RUSNANO and AmBAR Announce the Business Plan Competition of Nanotech Projects 

    AmBAR creates a unique platform to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and business contacts between technology entrepreneurs, professionals, and investors. The organization is also dedicated to accelerating access to capital for innovative projects and developing technology partnerships between Russia, Ukraine and other FSU countries and the United States. Through various seminars and conferences AmBAR provides educational programs that help entrepreneurs refine their business plans, and advance their product development and marketing efforts.

Ambar’s Mission:

·       To provide a networking platform for technology entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, and other business professionals from Russian, Ukraine and other CIS countries who are interested in innovation and commercialization of high technology products.

·       To educate, showcase, and support entrepreneurs in Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries as they seek equity capital, corporate partners, and grow their companies globally.

·       To enhance all aspects of technology partnership between the United States and the countries of the former Soviet Union. 

SVOD Conference is right around the corner and we have an amazing lineup of speakers! Register today and don’t miss out on this unique networking opportunity!

 

    This is a not to be missed event for the entrepreneurs and the Venture Capital community. This year’s theme will drive a very exciting Agenda exploring “re-invention” as it affects the startup process on multiple levels — technologies, business models, financing, monetizing and team building.

 

 

• Vinod Khosla, Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures
• Charles Giancarlo, Managing Director, Silver Lake
• Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur; Founder, Epiphany; Lecturer, Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering
• Sergei Beloussov, CEO, Parallels
• Ron Conway, Founding General Partner, Angel Investors LP
• Jason Pressman, General Partner, Shasta Ventures
• Adam Lashinsky, Editor at large, Fortune magazine; regular panelist and business commentator for Fox network programs
• Esther Dyson, Director, 23andMe, Principal, EDventure Holdings (sold to CNet), investor in Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!) & Medstory (sold to Microsoft)
• Jeff Crow, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
• Vivek Mehra, General Partner, August Capital
• Ping Li, General Partner, Accel Partners
• Kittu Kolluri, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
• Franklin Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company
• Peter Loukianoff, Partner, Almaz Capital Partners
• Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
• Pavel Pogodin, Partner, Sughrue Mion LLP
• Dmitry Dubograev, Partner, Femida LLP
• Leonid Gozman, Board Member, RUSNANO
• Mikhail Chuchkevich, Director, Project Office, RUSNANO
• Dmitry Vasuytinsky, Managing Partner, Allianz Asset Management
• Yan Ryazantsev, Investment Director, Russian Venture Company
• Bo Parker, Managing Director, Center for Technology and Innovation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote
• Vlad Shmunis, CEO, RingCentral, Sequoia-backed company
• Matthew Trevithick, General Partner, Venrock
• Eric Buatois, General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
• Vish Makhijani, COO, Zynga
• Vimal Solanki, Vice President, McAfee
• Evgeni Utkin, CEO, Kvazar-Micro, acquired by Sitronics, voted the Best Ukrainian Entrepreneur
• Greg Shenkman, General Partner, Exigen Capital, formerly CEO of Genesys, sold to Alcatel for $1.9B
• Mike Selfridge, Northern California Region Manager, Silicon Valley Bank

Whether you are looking for a deal flow, funding, information or networking – SVOD 2009 is the place to be! - WWW.SVOD.ORG 

 

 

Date: December 9-10, 2009

Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Silicon Valley, CA

To Register: http://www.svod.org/

 

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) and American Business Association of Russian-speaking Professionals (AmBAR) announce the Business Plan Competition cor projects and companies working in the field of nanotechnology. Origination of the project may come from any country or person all over the world, but its implementation or some part of implementation has to be completed in Russia. In 2009 the nominees for the contest are pre-selected by AmBAR among the participants of the Fifth Annual High Tech Investment Conference SVOD 2009. For more information, please go to: http://www.svod.org/ or e-mail to info@ambarclub.org

The projects are evaluated by the following criteria:

• nanotechnology application;
• scientific and technical feasibility of the project;
• quality and feasibility of the business-plan;
• steps already made towards project implementation.

The winner of the competition receives the RUSNANO award and the prize in the amount of 300,000 rubles (~$10,000).

