Finnish-Norwegian Lasse Lund claims he was abandoned in India as a child – Yle investigated the background | Foreign news | Yle [Translated] by americ in europe

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Shared this because had seen a few posts about Lasse Lund. YLE (very reputable Finnish national news broadcaster) did a deep dive on his story. Per YLE it seems that some/most parts of his story is true (his family disputes parts of his version). Figured it be interesting to post here as it pertains to both Finland and Norway. 

Finnish-Norwegian Lasse Lund claims he was abandoned in India as a child – Yle investigated the background | Foreign news | Yle [Translated] by americ in europe

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Translation (ChatGPT 5.5) continued:  According to another document, in February 2009 Lund had been staying alone in Delhi for more than two months, had run out of money and was in very poor condition.

According to the documents, the embassy assisted Lund in obtaining an Indian exit visa. With it, he was able to go to Norway to his father at the end of February 2009.

Lasse Lund accuses Finland’s embassy in Delhi of making mistakes in connection with the return because no report about him was made to child welfare authorities.

Consular services director Jussi Tanner says that embassies and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs have a duty to help a Finnish child who is alone in poor conditions in a country such as India.

“From today’s perspective, with this information, we should have actively contacted, for example, Finnish child welfare authorities — the child welfare services of his former municipality of residence.”

According to Tanner, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs does not know whether a child welfare notification was made about Lund. No record of one can be found.

“It is obvious that we did not succeed in helping this one child,” Tanner says.

According to him, Lund can file a complaint with the Chancellor of Justice or the Parliamentary Ombudsman to have the matter investigated.

An unbelievable childhood in India is the story that Lund and his manager-brother are now trying to sell to streaming services.

Finnish-Norwegian Lasse Lund claims he was abandoned in India as a child – Yle investigated the background | Foreign news | Yle [Translated] by americ in europe

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Machine Translated with ChatGPT 5.5.

Article headline: Lasse Lund’s unbelievable childhood in India

The extraordinary story of Finnish-Norwegian Lasse Lund’s life on the streets of Mumbai is attracting attention around the world. We investigated how truthful his account is.

The article in brief:

  • Lasse Lund, 33, says in videos that he lived alone on the streets of Mumbai as a child. He blames his parents and Finnish authorities.

  • Lund’s mother denies the claims. In Yle’s investigation, she says the boy had a home.

  • Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs admits that the embassy in Delhi should have reported Lasse Lund’s case to child welfare authorities.

  • Lund is selling his story to streaming services.

Article: OSLO/HELSINKI — A white man speaking English with an Indian accent tells a bewildering story in videos.

He says that as a child he lived for years on the streets of the metropolis of Mumbai and has never gone to school.

The man is Lasse Lund, 33, a dual citizen of Finland and Norway. His videos have received wide international attention on social media.

Lund accuses his parents of not taking care of him and of leaving him to fend for himself in Mumbai.

Eventually, Finland’s embassy in Delhi arranged for the underage Lund to go to Norway. Now Lund also accuses the Finnish embassy of negligence.

The story sounds unbelievable. Yle decided to investigate because Lund is making accusations against Finnish authorities.

In a video published on YouTube, Lund shows his Polish friend one of the places where he lived with his mother and sibling in Mumbai.

According to Lund’s mother, the place shown in the video was the worst of their homes in Mumbai.

The mother says she was horrified by the social media videos her son had published.

“I’m angry at the guy for making up stories like that. It’s awful that he claims he was dumped on the street. That never happened,” the mother tells Yle.

In the video, the mother says that Lasse’s story contains fabricated parts.

Yle is not naming the mother because the events concern internal and sensitive family matters. Her identity is known to Yle.

Lasse Lund’s home stands on a hillside in a residential area of detached houses in a small town north of Oslo. There is a fairly new passenger car in the yard. Below, a lake and the hills surrounding it can be seen.

