Currently, March is the cheapest month in which you can book a flight to Beijing Nanyuan. Flying to Beijing Nanyuan in December will prove the most costly. There are multiple factors that influence the price of a flight so comparing airlines, departure airports and times can help keep costs down.
March is typically the best time to fly to Beijing Nanyuan, but there are other times where great deals are available. July sees the temperatures in Beijing Nanyuan peak to their warmest. July tends, on average, to see the most amount of rainfall.
The price you pay for your flight to Beijing Nanyuan may vary depending on when you book. For the best chance of a lower fare, look to book 60 days in advance of your trip. Fares are likely to increase a fortnight or so before your departure date.
Tuesday is currently, on average, the cheapest day to fly to Beijing Nanyuan. Flying on Sunday will result in higher flight prices.
Flights in the morning are typically the cheapest time of the day to fly to Beijing Nanyuan. Flights in the afternoon are usually the most expensive.


The 2011 revaluation in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina continues to create confusion for property owners. After property values increased anywhere from 20%-150% from the 2011 revaluation, property owners demanded a formal audit and a second revaluation. Field reviews of each of the county's 356,000 commercial and residential parcels were completed last November.
An estimated 1,170 parcels that changed owners since 2011 were found to be undervalued. Tax Assessor Ken Joyner explained that the county is bound by state law to send tax bills to current owners of these properties -- not the previous owners.
"We knew it would be confusing to a lot of people," Joyner told the Charlotte Observer. "But what it boils down to is that the tax is against the property, not against the person. It's a lien on the property. "
The issue is still under review by local authorities. State lawmakers may introduce legislation to help remedy problems with parcels that have changed hands and left the new owner with a large tax expense.


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Households are £404 a year worse off due to Brexit, study finds
A study warned of the impact of rising inflation.
Households are more than £400 a year worse off as a result of Brexit, an economic study has found.
The report published on Monday revealed that the average household is paying £404 a year extra due to price inflation.
The impact of price increases due to the referendum is equivalent to a £448 cut in annual pay for the average worker, the equivalent of one week's pay.
Published today by @CEP_LSE : 'The Brexit Vote, Inflation & UK Living Standards' – a new analysis by researchers from @UKandEU Economics of #Brexit team https://t.co/s8iU2MZCEx pic.twitter.com/hT9jyvTR4d
— CEP@LSE (@CEP_LSE) November 20, 2017
Dr Thomas Sampson, who co-authored the Centre for Economic Performance research, said: "Even before Brexit occurs, the increase in inflation caused by the Leave vote has already hurt UK households.
"Our results provide compelling evidence that, so far, UK households are paying an economic price for voting to leave the EU."
Dr Sampson's research revealed that the rise in inflation has been lowest for households in London while Scotland, Wales and especially Northern Ireland have been worst hit.
According to the report the largest inflationary effects have been on product groups with high import shares.
These include bread and cereals; milk, cheese and eggs; coffee, tea and cocoa; beer and wine; furniture and furnishings; and jewellery, clocks and watches.
The Food Foundation warns that "five-a-day" may become unaffordable for millions of Britons (Julien Behal/PA)
The rise in food prices has led think tank the Food Foundation to raise concerns that "five-a-day" may become unaffordable for millions of Britons.
In a new report the foundation has claimed that in a no deal Brexit scenario price rises would mean the poorest 10% of the population could spend half of their entire food and drink budget to meet current Government guidance for fruit and veg.
The report goes on to identify 16 of our 50 favourite fruit and veg which could be grown more in the UK, meaning less reliance on imports and more competitive prices.
Anna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation, said: "The Government faces a clear choice to boost British harvests of fruit and veg or the NHS will reap the consequences."
New @ONS inflation data shows concerning rise in veg prices. Government urgently needs to build resilience against price rises into the ag bill! #peasplease @Laura_Sandys @KerryMP @K_Kerridge @BritishGrowers pic.twitter.com/N1A2eaWz6o
— Food Foundation (@Food_Foundation) November 14, 2017
She added: "It is absolutely crucial that the Government grabs the bull by the horns before the Brexit boat sails."
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said: "This comprehensive study finally nails the lie that the Brexit process has not damaged the economy, and with it the living standards of every British citizen.
"The average household simply can't afford to lose £404 a year at a time when many have not recovered from the financial crisis of almost a decade ago.
"But it didn't have to be this way: if the Conservative government had responded by guaranteeing that Britain would remain in the single market and customs union, the pound would not have fallen so sharply and inflation would not have risen.
"That was not the fault of how people voted but how the Government responded to the vote, embarking on the most extreme and damaging version of Brexit."
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Penny Watson/Nina Roth Borromeo Author: Happy Easter!
It's a day for ham and eggs and pancit (our favorite Filipino dish) and "peeps." Yuck! My kids asked for them, so I put them in their Easter baskets, but seriously. Peeps! Ack!
Hope everyone has a great day. It is sunny and gorgeous and spring-y here.
Hi Colette! Blech! I hate peeps. I cannot believe folks eat those.
Sounds like you had a delish Easter meal. Yum!
Happy Easter to you too Penny! I hear ya on the Peeps. My SIL got some for my kids (who have problems with cavities!) and I tossed them in the trash as soon as she left. My little ones are too young to remember them. When they're older, I think I'll tell them horrifying stories about Peeps. The sad thing is, I won't have to make them up. I'm almost positive there have been Peep related deaths. I need to do some research...or I could just tell auntie to knock it off with the Peeps and buy cady with SOME nutritional value ANY nutritional value.
I was craving peeps too. Sadly I didn't get any.
Hi Jessi! Easter is tough. I try to fill the baskets with lots of little toys and maybe just one small box of candy. Otherwise, it gets totally out of control!
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Peeps contained some sort of plastic material. Plastic + Sugar + Yellow Food Coloring. That's it! Ack!
Hi Juju! So glad you had a good holiday with the fam!


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En outre, les villes suivantes possèdent leurs propres listes :
Les villes de Charlottetown et de Summerside sont traitées dans :
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Having crystal centerpieces is one thing that you can do to make your home more elegant. This can also be used for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings and other celebrations. It is really easy to make these crystal centerpieces. You can make use of the crystal pieces that you already have at home. Find out how to do this by following the simple tips that are listed below.
Gather the materials that you need. You need a lot of crystal pieces to make a centerpiece. It does not matter what type of crystal pieces you use. You can use mirrors, candlesticks, vases, etc. Scour your home for some crystal pieces that you no longer use. If you cannot find some at home, check out your local thrift stores and discount shops to find crystal pieces at cheap prices. You can also prepare tea light candles, fresh flowers and colored marbles.
Crystal vase. If you have a crystal vase, what you can do for the center pieces is to fill the vase with some colored marbles and set it at the center of the table. You can also add fresh flowers to the vase to make it more interesting. If you need the centerpiece for dinner, get some floating candles. Fill your wide mouthed crystal vase halfway with water and add a few floating candles on top. This is a good centerpiece to use for garden parties and elegant dinners.
Crystal champagne glasses. If you have some crystal champagne glasses, you can also use them as a centerpiece. Prepare a mirror tile and set it at the center of your table. Use glue to mount the champagne glasses onto the mirror tile. You have to do this so that the champagne glasses will not easily tip over. Add some colored marbles inside the glasses or you can also have some flower arrangement at the base of the champagne stems. This is good to use during wedding receptions or dinner parties.
Crystal tree branch. A tree branch is a good centerpiece if you have a big table. For this, you need a large and tall crystal vase. Gather some twigs or branches that can fit inside the vase. To make the centerpiece more elegant, paint the tree branch in white. Place it in the vase at the center of the table and add some ornaments. You can add tassels or other decorative pieces to hang on the branches. You can also use Christmas lights to hang on the tree branch. This is a good centerpiece to have during holidays such as Christmas or birthdays.
