Scientists and astrologists in southern Finland have predicted that the sun can be expected to rise tomorrow in lapland for the first time since last November.

The sighting of the sun, which is expected to last nearly a full hour around midday tomorrow, signifies the end of kaamos(*) and will bring much waited relief for those Lapland residents who have managed to hold on to their sanity through the period of darkness.

The first sun rise is also traditionally a big day for the biology and psychology departments at the university of Oulu, where teams of graduate students have been working through the past months preparing the lapland rooster population for their first dawn.

During this 6 year long study, the teams have been testing the use of computers and multimedia animations in their efforts to introduce and familiarize roosters with the sun rise in the absence of the real sun. The costly study has been mainly funded by private donations by a well known international software company.

Despite positive results the research teams are disappointed with the fact that not more than 10% of this psychologically handicapped rooster population are ever expected to crow at sunrise without additional simoultaneous audio stimulus.

(*) kaamos = a period during which the sun never shows itself in Lapland