Vol 19 Issue 18

INSIDER 10.03.17 | VOL. 19 | ISSUE 18

STUDENT MAGAZINE

TOP 5 CITIES IN GERMANY WHERE YOU PROBABLY WON’T MEET OTHER TOURIST

BY JULIA FELIZITAS WEYRAUCH

Features & Recipe  Apps  Profile: Frank Van De Voorde  Chocolate Cake

Reviews  Gigantic  Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness  Moonlight

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EDITORIAL Back Again!

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays, so now it time to hit the books again. The funny thing is that during the holidays the weather was not the best now that we are all back the weather is getting better and better, this is always the same.

In this week issue we are bring back the profiles, yes profiles, so Grayson is email people and asking would they like to be profiled, looking at the question they are different from Franks questions.

The recipe is chocolate cake which is great but the problem is that I did not get to test the cake and am not happy about. If you what to travel when we next have time off we have list of the top 5 cities in Germany you may not meet other tourists so you might not bump into someone you know. Don’t forget to read about music Broadway zombies and the movie has gotten our highest rating so far.

So grab a coffee and a nice chair and enjoy reading this issue.

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FRANK VAN DE VOORDE Frank Van De Voorde is a third year International Business student at XAMK. His interests include ice hockey, football, programming, and computer gaming. As far as business is concerned, his is most interested in operations management and sustainability.

Are you interested in watching ice hockey and football or playing as well? I used to play football myself but I had to quit due to a severe knee injury. However, I avidly watch both football and ice hockey and have attended live games of both sports.

I rather just pick the parts, and let someone else put it together. Really the most important is to pick the parts yourself. Building it, is really a matter of effort versus reward.

Do you have any favourite teams or players in either sport? My favorite football team is Ajax and ice hockey team Ilves. I currently don’t really have any favorite football players but I used to be a big fan of Marco van Basten and Jari Litmanen. My favorite ice hockey players are Raimo Helminen (Doesn’t actively play anymore), Sebastian Aho, and Mikael Granlund.

Being a computer gamer how do you feel about console games?

I am not much of a console gamer unfortunately. While I do own an Xbox One I barely get around to hanging in the couch and playing.

I much prefer keyboard and mouse for gaming.

Is it better to build your own PC or buy a premade one? To be honest, it kind of depends. I actually recently had to replace my CPU fan and you can do that yourself rather easily nowadays. Similarly, putting a PC together isn’t that difficult with all the YouTube videos out there.

However, on the other hand, with the ease of ecommerce, and part picker sites you can buy a customized system nowadays for just a bit higher price. At the end of the day,

Do you prefer AAA or indie games? I tend to play AAA titles more than indie games. I grew up with the whole 4 color gaming scene seeing as my first computer was a C64 and I really feel that it doesn’t interest me anymore. Having said that, I do appreciate the innovation that indie games bring.

AAA titles are often stuck in repetition and hardly ever think outside the box. One of my favorite games of recent years was actually crowdfunded.

In what languages do you prefer to program? I program mostly in PHP and to some extent JavaScript.

Web, apps, programs, or games?

Because I am a web developer, I solely program websites; mostly SQL queries, dynamic web page content or UI interaction. I have been trying to find some time to diverge, and focus more on Java and Python programming but it is hard to stick to it on my own. It is however a future goal, and I’ll eventually get around to it.

Although you started out at Kyamk you will be graduating at XAMK. How has the change affected you in either a positive or negative way? Eh, I personally don’t much care either way. I guess on the positive side is the fact that XAMK is a much larger organization but on the negative side it feels like a loss of identity. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, the degree is the same.

What were the most influential or helpful classes to learn about your specialisation in operations management and sustainability?

Ethics and Sustainability in Supply Chain Management, and SCM. Unfortunately, there are no real operations management courses part of our curriculum. Something I would definitely have liked to see more of.

Grayson Leif Heflin

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TOP 5 CITIES IN GERMANY WHERE YOU PROBABLY WON’T MEET OTHER TOURISTS Julia Felizitas Weyrauch

1) CHEMNITZ Located in the West of Saxony, Chemnitz belonged to the German Democratic Republic and was renamed “Karl-Marx Stadt” between 1953 and 1990. Around 250k people live there today.

Besides a monumental head of Karl Marx, the city’s major sightseeing hits are a tower from the Middle Ages surrounded by 60’s and 70’s buildings and the colourful chimney of a power station. Chemnitz has its own technical university and offers memberships in football and hockey clubs.

2) LUDWIGSHAFEN Close to French-German border and the spectacular city of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen is situated next to the river Rhine. Temperatures can reach 40 degrees in the summer and the cityscape is characterized by a large traffic system and industrial sites of chemical companies, such as BASF. Ludwigshafen obtains a university and an institute which focuses on East Asian studies.

