ISSUE 27 (157) • 8 – 14 JULY 2010 • €3 • WWW.HELSINKITIMES.FI SUMMER GUIDE BUSINESS LIFESTYLE EAT & DRINK Special Kiviniemi Summer New summer focuses snow Persian section on economy adventure cuisine pages 11-13 page 8 page 14 page 16 LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI Did you Finland says know this yes to nuclear about Finnish? power reactors ALLAN BAIN ALLAN BAIN HELSINKI TIMES HELSINKI TIMES ON WHICH syllable/s words are em- THE FINNISH parliament has voted phasised and how sentences are in- to accept the Government’s propos- toned are fundamental elements of al for the building of two new nucle- any language. Yet, when Finnish is ar power reactors. discussed such issues as the seem- On the table were two proposed ingly infi nite number of noun and permits, Teollisuuden Voima’s (TVO) adjective groups or the differenc- and Fennovoima’s. The fi rst was ac- es between the spoken and written cepted with a 121-72 majority while language come up at the expense of the second was only marginally less emphasis and intonation. popular: it was supported 120-72. This is notable because the stress The vote was a highly conten- and intonation of the Finnish lan- tious one, splitting different polit- guage are relatively unique. Emphasis ical parties, members of individual is placed on the fi rst syllable of rough- parties themselves, and Finland’s ly 99.999 per cent of every Finnish citizenry. The vote, however, was word spoken, something one would a rough approximation of senti- Police moves a victim’s body at the crime scene in Porvoo after a shooting on early Tuesday morning. almost expect from the language of ments in the country about nu- a reputedly orderly country like Fin- clear power despite the freedom land. Likewise, Finnish’s intonation is parliamentarians were given by almost without exception: it’s practi- their parties to vote according to Shooter has violent history cally always a falling one. the MP’s own conscience. Accord- But are emphasis and intonation ing to different opinion polls, Finns ten, the police say. None of the res- diffi cult to learn? What obstacles are more pro-nuclear than other An argument in a fast food drive-through lane resulted taurant workers were wounded. stand in the way of a Finnish lan- EU citizens. in the death of three in Porvoo, Southern Finland. Three people were taken into guage student’s mastery of them? Although opposing views on the custody by the police shortly after And, ultimately, does it really mat- ethics of nuclear power played a the shooting on a highway near Por- ter if a foreigner gets on top of these major role in the vote, issues per- STT ish News Agency (STT) that an ar- voo. An illegal handgun was found features of the language? taining to economics and practicali- PETRA NYMAN – HT gument appeared to have broken in the possession of the suspected ty were also of extreme importance. out between customers before shooter at the time of arrest. He is Find out the answers to these ques- THREE lives were claimed in a shoot- the shooting, with a few motor- a Porvoo resident born in 1969 who tions and more on page 4. For more on this story, see page 3. ing outside a 24 hour McDonald’s ists waiting to be served in the has a history of violent crime. The restaurant in Porvoo in southern drive-through lane. At the time of man was released from prison in Finland in the early hours of the the shooting three cars were wait- December after serving 12 years of rose to the summer’s record fi gure of morning of Tuesday 6 July. The vic- ing to be served by the fast food a life sentence for homicide. Hot weather 30,1 degrees in Puumala, Southern tims and the shooter were previous- restaurant. According to the police the prime Savo. This still falls short of the high- ly unacquainted. Two of the victims The victims were in an open con- suspect denies the shooting, but ad- est ever recorded temperature from died on site and the third was rushed vertible with two other people who mits the possession of an illegal gun. continues the year 1914. On 9 July that year the to Töölö hospital where he died of his managed to escape the shooting un- He claims to have been intoxicated STT temperature reached 35 degrees in wounds. Two of the deceased were harmed. Those who escaped were and that he has no recollection of the HELSINKI TIMES several localities. from Askola, a small town north of pregnant woman and her part- events of the early