Vol 19 issue 07

INSIDER 04.11.16 | VOL. 19 | ISSUE 07

STUDENT MAGAZINE

IN THIS ISSUE Cover Story

International Week 2016 Part 1

Current Affairs

Paris – Off the beaten Path

Recipe

The Finnish Road is Rocky   

Reviews

One Hundred Years of Solitude Green Day: Revolution Radio Marvel: Doctor Strange

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EDITORIAL

We will keep you warm!

Winter is coming and you will probably realise this not because you rewatched all six seasons of Game of Thrones for the hundredth time. When you start freezing on your bike on the journey to university and you’re tired 24/7 because it’s so cloudy and gloomy outside, you know it’s time to unpack your winter clothes.

For the new international students, this weather and lightness change will be a whole

new experience. Especially when families and friends send pictures, where they are sipping cocktails on the beach at twenty-three degrees.

But before you start unpacking your SAD therapy lamps and considering to stay in the sauna for the whole season, we will tell you some heartwarming stories in this issue. A travel guide about the city of love and an insider staff-approved recipe for salmiakki chocolate will warm

up your daydreams. Furthermore, we will inform you about the international week in the middle of November, where you can mingle with international students and taste country-specific food.

So, pick your warmest winter coat, Jon Snow, and enjoy this week’s items!

Julia

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PARIS OFF THE BEATEN PATH When someone mentions Paris, what comes into your mind? Eiffel Tower? Louvre Museum? Notre Dame? Or maybe just purely a city of fanciness? At least those are what came to my mind before my visit to Paris last Autumn break. But Paris definitely has more to offer!

Notre Dame Cathedral is a must-visit for tourists in Paris. However, only a few people know that, just a few block away, there is a small cathedral called La Sainte Chapelle. La Sainte Chapelle maybe small, much smaller than Notre Dame, but it has an enormous display of colored glass window. To be exact, the La Sainte-Chapelle has 15 stained glass windows which cover 1,100 scenes about Old and New Testament stories. It is best to visit this gem of a chapel during the day when there is plenty of sunlight. The windows are in rich red and blue which creates a highly religious atmosphere.

Located between the Notre-Dame Cathedral and Sainte-Chapelle is Marché aux fleurs – The flower market of Paris. Getting into this small market, you will know how it smells like when being surrounded by hundreds of different flowers. Their selection is huge: seasonal flowers, exotic flowers, orchids, plants, shrubs ... a pleasant place for a walk. Apart from flowers, you will also find yourself surrounded by small unique decorative objects that will make you feel like walking into the world of a Ghibli's animation.

Do you want to know how was the life of an 18th-century noble family? If the answer is "yes", you should pay a visit to Musée Nissim de Camondo. This Museum is basically the resident of the Camondo family. The mansion was built by the Comte Moïse de Camondo, a banker, with architect René Sergent, to set off his collection of eighteenth-century French furniture and art objects. The mansion was kept as it was and opened as a museum in 1935.

If you want to have a view of Paris from high above, you can either climb the Eiffel Tower, the Montmartre hill or get on the Ballon Generali which goes 150 meters up in the sky. The ticket price is only €12 and you get to fly on the biggest hot air balloon in the world, how cool is that! Unfortunately for me, the balloon was under some kind of maintenance the day I got there so I didn't have the chance to try it. And, the balloon only works in nice weather, so remember to check your weather forecast.

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My 4-day-trip was absolutely not enough to discover the whole Paris. I hope that the 4 places I recommended above will give you some fun the next time you go to Paris. Lastly, don't forget that most museum and public attractions are free as long as you are under 25 years old and have a European resident card.

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INTERNATIONAL

WEEK

2016 Text by Setareh Nourzad

In autumn 2015, when we started our studies, we were asked a few times if we are going to participate in International Week and represent our countries in one way or another. Some of our classmates said that they are planning to cook their traditional foods, and a few said they will have a dance routine. I was asked if I will represent my country or not, and I simply said no, because I had no idea how to represent it (I don’t know how to cook Iranian food, and I don’t have any traditional costumes, so you get my point?). 

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International Week is one week of celebration of different countries in KyUAS, and it is happening annually, every autumn, which you probably knew already. And every year there are guest speakers from different universities around Europe talking about different topics (for example entrepreneurship, design, culture), there is the very famous International Food Tasting (basically you can eat all the delicious food from different countries, yum!), and of course, a piece of Bollywood! Who would want to miss that?

This year’s program has some new additions, for example the International Week – Passport, which means that whenever you visit a stand, or attend a lecture, you will get a stamp on your passport, also you can take part in the Selfie Wall competition, and win a great prize. There will be also Fashion show ECOUTURE held in Paja gallery space, which will be probably very interesting.

