taste for seafood and restaurants. Travellers from things about dining in Fin- as salmon soup. Bread, rein- Germany, Britain and Rus- land. The majority of those deer meat, quality and serv- Source: Finfood (Ruokatieto positive experiences. sia were even more likely to surveyed were unable to re- ice were also mentioned by Yhdistys ry.). Translated by go Finnish than visitors from port anything negative. The several respondents as being Matthew Parry Sweden and Estonia. Swedes VISITORS to Finland from according to a recent study were more likely than others Britain, Sweden, Germany, by Statistics Finland’s Fin- to opt for gourmet food. Russia and Estonia reported- food service. Fish and sea- Just over half – 56 per ly prefer to eat Finnish food food is especially popular. cent – of visiting Estonians over more familiar alterna- Border interviews with reported making their own tives such as ethnic foods, visiting foreigners formed food at least sometimes while hamburgers, pizza or pasta, the basis of the study. Of in Finland. They also dined out in restaurants and cafés less frequently, and prepared their own food more often than Swedes, Germans, Rus- sians and Britons. British visitors were the heaviest users of restaurant and café services, with 85 per LEHTIKUVA / JARNO MELO cent saying they ate lunch and dinner at least sometimes in restaurants or cafés. They were less likely than others to be the ones choosing the place they dined in, however. Meals for some business travellers and tourists are pre-planned, HELSINKI TIMES EAT & DRINK 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 1717

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Until Sun 16 May Tennis Palace Art Museum Viljo Revell (1910-1964) Salomonkatu 15 An exhibition celebrating the cente- Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00 SAVOY THEATRE nary of architect Viljo Revell’s birth. Tickets €9/7/0 The Didrichsen Art Museum www.taidemuseo.fi Larry Graham & Graham Central Station (USA) Kuusilahdenkuja 1 Tue 11:00-18:00 Until Sun 29 August It’s boogie time for all the funk lovers. Larry Graham & Graham Wed 11:00-20:00 Onerva – Women of the City Central Station are coming to Savoy Theatre to revive the memo- Thu-Sun 11:00-18:00 An exhibition about life of ries from the 70s. Tickets €8/6/2 women in Helsinki in the 1910s, Larry Graham is responsible for bringing the slapping technique www.didrichsenmuseum.fi seen through the eyes of writer and critic L. Onerva. to funk music. This rhythmic slapping and popping of bass strings Until Sun 23 May Kaivokatu 2 has taken him from one successful project to another. Graham’s Susanna Majuri Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00 fame started at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s in Sly & the Family The Water Researcher’s Daughter Wed-Thu 10:00-20:00 Stone, and soon after he made hits with his own band Graham Cen- A mystic and surreal solo Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00 tral Station. In addition to this Graham has also succeeded as a so- exhibition of a successful Finnish Tickets €0-8 photographer. www.ateneum.fi lo artist. He has for instance co-worked with artists like Prince with Finnish Museum of Photography whom Graham has also produced his album GCS2000. Tallberginkatu 1 Until Sun 29 August Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00 Night Fri 23 April Tickets €6/4/0 The exhibition takes a look at night, Savoy Theatre, 19:00 www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi from a variety of perspectives. Kasarmikatu 46-48 Sederholm House Until Sun 23 May Aleksanterinkatu 16-18 Tickets €39/37 Larry Graham Helsinki School – Photography Wed, Fri-Sun 11:00-17:00 www.funk.fi and Video NOW Thu 11:00-19:00 Photographs, videos and Free entrance installations by the young www.helsinginkaupunginmuseo.fi generation of the Helsinki School. MUSIC Wed 28 April Helsinki Dance Company. their works. Meilahti Art Museum Until Sat 4 September Defunkt Soul Helsinki City Theatre, 19:30 Cultural Centre Caisa, Tamminiementie 6 International Photography and Thu 22 April A fusion of popular and extreme Ensi linja 2 Mikonkatu 17 C Tue-Sun 11:00-18:30 Video Art Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra music styles. Tickets €24/22/19 Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00 Tickets €8/6/0 Works by Danica Dakic, Loretta Rahmaninov’s and Schönberg’s Savoy Theatre, 19:00 www.hkt.fi/hdc Free entrance www.hel.fi/taidemuseo Lux and Anu Pennanen. music. Kasarmikatu 46-48 www.caisa.fi Vantaa Art Museum Finlandia Hall, 19:00 Tickets €32 Sat 24 & Sun 25 April Until Sun 23 May Myyrmäkitalo, Kilterinraitti 6 Mannerheimintie 13 E www.savoyteatteri.fi Red Giselle Until Thu 6 May Venice – The Feast of Mask Free entrance Tickets €20/13/6 A ballet performance telling the Modern(ism) An exhibition introducing Venetian Tue-Fri 11:00-18:00 www.hel.fi/filharmonia Wed 28 April to Sun 2 May story of Olga Spessivtseva. A major review on the carnival tradition. Sat 10:00-16:00 April Jazz Finnish National Ballet manifestations of Modernism. Sinebrychoff Art Museum Thu 22 April The most important annual festival Helsinginkatu 58 Design Museum Bulevardi 40 Johanna & Mikko Iivanainen Duo of jazz in the Greater Helsinki area. Tickets €20-70 Korkeavuorenkatu 23 Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00 OTHERS Delicate soul. Espoo Cultural Centre www.operafin.fi Tue 11:00-20:00 Wed-Thu 10:00-20:00 Backas Kartano, 19:00 Kaupinkalliontie 10 Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00 Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00 Fri 23 April Ylästöntie 28 www.apriljazz.fi Sun 25 April Tickets €8/7/3/0 Tickets €7.5/6/0 Design Fair www.kartanocatering.fi Vladimir Vinokur www.designmuseum.fi www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi Interesting designers selling their Stand up comedy in Russian. THEATRE AND DANCE products. Mon 26 April Savoy Theatre, 18:00 Until Sun 9 May Until Mon 24 May Korjaamo, 18:00-21:00 Mariza (PT) Kasarmikatu 46-48 The Father, the Son and the Py- Take Care – Politics of Töölönkatu 51 A famous fado singer. Thu 22 & Fri 23 April Tickets €50/36 häjärvi Lake Emancipation Free entrance Finlandia Hall, 20:00 Onegin www.savoyteatteri.fi Front-line contemporary sculptors Estonian and Finnish www.korjaamo.fi Mannerheimintie 13 E A choreographic interpretation of Matti Kalkamo, Heli Ryhänen, contemporary art. Tickets €79/59/49 the two-act narrative poem Eugene Hanna Jaanisoo and Villu Jaanisoo Amos Anderson Art Museum Sat 24 & Sun 25 April EXHIBITIONS www.finlandiatalo.fi Onegin by Pushkin. deal with the concept of father. Yrjönkatu 27 Street Dance Finnish Finnish National Ballet, 19:00 Taidehalli Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00 Championships Tue 27 April Helsinginkatu 58 Until Sun 25 April Nervanderinkatu 3 Wed 10:00-20:00 Dance performances, music, a Mor Karbasi Tickets €20-70 Adel Abidin Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00 Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00 street wear flea market and dance