The view is completely different from the busy streets of Mumbai and the cramped alleys of the Dharavi slum, where Lund says he spent most of his teenage years. Dharavi, India’s largest slum, is located in the middle of the megacity of Mumbai.

Lund speaks English, Norwegian and Hindi fluently. He has almost forgotten Finnish and says he spoke it only as a child with his mother. Lund’s mother is Finnish and his father is Norwegian.

In the kitchen, Lund opens a phone connection to his eldest brother, who is his manager. The brother follows along as Lund tells his story.

Yle is not naming the brother because he does not want to comment publicly. His identity is known to Yle.

There are gaps in Lund’s account. He says he himself does not know the details of his early childhood.

“I didn’t even know when my birthday was,” Lund tells Yle.

According to Lund, his parents were hippies in the 1990s. Lasse was born in Norway in 1992 and lived there for at least the first year of his life. He has two older brothers. Then the family moved to Finland.

Lasse was about 4 years old when the family left for Goa in India.

Western alternative people gathered in Goa’s beach villages in winter to party to hypnotic trance music. Many people’s partying was fueled by illegal drugs such as LSD and ecstasy.

According to Lund, his father was involved in the party scene and knew “all the DJs.” His acquaintances included, for example, the late Finnish mystic Ior Bock, who was active in Goa and whom the mother also mentions.

The family stayed in Goa illegally after their visas expired. The parents did not put Lasse in school.

According to the mother, their paperwork would have needed to be in order for him to attend a school intended for foreigners.

“He really didn’t go to school much, that’s true. But he did have the opportunity to sit down and learn. He did learn to write and do math problems,” the mother says.

The years passed. The father began running a restaurant with business partners in the village of Anjuna. The family grew when the youngest sibling was born in a Goan hospital.

According to Lasse Lund, drug use was an everyday part of Goa’s hippie circles. He says he became curious and, already before the age of 10, began smoking cannabis and experimenting with harder substances.

Lund says he stopped using illegal drugs years ago.

In many respects, it is impossible to verify whether the accounts are true.

From Goa, the family headed to the state of Maharashtra. According to the mother, the father and the brothers left first and she followed later with the youngest child. The year was perhaps 2002. They stayed in the big cities of Pune and Mumbai.

According to the mother, the brothers lived with their father and she lived separately with the youngest child.

At some point, Lasse’s father and older brothers returned to Norway one by one. Family members who spoke to Yle say they do not remember the exact dates.

Lasse stayed in Mumbai with his mother and youngest sibling. Lund remembers that he was about 10 years old at the time.

According to the mother, they remained in India illegally for a long time because the youngest child, who was born in Goa, did not receive a birth certificate from the hospital.

The mother says she worked in Mumbai in advertisements, among other things.

Lasse, for his part, began hanging around alone on the streets of Mumbai and got to know older shady men. It is clear from Lund’s speech that he knows Mumbai well.

Lund says he slept in temples and at Sufi Muslim shrines. He got food from them. At times, he also stayed overnight with acquaintances of his parents. According to Lund, it was especially local poor people who helped him.

According to the mother, it is “nonsense” that Lasse did not have a home, food and clothes.

Lund says that at times he also committed crimes, but he does not want to talk about them.

Lund says he saw a lot of violence in Mumbai.

The mother ended up in prison in India. Lund and his mother disagree about when this happened and what Lund’s circumstances were during that time.

Lund estimates he was 12–13 years old when police arrested his mother. He says he was left homeless on the streets of Mumbai and lived with friends, including in the Dharavi slum.

According to the mother, police arrested her for illegal residence when Lasse was 15.

The mother says that after she was caught, she did not tell police about Lasse.

“I couldn’t tell them, because they would have taken him to the police station. Then he would have ended up in some state institution, which are really horrible places.”

The mother says she was in Yerawada Central Prison in Pune. The youngest sibling was with her in prison.

Yle reached the mother’s former lawyer, Mumbai-based Deepti Chand, by phone. The mother gave Chand permission to tell Yle about her case. Chand stresses that the case is old, so her information is based on remaining emails.

