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What Became of Us Movie Review

What Became of Us/Mitä meistä tuli (2009) is a dramatically thrilling independent... more

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The Award goes to Finlland infact from 2010 will provide Broadband available and free to everybody.

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SYNCHRONICITY

Synchronicities are those moments of “meaningful coincidence” when the boundary dissolves between the inner and the outer. At the synchronistic moment, just like a dream, our internal, subjective state appears, as if materialized in, as and through the outside world. Touching the heart of our being, synchronicities are moments in time in which there is a fissure in the fabric of what we have taken for reality and there is a bleed through from a higher dimension outside of time. Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality, as they are moments in time when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and openly reveals itself to us, offering us an open doorway to lucidity.

Synchronicity was one of Jung’s most profound yet least understood discoveries, in part because it cannot be appreciated until we personally step into and experience the synchronistic realm for ourselves. Jung’s discovery of synchronicity was in a sense the parallel in the realm of psychology to Einstein’s discovery of the law of relativity in physics. Because it is so radically discontinuous with our conventional notions of the nature of reality, the experience of synchronicity is so literally mind-blowing that Jung contemplated this phenomenon for over twenty years before he published his thinking about it. Jung’s synchronistic universe was a new world view which embraced linear causality while simultaneously transcending it. A synchronistic universe balances and complements the mechanistic world of linear causality with a realm that is outside of space, time and causality. In a synchronicity, two heterogeneous world-systems, the causal and acausal, interlock and interpenetrate each other for a moment in time, which is both an expression of while creating in the field an aspect of our wholeness to manifest. The synchronistic universe is beginning-less in that we are participating in its creation right now, which is why Jung calls it “an act of creation in time.”Synchronicities are those moments of “meaningful coincidence” when the boundary... more

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Finland Makes Broadband Access a Legal Right

Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband... more

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Landmark Law: Finland Makes Broadband Access Legal Right

Finland has just passed a law making access to broadband a legal right for Finnish... more

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Russian mother charged for kidnapping own son in Finland- Russia launches against Finnish father

MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will ask Finland for extradition of a Russian woman's former husband, accused by a Russian court of kidnapping his son, a spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday.

A court in Finland ruled earlier on Tuesday that Rimma Salonen, who has both Russian and Finnish citizenship, had illegally taken her son Anton, who also has dual Russian-Finnish citizenship, out of Finland last year.

Salonen was given an 18-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay 30,000 euros ($44,000) in compensation to her former husband for moral damages and losses.

On April 12 this year, her ex-husband, Paavo Salonen, took Anton, now 6, back to Finland with the help of St. Petersburg-based Finnish diplomat Simo Pietilainen, sparking a diplomatic row between Russia and Finland.

"The crime was committed in Russia's territory, and the main investigative procedures were carried out by Russian investigators," prosecutors' spokesman Vladimir Markin said, adding the case had been handed over to the top investigative body of the Russian Prosecutor's Office and reached its final stage.

Salonen's Finnish lawyer, Johan Backman, said earlier on Tuesday they would appeal the Finnish court's ruling.

Salonen, from Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Region, was arrested on July 31 at an airport in the Finnish city of Tampere, where she had traveled to take out 30,000 euros previously frozen in her Finnish account, and to meet with Anton, as well as Nikita, her 19-year-old son from a previous marriage.

Backman told reporters in August that just before leaving for Finland, his client had contacted Finnish police and received a guarantee from them that she would not be arrested.

Salonen went on trial on September 29. Finnish prosecutors demanded a suspended sentence for her, while her former husband said she should be given a prison sentence of at least 18 months.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later protested to his Finnish counterpart, Alexander Stubb, over the incident, and Pietilainen was declared persona non grata in Russia.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in June that the former Finnish diplomat's actions undermined trust between the countries, and Finnish President Tarja Halonen condemned the behavior of the diplomat.MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will ask Finland for extradition of a... more