These are some of the ideas that you can use if you want to have crystal centerpieces on your table. You can do many other types of crystal centerpieces. Just use your imagination. Combine different elements such as crystal and wood or metal and crystal to have some variety in the design. Your guests will surely be impressed on how elegant your centerpieces are without breaking your budget.


As an employer, you are responsible for the safety of your employees as well as ensuring workplace productivity. Substance use of employees is a concern that can affect both safety and productivity. The rights of an employee or prospective employee during the interview process and after hiring are well outlined under several legal provisions. You need to have a thorough understanding of these laws to avoid legal issues in interviewing and wrongful termination suits so knowing the questions you can ask and the information you may seek is essential.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, an employee's right to privacy in the workplace and in a job interview regarding substance use history is protected by a number of legal measures including The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and The Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This legislation assures that employers cannot discriminate against people based on a history of substance use. As an employer, you must be aware of the substance use history of an employee, which impairs one of their major life activities and base an employment action on that knowledge to be liable for unfair treatment of a current or prospective employee. If you are not aware of a substance use history per se but you provide the perception that you are inferring a substance use problem and you base an employment action on that perception, inferred discrimination actions also leave you vulnerable to liability for unfair treatment claims.
Whether in a job interview or in the office, you as the employer cannot ask if an interviewee or employee has a history of substance use or has been through treatment for substance use issues. If during the course of employment or pre-employment research, you become aware of any medical information regarding past or present substance use and treatment, you are required to treat that.
In a job interview you can, however, ask whether an interviewee is currently using drugs and whether they currently drink alcohol. As a prospective employer, you may also require a drug and alcohol screening test that could potentially reveal past substance use so long as all applicants are required to take the same test. Nonetheless, as long as an employee's substance use issues are in the past, their privacy is protected under the law.
As an employer, you are not legally permitted to ask about your interviewee's substance use history but you are allowed to look at the person's public social media profiles. In fact, studies show that up to 38 percent1 of recruiters do so. (Bohnert & Ross 2010, 341). Prospective employees should be aware that public social media postings can have an effect on the perception of them as a candidate for employment. Even casual drinking has been connected to lower success on the job market. The 2010 Bohnert and Ross study found that social media profiles that emphasized alcohol use scored lower in terms of candidate desirability than those that emphasized family or professionalism. Profiles that displayed alcohol use were judged as "least conscientious, least qualified, least likely to be interviewed, and least likely to be offered the job. Participants reported that the applicant with an alcohol-oriented website, if hired, would be offered a salary that was approximately $2,400 less1 than the applicant with a family-oriented website." (Bohnert & Ross 2010, 343).
Legal requirements for confidentiality and other protective measures against workplace discrimination are there to keep an employee's substance use past from controlling his or her future. Making the decision to change is an empowering step toward taking control of the person's life and becoming a more reliable and productive employee. These employment privacy safeguards are there to ensure those individuals who choose to move beyond their substance use will not be punished permanently by past behavior and history. Employers and recruiters are expected to not make decisions based on past behaviors and history but to confine their employment decisions to the current substance use behaviors of employees that directly affect the safety and productivity of their employees and company.
1 Bohnert, D., & Ross, W. H. (2010). The Influence of Social Networking Web Sites on the Evaluation of Job Candidates. Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 13(3), 341-347 doi:10.1089/cyber.2009.0193.
The following is a guest post by Faith Moore, Public Relations Coordinator at Saint Jude Retreat, an alternative to traditional drug and alcohol treatment centers and rehabs. Saint Jude Retreats provides a program for people with substance use problems that concentrates on self-directed positive and permanent change. Through the program, we offer the opportunity for individuals to self-evaluate and explore avenues for life enhancement.


Students in the 8th grade and their chaperones will be given the opportunity to live with host families, visit the schools and other points of interest in Kanayama area and Gero city, Japan, in June after the current school year ends. This two-to-three week visit is made possible through the friendship and commitments developed between the sister cities of Ketchikan and Kanayama in Gero City, and is supported by the families of the participants.
We will select up to four adult chaperones for the exchange program. If possible we would like one of the applicants to be a school district employee. Applications must be postmarked, electronically submitted, or turned in to Schoenbar Middle School by September 30th of the current year. To be considered, a completed application and four recommendation forms must be submitted by the due date.
Have four (4) references submitted. One employer and three personal.
If an application is complete the committee will: Review applications and references.
At the interview the committee will share some of the background of the exchange and expectations of the exchange with you. You will be asked questions. You will have an opportunity to ask questions of the committee.
The committee may select up to four (4) chaperones.
The selected travel group will be posted on this website the week following interviews.
The KGK executive board will hold a chaperone only meeting to go over expectations prior to the first whole group meeting that includes the students and families.
Be engaged in and participate in all planning and fundraising events organized by the exchange group and committees, host communities, and host families.
Be fully committed to the program organized by Ketchikan-Gero Exchange Association, submit to their decisions regarding the exchange, and understand that your chaperone duties are the primary reason for going to Japan. Display leadership qualities.
Be organized and able to work in cooperation with other chaperones, parents, students, exchange board members, and community businesses and host organizations.
Be neat and clean in personal hygiene, in good health, and properly dressed during activities scheduled both by the program and by host organizations. Participate with students at Japanese school to learn the history, culture, and language of Japan.
Be flexible in the Japanese environment and accepting of cultural differences, and fully comply with all Japanese laws, and all rules and customs of the host family with whom you are placed.
Be willing to participate in all activities set for the visiting Japanese exchange group, including housing a Japanese visitor, if needed.
Be respectful, mature, courteous, and exhibit conduct appropriate as a role model for young adolescents.
Be on time for all scheduled activities. If you are running late, please contact another chaperone and let them know.
Refrain from drinking and engaging in other inappropriate activities while in the presence of the students and while actively acting in the role of chaperone.
Refrain from drinking in excess when with host families or at other activities held solely for group adults while students are in the care of their respective host families.
Be willing to take responsibility for the students while traveling in a foreign country.
Be aware of your actions when you are with and away from the group.
Refrain from speaking against your co-chaperones or any of the students, before, during, and after your travel.
Refrain from using inappropriate language towards your co-chaperones or any of the students.
Upon return, be willing to share your personal experiences with Ketchikan Borough Assembly, Ketchikan School Board and the Ketchikan-Gero Exchange Association.
Be willing to refrain from inappropriate or unwanted touching at all times.
To communicate with students and parents. Suggestions: set up an email list of parents and students to send emails reminding when fundraising events are taking place, Japanese school events, practices, etc.
To be in charge of a small group of students while traveling. These students will check in and out with you during the trip.
Chaperones will be the primary contact from/to parents and the board as your group prepares for travel.
Participate on a committee. You do not have to be the committee head, just a part of it and help organize your trip.
You will thank the dignitaries in your farewell speech.
FINANCIAL COMMITMENT: For those selected for the exchange this is a trip of a lifetime, but travel to and within Japan is expensive. For this reason, you need to be fully aware of the financial and time commitment involved. Chaperones selected for the exchange must be able to commit to a base monetary amount of $1800. This money is used to help cover airfare, train tickets, meals, and any necessary overnight stays for the basic trip to Kanayama, Japan. The monetary commitment is broken down into 4 monthly commitments of $450 due in November, January, February and March in order to complete travel plans and ticket purchases.
FUNDRAISING: The total budget anticipated for travel is approximately $65,000 with slightly over half from your personal commitment. The extra money needed to meet this goal covers gifts for school and city officials and any additional travel within Japan that the group may do following their stay in Kanayama. Chaperones selected are expected to help with fundraising activities. Activities in the past have included making and selling pizzas, giftwrapping in December, and organizing and conducting a raffle. Fundraising activities start soon after the group is selected in October.
