INSIDER 16.09.16 | VOL. 19 | ISSUE 02
STUDENT MAGAZINE OF KYMENLAAKSO UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
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Drip, Drip Goes The Tap Water...
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Kupla Hangout @meduusa-studio
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Helsinki Desing Week 2016
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Simple Crostini
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Lirio Abbates’ Mafia Wives A Day To Remember: Bad Vibrations Throwback: Star Trek Beyond
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Satisfy your HUNGER We are used to our routines. Going to the same shop to get the same bag of chips. One day we decide to buy a different bag of chips. Instead of salted, we pick barbeque. With the new flavor on our lips we welcome a new day.
similation can be a daunting task because we have to learn new traditions, climate, and people. These people will help us when we are troubled or keep a distance when at a bus stop. Under a Finn’s icy exterior lies a warmth greater than a sauna. But we This day is a 3½ year are not here to talk stay in Finland. As- about sauna!
The discussion is about how foreigners get accustomed to customs most foreign. Featuring information on Design Week and a recipe to get your mouth watering. Pick up your fork and knife, and dig in!
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KUPLA HANGOUT
14.09.2016 @meduusa-studio
How massively successful was that last Kupla party, though? Choosing Meduusa Studio as the venue for a relaxed chill out session allowed for the organisers to get creative with the decorations which were a pleasant mix of creepy and innovative. It was great gettogether of different nationalities as a surprisingly big number of students actually attended, playing classical table-top games such as vermented hops-malt-juice pong before venturing on to BarQ to get their groove on. It was all in all a very charming evening that should be repeated in similar fashion in due time. The only downside was the shocking lack of puppies - something to consider for next time. I’m kidding, obviously - or am I? ď ? By Sarah Rosenthal 4
exchange students at the Helsinki Design Week 2016
Photos by Julia Weyrauch & AnnaPaola Vacanti On Saturday morning nine exchange students from Kouvola arrived at the main railway station in Helsinki. Along with us we brought cloudy weather and tired minds, since some of us chose to party till three the night before. Still, the expectations for the design week were high and therefore we didn’t stay long in our Airbnb apartment unpacking, but left to see the city installations and design galleries. Most of the installations were outside and all over the Helsinki city center and without a proper map or the magazine with the events you were basically lost. But since we were well equipped and never afraid of a little challenge we made our way through the center. The most interesting exhibition for the design students was the Artek shop. Besides being well structured the students had the
ability to get actually in contact with the products, which were content of the courses before. While most of the exhibition pieces were “just furniture” in my eyes, the eyes of a business student, the other students enjoyed the wooden chairs by Alvar Aalto etc. After a rather strange but funny glass installation about “odd birds” by Oiva Toikka next to the harbor, we sat down on the stairs in front of the Helsinki cathedral. Then we went to the Helsinki Design district in Punavuori, just to find every art gallery was already closed. A bit unsatisfied we walked our way back to the apartment. In the evening we were invited by a Finnish girl from Kouvola to join her at the Sompasauna. This is a mixed public sauna on the other side of Helsinki, next to the sea. It was quite an experience for the most of us, since we are not used
to see so many completely naked bodies. We had a great night enjoying the sauna, swimming in the ice cold sea and barbecuing there, before we went back to Helsinki and into a bar. Prices in the nightlife of Helsinki were shockingly high in our opinion, especially for people from Germany and the Czech, where beer prices are between one and three Euros. We found a bar with some punk rock live music and free entrance. On Sunday we visited the Temppeliaukion Church and a farmers market. It was an interesting weekend, especially for myself, learning more about design. For the designers it was a bit disappointing, since we were not able to see everything due to the large distances and the early closing times. Text by Julia Weyrauch
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Drip, Drip, Goes The Tap Water...
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ater. The most essential item to life. We need it even more than food, otherwise we end up horizontal. People loose their minds trying to defend it and obtain it in a drought, yet we take it for granted. Those in developed countries use massive amounts daily, to wash their dishes, flush their toilets, and dump buckets of it upon themselves just to purge the sweat off their skin. If you are not in a third world country, you can probably drink water from the faucet. Each country seems to have their own unique mixture of chemicals to contribute to the taste or to the extermination of bacteria. I have traveled to about 10 countries so far in my lifetime and this is what I have gathered. ď ‹
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tarting off in Ethiopia, a northeastern African country, there is running water in the hotels. In most public bathrooms however, you will be required to squat over a hole in the cement floor, with no option to flush. There may be in the sink in the room, but nine times out of ten, it will not work. An attendant may be nearby to hand you single sheets of toilet paper but don’t count on it. This is the main reason why Ethiopians eat with, and even shake with, their right hand – the left is unclean. If you have a chance at running water, it is not recommended to drink unless you are a local. I have seen a native boy polish off a bottle full of brown water – apparently he had a stomach of steel. To the west, in the U.S., we are told the tap water is clean. It is plentiful and no one meters their usage of it except the water company. Rain barrels are sold in some stores to offset the environmental impact, but the usage of these are actually illegal in most states. Funnily enough, water filters which can be attached to the faucet are sold by the truckload. There is a noticeable difference in taste after using a filter. Chemicals such as chlorine and lead have been found in such water. Flint, Michigan has it the worst. Their water supply is near an oil rig and therefore their tap water runs orange. Jumping back around the globe to western Europe, let us take a look at Denmark and Germany. Denmark has substantially better tasting water than what is provided in the United States but with one catch: excessive amounts of calcium. This calcium is not so noticeable to the tongue, but to the sink, it leaves white stains over time. The effects on the bones of the consumer may also be at question. Too much of something good is often bad. Excess amounts of calcium can lead to the body producing less on its own. While Germany also shares the calcium overload of its northern brethren, it sticks out in my mind as having immaculate public facilities. Each visit will likely cost you a Euro, but it is well worth it, for even the most basic bathroom will make the user feel regal. Last on the list is the country where this article is being produced – Finland. Finland is a Scandinavian country like Denmark, but even more so than Denmark, the government and its citizens are committed to the environment.