Old and new Jewish folk songs sung www.operafin.fi Installations that merge sound, Wed 11:00-20:00 Tickets €10/8/6/0 workshops. by an emerging star from London. moving image and sculptural Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00 www.amosanderson.fi Kulttuuritalo, 20:30-22:30 Savoy Theatre, 19:30 Thu 22 to Sun 25 April elements by Iraqi artist Adel Abidin. Tickets €8/5.50/0 Sturenkatu 4 Kasarmikatu 46-48, Là-bas biennale Kiasma www.taidehalli.fi Until Sun 30 May www.kulttuuritalo.fi Tickets €45 An event for performance art and Mannerheiminaukio 2 Wooden Churches in the www.savoyteatteri.fi new media art formats emphasises Tue 10:00-17:00 Until Sun 16 May Russian North Sat 24 April the mediaspatial aspects of Wed-Fri 10:00-20:30 Photographer Caj Bremer English photographer Richard Kristiina Olanto with Her Band Wed 28 April performance. Sat-Sun 10:00-18:00 A retrospective exhibition of a Davies travelled to northern Russia A concert lecture about Finnish Femi Kuti Kiasma Theatre Tickets €8/6/0 Finnish photographer. in 2002 to find out what was left of music and history. An award-winning Nigerian musi- Mannerheiminaukio 2 www.kiasma.fi Ateneum Art Museum the wooden churches. Cafe Jugend, 16:30 cian is the oldest son of legendary Tickets €17/10 Kaivokatu 2 Museum of Finnish Architecture Pohjoisesplanadi 19 Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. www.kiasma.fi Until Thu 29 April Tue, Fri 10:00-18:00 Kasarmikatu 24 www.cafejugend.fi Kulttuuritalo, 21:00 Barvalo Drom – Rich Roma Wed-Thu 10:00-20:00 Tue & Thu-Fri 10:00-16:00 Sturenkatu 4 Fri 23 & Sat 24 April Culture Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00 Wed 10:00-20:00 Tickets €44 XPSD A touching collection exhibiting Tickets €0-8 Sat-Sun 11:00-16:00 FOR CHILDREN www.kulttuuritalo.fi The new dance production by important Finnish Roma artists and www.ateneum.fi Tickets €3.50/1.70 www.mfa.fi Thu 22 April Still (oewaaa) Until Mon 31 May Lily Kiara’s choreography for M.C. Escher children over two years. Helsinki Travel Tip Impossible Worlds Cable Factory, 10:00 A comprehensive overview of the Tallberginkatu 1 world renowned artist’s work. Tickets €10 Amos Anderson Art Museum www.hurjaruuth.fi Yrjönkatu 27 Mon, Thu, Fri 10:00-18:00 Wed 10:00-20:00 Thu 22 to Sat 24 April Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00 Tööt ja Pum – Clowns as Tickets €8/6/4/0 Inventors www.amosanderson.fi A performance combining dance, theatre, music and circus. Until Sun 6 June Tanssiteatteri Raatikko Candice Breitzs Video Works Viertolankuja 4 B Four key video works by a South Tickets €10 African photographer and video Thu-Fri 9:00, 10:30 artist now living in Berlin. Sat 14:00 Espoo Museum of Modern Art www.raatikko.fi Ahertajantie 5 Tue 11:00-18:00 Sun 25 April Wed-Thu 11:00-20:00 Salsa for Children Fri-Sun 11:00-18:00 Salsa lessons for 3-12 year old Two guest harbours cater Tickets €10/8/0 children. to those visiting Helsinki by boat www.emma.museum Copacabana, 16:00-20:00 Yliopistonkatu 5 The Katajanokka Guest Harbour is within walking distance of the Espla- Until Sun 6 June Free entrance nade and Helsinki’s most signifi cant sights. The Guest Harbour has 120 Subscribe The Power of Africa – Three www.copa.fi mooring places. Boater services, a terrace-equipped café and saunas for Perspectives hire are all located in the vicinity of the quays. African sculpture, early 20th solution sudoku The Suomenlinna guest harbour on Susisaari Island serves visitors from May to SixDegrees Finland’s century European Modernism and Day until the end of September with berths for 40 boats. The harbour is equipped Finnish contemporary art. with a full range of services: sauna and washing facilities, Café Bar Valimo and its Espoo Museum of Modern Art terrace are all located in a former ammunition foundry from the 19th century, pro- English language monthly Ahertajantie 5 tected by thick granite walls. It takes 15 minutes to get from Suomenlinna to the Tue 11:00-18:00 Market Square via a connecting ferry. For more information go to www.suomenlinna.fi . for only 25 euros/year Wed-Thu 11:00-20:00 Fri-Sun 11:00-18:00 (includes 10 issues) Tickets €10/8/0 www.emma.museum M O R E T I P S F R O M Contact us at: subscribe@6d.fi Until Sun 1 August Remix – Georg Baselitzs paintings and sculptures www.visithelsinki.fi www.6d.fi Works by one of the brightest stars of German contemporary art. HELSINKI TIMES TV GUIDE 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 1919 Helsinki Times TV Guide offers a selection of English and other language broadcasting on Finnish television. thursday 22.4. friday 23.4.

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11:05 YLE News in English 13:20 Hell’s Kitchen USA 11:05 YLE News in English 13:20 Hell’s Kitchen USA 11:10 Road to Avonlea Putting together the menu 11:10 Road to Avonlea 14:15 Sons & Daughters 15:05 Coronation Street for Melissa’s 16th birthday. Gus Pike gets a job and a The siblings are fed up with 17:07 Return of Sherlock Holmes 14:15 Notes from the Underbelly flat at a lighthouse. their mother’s behaviour. 22:45 Longford FILM 14:45 Design Inc. 15:05 Coronation Street 14:45 Doctors A biopic of Lord Longford who 17:05 The Bold and the Beautiful 17:07 Return of Sherlock Holmes 50 quick health tips. defended a woman convicted 18:00 Emmerdale Holmes investigates a case 17:05 The Bold and the Beautiful of several child murders in the 21:00 House of an important missing 18:00 Emmerdale 60s. Directed by Tom Hooper. House treats a woman who Longford official document. 21:00 Eleventh Hour Next Starring: Jim Broadbent, works on the South Pole via TV1 22:45 22:00 The Street A car crash victim had two Nelonen 21:00 Samantha Morton. video connection. Kieran and Duffy, two hearts. The investigations UK/USA 2006 22:30 In Plain Sight friends who are completely lead into the world of stem Second season of this 07:00 Children’s Programming different, end up in a tricky cell research. 07:00 Children’s Programming American police series In Finnish. situation. 22:40 Animal Factory FILM In Finnish. TV2 starts. 08:00 Relocation, Relocation A crime drama about young 08:00 Relocation, Relocation 23:30 House of the Dead (K18) Karen and Chris want to and privileged Ron, who 12:50 Pregnancy and Birth: The 06:50 Pikku Kakkonen FILM change their busy city life to TV2 goes to prison for dealing Truth Children’s programming. A group of students find countryside idyll. drugs. Will the jail succeed Buying maternity clothes. In Finnish. themselves on an island 12:50 Pregnancy and Birth: The 06:50 Pikku Kakkonen in rehabilitating him back 13:20 Coleen’s Real Women 10:35 McLeod’s Daughters inhabited by zombies in Truth Children’s programming. into society? Directed by 14:20 What’s Really in Our Food? 11:45 Animal Hospital this horror film based on 13:20 Coleen’s Real Women In Finnish. Steve Buschemi. Starring: 15:25 Ugly Betty 14:15 Super Vets the video game of the same SERIES BEGINS. Coleen 10:35 McLeod’s Daughter’s Willem Dafoe, Edward Daniel hopes that Matt’s 16:05 Don Matteo name. Directed by Uwe Boll. McLoughlin looks for regular Steve’s trial is soon to begin, Furlong. USA 2000 rich father would help the In Italian. Starring: Jonathan Cherry. women who have what it and it might be his last day 00:30 Fringe firm Meade in its economic 17:00 Children’s Programming USA 2003 takes to be a model. at the farm. plight. In Finnish. 