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A priest showed up at our door today. Here's the 'storified' version of what happened.
Heard someone knocking gently on the door. I turned the volume down a bit, and rushed to see who's disturbing my moment with Said's Culture and Imperialism, and Metallica covering Deep Purple's When a Blind Man Cries.
A tall, 6 foot something, priest was at the door holding a couple of pamphlets; a schoolboy was with him, dressed up and impatient.
'Yes', I said, holding the door half open. It was a confusing visit.
'Hello, sir. We represent the Church of XXXX which is on XXXX street. Do you have a minute?', the immaculate, bald priest asked.
'Have you seen our pamphlets? We have a wide range of them, in 98 different languages. They help a lot if you're in trouble, in debt, or if you just need help regarding your baby.'
'No, I have not', I said. I was shocked; 'how the hell do they know I have a baby' I thought. 'So now they are in the loan business and smooth immigration? In return of what…? Recruitment?' I thought. Even the thought of that was ludicrous.
'May I ask you what religion you follow?'
Boom! That was it; no more Mr. nice guy. You've released the green monster [nope not the Kraken; not this time].
'The Church of the flying Lasagna the Spirit' I said, looking straight into his eyes.
'Pardon me?'
'None of the above; I follow none.'
'Bless you, then. So may I leave these pamphlets with you?'
'Hah! Did he just bless me? Now, this is hilarious', I thought. I couldn't hold it any more. I was about to laugh my head off. So I thought I should end this weird, unwelcome visit soon lest I ruin everyone's day.
'Sure. So if I need a loan or something I can come to you, am I correct?' I said.
'Of course; we have meetings on Sundays. Alright now. Thank you very much and have a good day, sir.'
'Yeah, you too.'
They opened the front door and left the building. Suddenly I realized I'd forgotten something. I wanted to open the door and shout: "Run, little boy. Run for your life!"
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June 03, 2014
The Harrison County Board of Commissioners Monday morning discussed and reviewed the new personnel policy which will go into effect July 1.
A meeting with all county department heads will take place tomorrow (Thursday) at 9 a.m. at the Government Center to update everyone about the changes, such as the removal of the exemptions — the sheriff and coroner — from the nepotism laws. The previous board of commissioners put the exemptions in because it was often customary for the wife of the sheriff or coroner to work under her husband, as either the jail matron or the coroner's secretary/assistant. The current sheriff, Rodney (Rod) Seelye, replaced the matron position altogether to add a part-time investigative officer.
Last year, the board approved an annual independent contract for coroner Rusty Sizemore's wife as an office assistant.
The previous board of commissioners approved a nepotism ordinance in 2012 to fall in line with state guidelines that restrict local officials from hiring or promoting family members or relatives.
The ordinance and state law specifies that relatives may not be employed by the county in positions that result in one relative being in the direct line of supervision of the other relative.
The law applies to all county entities, including townships and fire departments.
Then-Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the law that prohibits local officeholders from hiring relatives or from having public contracts with them without making certain disclosures. The law also prohibits public employees from holding any office that controls money or policies that might benefit them. Under that provision, those employees couldn't run for re-election but they could keep their current position.
The law defines a relative to include a spouse, parent or step-parent, a child or stepchild, a brother, sister, stepbrother or stepsister, a niece or nephew, aunt or uncle, daughter-in-law or son-in-law, adopted child and a half brother or half sister.
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A number of county department heads or elected officials have turned in the necessary paperwork to allow relatives to continue to work for them.
The law does not ban relatives from working with one another, but no one can directly supervise a relative.
In other business Monday, the board voted to change the water treatment method in county buildings in the hopes of cutting costs. The approved Freije treatment no-salt system will cost $39,500, which could be made up in three years, according Dean T. Freije, chief sales officer.
Currently, all of the domestic water is being treated with salt softeners except for the courthouse. The salt softeners require salt to operate as well as ongoing maintenance. The county spends approximately $11,000 per year on salt, Danny Spencer, maintenance director said, mainly at the Justice Center where 40 to 50 bags of salt are needed each month.
