Fri 6 Feb 2009
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Hey, you at your computer – somewhere on the planet. Hello!
Let us know which nation or continent you saw the turning world from, using the form below;
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Hello from Naperville Illinois
Great service, thanks
~waves from Florida
Awsome
Balking is a bold stroke for a united world of the common person, who can submit the true feelings of the common person. This provides a means for the commoner to share ideas with other commoners around the world,and get a proper prespective of what is really going on.
AY!
No problem with this here in Houston…
Greetings to all from a Scotsman residing in Wales! A Cool website – I Like!
my greetins, a very good iniciative.
From the shinning star of the Caribbean! To much light, but at least we’re here!
Love it.
this’s gewd
hello
It is indeed a small world with very few places that are truly open and free spaces.
Hey this is Sahir from Pakistan. Just checked this website, its just superb.
a great view from here
Just wanted to know what all the fuss was
i see south america
I love this forum, I want to know more about it.
Good site.its my first time and i like what i see.keep it up
I love being one of the top.
south america
equatorial region
It’s my 1st time checking out your site. I like what I see. Keep up the great work!
Sai Ram
Love All, Serve All, Hurt Never, Help Ever, we can heal the world. I send the world Love.
Pereira, Colombia
Excellent site – I just returned to Montana from Antarctica where it’s warmer than here. Perhaps we do have global warming; in some spots; but it is colder in other spots. Could it simply be that the earth has its own cycle which it will carry out just because it is what it is?
Nice work.
Is that you Pat G from the USA?
Thogh primarily a novelist, I have two main interests – the Law (US) and US politics particularly foreign policy. I have written, and published Letters to the Editor – Widely read and for the most part well received.I write with the perserctive of age (86)common sense, from an active varied experience. I am a registered Independent, free of religious doctrine.
Link to southwickhouse.com for bio and my published work.
Interesting site – a lot of articulate, well formed ideas bandied about here. It is heartening to see civil discourse on the internet where one often finds hysteric ideologues screaming and insulting others in cyberspace.
Wow,great site. Jack
December the 12th, I made a prediction. Go COLTS!!!!!!!!
Hello from Toronto Richard! Glad you found Balkingpoints. Check the display information page (linked on the About page). It has some information about your question.
Wow – just found your site from a mention in a news report – amazing!
One small request – can we please have a netbook resolution option in the menu ? Ideally at 1024×600 pixels – it would help with reading some of the posts as the layout is a bit skewed when reading on a 10inch netbook screen with the current lcd option. Many thanks and good luck with your site.
Global warming is a crock, check the last 2000 years of climatology.
Greetings world from Fffffreeeeezing UK.
Global warming is the result of changing and cyclical oceanic patterns – we are now entering (in this part of the world) a cooling period expected to last for the next two or three decades.
Great site.
Great global pics.
Where did all the Global Warming go??? Wyoming was literally colder than the South Pole yesterday.
ur site is ok
I’ll try anything.Open mind.Just don’t try to fool me.
Whow, pretty neat stuff, maybe your site can bring peoples from all over the world together for some solidarity ??!!!
have rain and sun in mid-summer
Come and visit New Zealand. Lots to see and do.
Looks like Santa had a lot of territory to cover in 2009!
Pretty Frigging Cool!
Nice x’mas view.
Wonderful and very peaceful-especially tonight on Christmas Eve. Thank-you!
Came to me in my Yahoo mail.
JSC Ukrtelecom Kiev
It is impossible for nightime to exist over the entire earth at the same time. Yet that’s what appears in the view on the main page. So, this can not possibly be a satellite image unless it is a composite.
Re: Copenhagen I hope we can give the world more hope; we need to give it time to grow. The global economy sucks right now, when things improve, hopefully more countries will sign on for this.
Hi Everyone,
Cool website – I love your idea, getting ppl to converse with one-another…. and the turning lights are beautiful.
I found this site via the NPR (National Public Radio) website.
Thank You!
Hello world. Please turn off some of the lights. We are running out of fuels to keep them on all night. Also, could you slow down on the baby making a little bit? We are approaching 7 billion of us and it’s getting a bit crowded down here. I know we all love sex, but geeeze, we have birth control now.