TIME COMMITMENT: In addition to the time involved in fundraising, parents must also commit to helping with the various committees involved in trip logistics: Fundraising, Publicity & Gifts, and Performance. Again, this requires commitment on your part.
We hope that we haven't scared you off by highlighting what is expected of you. The Kanayama experience is truly unique, and as a chaperone traveling, the work involved prior to the trip can be enriching for both you and the families involved. We would encourage you to apply to be a part of the exchange group for the upcoming year.


Angela Bassett has joined Columbia Picture's Jumping the Broom, joining Paula Patton in the wedding-themed ensemble comedy directed by Salim Akil.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Laz Alonso, Loretta Devine and Romeo Miller are also joining the project, which revolves around the clash of two black families from opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum meeting for the first time during a weekend wedding in Martha's Vineyard.
Bassett will play Patton's mother, an heiress and a pillar of the Washington elite. Miller plays Patton's cousin, a senior at Yale. Alonso will play Patton's love interest.
Arlene Gibbs wrote the script, which is undergoing a minor rewrite by Elizabeth Hunter.
Production begins in early summer in Nova Scotia.


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SAGAL: Here's your first limerick.
BILL KURTIS: Do I have some weird, unseen stench shell? My handheld device here can tell. My armpits I swipe to see if I'm ripe. It has quite a keen sense of...
GILLESPIE: Smell.
SAGAL: Yes, indeed.
SAGAL: A company in Japan has created a new handheld device to help office workers detect if they themselves have body odor because you can never smell yourself. It's like a nose but without the gag reflex. It's called the Tanita ES-100. The ES stands for Extra Sense, and the 100 stands for the percentage of time it hates its job.
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SAGAL: Mark, here is your next limerick.
KURTIS: When hot dog buns have gotten sandy, spun sugar is there, hot and handy. And here is a matchup - add sprinkles, not ketchup. Serve hot dogs in pink...
GILLESPIE: Cotton candy.
SAGAL: Yes.
SAGAL: Or rather, perhaps, no.
SAGAL: The Erie, Penn., SeaWolves minor league ballpark rolled out a new game time treat for their annual Sugar Rush night. It's a regular hot dog with a bun made of cotton candy and sprinkled with Nerds candy.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: Oh.
SAGAL: It's the perfect meal if you've always wanted to throw your kid into a food coma they can somehow scream through.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: It's kind of the salt-sugar thing, which I do like.
NEGIN FARSAD: Yeah, like a Hawaiian pizza. Pineapple and ham goes well together.
SAGAL: Well, yeah. OK. Pineapple is sweet. It's fruit juice sweet.
TOM PAPA: And a real thing.
FARSAD: So is cotton candy.
SAGAL: But cotton candy is just sugar.
PAPA: May I just say that dish that you just described to us...
PAPA: In these troubled times, when we're...
PAPA: When we're feeling bad about the Supreme Court and where we're going and the lack of civility, you tell me America isn't the greatest country on Earth...
PAPA: ...To still come up with stuff like that.
POUNDSTONE: Yeah. It's - to be able to...
PAPA: This is going to be the best Fourth of July ever.
POUNDSTONE: Really?
(LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: All right. Here is your last limerick.
KURTIS: Where "Mandy" plays, I rarely plan to go. Now Rite Aid's the most scary clan I know. I say hasta manana to "Copacabana." This panhandler hates...
GILLESPIE: Can I hear that again, please?
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GILLESPIE: Barry Manilow.
SAGAL: Yes. He gets it.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL, APPLAUSE)
FARSAD: Wow.
KURTIS: How about that?
SAGAL: Rite Aid stores in California have a new way to clear out panhandlers from the front of their stores. They blast Barry Manilow music at full volume all day long. The only problem is these stories have neighbors, and they're going insane. One neighbor told The Wall Street Journal, quote, "I thought some older man had died and left Barry Manilow's most depressing hits CD on repeat." So they had all these complaints. And Rite Aid management said, well, what would you rather have, Barry Manilow or panhandlers? In any event, it's better than their first plan, playing Barry White to get the panhandlers in the mood.
SAGAL: Bill, how did Mark do on our quiz?
KURTIS: Mark did great, 3 and 0 - right down the middle.
SAGAL: Congratulations, Mark.
GILLESPIE: Thank you.
SAGAL: Well done.
SAGAL: Bye-bye.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "COPACABANA")
BARRY MANILOW: (Singing) Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl with yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down her leg. She would merengue and do the cha-cha. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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How Inuit culture helped unlock power of classical score for Inupiaq violinist
Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 16:37 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 16:42
"I'm asking people to have an open mind to a different world view that's brought to [the music]," says musician and academic Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk of her February event in Montreal. (Courtesy Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal)
An Inuk violinist and academic is giving a concert and lecture in Montreal in February with a view to showcasing the power of bringing different world views to the interpretation of classical scores.
The event, Qutaanuaqtuit:Dripping Music, will feature Alaskan musician Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk as she interprets music from "50 Caprice Variations for solo violin" by George Rochberg (1918-2005), a contemporary American classical music composer, along with storytelling and visuals from her Inupiaq culture.
"One of my biggest intentions for doing this piece with Rochberg is to make visible my creative processes that are usually private," Senungetuk told Eye on the Arctic.
"And by sharing my private processes I'm bringing my world view to a stage where there aren't very many Indigenous performers interpreting this music."
Senungetuk says she didn't grow up in a family of classical music affectionados in Alaska, but rather got into violin by accident because her friends were doing it.
But the childhood hobby eventually became a passion and Senungetuk went on to play in orchestras and get a Phd.
Grappling with Rochberg
The seeds for Qutaanuaqtuit:Dripping Music came out of Senungetuk's encounters with Rochberg's music as a student violinist.
One element of Rochberg's music that both attracted Senungetuk and that she grappled with, was his use of serialist technique.
"It can be a little alienating for some listeners, including myself," Senungetuk said.
"I was trying to figure out how to make sense out of the score and just as I was playing around with learning it as a student I was just thinking: How would this be in my grandparents world? How would this be narrating a bit of their life? And it connected really well for me."
Since that time, she's deepened her process to include both visuals and video.
"What I do now with this work is I use my Inupiaq world view to help me interpret western musical scores. I started this process of sharing visual elements from my Inupiaq culture in Alaska. I share imagery including ancestral carved ivory objects, I share my learning process of Inupiatun, the Inupiaq language, as I've learned how to translate parts of my life back into Inupiatun."
In addition to Rochberg's music, Senungetuk will also play music from "For Zitkála–Šá" by Raven Chacon, a Diné-American composer and the first Indigenous American to a Pulitzer Prize for Music.
In "For Zitkála–Šá", Chacon wrote 13 scores each dedicated to a different Indigenous or mestiza women artist, one of which was Senungetuk.
Making stories come to life
The concert and lecture is taking place in connection with the exhibition ᑐᓴᕐᓂᑐᑦ TUSARNITUT! Music Born of the Cold currently showing at the Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) in Montreal.
Senungetuk's event will take place on February 10 in Bourgie Hall.
Ticket details are available on the museum website.
Senungetuk, who spent a year as a post-doctoral researcher at Montreal's McGill University after she got her Phd in the U.S., says she's excited to return to the city for the concert and presentation. She says she hopes people leave the event realizing that their own backgrounds and imaginations can be used to enrich their musical experiences.
"The point of the whole presentation is about making stories come to life, making visual what comes from imagination and using this music to create a different way of looking at culture."
Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca
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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International's Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.
Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for "Best Investigative Article or Series" at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.
Her report "The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?" on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.
Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.
Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC's flagship news cast.
Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."
