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ISI99 Daily Bulletin 6-7

Saturday - Sunday, 14 -15 August, 1999

ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Saturday –Sunday, August 14–15 / 6–7 1 .

IASS Silver Jubilee Contents

Monday 16 August 6-8 p.m. Venue: Statistics Buses leave from the at appr. 5.30 p.m. • New members - Nouveaux membres 3 Please pick up our invitation at the Information Desk. • Changes in the programme 4 • Rich history and active present in 5 Lost • Two idyllic towns: Naantali and Porvoo 6 • International Statistical Institute member’s tie 6 Small black plastic digital travel clock. If you find it, please contact Richard Gill or Information desk. • The medieval of Finland 7 • Forests – economic and recreational resource 8 • , the former capital of Finland 9 • Invitation speech 10 • Nostalgia – the soul of the Finnish tango 11 • Participant statistics 12 • A pretty kettle of fish 13 • Museums at hand 14 • Mennään tanssimaan 15 • International seminar on China agricultural census results 15

Cover photograph copyright WSOY/National Board of Antiquities A summer sight from Suomenlinna.

ISI99 Daily Bulletin Editor in Chief Photographer, drawings Printed by Tel. 050 373 6490 Ilkka Mellin, Statistics Finland Juhani Korpi, Statistics Finland Edita Ltd e-mail [email protected] Editor Layout Tarja Mikkonen, Statistics Finland Stelos Edita Ltd

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New members Nouveaux membres

We congratulate the following 34 new ISI members who Nous félicitons les 34 nouveaux membres de l’IIS pour leur were elected in the first round of the 1999 ISI elections. élection au premier tour de 1999.

Honorary Membership Membre d’Honneur:

Van Zwet, Willem R. (Netherlands) Van Zwet, Willem R.(Pays-Bas)

Ordinary Membership: Membres Titulaires:

Ahn, Yunkee (Korea) Ahn, Yunkee (Corée) Al-Kandari, Noriah (Kuwait) Al-Kandari, Noriah (Koweït) Astin, John A.. (UK) Astin, John A.. (Royaume-Uni) Baker, Rose D. (UK) Baker, Rose D. (Royaume-Uni) Chen, Louis H.Y. (Singapore) Chen, Louis H.Y. (Singapour) Cook, Len (New Zealand) Cook, Len (Nouvelle-Zélande) Dikhanov, Yuri (USA) Dikhanov, Yuri (Etats-Unis) Elsner, Eckart () Elsner, Eckart (Allemagne) Heckman, Nancy E. (USA) Heckman, Nancy E. (Etats-Unis) Hoffmann, Eivind (Norway) Hoffmann, Eivind (Norvège) Kendall, Wilfrid S. (UK) Kendall, Wilfrid S. (Royaume-Uni) Kutner, Michael H. (USA) Kutner, Michael H. (Etats-Unis) Lee, Jung Jin (Korea) Lee, Jung Jin (Corée) Lee, Kay-O (Korea) Lee, Kay-O (Corée) Lee, Yong-Goo (Korea) Lee, Yong-Goo (Corée) Lee, Young Jack (USA) Lee, Young Jack (Etats-Unis) Meganck, Bart (Belgium) Meganck, Bart (Belgique) Mellor, Robert W. (Australia) Mellor, Robert W. (Australie) Nolan, Francis M. (New Zealand) Nolan, Francis M. (Nouvelle-Zélande) Ohlsson, T. Esbjörn () Ohlsson, T. Esbjörn (Suède) Park, Dong-Ho (Korea) Park, Dong-Ho (Corée) Pigeot, Iris (Germany) Pigeot, Iris (Allemagne) Pohjola, Antero (Finland) Pohjola, Antero (Finlande) Pukli, Péter (Hungary) Pukli, Péter (Hongrie) Rayner, John C.W. (Australia) Rayner, John C.W. (Australie) Schweinfest, Stefan (Germany) Schweinfest, Stefan (Allemagne) Siegmund, David O. (USA) Siegmund, David O. (Etats-Unis) Snijders, Thomas A.B. (Netherlands) Snijders, Thomas A.B. (/Pays-Bas) Sung, Nae Kyung (Korea) Sung, Nae Kyung (Corée) Wang, George (USA) Wang, George (Etats-Unis) Ward, Michael (UK) Ward, Michael (Royaume-Uni) Woo, Jungsoo (Korea) Woo, Jungsoo (Corée) Zelias, Aleksander J. () Zelias, Aleksander J. (Pologne)

ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Saturday –Sunday, August 14–15 / 6–7 3 .