morning. Police In the inland parts of southern Porvoo, and were born in 1982 and ner. According to the police the vic- investigator Peter Fagerholm says HOT WEATHER will continue until the and central Finland there are approxi- 1965, the third a resident of Loviisa, tims were shot in the head and the that the level of alcohol involved in beginning of next week. According to mately 10-15 days of hot weather with born in 1982. chest at a relatively close range. It is the crime appears to have been low, the forecast of the Finnish Meteoro- temperatures above 25 degrees in a Hannu Nurmi, the franchisee not yet clear how many shots were but it is too early to speculate its in- logical Institute temperatures may summer, and 5-10 such days in north- of the restaurant, told the Finn- fi red, but the number is closer to fl uence on the events. rise to around 30 degrees Celsius in ern Finland and on the coasts. the south over the weekend. North- ern Finland will go well above 20 de- Check the weather forecast for the grees Celsius already by Thursday. coming days in Finland and abroad That’s it – almost over for another four years On Tuesday 6 July the temperature on page 22. ALLAN BAIN Mexico that even the referee could Paraguay and Brazil going out at the HELSINKI TIMES see was offside from the stadium’s quarter-fi nal stage, it was a fair bet big screen – but the goal stood. that we’d get an all-European fi nal. AFTER four weeks of excitement, Controversy continued in the There could be a repeat of the some boredom, amazing goals, rub- quarter-fi nals when Uruguay’s Luis 1974 fi nal, albeit with Germany bish goals, and the incessant sound Suárez intentionally handled the ball competing as one nation this time. of the vuvuzela in the background, to prevent a Ghanaian goal in the dy- The Dutch, employing their creation the football World Cup of 2010 is al- ing seconds of extra time; Ghana ‘total football’, arguably should’ve most at an end. failed to convert the resulting penal- won that game but it wasn’t to be. Since the last issue of Helsin- ty, forcing them into a penalty shoot- They also lost the 1978 fi nal, so may- ki Times, a lot has happened. First- out that they ultimately lost. be it’s now their turn to triumph. ly, the group stage was concluded, At the time of going to print, That’s easier said than done, how- with big footballing nations like It- there was still one place up for grabs ever, with reigning European cham- aly and France sent packing. Then in this year’s fi nal; a chance for Ger- pions Spain or a seemingly invincible the second round came and went many or Spain to deny the Nether- German team for opponents. but not before generating a huge lands their fi rst World Cup. In the The failed semi-fi nalists will amount of controversy. First there fi rst of the semi-fi nals, the Dutch fi ght it out for third spot on Satur- was the English ‘goal that nev- overpowered Uruguay, who put up day 10 July, with the fi nal taking The weather will continue to be very warm in southern and central Finland for er was’ followed later on the same a strong fi ght in an exciting con- place the following day. Then anoth- several more days. day by an Argentinean goal against test that ended 3-2. With Argentina, er four-year wait will begin. 2 8 – 14 JULY 2010 VIEWPOINT HELSINKI TIMES PHOTO: HANNU JUKOLA COLUMN Profitable moment with Richard Quest WHEN BP’s CEO Tony Hayward took a beating before US Congress two weeks ago I felt sorry for him. Hour after hour he sat there, looking miserable as congress- men lined up to put the boot in. After three hours of watching the nearest thing we have to a modern day lynching, I was prepared to shout ‘Enough’. And so on Friday’s ‘Quest Means Business’ I decided to challenge two Juuso Salokoski is an international banker who has worked for the Kansallis-Osake- of the Congressmen who took Hayward to task, and I start- Pankki, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and as a private ed to understand. independent financial consultant. This viewpoint is based on a presentation given by Salokoski to the Helsinki International Rotary Club in May 2010. THEY are politicians, and, as Congressman John Sulli- van admitted, they face an angry electorate who wants to know what happened and who is to blame. Both men reminded me that there were thousands of pages of evi- dence allegedly showing BP’s culture of cutting costs over The day when the ants and the safety.