For more details, please see the Contest terms and conditions (in Russian)

Oy, good morning indeed! While watching “Monty Python and The Holy Grail” last night, I was struggling to keep my eyes open. I’d be floating in a swamp of denial if I said I haven’t been feeling burnt out lately. I’ve taken a much needed two-day break from all exercise (except for walking miles a day, just part of city livin’), and I’ve really focused on resting due to the mild stomach bug I’ve been grappling with and general fatigue. Well, I think I cleared everything up and fully revived last night because after the “shrubbery” scene in Monty Python, I hit pause on the ole’ DVD player, brushed and flossed (thanks for the challenge, Holly) my teeth, washed the face, and proceeded to sleep for 9 hours. Ahhhhh. I feel so much better.

Anyway, to recap yesterday’s eats, I enjoyed simple pumpkin butter on Arnold’s Flax n’ Fiber toast with a banana for breakfast:

Followed by a reviving and necessary green monster and green apple for lunch:

Are You Green With Envy Yet?

For yesterday’s green monster I blended the following:

1 cup Silk Very Vanilla Soymilk

1 tbs. Dark Chocolate Dreams

1 Frozen banana

2 Giant handfuls of Spinach

Drizzle of Agave Nectar

It was super creamy and had just the right amount of sweetness.

While walking 2.6 miles to fetch Mina from school, I saw pretty things because the weather had cheered up:

X-Mas Lights on Trees, By The Way, That Brick Building is ABC Studios.

Then, while at work, I tried Siggs yogurt for the first time thanks to the reccommendation of a certain nutritionist!It was seriously good stuff, thick with a protein content comparable to greek yogurt. I loved the intense orange and ginger flavor. Topped with Ezekiel Golden Flax Cereal, it was le’awesome.

I also drank my usual, unphotographed cup of yerbe mate tea.

Dinner was a repeat of last nights, minus the chicken:

Black Beans, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Broccoli

Plus some ginger ale because my stomach still wasn’t 100% better:

Then I passed out for 9 hours.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

When you’re feeling burnt out and need to slow down, what’s your best/favorite remedy?

TODAY, Legend of the Seeker stars Craig Horner and Bridget Regan left their mark in Times Square, New York, as Craig “slashed” a vehicle in the middle of Military Island, and the two stars greeted fans. Craig and Bridget, who shoot the action-adventure series in New Zealand, were in town promoting season two of their show, which premieres in national syndication this weekend (check local listings).

Bridget Regan and Craig Horner greeted fans in Times Square greeted fans in Times Square as they unveiled the Sword of Truth, a 9-foot custom faux sword protruding from a vehicle emanating smoke. Photo by Anders Krusberg and copyright ABC Studios

Craig Horner marked his presence during his visit to Times Square today, "slashing" a vehicle in the middle of Military Island, with the Sword of Truth. Photo by Anders Krusberg and copyright of ABC Studios

As noted above, all photos by Anders Krusberg and copyright of ABC Studios, so please no unauthorized copying or duplicating of any kind. Thanks!

Agora é certo: o spinoff de ‘Criminal Minds’ sairá do papel até o final do ano. A CBS prepara terreno para o novo programa que será criador por Ed Bernero e terá Chris Mundy como produtor executivo e encarregado de escrever o piloto, que deve ir ao ar como um episódio de ‘Criminal Minds’ na primavera.

Assim como a série original, o show derivado será produzido pela ABC Studios, Mark Gordon Co. e CBS Studios. Os detalhes ainda são escassos, mas é esperado que a equipe nova de profilers seja totalmente nova, sem nenhum membro do elenco da original.

As conversas para tornar ‘Criminal Minds’ em uma franquia começaram a mais de um ano atrás, mas a CBS preferiu focar primeiro no spinoff de ‘NCIS’, que estreou semana passada na emissora como o drama mais assistido da fall season: 18.7 milhões de telespectadores e 4.4 pontos na demo qualificada 18-49.

‘Criminal Minds’ também voltou em alta com 15.8 milhões de telespectadores e os mesmos 4.4 pontos na demo.

