Neste opens Finland’s first low-emission service station in the Tuusula Housing Fair 2020 area Climate-friendly solutions have been used in the construction operations and product range of the station Neste Express Tuusula Rykmentinpuisto opens already before the summer housing fair, on Thursday 9 July 2020, at Puistometsäntie 1, Tuusula. The station features a Neste Easy Deli self-service store, OmaPosti kiosk, Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ and fast charging for electric vehicles biogas and natural gas filling points will also be opened at the station motorists can significantly reduce their carbon footprint with Neste MY Renewable Diesel it is great that our station also offers climate-friendly alternatives for electric and gas car owners biogas and electricity will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% per year compared to average refueling products,” says Katri Taskinen Vice President for station network in Finland Leppäkosken Energia and Unified Chargers are delivering Finland’s first intelligent fast charging field  for charging up to four electric vehicles at the same time “It is a smart solution where the total power of the field is split between the cars being charged the released charging power is automatically transferred to the remaining chargers The customer only needs a debit card and can charge the electric vehicle,” says Juha Koskela The first gas filling station in Tuusula will also be opened at Neste’s service station offering both biogas and natural gas for passenger cars and delivery vehicles “We make it possible to fill up with fully renewable and Finnish biogas at Rykmentinpuisto This is our company’s first gas filling station and it is great to present it as part of Neste’s service station of the future,” says Mika Paloranta Emissions from the service station of the future real estate are more than 70% lower    Several low-emission solutions have been developed in building the Rykmentinpuisto station** Cross-laminated timber elements have been used in the construction of the Easy Deli and fueling station Crushed rock has been partially replaced with crushed concrete and rubber granules have been used in the asphalt Later this autumn Neste will also open a gasoline filling point to the station where the fuel reservoir is located above the ground thus avoiding excavation and quarrying work that are a burden on the environment The energy used by the station comes from solar panels installed on the Easy Deli roof as well as electricity generated by wind power and hydroelectric power “The idea originated from the competition organized by the municipality of Tuusula and the Housing Fair in the summer of 2019 With the help of the Tuusula pilot station we can test responsible construction and new services in cooperation with our partners Thanks to the construction and maintenance solutions the emissions from the station real estate are more than 70%* lower than the emissions of a conventional station over the entire life cycle so as many people as possible can try out the services and give us feedback,” Taskinen continues Self-service enables faster shopping and growth of e-commerce    “The growth in e-commerce and parcel volumes has been enormous during the past spring we need to offer our customers flexible service options close to their everyday routes This will also reduce emissions from deliveries The arrival of online purchases can be easily tracked using the OmaPosti application,” says Heiko Laubach As part of the development of emission-free e-commerce logistics, Posti announced in June 2020 that it will start using Neste MY Renewable Diesel in its light delivery fleet Read more: neste.fi/rykmentinpuisto (in Finnish) *) Ramboll has calculated the buildings and infrastructure of the Rykmentinpuisto fuel station as well as the carbon footprint and handprint of refueling products The total station is 31% lower in emissions than a fuel station built using conventional construction methods and selling average filling products taking into account the climate impact of the fuel station real estate and transport energy products sold there Emissions from the fuel station’s real estate are 73% lower than for a conventional station over the entire life cycle of the station The emissions reductions over the period of use are 83% lower 82% do not take into account fossil-based gasoline If gasoline is included in the calculations Neste MY Renewable Diesel reduces motorists’ own greenhouse gas emissions over the life cycle by up to 90% compared to fossil diesel The methodology for calculating life cycle emissions and emissions reduction of Neste MY Renewable Diesel is in line with the European Union’s renewable energy directive (2009/28/EC) **) Kreate Oy was responsible for the infrastructure construction of the fuel station Further information: Katri Taskinen, Vice President for station network in Finland, Marketing & Services, Neste. Please contact Neste’s media service, tel. +358 50 458 5076 / media@neste.com (weekdays from 8:30 a.m Juha Koskela, Sales Director, Leppäkosken Energia Oy. juha.koskela@leppakoski.fi / 358 44 750 3355 Riku Rahikka, Chief Commercial Officer, Unified Chargers Oy, riku.rahikka@unifiedchargers.fi / +358 400 974194 Mika Paloranta, Managing Director, Suomen Kaasuenergia Oy, mika.paloranta@suomenkaasuenergia.fi / +358 50 452 4138 AOR’s proposal combines these different programs in a multi-functional learning and community environment If you have done all of this and still can't find the email will launch a new data center at its campus near Helsinki The new addition will be joining the company's Data Center Park Helsinki in southern Tuusula the campus will exceed 6MW and the total number of servers at the park will go beyond 100,000 Hetzner hopes to gradually fill out the campus to around 24MW in IT capacity work on two other data centers is due to begin the groundwork for the new facilities has already been laid and the two buildings are expected to be operational over the next few years could eventually reach 150,000 sq m (1.6m sq ft) with up to 20 data center units at 1.2MW each The data centers also follow the same design philosophy as Hetzner's German facilities in Nuremberg and Falkenstein The company chose Finland due to its cold climate and is powered by renewable wind energy supplied by Vantaan Energia The campus opened in 2018 and is managed by Hetzner Online's Finnish subsidiary Hetzner Finland Oy said: “The future looks bright for data centers such as the growth of data and network traffic is likely to create demand for data center services and virtual and augmented reality are driving the growth in the amount of data in data centers.” Hetzner Online is a data center operator based out of Germany It has been operational since 1997 and offers both colo and cloud hosting to its customers Hetzner Finland Oy employs around 30 people with more expected as further data centers are built Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia "Makita's headquarters in Finland with its sizeable warehouses represents the kind of business premise building that Lehto has strong experience and expertise in The project is the result of careful project development as the solution has been developed in cooperation for about 1.5 years The solution has utilized Lehto's own design expertise so we have been able to