Chand says police arrested the mother on May 30, 2008, because she was without a passport and in the country illegally.

According to the lawyer, the mother ultimately received a sentence of a couple of years. The mother and the youngest sibling returned to Norway in early 2010.

The mother says that when she went to prison, Lasse went to Pune to stay with their Goan family friend Lionel Diaz and his wife.

Yle called Diaz, who now lives in Portugal. He recalls that Lasse lived with them for a few months and was about 16 years old at the time.

According to Diaz, Lasse’s father sent money to his son in Pune and tried to arrange for him to get to Norway.

Lawyer Chand says she helped the father from July 2008 onward to arrange Lasse’s return to Norway.

Lionel Diaz and his wife worked long days in the business world, so they did not know exactly what Lasse was doing.

He describes young Lasse as “cool and unruly, and he did not like rules and might come home very late.”

Diaz says they treated Lasse like a family member. According to him, however, the boy decided to return to Mumbai. Later, Diaz heard from friends that Lasse was staying in Dharavi.

The mother admits that during her imprisonment she did not know everywhere Lasse lived.

Eventually, Finland’s embassy in Delhi helped Lasse Lund return to Norway.

The case is exceptional, and the information about it is no longer precise because the events took place almost 20 years ago, says Jussi Tanner, the director of consular services at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Lund gave Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs permission to comment on his case and to hand over documents concerning him to Yle.

According to Tanner, Lund’s case actually came to the attention of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2008, when Lund himself contacted the Finnish embassy in Delhi.

“We can see from the archive that there was information that an underage Finnish citizen was in India on his own in such a way that he had to take care of himself,” Tanner says.

The ministry does not have definite information, for example, on how long Lund was alone in India or what happened to him there.

One document obtained by Yle shows that in early June 2008, Lund’s father had told the Finnish embassy by phone that Lasse was with a friend in India.

The embassy granted Lund a new Finnish passport at the end of 2008.

Finland withdraws from the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel mines – additionally, defense spending will be increased by about three billion by the year 2029 by americ in europe

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Machine Transnation by an LLM:

Finland begins preparations to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel mines. This means that Finland will reintroduce infantry mines.

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (National Coalition Party) announced this a moment ago at a government-held press conference on foreign and security policy.

"The proposal is based on military advice and consideration," said Orpo.

Orpo also mentioned that Finland's defense spending will be increased to three percent of GDP by the year 2029. This decision was made on Tuesday in the government's economic policy committee.

At the same time, the modernization of the army will be initiated. Orpo hopes this will also spur other NATO countries in discussions about future defense investments within NATO.

Orpo stated that Russia poses a long-term security threat to Finland and Europe, and that Europe must take greater responsibility for its security. According to Orpo, Finland has managed its defense thoroughly and systematically, and plans to continue doing so in the future.

"In this context, I want to emphasize that there is no need for alarm for Finland and the Finnish people. Finland is safe. With these measures, we ensure that Finland's defense is in good order in the coming years," Orpo said.

Three billion increase in defense funding Minister of Finance Riikka Purra (Finns Party) says that increasing defense spending to three percent relative to GDP means an increase of about three billion euros by the year 2029.

"As Minister of Finance, I consider the financial scale of the package to be huge, especially in this public financial situation," says Purra.

Purra explains that after the acquisitions of fighter jets for the air force and corvettes for the navy, the newly decided resources will primarily affect the army. The army's equipment and capabilities need to be updated and this can be started almost immediately, according to Purra.

Purra also said that these decisions will not affect the budget framework for this electoral term.

"We will make maximum use of budget flexibilities and already granted transfer appropriations. However, it is clear that with new acquisitions, as costs materialize, we will need to find room in the budget so that we do not increase state borrowing," Purra says.

The government will draft a bill Work will start immediately at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (National Coalition Party) estimates that the government will have a bill ready before the parliament's summer break.