Frejie, who examined the county's system with Spencer with the approval of the commissioners, said the water heaters, boilers, piping, pumps, plumbing fixtures, mixing vales and other water handling equipment are experiencing the build up of scale.
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Lord, You send a blanket of love, like new-fallen snow, to cover my life parched with sin. As time goes by, You melt each flake, never stopping to look underneath the covers. Soon blossoms appear where nothing grew before, as You replace the desert with springtime. You are my covering, Lord.
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Tired of the LeBron James rumors yet? Remember Michael Jordan? I know I never remembered any free agency rumors. Forget social media. What do you hear about him now? Every day this free agency period passes, I gain more respect for Jordan. I want everyone to take a look at the two pictures. A long look. Look at LeBron James, a dude that is looking for the exit. Then look at Michael Jordan, just as cool as a fan. Not pressed, just handling business in his own time and on his own terms. Just like a grown man. Two different eras, two different times, two ways of doing business.
Another day in the NBA has passed and another day LeBron James has not made a decision on where he is going to play next year. July 8th, 2014 marked four years to the date that LeBron James announced on live television that he was going to take his talents to South Beach to play for the Miami Heat. Then we had to deal with the parade. Then that infamous rant…
…not two, not three, not four, five…
Oh, do we really have to go through that mess again? You don't want to read that mess no more than I want to write it. But LeBron wants to go through this mess all over again four years later.
You know I'm going to start a trend here. Apologies to Will Smith but I'm going to call LeBron James the Fresh Prince. Look Will, you've outgrown the moniker, it's time to give it to someone a little younger…acting.
Why am I calling James this. Remember the open to the show "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air?" There's a line that applies to LeBron every time thing get a little rough. The line is…
…I got in one little fight and my mom got scared…
Only he's not moving to his Aunt Vivian's and Uncle Phil's crib in Bel Air.
He's just moving to another franchise where there is more talent to back him up and bail him out when things get tough.
Instead of one little fight, Lebron got in two fights. One was back in 2010 when the Boston Celtics slapped his Cleveland Cavaliers around in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Can't remember that one? How about a month back when the San Antonio Spurs laid his team down and tucked their title hopes to bed.
Now LeBron James is "allegedly" going to meet with Pat Riley this week to discuss his future with the Miami Heat. I say allegedly because who knows and really at this point who really cares? I know one player who looks more and more like an NBA icon the longer this mess goes on…
Michael Jordan.
This never happened when G.O.A.T. played. Sure, he shocked the Bulls fans back in 1993 after the three-peat when he went to play baseball. That was different, he lost his passion to play basketball and wanted to honor his father and fulfill a promise. No problems with that.
Even when Jordan came back with the Wizards because he missed the game of basketball, he would have never put on a ridiculous spectacle like the "Fresh Prince" is doing right now.
Let's be clear on something, Pippen Peoples, NBA fans, new readers to Pippen Ain't Easy, little children, dogs and cats…
LeBron James is doing all of this on purpose to get some attention.
There I said it. LeBron knows free agency will not really start until he and Carmelo Anthony make their respective decisions. What's even more ridiculous about this situation is it's like watching two divas show up to a party four hours late and gets mad at the people who left.
Everyone remembers LeBron James taking off his jersey in his last game with the Cavaliers. Michael Jordan untucked his jersey in his last playoff loss. What did he do? He got in a weight room. He got stronger. He got better (if that was possible) and took down the Pistons and went on to win his first world title. He didn't run after a spanking.
You know Boston beat his teams too, LeBron. But Jordan stayed.
The Detroit Pistons beat him three times before he got through. Jordan didn't run to New York to play with Patrick Ewing. As a Knick fan, that would have been cool. But I digress.