combine both the customer's needs and the solutions that Lehto found useful in business premises building The site also utilizes prefabricated products from the company's domestic factories such as the large roof elements manufactured at the Hartola factory," says Matti Koskela Executive Vice President of Lehto's Business Premises service area “We are happy to start the project with Lehto and looking forward for cooperation,” says Makita’s country director Tommi Lindgren Boson de Higgs Le boson W Le boson Z Grand collisionneur de hadrons La naissance du web Antimatière Dernières actualités Dernières actualités Ressources Contact Bureau de Presse CERN's research program covers many topics Voir toutes les ressources Registration is now open for the CERN Accelerator School’s course on beam instrumentation Ten years after the last course on beam instrumentation in Dourdan (FR) the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) proposes again a course on beam instrumentation This course will be of interest to staff and students in accelerator laboratories university departments and companies manufacturing accelerator equipment who wish to learn about beam instrumentation technologies data treatment and accelerator performance diagnostics The course is split into morning lectures and afternoon “hands-on” courses During the mornings typical instruments for high- and low-energy linear and circular accelerators will be explained Many application examples will be shown including some elementary background on particle dynamics In the afternoons students will be split into classes working with real equipment on beam position measurements RF measurements and digital signal processing The course participants will rotate during the duration of the school so every student will participate in all classes For more information and application, please visit the school website.  Toutes les actualités Autres comptes sur des médias sociaux in the latest of a string of violent plots believed to have been hatched by students in internet chat rooms Students and staff at the secondary school in Kaarst were sent home following a tip-off from police in Finland where investigations are still under way following the shooting dead of eight people at a school in Tuusula by an 18-year-old this month According to German police sources, Finnish authorities found evidence on a closed internet chatroom conversation between several parties which pointed to plans for an attack in Germany. They said they could not rule out a link between the Finland shooting and the plot in Germany, both apparently inspired by the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado along with threats received at a vocational school in Göttingen was believed to have been linked to the first anniversary yesterday of an attack on a school in Emsdetten in which an 18-year-old injured 32 in a Columbine-inspired shooting spree before killing himself police in Cologne apparently foiled another plot by two students to launch a massacre in their school using crossbows which was also planned to coincide with the Emsdetten anniversary The police have come under criticism for sending the two students home after questioning The younger boy later committed suicide by throwing himself under a tram German police and education authorities have pointed to a worrying growth in copycat incidents as well as a sharp rise in the number of pupils sharing information on the internet and goading and inspiring each other into carrying out attacks The Finnish killer Pekka-Eric Auvinen was believed to have been in touch via the internet with a Pennsylvania teenager who had been planning a Columbine-style attack This week a British woman alerted police in Norway to a massacre threat against a school in Askoey near Bergen after seeing a suspicious video of on YouTube The Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, in which two students killed 13 people before killing themselves, has served as a catalyst for a series of attacks across the United States and abroad, particularly in Germany "The phenomenon of massacres by young people in schools in Germany has only existed since Columbine," said Frank Robertz a Berlin criminologist and author of a book on violence in schools The 18-year-old in the incident at Cologne's Georg Büchner school who is now undergoing psychiatric treatment had posted pictures of the Columbine massacre on his personal page on the school's internet site Schuelervz.net Rolf B chose five photographs from the 1999 massacre and had told several fellow pupils: "On Tuesday there'll be a mighty explosion." A search of his home revealed a "death list" of 17 teachers and pupils whom he apparently planned to kill before - he told police - he changed his mind Both pupils had shared details of the plans in internet chatrooms Germany's worst school massacre occurred in April 2002 when 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shot 12 teachers The Erfurt massacre led to the introduction in some states of emergency plans to deal with shooting incidents pupils and teachers now routinely practise drills in which they are told a specific message over the public announcement system such as: "The canteen is closed." On hearing the message they are supposed to go to their classrooms Plans are also under way to set up an internet platform on which the public can give information about possible attacks said that because of the frequency of incidents pupils were becoming more astute at recognising warning signs "The sensitivities seem to be growing," he told a German newspaper "Pupils seem to increasingly understand how important it is to let security authorities in on the picture." 2019 / Project number: RCAF-RESERVE-20191004 When travelling abroad I like to try and learn a few words of the local language to feel more comfortable After finding a little YouTube video on the Finnish language I had learned two things; Hello is I packed my bags and went to the airport confident that this would all be a cinch as I staggered into my hotel room and stared at the placard saying I was very thankful that every single Finn speaks fluent English “Hei” and “Hei Hei” were as far as I was going to get Helsinki is a beautiful city; I was fortunate enough to have a few leave days available and I took some time to explore (and to get a head start on the jet lag) After a day and a half of excellent coffee The Young Reserve Officer’s Workshop is an annual event hosted by the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers an organization that represents over 1.3 million reservists in 34 NATO and allied countries had over 40 attendees from 12 different nations The goal of the event was to expose reservist junior officers to a NATO-like setting where we would discuss military issues and the realities of operating in the NATO environment About 45 minutes after arriving in Tuusula I had my uniform on and was taking notes during the seminar’s introductory remarks I was joined by two other Canadians: Lt Jared Mackintosh The event hit the ground running and didn’t stop with every minute of the schedule packed full of discussions and cultural events which were led by MWO Stefan Rubi of the Swiss army was on cultural compatibility and the ways of conducting operations in an international setting The evening cultural events were the planned time for networking where