Pest region, Hungary
hello to everyone out there from westward ho! devon
Hey everybody, it’s really cold here in Indianapolis Indiana right now. Can’t wait till May rolls around, the Indianapolis 500 is really gonna be cool this year! How many of you from other countries have come over here and watched it in person?
P.S.,,,,how bout’ those Colts, super bowl bound baby!!!!
I love this moving picture of the earth.
Alohi.
Hello out there!
impressive and so fragile!! world leaders should spend some time looking at it and reflect ( whishfull thinking )
Nice site!
Hi everyone in world. I’d like to go on a camel caravan in the desert with the Bedouin people and learn to work with camels. I ride horses, and greatly admire the Arabian horse. I’d like to ride a pony across Mongolia. Are men basically responsible for wars? I can’t decide. Love you all.
Come BLOW your dough here!
hello out there!!! im in florida!!!
sweeeeet!!!
So, do me a favor and close your eyes. Now, think about where you are at this moment. Next, look at yourself from a third person perspective. Now, pull way back. High above you, into space, outside our solar system, leaving the Milky Way. Look into the infinite depths of the universe and think about this: What are we really doing down there? How have we become so busy working towards certain goals? Why do we really have goals in the first place? When did we become infatuated with success? What are we all really working towards? And ultimately, what is the point? I catch myself thinking about how small we really are and in turn, question why we as humans have such complex brains. Brains that create beautiful works of art, moving music and splendid literature. Brains capable of abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving. Did a god really create us? If so, what does said god want from us? What is the big plan? Or are we merely another stage in evolution and over the course of billions of years we will have evolved into another form of genus homo? Why do you think we exist and what do you think you were placed on this planet to do?
There is no gravity,,,,,
The earth just sucks ;o)
Money or profit is not the problem. It is the love of money or profit at the cost of morals or doing what is right is the problem!
Love is the answer no matter what the question!
nice site
The view makes it clear to see how far i am away from my beautiful girls…
Cpl Q
USMC
IYAOYAS
The view makes it easy to see where I’ll buy my next ranch, and that will be soon. Very soon.
Robin, USAFR Retired (Command (jet) Pilot)
Southwestern U.S.
Since when is making a profit evil ?
AT&T INTERNET SERVICES SBCGLOBAL.NET
We all live on the same fragile marble, our countries leaders “mine included”, need to stop this “King of the hill” mentality, very very childish to say the least.
I personally would like to sit down with these world powers, and give them a piece of my mind!, not that it would do any good though, because all they are concerned about is world power and the mighty $$$$.
So much waste and crime here in the USA, I am ashamed! When will it stop?
I would say that most all people on this planet just want food on their plates, a place to live that they can call their own, a job that will keep the family together, is this really asking too much?
But as we all know, big government and the almighty dollar keeps this from being reality,,,,always has,,,probably always will.
Peace and good hope to all,
Mark Jeffries.
The earth is but one country and mankind it’s citizen.(Bahai faith)
Good site
CANADA ONTARIO THORNHILL
ROGERS CABLE INC.
Saw your site mentioned on “The Nation”
Great! Will forward.
hong kong – CITY TELECOM (H.K.) LTD
Just another site for the New World Order that is coming.
северодвинск девушки
Yo Roy, how’s that hope ‘n change working for ya?
David, you nice work to have in the world just be wonderfull.
Hello!!
Guys
very nice
HINET.NET CHUNGHWA TELECOM
another mindless site
Keep it real
Hello,
What a great site to encourage people to have a world wide view and speak for themselves.
I appreciate the precious efforts of concerned persons.
Shuvo Shandhya to all
in Tokyo
GOOD IS BETTER THAN EVIL — RIGHT?
PT COMUNICACOES S.A
PORTUGAL
Site doesn’t seem to be very user friendly, or there just isn’t much to it.
COLOMBIA ETB.NET.CO
COMITE GESTOR DA INTERNET NO BRASIL
Loy27; a balk went up today on it. Jump on in at the main forum
Among other things, that implies reducing subsidies that directly or indirectly increase energy use, land clearance, coastal development, and other activities that contribute to greater greenhouse gas emissions or climate change damages. ,
goodmorning
SAW THIS ON TWITTER #iranelection
this is a very interesting site.well done to the creator!
saw this on a commentary from the chicago sun-times oct. 20th cool
Saw the site in a newspaper comment section – “Tennessean”- Oct. 20. Interesting website. I’ll be checking back!