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Arkistot kuukauden mukaan: elokuu 2017
30.8.2017 EngEngPekka Pouhula
Text by: Pertti Rovamo (translated by Inna Aladina) Photos by: Pekka Pouhula
The first time an experienced Finnish kayaker Pekka Pouhula (aka Pörrrhölä in the kayakers` community) saw grand rocky landscapes and endless water face of Lake Ladoga was on the Midsummer`s eve in 1999. Together with his Russian sweetheart Rita, he went to celebrate this holiday to a sandy beach on the northern shore of Ladoga. He fell in love with Ladoga at first sight. That was the moment when the dream to take a kayak trip around Ladoga was born. That dream came true in summer 2011. The tour took 18 days and 573 km of paddling. Pekka spent most of the tour alone.
Midsummer`s eve 1999. On a rocky shore near the village of Vuorio.
By the time the tour started, Pekka had already explored the northern part of Ladoga famous for its skerries and fjords, either alone or with a bunch of friends. The crucial general rehearsal of Ladoga tour took place on another big lake, Lake Onego. In summer 2010, Pekka and his fellow Risto Partanen, also from Rantasalmi, Finland, made the tour around Onego. Pekka went by his kayak, and Risto chose the 5-meter-long wooden boat, handmade by a craftsman from Kesälahti Arvo Ketolainen. The tour lasted 2 weeks with the overall distance of 450 km. Pekka started to have a lingering hope that Ladoga can also be kayaked around.
Rita, a resident of Sortavala, introduced Pekka to the local lifestyle and neighborhood. She never accompanied him during kayaking trips, but during short-time outings she kept his company with pleasure.
The tour around Ladoga was not only a test of Pekka`s physical abilities, but also an immersion into the history of Russia and Finland, as the tour passed through some significant historical sites.
Beginning of the tour in the company of two row boaters
Pekka came up with a single trip, because it came out that no one of his friends was ready to sacrifice their summer vacation. An additional problem was that no one could predict precisely how many days such a trip would take. Weather is something you don`t choose. A sensible guess was that the trip would last about 3 weeks or more. Lake Ladoga is really huge, and over its endless water face the wind is the determinant factor of getting ahead.
Conducting the trip alone brought certain difficulties with food supply. Although there were some villages on the lake shore, one couldn't just leave all the gear and go to a shop.
Risto Partanen, who accompanied Pekka on the Onego tour previous summer, suggested he would join the first part of the tour. He also tempted another citizen of Rantasalmi Erkki Muukkonen to come along. Erkki has a summer cottage on the eastern shore of Ladoga and a motorhome that could be used later on to deliver provisions.
The official start photo of Pekka Pouhula, Risto Partanen and Erkki Muukkonen
Sortavala – a small and vibrant cultural centre
The tour started in Sortavala, a small town located on the northern shore of Lake Ladoga. Sortavala was founded in 1632, right after Sweden had conquered the Käkisalmi county of Russia.
A century later, Sweden lost that territory, and Sortavala lost the status of being a town. The pendulum of history swung to a new position, when in 1809 Finland including the territory of Sortavala was included into the Russian Empire. Thus so called Old Finland, conquered in the XVIII century, became a part of a new administrative unit within the Russian Empire, the Grand Dutchy of Finland. In 1811, this event predetermined formation of Finland, which Finns believe to be the only, original, and true Finland.
Sortavala grew into a cultural and spiritual center of Ladoga Karelia area. There functioned a men's and a women's pedagogical seminary, where a significant part of all Finnish folk school teachers were educated. The town had prosperous industry and a big trade harbor. Although Sortavala wasn`t the biggest settlement of Finland, it was of great importance being a cultural center. In 1939, the population of Sortavala was about 10 000 people. Nowadays about 18 000 people live there.
Risto and Erkki started their route vigorously
So, friends started from the Piipunpiha hotel, located on the lake shore, on the 23th of June at 9.50 P.M. Travel arrangements took more time than had been planned, but still it was decided to start the tour the same day, just to take on a rhythm. Erkki`s motorhome was left at a hotel parking, which cost 200 rubles (around 5 euro per day).
Pekka at the start. 3 weeks of kayaking are ahead
Midsummer on the Vahtimäki rock and war memories on Petäjäsaari Island
Sortavala`s most magnificent sceneries are in the Honkasalo fjords and Vahtimäki rock (meaning Watch Rock in Finnish). The travelers landed on an island and climbed the top of Vahtimäki rock to celebrate Midsummer`s eve. In 1893, traveler, photographer and writer I.K. Inha was exactly at the same place imprinting landscapes in photographs. From his point of view, those were the most notable travelling destinations of Finland, alongside with Imatra waterfall, Paanajärvi lake and Punkaharju ridge.
Expedition to a historic site on the eve of the Midsummer
Vahtimäki was one of the watch rocks, which helped to warn about enemies by lighting fire on the top. Vahtimäki is 75 meters above Ladoga level.
The travellers burned a small bonfire, like local people did centuries ago. They knew that for making bonfire they could get 2 000 ruble fine, but this regulation does not usually prevent them or other tourists from making fire.
Midsummer fire, men tremble with fear of fines
Additionally, Risto defied another law: he put a fishing net in the lake before going to sleep, and in the morning, the travelers had three big perches and several small whitefishes for breakfast. The amount was not too big for poaching, but such a variety to tourists` meal is always warmly welcome.
On the Midsummer Day, travelers saw a herd of 20-30 Ladoga seals, resting on the rocks. In the evening, they set a camp on Petäjäsaari Island.
Petäjäsaari is situated within an archipelago near the town of Pitkäranta. The island is one and a half kilometers long and a half kilometer wide. For the citizens of Rantasalmi, Petäjäsaari is a significant and touching place. Seven days before the end of the Winter War (the war between Finland and the Soviet Union within the II World War), on March 6, 1940, there was a bloodshed battle that took away lives of 117 Finns. There were fought literally to the last man. All wounded survivors were later evacuated.
Erkki holds a speech at a Finnish memorial and presents pieces of war history
46 of them were from Rantasalmi, and 23 were from Nilsiä. Human losses of Rantasalmi became the biggest loss for one municipality in one day.
"We visited the residents of Rantasalmi and the memorial plaque at the Russians memorial. Even now, when we walked on the island, we felt shell splinters under our feet," says Pekka Pouhula.
Maybe it was because of those war memories, but around midnight Pekka heard someone walking by his tent, and Erkki heard some metal clang. Or was it just a dream?
Next day, Erkki and Risto went to a shop in Pitkäranta, and Pekka stayed on the shore keeping an eye on the boats and gear. It started raining, and the travelers decided to spend the last night together at a tourist village on Lunkulansaari Island.
The island of Pusunsaari. Paper mill industrial area
It cost 5000 rubles (about 120 euros) to rent a decent cabin with a sauna. It was nice to sleep on real sheets for a change. Next morning, Risto and Erkki went their own way back to Sortavala, and Pekka continued his trip around Ladoga alone.
Difficulties and hospitality
The lonely man's journey started gloomily. It was getting foggy, so Pekka had to rely on his GPS navigator. Head wind was blowing 3-6 m/s, although the forecast was different. Lunch break felt clammy and miserable. It soon became clear that things were even more miserable.
"Waves were going rather high, and water was getting all the time inside my kayak through the sprayskirt, that wasn`t set tightly. I fixed the skirt, but it did not seem to help – all my stuff was getting wet. I realized there was a leak somewhere in the kayak," he says.
"When I was pulling off from the shore, waves pressed the kayak against a rock, resulting in two small rifts. The kayak was heavily loaded, bearing 60-80 kilos of gear and myself, so it wasn`t surprising that light and thin material cracked."
"I removed water with a sponge every fifteen minutes. In the end, about 6 o`clock I found a site with benches, a table and a fireplace. I got ashore. After a while, an angry dog came barking, and later on an angry man showed up. He explained that I was not allowed to come ashore there. When I opened my mouth and said something in my poor Russian, the man asked, "Finland?" "Da, da," I replied.