all the attendees were able to relax and ask questions about each other’s militaries each nation took a turn giving a 15-minute presentation (all 12 nations agreed that “death by PowerPoint” is ubiquitous) on some details of their country and military/reserve structure Some of the differences were absolutely eye-popping audible gasps were heard in the auditorium when the Danes told everyone of their 300EUR/day pay while the Estonians glumly reported that they don’t get paid at all Canada was one of the few countries that offer full-time Reserve employment and there was a very lively discussion on the merits of allowing 16-year-olds to join and train I also learned ─much to my shock─ that nobody in Austria knows about the film The evening featured a cultural food and drink exchange and every country brought out a few of their traditional delicacies and drinks If anyone knows where I can find some good Hungarian sausage in Ottawa it’s very important that I dedicate a large portion of this article to sauna (pronounced sow-na) because it is something that the Finnish take extremely seriously the Tuusula military facilities consist of about 10 buildings in a small cluster with a lake providing a pleasant backdrop as I did for hours every night in those humid rooms The routine is simple: take a quick shower to wash off any smells and then take a seat in the sauna and sweat it all out Not only is the sauna an experience in heat but I could barely hear due to the amount of conversations and laughter as 40 of us got to know each other It truly is amazing how quickly any barriers just fall away as everyone slowly melts in the heat and humidity The cleanliness of the body and the mind afterwards was one of the most pleasant experiences of my life But the Finns are not the sort of people who are content with spending an evening in the sauna and laughing with friends; after about 30 minutes of enjoying the heat our activity leader asked who wanted to go jump in the lake We all shuffled outside to the lake’s edge where there was a tiny dock with a ladder descending into a small hole in the ice Earlier that day I had watched a man auger a hole and start ice fishing about 100 metres further down the shoreline I know that Canadians are no strangers to what we call the Polar Bear Dip with all of the local politicians and newspapers coming out and people raising quite a lot of money for charity As much as I am now a believer in the joy of the sauna as I climbed down the ladder into the freezing water I immediately wished I hadn’t There must be something in the water out in Greenwood as Lt Mackintosh was first in line when the Finns decided to jump in the lake a second time 30 minutes later The second day featured almost 10 hours of team building exercises and discussion groups We completed some hands-on exercises with small obstacles that got us working on our communication we examined the necessary skills to be successful in a multicultural environment and discussed the impact of having diverse cultures in an organization An absolute highlight for me was discussing the differences in proper greetings and goodbyes around the world An Austrian army lieutenant took the time to explain the differences in timing and number of kisses to cheeks around Europe and it was riveting information for a handshake guy like me In the evening we visited a lovely little museum nearby that was dedicated to the Lotta-Svärd a paramilitary group of women dedicated to supporting military operations from 1918-1944 Many of these brave women provided vital support functions right up to the front lines and thousands more took up jobs in industries throughout Finland The third day was built around more discussion groups and each country took time to explore and explain the relationship between NCOs and Officers in our militaries While the Canadian system was unsurprisingly very similar to the British system it was very different when compared to a like Austrian or Swiss military where every member starts as junior enlisted senior officers often choose to become NCOs In the evening we piled onto a bus and went into Helsinki where we were given a short tour of the historical city centre and ate dinner at the Officer’s Mess which is a beautiful building overlooking the Helsinki harbour The final morning featured two outstanding presentations: one on Allied operations from a retired Finnish general and another by a representative from the Finnish Institute for Hybrid Warfare Then it was time to say our hei heis and we left Tuusula behind My biggest takeaway from this workshop is the realization that because of our own familiarity with multiculturalism in our ranks and throughout the country Canadians are strongly positioned to act as leaders and champions of cultural diversity in international military environments I am now armed with a ton of new friends and an international network of fellow officers I am proud to have represented Canada and our Air Force and would like to thank Lt Mackintosh and Capt Dullat for their outstanding contributions as well Learning so much about so many cultures in such a short period of time as well as educating others about Canadian culture is an outstanding tool that the RCAF Reserve absolutely should leverage again and again in the future Finland | A bullied teenage outcast with radical views scribbled a suicide note bidding farewell to his family before unleashing an indiscriminate killing campaign at his high school As the grim details emerged of a premeditated massacre by a youth consumed with anger against society stunned Finns mourned the victims of his deadly rampage Flags across the Nordic nation flew at half-staff Armed with a semiautomatic handgun and 500 rounds of ammunition 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen emptied nearly 20 rounds into some of his eight victims Wednesday He also tried to set the school building on fire in what police said was a well-prepared attack that Auvinen had foreshadowed in Internet postings Grieving students placed candles outside the sealed-off high school in Tuusula A day of mourning was declared and memorial services were held across the country where a church was turned into a crisis center with experts on hand to offer comfort The president attended a memorial service in the capital "The violence at the Jokela school center has shocked us to our very core This unbelievable incident has rendered us speechless in pain and distress," Bishop Mikko Heikka told the mourners in Helsinki Cathedral Police said Auvinen left a suicide note "saying goodbye to his family and a message .. indicating his will against society." They said he appeared bent on causing maximum bloodshed as he opened fire Police also seized books and other printed material that suggested Auvinen was angry at society and was planning an attack "His opinions were extreme and he had radical thoughts," police spokesman Jan-Olof Nyholm said adding there was no indication Auvinen was affiliated with any political movement Investigators think Auvinen revealed plans for the attack in postings on YouTube in which he urged revolution and grinned after taking target practice with a handgun One posting called for a popular uprising against "the enslaving "I am prepared to fight and die for my cause disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection," the posting said