Michael Jordan had tough negotiations with the Chicago Bulls, but we all knew, Michael Jordan was going nowhere. He wasn't going to leave and the Bulls were not going to let him leave and deal with Bulls fans turning in their season tickets. The Bulls front office weren't that stupid. Fact of the matter is Michael Jordan really didn't start getting real money until 1996. Take a look at his salary throughout his career according to spotrac.com
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Michael Jordan signed a seven-year $6.3 million dollar contract with the Chicago Bulls.
September 20, 1988
Renegotiated a contract with Chicago. Signed an eight year $25.7 million dollar contract.
Notice the money here. I'm going to go out on a limb a say he was worth more money than these two contracts. He knew that the Bulls needed money to build a team around him. He didn't start getting money until the end.
July 23, 1996
Michael Jordan signed a one year $30.14 million dollar contract.
October 10, 1997
Michael Jordan signed a one year $33.14 million dollar contract.
Now finally, take a look at the money the Washington Wizards paid him…
September 28,2001
Michael Jordan signed a two year 2.03 million dollar contact.
Umm, that's the league minimum. You see Jordan never made a spectacle of the free agency process. Furthermore, he always played on his terms. He never would have joined forces with Larry Bird, Magic Johnson or GOD FORBID Isiah Thomas. He wanted to beat them, not join forces. He even said so back in 2010.
If the Fresh Prince of South Beach leaves Miami. Let's start looking at knocking him out of the top ten players of all time. Then after that go on YouTube and watch old clips of the 1980s and 90s because that's basically where the competitive basketball has gone.
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Big win for the "golden age of SEO". By which I'm referring to roughly 2001-2008 when "demand" for content (people typing in search queries) far outpaced supply (good content). Companies like Yelp and TripAdvisor (along with Wikipedia, IMDB, etc) grew huge during this period, almost entirely through SEO. They did this by getting highly defensible flywheels spinning where more content meant more SEO which meant more users which meant more content. It is now far more difficult to grow a startup primarily through SEO. Almost all monetizable search categories have vast excesses of SEOd content. Moreover, Google is creating their own content (e.g. Google Places) which, at least at times, they have favored in their search results. - @cdixon
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."


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Windows 3.1 / Windows 3.11 / Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Tips
SVGA driver
The included Super VGA drivers with Windows 3.1x don't work on modern hardware. They are not VESA compatible for some odd reason. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 includes a "svga256.drv" that is used for the Super VGA 256-color modes. This must be patched to work with modern video cards. Here is the driver file for Wfw 3.11 users - replace your existing \windows\system\svga256.drv with it. If you have Windows (not Workgroups) 3.1/3.11, you can download the entire driver in standalone format (install it as an unlisted adapter). Then go to "Windows Setup" in the Main group and choose Options, Change System Settings. Select one of the modes identified with "Super VGA" and "256 colors". If one doesn't seem to work, try restarting (sometimes when messing with video modes, previous errors can interfere with what might be a perfectly functional configuration).
3Com 3C589 PCMCIA adapter
3Com supplies a NDIS2 driver on their second driver disk, available here. That is a self-extracting exe file. To install in Windows for Workgroups, go to the Network group in Program Manager and open Network Setup.
You want to click "Networks" and choose "Install Microsoft Windows Network". Then back on that "Network Setup" window, click "Drivers" and "Add Adapter". You will want to enter the location of the OEMSETUP.INF file, which is in the IBM_40 folder under where you extracted 3c589x_2.exe. If you are using a computer with a 500 MHz or faster processor, please see the file list at the end of this section for an important file.
Now we'll install TCP/IP. Download it from the file list at the end of this section. It is also a self-extracting EXE and will create a "tcp" folder under where you extracted it. Click "Add Protocol" in Network Setup and specify the path to the OEMSETUP.INF file in that tcp folder. When you are done, you can configure the TCP/IP settings by clicking on "Microsoft TCP/IP-32 3.11b" and choosing the "Setup" button. Be sure to click on TCP/IP and choose "Set As Default Protocol" as well. For most modern networks you will want TCP/IP and NetBEUI only.