14:20 What’s Really in Our Food? 11:50 Globetrekker 16:20 Days of Our Lives 17:28 Pikku Kakkonen SERIES BEGINS. This New Israel. Justine spends Easter SUB 17:15 Everybody Loves Raymond Children’s programming. SUB Zealand TV show looks in Jerusalem and goes dicing 17:40 Dr. Phil In Finnish. into different ingredients in the Red Sea. 07:00 Children’s Programming 20:00 Funny Home Videos 19:20 World Café Asia 07:00 Children’s Programming groceries have. 14:15 Schwarzwaldklinik In Finnish. In Finnish. 19:50 Die Kommissarin In Finnish. 15:25 Ugly Betty In German. 14:20 Reba 21:00 Next FILM In German. 15:00 Reba Betty wonders why Matt 15:10 Secret Millionaire 15:35 E! Entertainment: E! News In this action thriller 23:05 The Intelligence (K15) 15:30 E! Entertainment: Behind doesn’t want to make their Liz Jackson went blind as Weekend based on Philip K. Dick’s 23:50 Churchill: The Hollywood the Scenes relationship more physical. an adult, but doesn’t regard 16:30 The Hills story, the FBI recruits an Years FILM 16:00 E! Entertainment: Streets 16:20 Days of Our Lives herself as handicapped 18:05 Sturm der Liebe entertainment artist to help The great British hero of Hollywood 17:15 Everybody Loves Raymond and made her money in In German. them stop terrorists in Los defeats Hitler and courts 16:30 The Hills 17:40 Dr. Phil telemarketing. Under a 19:00 According to Jim Angeles. Directed by Lee Queen Elizabeth in this 18:05 Sturm der Liebe 19:30 Animal Rescue cover story, she goes to 19:30 Will & Grace Tamahori. Starring: Nicholas comedy. Directed by Peter In German. Helping a kitten stuck Lewisham, East London. 20:00 Friends Cage, Julianne Moore, Richardson. Starring: 19:00 According to Jim between two walls and a 16:00 Don Matteo 20:30 Family Guy Jessica Biel. USA 2007 Christian Slater, Neve 19:30 Will & Grace kangaroo trapped behind In Italian. 22:00 Numb3rs 23:10 Battlestar Galactica Campbell. UK 2004 20:00 Friends a wall. 17:23 Pikku Kakkonen A former mafia killer 00:10 Liberty Stands Still FILM 20:30 The Simpsons 21:00 FlashForward Children’s programming. promises to confess his A man who lost his daughter Upcoming elections cause a Mark and Demetri try to In Finnish. crime. in a shooting takes a YLE TEEMA stir in Springfield. interpret Dyson Frost’s 22:05 Law & Order 23:00 C.S.I. Miami weapon manufacturer 21:00 The Rachel Zoe Project messages from 1991. After a four-year A woman who seduced marketing executive 16:05 Hotel Sahara DOC Rachel travels to New York 22:00 Lost (K15) secondment, Cyrus Lupo unfaithful husbands is eaten hostage in this thriller. There are “right” and for fashion week. 23:25 Frasier returns to work for New by a shark. Directed by Kari Skogland. “wrong” refugees between 23:00 C.S.I. Three men and a bundle. York police. He ends up 00:55 It’s Always Sunny in Starring: Wesley Snipes, the Sahara and the Atlantic Grissom investigates a 23:55 The Office investigating two suicide Philadelphia Linda Fiorentino. Ocean. Directed by Bettina brutal murder that has racist cases, one of the dead being 01:25 Mad TV USA 2002 Haasen. Germany 2008. undertones. his own brother. In German. JIM 22:50 Sopranos (K15) 17:00 Dan Cruickshank’s TV VIISI JIM Adventures in Architecture TV VIISI 11:35 Classic Car Restoration 18:00 Undersea World of Jacques Finishing the renovation of a YLE TEEMA 18:00 That 70s Show 11:35 Classic Car Restoration Cousteau 18:00 That 70s Show 1969 Alfa Romeo Spider. The bank expropriates the 12:00 Don’t Sweat it 19:30 Little Mosque on the Prairie Kitty organises a party for 12:00 Don’t Sweat it 21:45 Gabriel Orozco DOC cabin of Jackie’s family. 13:15 Carter Can 20:05 Eco-Trip: The Real Cost of Fez and Nina. A 100-year-old porch gets a This documentary explores 18:30 Grounded for Life John and Tene have lived Living 18:30 Grounded for Life refurbishment. the art of the Mexican 19:00 America’s Funniest Home without a kitchen or a dining Part 6/8. 19:00 America’s Funniest Home 13:15 Carter Can conceptual artist Gabriel Videos room for a long time. 21:00 The Great Sperm Race Videos 13:40 Superscapes Orozco, dubbed the leading 19:30 Turner & Hooch FILM 13:40 Superscapes DOC 19:30 My Wife and Kids Bringing in a whiff of the conceptual artist of his A policeman waits for a step 14:10 Chopper Challenge Only one of 250 million Jay starts to coach Kady’s Mediterranean. generation. Directed by up in his career, but instead 17:00 Takeshi’s Castle sperm cells will get to football team. 14:10 Mystery Diagnosis Juan Carlos Martin. Mexico receives a dog he has to 18:00 Steve Schirripa’s Hungry fertilise the ovum. In English 20:00 X-Weighted A lump is removed from 2002. In Spanish, English take care of in this action Steve learns the art of and Finnish. 21:00 The Shipping News FILM Daisy’s neck, but the and French. comedy. Directed by Roger cooking lasagne. 21:55 Ce que mes yeux ont vu After Quoyle’s wife dies in repercussions are traumatic. 23:55 Live: Nelly Furtado Spottiswoode. Starring: Tom 18:25 Tyler’s Ultimate FILM a car accident, he moves 17:00 Takeshi’s Castle A performance from the Hanks. USA 1989 18:55 Anthony Bourdain An art student studies a to his family’s birthplace 18:00 Medical Emergency 2007 world tour in Toronto. 21:30 Sweet Home Alabama 20:00 World’s Toughest Fixes painting that seems to in Newfoundland with his 18:30 Surf Patrol FILM 21:00 Gangland: Blood River include a hidden message. daughter and aunt. Bit Nearby sharks keep the In this comedy, young (K15) DOC Directed by Laurent de by bit he learns about his beaches in a state of Melanie has a successful Barrio Azteca operates on Bartillat. Starring: Sylvie family’s murky past – and emergency. career in the fashion world. both sides of Rio Grande. Testud. France 2007. falls in love with a single 19:00 Fifth Gear However, the unfinished The gang is ruthless – even In French. mother. 21:00 Nostradamus Effect DOC businesses in the past force to its own members. Directed by Lasse Hallström. There are many sources her to return to her home 22:00 Los Angeles Ink Programmes on Yle Teema Starring: Kevin Spacey, reporting the world is state Alabama. Directed Kati is interviewed for may be viewed in the original Julianne Moore, Judi Dench coming to an end in 2012. by Andy Tennant. Starring: Latina magazine. language(s) by changing the USA 2001 23:00 Naked & Funny (K15) Reese Witherspoon. 23:00 Police Interceptors 23:30 That News Show Sweet Home Alabama USA 2002 23:55 Disorder in the Court (K15) digital receiver’s settings. 23:15 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 00:55 American Hot Rod TV Viisi 21:30 23:40 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 00:50 Crisis Point