In honor of Michael Emerson’s Emmy win for Supporting actor in a Drama series I felt a post was in order.  Each new season a show is touted as being groundbreaking, unfortunately all too often this isn’t true.  More often than not a new show barely last the entire season and shows that refuse to follow the standard protocol last even less.  As a viewing public we are comfortable with the same formula over and over again.  It’s comfortable and reassuring.  We can use it as an escape without having to think too much or put too much effort and commitment into what we watch. 

That all changed when thanks to former head of ABC studios Lloyd Braun ordered the two hour pilot that JJ Abrahms and Damon Lindelof had cowrote about passengers on Oceanic Flight 815 surviving on a mysterious island.   The premise was very simple and straight forward, however the design of the show clearly was not.  When the previews for the pilot episode first began airing I remember being slightly intrigued but not overly enthusiastic about watching the new show.  Here was a show that was quite upfront about the fact that most of the actors/actresses were not widely famous at the time or famous at all, the story in general took commitment to follow, and it required a great faith in the writers that there would be a point to everything, eventually.  All in all not something I was ready to sink my teeth into.

The turning point for me came when on one of the previews featured an actor from a little movie trilogy you may have heard of called Lord of the rings.  (Hopefully the rumors are true and he will be back however briefly) Now granted in the trilogy i was more a fan of Pip than I was Merry, but since I was a huge LOTR fan I just knew I had to check Lost out, even if it was only the pilot I was planning on viewing.  Now at this point I would love to say that after watching the 2 hour pilot I was instantly hooked, but I would be lying.  In fact I believe I went a couple of weeks or more without watching the show.  No reason for it really, I just stopped.  In fact it wasn’t until episode 10 entitled “Raised By Another” that i began watching the program every week and that was more for William Mapother than it was anything or anyone else (how it is that his cousin Tom Cruise is the more famous of the 2 for acting I will never know).  But slowly over the rest of the 1st season I found myself paying more attention to what was going on or as is the case with Lost what wasn’t going on.  I began to feel connected with these characters and problems.  I wanted to know who “The Others” were and why were they considered dangerous.  I wanted to know why Jack kept seeing his dead father on the island.  I wanted to know why Sun was able to speak English and why she kept it from her husband.  I wanted to know why Hurley thought his lotto numbers were cursed.  I wanted to see them rescued and apparently 16 million viewers agreed. 

But that doesn’t mean to say that Lost hasn’t had a mis-step or two, it has, but often these mis-steps are corrected in a way that doesn’t harm the integrity of the show itself.  Does any one remember Nikki and Paolo?  Sure you do and yes they were probably 2 of the most hated character’s on the show at the time from Season 3.  And it wasn’t because they were newcomers, we had welcomed Ben into our family as well as Juliet.  For me it was because well they seemed, pardon the pun, lost.  As if they were being forced into a family that didn’t want them.  Fortunately I wasn’t the only one that felt that way because not longer after they joined the show they were killed off in such a redeeming fashion that it made us the viewers sit up and take notice again.  And instead of sweeping them under the rug the writers will pull those characters out again every once in a while as a wink to the audience.  Almost as though to say that yes they hear us, but now they will not be giving us everything we think we want.

Why this show doesn’t bring home multiple awards every year is beyond me, but atleast we the fans have the satisfaction of knowing that often the best work isn’t recognized until the creators are no longer around to remind us every week why the show was so great to begin with.  Unfortunately for us fans we have to wait until January 2010 before we will be able to view the final brushstrokes on an already beautiful painting.

Walt Disney

Neuromarketing y Disney no son palabras que uno espera encontrar juntas, sin embargo lo están en el nuevo complejo de investigación de la Walt Disney Company para su división Disney Media Networks (que incluye ESPN, Disney-ABC Televisión Group, Disney Channel, ABC Television Network, ABC Family, ABC Studios, Disney ABC Domestic Television, Radio Disney y Disney XD).