Now there are some other issues. Make sure "C:\WINDOWS\net start" is in your autoexec.bat file (the network setup should have done this automatically). If you are using EMM386.EXE, you will want to edit the DEVICE= line in your config.sys and pass x=d000-dfff. Something like "DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE x=d000-dfff noems". If you do not do this, you will find that the computer will freeze when it tries to find the PCMCIA network card. Also, there will be a file in the WINDOWS directory called PROTOCOL.INI. There is an [ELPC3] line. Under that, you can specify options such as which slot your network adapter is in. The default is SLOT=1. If you find that it's not detecting the card (you will see the output from the 'net start' in the autoexec file when you reboot), try swapping slots, either physically or change SLOT=1 to SLOT=2. If you get a message about no card services detected and it prompts you to press a key, you can remove that by adding a line: "PCMCIA_ENABLER=YES" under that [ELPC3] section. The 3Com drivers contain a "point enabler", that is you shouldn't need any card or socket services (cardware, cardsoft, phoenix manager, et cetera).
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|Nothing short of obsessed with this series. I had been meaning to watch it for ages and ended up watching it over 2 days. All the clones are different and I love them all(actually forgot they were the same actress!)
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HARDIN CO., Ky. (WHAS11) -- Kentucky State police continued their search on Saturday for two inmates who they say escaped through a hole in the fence just outside the Hardin County, Ky. minimum security facility on Friday.
Around 3 a.m. Friday, May 18, an officer was getting inmates ready for work crew, when he noticed Brandon Board,21, was missing. The center immediately did an inmate count and found Vance Tate, 37, was missing as well.
The two inmates were in a minimum security building. "These cell doors are not locked. These inmates have free will of inside the building," said Jailer Dan Allen.
Board had been in jail since Sept. 2011 for parole violation. He was originally charged with burglary in the third degree, assault and avoiding police. Board is a white male approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 185 lbs. He has brown hair, blue eyes and has a tattoo on his left forearm.
Tate had been in jail since March 2011 for parole violation. He was originally charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. Tate is a white male approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 135 lbs. He has brown hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these two men are encouraged to contact their local law enforcement agency or the nearest KSP Post.
A similar escape involving two other inmates happened at the Hardin County Detention Center six months ago when they walked out of the jail and dug a hole under a fence. Allen says this latest escape has promoted tighter security at the facility. "We've decided to kind of change this from a minimum security building this is going to be more of a maximum security. We're installing a fence," said Allen.


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Kyle wrote an answer about Electric EG2 Lens on December 18, 2012
Typically any lens with a "chrome" finish to it will have the "mirrored" finish. (A reflective appearance to the exterior of the lens).
So yellow silver chrome would be a yellow lens. But when you stare at it on a sunny day, you'll see a reflection from the lens


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The National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) is Wadhwani Foundation's flagship initiative in India. It was established in 2003 with a mission to create and support high growth entrepreneurs, driving job-creation and economic growth in India. Co-founded by IIT-Bombay, IIM-Ahmedabad, BITS-Pilani, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research-Mumbai and Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology –Bangalore, NEN is primarily supported by the Wadhwani Foundation. Today, NEN is India's largest and most dynamic community of new and future high-growth entrepreneurs, with over 70,000 members in 30 cities and 470 top-tier academic institutes in India as partners. It provides support to start-ups and early-stage entrepreneurs through:
- High-impact entrepreneurship education
- Access to mentors, experts and advanced pedagogy
- Fast-track access to incubation
- Funding learning tools and materials
NEN is playing a key role in developing a vibrant entrepreneurship eco-system in the country by building institutional capacity and inspiring, educating & supporting high potential entrepreneurs to create high-value jobs.
NEN represents Asia's largest and most dynamic community of young and future entrepreneurs.