Hill Street Blues Animal Factory (K15) Hill Street Blues is a classic This crime drama by director series in police dramas. It Steve Buscemi, is an accurate explores the lives of an under- variation of Edward Bunker’s staffed and overworked police book, Animal Factory. Bunker’s precinct in a Midwestern city personal experience of his time in the US. The series follows in prison provides a truthful and documents an array of dif- description of life behind bars ferent characters from officers, in this Pennsylvania state detectives and sergeants all penitentiary. After 21-year-old the way to the captain of the Ron (Edward Furlong) received precinct. Starting in 1981 and his sentence for drug posses- ending in 1987, the series set sion, he is forced to cope with the bar high for similar North his new life in prison with his American TV series’ today. talkative cross-dressing cell- The drama accumulated 146 mate, Jan the Actress (Mickey episodes, and seven seasons. Rourke). Prison inmate Earl Although it started off with (Willem Dafoe) is a veteran of low-ratings, the lowest for a the prison who decides to take TV series ever renewed for a Ron under his wing. The two second season, throughout the form a father-son bond, and production it still managed to after Ron’s appeal is denied, win over 50 awards. Today it’s Earl concocts an escape plan best known for its high critical for the two. This concoction will acclaim in the production in- either set them free, or cost the novations. duo their lives in the process. FST5 21:40 MTV3 22:40 20 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 TV GUIDE HELSINKI TIMES

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13:55 Gardener’s Year 07:45 Children’s Programming 12:15 Jeeves and Wooster 08:00 Children’s Programming Part 4/6. In Finnish. Sir Watky’s plan to publish In Finnish. 14:25 Vicar of Dibley 15:25 Black Stallion Returns his memoirs is giving Bertie 14:40 Love Don’t Cost a Thing Ten years as the vicar is FILM Wooster a headache. FILM a cause for celebration – Alec’s horse Black is 14:15 Inspector Morse A romantic comedy about at least according to the captured and taken to The case of a missing student Alvin who hires a parishioners. Morocco. Alec goes after woman troubles Morse. The popular cheerleader to pose 15:55 Holby City the stallion and has to find only clue is a postcard. Will as his girlfriend. Directed by 18:15 Outnumbered his way in a strange country. the Wyndham Forest reveal Troy Beyer. Starring: Nick We Own the Night (K15) Stuck on the motorway Directed by Robert Dalva. TV2 22:05 its secrets to him? Cannon, Jordan Burg. Sabrina when the children hear the Starring: Kelly Reno. 22:30 Silent Witness (K15) USA 2003 YleTeema 18:00 call of nature. USA 1983 17:50 National Geographic 19:40 Midsomer Murders (K13) 17:25 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 10:00 Animal Rescue Programming 22:30 Benidorm 17:55 Top Gear 10:30 King of Queens TV2 We still don’t know who 10:30 Animal Planet: Ms. 22:55 Cracker Actress Sienna Miller has SERIES ENDS. built the mysterious rocks of Adventure just received her driver’s 13:00 Kyle XY 08:00 Pikku Kakkonen Stonehenge and why. American comedian Rachel licence. 16:30 20 30 40 FILM Children’s programming. 23:05 C.S.I Miami Reenstra looks into whether TV2 21:00 Hustle A romantic comedy of In Finnish. 00:00 Strip people can learn from Emma and Sean get in on the many challenges in a 12:00 Emily of New Moon animals. 07:45 Pikku Kakkonen their first big heist. woman’s life. Directed by Emily discovers her mother’s 11:30 Most Extreme Children’s programming. 22:30 Kingdom (K15) FILM Sylvia Chang. Starring: old doll. SUB Which animals are the In Finnish. FBI special agent Ronald Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu. 14:35 Heartland loudest? 11:45 Live: Grammy Awards 2010 Fleury puts a task force Hong Kong/Taiwan/ A famous racehorse is 10:00 Batman: The Animated 14:25 Extreme Makeover: Home 17:30 V75 Trot together to find the killer Japan 2004 In Mandarin/ brought to the farm to Series Edition In Finnish. of his friend in Riad, Saudi Cantonese recover from burns. 10:30 Futurama 15:20 Greek 18:00 Globetrekker Arabia. The search soon 19:00 Gladiators 16:20 Artistic Gymnastics 11:00 Wildlife Nannies Casey and Max go out on The Greek Islands. turns into a fight over life 20:00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not SPORT A lion and an African a date. 20:50 Ein Fall Für Zwei and death. 21:00 It Could Happen to You European Championships. penguin. 16:15 Samantha Who? In German. Directed by Peter Berg. FILM Men’s team finals. In 11:30 Animal Park Samantha meets some 22:05 We Own the Night (K15) Starring: Jamie Foxx, Chris A police officer promises Finnish. The zookeepers are relatives her mother didn’t FILM Cooper, Jennifer Garner. to share half of his lottery 20:00 Lost in Austen pleasantly surprised when want to tell her about. A crime film of two brothers, USA 2007 ticket with a waitress in lieu Amanda finds herself in they discover one of the 20:00 Funny Home Videos one following their father’s 00:40 Unit of a tip but his wife strongly trouble but luckily receives camels is expecting. In Finnish. footsteps as a police officer and objects in this romantic help from a surprising party. 14:00 The Mask 21:00 National Treasure FILM the other getting caught up in drama. Directed by Andrew Darcy shows sudden interest 14:30 King of the Hill In this adventure film, the Russian mafia’s businesses. SUB Bergman. Starring: Nicholas in Amanda, but not everyone Bobby becomes radical to archaeologist Ben Gates Directed by James Gray. Cage, Bridget Fonda. is sympathetic towards her. get a girlfriend. looks for his family’s ancient Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, 14:15 E! Entertainment: Whose USA 1994 Part 3/4. 15:00 Baywatch treasure and discovers the Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes. Wedding Is It Anyway? 23:15 American Chopper 22:35 The Duel of Hearts FILM 16:00 Project Runway US constitution includes a USA 2007 15:10 E! Entertainment: Dress 00:15 Blade: Trinity (K18) FILM Lady Caroline Faye is a Designing clothes for Sarah secret code. Directed by Jon 00:00 Artistic Gymnastics My Nest This final part of the vampire beauty adored by men, but Jessica Parker’s collection. Turtletaub. Starring: Nicolas SPORT 15:40 Supersize vs. Superskinny trilogy sees Blade looking only when she meets Lord 19:00 American Idol Cage, Diane Kruger. In Finnish. Yuk, carbohydrates! into the origins of the Vane Brecor love inflames 20:00 Daisy of Love USA 2004 00:40 Live: Glastonbury 2008 16:40 Mad TV vampire race in East Europe. her heart. Directed by John Daisy wants to know which of Featuring Duffy, James 19:00 American Idol Directed by David S. Goyer. Hough. Starring: Geraldine the rival suitors are ready to Blunt, Vampire Weekend, 20:00 Spain... On the Road Again Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kris Chaplin, Michael York. risk their lives to protect her. JIM Amy Winehouse and Jay-Z, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe Kristofferson. USA 2004 UK 1991 21:00 Mummy Returns FILM among others. joins Gwyneth and Albert. 