"The tone changed immediately. I was allowed to stay on the shore. The man introduced the dog as Nika and himself as Roman. He brought me some firewood and I made a fire. I patched the rifts using diolen patches and epoxy. They worked quite well till the end of the trip.
I made a midnight snack, put up my tent and was getting ready for sleep when Roman came back. She had called her mother, Olga. She told his son to heat the sauna. Soon, they offered food and vodka. Forced to sleep in sauna rooms, even the tent would have been nicer to me. Communication became easier, when Olga called a Finnish talented friend in St. Petersburg, who translated for us by phone. I also charged my cell phone.
The sauna, a massage table and a large tub on the left. Steam was amazing.
A "small" dinner after the sauna. Great steam bath.
In the morning, I was offered porridge and goat's milk. In the yard, there were pigs, chickens, goats, sheep, rabbits, pheasants, and quail. For a goodbye I got a hug and a fresh chicken egg right from a hen.", describes Pekka.
Olga and Roman's dacha was in Rajakontu, where the border between Finland and Russia was until 1940. Ladoga 1811-1940 was divided roughly in half between Russia and Finland.
Along a sandy eastern shore
During the day, Pekka covered quite a long distance along the sandy shores near Olonets. As he was approaching the Svir River mouth, shores were getting more and more reedy. There was no suitable place for a night camp. Finally, Pekka found a small sandy bay and got ashore.
Such a landscape can be seen for 100 km.
That night, the previous evening`s situation repeated, however, with some frightening shades.
"I had already pitched my tent, when I noticed a fishing hut in the nearby woods. I approached the hut and helloed. No answer. The door was ajar, and I opened it a little bit more. I heard voices inside. Wondering what to do, I returned to the shore. I was tired, I did not want to continue my way that day anymore, because I had already changed to dry clothes, and I was not sure how far it would take to the next suitable place for a night camp. Finally, I decided to stay. I thought it would be reasonable to report to the hut inhabitants, that there would be a tourist staying overnight on the shore.
The hut (night picture)
I knocked on the door, and a man appeared on the threshold. He was about 30 years old, drunk and wearing underpants. But once I started to speak, he replied friendly: "Finski turist?" ("Finnish tourist?"). He invited me inside and offered some tea. There was also a woman who was introduced to me as his wife. They started to persuade me to spend the night on a plank bed inside the hut. I explained my refusal with the fact that I had already pitched up my tent.
The man had a stitched wound under his eye, and the woman limped. Getting to sleep, I took a puukko knife with me to the tent. But the night passed calmly, and I slept well: the air was cool and fresh.
In the morning, the man complained of a hangover. I prepared my breakfast quickly and, as quietly as possible, packed my stuff and left. I decided that it would be better not to attract unnecessary attention to my departure."
"After this trip, I told my friend Risto Partanen about that evening; he speaks Russian well and knows Russian culture much better than me. Risto commented, that if he were in my shoes he would not have knocked on the hut door. Rita also noted that my actions tended to be too self-confident and, let us say, thoughtless. However, in general, in their opinion, it was relatively safe to move around on the sparsely-populated countryside in Russia."
Analyzing both cases, Pekka came to the conclusion that Russians mostly regard to Finnish tourists with some respect. At least, he received warm reception at accidental meetings. It would be nice to see a similar attitude to Russian tourists in Finland.
Pekka considers hospitality to be one of the most typical features of Russian culture. When a guest comes to a house, he/she is taken care of in every possible way. When Russians offer help to a Finnish tourist, they do not expect any reward, since they do it out of hospitality. However, you can always offer some money as a sign of gratitude, but if a Russian refuses, you should never insist, since this can be perceived as an insult. An excellent option is to have a return gift in stock, but as it is not difficult to understand, on a many-day kayak trip, you cannot take a lot of extra stuff with you.
Olonets, traditional Karelian territory
So-called Olonets Karelia, located south of the old Finnish border, never used to be a part of Sweden or Finland, except for a few years during the Second World War, when it was occupied. This is the land where Karelians traditionally lived.
The town of Olonets is one of the oldest settlements in the North of Russia. The first written mention of it dates back to 1137, what is 10 years earlier than the first mentions of Moscow.
Olonets is not located on Lake Ladoga shore, but is further inland, at the confluence of the Olonka and the Megrega rivers. Today, the town`s population is 11.5 thousand people. Approximately 60% of them are Karelians, and about 10% are Finnish speaking. Thus, in the Olonets area, it is quite possible to manage only with Finnish – you are quite likely to be understood.
Someone went fishing and never returned to get the car
After Olonets, the shores of Ladoga turned out to be more and more difficult for a kayaker: a wide belt of reeds occupied the coast waters, and it became increasingly wider.
So, Pekka had to make his way to the shore through dense reeds. He knew that soon there would be the territory of Nizhnesvirsky strict nature reserve in front of him, where it was not allowed to stay overnight. At the same time, he would not manage to get to the Svir mouth by nightfall.
Kayak in a "dock" in the kingdom of horseflies
The shore was so bad that Pekka had to unload his kayak standing right in the water in the middle of the reeds. Those reed jungles were home for thousands of horseflies and other blood-sucking insects. Next morning, with similar difficulties and still surrounded by horseflies, he packed things back into the kayak and started on.
Sandy beach of Svyr Nature Reserve
By the evening, I reached the mouth of the Svir River, which connects Onego and Ladoga lakes, and settled in hotel "Svirskaya". A friendly hotel owner volunteered to help me unload my stuff from the kayak. Rita helped solve the difficulties of communication by phone.
A night in the hotel cost only 2 thousand rubles, breakfast – 250 rubles. It was about 55 euros, as to the exchange rate of that day.
Lively traffic on the canal
Kayaking along the Ladoga canal
Between the mouths of the Svir and the Neva, along the southeastern coastline of Ladoga, there are two lockless canals going parallel to each other. One of the most important trading waterways of the Russian Empire passed via Ladoga: it stretched from the Volga River through the Volkhov and the Neva rivers to the Baltic Sea. The Ladoga section of that trade way was the most dangerous for the ships. The huge lake in this place is shallow, shores are stony, and most importantly – open to all storms, since there is no protection such as islands or skerries, as in the northern part of the lake.
The Old Ladoga Canal, also called Petrovsky, as it was named after Peter I, was 111 km long. The canal was open for vessels in 1731, and it connected the Volkhov River (at the mouth of which the city of Novaya Ladoga is located) with the Neva river (at the spot where it flows through Shlisselburg). At the beginning of the XIX century, the canal was extended from the Volkhov River to the north, up to the mouth of the Svir river.
Due to the gradual land uplift, the Staraya Ladoga canal became very shallow, and in 1861-1866, a new canal was built between the Ladoga and the old canal, named New Ladoga Canal or the canal of Alexander II.
White lateral sign. If anyone wonders where the Finnish white / red navigation signs come from, so they come from here
With the development of the railways, waterways lost their significance. Now one of the two Ladoga canals is completely overgrown, and the second one is used only by small vessels.
Pekka did not manage to find out in advance whether he could use the canal or not. The owner of the hotel had no idea in what condition the canal was (according to Pekka`s observations, Russian people generally have strikingly poor knowledge about their home area), but he tried to help and took Pekka on his quad bike to a friend who confirmed that it was possible to move along the canal on a kayak.
Moving along the canal was not easy. There was not a single breathe of wind, and the surface of water was stuffy and hot. The situation was complicated by the fact, that the steep banks of the canal did not allow to land for a short break. For the whole day, Pekka managed to make a break only twice – in both cases a fallen tree was found near the shore, allowing to stop for a while.