For more details, visit: www.nenonline.org
The economic greatness of a country is fueled by the strength and vitality of its entrepreneurs.
Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, Founder & Chairman, Wadhwani Foundation
Dr. Romesh Wadhwani on NEN, its objectives and impact
NEN's model for advancing entrepreneurship rests firmly on its partnership approach, making it both scalable and effective. Rather than deliver support directly, NEN partners with academic institutes to help them build an effective and a vibrant entrepreneurship eco-system on campus to develop and support entrepreneurs. Institutes that NEN partners with are those that are already motivated to provide entrepreneurship programmes to their students and who appreciate the investment NEN makes towards enhancing their ability to do so.
In addition, NEN uses a group-purchasing model to aggregate support for institutes, members and entrepreneurs. Support includes a bank of volunteers for speaking and mentoring opportunities; corporations eager to support innovation; fast-track access to funding and incubation; learning tools and materials.
NEN builds the entrepreneurial eco-system in 2 specific ways:
- Build capacity for 'creating' new entrepreneurs – get students inspired, impart knowledge, develop skills and build networks to enable them to pursue entrepreneurial careers.
- Build / strengthen eco-system for 'supporting' existing start-ups – increase their access to experts who can provide relevant, high quality knowledge & skill-building programs, mentoring & networks for funding and hiring.
At the heart of NEN lies:
- Know-how & content
- Resource experts – educators & mentors
- Programmatic infrastructure
India needs to generate more than 10 million jobs a year for the next decade if we are to truly tap into the demographic dividend. These jobs are most likely to get created by high potential start-ups capable of fast growth.
Dr. Ajay Kela, President & CEO, Wadhwani Foundation
Entrepreneur support
NEN has demonstrated spectacular success in creating institutional capacity in the educational eco-system by developing entrepreneurs and job-creators, alongside of job-seekers. Building on this strong platform, NEN is now extending its value propositions to early and early-growth stage entrepreneurs. This 'Entrepreneur Support' service is in keeping with NEN's role in developing sustainable institutional capacity & scalable models for entrepreneur creation and support.
Accordingly, we consolidate best practices alongside of providing services to entrepreneurs. 'Entrepreneur Support' services encompass knowledge and skill-building services, and personalised support such as 'Mentoring'. These services are provided both face-to-face and via online modules. NEN currently offers the following services for entrepreneurs:
- Training & skill-building workshops
- Mentoring services
- Online mentor clinics
- Webinars
- Online library of short videos
NEN works very closely with entrepreneur educators, start-up coaches and mentors. We believe that these educators, coaches and mentors are key to the delivery of entrepreneur support services. Substantial investments are made in delivering tools, frameworks and conceptual models to this community. Our scale-up models are based on 'enabling the enablers'.
Thus, we offer online content as a more efficient and accessible means to deliver knowledge and skills and to supplement and complement our workshop series. These programmes also ensure that entrepreneurs can be ready for mentoring – saving mentor time and increasing the efficiency and success rate of the mentoring programme.
NEN entrepreneur support programmes are continuously reviewed, refreshed and guided by the active participation of our Educator Panel and Mentor Panel – which are made of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship practitioners. This ensures that our content and methodologies remain fresh and relevant.
In the initial phase of NEN Entrepreneur Support – we will seek to identify best practices in mentoring and entrepreneurship skill development. Through partnership with our sponsors – such as SAP, IBM and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), we are piloting various support models and consolidating the insights gained.
Thus, NEN Entrepreneur Support is engaged in action research in entrepreneurship support services.
Mentor Platform
The mentor platform provides aspiring, early and growing entrepreneurs with mentoring help from established entrepreneurs, professionals and investors, enabling them to take their ventures to the next level through varied offerings. NEN plays the critical role of understanding the entrepreneur need and matching it with a suitable expert. NEN as a neutral, not-for-profit organization has been playing the role of a trusted advisor in the entrepreneurial eco-system for almost a decade.
