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Snow storm in Helsinki

Posted by oobio on February 21, 2012 at 6:49pm

Disney on Ice

Posted by oobio on February 21, 2012 at 6:48pm

Underwater Ice Fishing

Posted by oobio on February 21, 2012 at 6:45pm

What is Pentti Arajärvi looking at?

The beautiful neckless of…

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Posted by oobio on February 21, 2012 at 6:40pm

Research shows the effect of pipe repairs on housing prices



The Master's thesis paper from Natalia Nikola on the effect of pipe repairs on housing prices
 show that pipe repairs cost less outside the Metropolitan area, but fails to see why. 

Pipe repair costs turn out to vary greatly between projects and scope:

The data includes apartment transactions from Helsinki and Espoo between Jan 2000 – Jun 2010. Four different data sources are combined for the analysis. Transaction data and data on characteristics of individual apartments (2000-2010) were obtained from Hintaseurantapalvelu, a database used by most Finnish real estate agents. Specific data on pipe repairs including scope and costs was…

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Posted by oobio on February 18, 2012 at 11:30am

Angry Birds on an Airplane!

The Finnish masterminds behind the game have opened up a little plane-shaped Angry Birds kiosk-shop in the middle of Helsinki International Airport.

Posted by oobio on February 9, 2012 at 11:38pm

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