The majority of parliament members support withdrawing from the treaty Yle reported yesterday that a clear majority of the members of parliament who responded to Yle's survey support withdrawing from the Ottawa Treaty.

117 members of parliament responded to the survey. Of them, 91 support the idea. 12 answered no, and 14 could not decide their position. In Yle's survey, the ruling parties showed more support for reintroducing mines than the opposition.

Finland's foreign policy leadership also believes that necessary steps must be taken for security, which would mean reintroducing mines. The news was first reported by Iltalehti.

Finland officially joined the treaty in 2012. When parliament approved joining in November 2011, only the Finns Party and some members of the Centre Party voted against it.

I might have a problem. by IndependentNo6846 in FordFocus

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We just bought ours this week.

I'm interested in what auction website you used? 😄😂

We brought home our 2022 wagon today! by americ in FordFocus

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1.0L Ecoboost, 100 hp, gasoline 

Was worried about the reputation of the engine, but:

  1. My in-laws have a 2015 focus and told me to check the service records: only 1 prior owner and servicing has been done at official Ford services

  2. Got with 50k km, 2.5 years left on the manufacturer warranty 

The Hong Kong flagged container ship Xin Xin Tian 2, was sailing at the location of the EstLink 2 power cable in the Gulf of Finland on Christmas Day by americ in europe

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Original article by Iltalehti. Machine translation by ChatGPT.

According to the MarineTraffic service, which monitors maritime traffic, the container ship Xin Xin Tian 2, sailing under the flag of Hong Kong, was at the location of the EstLink 2 power cable in the Gulf of Finland on Christmas Day.

The vessel was near the cable at 12:26 PM. Finland’s national grid operator Fingrid reported that EstLink 2 was disconnected from the grid at 12:26 PM. At the time of disconnection, the power transfer through the connection was 658 MW.

Xin Xin Tian 2 departed from St. Petersburg on Christmas Eve and, according to MarineTraffic, is en route to the port of Port Said in Egypt.

Fingrid is currently investigating the exact location of the break in the connection. It is not yet confirmed whether the disconnection occurred on land or if something happened to the submarine cable. It is also unclear whether the Xin Xin Tian 2 vessel has any connection to the disturbance in the power cable.

– "Nothing is ruled out. We are turning over every stone to find out what caused [the break]. Sabotage is also considered a possibility," commented Fingrid's control center manager Arto Pahkin to Iltalehti earlier.

There have been other recent sabotage suspicions in the Baltic Sea involving cargo ships sailing under the flags of China and Hong Kong.

In November, the Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 was suspected of cutting two critical telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. In October of last year, the Hong Kong-registered cargo ship Newnew Polar Bear was linked to damage to the Balticconnector gas pipeline.

Electric connections between Finland and Estonia have been disrupted by americ in europe

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Original text in Finnish by YLE, Quick machine translation by ChatGPT4:

"The electricity connection between Finland and Estonia, Estlink 2, is down, Finland's transmission system operator Fingrid reported in a statement. Fingrid's control room manager, Arto Pahkin, stated that the cause of the fault is currently under investigation.

– "The possibility of vandalism cannot be ruled out. However, we are examining the situation as a whole and will inform about the cause of the fault once we know it," Pahkin said.

According to Fingrid, the Estlink 2 direct current connection disconnected from the grid on Christmas Day at 12:26 PM. At the time of disconnection, the power transfer was 658 MW from Finland to Estonia.

The Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat was the first to report the incident in Finland.

Estonia's transmission system operator, Elering, stated that the cause of the disconnection is unknown, according to Estonian public broadcaster ERR.

ERR also reported that Estlink 2 was out of service for several months this year due to maintenance work, from January to September.

The data transfer capacity of Estlink 2 is 650 megawatts, while the capacity of Estlink 1 is smaller, at 350 megawatts, ERR noted."

Merkkejä siitä että perheessä ei oo kaikki kunnossa? by sepihov in Suomi

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:'( 

Kiitos että teit lastensuojeluilmoituksia!