Mentoring Formats
Some of the major formats of mentoring @ NEN are:
Mentoring Connect
One-on-one face time meeting sessions with industry leaders and domain experts as mentors. The mentees in the program get a chance to spar their ideas with these professionals. It helps them clear a lot of issues and gets them to focus on the immediate task on hand.
Mentoring Clinic
As part of our ongoing Entrepreneur Support program, NEN has launched online mentoring clinics to help early and growth stage entrepreneurs. The mentoring clinics are intense, hands-on and are personalized. The format has two entrepreneurs presenting their business, to three expert panelists, usually experienced entrepreneurs and investors in their domain. The format allows in-depth discussion of specific issues that the participating entrepreneurs face.
SAP Emerging Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program : A brief overview
NEN and SAP have partnered in a mentoring program aimed to create large number of high value jobs in India by developing and supporting high-potential entrepreneurs. As a first step, this program has created a core set of skilled mentors towards strengthening the entrepreneurial eco-system in India. The program builds on NEN's proven capability of mentor development and SAP's demonstrated support of CSR activities and lays the groundwork for a deeper engagement between the two organizations.
Mentoring Support for TFD
'TATA First Dot, powered by NEN' is India's first national mentoring and recognition platform for student start-ups. A unique initiative that promotes, mentors and showcases India's most dynamic and young entrepreneurs.
NEN mentor platform connects the student start-ups to expert mentors for a structured 120 day mentoring program, during which the mentor systematically supports the entrepreneur in overcoming growth challenges.
Criteria for Identifying and matching mentors to mentees
- Preferably based in the same city
- Stage of mentees' venture/business – ideation/prototype/startup/growth
- Generally for students in ideation stage, we connect them to our faculty mentors based in the same city
- The more mature the mentee is (in terms of stage of venture), mentor needs to more experienced/established
Mentors' profile
- Need to be established entrepreneurs/investors – at least 8 to 10 years industry experience
- Need not be great speakers/orators
- Need to have the right attitude and patience to listen and guide mentees
One-off connects
- Some entrepreneurs/aspiring entrepreneurs write/call us directly & sometimes consultants connect them to us. First step is to get them to fill in the 'mentor request form'
- Based on criteria mentioned above, shortlist 2 or 3 mentors; approach the mentor first and check their interest in mentoring the entrepreneur giving a brief background of the entrepreneur/mentee. If the mentor is unavailable or not interested, approach 2nd or 3rd shortlisted mentor
- If the mentor is okay to mentor, make an email connect introducing mentor and mentee, sharing contact information of both
NEN-SAP Emerging Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program (EEMP)
Programme Information
National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) and global software services leader SAP have entered into a partnership with the objective to create large number of high value jobs in India by creating and supporting high-potential entrepreneurs.
The partnership delivers three programmes:
- Mentoring support to emerging entrepreneurs via a nationwide platform of NEN-trained business mentors
- Specific 1-1 coaching and technical and strategic advice for a select set of high-growth entrepreneurs, by SAP leaders
- A volunteering programme for SAP employees
Mentor Development
Over 10 years of working in the entrepreneurial space, NEN has identified some of the critical requirements for enabling effective mentoring programmes for entrepreneurs. Appropriate training and follow-up are seen to have a positive influence on the skill, ability and effectiveness of mentors.
The process of mentor development starts with identifying high-potential individuals with defined behavioural traits and experiences and facilitating effective direct learning experiences to enable the development & practice of required skills.
Mentor profile and selection criteria
Mentor participants to the program are seasoned entrepreneurs, professionals, entrepreneurship faculty and investors.
Mentors may also include:
- Entrepreneur consultants who are working with full-fledged entrepreneurs
- Those with demonstrated ability in advancing entrepreneurship among students, in an academic environment where entrepreneurship has been firmly established as an alternative to conventional careers
Profile of the Mentees
In line with the defined target group for this programme, mentees are likely to be educated, and starting or operating high potential businesses. These entrepreneurs maybe at seed, start-up or growth stage.