2 km straight forward, a small turn, again a straight line 1-3 km, and so on all the time. Hot and stuffy. One can get some shadow only by approaching the trees growing on the shore.
Shallow muddy water and comforting shopping in the end
"After good 20 kilometers, near the village of Voronovo, I noticed a beach where I could get ashore. There was also a waterway to Ladoga, and I decided to return to the lake, dreaming to find a normal sandy beach for the night camp," says Pekka.
"Fortunately, before going back to Ladoga, I had lunch and some rest. Over more than 20 kilometers, the shore of Ladoga remained unusually bad. Only once it was possible to warm up, having moored to a large piece of wood, sticking out near the shore. At the distance of 10 meters from the shore, the kayak nose got bogged down in thick mud, and it was not possible to advance further even with the help of a paddle.
A "relief tree". It saved from worse problems.
The heat was around 30 Co, the water was also warm, and the water supply was coming to an end. It became clear that I needed to try to get to the town of Syasstroy, located at the mouth of the river Syas. Approaching the shore, I noticed a building and three men. I asked them where to find the nearest store. Men, apparently, did not particularly understand the question, but pointed to the building.
Fishmonger Andrei and his employee
The building turned out to be a fish store. The owner of the store Andrey immediately understood my situation. Without any requests from my side, he told the seller to guard my kayak left on the shore and took me by his car to a store, which was about 5 km away. At the same time, he dropped three of his workers at the gate of a facility that looked like a labor colony. In the store, I bought 3 liters of water, an ice cream and some non-alcoholic beer.
When we returned, Andrey made some tea and offered me cold tap water. I drank some, and surprisingly there were no consequences for my stomach. Andrey gave me a tour around his house, which was under repairs at that time, and on the way, he put a few packs of bills lying on the table into a box.
I called Rita and asked her to book a room at the Fishing and Hunting Club in Novaya Ladoga.
Final stop after a long day. Pekka drank 2 bottles of Baltika-0 at the counter, and it was sooo good
I made a decision to continue along the canal. At that spot, the canal was practically straight for almost 10 kilometers, so that the dome of the Novaya Ladoga church could be seen ahead all the way. Around midnight, I finally reached the club. The room was very hot and smelled sewerage. But the refrigerator worked, and I put my foodstuff there. The kitchen was closed, so I did not get any supper. The room cost 900 rubles (22 euros).
Novaya Ladoga – a turning point on the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks
Pekka spent the next day in Novaya Ladoga waiting for Erkki and Anneli, who were supposed to deliver him some food for the rest of the trip. At a certain point, he realized he looked rather odd wearing his travelling clothes at that hotel, so he took a taxi and went to the local market to get a T-shirt and shorts.
The first kayak callous in life
All day, he just rested, wrote text messages, read the "Lord of the Rings" and studied the map of Ladoga.
Kayaker's goods in a hotel room
Novaya Ladoga ("New Lagoda") is a town with a population of about 11,000 people, located at the mouth of the Volkhov River. Despite its name, it's not a young city at all. Already in the XV century, there was a settlement, although it received a status of a town only in 1704. A town with the name Staraya Ladoga ("Old Ladoga") is located 13 km upstream the Volkhov river. It was one of the oldest significant centers of trade, through which went the trade route "from the Varangians to the Greeks", the most important trade route of the Varangians, as Slavic peoples called the Vikings. Archaeologists assume, that Staraya Ladoga was founded in 753. In 2003, the town celebrated its 1250th anniversary and Putin gave it the title of the oldest city in Russia.
The Volkhov River flows into the Ladoga Lake in its southern part. Namely at the mouth of the Volkhov river the trading routes of the Vikings, starting from the territory of modern Sweden, turned south. After crossing the watershed, trade routes ran along the Dnieper river through Kiev towards Constantinople and the Mediterranean Sea.
On the bank of the Volkhov river, a hundred kilometers to the south from Staraya Ladoga, there is also a city of Novgorod, the capital of the Novgorod State, also considered to be one of the oldest cities in Russia. Through Novgorod, Orthodoxy came to Karelia. In the "Tale of the Past Years", Novgorod was first mentioned in the description of the year 859.
In 1136 – 1478, Novgorod was the capital of the Novgorod Republic. Sweden and Novgorod had a serious geopolitical struggle for the territory in the area of Ladoga. Later, Novgorod was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
Today, there live 220 000 people. The city boasts numerous ancient Russian historical sites. The one interested in history and culture should definitely take a trip from Novgorod through Ladoga to Saint Petersburg.
After studying the map, Pekka decided to ask Erkki and Anneli to give him a lift to Shlisselburg by car. According to the map, the coastline between Novaya Ladoga and Shlisselburg was even shallower than on the previous segment of the trip.
"In order not to get stuck in mud and waterweeds all the time, I would have to keep a kilometer distance from the shore, not having the slightest idea of where it would be possible to get ashore. The prospect of continuing along the canal did not look bright either, as no one could tell whether there was an opportunity to get ashore. In general, the surrounding area looked strange on the map: there seemed to be a number of very small settlements along the canal, and closer to Shlisselburg – a rather large territory occupied by summer cottages, but at the same, time no regular road, and it remained unclear whether those settlements were inhabited or not. Because of the concern that there would be no suitable place to spend the night on the banks of the canal or even any possibility of getting out of it – taking into account that there were more than 100 kilometers ahead – I decided not to take that risk. You can be a little crazy, but not a fool," Pekka summed up.
From Slisselburg to the north
Pekka arrived at Shlisselburg at about 9 pm. and spent a few more hours to get to Ladoga. The weather was magnificent, warm and calm, but still Pekka had to sweat for a while: in Shlisselburg the Neva starts from Lake Ladoga, and the counter flow there turned out to be very strong. The Neva is a powerful river carrying the waters of Ladoga, Onego and Saimaa lakes and numerous rivers through St. Petersburg to the Gulf of Finland. The difference in the altitude between Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland is 4 meters. There are no rapids on the Neva.
Oreshek Fortress. Restoration is going on. Strong counter flow of about 10 km / h
From the point of view of Finnish history, the Fortress of Oreshek ("Nut" fortress in Russian), the heart of Schlisselburg, was of great importance. Novgorod prince Yuri Danilovich founded it in 1323 on an island strategically important for defense and trade. The same year, the first peace treaty between Novgorodians and Swedes was signed in the fortress (so-called Orekhovsky Truce).
During the centuries, the fortress was destroyed and rebuilt many times. It has looked like now since 1514-1525. The fortress had a shape of a polygon 300 meters long and 150 meters wide, with seven towers along the perimeter and a three-tower internal citadel. Currently, the fortress is under reconstruction.
In terms of its historical impact and advantageous location, Oreshek is comparable to the fortress of Olavinlinna in Savonlinna, Finland. Both fortresses were alternately controlled by Sweden and Russia.
The fortress lost its military importance when Peter the Great decided to link the further path of Russia's development with the Baltics and Europe. He founded a new capital on the marshy banks of the Neva, on the territory of Ingermanlandia, which had been dominated by Sweden for a long time and inhabited by people speaking the dialect of the Finnish language.
This happened as a result of the Northern War (1700-1721), which Peter I waged against Sweden, led by the young King Charles XII. By the beginning of 1703, Peter I managed to win back the whole territory along the Neva river from Sweden, and 10 years later, Russian troops conquered the territory of today's Finland for the first time, and some of it remained in the Russian Empire as a result of the truce, concluded in 1721. The period of the military campaign on the territory of Finland is called "great hatred".
Ladoga cruise ship
Lateral sign. On Sunday evening there were about a hundred fishermen.
Taking refuge from wind, military zone
When Pekka finally came out from the Neva to Ladoga, the night sky already started to lighten and the wind rose. In that part of Ladoga the shore was marked on the map with a red dotted line. From the kayak, Pekka saw that the road running along the shore was interrupted by a checkpoint, and a man in uniform opened the gate for each passing car.