Last years’ Food Tasting was a bit smaller compared to previous years, because not many countries were participated, but there was enough space for every country, and attendees got more food. And of course, the quality of the food was amazing like every other year! In last years’ Food Tasting, Finland had their own stand, but honestly I don’t remember what they were serving, because I was more excited about the Nepalese and Vietnamese food so I totally forgot

to check the Finnish stand, but while checking this year’s schedule, I realized that on Thursday there is a program called Taste of Finland at Paja Café, which I am definitely going to take part in and hopefully this time I will not be distracted by anything else, and I can just try the Finnish foods.

The most practical part of the whole International Week is the fact that the guest lecturers’ lectures are added to our timetables and we could attend their lectures without missing any classes. And this years’ guest speakers are very interesting, one of the guest speakers is a former student of our university, Ali Giray, he was chosen Refugee of the Year 2016. He will be telling his experience about being a foreigner entrepreneur in Finland.

To be honest, I am personally looking forward mostly to the face paintings and the spectacular fire show which will be on Tuesday. I know, I sound very childish, but come on! We all have our inner child, and lets free them, at least for the International Week ;)!

Last year’s event was a very well organized, looking forward for this years! We wish all the best for the people participating in it, and we want to thank the core team, who is in charge of International Week every year, without you, we wouldn’t be able to experience all of these. Thank you! 

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The Finnish Road is Rocky Rocky road is originally an American treat, but it has become increasingly popular also here in Finland. In the original version there are things like marshmellows and nuts, but this time let’s get wild and have it the Finnish way. The secret ingredient is, surpirse surpise, salmiakki!

By Suvi Karell What you need: • 200g dark chocolate • 200g milk chocolate • 200g white chocolate • 40g butter • 150g crushed turkish pepper • 150g ligorice • baking paper • oven tray Please note: Do not to forget to buy the white chocolate. Rocky road needs it. It has to have it. So do not forget it! This is serious!

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What to do: 1. Melt the dark, the white and the milk chocolate in double boiler (mild heat). Keep mixing regurlarly.

2. Mix in the crushed turkish pepper (spare few teaspoons for later).

3. Chop the ligorice into small pieces and add in to the mix.

4. Cover the oven tray with baking paper. Pour the chocolate-salmiakki-mix in, spread the rest of the crushed turkish pepper on top.

5. Set the tray into the fridge and leave it there for 2 hours.

6. When the mix is well hardened, cut into smaller bars.

7. Enjoy!

Text by Grayson Leif Heflin

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel García Márquez was born in Columbia in 1927. His many books include The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in the Time of Cholera, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Collected Stories, and Collected Novellas. His most recent book is the novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores.

García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Life is a cycle of events. It is not a linear passage of time as we generally perceive it to be. This is at least the viewpoint of Úrsula, the wife of José Arcadio Buendía. José and Úrsula end up having an entire lineage of offspring with utterly confusing names. While it may be perplexing to follow the family tree, the author purposefully wrote the story in this way. It reinforces the repetition and predictability of life.

Throughout the birth, death, and rebirth of a mythical town called Macondo, the family goes through crippling hardships and bounties of splendiferous wealth.

Death is a recurring motif spanning across life. When one member of the pool passes into the afterlife, they are almost instantly replaced by another with an uncannily similar title. For example, José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula conceive three children: Aureliano Buendía, José Arcadio, and Amaranta. Aureliano Buendía fathers 18 children; one with the first name Aureliano and the other 17 named Aurelianos.

Nearly every chapter ends with at least one death. The book is written in an illogical order however, so at times the story of the character

continues after death or the past is revealed after the present. The inherent difficulty with following the passage of time is on purpose.

There is no ending, just as there is no beginning. At times the author will mention how a character will die later on but does not actually describe the death until chapters later.

As mentioned above, some of the inhabitants of Macondo stick around beyond the grave. Those who are close to one another can continue conversations with the spectres. Death is just seen as an inconvenience, something that gets in the way of life. In other situations it is seen as a release from the burden of life. Some souls even come back from the dead just because death is so lonely.

Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude will give the reader a new outlook on life, death, and the passage of time. It explains what is really important and what can be washed over. The book is written so beautifully with an exquisite vernacular that you will wonder how you lived without it. It comes with a supreme recommendation from yours truly and is a winner of the Nobel Prize.  9

Genre Pop Punk Release Date October 07, 2016 Producer Green Day Rating   /GreenDay  @GreenDay  @GreenDay

Text by Roope Sorvo After the massive success of the politically charged rock operas American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day seemed to be at a loss where to go next. The on their following album trilogy ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!, the biggest punk band in the world threw any deeper meaning out the window and returned to their bratty 90’s roots. Doing that, Green Day immediately ran into two problems: the Blink-182 Problem, where tired middle-aged men try to recreate their adolescent shenanigans with half the charm and none of the energy, and Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Problem, where you spread your material too thin over a trilogy and end up with a lot of aimless wandering, making the listener wonder “Was any of this necessary?” And the audience reacted accordingly: the sales for each install10

ment of the trilogy were far worse than of those of its predecessors.