00:05 Artistic Gymnastics A tongue-in-cheek action 09:30 The Amazing Adventures 21:00 Cold Feet SPORT film in the spirit of Indiana of a Nobody Different stages of boredom. JIM Men’s finals. In Finnish. Jones films about the 10:00 Grill it! YLE TEEMA 22:00 Heroes return of the Scorpion 10:30 My Country, My Kitchen Hiro and Claire travel to the 10:00 Any Given Latitude King. Directed by Stephen 11:00 Tricked Out 11:00 Live: Kanye West past to stop Arthur. Diving at the world’s second YLE TEEMA Sommers. Starring: Brendan 11:30 Fifth Gear From the famous Abbey 23:00 Miami Vice longest coral reef in Belize. Fraser, Rachel Weisz. USA Test driving Dodge Road studio, 2005. 00:00 The Ultimate Fighter (K15) 10:25 True Stories 11:40 The Forsyte Saga 1999 Challenger SRT8. 11:55 Radio Symphony Orchestra 01:25 The Riches Reruns of the first season 7-year-old Fleur meets 23:35 Obsessed 12:00 Super Factories at Temppeliaukio Church start. her cousin Jon at a family AJ is obsessed about the 13:00 Anthony Bourdain: No 14:05 The Space of Life DOC 11:25 Chopper Challenge gathering. Eleven years later way dogs are treated. Reservations A documentary film about TV VIISI 12:20 Expedition: Africa they meet again – and fall Vanessa’s skin problems 14:00 Build it Bigger Boris Eifman, Russian 13:15 Biography: Christian Slater in love. give her anxiety. 15:00 Street Customs choreographer. Directed by 18:00 The Little Couple Christian Slater’s promising 18:00 Sabrina FILM 00:35 Crossing Jordan 16:00 UFO Files DOC Alezander Gutman. Russia 18:30 X-Weighted career in the 90s ended A romantic comedy of 01:30 Stargate SG1 For decades, cattle 2006 In Russian. 15-year-old Leanne hates because of personal two completely different mutilation has been 19:05 Deti Arbata her own reflection. problems and addictions. brothers who both fall for connected to UFOs. In Russian. 19:30 How’d You Get So Rich? 14:15 Heliloggers a chauffeur’s daughter. TV VIISI 18:00 Ian Wright: Out of Bounds 21:00 Shichinin no samurai FILM 20:00 Breaking the Magician’s 15:10 Bizarre Foods with Andrew Directed by Billy Wilder. 19:00 Man vs. Food A classic adventure film of a Code Zimmern Starring: Humphrey Bogart, 18:00 Relic Hunter A visit to Anchorage, Alaska. village that hires samurais to 21:00 Léon (K15) FILM Andrew investigates strange William Holden, Audrey 19:00 Muppet Treasure Island 19:30 Dinner: Impossible protect them from roaming Contract killer Léon takes delights in Ethiopia. Hepburn. USA 1954 FILM A farewell dinner for 850 bandits. Starring: Toshiro 12-year-old Mathilda under 16:05 Hooked on Fishing 19:50 Cadmus and Hermione A Muppet version of the marine soldiers, about to Mifune, Takashi Shimura. his wing after her family is 18:00 House Hunters 21:55 Deti Arbata classic R.L. Stevenson tale finish their training. Japan 1954 brutally assassinated. She International In Russian. Treasure Island. Directed by 20:00 Cowboy Builders begs him to train her so she Michael plans on finding his Brian Henson. Starring Tim 21:00 Biography: Charles could one day take revenge dream house in Costa Rica Curry, Kevin Bishop. Manson (K15) DOC on her family’s killers. in one week. USA 1996 In August 1969 the “Manson Directed by Luc Besson. 18:30 Kitchen Impossible 21:00 Scrubs family members” brutally Starring: Jean Reno, Gary 21:00 Mystery Quest DOC J.D.’s new career does not murdered seven people in Los Oldman, Natalie Portman. Was anyone able to escape start quite as expected. Angeles. This documentary USA 1994 the notorious Alcatraz 22:30 Leverage discusses the man behind the 23:15 Late Night with Jimmy prison? 00:30 Paranormal State demonic myth. Kingdom (K15) Fallon 00:55 Banged Up Abroad National Treasure Weird things happen in 00:50 Crime Investigation MTV3 22:30 01:50 Gumball-rally Nelonen 21:00 Kristy’s home. Australia (K15)

Cold Feet Silent Witness (K15) The first series of the British The UK’s thriller Silent Witness comedy Cold Feet focuses on is comprised of a team of fo- relationships among three rensic experts who investigate couples. The couples face issues various crimes. In this episode, from impotence to pregnancy, to Body of Work, Harry (Tom jobs and money troubles. In this Ward) is surprised to see his episode, David (Robert Bathurst) former girlfriend from univer- and Karen (Hermione Norris) sity brought into the mortuary. seek marriage counselling, After crashing her car into a and are instructed to go on a tree, her death is assumed to “first date” with one another in be an accident. Following an attempts to rekindle their attrac- autopsy however, it is revealed tion to one another. Jenny (Fay that the medication in her sys- Ripley) attempts to converse tem was ground up, sparking with Pete (John Thomson) about the suspicion of murder. Leo anything other than the baby. (William Gaminara) assists po- After Rachel (Helen Baxendale) lice in the mysterious possible finds our about Adam’s (James suicide of a conceptual artist Nesbitt) attraction to their who died from a bullet wound neighbour, he organises a boy’s to the head. Coincidentally, night out to prove to Rachel that the artist thought conceptual he is not a “sad old man”. While art was dead, and his most Adam and Pete are trying to buy recent work depicted the artist ecstasy at a club, Rachel, Karen himself, dead, from a bullet and Jenny attend a divorce party. wound to the head. Sub 21:00 TV1 22:30 HELSINKI TIMES TV GUIDE 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 2121

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11:05 YLE News in English 13:15 Lipstick Jungle 11:05 YLE News in English 13:20 Private Practice 11:10 Road to Avonlea 14:10 Grand Designs 11:10 Road to Avonlea Addison and Naomi disagree 15:05 Coronation Street Kevin travels to Wales Olivia’s relationship with on the care of a newborn baby. Mike’s will is read out – who to observe a particularly Jasper seems to have cracks. 14:15 Alf will inherit his empire? ambitious building project. 15:05 Coronation Street Does Alf’s cousin also live 17:07 Adventures of Sherlock 17:05 The Bold and the Beautiful 17:07 Adventures of Sherlock on Earth? Holmes 18:00 Emmerdale Holmes 14:45 She’s Got the Look 19:00 Allergy Planet DOC 21:00 Lie to Me 19:00 Horse People with 17:05 The Bold and the Beautiful Is our lifestyle the reason Cal’s former wife shows Alexandra Tolstoy DOC 18:00 Emmerdale why allergies have become up at the office wanting to Bourne Supremacy Alexandra Tolstoy gets to 20:00 Brothers & Sisters common? In Finnish and hire him. know the horse culture in Kitty puts pressure on the Sub 21:00 Recount English. 22:30 Mentalist Montana, the US, where she adoption child’s mother and TV1 21:00 22:27 Fais comme chez toi FILM Patrick Jane helps the police visits a rodeo and observers complicates the adoption A short film. Directed by catch serial killer Red John. 07:00 Children’s Programming taming of wild horses. process. George considers Gautier About. France 2007. 23:30 Corleone – Il capo dei capi In Finnish. Part 2/2. whether to tell Ryan the 07:00 Children’s Programming In French. (K15) 08.00 10 Items or Less 21:00 Recount FILM truth about his father. In Finnish. In Italian. This eventful comedy series Because of the confusion 21:00 Prison Break (K15) 08.05 10 Items or Less about shopkeeper Leslie over the counting of votes in A special episode that Leslie looks for his lost

