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Kimmo Kajasto
Kimmo is a Finnish given name for males. Notable people with the name include: * Kimmo Kapanen (born 1974), Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender * Kimmo Kiljunen (born 1951), member of the Finnish parliament * Kimmo Kinnunen (born 1968), former Finnish javelin thrower * Kimmo Koskenniemi, inventor of two-level models for computational phonology and morphology * Kimmo Kuhta (born 1975), Finnish professional ice hockey forward * Kimmo Lotvonen (born 1976), defenceman for the Timrå IK hockey team * Kimmo Pohjonen (born 1964), Finnish accordionist * Kimmo Tauriainen (born 1972), Finnish professional footballer * Kimmo Timonen (born 1975), professional ice hockey defenceman * Kimmo Wilska Kimmo Wilska (born 5 August 1956 in Helsinki) is an English-speaking Finnish newscaster. He worked at YLE from 1985 until 2010 in YLE's morning broadcast, and read the English-language news on ''YLE News''. On 13 August 2010, Wilska was fired ... (born 1956), Finnish journalist {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Kapanen
Kimmo Kapanen (born September 12, 1974) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender. Kapanen played for several Finnish teams during his career including Ässät, HPK and KalPa. Kapanen also played in Sweden for Timrå IK and in Germany for Iserlohn Roosters. Playing career Kapanen started his career in 1992 playing for KalPa in SM-liiga. He played in Finland until 2001 when he moved to Timrå IK in the Swedish elite league Elitserien. He stayed with Timrå for three seasons and had his best season in 2003-04 when he was recorded for eight shutouts and 2.21 GAA. From 2005 he returned to KalPa and played with them for two seasons. He only played 69 matches there due to several injuries. On January 22, 2007, Kapanen was loaned to HV71 in Elitserien for the remainder of the season 2006-07. With only three games played for his new club, he injured his foot during a training session in the beginning of March, and was out for the entire 2006-07 playoffs. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Kiljunen
Kimmo Kiljunen (born 13 June 1951) is a Finnish author and politician of the Social Democratic Party. He served in the Finnish parliament from 1995 to 2011. He was a member of the Parliament's Grand Committee and the Committee for Foreign Affairs. He also served as the chairman of the Vantaa city council. Education and early career Kiljunen was born in Ruokolahti. He obtained a PhD from the University of Sussex. Early in his career, Kiljunen published books on Finnish politics, international relations and development. He focused on European integration and bringing a parliamentary dimension to the work of intergovernmental organizations. He also worked for the United Nations Development Programme in New York City and UNICEF in Nairobi. Political career Kiljunen was a member of the European Convention that drafted a constitution for the EU. He lost in the 2009 elections of the European Parliament. Kiljunen was a member and vice-chair of the Organization for Security and Co-ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Kinnunen
Kimmo Paavali Kinnunen (born 31 March 1968) is a Finnish former javelin thrower. He won gold at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo and silver at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. His other achievements include a 4th-place finish at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and 7th-place finish at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ... in Atlanta. His personal best is 90.82 from the 1991 World Championships. Kimmo Kinnunen is son of javelin thrower Jorma Kinnunen. International competitions Seasonal bests by year *1986 - 71.72 *1987 - 72.94 *1988 - 80.24 *1989 - 83.10 *1990 - 81.46 *1991 - 90.82 *1992 - 83.42 *1993 - 84.78 *1994 - 79.34 *1995 - 82.64 *1996 - 85.32 *1997 - 82.48 *1998 - 84.23 *1999 - 85.96 *2000 - 81.41 *2001 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Koskenniemi
Kimmo Matti Koskenniemi (born 7 September 1945) is the inventor of finite-state two-level models for computational phonology and morphology. He was a professor of Computational Linguistics Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ... at the University of Helsinki, Finland. In the early 1980s Koskenniemi's work became accessible by early adopters such as Lauri Karttunen, Ronald M. Kaplan and Martin Kay, first at the University of Texas Austin, later at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. This application of finite-state transducers to phonology and morphology was initially implemented for Finnish, but it soon proved to be useful for other languages with complex morphology such as Basque and Swahili. Bibliography * Koskenniemi, Kimmo 1983: Two-level morphology : a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Kuhta