Now, on Revolution Radio, their 12th full-length studio album, Green Day seems to at least partially return to form: while this might not be a larger than life melodrama in the vein of 21st Century Breakdown, at least they’ve partially returned to the sociopolitical commentary.

On songs like “Bang Bang” the band does what they do best: upbeat and catchy pop punk with a political edge their contemporaries like Blink-182 and Sum 41 have always lacked. However, while songs like “Say Goodbye” and “Bouncing Off the Walls” are appropriately earwormy, they sound like Green Day ripping off themselves. Each chord progression, drum beat and shout of “hey!” seems to have come from some sort of Green Day starter kit, which was then used in a strictly controlled lab environment to artificially create hollow mimicry of earlier Green Day material.

In addition to the lack of innovation, the album suffers from cringeworthy writing. With American Idiot the band could at least shift some of the blame on the naiveté of the characters and certain dramatic cliches their kind of story required;

here there’s no excuse for the lyrics of “Youngblood” to present “She’s my weakness / fucking genius” and “Supernova / Cherry Cola” as acceptable rhymes that would have any real meaning or message other than “We used the winning combination of rhyming dictionary, random word generator and a few bottles of bourbon to convince us this was a good idea”. And I’m sure there would’ve been better ways to express disillusionment of one’s teenage ideals than “Looking for a cause / But All I got was Santa Claus”.

Occasionally the band can distract you from the terrible lyrics with infectious melodic hooks that make you embarrassed to notice that you’re actually singing along to lines that could’ve been improved by a monkey with a typewriter. For example “Troubled Times” and “Too Dumb to Die” are catchy enough to camouflage the lyrical content.

Even when compared to its predecessor, the spreadway-too-thin ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! album trilogy, Revolution Radio feels barely competent: if it’s not bland, it’s predictable, and if it’s not predictable, it’s plain embarrassing. Only a few choice cuts of the album get even close to Radio, and none of it is any sort of Revolution. 

DOCTOR STRANGE A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Text by Sarah Rosenthal

Genre Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi Director Scott Derrickson Writers Jon Spaihts Scott Derrickson C. Robert Cargill Steve Ditko (Comic) Stars Bondage Crumblesnatch Chiwetel Ejiofor Tilda Swinton Regina George Hannibal Lecter Benedict Wong The Eye of Agamoto Thor Odinson Stan Lee Cloak of Levitation The Set of Inception LSD, MDMA & Psilocybin Rating 

Doctor Strange is the second out of nine movies in Marvel's phase three and just like the Guardians of the Galaxy only marginally ties into the events happening in the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor and Captain America movies so far.

The obvious common denominator is the introduction of yet another of the total seven Infinity stones, the time gem or Eye of Agamoto. That said the film is set around the time of Iron Man 2 and the origin story of how an egotistical neurosurgeon who is basically a cross between Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne. Doctor Steven Strange is a cocky twat and the only one who can justifiably give Tony Stark a run for his money when it comes to sassy, snarky, sarcastic comments and buying expensive cars. He considers himself to be the best at fixing almost any neurological problem and gets more and more frustrated when surgeries after his accident get him nowhere. This is when he ultimately decides to look for alternative solutions to his problem and makes his way from Greenwich Village to Kathmandu. There he finds a sort for temple run by the The Ancient One (portrayed by Tilda Swinton) and Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who teach him to broaden his mind and open portals through space and how their order protects the

world from dangers beyond their world by means of three sanctums around the globe.

This part of the exposition also explains the lack of Strange’s participation during the events of the Avengers. That and the fact that with a character of such power the none of the avengers movies would have happened in the first place.

Visually the movie is a delight Steve Ditkos iconic colourful otherworldly tentacle artwork is brought to life on the big screen making you feel like you just took a spin in the TARDIS back to the LSD, MDMA and Psilocybin fueled 60s and 70s.

The weaknesses with this movie as with most other Marvel movies remain the same old: white-washing and unrelatable villains. Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) a former student of The Ancient One who has gone rogue and tries to unleash Dormammu onto Earth. Why? I'm not a sucker for exposition per se but some nerd not being allowed to read the last page of a book.

Overall the movie ties in well with the previous ones and drives home the point why planning for upcoming movies in cinematic universes of popular comic book series is a good idea or you might end up with the uncoordinated mess that is the DCU right now.  11

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