TV2 returns. Florida, the US presidential depicts the chain of events youth but finds something SUB 12:50 Pregnancy and Birth: The elections became a farcical Skylla’s discovery started. completely different. 06:50 Pikku Kakkonen Truth event in 2000. This drama 22:30 C.S.I. 12:50 Pregnancy and Birth: The Children’s programming. 7:00 Children’s Programming Returning to work after documents the weeks after Raymond Langston is Truth In Finnish. In Finnish. maternity leave is not the election. Directed by giving his testimony when 13:20 Fashion ABC 10:40 McLeod’s Daughters 14:15 Reba always easy. Jay Roach. Starring: Kevin a shot is heard outside the 13:50 Property Virgins 11:25 Supernanny How to restore the spark in 13:20 Fashion ABC Spacey, Laura Dern. courtroom. 14:20 What’s Really in Our Food? 13:00 Ein Fall Für Zwei your marriage. 13:50 Property Virgins USA 2008 23:30 The L Word 15:20 Ugly Betty In German. 15:30 E! Entertainment: Dallas Twins Matt and Mike look 00:30 3rd Rock from the Sun Matt seems strangely 14:30 Artistic Gymnastics Divas & Daughters for their first house. nonchalant about a project SPORT 16:00 E! Entertainment: Giuliana 14:20 What’s Really in Our Food? TV2 and makes a surprising European Championships. & Bill 14:50 Room for Improvement SUB announcement. Men’s finals. In Finnish. 16:30 The Hills SERIES BEGINS. 06:50 Pikku Kakkonen 16:20 Days of Our Lives 16:10 Snowy River: The 18:05 Sturm der Liebe 15:20 Ugly Betty Children’s programming. 07:00 Children’s Programming 17:15 Everybody Loves Raymond McGregor Saga In German. Baby William is kidnapped, In Finnish. In Finnish. Michael refuses to go to school. 17:21 Pikku Kakkonen 19:00 According to Jim and everyone at Meade goes 10:35 McLeod’s Daughters 15:35 E! Entertainment: Whose 17:40 Dr. Phil Children’s programming. 19:30 Will & Grace haywire. 16:15 Snowy River: The Wedding Is It Anyway? Some people take financial In Finnish. 20:00 My Name Is Earl 16:20 Days of Our Lives McGregor Saga 16:30 The Hills advantage of their relatives. 18:05 Schwarzwaldklinik Earl takes his brother to a 17:15 Everybody Loves Raymond 17:23 Pikku Kakkonen 18:05 Sturm der Liebe 19:30 Animal Rescue In German. cheerleader camp. 17:40 Dr. Phil Children’s programming. In German. The inspectors find over 100 19:20 High Altitude 20:30 The Simpsons 39-year-old Pierre is In Finnish. 19:00 According to Jim dogs in awful conditions. 21:20 Survival 21:00 Bourne Supremacy FILM dependent on his mother. 21:35 Football SPORT Jim is worried about his 21:00 NCIS 22:35 True Blood (K15) When his fingerprint is 19:30 Animal Rescue Champions League. daughter – is Gracie lying? NCIS finds a message for Bill protects Sookie from found at a crime scene, 21:00 Desperate Housewives Lyonnais-FC Bayern. 19:30 Will & Grace Gibbs written in blood. another vampire and is told Jason Bourne finds himself 22:00 Weeds (K15) In Finnish. 20:00 Friends 22:00 Conjoined Twins – Faith off by Eric. the target of a relentless In the last episode of the 23:50 The IT Crowd 20:30 The Simpsons and Hope DOC 23:30 Third Watch (K13) manhunt. Directed by Paul fourth season, Celia wants Moss would like to have a A special Valentine’s Day A documentary about Yokas tries to bring a Greengrass. Starring: Matt to mend her ways and new hobby. episode. Siamese twins’ fight for life. peaceful end to a hostage Damon, Franka Potente. travels to Mexico to her 22:00 Sons of Anarchy (K15) 23:30 Frasier situation. USA 2004 daughter Quinn. Sons of Anarchy struggles 01:00 Shield (K15) 23:40 Numb3rs 22:35 Frasier YLE TEEMA to put together the payment 01:35 Girls of the Playboy 23:30 Frasier for their weapon dealer. YLE TEEMA Mansion 00:00 Army Wives 16:00 Brain Doctors 23:00 Stargate SG1 JIM The brain surgery unit in 00:00 Eureka 16:00 James May’s 20th Century Frenchay Hospital in South 00:50 Génesis (K15) 11:20 Classic Car Restoration James May looks into how TV VIISI JIM England is thought to be the In Spanish. 11:45 Don’t Sweat it our lives were shaped by best in the world. 13:05 Carter Can inventions and different 18:00 That 70s Show 12:35 Classic Car Restoration 16:55 The Undersea World of Julie and her children get a events in the last century. Kelso’s sweetheart from 13:00 Don’t Sweat it Jacques Cousteau TV VIISI brand new porch. Part 1/6. California shows up. Smartening up a house’s Narrated in Finnish. 13:35 Superscapes 19:00 Cuéntame Cómo Pasó 18:30 Grounded for Life frontage. 20:00 Au siècle de de 18:00 That 70’s Show 14:05 Deadliest Catch In Spanish. 19:00 America’s Funniest Home 13:25 Carter Can Maupassant: contes et Jackie still seems to have Time Bandit finds an ice 21:00 Jools Holland Show Videos Alex lives in sunny nouvelles du XIXeme siècle feelings for Kelso. floe others have avoided. Guests: Jimmy Cliff, Paul 19:30 My Wife and Kids California, but his living In French. 18:30 Grounded for Life Fierce conditions and a flu Weller, Martha Wainwright, Michael offers Jay a job. room doesn’t see much 21:00 David Ogilvy – The First 19:00 America’s Funniest Home epidemic haunt the fleet. White Lies, Yoav and Tricky. 20:00 Leverage sunlight. Mad Man Videos 17:00 Takeshi’s Castle 22:30 Barakat! FILM 21:00 Penis Envy DOC 13:55 Superscapes British David Ogilvy 19:30 My Wife and Kids 18:00 Medical Emergency A story of a doctor whose Some men resort to different 14:25 American Gladiators 1989 (1911-1999) generated a Junior brings home Jim and Gay get in an journalist husband is caught devices and operations to 18:00 Medical Emergency revolution in marketing and surprisingly good exam accident the day before by fundamentalists, set in grow their manhood. 18:30 Surf Patrol has been called the “father results. their son’s wedding. 1990s Algeria. Directed by 22:00 The Mothman Prophecies 19:00 Fifth Gear of advertising”. In Finnish 20:00 The Real Wedding 18:30 Surf Patrol Djamila Sahraoui. France FILM 21:00 American Gangster: Larry and English. Crashers 19:00 Fifth Gear 2006. In French and Arabic. This thriller is based on a Hoover & The Gangster 21:00 Reindeer Games (K15) Test driving Chervolet Corvette mysterious event in the 60s, Disciples (K15) DOC FILM Z06 and Lexus GS 450h. when some people claimed Convicted to a long Rudy Duncan takes his dead 21:00 Life after People DOC to have seen a creature imprisonment at the age cellmate’s identity after This episode takes a closer that resembled a human of 24, Larry Hoover led his his release from prison and look at the gambling cities bat. A vigilant journalist gang even while doing time. becomes caught up in a Las Vegas and Atlantic City. investigates a strange chain 22:00 Border Security USA dangerous heist. Directed 22:00 Gene Simmons: Family of events. Directed by Mark SERIES ENDS. by John Frankenheimer. Jewels Pellington. Starring: Richard 23:00 Naked & Funny (K15) Starring: Ben Affleck, 22:30 Sexy Ads (K15) Gere, Laura Linney. 23:30 That News Show Charlize Theron, Gary Sinise. 23:00 Naked & Funny (K15) The Mothman Prophecies USA 2002 01:00 American Hot Rod Reindeer Games (K15) USA 1999 23:30 That News Show TV Viisi 22:00 00:20 Sex Tips for Girls 01:55 Police Patrol TV Viisi 21:00 23:10 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 00:55 American Hot Rod