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3) JENA Every time I went by car from Frankfurt to Berlin or the way back, I’m excited for passing by this concrete paradise. While other cities reduce the amount of brutalist architecture, I get the feeling, that Jena is quite proud of it. On the contrary, the amount of apartment blocks up the hills seems to grow. However, the city is quite old and about twenty of the citizens are students. Due to airstrikes in 1945 most of the city’s old core has been destroyed and was substituted by buildings of different architectural styles.

4) BOCHUM This city belongs to an area, which is commonly known as “Ruhrpott” (area around the river Ruhr), that had been famous for its mining industry.

Over the last years, the whole area tried to develop in order to increase the living standards and remove the destruction owing to the enormous coal mining in the last century. The mining museum in Bochum was one of the tourist attractions in 2010, when the area was elected as European Capital of Culture.

5) WUPPERTAL Located close to Bochum, Wuppertal is famous for its suspension railway, which exists already over a century, and its rainy weather. The city offers museums with modern exhibitions, a theatre and an opera. However, according to some German tourists, most of the city looks quite abandoned.

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CHOCOLATE CAKE SO DELICIOUS YOU'LL WANT TO MARRY IT

The holiday is over and a new chapter in our school lives is starting.

To celebrate that, we shall this week bake a chocolate cake. This is very difficult to make. This also takes a lot of time and requires a lot of concentration, which means that the majority of you will fail, as you did with your exams before the break.

What you do: 1. Separate the egg whites and the yolks into different bowls.

2. Cut the chocolate and butter and set them in the double-boiler.

3. Put all the dry ingredients to one bowl.

4. Froth the egg yolks and the sugar.

5. Add then the chocolate-butter mix into the froth.

6. Add flour.

7. Finally, froth the egg whites and add them into the mix carefully. Avoid mixing too much.

8. Butter and add bread crumbs to a ca. 24cm cake mold.

9. Bake the cake in 175°C for 55-60 minutes.

What you do next: 1. Set the gelatine sheets into cold water for at least 10 minutes.

2. Make the whipped cream.

3. Once ready, add the cream cheese and all the sugar. At this point you can also add the food colouring into the mix, 1-3 teaspoons depending how green you want the filling to be.

4. Parboil 1-2 tablespoons of water and set the pressed gelatin sheets into the water. Let it cool for a little while.

5. Add the gelatin-water mix carefully into the cream cheese-mix.

6. Crush the mint chocolate and add it into the mix.

7. Set the filling into fridge for 10-15 minutes.

8. Cut the cake base into three slices.

9. Moisten the bottom slice of the base and add half of the filling into it.

Repeat this to the other layer as well.

10. Place the cake into fridge and let it stay there over night.

11. Next day make the chocolate ganache. Chop the chocolate and parboil it with butter. Then add the cream in it, mix until smooth. Let it cool down for a while and then poor it on top of the cake.

12. Garnish the amazing work of art with candy of your choice.

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For the base: 250 g dark chocolate 200 g butter 7 eggs 2½ dl sugar 2 dl wheat flour 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar 2½ dl baking powder bread crumbs

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For the filling: 200 g mint chocolate 2 dl whipped cream ½ dl curd 200 g fresh cheese (vanilla flavoured) • food colouring liquid (green) • 30g melted butter • 3 gelatine sheets ½ • powdered sugar • 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

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For the chocolate ganache:

• 200 g Fazerin sininen chocolate

• 1 dl whipping cream • 30 g butter

A FRESH NEW LOOK AT MOBA GAMES Gigantic an early access, free to play, multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA for short) game developed by Motiga studios. In Gigantic you select one character from a character list of sixteen. From these character your team of five will assemble a team. Your team’s main goal is to kill the opponent team’s guardian and win the match. To make this happen your team must fight the opponent heroes and summon, upgrade and protect your own creatures while obviously the enemy team will try to do the exact same thing. To win a match your team needs to injure the enemy guardian three times.

Gigantic is an interesting take on one of the most played video game genres. The game doesn’t have too complex character pool, levelling or inventory.

Unlikely more known MOBA’s League of Legends or Dota, I didn’t feel Gigantic had gargantuan skill requirement. I was quite happy to see that you only needed to remember the basic things about the map you are playing, you character basic strengths and weaknesses and to communicate a little bit to achieve a nice games and time. This is kind of unheard of in the MOBA game scene.

Gigantic is played using key board and mouse or xbox game pad. The game view is from third person but unlikely in other MOBA’s the camera is close to the character and not filming from a bird view. This and the games fully rendered maps gives Gigantic a beautiful scenery or a powerful feel of environment which most MOBAs lack. Gigantic’s maps are also vivid and have a lot of characteristic in them.

To put it simply Gigantic is a MOBA game which has a lot of potential, dazzling graphics, beautifully crafted character and a lot of fun.

 Roope Saukkonen

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ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS

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Gregg Wattenberg, Derek Fuhrmann Pop // February 10, 2017

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ndrew McMahon is a Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter who has been the piano-playing frontman of various alternative bands of low-to-moderate success like Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin. In 2014 he released his first solo album under the moniker Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, which was a catchy compilation of piano-driven pop anthems,coupled with lyrics about relatably selfaware introspection. I wasn’t crazy on the album, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would based on my experience with his previous bands.