Changes in the programme

Please check the full 9.15 Predicting multivariate Some names of the speakers of A new meeting, IPM84, programme of meetings where responses in non linear IPM 42 “Statistical training of President’s Invited Paper changes have been made. The regression people working in and with Meeting on “Recent advances new programme will be L. D’Ambra; *R. Lombardo official statistics” have been in probability and statistics”, displayed at the door of the () omitted by mistake in the will be held at 13.00 - 15.15 in meeting room in question. 9.30 A small sample Information Bulletin No 3. The meeting room EL/136. The modification of an estimator of meeting is to be held at 13.00 - organiser is Willem van Zwet, Saturday, 14 August a polynomial regression with 15.15. These should be added: the speakers will be In the CPM73.1, the paper of measurement errors Jef Teugels Wind and Patrick D. Bourke, scheduled at Chi-Lun Cheng, *Hans As organisers: Stochastics 9.00, has been cancelled. Schneeweis (GERMANY) Blumberg, Carol Joyce, UNITED Elja Arjas Latent structures 9.45 Sensitivity of STATES supported by point In IPM25, discussant Heikki generalized linear modelling to Smulders, René H. M., THE measurements Mannila (FINLAND) has incomplete outcomes NETHERLANDS David Siegmund Mapping cancelled his appearance. *Stijn Vansteelandt As chairpersons: quantitative trait loci (BELGIUM), Els Goetghebeur Blumberg, Carol Joyce, UNITED Richard Tweedie Publication The following presentation has STATES analysis in meta-analysis been moved from CPM28 to A new presentation for Smulders, René H. M., THE CPM133: “Improvement CPM104.1 at 11.00: NETHERLANDS In IPM20, at 13.00 - 15.15, the estimation of regression ”Demographic situation in Papers: 13.25 Impact of discussant Bertrand S. Clarke coefficients from censored Russia and problems of Internet on official statistics: from UK, has cancelled his data” by Ejaz S. Ahmend information on population” by User opportunities presentation. (CANADA). The presentation is Andrei G. Volkov (RUSSIA). * Bregar, Lea; Ograjensek, scheduled at 10.15. Irena (SLOVENIA) In CPM132, at 13.00 - 15.15, New item for CPM81: at 17.00, the paper “Reseaux de In IPM74, at 9.00, the “Intervalle de confiance de In CPM3, a new paper has neurones et regression introduction will be given by l’indice de végétation, de been added and scheduled at logistique en finances” by Ana Denise Lievesley (FRANCE) l’indice de brillance et de la 14.45: “On the noncausal Silvia Haedo (ARGENTINA) and instead of Mary H.Regier. matière séche totalle” by problems in stochastic analysis” Leonardo Focsaner has been Abdellani, F. and Chamayou, J. by *Shigeyoshi Ogawa. cancelled. The following presentation has F. (FRANCE). In CPM86, scheduled at 15.30, been moved from CPM132 to A new presentation for CPM58, the chairperson will be Paul CPM11.2, scheduled at 11.00: In CPM70, the presentation starting at 15.30, will be heard Sommerville. ”An iterative algorithm for scheduled 13.45 ”Availability of at 17.15: Comparison of learning by support vector repairable systems governed by Predictive Accuracy of Neural In CPM38, scheduled at 15.30, machine. The pattern semi-Markov processes” by Network Methods and Cox the presentation of Filzmoser, recognition case” by Cornelia Rafael Pérez-Ocón (SPAIN) and Regression for Censored Peter (AUSTRIA) has been Enachescu (ROMANIA) and Inmaculada Torres-Castro has Survival Data, by Stanley Azen cancelled. Denis Enachescu. been cancelled. (); Annie Xiang; Pablo Lapuerta; Alex Ryutov In CPM30, the presentation of Monday, 16 August In CPM137, a new paper has and Jonathan Buckley. Y Wu (CANADA), scheduled at In IPM18, “Multiway data in been added, to be presented at 15.30, has been cancelled. psychometrics and 14.45: “The set-up and The following presentation has chemonetrics”, to be held at development of the register been moved from CPM49.2 to 9.00, the talks of Pieter “Bulstat” by G. Stanev CPM46.2: “Linear regression Kroonenberg and Claus (BULGARIA). for survey data using regression Andersson will be given in the weights” by * Pedro Luis do reverse order. Mr Andersson Tuesday, 17 August Silva Nascimento (BRAZIL), will speak at 9.04, and Mr In IPM32 at 9.00, the Duarte Nogueira and Pacheco Kroonenberg at 9.39. chairperson is W. K. Li. Renata. The presentation is scheduled at 17.00. In IPM36, Nick Fisher In CPM134, the paper (AUSTRALIA) will be chair and “Generalised kernel density An addition to CPM130, presenter of the introduction. estimator” by Novak, Serguei starting at 15.30: Operational The presentation of Corinna (NETHERLANDS), scheduled at estimation of the Russian GDP Cortes (UNITED STATES), 9.30, has been cancelled. dynamics, by Andrey Kosarev. scheduled at 16.30, has been The presentation is scheduled cancelled. The following presentation has at 17.15. been moved from CPM5.1 to In CPM28, Doo-Sub Kim has CPM7.1, scheduled at 10.45: Wednesday, 18 August cancelled. The new programme ”Some remarks and In IPM62, at 9.00, Joan Garfield of the meeting below: misunderstandings in multiple has cancelled her appearance. comparisons methods” by The chairperson and Stijn Vansteelandt, BELGIUM, Cheslaw Domanski (POLAND), introductory speaker will be will act as chairperson. Dariusz Parys and Lechoslaw Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Stepien. FINLAND. 9.00 The cube of the correlation coefficient IPM12 on “Whither statistical *Yadolah Dodge publishing?”, scheduled on (SWITZERLAND); Tuesday 17 August at 13.00, Valentin Rousson has been cancelled.

