Water is important for us all but are there people who understand more about it than us others? Is there more to water than merely H2O? Lauri Vainio Sommelier of the Year 2007 in Finland talks to water connoisseur Michael Mascha about bottled waters. Let the taste buddies do the talking.
VEEN Walk
Antti Eklund has a chat with Sami Garam, the famous Finnish Chef known especially for his TV shows and his unprecedented work in translating Donald Duck into Finnish slang.
Christmas is early this year for the kids at the Arctic Circle. No doubt Santa will be going green after finding out his territory has been taken over by a competing charity. Another famous Arctic Circle resident VEEN is donating 10 000 euros for kids recreational activities. These 75 kilograms worth of euros were raised in the first ever VEEN Art - exhibition.
We´ve always admired the platinum-iridium alloy 1 meter prototype still held at the BIPM(*. 1 meter was intended to equal 10-7 or one ten-millionth of the length of the meridian through Paris from pole to the equator. Who says things don´t become like we declare them! In 1960 the definition of 1 meter was based upon a wavelength of krypton-86 radiation. In 1983 the meter was defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
This mans e-mail surprised us from the blue. It struck us without warning and gave us yet another thrill on the wonders of the world. How can things like this happen? How can we continue to be blessed with these events and all these wonderful people? Here is the e-mail conversation that went on between Bjørn Veen from Veen and Mikko Nikkilä from VEEN.
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