Disney Media Networks ha llevado a cabo, como otras empresas de televisión, investigación intensiva al consumidor relacionada con su programación, pero como en la actualidad al consumidor de TV lo provocan tanto la red como los DVR (o  video grabadoras digitales) y eso ha hecho decaer el negocio, están agregando a sus actividades la investigación de la publicidad que es un campo nuevo y muy solicitado por las marcas. Sobre esto y además con revelaciones sobre hallazgos de esta división hizo la empresa una presentación ante unos 200 anunciadores y ejecutivos de medios, en Nueva York, el 28 de Julio.

Lo que busca Disney Media Networks, más allá de cuantas veces pulsan los visitantes el botón de un aviso publicitario en las páginas que visitan, o qué tipo de publicidad atrae mas entradas, que son cosas sencillas de establecer en Internet, pretende esclarecer qué sucede con los millones que simplemente pasan sus ojos por la página. Creen —y están en lo cierto— que no se sabe casi nada de ellos ni en especial qué tipo de avisos publicitarios en qué configuración son los que tienen mejores oportunidades de atraerlos y mantenerlos en la página. También quieren descifrar las respuestas físicas y emocionales a la TV y otras formas de video utilizando métodos científicos porque como dice su Director Ejecutivo Duane Varan (que es también director del Interactive Television Research Institute de la Universidad Murdoch en Perth, Australia): “La televisión es una experiencia intrínsecamente emocional y sucede que fundamentalmente no podemos expresar qué es lo que impulsa nuestro comportamiento.”

Un computador sigue los movimientos faciales y de los ojos de un participante en un estudio en el Laboratorio de Disney en Austin Texas (Fuente: NYT)

Lo que está en juego, según el New York Times, es la suma cada vez mas grande de dinero que se invierte en publicidad en la red. De acuerdo con las cifras de eMarketer, una empresa dedicada a la investigación de mercado, estadísticas y análisis objetivo en Internet, los $25 billones de dólares se convertirán en $37 billones en el 2013.

La idea de Disney Media Networks es atraer clientes ofreciéndoles investigación seria sobre lo que funciona y lo que no funciona en los nuevos medios, dice Peter Seymour Vicepresidente Ejecutivo a cargo de Estrategia e Investigación en el Disney Media & Advertising Lab. Y también concentrarse en nuevas formas de publicidad en programas de la televisión actual contestándose preguntas tales como ¿los avisos que pasan antes de los clips de video (llamados prerolls) son más eficaces cuando van acompañados de un banner? ¿los avisos animados mantienen la atención de los espectadores mejor que los avisos con acción en vivo en aparatos portátiles? ¿Cuan bien funciona un logo o texto colocado en parte de la página web como biselado en un espejo y llamado watermark add o marca de agua (1)?, ¿influye en la intención de compra?. Y aún yendo más allá en el campo de la televisión, las técnicas de medición de TV conocidas, pueden calibrar lo que el televidente ve y cuenta pero no pueden medir lo que siente y piensa y esta es una de las incógnitas por despejar que tiene Seymour y el equipo de científicos a cargo de los proyectos que se iniciaron en diciembre del año pasado. Dieciséis de los proyectos está terminados y otros veinticinco están en diverso nivel de desarrollo y relacionados con la medición de si, por ejemplo, la colocación de un comercial dentro de un grupo si altera la eficacia, o de cómo son percibidos los avisos en las distintas plataformas de noticias de abc, o el impacto de pantallas partidas con avisos en una mitad y contenido (o programa en curso) en la otra, así como diversos tests para las promociones de la cadena, y de qué manera el uso simultáneo de la computadora y la TV influye en la atención/concentración del espectador.

Una participante en un estudio en el Disney Media & Advertising Lab. (Fuente: NYT)