Finnish media said he posted similar messages in chat rooms just hours before the shooting spree the school nurse and the principal before turning the gun on himself More than 400 students aged 12 to 18 were enrolled at the school "There's nothing that links him with the victims except that they attended the same school," Detective Superintendent Tero Haapala told The Associated Press "But the explanation can be found mainly in his Web writings and his social behavior." Haapala described Auvinen as a social outcast who was "bullied in school." He did not provide details but suggested that the bullying may have helped lead to the violent behavior "You can say that the motive is still open," Haapala said Investigators gave a chilling account of the mayhem which started just before noon and ended two hours later when police found Auvinen in a bathroom near the school cafeteria with a gunshot wound to his head suggesting Auvinen fired at least as many shots The victims were shot in the head or the upper body - some only a few times He doused the floor and walls of the school's second floor in a flammable liquid but failed to ignite it Auvinen shot the victims with a .22-caliber Sig Sauer Mosquito pistol adding that about a dozen other people were injured as they tried to escape from the school belonged to a gun club and got a license for the pistol Oct He allegedly bought the gun days before the attack from a local gun store along with 500 rounds of ammunition German hosting and infrastructure specialist Hetzner Online has opened a data center campus near Helsinki The site in Tuusula offers cloud and colocation services, with 2,000 square meters of space available immediately. It benefits from fast connectivity to central Europe, thanks to Hetzner’s investment into C-Lion 1 cable system (also known as the Northern Digital Highway) between Helsinki and Rostock in the north of Germany The size of the campus could eventually reach 150,000 square meters Hetzner Online was established in 1997 as a privately owned web hosting company, and like many others, gradually diversified into colocation and then cloud services. It currently owns and operates two data center campuses in Germany: in Nuremberg and Falkenstein Hetzner Online looks after some 229,500 servers follows the same design principles as the company’s German facilities It uses direct free cooling – with a recognizable slanted roof intended to direct hot air away from the servers and out of the building - and is powered by 100% renewable wind energy supplied by Vantaan Energia Hetzner’s data centers are also fully compatible with taller 47U racks – as opposed to traditional 42 rack units Two data halls in Tuusula are already in operation The campus is managed by Hetzner Finland Oy a newly established subsidiary of the Hetzner Group The company chose Finland due to its cold climate its location as a geographic intersection of Eastern and Western Europe “Our server pricing in Finland is lower throughout our dedicated servers lines due to Finland’s favorable energy pricing This price difference is attractive to many of our customers,” Daniel Biller Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Exploded Axonometric. Courtesy of AORThe placement of the five timber log houses creates an internal network of meandering streets in which the lobby spaces are situated on three levels This evokes the sense of a miniature city within its wooden walls where the porosity of the design creates the impression of a layered urban environment By moving along the internal ‘streets’ and across the bridges the inhabitants of the high school and community center can see and interact with each other News via: AOR You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors Caverion Corporation Investor News 30 January 2023 at 08.15 a.m Caverion and Fira to implement new campus in Tuusula Finland as a lifecycle project – guaranteed conditions for 20 years The Tuusula Municipality has chosen Caverion and Fira as the lifecycle partners of the Rykmentinpuisto campus The campus will be implemented as a lifecycle project which includes the design and construction work for the property as well as operations and maintenance services for the next 20 years with a total area of more than 12,000 gross square metres will be built to accommodate a total of approximately 1,000 primary school and lower secondary school students more than 40 preschoolers and more than 150 special needs pupils The school has a teaching staff of approximately 200 persons.  Caverion will design and deliver all building solutions for the campus Caverion will be responsible for the operations and maintenance services and ensuring the planned energy consumption of the property for 20 years the project takes into account issues related to construction quality Usability is ensured throughout the service period in cooperation with the service provider The site will also fit for multipurpose use by the residents of the municipality - We are very pleased to be able to build and maintain the Tuusula campus The lifecycle project highlights our experience and good cooperation and we have developed sustainable and energy-efficient solutions together with Fira and the designers The active involvement of the customers and users in the negotiation phase also provides a good basis for 20 years of cooperation following the building’s completion  - This is our second lifecycle project and it is great to be able to implement it in cooperation with Caverion and the municipality of Tuusula We are particularly pleased with the project as we were able to make use of our core competence – user-oriented design and the ability to optimise the product in a holistic manner – right from the start We are very familiar with how different design solutions work in practice and we have utilised this competence in the project Sustainable choices and energy efficiency as guiding design principles Carbon footprint calculations have been prepared during the building’s design phase the results of which will be used to support the design and construction work The building’s carbon footprint during its lifecycle is 37% lower than that of a comparable property The aim is to favour low-carbon solutions and to reduce the carbon footprint of the completed building Renewable energy sources include solar power and heat pump technology A solar power plant with a power output of 160 kWp will be built on the roof of the building and heating and cooling will be implemented with a heat pump solution the project includes an option for the municipality of Tuusula to purchase design and construction work for a daycare centre that may be implemented later on the campus as well as corresponding maintenance services for the service period of the multipurpose campus.  