In a blog repsonding to a Tribune article on a forclourse annoucemnet for the Block 37 development in downtown chicago… still don’t know why the mention was there but glad it led me to the site…
Interesying new gobal site
Mentioned on FaceBook
BEIJING
Like this site, but where does the funding come from?
My paranoia fears the worst..
I saw a comment by a poster at the Tennessean newspaper. I was lured by the promise of a beautiful satelite pic of earth. I was not misled.
saw article in viewer comment section of tampa tribune
Hello, admin(s), balkers, friends, Romans, countrymen…
I am excited to be here. I was invited here a while back from a fellow poster at npr.org, where I am called “Ear Rational”.
I finally sat down tonight with an attention span greater than the 1200 or so words allowed in responses over there. I hope what I write will be engaging!
A person was commenting on a Denver Post article about health care and about the future shortage of doctors. He said: “It’s morally wrong to leave 100 million Americans un or underinsured, 1 illness away from financial ruin. And it’s wrong to burden small business with the outrageous insurance costs also — saw a cool site; Balkingpoints ; awesome satellite view of earth
walt R
Joined: Oct 10″
so I had to visit the site to see the awesome view of the earth!
CAught a reference to the site on a newspaper comment section. The Courier Journal. “MikeW67 wrote:
It’s morally wrong to leave 100 million Americans un or underinsured, 1 illness away from financial ruin. And it’s wrong to burden small business with the outrageous insurance costs also — found a cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth”
Thought I’d visit and glad I did.
LOVE IT
i heard about this site on a comment about a local news article
I awakened from my induced comatose sleepwalk several years ago. It all began when I became upset at wondering where a certain technology was. Knowing full well, and proven correct that the human race was capable, and yet it was literally crushed. I didn’t know it at the time but I had began a world view life altering journey where I often found myself saying ‘how much more could there be?’. As painful as this roller coaster ride has been I have determined one very important thing. All of the earths peoples are very much like one another. It is the governments that either allow or commit injustices from horrendous crimes against humanity to small corrupted infractions. The people of the earth have had little say and when a leader rises above and dedicates themselves to their citizens they are given an intimate meeting with a bullet.
I have one suggestion. You may want to consider leaving out the personal party preferences in your opening pages. It would be sad to see such a beautiful idea become just another form of division. Leave the personal opinions to the balkers.
Other than that I beleive it’s true love <3
Hello all!
Bravo!
Mike Walker (MikeW67)
Thank you for the invitation to use this site. I very well like so far what I have seen here. I am sure you will be seeing my input on your sites in the future.
signed: NPR Bloger (goodoleboy)
Nice
Greetings from Appalachia, looks to be a nice day here, Hope yours is as well !
Jergen; you’re onto something there. That would make a good Balker topic for the main forum!
It is time to realize that today’s world’s financial ruin is a direct result of years of greedy speculators MANIPULATING the market in order to make a fast profit no matter what the result is.
We must all lobby our governments to halt and make illegal, the trading/betting / hedging, of all NECESSARY FOR LIFE GOODS .
(such as FOODS , POWER, FUELS, and MONEY )
This is the ONLY way that these goods would gradually float to regain their TRUE money values in our society and not get artificially bloated as a result of frantic betting / speculating by the money scabs of our world .
They have just ruined millions of lives by betting / hedging the cost of oil up to $ 160 per barrel . They quickly made billions of dollars each day as long as they could and after destroying the market, oil mysteriously went back to a SUSTAINABLE $45 – $60 !
If it was not allowed to speculate on LIFE ESSENTIAL GOODS , this would NOT have happened for sure !!!
What is next ???? Oil was such a success for them ,so why not do it again ??? maybe include natural gas and foods this time ????
BETTING AND HEDGING ON BASIC, NECESSARY TO LIFE PRODUCTS, MUST BE MADE ” OFF LIMITS ” !!!!
The world market can not sustain an other
man made financial disaster !!!!
I think that a World Wide Site is Wonderful. I hope to finally get to ask people questions from other countries.
Awesome view. I am looking for email pen pals in China. If any of you read this send me an email at erikpenland1@aol.com
thanks and I look forward to hearing from you
Echo..Echo..