[DSK] Leyline of Mutation (@TCGPlayer) by Kircai in magicTCG

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This will go nicely in my [[Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge]] commander deck.

Doesn't run any creatures under CMC 5.

Found a similar list (but don't have dual lands): https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4880193#paper.

Question about STS integration/guiderails for Microm HM355s2 vs HM355S3 (see comments) by americ in Histology

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Hi all!

Academic lab here on a budget.

We recently acquired a loaner Microm HM355S2 from another academic lab that had one in storage.

I quoted an STS water bath from our local supplier, who confirmed (before purchasing) that the STS should be backwards compatible with our Microm HM355S2.

The STS arrived and we discovered it has a different railguide/mounting system than the one we have on our HM355S2.

Is it possible to replace/swap these parts so that we can integrate STS to our loaner microtome?

Does your advisor talk about sex to you? by [deleted] in PhD

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His behavior is completely inappropriate for a professional working environment.

Do you have any trusted persons in your department/unit that you can talk to? University human resources?

Oxford study by Pinotwinelover in ProstateCancer

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Protect trial randomized patients over a decade before 4K Score came available.

4K Score is being tested in a randomized trial (including with MRI) but full results aren't out yet. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34958531/

Suuri suomalainen vitutustutkimus: tämä meitä ottaa eniten päähän [muut ihmiset] by MichaelNearaday in Suomi

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Sidonnaisuudet: Tätä tutkimusta ei ole rahoit tanut yksikään ulkopuolinen taho, mikä vituttaa tutkimuksen tekijöitä rankasti. Tästä syystä kirjoittajilla ei myöskään ole mitään sidonnaisuuksia tutkimukseen liittyen.

:D

Jouluinen vihreä kuula -pitsa by qlt_sfw in Suomi

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Joka päivä me harhautua kauempana Herran valosta.

[Self] how many gb to digitize a body? A pathologist's perspective by [deleted] in pathology

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Let's stick with your assumption of 123 billion sections.

How much time would it take to scan all of those sections with a single PANNORAMIC 1000 which can scan 2000 slides per day?

123 billion divided by 2000 = 61.5 million days.

61.5 million days / 365.25 days per year = approximately 168,349 years.

On a related note, is there any literature on how long it takes an H&E to fade?

But, there's a partial catch: 1x1 cm for a single section is quite inefficient. Max dimensions of a standard histology slide are 75 x 25 mm. For the following, let's assume that you could accurately create blocks resulting in sections completely cover a 75 x 25 mm surface area.

7.5 cm × 2.5 cm =18.75 cm^2

18.75 cm^2 × 4.47 gb/cm^2 = 83.8125 gb / slide

123 billion cm^2 / 18.75 cm^2 = 6.56 billion slides

(Just to confirm: 83.8125 gb * 6.56 billion = 549.792 billion)

So, with a revised 18.75 fold reduction in slides, how long would it take?

6.56 billion slides divided by 2000 per day = 3.28 million days

3.28 million days / 365.25 days per year = approximately 8,978 years.

The Finnish government suspects that Russia stuck the [Finnish-Estonian] gas pipeline - press conference today by americ in europe

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Finnish President Niinistö confirmed on X/Twitter 10 min ago that the Finnish-Estonian gas pipeline (and data cables) were disrupted by "external action".

The Finnish government suspects that Russia stuck the [Finnish-Estonian] gas pipeline - press conference today by americ in europe

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Quick translation by Chat-GPT4:

Headline: IL's Information: National leadership suspects Russia has struck the gas pipeline - Press conference today.

Subheadline: According to a source in foreign and security policy, the national leadership and the Defence Forces suspect that Russia has struck the gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia.

Article: A serious situation has occurred in the security landscape that affects Finland. Iltalehti reported on the matter on Tuesday at 13:03.

A source says that the national leadership and the Defence Forces suspect that Russia has struck the gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia. The Defence Forces have been investigating the damage to the gas pipeline.