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Rich history and active present in Suomenlinna

The Suomenlinna fortress which is situated on six small islands is only a 15- minute ferry ride off the Market Square. This unique monument of military history is also a living part of Helsinki with its own school, library, fire brigade, shop and health centre.

• Suomenlinna is a village-like The construction of residential area almost in the Suomenlinna was the biggest

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centre of the city, yet away building project Sweden has il from the noise and the crowds ever undertaken. The building ä (except in the summertime, took 40 years and thousands of when tourists throng the soldiers took part in the work. Unto S cobbled alleys). Some 900 Part of the building material Walls of the fortress. people live in Suomenlinna at was stone, quarried at present, and about 350 work Vuosaari, east of Helsinki, and there all year round. hauled to the construction site there with mainly modern During its golden age in the with horses along the frozen Finnish plays. One of their late 18th century, Suomenlinna sea during winter. The greatest successes was “The was the centre of the region’s construction work was Lord of the Rings” by supervised by Augustin R.R.Tolkien. Ehrensvärd, a young Swedish lieutenant colonel, who was The cruel war was also a clever organiser, planner raging.. and politician. Ehrensvärd’s hobby was The six islands of Suomenlinna landscape painting and he is said were the scene of many battles, d of Antiquities to have been the first artist to live both during the Finnish War and work in Suomenlinna, where (between Sweden and Russia in arts have flourished ever since. 1808-1909) and the Crimean

One of the museums on the War, when they were heavily ä

il islands is dedicated to bombarded by the English. ä Ehrensvärd and his life’s work. When Finland became a Grand

WSOY/National Boar Duchy of Russia in 1809, the Unto S The streets of Suomenlinna Theatre, music, lost most of their The booming of cannons has have no names, but all the paintings military significance and became ceased long ago. buildings are numbered. naval bases and garrisons. The unique atmosphere of Finland declared herself Suomenlinna has attracted independent in December social life with grand parties artists ever since the earliest 1917. After that, Suomenlinna and balls. Helsinki had a days of the fortress. Many of became the home of a Finnish population of some 4,000, the present dwellers are artists, garrison. During the gloomy while Suomenlinna at its best and the gallery in the Jetty first spring of in housed over 12,000 soldiers Barracks exhibits contemporary 1918 it also served as a prison with families, plus a number of art in various forms. camp for the Reds, defeated in craftsmen (such as the tanner One of the most famous the Civil War. and the maker of musical musicians who lived in Apart from the old buildings instruments), shopkeepers, Suomenlinna was the and museums, the Naval teachers and clergymen. composer and clarinettist Academy is the only reminder Bernhard Henrik Crusell. He today of Suomenlinna’s military 40 years of started his career as a pupil in past. As to the prison, some construction the of Sveaborg dozen or so cells have been (as the place was called before preserved, and are to be found Finland was still a part of the Finland became independent) next door to the children’s day

Kingdom of Sweden in 1748 in 1787. Later, he moved to care centre. d of Antiquities when Sweden began building Stockholm where he worked as the Suomenlinna fortress as a a court musician. part of her consolidated The of Hyvä against Russia. The Omatunto (“clear conscience”) newly built naval base of has housed a popular summer

Kronstadt, near St. Petersburg, theatre for a couple of decades. WSOY/National Boar posed a clear threat to Sweden, A Helsinki theatre called www.hel.fi/suomenlinna/ The Getty Barracks house a and the fortification was to Ryhmäteatteri (“group english/index.htm brewery, a pub and a prevent Russia from expanding. theatre”) has drawn full houses restaurant.

ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Saturday –Sunday, August 14–15 / 6–7 5 . Two idyllic towns: Naantali and Porvoo

Naantali is today best known for the Moomin World and Kultaranta, the summer residence of the president of the republic. It is a popular holiday resort and tourist attraction because of its location and its picturesque narrow streets and old wooden buildings.

•The town originally commodities like salt were developed around a convent in imported. the 15th century. As a result of Porvoo was a culturally the Reformation about a significant town in the 18th century later, the convent was and 19th centuries. The first abolished. In the 18th century, public library in Finland was a fountain was discovered opened in Porvoo in 1728. where the water had healing Porvoo was also the hometown qualities. The water was said to of the poet J.L. Runeberg, who cure headache and paralysis, as wrote the words to the Finnish well as hypochondria. national , Kanerva of Antiquities/Teuvo National Board The fountain was a starting (“Our Land”). Decorative wooden houses and cobbled alleys are typical of point for a spa. It brought The publishing industry has Naantali.. thousands of visitors to long traditions in Porvoo. The Naantali and enlivened the publishing house WSOY, town’s social life in the 19th established over a hundred century. There is a spa in the years ago, is today in the form town even today, although of Sanoma-WSOY the second more luxurious and diversified biggest in Scandinavia. Another than its predecessor. important employer in Porvoo is the Fortum oil refinery. The Poet’s Porvoo The old town is Porvoo’s main tourist attraction,

The town of Porvoo is the although the area with its d of Antiquities second oldest (after Turku) in wooden houses is not unique Finland, as it was granted town in Finland. The largest rights in the middle of the 14th preserved wooden house area century. It was a centre of trade in Finland is in Rauma, another where goods such as furs and medieval seaside town 100 timber were exported to kilometres north of Turku. Otava/National Boar Central and The old storehouses by the river in Porvoo.

International Statistical Institute member’s tie

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6 6–7 / Saturday – Sunday, 14–15 August / Daily Bulletin / ISI99 . The medieval castles of Finland

Six castles of national importance were built in Finland in the medieval period. They were the castles of Turku, Häme, Viipuri, Raasepori, and Kastelholm. They were built to serve both defensive and administrative purposes after Finland had become part of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 12th century.

• Viipuri has belonged to Russia since the Second World War. Raasepori and Kastelholm are in ruins, but Olavinlinna and the castles of Turku and Häme have been preserved and restored. Olavinlinna, in the small town of north of the lake , is the home of an immensely popular opera festival each summer. Medieval feasts are organised in , and Häme Castle specialises in cultural events for children. All three are also museums. Sunday’s tours take us to two of these: Häme Castle (Lakeland Tour) and Turku Castle (Historical and Archipelago Tour). The red brick prison of Hämeenlinna The Finnish word for castle is linna. The castle has given the name to the surrounding town in the case of Hämeenlinna, the castle of Häme. The first part of the name, though, derives from

the province of Häme. of Antiquities National Board It has been estimated that A detail of the wall of the Häme castle. the building of Häme Castle began towards the end of the 13th century. Unlike other Finnish castles, it is built of brick, apart from the ground largest in Northern Europe in floor. The bricks were the early 15th century. manufactured on the spot by A “Royal Suite” was built in German craftsmen. Turku Castle for the occasional There had always been visits of the monarch from some cells in Häme Castle, but Sweden. The longest visit lasted in 1836, in the Russian period, eleven months, and in 1555 - the whole castle was converted 1556 the entire Kingdom of into a prison. During its last 90 Sweden was ruled from Turku years of operation it served as a Castle. women’s prison. The prison Duke John, son of Gustav functions were gradually Wasa, King of Sweden, lived in abandoned after 1953, giving the castle in the middle of the way to research and 16th century with his Polish- restoration. born wife Katarina Jagellonica. They brought to Finland many Royal grandeur in new ideas on fashion and social Turku customs. The museum of Turku Castle Turku Castle was probably exhibits clothing, tableware and founded around 1280. It was toys from the 17th century extended and rebuilt several onwards. times, until it comprised 40 of Antiquities National Board rooms and was one of the Dinner is served at the Turku castle.

ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Saturday –Sunday, August 14–15 / 6–7 7 . Forests – economic and recreational resource

When you look at Finland from an airplane, it looks like one huge forest. It is no wonder, because almost two thirds of the land area is covered with trees, even now, after centuries of diverse use of wood.

• Keskuspuisto, the Central The green gold of Park of Helsinki, begins in the Finland Hesperia park surrounding the Finlandia Hall. I turns into a For a hundred years, forests forest a couple of kilometres were rightfully referred to as further north, and extends over “the green gold of Finland”. the border to Vantaa, more Wood is a renewable natural than 30 kilometres away. resource, and in the agricultural Nuuksio, the destination of society wood was used for the Hiking Tour on Sunday, is building houses and keeping one of the recreational areas them warm, feeding the cattle owned by the City of Helsinki (with young birch shoots), and an example of a southern making furniture, tools, baskets wilderness. The most valuable and other containers. Birch sap wilderness areas are in northern - a liquid drained through holes Finland. bored in birch trunks - was a Finnish culture has its roots healthy drink in the spring, and deep in the forests. Hunting when frost had damaged the and fishing, tar distillation, crop, pine bark was used to logging, building and the wood supplement rye meal in bread. processing industry have been Pulp and paper industry is the foundation of Finland’s still an important export national economy. Learning branch, and during the present how to produce pulp and decade the importance of paper from wood brought ecological forestry has been about prosperity in the 19th generally understood. Finland’s century society and enabled the forests host around 20,000 modernisation of agriculture species, i.e. almost one half of Mikko Nurmi and the building of towns, all the species known in the The Aulanko National Reserve near Hämeenlinna. roads, railways and schools. country. The main species of

tree are pine, spruce and birch. to orienteer in the forest, it was Some 2.6 per cent of the a scout. Luckily, these modern total productive forestland is scouts had their mobile phones under protection. In with them even on a hike, so northernmost Finland the they could call for help. proportion of protected forest is almost 40 per cent. Afraid of beasts? Escape to the One reason for a possible fear wilderness of going into the forest is the increased sightings of bears in In Finnish literature, a popular southern Finland. Because character has always been a bears are protected, there are man who escapes the civilised about 1,000 of them in Finland, society and hides himself in the all over the country. Hunting is woods. For a Finn, a forest is a only permitted on a limited safe place offering shelter, scale. peace of mind and recreation. Despite the great number of Hiking, skiing, orienteering, bears, they are very seldom hunting and picking wild seen, as they tend to carefully berries and mushrooms are avoid people. This is the normal popular pastimes even among behaviour of wild animals – the urbanised Finns. they prefer running away if Things seem to be changing. they possibly can. In decades gone by, every Finn found his way about in a forest. Recently, news have reported of Read more at: several cases of scouts who

Mikko Nurmi virtual.finland.fi/finfo/ have got lost in the forest. english/metsaneg.html Nuuksio is a wilderness 20 kilometres from Helsinki. Formerly, if anyone knew how

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Turku, the former capital of Finland

Turku is the oldest town in Finland, celebrating its 770th anniversary next year. Turku was the capital of Finland until 1812. Today, Turku’s population of 171,000 makes it officially the fifth largest town in Finland, after Helsinki, , Tampere and Vantaa.

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Interior of the Turku Castle.

• Because Helsinki, Espoo and preserved medieval castle in Pharmacy Museum. The Artisan provincial capital Turku is the Vantaa are often treated as one Finland, and the home of the Museum in Luostarinmäki is a regional and administrative - the Helsinki Metropolitan Area City of Turku historical collection of homes and centre for the west of Finland. - Turku is, in fact, one of the museum. On the “Historical workshops of 18th and 19th Turku is a nationally three major cities. and Archipelago Tour” on century craftsmen in wooden significant seaport, as well as a The oldest part of the town Sunday, you will visit the Castle, huts. commercial and fair city. The is around the Cathedral, on the where Finnish history is Turku is also the home of red and white car ferries, big as eastern bank of the Aurajoki exhibited in the form of two universities, the Finnish- blocks of flats, ply between river. When the old trading site furniture, clothing and speaking University of Turku, Turku and Stockholm day and on the river developed into a tableware. and Finland’s only Swedish- night. On the Sunday tour, you town in the 13th century, a Apart from the Cathedral speaking university, Åbo will have a glimpse of the castle was built on an island in and Castle, there are many Akademi. A third important beautiful archipelago, through the estuary of the river. special museums in Turku, such seat of learning is the Turku which the ferries run. Turku Castle is the best- as the Naval Museum and the School of Economics. As the

ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Saturday –Sunday, August 14–15 / 6–7 9 .