There are multiple recycling bins to sort out each material. Residual waste is converted into energy. A Finnish elevator producer named Kone is so invested in green technology that they have invented a oil-free elevator. Not only does it lack oil, but when it descends to the ground floor, energy is thrown back into the grid for the city to consume. Trees are found not in groups of tens, or hundreds, but millions. The air is clean and asthmatics are finally free.
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eople ask me why I came to Finland and one of the first answers I give them is, the tap water. Because this country is so green, both metaphorically and literally, their municipal water supply is considered to be some of the best in the world. Even if it were officially the best, the Finns would likely not admit it. Being influenced heavily by Lutheranism, outward pride is almost frowned upon. The water in Finland is as clean as the air. You can almost breathe it in. No contaminants to be found, even with a microscope. Taking a shower with your eyes open does not burn your eyes, causing them to itch for hours later. Drinking it does not bring upon an aftertaste. The average consumer does not need to buy a water filter just to intake their daily nourishment. In this way, the people win - not the corporations. There are jokes in The States that the tap water is dumbing down the population. Though correlation does not necessarily prove causation, it is worth noting that Finland is often found at the top of the educational charts. Tap water may be more important than once believed. Maybe next time you switch on that sink and watch the liquid instantly appear before your eyes, you will have a deeply philosophical moment. Your roommate will walk in on you, ask why you are staring into the sink, and you will reply “It’s a long story...” Text & Photos by Grayson Leif Heflin 7
simple crostini This week we are preparing a very simple starter. It can be served as a partysnack as well. Very easy to make, doesn’t require any actual cooking at all! There are two versions, one with ham and the other with tuna. By Suvi Karell The meaty version: • • • • • • •
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baguette (or any white bread) parma ham 200g sun-dried tomato - flavored cream cheese fresh tomatoes 200/125g mozzarella fresh basil black pepper
Cut the baguette into approximately 1-2cm slices. Spread a thick layer of cream cheese. Add a slice of tomato, then mozzarella on top and season with black pepper. Add ham, garnish with fresh basil and there you have it! Simple, easy to make and oh, so good!
Start by mixing cream cheese with creme fraiche. Chop onion and dill, then add them to the mix. Season with black pepper. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into the mix, add tuna and mix well. Cut the baguette into slices, cover slices with lettuce and simply add the tuna-cream cheese mix on top, garnish with dill.
The tuna version: • • • • • • • • •
baguette (or any white bread) 200g chive - flavored cream cheese 200g crème fraÎche 1 fresh onion 200/150g (a can) tuna 1 fresh lemon dill fresh lettuce black pepper
Lirio Abbate * February 26, 1971 Abbate is an Italian journalist of the weekly news magazine L’espresso. He has been threatend several times bu Sicilian Mafi Bosses and closely evaded being killed by a bomb placed under his car. Bibliography
• 1993 - Nostra mafia dei monti
• 1994 - La storia del
giro podistico di Castelbuono • 1996 - La mafia che ho conosciuto • 2007 - I complici. Tutti gli uomini di Bernardo Provenzano da Corleone al Parlamento
mafia wives This book called “Fimmine ribelli” which is called “Mafia Wives” in Finnish, is a book full with real life stories of females, who are either related or married to members of mafia in Italy. This is a shocking reportage which describes in details what kind of lives they live, what they have to go through and how they will suffer if they act against their families or husband’s beliefs. Honour killings are described as a very simple routine, which will happen if someone betrays the family. Most of the females mentioned in the book don’t have any rights, they can’t fill for a divorce, and even if their husband passes away, the wife is not allowed to get married again. However, the husband has every right to do whatever he feels like doing. One
of the most touching story was about a 24-year-old young woman, who couldn’t divorce her abusive husband, and after a few weeks of fighting with her husband, her body was found, but it was made to look like she had committed suicide. Later investigators proved that she was murdered by her husband. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in real life stories, specially about stories that happen just near us, which we hear nothing about. The “scariest” part of this book is the fact that all of these stories have happened just recently, there are females still trying to fight for their freedom in today’s Europe. Text by Setareh Nourzad 9
bad VIBRATIONS A DAY TO REMEMBER
is the greatest downfall of their sixth studio album, the aptly titled Bad Vibrations. Apart from aggressive “Paranoia” and the slowly building ballad “Forgive and Forget”, barely any track hits the golden mean.