Kimmo Kuhta (born June 19, 1975) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward. Apart from spending the 2005–06 season in the Swiss league, Kuhta represented HIFK in the SM-liiga from 1998 to the end of his career in 2013. He played a total of 728 games in HIFK, second only to Pertti Lehtonen Pertti Leo Jorma Lehtonen (born 18 October 1956 in Helsinki, Finland) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for HIFK. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame The Finnish Hockey Hall of F ... with 851 on the team, and also holds the record for most goals in HIFK with 248 in total. For his long and successful career on the team, he is considered an iconic HIFK player and a favorite among fans. In October 2018, HIFK retired the number 9 in his honor before a match against Tappara. After his playing career, he has worked as a hockey expert and a commentator for Yle, and coached junior teams for HIFK. Awards * Raimo Kil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Lotvonen
Kimmo Lotvonen (born January 11, 1976 in Oulu Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after: ..., Finland) is a defenceman for the Leksands IF hockey team in the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan league. Career statistics External links * References * * 1976 births Finnish ice hockey defencemen Oulun Kärpät players Living people Leksands IF players Lukko players Timrå IK players Ice hockey people from Oulu {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Pohjonen
Kimmo Pohjonen (born August 16, 1964) is a Finnish accordionist who is known for his avant-garde and experimental work with his custom-made electrified and modified instrument. He has released nine albums of his work and has toured Europe extensively, as well as performances in Japan and some in North America. He records and performs both solo and in collaboration with musicians and other artists, including the Kronos Quartet, and percussionist Pat Mastelotto and guitarist Trey Gunn of King Crimson. Pohjonen still lives in Finland when not on the road. He has performed with one of his daughters, Saana, who plays the drums. Early life Pohjonen began playing the accordion at age eight with the family's dance band. He grew up playing Finnish folk music and has called his father his first accordion hero, but says he did not really appreciate what the instrument could do until much later. After becoming interested in the accordion playing of Texas and Cajun Louisiana and of musicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Tauriainen
Kimmo Tauriainen (born 16 March 1972) is a Finnish former footballer. Career He has played for RoPS, KePS, Kontu, FC Jokerit, MyPa and Atlantis FC. He also played one season in Norwegian IK Start. He won the Finnish Cup with Atlantis FC in 2001 and with MyPa in 2004. Tauriainen has also won Finnish championship in 2005 with MyPa. Tauriainen returned to Atlantis from MyPa in 2006. He had to end his professional career because of knee injury after season 2006. Personal life He is the brother of fellow professional footballers Pasi Tauriainen and Vesa Tauriainen Vesa Tauriainen (born 16 December 1967) is a Finnish former international footballer and a football manager. Coaching career In September 2020, Tauriainen's contract with RoPs was terminated, and he was replaced as head coach by Mikko Mannila. ..., and the uncle of Jimi Tauriainen and Julius Tauriainen. Nowadays Kimmo works as a sales person in Duosport. Kimmo is also getting married during summer 2009 with sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Timonen
Kimmo Samuel Timonen (born 18 March 1975) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Nashville Predators, Philadelphia Flyers, and Chicago Blackhawks. Timonen had played in over 1,100 NHL games before retiring. During his career, Timonen had also featured in three IIHF World Junior Championships, seven IIHF World Championships, two World Cups and five Olympic tournaments. He won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2015 in his final career game. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2020. Playing career Timonen was the youngest player to play for Finland at the 1993 IIHF World Junior Championships at the age of 17. He recorded the second-highest shot total in the tournament with 44. Timonen was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the tenth round, 250th overall, of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. After the draft, he continued to play in his native Finland for several years, first for KalP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Wilska
Kimmo Wilska (born 5 August 1956 in Helsinki) is an English-speaking Finnish newscaster. He worked at YLE from 1985 until 2010 in YLE's morning broadcast, and read the English-language news on ''YLE News''. On 13 August 2010, Wilska was fired after pretending to be caught drinking beer on camera following an alcohol-related news story. The stunt was too much for YLE, and Wilska was immediately fired. Wilska is known to have previously finished the 2009 Christmas newscast wearing a Santa Claus hat. Wilska received much support from viewers after the incident, and the clip of the gag became an Internet meme amongst Finnish YouTube users. Wilska has also been politically active as one of the early members of the Green League and as a member of the Finnish Cannabis Association The Finnish Cannabis Association (FCA; fi, Suomen kannabisyhdistys; sv, Finlands Cannabisförening, commonly referred to by the acronym SKY) is a Finnish non-governmental organisation whose purpose is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