In addition, the mentees satisfy the following requirements: making profits, scalable by technology and serving unserved/underserved market.
Invitation-based selection process
Making sure the entrepreneurs/mentees are assigned to appropriate mentors based on their industry and challenges is a critical part of the support provided by NEN. NEN Trust team members spend considerable amount of time helping entrepreneurs articulate the specific challenges they face and subsequently match them with appropriate mentors with either problem-specific or domain specific experience and expertise.
Impact Measurement
Following up each mentoring assignment with structured feedback forms, and addressing concerns of both mentors and mentees in the position of a neutral facilitator is an important part of the service that NEN provides. NEN is in regular touch with both the Mentor and the mentee in a transparent and arms-length manner.
FAQ's on EEMP
This program mainly targets growth stage entrepreneurs who are serving an underserved market and have earned sizeable revenue through their venture. Also, their venture should be technologically scalable. However, NEN maintains a level of tolerance in these criteria and encourages entrepreneurs to apply for this program.
Mentors in the program are seasoned entrepreneurs, industry professionals, entrepreneurship faculty and investors with an average of about 18 years of experience in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Additional criteria for selection includes:-
- Entrepreneur consultants who are working with full-fledged entrepreneurs
- Have the right attitude and commitment to mentor entrepreneurs
For Faculty members
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with entrepreneurial students, and/or are running entrepreneurship programs/courses on campus (may or may not already have started working with entrepreneurs directly)
- Highly motivated to mentor and run courses for entrepreneurs
- Have support of their Institution to work with entrepreneurs
NEN is a not-for-profit organization, and as such we expect no payment from your side, monetary or otherwise. The mentors enrolled under this program are doing it on a pro-bono basis.
NEN runs a matching process based on certain criteria including location, type of industry and key challenges being faced, as shared by the mentee. The mentor is selected from a rich pool of seasoned entrepreneurs, professionals and faculty members. These matches have been highly commended by previous SAP mentees. In the case of a mismatch, as experienced by mentor or mentee, NEN will intervene to find a better fit.
NEN takes monthly feedback from mentees and mentors, on their progress. If you are not satisfied for some reason with the mentor assigned to you, you can mention so in the feedback, along with the reason. NEN will seek to establish the underlying issue and take the necessary steps to arrange an alternative fit.
Feedback is expected at least once a month, so as to know if the mentoring process is going on smoothly and if any immediate progress in your venture is seen.
We suggest you met your mentor face to face for the first time. This will help break ice and know each other better. After that, you can communicate with each other through any medium as agreed between you two.
Your mentor is not mandated to help you raise fund or find you customers. Rather he will work with you and enable you with all necessary skills, so that you are geared up to do these on your own. However there are no constraints, if your mentor agrees to help you raise funds, gets customers or agrees to help you in any other way.
There is no cutoff date to enroll for this program, however we can accommodate a limited number of entrepreneurs, registration is on first come first serve basis and meeting the eligibility criteria for the program.
You should connect with your mentor at-least twice in a month to report back on the progress made by you in the venture. You may also connect with your mentor more than twice, if your mentor agrees to it.
For more information on EEMP, please contact
The Entrepreneur Academy (www.nenonline.tv) is an initiative of Wadhwani Foundation and National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). The Academy offers video lessons from seasoned entrepreneurs built around topics based on the life-cycle of a venture.
Entrepreneur Academy helps start-ups to grow with lessons from experienced entrepreneurs, angels, VCs and mentors. A key element of the academy is video component, where we hope to educate and also inspire. While the Academy and our blog carry inspirational video pieces, our core focus is to help impact specific skills and knowledge.