Before the trip, Pekka tried to find out from his Russian friends whether there were any closed military zones near the shores of Ladoga. That one, at least, looked just like a military zone. However, judging by the responses of friends, there was no official information on such restricted areas. After the end of the trip, Pekka finally managed to find out that the territory behind the gate was once a military base of chemical protection troops. What is there now remained undefined.
The wind strengthened rapidly and blew from the north-west, from the side of the open Ladoga. It was necessary to find a place for spending the night, and quickly.
The coast was shallow and very stony, but behind one of the capes there was a suitable place that someone had already used as a camp. Pekka set the tent so that it could not be seen from the water. For some reason, that evening Pekka was prone to anxiety. The feeling intensified when, after a while, Pekka noticed light going from under the water, as if a bright spotlight was switched on under the water. Submarine?
Part of some unknown apparatus in the forest near the shore.
The day passed in waiting for the wind to abate or change its direction. Neither one nor the other happened. At some point, Pekka`s attention was drawn to a bright object moving parallel to the surface of the water far from the shore. However, there turned out to be nothing mysterious: through binoculars Pekka saw a bunch of balloons, that apparently flew away from their owner.
The next morning the wind went a little down, whitecaps on the waves were no longer seen. Quick breakfast, packing up – and a jump into the kayak. However, immediately it became clear that the wind was again growing in strength. It was frustrating, but there was no other option than to return to the old place. Pekka set up the tent again, hung up the hammock and decided to relax and take it easy. "They say, hammock is very good for the back," Pekka laughs.
Pekka set the alarm for 3.15 a.m. The wind again seemed to be going down. An hour later Pekka was already in his kayak. On the lake there were large waves that struck the board of the kayak, so it was necessary to be concentrated all the time, paying attention to each wave.
The beach remained shallow and rocky, summer cottages constantly came across on the shore.
After a couple of hours a suitable place came up, and Pekka decided to go ashore – the wind intensified again, and in the second half of the day there was not much chance of its going down. Apparently, Pekka did not yet leave the suspicious military zone marked on the map, so he tried to place the tent and things again so that they could not be seen from the water.
Pekka spent the rest of the day lying in the hammock, reading and listening to the sound of waves.
About 3 o'clock in the morning not far from the shore an air-cushion vessel, judging by the sound of its engine, was going round for a long time. "If they were looking for me, at least they did not find me," Pekka laughs.
Towards the Burnaya river
The fifteenth day of the journey began well, a gentle headwind was blowing, and by 9 am. Pekka had already started out. The plan was to go a long way during the day.
Hotel on the river Burnaya. A nice place for a modest rest. Water in the river Burnaya comes from the same water system to which Pekka`s home lake Haukivesi belongs.
For about 20 km, Pekka could see the consequences of last year's summer storms that hit the shores. The storms went through Finland also, and apparently caught a major piece of the Karelian Isthmus too. A lot of fallen trees could be seen. "I would not want to find myself on the water in such a wind," Pekka comments.
By the end of the day, Pekka crossed the former border of Finland and soon reached a small village of Solovyevo, where a hotel was available, according to his knowledge. "I asked Rita to book me a room by phone, but the hotel did not respond. I had to sort it out myself. In the courtyard of the hotel, I was first met by three dogs, who barked and sniffed me, but then let me pass. They were followed by two women. I managed to take a room," says Pekka.
"The hotel turned out to be quite good, I was allowed to put my food in a hotel fridge, which was even switched on specially for me. For dinner I had borsch, pelmeni, bread, some beer, and bottled water.
The bed was comfortable, but there was no hot water in the tap. However, I was quite ready for that, since I was aware of seasonal outages of hot water in Russia.
For breakfast, they offered me omelet of five eggs and some bread. All services – one night accommodation with food – cost 2000 rubles (about 50 euros). I can definitely recommend this hotel for an unpretentious vacation," Pekka concludes.
The village of Solovievo (Finnish name Taipale) is located at the mouth of the river Burnaya (in Finnish also called Taipale), which is the largest branch of the lake-river system of Vuoksa. Part of the Vuoksa waters enter Ladoga through the old riverbed, located north of Priozersk, but the main water flow goes here. The old riverbed lost its importance in the middle of the 19th century, when the Vuoksa waters were redirected to Lake Suvanto to expand the arable land, and thence to the Burnaya river.
During the Winter War, a segment of the famous Mannerheim Line was built along the banks of the 11-kilometer-long Burnaya river.
Towards Sortavala and rocky shores
In Solovyovo, Pekka started to feel that there was only a final throw to do before he would see familiar northern shores of Ladoga.
A seal is waiting for a kayaker
The morning was hot and windless. The first two hours paddling felt unusually difficult. At the first break on the shore, Pekka discovered that his kayak had dragged a massive bunch of water lilies and waterweeds behind.
Kovenets Island and its monastery were in sight, but I rejected the idea of disembarking, I was urged to move on.
Another unknown construction on one of the islands
There were traces of that strong wind that I was waiting two days ago: plastic bottles, some wrappers and other rubbish, nailed by the wind etc. were floating. Apparently, people just drop that garbage from cruise ships, as there are no settlements nearby.
"In the evening, I had to pass around another guarded area with observation towers on the shore. I did not dare to get my camera and take any pictures. For the night camp, I chose a sandy beach, which I regretted the very next morning when the night dew soaked up the sand. Wet sand stuck absolutely all over things," Pekka complains.
On the way to Priozersk, one can easily find traces of the war on the shore: anti-tank fortifications, monuments, etc.
Soon I passed Priozersk by, a town with a population of about 20 000 people, located at the mouth of the Vuoksa. The old name of the town, Korela, may have something to do with the origin of the word "Karelia". First settlements of the Ladoga Karelians were located there, expanding later to the Eastern Finland.
Someone lost it?
In Novgorod, chronicles Korela was first mentioned in 1143, and already in the 13th century a fortress was built here. In the XV century, Korela was mentioned as the second largest city of the Novgorod principality.
My grand-aunt used to live on the other side of this island. A hammock on this shore is the best option for sleeping.
Pekka spent the last night in the neighborhood of Lahdenpohja. In his diary, he wrote: "FABULOUS ROCKS." In large letters. Here began the familiar northern part of Lake Ladoga.
The final leg of the journey was easy. The weather was fine, a small wind was blowing from the east. On the pier of Sortavala, Rita was meeting Pekka with her brother. "Babushka", Rita's mother, had already heated up her sauna and prepared a birch twist. "Washing myself clean felt simply divine. According to those whom I met, I looked a bit like a devil, so I shaved my beard right in the sauna so as not to frighten people," says Pekka.
The dream is fulfilled. Ladoga is went around along the coastline.
"During the evening, I drank about 3 liters of water, and another 5 the next day. I did not have to visit the toilet almost at all. Heat combined with physical activity thoroughly disordered the fluid balance in my body."
The dream had come true. Ladoga was went around.
Double-natured landscapes of Ladoga
Only after passing along the entire shore of Ladoga, you realize how diverse this lake is. The northern part of the coast, the former Finnish territory, is rocky, riddled with famous skerries. In the Olonets area, there is a long sandy shoreline. The southern part of the lake is very shallow, and in order to get to the shore, one needs to wade through reeds and small stones, what is very inconvenient when kayaking. As it turned out, Ladoga canals are quite passable, but it is not possible to get ashore at any moment.
A difficult place to land
Northern part Ladoga is very deep, in some places it is over 200 meters. In the southern part, it is shallow; therefore, the banks are densely covered with reeds.