El Laboratorio, que está instalado en Austin, mide tres tipos primarios de retroalimentación biológica: frecuencia cardiaca, conductividad de la piel (que es una medida de respuesta emocional) y movimiento de ojos para mantener un registro de qué lugar de la pantalla están, utilizando un sistema basado en su movimiento y también un sistema de cámara estereoscópica que construye modelos en 3-D de la cabeza del espectador, a fin de seguir dichos movimientos. Pero la idea es, según Duane Varan, no confiar en ninguna de las mediciones sino triangular todo tipo de información. La que pueda incluir data de los sistemas de registros de información conectados al televisor o set-top boxes (como los people meter que miden ratings o los decodificadores), los ratings de Nielsen, otros datos de estudios cooperativos o syndicated data, y hasta incluso técnicas más novedosas aún por ser comprobadas y confirmadas como la codificación facial, que mide la respuesta de los músculos de la cara al estímulo para determinar que hay participación emocional. Pero ningún software para medir los parámetros de la codificación facial es suficientemente preciso, aún y “mientras no sea convalidado, dice Varan, no lo consideramos ciencia sino magia”. Todo, con el objetivo final de descubrir “las nuevas leyes de la verdad” sobre el impacto de la publicidad en sus distintas alternativas, en las personas.

Algunas constataciones.

- Un estudio probó que hay un notable aumento de recordación publicitaria cuando se hizo un product placement en el programa de ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (que es un reality show, ganador de un Emmy, donde un equipo de diseñadores reconstruyen la casa de gente necesitada en 7 dias, y se emite en castellano bajo el nombre Extreme makeover: Reconstrucción total, en la cadena de cable People & Arts).

Se le proyectó el mismo episodio a dos grupos incluyendo los mismos cortes con tres avisos de Sears de 30 segundos pero uno de los dos grupos vio la versión con un segmento de 15 segundos que incluía branding de Sears. Este último grupo registró 27% más de recordación no ayudada y 31% de incremento en intención de compra que el grupo que no vio esos 15 segundos de product placement.

- Otro estudio descubrió que la línea en la base de la pantalla con un mensaje fijo o con una noticia que avanza de izquierda a derecha no perjudica al comercial en sí —se mantiene la recordación de la marca— porque las personas solo pasan 12.6% del tiempo del mensaje mirando la línea, mientras que realmente ayuda a retener la atención de los espectadores fija en la pantalla (y por lo tanto en el comercial) en aquellos casos de comerciales que podrían no interesar a los espectadores.

- Una cosa que no funcionó fue el uso del tercio inferior de la pantalla para las promociones de abc. El estudio demostró que solo eran eficaces si les precedía un video de las mismas. Esta fue, por cierto, una constatación decepcionante para los ejecutivos del laboratorio. De la misma manera, se probó que las transparencias con publicidad que se superponen sobre el contenido, molestan a los espectadores.

Siguiendo la información en un monitor (Fuente: NYT)

La localización del Laboratorio en Austin, Texas, no es casual. Responde a que la ciudad provee un buen corte transversal de la población de los EE UU. Además, han agrupado un conjunto de 3,000 personas en el área que están estratificados estadísticamente con las necesidades de cada proyecto. El tamaño de las muestras varía de entre 64 y 300 participantes. El laboratorio en un horario de 12 horas, siete días por semana, puede hacer pruebas con 180 individuos diarios o 65,000 al año. El edificio tiene un letrero que dice “Media Panel”, que  pretende evitar que los participantes tomen ningún tipo de sesgo respecto a lo que van a hacer allí, y los estudios se hacen en 8 ambientes de investigación decorados como salas o bien como oficinas con pisos de madera, iluminación suave y mobiliario confortable, construidas alrededor de un puesto central de comando, donde los investigadores escudriñan a los participantes a través de monitores de video -20 cámaras por ambiente— y de cristales de espejo (un lado transparente y el otro espejo). Hay también un pequeño teatro que permite que una docena de personas participe en un experimento simultáneo. El staff del laboratorio usa batas negras  “porque si alguien te va a poner electrodos en la cabeza quieres tener confianza en que sabe lo que está haciendo” dice Varan.

Para cerrar la presentación a los anunciantes y agencias, aparecieron video clips con el Dr. Marvin Candle, el científico asiático que aparece en los videos y películas de orientación de la Dharma Initiative que los seguidores de Lost, reconocerán en el video que sigue, quien, con cara impasible, dijo que “el Laboratorio fue concebido en 1927 por el propio Walt Disney para ser construido en la luna”.