For further information, please contact: Kirsi Hemmilä, Communications Manager, Caverion Finland, tel. +358 050 390 0941, kirsi.hemmila@caverion.com Luomamme ympäristö muokkaa tapaamme elää Caverion mahdollistaa suorituskykyä ja ihmisten hyvinvointia tekemällä rakennetusta ympäristöstä älykästä ja vastuullista Asiakkaat voivat luottaa osaamiseemme rakennusten teollisuuslaitosten ja teollisten prosessien koko elinkaaren ajan: hankekehityksestä projekteihin kiinteistöjohtamiseen sekä asiantuntijapalveluihin Liikevaihtomme vuonna 2021 oli noin 2,1 miljardia euroa Caverionin osake on listattu Nasdaq Helsingissä Finland – An 18-year-old gunman killed seven students and the principal during a rampage through his high school in this quiet Finnish town – and investigators suspect he revealed plans for the carnage in video Internet postings shot himself in the head after the shooting spree at Jokela High School in Tuusula two girls and the female principal with a .22-caliber pistol Authorities said one person was wounded by a bullet and about a dozen others suffered cuts and other injuries while fleeing the school Officials said more than 400 students ages 12 through 18 were enrolled Witnesses described a scene of mayhem at the school in this leafy lakeside community saying the shooter prowled the building looking for victims while shouting slogans for “revolution.” Police Chief Matti Tohkanen said the gunman didn’t have a previous criminal record “He was from an ordinary family,” Tohkanen said He said the teen belonged to a gun club and had gotten a license for the pistol Oct Gun ownership is fairly common in Finland by European standards Finnish media reported that a school shooting in 1989 involved a 14-year-old boy who killed two other students apparently for teasing him Investigators were searching for connections to the shooter and a possible motive in YouTube postings that appeared to reveal plans for Wednesday’s deadly attack titled “Jokela High School Massacre,” showed a picture of what appeared to be the Jokela school and two photos of a young man holding a handgun The person who posted the video was identified in the user profile as an 18-year-old man from Finland and his classmates watched through their classroom windows as the assailant shot the school’s principal outside the school She said the gunman then entered her brother’s classroom shouting: “Revolution the attacker shot the television set and windows but did not fire at the youngsters Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below Gifts processed in this system are tax deductible Get breaking news delivered to your inbox as it happens TDS Telecommunications continues expanding its high-speed all-fiber internet network into more Spokane-area neighborhoods © Copyright 2025, The Spokesman-Review | Community Guidelines | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy Finland | A teenager who called himself "a natural predator" shot and killed seven of his classmates and the principal inside a public high school here Wednesday one day after posting a video on YouTube in which he foreshadowed a massacre which ended with the 18-year-old gunman taking his own life jolted this Scandinavian country of 5.3 million people Finland has the third-highest rate of firearm ownership in the world and Finnish schools have never seen the need to take security measures that have become common in the United States Witnesses said the mass killing at the 400-student Jokela secondary school in Tuusula followed a script that resembled the massacres at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999 and Virginia Tech University this year the smooth-faced gunman methodically opened fire as he walked through the hallways carrying a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol the school's principal issued orders on the loudspeaker for teachers to lock the doors to their classrooms Some students tried to find safety by turning out the lights "It felt unreal - a pupil I have taught myself was running towards me "He was moving systematically through the school hallways knocking on the doors and shooting through the doors." five boys and two girls had been fatally shot Then the gunman paused and fired a single bullet into his own head; he was pronounced dead several hours later One student was grazed by a bullet and about a dozen others sustained minor injuries while attempting to flee But fellow students and Finnish media identified him as Pekka-Eric Auvinen said Auvinen belonged to a gun club and had received a pistol license Oct The chief also said Auvinen came from an "ordinary family" and lived with his parents and brother But classmates said they had recently noticed changes in his personality a smart student who was very well informed about world events," Tuomas Hulkkonen Investigators trying to determine a motive for the attack were scrutinizing videos posted on the YouTube Web site Tuesday Titled "Jokela High School Massacre," one featured a young man with a pistol taking potshots at a green apple Another showed a building identified as the school an image that dissolved into one of a man pointing a pistol at the camera The soundtrack featured the song "Stray Bullet" by the band KMFDM including the lyrics: "I am your holy totem/I am your sick taboo … I'm your nightmare coming true/I am your worst enemy." The song was a favorite of Eric Harris who had featured the lyrics on his Web site "I am prepared to fight and die for my cause," wrote the person who posted the videos "I am a natural predator and will eliminate all those I see fit." The posting also called for "revolution against the system" and warned readers not to blame books music or video games for what was about to happen Classmates of Auvinen said he shouted "Revolution!" as he barged into classrooms Residents in Tuusula grieved for the victims as small groups of people gathered spontaneously around the Jokela school deep into the night Finnish authorities said Thursday would be a national day of mourning People here were predicting that the deaths would ignite a debate on gun ownership and regulations in Finland which has more firearms per capita than any country save the United States and Yemen this will impact opinions about handguns," Vanhanen said The Jokela attack is the country's first school shooting since 1989 when a 14-year-old boy shot and killed two classmates Other European countries have suffered school shootings as well an expelled student fatally shot 16 people 16 children and a teacher were shot dead at the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland Thomason in Washington contributed to this report Published in 5/2019 - Ecology Landscape Tomas HartmanLocation Aleksis Kiven Kuja 2 as part of a project to develop the recreational use of the Lake Tuusula waterfront the municipality of Tuusula organised an invited competition for the design of a combined jetty and swimming pavilion on the shoreline of Fjällbo Park Our proposal titled “Pliplap” was chosen as the winning entry was home to an artist community with several villas Many of the villas at that time had their own jetty with a swimming pavilion at the end The competition sought to restore a piece of history The jetty and swimming pavilion serve as a waiting area for boats on the lake as well as a resting spot on a nature trail from where people can enjoy the lake scenery the pavilion becomes a changing room for ice swimmers and tour skaters The defining premise for the competition was the small budget so we set out to find a solution that would make the jetty and pavilion as simple as possible We wanted to create a small route on the jetty a sequence of spaces from which vistas open up and sheltered spots from the wind and rain is a tribute to the history of the Tuusula artist community The only significant change in the implementation of the design from the competition phase was the change from a pile-based structure to a floating one the open