From New England, USA
Nice picture, and the sun setting on west europe/africa…very nice!
Hello, from Tucson , AZ
Geoff from Bloomfield,NJ, linked from Twitter
Interesting site..
I will check back often!
Pete
Great site. Plan to visit to see the posts on health, health care from around the world! Anyone in from Bulgaria, or Russia?
Hi from Venezuela!
Thanks, Roy, for the invitation to your worldwide forum.
“Eight years of incompetence and corruption” seems to be an accurate enough depiction of what we’ve been through.
Though a confirmed capitalist, myself, the unbridled greed that we’ve been through, along with it’s politically corrupting influences were in place in the 1920s, as well. Western democracies have room for alternative views–and now we shall have some.
The “if you aren’t with me, you are against me” nonsense can just take a very long and very well deserved rest. God has lots of children (many are foreign to me) and as far as I can tell–they all have a right to be here……and those not familiar with a qwerty keyboard and English sure do seem to be moving my way.
WELCOME ! ! (to you all from the heartland of America) !
One last thing: Do any of you know about Tommy Douglas? (That Baptist minister who was voted by his countrymen/women as THE GREATEST CANADIAN OF ALL TIME?) Well, it wasn’t for his preaching, orator though he was. It was for his leadership in establishing universal(one-payer) Medicare.
Beautiful! I’ll pass the site along.
I don’t think you’re getting it Squonk. What parts of the world did you think supported Bush? Some may not want it told like it is :)
Rather than showing your arse right from the get go, why not remain apolitical and refrain from the left wing bravado? That being said, nice graphics but the political undertones are a turn off.
Good luck and adios.
Interesting site as seen from East Lyme, Connecticut. (home of Lyme Disease)GO TICKS GO!!!!!!!!!
August 19,2009 11:01 PM
We must agree to disagree!
That’s great!!
Viewing your site from the Music City, USA ~ Nashville ~ Very nice view of Earth, lots of fun … Thanks!
Nice and cool.
Hello fellow humanity, wishing you all well from the USA.
Hey nice post …. Keep up the great work
HELLO TO THE WORLD FROM CANADA
Hello to all the world, from Dallas, TX.
Cool site. Will recommend to everyone I come across. Am in Hempstead Long Island NY
Hi Ya’ll. This is an incredible site.
Will be back.
from Mississippi, USA
Hello everyone, I’ve enjoyed this site very much. It’s truly wonderful to be able to view our beautiful planet this way !!.
With love & light from North Devon England
Very nice site… found out about it in a 7/18/09 post on the NYDailyNews.com …
Best Wishes From
Cape Coral, in beautiful Southwest Florida
Hey there Everyone, Tampa, Florida checking in the House! Very Cool Site to visit, goes to show you that with the techniology these days anything can be done
Rich/USA: (12 July 2009) Instead of criticizing Roy’s post, use the forum as it was intended: post your balk! Burying your head in the sand and saying you will never visit the site again is the kind of attitude that has gotten us where we are today!!
Thanks for the great site idea. Will return often.
Greetings from the Adirondacks. I like what I have seen on this blog.
stillahippie From Washington NW US
the world must stop global warming and and climate change
We now must replace all those lights with solar powered houses, so we can stop burning coal.
Building solar BERM housing is the key to the future.
Thanks whoever posted this at CBC. Very nice map, and forward looking kind of site concept.
Have added to my bookmarks!
This site was interesting till I read the piece from Roy praising Obama and of course bashing Bush. I will not revisit this left wing liberal site.
Hello World from Miami FL.
Glad I found this, you did a really good job. What’s next?
What a beautiful planet!!!! I wonder if you can do a shift from night to day? Great job!
Hello from the far left corner (the beautiful Pacific NW)!
Great planet view. Got your ActiveX.
Well, I live in Texas… that still counts as the USA, doesn’t it?
;-)
Hey – this is awesome. Plan to return in the near future to balk with you.
