#turenki

[beardedmrbean]

Aamulehti reports on a Turenki businessman looking to disrupt Finland's electricity market by installing thousands of batteries in people's homes.

Jukka Järvinen's Teravoima plans to charge these domestic batteries when electricity from renewable sources is cheap and sell the power onto the grid when prices rise.

It is one way to decarbonise the electricity system, and the company offers big benefits to consumers: they would pay just 20 euros a month to rent the battery and 4 cents per kilowatthour of electricity they use — with no transfer charges.

It sounds good, and Teravoima has thousands of people signed up on the waiting list but AL raises some relevant questions about the company's plans. The batteries are rented from a Chinese firm — so what happens if either company goes bust?

It would be the first company in Finland to sell electricity from domestic batteries onto the secondary market, so is that a viable business model?

Järvinen says the company will start installing batteries in the new year.

He says the cost of batteries is likely to plummet, and this business model will become widespread as people look to capitalise on abundant, clean energy — but it remains to be seen if his vision can come to fruition.

40m tax revenues lost

Kauppalehti reports on the surprisingly large number of Finnish firms with links to organised crime.

The paper cites a report from the Tax Administration which suggests nearly 2,000 companies in Finland are run by people with links to organised crime.

The typical firm identified by the administration operates in Uusimaa and is in the construction, property or car trades.

Around 40 million euros of tax revenue is lost each year thanks to organised crime, according to the Tax Administration.

Icy swim therapy

Helsingin Sanomat carries a story about a study currently underway into how cold water swimming could help those suffering from anxiety and depression.

Previous research has demonstrated that swimming in cold water helps trigger endorphin release and thereby promotes mental health.

But researchers from Jyväskylä University are now looking at whether a dip in icy waters before therapy sessions can help patients open up.

"Many of those in the study have previously said that they are at the mercy of their anxiety and they haven't been able to affect it," said psychotherapist Riikka Airo, who is running the study.

The shock of a plunge into cold water can help trigger a powerful physiological reaction, forcing people to simply focus on breathing.

Airo compares the practice to mindfulness of psychophysical therapy, which aims to strengthen the bond between mind and body and find ways to manage stress.

The full results of the study are due next autumn.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.12

538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades. 1158 – German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I. 1579 – Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War. 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. 1689 – James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland. 1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha. 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. 1913 – The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713. 1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin. 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people. 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats". 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria. 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. 1940 – The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala. 1942 – The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies. 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. 1950 – The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster. 1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia. 1968 – Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1971 – The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns. 1989 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web. 1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 1993 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more. 1993 – North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. 2003 – The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). 2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history. 2009 – Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history. 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others. 2020 – The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[elektruserektus]

beautiful memories from last summer

[jareckiworld]

Stiina Saaristo  - Cindarella of Turenki  (gouache, pencils & ink on paper, 2012)

[svantek]

Siinä ne lepää , illan #herkkuhetki #rehtijäätelö #classic #jäätelö #turenki @valiofi #pingviini (paikassa Uusikoti.)

[sofiatietoinen]

if #shire was in #finland (at Turenki, Etelä-Suomen Lääni, Finland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0NOKDehdVx/?igshid=4gxeh052cx8l

[samulifederley-blog]

Some live stuff. #live #concert #meral #guitarist #guitardude #guitarplayer #goodtimes (paikassa Turenki, Etelä-Suomen Lääni, Finland)

[homekiosk-blog]

Sivuprojekti-VHS (2017)

-17 minute sequence

-Searching for Grace Kelly 2e - trailer

-Searching for Grace Kelly 2e

-Turenki sightseeing

-Midsummer diary

Kokonaiskesto n. 36 minuuttia.

5 euroa.

Ostopyynnöt sähköpostilla osoitteeseen:

homekiosk520(ät)gmail.com

[goblindarling]

mä vihaan tota pigviinijäätelömainosta jossa ne sanoo “tässä on marja turengista”

turenki on vitun pieni paikka ja ainakaan mä en oo ikinä nähny ‘marjaa’

[svantek]

#perinteet #kunniaan #herrainklubi #jäätelö #hommia #classicjäätelö #rehtijäätelö #valio #pingviini #turenki @valiofi (paikassa Uusikoti.)

[proteesi]

Oijoi #turenki

[svantek]

#icecreamtime #herrainklubi #classicjäätelö #rehtijäätelö #valio #turenki (paikassa Uusikoti.)

[svantek]

#herrainklubi #jäätelö #rehtijäätelö #classicjäätelö @valiofi #turenki (paikassa Tarkka-Ampujankadun Aurinkoparveke)

[finnland-lizzy]

Week 31

So, this past week I have worked in Turengin yhteiskoulu and lukio. It was a time of many ups and downs.

On Monday for example in the morning I taught math, though in English, which was okay, but I already wrote about me not really having the talent to teach math. Then I was in an English lesson, which I guess the teacher didnt know I was coming to, because they were doing a listening excercice for one hour straight. I got to participate, but reliving my own A-level experience isn´t something I really needed. Then I was in music class. To her absolute excuse the teacher had no clue who I was, but I assumed she knew, which was why I didn´t really have anything to do in that either. The upside was that I just fell in with a few of the students and animated them to speak English. Then we had a little birthday get-together in Satama, for both Kitta and me. The cake was fantastic and I got some great presents :)

On Tuesday in Art class I preped for the big “Kieli päivä”, language day, on Friday. Then there was another music lesson, which ended in the music teacher finally finding out/understanding, who I actually was :D She is very nice though and organizes “The Voice of Jallu” (?), a talent competition in the school, which she invited me too.

Then followed more preparation for Friday in German class, and a rather regular but fun English class.

On wednesday I was sick, and my best friend Polly arrived from Germany <3 Then, of course, Thursday was my 20th birthday. In the lessons we kept preping for the Kielipäivä, until in the last one I had Drama for the first time.

Now that was quite something. The Drama teacher is amazing at her job, Polly and I participated in two lessons in total and it was such fun and great opportunity to see a pro in action.

After school we went frisbee golfing, to find the course and see if it was fun - and it was!

We also had carrot cake, which is a bit of a tradition for me on birthdays-

On Friday it was Language day time! The teachers really put a lot of effort in it, there was a language café, a quiz and different areas where you “had to”/could speak and learn different languages. I talked to a few of the teenagers in German, so that was fun, and the day was a success.

My friends arrived the same day; I had invited them for my birthday party on saturday! The weekend was then of course filled with sunshine, good conversations, fun and good foods :) We played Frisbee-Golf and Activity and watched some of my all time favourite movies.

This week I am on holiday, which is lovely <3 Yesterday Polly and I just chilled, in anticipation for today, but she was already sick. Nevertheless we left for Turku this morning. The day was a bit of a complete disaster. Turku is nice enough and we went to the Maritime Forum and looked at different boats, it was nice. And we saw the castle from a distance.

Then Polly was feeling much worse though, so we decided to go to a doctor. Accidently we went to a private doctor of course (in Finland there are public and private ones), it was a huge mess and I had to speak a lot of Finnish, but in thanks to a great, really nice doctor, we got out of it and didn´t have to pay for anything. I am pretty proud of myself for speaking so much Finnish so fluently.

After that we decided to cut our trip dramatically short and just go back home today. It was definitely the right decision to make, so that Polly has time to rest and get better before we go to Helsinki on Thursday.

I´ll let you know how the rest of my holiday has been next week.

Terveisin,

Lisa