True Blood (TV2, Mondays supernatural powers including te- blood abound, so it’s not for chil- 22:35, repeated Fridays 23:45), lepathy and shapeshifting. If you dren. It is, however, surprisingly on the other hand, is one of the haven’t seen the first few episodes well-acted and well-developed, Vampire love, baby best telly series of any kind, here’s a quick recap: the telepath character-wise, has won shed- never mind those related to the is a waitress at a restaurant owned loads of awards, and has rich NICK BARLOW supernatural, currently on our by the shapeshifter. She (the (albeit over-the-top) storylines Oooooh! Vampires! One of the screens. In my humble opinion, telepath) meets a vampire who is to boot. The show’s creator, Alan top three scary monsters that this latest HBO import to YLE sits pretty hunky for being 173 years Ball, also created the excellent made me hide under my duvet as rather proudly alongside Sons old. They get it on. The telepath’s Six Feet Under so it’s fair to say a kid, the other two being mum- of Anarchy as positive examples brother is suspected of a series of he has something of an obses- mies and werewolves, I’ve never of American drama program- murders but we know he didn’t do sion with death (or the undead), been that interested in reliving my ming and is vastly superior to the it. I imagine the true villain will and there’s more than enough in childhood nightmares through the mind-rotting piles of reality-show be revealed in the final episode. this show to satisfy even the most plethora of popular culture sur- and cooking rubbish we’re served Some regular humans become hardened deathaholic. Bizarrely rounding the vampire myth. Inter- up the rest of the time. addicted to vampire blood which I’ve seen this show listed as a ‘ro- view with a Vampire was rubbish, True Blood is set in the ficti- causes them to off a bunch of our mantic drama’, and while there is the Twilight books and movies are tious Louisiana town of Bon Temps erstwhile creatures of the night, some romance in it, don’t let that great if you’re under 16 but vomit- in a time where, thanks to the cre- creating a certain friction, as you put you off, since it’s offset with inducing teen rubbish if you’re not, ation of synthetic blood, vampires can imagine. plenty of drug addiction, murder, and Blade was only good while have moved up the social ladder Pretty much par for the course blood and lashings of ridiculous you could see the hilarious Wesley from scary boogiemen to fully- as far as drama series are con- gravitas, and of course, vampires, Snipes prancing around in latex fledged citizens of the United cerned, although this show is to for once make the love story a and dark glasses. In short, as far States. The town seems filled with one of the more, shall we say, ex- catalyst for the more interesting as I’m concerned there hasn’t been not only the fanged ones but also plicit ones to have come onto our stuff that happens. Sounds good any decent vamp-related media a bunch of people who, for rea- screens recently. Naked bouncy to me. Plus, vampire sex is appar- since Bram Stoker. sons unexplained, have developed bits, bad language and plenty of ently really damn hot. 22 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 HELSINKI TIMES

Thu 4/22 wednesday 28.4. +3 +6 TV1 MTV3 NELONEN +6 Thu 4/22 Fri 4/23 Sat 4/24 Sun 4/25 Mon 4/26 Tue 4/27 Wed 4/28 +8 11:05 YLE News in English 13:15 Starter Wife +10 +12 +11 +16 +18 +17 +16 11:10 Road to Avonlea SERIES ENDS. +8 The arrival of a world- 14:15 Loop +24 +23 +24 +23 +20 +20 +22 +10 +2 famous actress turns the 14:45 At the End of My Leash +38 +36 +33 +34 +37 +36 +36 town upside down. A couple blames one +8 15:05 Coronation Street another for the problems Fri 4/23 +19 +20 +21 +21 +20 +22 +22 17:07 Return of Sherlock Holmes with their dogs. +13 +19 +21 +16 +16 +16 +16 19:00 Kriegsbeute Mensch DOC 15:10 New Scandinavian +1 After WW2 and the Korean Cooking with Tina +10 +12 +12 +14 +16 +20 +15 War, thousands of British Nordström +2 and American soldiers 17:05 The Bold and the Beautiful Castle +10 +14 +12 +18 +20 +18 +19 vanished. After the Vietnam 18:00 Emmerdale Nelonen 21:00 +1 +13 +16 +18 +14 +16 +17 +18 War, the same happened 21:00 C.S.I. New York +6 A 17-year-old student to hundreds of American 07:00 Children’s Programming +5 +25 +27 +29 +32 +32 +31 +28 soldiers. In English, German suspected for his wrestling In Finnish. +5 and Finnish. coach’s murder dies during 08:00 10 Items or Less +4 +11 +10 +13 +12 +13 +16 +12 19:55 The Old Guys interrogation. 12:50 Pregnancy and Birth: The +4 22:30 Madame Bovary 22:30 Ax Men Truth +37 +36 +37 +37 +38 +38 +36 The life of the most Brad gets his last chance to Many mothers who are Sat 4/24 +32 +38 +36 +35 +33 +32 +35 mysterious heroine in world prove his skills. afraid of delivery choose to literature is depicted in 23:30 Mythbusters have a C-section instead. +2 +11 +15 +13 +17 +20 +22 +19 this miniseries. Based on Adam and Jamie try some 13:20 Fashion ABC +3 Gustave Flaubert’s novel. tested myths again with 13:50 Property Virgins +18 +19 +18 +21 +21 +21 +21 Part 1/3. changes suggested by the Jason’s attitude is too +4 +10 +9 +11 +12 +17 +17 +14 viewers. relaxed for a first-time +4 +25 +22 +22 +25 +25 +23 +25 TV2 00:35 3rd Rock from the Sun property buyer. 14:20 What’s Really in Our Food? +4 14:50 Room for Improvement +5 +17 +22 +19 +17 +16 +16 +17 SUB +4 06:50 Pikku Kakkonen 15:20 Ugly Betty +6 +20 +20 +20 +21 +23 +23 +24 Children’s programming. Betty’s life seems to be in In Finnish. 07:00 Children’s Programming order, until Henry shows +11 +14 +13 +18 +20 +20 +21 10:35 McLeod’s Daughters In Finnish. up in New York with a new Sun 4/25 +14 +18 +19 +18 +21 +18 +17 16:15 Snowy River: The 14:25 Reba girlfriend. +1 McGregor Saga 14:50 E! Entertainment: Psychic 16:20 Days of Our Lives +18 +19 +19 +19 +18 +20 +20 17:26 Pikku Kakkonen Hollywood – The Search 17:15 Everybody Loves Raymond +3 Children’s programming. for the Truth 17:40 Dr. Phil +18 +18 +19 +19 +18 +19 +19 In Finnish. 15:45 The Hills +4 19:30 Animal Rescue +20 +22 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20 20:00 Secret Millionaire 18:05 Sturm der Liebe Helping a woman whose +5 Kevin Green looks for In German. home has been taken over +5 +37 +34 +35 +35 +36 +36 +37 suitable charity causes in 19:00 According to Jim by cats. +5 Barnstaple. 