Perhaps you can find a suitable answer to this question in an article in About.com- portal, address . The Articles address is
In this Article (May 06, 2004) it is said that the most expensive piece of art ever, a painting by Picasso, namely "Boy with a Pipe", has been sold for a new record price, for $104 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York. In this Article you will also find information about the circumnstances surrounding this painting.
There's a great deal of information about our log house industry to be found on the Internet, but unfortunately a shortage of books on the subject. Please try the following links:
Wood Focus Finland at
http://www.woodfocus.fi
Do try their free word search under "Links".
The Centre of Expertise for Wood Products at www.puusuomi.fi
There's a database for finding manufacturers on the finnish sites only.
The WoodFinland Programme at
http://www.puuoske.com
For statistics contact the Statistics Finland, the address on the Net is
http://tilastokeskus.fi/index_en.html
To trace someone in Finland try to find that person's address on the Population Register Centre's database. Browse their homepages on http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/vrk/home.nsf/pages/index_eng.
Our data protection legislation permits everyone to
to forbid the disclosure of his or her personal information by the population registration system for purposes such as direct advertising, so you might not find the information your want. The access to other public records is restricted also.
You may still find the portal for public sector services useful. Try the index on the upper right side of the page. The address is http://www.suomi.fi/english/
Have you already visited websites of Helsinki City Library (http://www.lib.hel.fi/?_lang_id=EN )? There is quite a lot of information on the subject of your inquiry.
Information about databases for customers' use you'll find here
http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2289 .
The list of databases and book catalogues is on this site http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2515 .
About computers and other equipment:
http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2287 . Check especially the link "workstations".
About the library system used in Helsinki metropolitan area libraries:
http://toimintakertomus.lib.hel.fi/toimintakertomus2003/EN/page4464.htm…
As far as I know, Pallas IntroActive system (in Tampere it is called Aktvii-Piki -service)is the only library program used in public libraries in Finland that contains personal bibligraphic informing part of the library services via Internet.
But Tampere is not the only library that uses Pallas -library system (+ IntroActive)in Finland. For example Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Joensuu, Porvoo, Kajaani, Seinäjoki, Rovaniemi and Vaasa City Libraries and many other libraries use Pallas library system.
The average salary for a librarian in Finland is 2 046 euros/month.
http://www.kuntatyonantajat.fi/index~id~3C33AE32DC744D87AB4ABC847A5C107… (Commission for Local Authority Employers)
The salaries in the municipal libraries are smaller than in the scientific/research libraries. Librarians in the municipal sector earn on average 1 700 euros/month.
As for the education, librarians have to have a higher university degree / master's degree. The degree can be a Master of Social Sciences or Master of Arts.
Information on university education in Finland:
http://www.opintoluotsi.fi/en-GB/education_in_finland/universities/
Library in its self is a highly valued service in Finland, but as a profession, librarian is not among the most admired. In...
Unfortunately most Finnish real estate agents do not have their homepages in English. However, below are three major Finnish real estate agents which provide services in English as well:
http://www.kiinteistomaailma.fi/en/
http://www.skv.fi/aspx/Site/CMS.aspx?path=/Yleiset/LangEN
http://www.huoneistokeskus.fi/aspx/International/Frontpage.aspx?lang=EN
In case you are interested in Finnish real estate vocabulary, here are translations both from Finnish to English, and from English to Finnish:
http://www.tkk.fi/Yksikot/Kiinteisto/julkaisut/verkkojulkaisut/julkaisu…
http://www.tkk.fi/Yksikot/Kiinteisto/julkaisut/verkkojulkaisut/julkaisu…
There are some summer accomodations available in the Siikalatva area to which Pulkkila also belongs. The page in the address http://www.metsainfo.fi/index.php?page=_ravintolat&type=6&lang=fi shows you the area of Siikalatva on the map. The nearest city is Oulu.
The Names and addresses of the summer hotels and cottages in Piippola are as follows:
Piippolan vaarin kesähotelli
Piippolan käsi- ja taideteollisuusoppilaitos
Keskustie 29
92620 Piippola
Puh: (08) 8119 111
Haapavesi
Hotelli Haapakannel
Vanhatie 47
p. 08 - 452 370, fax 08 - 450 520
Rantsila
Taukoranta Ky
Nelostie 1500
p. 08 - 253 790
Lamun Loma
Niemelänkuja 2 A
92920 Ahokylä
Seppo Piippo Gsm. 040-5045 605
Juhani Mahosenaho Gsm. 050-3486 994, 040-5483197
email: seppo.piippo.@...