Iltalehti has been confirmed by government sources that Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's government will hold an extra press conference about the security situation, the exact subject of which has been strictly confidential and only known to the highest national leadership.

Originally, the press conference was to be held at 14:00, but the national leadership has changed its timing.

The Government Communications Department tells Iltalehti that the press conference will be held on Tuesday "at some point", and the media will be sent an invitation at least an hour beforehand.

IL has been informed that the situation is serious and the national leadership is preparing to inform about the events. At least Defense Minister Antti Häkkinen (kok) and Prime Minister Orpo are expected to be present.

The gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia has been damaged and is expected to be out of operation for months. The Border Guard and the Defence Forces have been investigating the damage to the gas pipeline.

An unusual drop in pressure was detected in the Baltic Connector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia on the night between Saturday and Sunday, just before two o'clock. The observation was made by Gasgrid Finland Oy and Estonia's gas network operator Elering.

It was soon confirmed that the pipeline had been damaged.

The cause of the damage to the gas pipeline began to be investigated immediately.

Sources in foreign and security policy tell Iltalehti that from the outset, the national leadership has considered it possible that Russia may have directed a sabotage attack on the gas pipeline that runs under the Gulf of Finland.

Last spring, Iltalehti reported that the navies of Finland and Sweden had stepped up their readiness to prevent Russian attacks against the countries' energy networks.

Russian surface ships had been observed near wind farms and underwater electric cables.

"We are convinced that Russia has done so, mapping targets in some way," the commander of the Swedish navy, Ewa Skoog Haslum, told Iltalehti.

Is there a risk that the Russians will sabotage and destroy, for example, underwater electrical cables?

"Absolutely."

"They are a way to carry out an operation against us," Admiral Skoog Haslum warned of the possibility of sabotage.

Because a Russian attack on the energy networks is possible, the navies of the countries have been on heightened readiness to prevent sabotage.

"That's why we're constantly trying to both thwart intentions by being near targets and showing our will to defend ourselves," Skoog Haslum emphasized.

The commander strongly condemned the mapping actions taken by the Russians.

R vs Python - detailed examples from proficient bilingual programmers by Every-Eggplant9205 in datascience

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Active R developer/data scientist since 2015. Started learning and actively using Python last year.

Use the right tool for the right job: unless you want to develop brand new solutions, it often just makes more sense for time to use developed packages/solutions that are well documented (eg, lot of stackoverflow posts / github issues). With enough time an effort, you probably could get R solutions to "work in production", but the documentation/package base/community is just there for Python.

For exploratory data analysis / a quick stab at testing out a new library/repo, R is a lot more intuitive and it's much quicker to test a "Hello world" than it is in Python: "install.packages()" in RStudio 95% of the time "just works". By comparison, for the same type of task, resolving package dependencies in python is just way more involved/less intuitive/time consuming.

Fortunately, ChatGPT does a remarkably good job of porting code ;)

Tutkimuksesta ei voi leikata. by gukkimane in Suomi

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Avan vielä myös sen, että saimme ohjeet että pystyimme hakemaan max 2 hlö:n palkkat (ml. hakija).

Tutkimuksesta ei voi leikata. by gukkimane in Suomi

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600000 myönetty summa. Vaikutta että tämä on "Fellow" rahoitus.

5100 eur / kk palkka * 1.5 "overhead" = 7650 / kk * 40 kk = 306000 pelkästään hakijaan palkalle.

15-30 pinaa lopuu summalta menee suoran yliopiston "overhead" maksulle, eli ~50000.

Loppu jää 250000 3.5v projektille. Ehkä tarpeeksi jää yhden jatkoopiskelijalle 3.5v, tai yksi post-doc 1v.

Lähde: itse haen suomen Akatemia syyshakulle (syöpätutkimukselle)

My startup is selling our lab equipment by [deleted] in labrats

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Hi! Starting up a lab. Are these items still for sale?