What Became of Us/Mitä meistä tuli (2009) is a dramatically thrilling independent film from Finland. You will be immersed in this movie with its unique and multifaceted characters, amazing cinematography, and profoundly moving storyline.
Award goes to Finlland infact from 2010 will provide Broadband available and free to everybody in the country. The article is in Italian but the Illuminating video is in English. Have a look!.Award goes to Finlland infact from 2010 will provide Broadband available and free to... more
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
Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband access to every person living in Finland (5.5 million people, give or take).
This is reportedly a first worldwide.
Starting July 2010, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection as an intermediate step, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. By the end of 2015, the legal right will be extended to an impressive 100 Mb broadband connection for everyone.Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband... more
Finland has just passed a law making access to broadband a legal right for Finnish citizens.
When the law goes into effect in July 2010, every person in Finland, which has a population of around 5.3 million, will have the guaranteed right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications (via Finland's YLE).Finland has just passed a law making access to broadband a legal right for Finnish... more
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
Have I shown you this house yet? I know I have roughly one dozen photographs of it from various angles, so I am sure it has appeared here at least once, but just in case, here is a close look at this beautiful house. Anyway, I would love to live in this gorgeous Finnish beach house.Have I shown you this house yet? I know I have roughly one dozen photographs of it... more
Here's a few photographs of several public artworks that I saw frequently while walking around Helsinki, Finland this past summer.Here's a few photographs of several public artworks that I saw frequently while... more
A tree behind the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). I like this photograph and want to share it with you. Of course, as usual, current has distorted the image, so it's best to click through if you want to see it.A tree behind the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). I like this photograph and... more
Petunias on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). I am proud of this photograph and want to share it with you. (and stupid current distorts the image, so click on the link to see an unbastardized photo)Petunias on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). I am proud of... more
A very close look at a Pansy on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). Photographed while I was traveling.A very close look at a Pansy on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki,... more
A close look at some of the Petunias on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland).A close look at some of the Petunias on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola... more
Dahlia blossoms. Photographed in downtown Helsinki, Finland. I just want to share with you because I like this photograph.Dahlia blossoms. Photographed in downtown Helsinki, Finland. I just want to share with... more
Dahlia blossom. Photographed in Downtown Helsinki, Finland. I really like this photograph and want to share it with you.Dahlia blossom. Photographed in Downtown Helsinki, Finland. I really like this... more
Thistle blossoms. Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. I am proud of this and want to share this photograph with you.Thistle blossoms. Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the... more
Poppy blossom. Photographed in the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi on my first day in Helsinki, Finland.Poppy blossom. Photographed in the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the... more
Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this? Photographed in the woods on the way to the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum (near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland).Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this? Photographed in the woods on the way... more
Biting (Goldmoss) Stonecrop, Sedum acre, also known as the Wall-pepper. Includes some interesting information about this plant.Biting (Goldmoss) Stonecrop, Sedum acre, also known as the Wall-pepper. Includes some... more
Helsinki daises. This is another look at those purple-y pink-y daisies that were growing in the gardens outside the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum (near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland).Helsinki daises. This is another look at those purple-y pink-y daisies that were... more
Mystery blossoms. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Can anyone tell me the Finnish, common and scientific names for these beautiful blue flowers?Mystery blossoms. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela... more