Iniciativa Dharma

Para terminar me parece interesante consignar las declaraciones de Tracey Scheppach, Director de Innovaciones en Video del Grupo Starcom MediaVest, que describe el trabajo del Disney Media & Advertising Lab. como “totalmente incalculable” porque “… todo el mundo está tratando de concebir los modelos de publicidad del futuro, pero nadie lo está haciendo en esta escala”. Se refiere a las empresas que mencionamos en nuestro último post y sin duda también a otras cadenas como la CBS que abrió su propio laboratorio —Televisión City— en Las Vegas con el propósito de testear los programas piloto de las series y que recientemente ha ingresado a experimentar con los nuevos medios a través de una asociación con Neurofocus, monitoreando la actividad cerebral, en individuos que están viendo televisión y avisos publicitarios. Unas 70,000 personas participaron en algún test de la CBS en el 2008.

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(1) …que en papel se utiliza para evitar la falsificación de documentos, para mostrar la autenticidad del origen de algún papel o impreso, como adorno o como diferenciación entre diferentes fábricas de papel)

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Final figures confirm AFTRA rules in pilots

66 of 70 to be union-affiliated, up from handful last season

By Nellie Andreeva

March 10, 2009, 11:00 PM ET

The digital revolution that swept TV production this pilot season also has swept AFTRA into place as the dominant actors union.

BROADCAST/CABLE

ABC is “going to town” with its pilot approvals, adding the new drama Happy Town and the comedy Cougar Town starring Courteney Cox, both produced by ABC Studios. Happy Town is a small-town murder mystery starring Geoff Stults, Lauren German, Dean Winters, Amy Acker, Sam Neill, John Patrick Amedori, Sarah Gadon, Jay Paulson and Robert Wisdom. In Cougar Town, the series also stars Dan Byrd, Busy Philipps, Brian Van Holt, Christa Miller, Josh Hopkins and Ian Gomez. (Cynopsis 5/18)

Additionally, ABC finalized a deal late Friday to pick up the Warner Bros. TV series V and 20th TV’s The Deep End (formerly titled Associates). Both series will likely get 13-episodes each and The Deep End may be a midseason roll-out. (Cynopsis 5/18)

Also on Friday, ABC picked up the Jerry Bruckheimer drama The Forgotten about a team of amateur detectives who specialize in unidentified victims cases. Another order for ABC went to the drama Eastwick, loosely based on John Updike’s novel and the feature film The Witches of Eastwick. Two new comedies will hit ABC’s lineup including Hank starring Kelsey Grammer and The Middle headlined by Patricia Heaton. All four series are produced by Warner Bros. TV and Warner Horizon.  Also, the network officially renewed Scrubs for a ninth season and True Beauty produced by Warner Bros. TV and Warner Horizon. (Cynopsis 5/18)

Ben Silverman, the co-chief of NBC Entertainment, came to the network two years ago as a rising star with an eye on a turnaround. But his first programs have not yet produced a hit. Some detractors, rooting for his exit, suggest that he and NBC can’t wait to part company. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/business/media/17silver.html?_r=1 5/16)

FOX gave the comedy Brothers a 13-episode order from Sony/Tantamount. The plot centers on the relationship between two brothers, one a retired NFL player (NY Giants’ Michael Strahan) who returns to his hometown of Houston to care for his disabled brother (Darryl “Chill” Mitchell).  FOX is also adding an additional run of summer reality series So You Think You Can Dance this fall, reports THR. (Cynopsis 5/18)

Over the weekend, CBS gave a nod to three drama pilots to begin staffing including the NCIS spinoff, the medical drama Three Rivers and The Good Wife with Julianna Margulies in the lead. (Cynopsis 5/18)

CBS chief Les Moonves can boast of being No. 1 in prime time among total viewers during his remarks Wednesday at his network’s “upfront” presentation to advertisers. CBS insists it is in the catbird seat. “We’re really well positioned,” says sales head Jo Ann Ross. (Iwantmedia 5/18, http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090517/SUB/305179980 5/17)

Time Warner Cable will no longer carry Mark Cuban’s HDNet television channel in the New York City area, per a statement on the cable provider’s Web site. The two sides are said to have been in talks over the issue for months. HDNet programming includes “Dan Rather Reports.” (Iwantmedia 5/18, http://www.pwnewsnow.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1242532686&archive=&start_from=&ucat=6& 5/16)

(Below) Does this mean automatic internships at the media company? Free copies of the WSJ on campus?