Jen
Hello BalkLand, Love that turning Earth – it looks so peaceful from Space. Ah, well. Was sent this link by a friend, will send it on to others and check back regularly. Thanks for a great idea and a nice place to visit. (Didn’t have any music, btw)
Hello everyone and greetings from Finland – I’m finnish, european and a world citizen – let’s take care of our digital and physical planet :)
interesting site:) recommended by blog comment on AlterNet; will recommend as well
Like the concept, the map and your intent. Hope it does become an international forum and, as was mentioned above, is used in a positive manner; as I think that is the intent.
front page is farbalking out, will visit.
Stumbled on the site and have passed it on to family and friends. Looks interesting.
HOPE IT WILL BE USED IN A POSITIVE MANNER.
Looking forward to some World opinions. I will be back.
I’m brand new to your site, saw your comment about G. Bush and that immediately turned me off, about you and your site. Your political views are of no interest to me. I won’t be back.
Another reason I am happy to live at this particular time in history! Thanks for this site.
This is great! I will visit often.
Love the site, the map and the concept. Can’t wait to share. Thanks.
nice site
Great now I can watch the map…..um oh ah mmm um ah oh…
Just what I needed!!
WAS REFERRED TO THE SITE ON A COMMENT ON THE CBC. INTERESTING.
Happy Birthday,Aung San Suu Kyi.Hope you have a nice day.
GAOTU…so peaceful
Good luck with your site Roy.It has a nice user friendly format,I like the large print comment section.Was referred by a commentor on Alternet. peace
Good idea and great site.
Excellent! opportunity to browse different points of view
I really am looking forward to some intelligent discussions. I got the site from Topix, were all the ranters rant.
Los Angeles…found a mention of this in a comment that someone had made on the Washington Post website. Glad they did!
Picked up your site by someone posting at
Alternet.org. Hope you will be wiser than the “editors” at Alternet that seem to delight in their ability to “censor,” their poor readers’ delicate constitutions.
Regardless of what one’s beliefs are, censorship should not be an acceptable form of social constraints–all it does is show the Censor’s ignorance and bigotry.
Congratulations on an enlightened beginning. My compliments on both your insight and objectives.
from denver colorado usa========
Our two year old daughter was once asked at a party, where do you live little girl. Her response was the world. The gentleman was surprised, and responded, yes, yes but where is home? She looked at her Pappa puzzled with this person’s response and said earth! :-) From the mouth of a baby.
Thanks for the link
Fantastic, beautiful pictures.
Yuo never know what you will find on the internet!!
5/24/2009
Great Site
hugsss
Oops, where am I. ?
Stefano/Ca.,Or.,NY…
Farkin great site!
This is as cool as Bon Scott and AC/DC! Email me!
signed: Stefana
Is this the change we asked for???
Looks good so far. I will look forward to some great discussions in the future.
cool site, good luck with it. look forward to more info as you progress
Appleton, New York. nice.
Nice site
Hello from Nacogdoches, TX This is very interesting. I’m sure I’ll be back
Just discovered this facinating site, given via an NPR blogsite.
hey from oklahoma i’ll be back
Hello from Seattle Washington. Cool site!
Interesting site. Will check back often. Also saw the site referenced in the blog at a NPR article.
Excellent perspective…from the outside looking in. HOWDY and thanks from TEXAS, USA.
Found your address in an npr article comment section.
Looks to be a worthy tool for the educating of the masses without the restrictive policies of the powers that be to muck things up. Good luck to you and all those who yearn for solutions without profit margins and society without ruler inflicted chaos.
Nice site. It looks like we can communicate real thoughts…. but beware of government reprisals.
The governments of the world are not your friend.
Question for Roy G. How do I just find the most recently updated Balk or most recent Balkback?
I think this site has fantastic potential!
hello from florida
I just found this site. Need to explore it a little more. It seems to have potential.
Very nice site!
Hello from Indiana….Very nice site
Hello everyone nice site
hello everyone,’
A great site. Indeed I’ll bookmark it and shall return when I have something to say, progressive in nature of course!
Howdy from the Lone Star State!
What a site!!
Mindee Lou
Nice night view of the earth
Great site.Once a weeker.
The world’s sole super power does not decide its own foreign policy. Think that’s rather important? So do I.
kewl
btw, Canada is the #1 supplier of oil to US
cool site.. is the map interactive?
Hello from Colorado Springs with soon-to-be newborn Tan.
nice but more would be nice. Thanks from Canada
hopefully this develops into something more.