19:30 Will & Grace 20:00 The Bachelor +6 +27 +27 +27 +26 +26 +26 +28 22:05 Law & Order: Special 20:00 Friends Jason takes his women on a +6 +12 +13 +17 +18 +9 +11 +12 Victims Unit (K15) 20:30 The Simpsons family date. 00:10 Torchwood (K13) 22:00 Dollhouse 21.00 Castle Mon 4/26 +13 +10 +13 +8 +8 +8 +12 Students have been exposed SERIES BEGINS. Best- to a dangerous chemical. selling author Richard −1 +12 +15 +14 +15 +18 +20 +18 YLE TEEMA 23:00 C.S.I. Castle begins helping the +19 +17 +19 +10 +13 +11 +12 Grissom withdraws from police when murders from +2 17:00 Jimmy Doherty in Darwin’s investigation because of his his novels start happening +8 +8 +8 +9 +10 +10 +14 +3 Garden trouble with hearing. for real. He is paired with +6 After discovering the 00:50 Temptation Island beautiful inspector Kate +14 +16 +17 +21 +24 +21 +22 principles of plant evolution, Becket. +5 0 +2 +4 +7 +8 +9 +8 Darwin investigated the 23:30 Frasier development of man. TV VIISI Frasier goes to a class +11 +5 +35 +36 +27 +31 +34 +36 +31 Part 3/3. reunion right after being +11 19:00 Our Man in Havana FILM 18:00 That 70s Show fired. +20 +18 +22 +23 +22 +23 +24 Tue 4/27 A vacuum cleaner salesman Donna and Eric spend a 00:00 Mad Men +15 +14 +19 +20 +12 +14 +19 living in Cuba is recruited as romantic weekend in secret. +1 a secret agent in this satiric 18:30 Grounded for Life +32 +32 +31 +33 +31 +31 +30 thriller based on Graham Sean accidentally cuts the JIM +4 +4 +10 +9 +9 +11 +14 +15 Greene’s novel. Directed by neighbourhood’s electricity Carol Reed. Starring: Alec off. 11:20 Classic Car Restoration +4 +7 +6 +6 +7 +6 +7 +12 Guinness, Noel Coward. 19:00 America’s Funniest Home 11:45 Don’t Sweat it +5 UK 1959 Videos 13:05 Carter Can +6 +6 +7 +6 +6 +8 +10 +4 21:00 Music behind the scenes 19:30 My Wife and Kids 13:35 Superscapes +21 +21 +18 +19 +18 +19 +21 A documentary series about 20:00 Extraordinary Pets DOC Architect Kara Overaa +8 +5 the significance of film Meeting some Americans wants an outdoor kitchen +8 +9 +10 +12 +12 +14 +16 +14 music. Part 1/6. with strange choices for built on her big back garden. 22:00 Six Feet Under (K15) pets: a tiger, a giraffe, an 14:05 Miami Ink Wed 4/28 +14 +9 +9 +13 +18 +21 +21 23:25 Little Mosque on the Prairie alligator and a lynx. SERIES ENDS. +15 +15 +18 +15 +17 +20 +20 21:00 Birthday Girl (K15) FILM 17:00 Takeshi’s Castle +2 A bank manager decides 18:00 Medical Emergency to order a mail-order bride 18:30 Surf Patrol +5 for himself in this comedy 19:00 Fifth Gear +8 Thursday 4/22 thriller. She is too good to be Test driving Citroën C6 and +9 true, and when her birthday Honda Legend. approaches, two relatives 21:00 Modern Marvels: Bulls-Eye +7 5:43 am 8:55 pm 5:17 am 9:16 pm from Russia show up. DOC Directed by Jez Butterworth. 22:00 Street Customs +9 +6 5:53 am 9:07 pm 5:08 am 9:25 pm Starring: Nicole Kidman, 23:00 Naked & Funny (K15) +9 Madame Bovary Ben Chaplin. UK 2001 23:30 That News Show 5:43 am 9:05 pm 4:37 am 9:46 pm TV1 22:30 23:00 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 00:55 American Hot Rod

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1. Maajussille morsian MTV3 Fri 977,000 14. House MTV3 Thu 538,000 2. Salatut elämät MTV3 Mon 894,000 20. Midsomer Murders TV1 Sat 517,000 3. Tv-uutiset ja sää TV1 Sun 861,000 23. Poseidon FILM MTV3 Mon 501,000 4. Turvetta ja timantteja TV2 Tue 727,000 24. Emmerdale MTV3 Mon 495,000 5. Urheiluruutu TV1 Thu 656,000 31. Der Alte TV2 Sat 448,000 6. Kymmenen Uutiset MTV3 Wed 639,000 33. Marple: They Do 7. Tartu Mikkiin TV2 Fri 620,000 It with Mirrors TV1 Sun 442,000 8. Lehmän vuosi TV2 Wed 617,000 39. The Bold and the Beautiful MTV3 Tue 389,000 9. Ajankohtainen Kakkonen TV2 Tue 604,000 42. C.S.I. New York MTV3 Wed 377,000 10. Helppo elämä MTV3 Sun 569,000 46. The Old Guys TV1 Wed 363,000 47. Prison Break (K15) MTV3 Tue 359,000 Since Maajussille morsian (“Farmer wants a wife”), a reality show From the foreign language programmes on the Finnish television in which farmers look for love, started at the end of January, it has screen the American drama series House is the most popular, getting challenged the long-running soap opera Salatut Elämät week af- more than half a million viewers every week, making it the 14th most ter week for the position of the most watched programme on the watched programme this week. Midsomer Murders, a long-running Finnish television screen. Two weeks ago, it was the farmers who British drama series, also attracts a large group of viewers every attracted more viewers. TV news with the weather forecast was week. Surprisingly few films feature on the list. The most watched the third most watched programme while the daily sport news at- film two weeks ago was Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen’s disaster film. tracted enough viewers for the fifth position. Turvetta ja Timant- teja, a Finnish countryside comedy, was the fourth most watched In the picture: Mia Halonen presents the reality TV show Maajus- programme of the week. sille morsian in which lonely farmers look for wives. HELSINKI TIMES CLASSIFIEDS & SERVICES 22 – 28 APRIL 2010 232323

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LEHTIKUVA / REUTERS / OLAFUR EGGERTSSON WEDNESDAY A plume of volcanic ash rises into the at- mosphere from a crater under about 200 metres of ice at the Eyjafjallajökull glacier in southern Iceland on 14 April. A huge ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano turned the skies of northern Europe into a no-fly zone on Thursday, stranding hundreds of thou- sands of passengers.

This particular photo caused a moderate stir in the media as it was later discovered that it had been digitally manipulated to seem more impressive. This is the manipu- lated version.

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Ian Fisher (L), a teenager who joined the US Army, takes part in a British musician Brian May of rock band Queen poses in front of A man walks among tents set up at the Campus Party, one of the training drill, in this undated handout. The photo is one of a se- an animal rights billboard in London on 13 April. May opposes world’s biggest on-line electronic entertainment events, at the ries of images by Denver Post photographer Craig Walker that Britain’s opposition Conservative Party’s promise to repeal the new Caja Mágica sports complex in Madrid, on 15 April. Some won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, announced Hunting Act. 800 internet enthusiasts from across Europe are expected to at- in New York on 12 April. tend the four-day Campus Party, organisers said. Participants will gather to share ideas, experiences and all types of activities related to computers, communications and new technology.

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Tibetan quake survivors enjoy a morning cup of rice gruel, or con- A little boy tries to kick a giant ball part of a display of soccer AS Roma and SS Lazio supporters clash before the start of their gee, served to them by Buddhist monks in Jiegu, Yushu County, balls in Sandton, Johannesburg on 17 April. The 2010 World Cup teams’ Serie A football match in Rome’s Olympic Stadium on 18 on 16 April. The death toll from the strong earthquake in north- kicks-off in the city on 11 June. April. western China has risen to 791, state-run Xinhua news agency re- ported. The 6.9-magnitude quake hit Qinghai province’s remote Yushu county toppling thousands of homes and prompting a mas- sive rescue effort.