Genre Metalcore/Pop Punk Release Date September 02, 2016 Producer Bill Stevenson, Jason Livermore Rating 1.5/5 Text by Roope Sorvo Called “the heaviest pop-punk band in the world”, the Florida collective A Day to Remember is one those few choice bands that could be pointed to when you need to tell a genreist metalhead that not all metalcore is automatically terrible. Combining borderline petulant and selfabsorbed lyrics with the shotgun marriage of pop-punk and metalcore sounds like a winning combination about as much as party punch and hand sanitizer, but the vitriol and the sincerity of the band’s performance makes it work. Unfortunately, this only applies to the band when it sticks to the formula, and that formula is a dangerous tightrope: veering too much into either direction makes the performance either too poppy or too heavy, neither of which A Day to Remember has the chops to pull off. And that balancing issue 10
The two halves complete each other: without the pop mentality metalcore tracks like “Exposed” and “Reassemble” are all bark and no bite, like a toothless, old tree. Jeremy McKinnon’s raspy singing is fine, but the heavier growling sounds incredibly strenuous and just makes the listener wonder how many times his bandmates mistakenly applied the Heimlich maneuver at him during the recordings. In the other end of the spectrum the songwriting isn’t sharp enough to provide melodic hooks required to make the pop-punk tracks like “Negative Space” or “We Got This” interesting or memorable. They lack edge. Sometimes the lack of balance can be seen within an individual song: “Same About You” goes from Jimmy Eat World to Pantera with no middle ground, appearing a grotesque, hollow imitation of the band’s usual style. In addition to roughly five extra vowels he pronounces in the word itself, on “Naivety” there’s unintentional comedy provided by the ‘bitter old man’ way the 30-year old McKinnon laments about his loss of idealism. Only the title track manages to convey any meaningful message, chronicling the singer’s battle with depression. Overall Bad Vibrations is just a disappointment. A Day to Remember has managed to use their formula to pump out decent albums in the past. Here, it feels the band has either lost the sense of what made them good in the first place, or just exhausted their rather limited range. Either way, Bad Vibrations is something the listener will feel too.
star trek BEYOND THROWBACK
Genre Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action Director Justin Lin Writers Simon Pegg, Doug Jung DVD Release Date November 01, 2016 Rating 4.5/5 Text by Sarah Rosenthal The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test. Fifty years ago, Star Trek debuted with the USS Enterprise as the main space-faring vessel used in much of the Star Trek universe. As such, this particular starfleet vessel holds a treasured place in the hearts of Star Trek fans and is as much of a character in the show as Kirk and Spock. Clocking in at 531,4 hours of screen time in over three different series,
a total of 14 seasons on TV and 13 feature films, the iterations of Enterprise have captured the imaginations and provided inspiration for its fans across the globe. And just in time for its fiftieth birthday the third installment of the rebooted Star Trek universe entered cinemas. Having Simon Pegg, a long time Trekkie himself, on board for the writing, has proven to be one of the producers brightest ideas since enrolling J.J. Abrahms for the initial reboot in 2009. Not only does Pegg posses a unique understanding of the characters, their motivations and relationships with each other but he also manages create a believable villain with Krall (portrayed by Idris Elba). Shining a new light on the certain aspects of Federation society, its politics and view of those opposing them has come just in time too. Come March Netflix is going to launch an all new Star Trek Series that will take the Star Trek universe to new frontiers with a different approach on how it tells its stories. But coming back to what Star Trek Beyond, by far my personal favourite of the rebooted series. On the 966th day of their five year mission the Enterprise reaches the remote Starbase Yorktown where they pick up a
distress call from a survivor of a ship crash on a planet hidden within a nebular that prevents any and all communications with the rest of starfleet. Being the most advanced ship in the vicinity the Enterprise and her crew set out on a rescue mission. The movie is cinematographically absolutely stunning and set at a breathtaking pace thanks to director Justin Lin who is well known for his involvement in the Fast and the Furious action movies. The soundtrack is a brilliant mix of canonic Star Trek tunes and the classical music of the Beastie Boys which ultimately saves Yorktown. Alterations do not only include new uniforms but also so many new aliens which obviously have the important task to to the best of their abilities tear those uniforms apart. Every scene with Spock and Bones in it adds a note of humour as well as the communication difficulties stemming from language barriers resulting in the creation of “Montgomery Scotty” and “James Tee”. The movies’ release was sadly overshadowed by the recent passing of two members of the Star Trek family. In loving memory of Leonard Nimoy For Anton 11
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