The history of the northern part of Ladoga brings so-called Lost Karelia to memory, the territory lost by Finland. Olonets will tell you about Karelian culture, and the southern shore – from the mouth of the Svir to Shlisselburg – tells about the history of Russia. In fact, such a journey makes you realize how close Finland is to the place of origin of the Russian state, and how closely the histories of our countries are intermingled. In just a few days, you can go kayaking from places that are significant for Russian history, to places that are significant for Finland.
Weather conditions on a big lake
The most important factor of any trip along such a large lake is, of course, the weather. It's even surprising that during the incomplete three weeks of traveling I became a hostage of the wind once only.
If the wind blows from the open lake, the waves can be so huge that it's better not to go out to the lake in a kayak or a boat. One always needs to be prepared for a sudden or strengthening wind. In the southern part of the lake, another problem is finding a place to go ashore. On the Ladoga canals, the wind is not a threat, but it is very difficult to find a place to get ashore and spend a night.
"The best time for such a trip is around Juhannus holiday (Ivanov's day), when the wind tends to subside by night, and on a white night you can travel almost as during the day. Closer to July and until the end of summer, the beaches are flooded with tourists, mainly from St. Petersburg and Moscow. This time is extremely difficult for finding a comfortable natural beach, where there would not be anybody's tent," describes Pekka.
Local people are afraid of the lake
In general, Pekka came to the conclusion that modern inhabitants of the shores of Ladoga have no tradition of developing the lake and moving along it. Most of the population comes from other places, after the II World War refugees from Ukraine and Belarus were moved here. People moved to Karelia from war-ravaged territories, to the settlements, where empty houses remained after the evacuation of Finnish people.
"A huge lake remains and alien and frightening thing for them. A couple of generations are not enough to change this attitude. Of course, there are fishermen, and just people who have boats, but Lake Ladoga is unfamiliar to most people there. So, Rita, accompanying me every time in another lake trip, somehow believes that I'm very risky there, and I can be killed."
On this trip, Pekka used a hand-built kayak, a very light (only 14 kg) version of the Artisan model with additional space in the back deck for storing camping gear.
A water filter is also necessary. You can`t take enough water for 3 weeks in a kayak. In most places, water of Ladoga is probably quite suitable for drinking, but near settlements, I would not recommend anyone to drink it. Besides, when water blooms, then boiling will not help, because water becomes toxic. Some algal blooms are normal in Ladoga in summertime.
The MSR filter coped with its task perfectly, but after 3 weeks of use it had to be washed with a hard brush.
For navigation, Pekka normally uses maps and a compass, but in foggy weather and in order to determine the direction of the start, he also used a GPS navigator. Still, one should never count on a navigator alone: indeed electric appliances and water are not the best friends.
Before the trip, Pekka managed to buy a good 6-page map of Ladoga with 1: 100 000 scale in the Aino bookstore in Sortavala, and it was quite sufficient to go with.
Pekka took two mobile phones with him. One with a Finnish sim card, and the other had a Russian Megaphone one. On the eastern shore of Ladoga, there were 3 days, when both phones were out of range. No such problems near inhabited areas, of course.
"When I tell people about this trip, almost everyone is surprised that I did it alone. I do not see anything strange in this. On my home lake Haukivesi, I always go on a kayak all alone. It is easy: you are ready to go wherever you want, and you don`t need to fit in anyone else`s plans", tells Pekka.
Of course, it is necessary to prepare for such a trip, so that you can be really ready to cope with possible difficulties all alone. It's not as simple as it might seem at the first glance.
Most people unfamiliar with water trips have an incorrect idea of safety. In fact, the presence of a companion does not greatly increase the level of security. Of course, in some cases, a companion can provide a second opinion in a situation of a difficult decision-making. On the other hand, if the error does happen, there will be more victims.
Water tourism, like tourism in general, always carries certain risks. But there is a risk even when we are at home, there is no absolute safety. "I was well aware of the fact that if something happens to me, I can blame only myself, and no one else," Pekka laughs.
"It seems to me that now people try to impose responsibility on the others too often. When one has a phone, he can easily go anywhere being sure, that if he gets tired or sick, he can call rescuers at any time, and they will take you away on a rescue helicopter."
When Pekka goes hiking or kayaking, he tries to focus more on the thinking of people who discovered new lands, collected folklore or studied nature. Any trip should be carefully prepared, possible difficulties are taken into account, equipment is to be reliable. When the trip begins, you find yourself on your own, even if there is a fellow nearby. You need to think about your actions. A minor injury or damage to equipment can be a serious problem. It is very important to be aware of the limits of your abilities. You should never plan GGG beyond your strengths or physical abilities or to go kayaking in bad weather.
Of course, on open water, the skills of moving on a kayak must be firm. If you cannot make an Eskimo coup in a loaded kayak, this must be taken into account before venturing into the water in unfavorable weather. For example, Pekka cannot boast of such a skill, so he makes decisions in accordance with this.
Pekka`s security plan was based on the help of other people: Rita in Sortavala helped remotely, and Erkki and Anneli could relatively quickly come to the rescue by their camper. If he got sick, Pekka would receive help, although not immediately.
Planning the trip, Pekka crossed some parts of the coastline by car looking for hotels to spend several nights. Between Novaya Ladoga and Shlisselburg there was no way to get close to the water – there was no road network.
"Rescue services in Russia are called by the same number as in Finland – 112, but I did not really count on that, because I could not explain everything in Russian by phone. In case of emergency, I planned to call first of all to friends who would have already called for help.," explains Pekka.
Pekka Pouhula`s summary of his trip: "Indeed, Ladoga is a huge mass of water, a vast and a deep lake. In some places, there were more than 200 meters below. This is an inexpressible feeling."
Day Distances Time spent
1. 9 km 2 hours
2. 17 km 7 hours
3. 37 km 8 hours 5 min
5. 36 km 8 hours 10 min
9. 63 km 15 hours 30 min
10. 0 km
11. 31 km 5 hours 30 min
15. 50 km 11 hours
16. 45 km 11 hours 20 min
Total: 573 km 125,5 hours (4,6 km/h with breaks)
Paddling strokes: 298 000. If one stroke corresponds 1 kg of resistance power, physical exercise makes 2500 kg/hour.


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365 Days of Mike Patton: "Charade," Fantomas (2001)
The only Fantomas record I've listened to more than once or twice is the delightful The Director's Cut. While most of the Fantomas catalog is too inaccessible for even me to enjoy, the band's second album featured covers of movie soundtrack songs in the way only Mike Patton could.
"Charade" is the final track on the album, and it comes from the 1963 film that starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
Compare Henry Mancini's version of the 1963 version …
… To the Fantomas cover nearly 40 years later.
The general framework of the songs are pretty similar except for, you know, the screeching guitars, the general creepiness, the overarching aggressiveness and Patton's low-to-high-to-screaming vocals. The earlier version was nominated for an Oscar but lost out to Papa's Delicate Condition. Patton's version was nominated for nothing.
But it still scored good reviews.
From Pitchfork: "Beginning with a demented samba-beatbox from Patton, 'Charade' vacillates between an incredibly smooth, jazzy melody and a spitfire speed-yodel stomp. As the dubbed-in crowd applauds, the melody gently returns with more hyphen-encouraging mayhem. And suddenly, it's very clear how this will all end: 'YAD DA DA DADA DA DA DADA YAD DA DADA DA DA DA DADA!'"
NME, meanwhile, called the song "some of the finest moments" on the album. It's one of the few times a Fantomas track reminded anybody of Faith No More. That makes it a small victory in my eyes.
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Lakers Change to Black Mamba Jerseys for Game 5
Posted on October 7, 2020 by Justin Hickey
The Lakers have three opportunities to win the 2020 NBA Finals, but they'd like to finish it on their first time around and will go with their Black Mamba jerseys in hopes of making that happen.
The team is 4-0 this season while wearing the jerseys and seem to play with a little something extra when they wear them.
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