Invitation speech by Young-Dae Yoon Commissioner of NSO Korea

• First of all, I would like to place as the world is entering express my sincere thanks and the new millennium. It is congratulations to the National everyone’s hope that the new Organizing Committee of millennium will bring freedom, Finland. Its excellent work and peace and prosperity to thorough preparation have humankind. As we know very made 52nd ISI Session an well, statistics provide the outstanding and very impressive ground for these ultimate goals one. of the new era. It is more I would like to highly evident than ever that adequate appreciate the successful policies to achieve freedom, session and the generous peace and prosperity cannot be hospitality rendered by the formulated without timely, National Organizing accurate, and reliable statistics. Committee of Finland. The new millennium poses As Chairman of the National us a host of challenges and Organizing Committee of pressing issues, which require first Session of the new next Session of the ISI in Seoul. Korea, I am very pleased and effective solutions. To meet the millennium. Two years from now, Your valuable contributions to honored to invite you to the challenges more effectively, the foremost statisticians of the this meeting will be highly 53rd session of the ISI in Seoul. statisticians should envision the world will gather in Seoul, from appreciated and lead to its The Executive Committee of future mission of statistics in a the academic world, official success. The National the ISI had reached an new way – to identify new statistical institutions, and from Organizing Committee of agreement with the Korean standards for statistical the business community. Seoul is Korea will do its utmost to Government to hold the 53rd activities, to explore new areas a cosmopolitan metropolis where make the Session fulfilling and session of the ISI in Seoul, of statistics and to devise new past and present are integrated delightful. If you come to Korea. And it was approved by statistical methods and in a magnificent fashion. Rich in Seoul, there will be good things the General Assembly of the techniques. The development centuries of history, the city is on waiting for you. ISI during its 51st Session in of innovative ways of doing the ascent to an even brighter I look forward to meeting 1997 in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a statistics will help us better future. It will create a perfect you in Seoul, and showing you great honor and pleasure for prepared for the challenges of setting for a successful meeting. the meaning of Korean me to announce that Korea the coming era. Therefore, we On behalf of the Korean hospitality. will host the next ISI Session should begin the new Government and the Korean Thank you very much. in Seoul, from August 22nd millennium with new statistics. National Organizing to 29th, 2001. This is the reason why Korea Committee, I would like to The Seoul Session will take is happy and proud to host the invite all of you to come to the

10 6–7 / Saturday – Sunday, 14–15 August / Daily Bulletin / ISI99 . Nostalgia - the soul of the Finnish tango

Argentina, Japan and Finland have at least one thing in common: they are great tango nations. Some Argentinean bands even include Finnish tangos in their repertoire, and some Finnish tango singers have recorded songs with Argentinean bands.

•The Finnish tango is not quite the same as the original version. The tempo is slower, and the style of dancing is conspicuously different, unassuming and restrained. The melodies are often in a minor key, and the lyrics mainly longing and nostalgic, with laments of lost love. Tango Kings and Queens A tango festival is held every summer in the small Ostrobothnian town of Seinäjoki. It attracts over a hundred thousand visitors to the festival venue, plus a couple of million in front of the TV sets. A Tango King and Queen are elected in a tough competition, in which not only

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stage presence count. Kuvap Being elected Tango King or Tango on a bright summer night on an open-air dance pavilion. Queen has boosted the careers of many of today’s best-selling singers of popular music, such as Jari Sillanpää and Arja lyricist Reino Helismaa began to In the sixties, the country Koriseva. Without the contest, work together. They produced “Over there beyond the was divided into Beatles-Finland Mr Sillanpää might still be all kinds of songs at an ocean, and tango-Finland. It mixing drinks for passengers incredible pace, but the most there’s the happy land, sometimes happened that an aboard a ferry to Sweden, and popular ones were tangos. where the waves so softly unsuspecting rock group Ms Koriseva teaching children Unto Mononen was a kiss accepted a gig in the tango at a country school. talented and successful tango its warm and golden sand. area. When they began to play composer who died in 1968, at Charming flowers spread in their usual style, the sturdiest The great names the age of only 38. In his songs their fragrance and soothe a wrestling champions of the the singer very often dreams of troubled mind. There’s no region approached them and The tango first appeared in an unattainable land of place for sorrow - only threatened to beat the band Finland in the twenties, but it happiness. His song Satumaa, happiness you’ll find.” black and blue if they dared became the favourite of the fairyland, can be regarded play anything but tango. dancing pavilions in the fifties as the prototype of the Finnish and sixties. One explanation tango. The melody is solemn, was that the “Dynamic Duo” and the lyrics depict unrequited of the Finnish popular music, love and longing to a paradise composer Toivo Kärki and lost.

ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Saturday –Sunday, August 14–15 / 6–7 11 .

Participant statistics

The total number of registered participants on 13 August is 1,948 from 95 countries. When you exclude the conference staff of around 100, the number is 1,848. The number of accompanying persons is 249. The geographical division is as follows:

Country Participants Accompanying Country Participants Accompanying persons persons Finland (staff excluded) 499 12 New Zealand 8 1 United States 178 41 Ukraine 8 - Japan 100 38 Hungary 7 1 Italy 82 20 Russian Federation 7 1 Germany 78 17 South Africa 7 1 United Kingdom 74 11 Croatia 6 1 Sweden 72 1 Iceland 6 1 France 64 8 Latvia 5 - Korea 63 3 Nigeria 5 2 Netherlands 46 9 Yugoslavia 5 - China 45 1 Cote d’Ivoire 4 - Canada 36 8 Indonesia 4 - Australia 27 8 Ireland 4 1 Spain 26 5 Lithuania 4 - Switzerland 24 6 Saudi Arabia 4 - Poland 20 1 Thailand 4 2 Turkey 19 - Uganda 4 - Belgium 18 1 Botswana 3 1 Denmark 18 1 Cyprus 3 - Islamic Republic of Iran 18 1 Egypt 3 - Taiwan 18 4 Kuwait 3 - Argentina 15 2 Malaysia 3 - F.Y. R. of Macedonia 14 - Mexico 3 2 Norway 13 1 Slovenia 3 - Argentina 12 - United Republic of Tanzania 3 - Israel 12 3 Vietnam 3 - Luxembourg 12 5 Bulgaria 2 - Brazil 11 1 Chile 2 - Greece 9 3 Pakistan 2 - Austria 8 1 Palestine 2 - Czech Republic 8 3 Romania 2 2 Estonia 8 1 Rwanda 2 - Hong Kong, China 8 1 Senegal 2 - India 8 1 Slovakia 2 -

One participant each came from the following countries: Bhutan, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, People’s Democratic Republic of Lao, Macau, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mosambique, Oman, Panama, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe.

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An introduction to Finnish Cuisine Part 5

A pretty kettle of fish

According to a saying you know you have stayed too long in Finland when you know how to prepare Baltic herring (silakka) in at least 105 ways. Available year round, and inexpensive and adaptable for numerous dishes, it used to be one of the most popular ingredients in poor people’s diet in the past. This silvery, 10 - 15 cm long, fat fish can be grilled, marinated, pickled, salted, fried and boiled, used in stews, soups, pies and pasties.

• Baltic herring casserole salted Baltic herring, with some or smorgasbord, you can slightly salted salmon (gravad (silakkalaatikko) is a rarity these bacon slices on top. Smoked expect to find this fine fish lax/graavilohi), a favourite on a days, but used to be a handy Baltic herring is a delicacy easy prepared in at least a couple of Christmas table as well as for all-in-one-dish that “cooked to find even today on Market different ways. celebrating the arrival of the itself” in the oven. It is made of Square stalls. On a typical first new potatoes of the layers of sliced potatoes and Finnish buffet (voileipäpöytä), The king of fishes summer. Any fat fish can be prepared this way, but salmon Salmon (lohi) is the most valued and whitefish (siika) are fish. The “real thing” is caught considered the best. The filleted in the sea or in the rivers of fish is sprinkled with a mixture Lapland, but a less costly of rock salt, ground white substitute is its darker pink, pepper, a pinch of sugar and smaller cousin, rainbow trout chopped dill, then wrapped up (kirjolohi), from the fish- and stored in cold with a breeding basins. The roe of weight on top. The next day it rainbow trout is a popular is ready to be eaten in thin export item. slices on bread or with plain, Salmon is used in various boiled potatoes. ways: grilled, boiled or stuffed, Fish soup is a popular lunch but a Finnish festive speciality is dish all year round. In winter it is often made of burbot (made), in spring of pike (hauki), in summer of perch Baltic herring is related to the (ahven), usually angled from

Antero Aaltonen Antero herring living in oceans. the jetty of the holiday cottage. Salmon, whitefish and rainbow trout are used round the year. In addition to fish, the basic ingredients of a typical Finnish fish soup are potatoes, onion, salt and white pepper, and sometimes carrots. A Finnish peculiarity is the use of milk in the soup, sometimes replaced or supplemented by cream. Dill is essential, and chives (ruohosipuli) are also used. Chives are a popular herb in most kitchen gardens, but they also grow wild on the rocks of the seaside and islands. Many people who do not like onion, accept the mild onion-like taste of chives. It goes particularly well with scrambled eggs and tomatoes and all kinds of fish dishes.