IdahoSlim
Incredible, what a view!
good morning, am interested in the site, saw it referred in the comments of news site, i’ll balk soon!
AMERICA NEEDS TO STOP IMPORTING OIL, FROM
THE MIDDLE – EAST. THEY ONLY NEED OIL FROM
MEXICO AND CANADA.
I`m from Denver colorado U.S.A.
GEE WILIKERS THIS IS FAR STUFF — MAYBE
CAPTAIN KIRK WILL LIKE IT TOO.FOLKS
BACK HOME IN PHILLY ARE TO THIS.
Very Good!! Far right Conservative
Good luck with your new site – I am looking forward to future visits.
Good morning out there! Nice and interesting site. It’s been bookmarked!
Balkingpoints, wot a good idea, I hope that the site becomes a reference point for internet debates!
Hello from Arctic Canada. :)
Very nice site and a great concept!
how very bizzare
Very interesting and well done.
Hi, Got word of your site on another comments blog on a local newspaper
Posted a link on my Facebook page. More power to you!
Far out!
love
I will bookmark this and check back often. Love the cover page!
Nice site. Hopefully it brings in people of intelligence and not just opinions.
Hope the site becomes popular, and brings together many with all positive views.
will try this and try not to be a dead horse either. . .
Have book-marked the site. Great potential for some interesting dialogue. Sad to say though that the people we want to complain about, will not be watching this site. The things we would like to see changed will not happen because of “Political Correctness” All societies are governed by people working their own agendas for themselves rather than for the good of ALL society.
even a good beat to the music the world turns to
I mean like cool site!
Obama is an ever bigger idiot than Bush! Bush kept the terrorists away, Obama invites them in. We are most likely doomed! Cool sight, though!
David USA I agree but the last 8 years for working Folks has been a living Hell.
Billy
Nice Web Site I Live in Dallas Texas.
Inspiring image…I dread the inevitable evangelizing rants
coooool
Saw you on Post Reports Comments
Interesting concept-will watch development
Thanks for sharing your site with all of us!
This is cool, thanks!
Through communication, dialogue, and diplomacy, enemies will become good friends, let us all work on this, and promote peace and friendship among all people of this planet.
wow cool site
Hello from Yellowknife… Mahsi Cho!
We are on the right track with thinking globally here,, gotta keep together folks.
Impressive Idea! I’ll have to look around now to see what all this is about.
Don’t blame it all on Bush. There are a lot of politicians to blame.
hi there from lakeland fl
IM here
Hello! to all free-thinkers
Let’s save the world…………
Nice view, appreciate the sharing.
Hello from NM
Im ready to go, love the satalite pic. I could stare at it for hours
Not much of a writer, but am an information junkie. This has great potential. Love the idea and the thought that as people, we are more alike then different. Love that.
Beautiful Site…and great concept! I came here from a Washington Post comment posting.
Will be back.
Good luck! Here via WaPo, hope others follow.
Hi from las Vegas very cool site
Greta site and cool rotating shot of the world.
Hello from the capitol of the world, New York City. Great Site, will visit often.
Great beginnings and thanks for bringing my attention to it!! Very cool.
Greetings from Illinois! Very nice site.
This is an exciting concept!
Very nice home page
Nice opening page – very cool.
Attractive and smart designed site .Congratulations !
who got the money of all the satelite,
I can not see my house anywhere ? should i flick the lights on and off a few times?
Greetings from the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world.”
Here’s hoping this site and others like it help to serve as a catalyst for positive change.
Dobre rano from Slovakia
Doverdinia earthlings
Saw your link in a forum in Slate – site looks interesting, I’ll bookmark it.
very cool site. I really like it. I have plenty to balk about. Start a topic.
What shall we use as our source of topics to generate discussion?
very nice site
Looks good so far!
We’ll have to see what the content is like.
Impressive site!
Are you seeking Balkers for intelligent political discourse or down and dirty, scorched earth blogging?
The site has an interesting feel to it. I’ll be interested to see how it develops; perhaps even register as Balker myself.
Cheers!
Good morning from the U.S.A. It’s 0500 here.
Elsheikh.
I liked it, saw it from Oslo, Norway. I will check it often.
Thanks
Far fawking out!
Very nice site. I have bookmarked it and will check back often.
Thanks
Doug
hello from Finland