fireplace at the end of the jetty was removed for fire-safety reasons The challenges were related to the floating structure – the jetty is asymmetric and subject to wind loads in meeting the structural challenges on a very tight schedule and the implementation in the end was successful The most significant choice was the building material We chose Siberian larch for the surface material It possesses nature’s own impregnating agents and requires neither surface treatment nor maintenance treatment The thicknesses were also chosen so as to achieve an appropriate lifespan the jetty frame was designed to be supported by wooden pillars But due to the conditions on the bottom of the lake and the relatively large variations in the water level floating concrete pontoons were eventually chosen it nevertheless places a greater strain on the environment The jetty with the swimming pavilion encourages people to explore the local nature It facilitates the recreational use of Lake Tuusula and its shorelines It comprises a simple structure that does not consume energy We are constantly thinking about how we could improve the environmental performance of our projects who have the will and expertise to execute sustainable development solutions We provide ecological energy solutions for projects the ecological aspects are strongly incorporated into the selection criteria Interview Lahti was the European Green Capital in 2021 and this led to the construction of a pavilion that initially prompted debate on climate change in the heart of Helsinki and is now a focus point at a tiny suburban railway station Article The research-based colour design is weakly known in Finland Colour researcher Saara Pyykkö shares her insights on what an architect should know about colour Curtis wrote a memorial text about his friend Subscribe Koho has studied design at both the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and at TUT’s Department of Architecture in Tampere He says that he ended up in Tampere partly by chance I studied interior and furniture design at the University of Art and Design but at the same time I was fascinated by architecture I applied to an architecture department through drawing exams and the most successful ones in the exam got a place in either Espoo the Department of Architecture was still located in the Tuomiokirkonkatu street in the city centre Koho lived on the other side of the street and says that he really enjoyed his studies He found the teaching to be of high quality We were free to dream and use our creativity and our work was also appreciated We could search freely for our own starting points in design I got a good basic introduction to the field from my studies the rest has been up to my own choices and drive,” Koho says the rest has been up to my own choices and drive Koho founded his own business soon after starting his architectural studies When practical work began to take more time Koho moved back to Helsinki and at the same time began commuting to Tampere – sometimes taking the same trains as his professors and teachers Koho’s work began to increasingly shift from architecture to design I soon realised that practical architectural work is not the major thing for me I like working independently while architecture requires collaboration as much as possible the field seems surprisingly conservative to me I think that a forward-looking and experimental approach to detached housing design should be appreciated more than it currently is,” Koho points out Koho’s own specialism was eventually found in lighting and furniture design He works at his home office in Tuusula and his prototype workshop in Järvenpää He remembers enjoying the wood workshop already during his studies and in the late 1990s he realised that no one was making wooden lamps yet “When we in Finland do something from wood it is worth working and processing it far and then selling it as finished products abroad where wood is valued as a raw material and our design expertise is appreciated People are also willing to pay for that,” Koho says The best known of Koho's works is the collection of wooden lamps he designed for Secto Design the lamps suitable for both public spaces and private homes have been sold to more than 70 countries worldwide Koho describes his style as “rich neutral” and says he especially enjoys detailed work and doing things with his own hands it is practically impossible to make prototypes on a one-to-one scale but in furniture design it is the be all and end all of everything Even a small change in diameter affects the whole which cannot be seen on the computer screen prototyping is actually part of the design continuum,” Koho says Part of Koho’s design continuum is also a renovation project that started in 2018 a flat-roofed semi-atrium house in Tuusula I have been using a lot of creative energy in Tuusula where we bought a house that needs renovation My wife jokes that I approach renovation work at the same level of detail as furniture design and that the house will be a project for the rest of our lives I admit that it includes professional ambitions for me the best thing about design work is freedom – to do what The most difficult part is to get the “leading idea” Sometimes there just are no ideas while sometimes there are so many that there is no time to develop them the same aspect is also what is best in this work: creating ideas is fun if it can be done freely without restrictions The world of design is like play that goes on and on “I have been lucky in design matters and have found success but now they are also 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Open image viewerImage: Veikkaus14.2.2016 10:13Finland’s largest-ever single-winner lottery jackpot was won on Saturday when a Tuusula resident guessed all seven numbers correctly and took away the 14.1 million euro prize The winning line was submitted at the Onnen Kukka flower shop in Tuusula The record-breaking jackpot was up for grabs in last week’s drawing as well but no one guessed the seven numbers correctly and so the sum was rolled over into the next week 16 people guessed 6 out of the 7 plus one wild card number correctly splitting one million in winnings between them The jackpot is the largest Finnish “lotto” game win ever won by a single player in Finland The winner will redeem his or her prize at the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus Ltd’s headquarters in Vantaa Lotto is far and away the most popular lottery game provided by Veikkaus in Finland Lotto sales represent 20 percent of Veikkaus’ turnover Veikkaus is fully owned by the Finnish government and has an exclusive legal betting license on lotteries and sports betting in Finland It is managed by the Finnish Ministry of Education which is also charged with distributing the winnings each year In 2010 Veikkaus gave 462.7 million euros for the Ministry of Education to share with various organisations Cross-country skiing multiple world champion and Olympic medallist Aino-Kaisa Saarinen turned on the machine that dropped the seven numbered balls and determined the record-breaking jackpot line on Saturday She also presented a video of the Ski Federation’s snow sports campaign a series of events taking place in six cities to encourage young people to move and exercise in the snow Veikkaus is one of the primary supporters of the campaign HELSINKI