Harvard University, the richest U.S. college with a $28.8 billion endowment, is making several new investments, including 1.47 million Class A shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The media conglomerate is currently trading at around $10 a share. (Iwantmedia 5/18, http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0509/Harvard_invests_in_Murdoch.html 5/15)

Someone was searching for ‘Luke Grimes photo shoot’ yesterday. Were these the pictures you were looking for? If not GoogleImages is a beautiful thing. Look what I found there.

Lost – Season 5, Episode 14: The Variable – 2009

Direção: Paul A. Edwards

Roteiro: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz

Elenco: Jeremy Davies, Ken Leung, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Evangeline Lilly, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lange, Doug Hutchison, François Chau, Henry Ian Cusick, Daniel Dae Kim, Nestor Carbonell, Alan Dale, Alice Evans

Como a surpresinha no final do decimo terceiro episódio era o retorno de Daniel Faraday, esse episódio foca no cientista e suas pirações que ninguém entende.

A chegada de Daniel na ilha tem um único objetivo, evitar que um acidente ocorra. O acidente em questão é a perfuração e liberação de uma energia, que será a responsável pela queda do voo da Oceanic. Pra falar a verdade essa parte do Daniel na época da Dharma e esse papo de perfuração já aconteceu em um outro episódio, mas lá nada ficava muito claro.

Enquanto trabalha para evitar que o acidente aconteça, temos flashbacks de Daniel em sua infância quando sua mãe Eloise Hawking começa a guiar a vida do menino em direção a seu destino, ser um homem da ciência.

O problema com o segurança de Sawyer acaba por promover uma reunião com todos o povo do futuro. Um grupo com Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Hugo e Jin decide vazar da Dharma e voltar a viver na floresta, enquanto um grupo com Jack, Kate e Daniel vai atrás de Eloise, que nessa época é uma dos Outros. Acontece que na saída do grupo de Jack, Radzinsky acaba interceptando o grupo e uma troca de tiros rola na oficina, eles conseguem escapar e chegar até o acampamento dos Outros, mas com o alarme acionado o grupo de Sawyer acaba tendo a fuga atrapalhada e só piora com a descoberta de Radzinsky que Phil, o segurança, está trancado no armário.

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Lost – Season 5, Episode 13: Some Like It Hoth – 2009

Direção: Jack Bender

Roteiro: Melinda Hsu, Greggory Nations

Elenco: Ken Leung, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Evangeline Lilly, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lange, Doug Hutchison, Jon Gries, Marsha Thomason, François Chau, Jeremy Davies

A bola da vez agora é Miles e seu dom de conversar com os mortos. Miles desenvolveu seu dom desde cedo e mesmo sem saber o porque de possuir essa capacidade, começou a ganhar grana com isso, fazendo pequenos trabalhos com pessoas que desejavam falam com parentes mortos. Esse dom foi o que levou o cara a ser recrutado por Charles Widmore e parar na ilha.

Depois de ser contactado por Sawyer para apagar umas fitas da vigilancia, em que ele e Kate aparecem atravessando a cerca elétrica para levar Ben aos Outros, Miles quase morre do coração com a chegada de Horace na sala de segurança. Horace tem uma missão para Miles, ir até o setor 3-3-4 levando um pacote, pegar esse pacote e depois levar para outro lugar. Acontece que o pacote é um cara que morreu após um acidente em uma das construções da Dharma, Miles acaba sabendo de como foi a morte usando seu dom.

A casa está caindo para o lado de Sawyer e companhia, o sumiço de Ben já foi notado e um dos seguranças acaba vendo a fita com Sawyer e Kate atravessando a cerca com o garoto. Como todo bom homem resolvendo uma situação de perigo, Sawyer mete um murro na cara do indivíduo pra depois pensar no que fazer.

E no finalzinho do episódio quem aparece?? O cientista maluco Daniel Faraday!!

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