I was cautiously optimistic when I first set out to listen Zombies on Broadway, McMahon’s sophomore studio record. As the title of the album would hint, the album was recorded in New York, and numerous lyrics reference the city in one way or another. McMahon himself claimed that he has “expanded the palette” on the album, and that it would feature “a lot more guitar work”.

The first single “Fire Escape” displays that fortunately he has not overdone either: the guitar and the other components of the “expanded palette” do not overshadow the keyboards. However, it shifts McMahon’s sound from the previous album’s rather distinctive ‘piano pop’ to just ‘pop’, and suddenly, his material just doesn’t pop quite enough to rise from the sea of dull, formulaic adult alternative. The polished production and the uninventive instrumentation doesn’t leave a

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whole lot for the listener to latch onto. Large number of the songs are just bombastic choruses that don’t leave any sort of impact: after dozens of listens through the album the only song I actually can recall only “Fire Escape”, and I’m pretty sure that’s only because I’ve had the time to listen to the song since last September.

On the lyrical side of things the album fares a bit better: while McMahon sometimes falls into using some tired clichés and metaphors in his work, he’s a seasoned enough songwriter to avoid the largest pitfalls, being able to recreate a lot of the intimate themes and ruminations of his debut album. Unfortunately even the more gripping subjects and elaborate vignettes are all tackled in a similar, radio-friendly manner which leaves the listener baffled by why the tragic tale of wandering the world without a place to call home is thoroughly peppered with percussive synth-handclaps.

Zombies on Broadway is a prime example of that artificially recreating the circumstances of your success does not always guarantee a second one: while the album lyrically captures a lot of the moods and themes that made In the Wilderness good, the overproduced, run-of-the-mill packaging of Broadway makes it much harder to appreciate, and sometimes even remember.  Roope Sorvo

MOONLIGHT

STUDIO 123 Kymenlaaksonkatu 1 45700 Kuusankoski 05 3792082 www.studio123.fi

STUDIO 1 LEGO BATMAN-MOVIE (7) | 11€ | 1h45min Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 17:00h (2D, dub) Sat, Mon 19:30h (S2) (2D, orig.)

MAHERSHALA ALI ALEX R. HIBBERT NAOMIE HARRIS Director Barry Jenkins // Writers Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney Drama

It has been a long time since a movie has caused me to stop chewing the popcorn which I normally shovel into my face hole. A while since a single kernel has stood on the tip of my tongue, only to roll off to the sticky surface of the floor, racing my jaw along the way.

For the second and third acts of this movie my canister of munchies lay askew upon my legs and I was immobile.

Moonlight is a captivating, down-to-earth story of a boy who grew up with a mom who neglected him and father who was no more than a question mark. A drug dealer finds him hiding out in an abandoned hovel, after narrowly escaping a pack of ravenous bullies. His is curious about this boy who goes by the name of “Little” and gets him food, a safe place to sleep, and teaches him to swim. Over the course of three acts, Little grows up and struggles through every minute of it. He learns about love and acceptance while being shrouded in abuse.

Aspects which are central to the plot of this movie are merely hinted at.

Not a whole lot is explicitly stated and it is more up to you to guess. It is more about the emotions than the actions. Sometimes the film can be a bit nauseating during the Steadicam shots but it works well with the emotion of the shot so it is warranted. The colour palette gets very creative. Filming in Little’s hometown of Miami is often done with a yellow overlay, while the night shots are conversely blue. For the most intensely emotional parts, especially involving his interactions with his mother, the saturation comes in full force. Acting, pacing, directing, and are all done so amazingly well.

Most importantly, the phrase “show, don’t tell” is taken one step further: insinuate, don’t tell.

I left the theatre dumbfounded. It was just such a breath of relief knowing that movies of this calibre are still being produced. Stop reading this review and go see Moonlight now!

FIFTY SHADES DARKER (16) | 12€ | 1h58min Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 19:10h

STUDIO 2 VAIANA (7) | 11€ | 1h54min Every Evening 17:15h (2D, dub) Sat-Sun 15:00h, 17:15h (2D, dub) Sun, Wed 19:30h (2D, orig.)

A CURE FOR WELLNESS (16) | 11€ | 2h27min Fri, Tue, Thu 19:30h

STUDIO 3 LION (16) | 11€ | 1h59min Sat-Sun 15:15h TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN (12) | 11€ | 1h38min Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 17:30h ONNELI, ANNELI JA SALAPERÄINEN MUUKALAINEN (S) | 10€ | 1h15min Sat-Sun, Tue 17:30h LA LA LAND (S) | 11€ | 2h08min Fri 19:30 (S1) Sat-Sun 14:40h (S1) Mon 19:30h ROGUE ONE (12) | 12€ | 2h13min Sat, Tue 19:00h MOONLIGHT (12) | 11€ | 1h51min Sun 19:00h Wed-Thu 19:30h

 Grayson Leif Heflin

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