FINLAND The aftermath of a forest fire in Tuusula on June 14 a half-hectare forest fire occurred near the border of Tuusula and Järvenpää there have been up to 20 forest and wildfires per day in the Uusimaa region over the past two weeks As Finland enjoys the warm temperatures of summer the midsummer celebrations are in full swing the unusually hot weather and dry soil bring along the risks of forest fires that cannot be easily extinguished even with light rainfall According to the accident statistics of the rescue authorities the number of wildfires this year has already exceeded last year's figures by more than a quarter Drought and wind play a significant role in the ignition of fires Areas that are currently not considered high-risk for wildfires may become vulnerable in the future as climate change progresses the Director of Property and Operation Compensation Services at Pohjola Insurance While wildfires currently do not account for a significant portion of insurance claims the damage costs can quickly escalate if buildings are destroyed Uimonen states that they have already paid out six-figure compensation amounts in rare cases of extensive property damage caused by wildfires the increasing number of wildfires poses a 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PL 50 (Lemminkäisenkatu 48)20521 Turku TEL +358 10 570 100FAX +358 10 570 6146firstname.surname@hkfoods.com Terms of Use The move could see a reduction in ticket prices for children students and adults using transfers to the capital Open image viewerImage: Antti Kolppo / Yle14.2.2017 11:31After a close vote in Monday’s council meeting Tuusula city councilors agreed to sign up for membership in the Helsinki Regional Transport network (HSL) would become part of the capital city regional transportation system at the beginning of 2018 However changes to bus routes and timetables would not commence immediately with membership a transition period is only likely to begin after summer 2018 and commuters will likely see the first phased changes to public transportation during 2018 and 2019 Adopting an HSL travel card would be especially useful for commuters who currently have to pay separately for transfers to travel from Tuusula to Helsinki Children between the ages of 7 and 16 as well as students would also pay lower fares for bus tickets some Tuusula connection fares will become transfers: a bus will take commuters to Helsinki-Vantaa airport’s Kehärata station or other main stations while southern Tuusula will have feeder traffic Commuters will have access to more travel options during the evenings at night and on weekends by way of bus-train combinations Officials plan to maintain direct bus connections between Hyrylä and downtown Helsinki during morning and afternoon rush hours Member municipalities currently pay for usage of HSL public transportation services Ticket sales cover roughly half of HSL operating costs while member contributions cover the other half Tuusula would have to hand over three million euros for HSL services in 2018 The debate over whether or not to join the regional transportation system has been ongoing in Tuusula for years with municipal leaders weighing the advantages and drawbacks for residents "A motion on the matter has been around for 10 years given that there is an ongoing upheaval in public transportation anyway," said Tuusula city council chair Arto Lindberg Decision-makers were also divided on the matter during Monday’s meeting About 14 councillors representing different political parties proposed that the motion should be referred for further preparation and that a decision to consider it would be made at the beginning of next year However the council voted 29 - 22 to discuss the matter during the Monday meeting Councillors voted 31 – 20 on the final decision to join HSL which is located in the western part of the Uusimaa region also decided to join the regional transportation network One of the popular plane-spotting locations at Helsinki Airport will most likely be closed off to the public in the near future located on the north side of Helsinki Airport is set to be levelled to make way for a new highway quarried and the site will become the base for the new highway Sammonmäki has been a popular spot for plane-spotters to photograph planes taking off and landing on Helsinki Airport’s Runway 1 The exact schedule for the levelling of the hill is unclear as of yet Rock material supplier MH-Kivi has been granted a permit for extracting the land as well as quarrying and crushing the rock material in the area we are unable to say when exactly the levelling of the hill will start or when the area will be closed off to plane-spotters,” says MH-Kivi CEO Pekka Pamppunen The building of the new highway IV has already been decided in the zoning scheme of Tuusula city.” The levelling of Sammonmäki hill is sad news for local plane-spotters but other Helsinki Airport users should not experience disturbances because of the work there cannot be planes taking off or landing on Runway 1 but all of the work will take place outside the airport fences,” he says The areas around Sammonmäki are owned by Finavia and the Tuusula county there is a new business park is to be built in the area Check out the best plane viewing and spotting sites at Helsinki Airport. Pekka-Eric-Auvinen killed at least eight during a murderous spree at Finnish school Finland is under pressure to tighten its gun laws after an 18-year-old student shot dead eight people at his school before turning his gun on himself. The massacre has shaken the nation of hunters which has never seen the need for security in its schools. When the European Union proposed raising the legal age for possessing a firearm to 18 earlier this year, there were protests from Finland, which argued that hunting was a popular leisure activity and crime rates were low. But yesterday the Trade Minister, Mauri Pekkarinen, said that the carnage in the small lakeside town of Tuusula meant the government should reconsider the law allowing anyone aged 15 or over to apply for a gun licence. "I believe we have to critically think over Finland's position one more time. I am ready to take this up in the government," he told Reuters news agency. Laura Lodenius, a Finnish member of the International Action Network on Small Arms (Iansa), agreed. "The devastated families of Tuusula now join those of Virginia Tech [and] Columbine," she said. Iansa statistics show that Finland has the highest rate of gun ownership in western Europe and suffers the third highest rate of gun deaths, after Switzerland and France. "We ask the Finnish government to strengthen its guns laws immediately," Ms Lodenius said. Flags flew at half mast across the country as it mourned the six pupils, headmistress and nurse at Jokela High School who were gunned down by Pekka-Eric Auvinen. Police said the gunman fired at least 69 rounds from his .22 calibre handgun as he roamed the classrooms, trying to shoot as many people as possible, aiming for the head or upper body and riddling some of his victims with as many as 20 bullets. The gunman, who police described as "a lonely person with a strong anger against society and radical thoughts", also tried to start a fire on the second floor of the school, dousing the corridors and walls with a flammable liquid, before locking himself in a bathroom and shooting himself in the head. "Based on all we know he decided to commit a random, incomprehensible act," said Inspector Rabbe von Hertzen of Finland's National Bureau of Investigation. Shaken students and teachers spoke of Auvinen's fascination with Hitler and Stalin and his obsession with weapons, internet war games and revolutionary history. Some suggested he had been bullied. One classmate, Tuomas Hulkkonen, who said he knew the blond-haired student well, told Finnish television how he had noticed changes. "He withdrew into his shell... and I thought that perhaps he was a bit depressed, or something, but I couldn't imagine that in reality he would do anything like this," he said. It appears the 18-year-old had been planning the slaughter for at least three weeks after getting a licence for the pistol, which he nicknamed "Catherine". Police said the gunman had left a suicide note, but did not give any details other than that he was "saying goodbye to his family". Families and friends of his victims lit candles and took flowers to lay in the school grounds in Tuusula, 40 miles north of Helsinki. Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening Please check your inbox to verify your details Open image viewerSomeone blinded one-eyed traffic cops in Tuusula with orange paint Image: Varpu Helpinen / YleYle News11.5.2018 17:19Motorists on the road Friday morning were surprised to see speed cameras smeared with orange paint Three of the affected traffic monitoring cameras were located along Tuusulanväylä’s Helsinki-bound lane while three others were on the route to Hyrylä Some of the one-legged watchdogs were completely covered in paint while others only had the opening for the camera lenses painted over said that he was aware of the reports of vandalism ”All of the new traffic cameras in Hyrylä have been defaced,” Pasterstein confirmed He said that the acts of vandalism apparently took place during the past 24 hours since the cameras had been intact on Thursday ”It's very stupid to waste public funds like this,” he noted adding that if the perpetrators are caught they could be charged with vandalism or even aggravated vandalism The superintendent pointed out however that the silent traffic cops had been newly-installed and were not yet operational so the mystery miscreants had essentially wasted their time Pasterstein noted that similar cases of mischief-making occasionally occur in Finland pointing to a rash of identical deeds in eastern Finland last winter ”We always book a criminal report and if [someone is] caught The traffic boss said that the new traffic cameras will become operational during the summer The speed limit on the roads in question is 60 kilometres per hour Open image viewerThe Ring roads are known in Finnish as Kehä I Image: Riikka Tähtinen / YleYle News17.9.2020 15:25Plans are moving ahead for a brief Ring IV road in the outermost northern suburbs of the Helsinki area The Uusimaa Centre for Economic Development Transport and the Environment (ELY Centre) has selected the longest of the possible route options crossing the municipalities of Vantaa and Tuusula The planned 10km segment will be longer than the existing 7km part of Ring II in Espoo which circle around the entire capital region A partial fourth circumferential highway or beltway has been discussed since the 1990s but the first section was not completed until 2000 Open image viewerRing IV will link national roads 3 (Hämeenlinnanväylä) and 45 (Tuusulanväylä) Image: Samuli Huttunen / YleIt is intended to relieve congestion on Ring III and to provide a much-needed transverse travel option in the Uusimaa region the route was selected to serve Helsinki Airport and the planned Focus business park in Tuusula Ring IV (route 152) will laterally link the Hämeenlinna motorway (national road 3) and the Tuusula motorway (national road 45) The new road will reshape zoning plans in the municipalities of Vantaa and Tuusula An area reservation plan must first be completed Officials hope to have that finished in time to be taken into consideration before Vantaa approves its new general zoning scheme later this year St Nicholas College Girls' Secondary School in Rabat is taking part in a Comenius project entitled 'Our European newspaper' together with schools from Norway each with their different educational perspectives the project partners are producing and sharing a monthly newsletter together with digital and other material with the aim of making each school aware of the other partner schools' respective cultural identities Since the project started last September the Maltese staff and students involved have been meeting on a weekly basis and have produced newsletters in October the first edition of the newspaper was published on the theme 'Me' featuring articles written by the students about themselves and their favourite subjects and pets The next edition of the newspaper will be published this month on the subject 'Our school' Two project meetings have already been held which had been held from September 16 to 20 the Rabat school was represented by teachers Kathleen Bonello They were hosted by teaching staff of Tarnasen primary school the visiting staff were invited to a dinner hosted bythe headteacher of the primary in a typical Norwegian village house facing the fjords The next day the visiting staff were given a tour of the primary school after which the staff and the pupils went for a walk in a nearby forest A three-hour meeting ensued in the school staffroom to discuss and finalise the set-up of the five newspapers that each partner has to produce in order to strengthen the relationship between the schools it was agreed that each partner would compile a monthly newsletter and share it through a link on the schools' websites Students of the Comenius group are also able to communicate with their peers in the other partner schools through e-twinning the Comenius partners visited Flatestad Secondary School which is very popular with the local students due to its innovative approach to teaching and learning the students are not streamed by age but by ability and aptitude This approach makes the students feel more in control of their learning experience and enhances their sense of responsibility This visit was followed by a one-hour meeting at Tarnasen Primary School to conclude plans for the Comenius project Following the Maltese teachers' return to Malta work started on the first edition of the newspaper together with other staff members and the most willing and enthusiastic students and Kathleen Bonello together with two students - Manuela Busuttil and Nicole Schembri - took part in the meeting in Finland On arrival in Finland the the students were picked up and settled with their host family The following day the Maltese children met the pupils at Tuusula primary school and spent a whole school day with them The school pays particular attention to children with special needs for all the visiting staff and students from the project partner schools The project team then set to work on the programme of the project the members of the team went for a tour around Tuusula They visited the house of a famous painter the group finalised plans for the March edition of the newspaper The children spent the last full day with their host family while the teachers visited Helsinki please register for free or log in to your account.