We are not experts on psychology or any of its different disciplines, but hopefully the following websites will give some idea how music is used in helping people to overcome depression. However, in short it would seem that some of the psychologists and psychiatrists are of the opinion that music can relieve stress and that it can enable people to open up to their inner conflicts and thus provide ways to solve the actual reasons behind depression.
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab004517.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/26744/music_therapy_as_treatme…
http://www.holisticonline.com/Remedies/Depression/dep_sound_therapy.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080122203158.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...
You cand find books about subject by finnish words kirjoitusjärjestelmät historia (= system of writing, history) from Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries (HelMet):
The story of writing : with over 355 illustrations, 50 in colour / Robinson, Andrew
Kirjoituksen lumo = The metamorphoses of writing
Writing : the story of alphabets and scripts / Georges Jean
A history of writing / Albertine Gaur
The alphabetic labyrinth : the letters in history and imagination / Johanna Drucker
More books in HelMet catalogue:
http://www.helmet.fi/search*fin/X?SEARCH=kirjoitusj%C3%A4rjestelm%C3%A4…
Internetlinks in Libraries.fi about subject:
http://www.kirjastot.fi/Linkkikirjasto/Luokat.aspx?wordID=a66f2374-5b06…
The food stand at the Helsinki market place sells coffee, warm meat pies and donuts.
There are different kinds of ‘lihapiirakka’(meat pie) and ‘munkkipossu’(donut), so the pictures on the following sites show you the most typical forms they are sold in Finland.
munkkipossu or possumunkki
http://www.huovisenleipomo.fi/catalog/images/possumunkki.jpg
http://www.mumminpullapuoti.fi/img/kuvastot/58.jpg
lihapiirakka
http://www.primula.fi/uploads/pics/crop.Lihapiirakka_ryhmae.612x466.jpg
http://siwa.lahikauppa.fi/client-data/recipePictures/330_Lihapiirakka.g…
The basic division between state and municipal finance for libraries is 34.08% (state) and 65.92% (municipality). As of 1st January 2010, state subsidy for any given municipality is 54,63€ per inhabitants. These figures are from the Finnish language pages of the Ministry of Education. However, since the Ministry of Education is in charge of monitoring public library activities, you may contact the ministry for more information, especially concerning any possible EU funds. http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Kirjastot/?lang=en
As for outside funding, we could not find any statistics. Situations may vary considerably from one community to another. In some communities and municipalities there might be close cooperation with educational institutes, if...
At least television companys and film distributor companys buy films in Finland.
Here you can see the list of television channels in Finland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Finland
And here below are film distributor companys in Finland:
http://www.scanbox.com/Scanbox.aspx
http://www.sandrewmetronome.com/
http://www.nordiskfilm.fi/
http://www.futurefilm.fi/info.php?pageCat=8
http://www.fs-film.fi/showPage.php?page_id=1009
You should contact The National Archives (Arkistolaitos) and there the Provincial Archives of Vaasa. You will find the contact information here:
http://www.arkisto.fi/en/arkistolaitos/maakunta-arkistot/vaasan-maakunt…
God sources of information to the genealogist also here:
http://www.arkisto.fi/en/palvelut/sukututkijoille/
You can provide information about working on Finland from the website of Ministry of Employment and the Economy (Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö):
http://www.mol.fi/mol/en/02_working/05_foreigners/index.jsp
Yes, it is possible in Tikkurila kirjasto (music & media). If you want to reserve practicing time for yourself, please call 09 8392 3583.
Unfortunately this possibility is now mentioned only on the Finnish page http://www.helmet.fi/fi-FI/Kirjastot_ja_palvelut/Tikkurilan_kirjasto/Pa… but we will make the same entries in the English version as soon as possible.
Heikki Poroila
HelMet-musiikkivarasto
There are some Finnish courses online. You can find them via Infopankki. Infopankki is a website published by City of Helsinki:
http://www.infopankki.fi/en/living-in-finland/finnish-and-swedish/finni…
You should visit the library in person and take ID card with you. We'll then continue your registration and the renewals will function again. Sorry for your trouble!
Find your library:
http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services