Antero Aaltonen Antero Smoked salmon is a feast.

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Where to go and what to do

Museums at hand

• Finlandia Hall is surrounded by museums. Unfortunately, the National Museum just across the street is closed for renovation. , at Hakasalmi Villa - the pink building a few steps from the conference wing - has just reopened. The Villa used to belong to the great benefactor Aurora Karamzin, but is now a general museum depicting the life of the people of Helsinki from the 19th century to the present time. Across the yard, in a smaller but equally pink building, there is a small café in the style of the museum, called CaraMelle. The large yellow building between , the Museum of Contemporary Art (of which there is an article in Thursday’s Daily Bulletin) and the Central

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Railway Station is the main post ö office. In the corner closest to the station there is a small but Kuvap interesting special museum: the Helsinki City Museum at Hakasalmi Villa. Post Museum. In addition to stamps, old post buses and carriages, there are eight multimedia displays (most of Russell Snyder “you’d love to Court, entitled “Table Settings them in four languages) where have at home if only you could for a Queen”, was opened you can explore on your own. afford them.” In other words, there on August 11. To get There is an elegant café and a an extensive collection of there, take tram number 10 shop at the Museum entrance. Finnish design and crafts. In from . The Read more at The Museum of Art and addition to permanent museum is at www.hel.fi/kaumuseo Design, situated in the southern collections, it arranges special Korkeavuorenkatu, almost www.posti.fi/postimuseo part of central Helsinki, exhibits exhibitions. An exhibition of opposite the neo-gothic style www.designmuseum.fi things which, according to silver objects from the Danish brick church of St. John.

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Teach yourself Finnish Part 5

Mennään tanssimaan!

Here are some phrases that may prove useful on your weekend adventures in Helsinki and surroundings. Going to the cinema, by the way, is not a bad idea in Helsinki. All imported films (most of them from U.S.A.) are shown with the original sound, with Finnish and Swedish subtitles. The tickets cost FIM 40 to 50 on weekends, but on weekday afternoons they may be cheaper.

Mennään Let’s go (a suggestion) Mennäänkö Shall we go (a question)? tanssimaan to dance elokuviin to the cinema oluelle for a beer ravintolaan to a restaurant

The verb form mennään is in fact a passive form, but colloquially used for the first person plural, “we’re going/we’ll go”. In the following examples, the informal address (haluaisitko, sinusta, etc.) is used.

Haluaisitko jotain juotavaa? Would you like a drink? (lit. “something to drink”) Kiitos, mielelläni. Yes, please. Kippis! Cheers!

Saanko luvan? May I have this dance? Tanssit oikein hyvin. You dance very well. Oli oikein hauskaa. I have enjoyed myself very much. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Voimmeko tavata uudelleen? May I see you (lit. “can we meet”) again? Pidän sinusta kovasti. I like you very much. Minä rakastan sinua. I love you. Beijing China,

Beware of the last sentence, though, for Finns do not use it frivolously. If a Finn says these words to you, you had better be 11-14 April 2000 prepared for booking a wedding church - or else run away, far and fast! China, with the technical assistance of four Italy/FAO projects, conducted its First Agricultural Census in 1997. It was one of the largest statistical surveys ever conducted in the world. Now that the census data has been processed, tabulated and can be disseminated, an International Seminar will be organized in Beijing (China) to present the results and the first analyses.

The Seminar will focus on: • methodologies used for taking the Agricultural Census; • a new and more detailed picture of the structure of the Chinese Agriculture; • improvement of the Agricultural Statistics; • analyses of the main results obtained; • impact of the Agricultural Census results on the development Helsinki City Museum, Hakasalmi Villa, Karamzininkatu 4 plans in China; Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays • international comparisons of Agricultural Census data. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Entrance fee: FIM 20 for adults, under 18-year-olds free. Invited papers will be presented and discussed in different sessions of the seminar. The Program is currently under preparation by an Post Museum, Asema-aukio 5 International Program Committee. Open Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For an up-to-date program and other seminar information, visit the Free entrance “China Census Seminar” web site at http//www.fao.org and send an e-mail to: or Museum of Art and Design, Korkeavuorenkatu 23 Open Monday to Friday from noon to 7 p.m., weekends from noon to 6 p.m. Entrance fee: FIM 50 for adults, children free.

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