This falls into two categories:
Courses: Consist of content that NEN already offers as offline workshops. The content has been optimized for online consumption by converting them into short video capsules. A typical video capsule is 5-7 minutes long while a course consists of such multiples capsules. Some examples are:
- Identifying a new business idea
- Launching a winning product
- Financial management for start-ups
Short Videos: These short videos provide answers to specific questions that entrepreneurs have & enable entrepreneurs to leverage expertise available in the community and not to re-invent the wheel. Some examples are:
- How to build the right culture at your start-up?
- How to hire for your start-up?
- Five things investors look for in a start-up
The Academy currently has 10,000+ subscribers and hosts about 100+ short videos, 8 courses and a number of articles enabling self-driven entrepreneur education and expert interactions.
The NEN Entrepreneur Workshops are designed to cover the key business concepts of the venture life cycle. The programs are in-depth 1 or 2 day workshops led by entrepreneurship educators and industry experts, with world class content on topics especially designed for practicing entrepreneurs. These are extremely hands-on and framework based so that entrepreneurs can easily apply them to their businesses.
These workshops are designed with four fundamental ingredients to ensure effectiveness and these are:
- Conceptual framework and knowledge provided by the NEN entrepreneurship educator
- Information on specific issues and varied insights shared by industry experts & experienced practitioners
- Informative and inspirational talk by seasoned entrepreneurs
- Networking with peers
Some samples include:
- Tools for growing business
- Understanding and developing Business Model
- Getting to Market, acquiring customers
- Raising money
- Managing cash for growth
- Key legal procedures for start-ups
- Brand building for start-ups
Webinars are run for one hour every alternate Wednesday from 3 pm – 4 pm. They are led by established entrepreneurs industry experts. The webinar topics cover different aspects of venture, issues and current trends. It has proved to be extremely effective as participating entrepreneurs around the world can get their queries answered by renowned experts. Few of the topics covered are on starting up, finance, marketing, teams, strategy and growth.
Some samples include:
- Raising money for start-ups: Insights from angels
- Social Media marketing
- How to distribute equity between co-founders
- Raising the first round of venture capital investment
- Key legal and regulatory procedures for starting up in India
- Building an A team
- 5 essential things to know before starting up
The Women Entrepreneur Development Program, "Dream to Destination" aims at helping women entrepreneurs achieve their business goals, especially in terms of fundability, scalability and revenue growth.
Program Scope
Needs & Potential Assessment (NAPA): NEN will organize mentoring-cum-workshops (mentor-shops) for women entrepreneurs at different cities across India. The mentor-shops will equip them with tools to grow their businesses and assess their needs and then draw up a development plan for each. Entrepreneurs whose growth goals fall into the three categories of revenue growth, scalabilty & fundability, will be shortlisted for more detailed support.
Customised Development Program (CDP): NEN mentors & educators will support the entrepreneurs to develop tailored programs that fit their needs and potential for scale-up.
Focused preparation: Individual entrepreneurs will be staged through the final steps of their development program.
Culmination: Entrepreneurs will be assisted to achieve their key milestones.
Participants' Eligibility Profile
In Business: Women entrepreneur in business i.e. practicing entrepreneur and NOT in aspiring or ideation stage.
Women Owned: The venture has to be legally owned and run by the women entrepreneur. They may have partners. Read more…
Applicants will be selected on the basis of best fit with the programme objectives of delivering growth to women entrepreneurs. While all efforts will be made to enable the entrepreneur to grow, there is no assurance that desired growth will be achieved, as it is dependent upon many factors. This programme seeks to identify the growth enablers.
Program schedule
Jan 2014 to Oct 2014
Workshop location and dates
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Exact dates to be confirmed. Locations may change subject to availability of suitable candidates.
RegisterLast date for registration: January 31, 2014
Workshop facilitators:
Nitin Mukadam
Akhil Shahani
Radhika Meenakshi
Anil Paranjape
Raj Shankar
Eco-system Partners
This program is subsidised by The Wadhwani Foundation and ANDE (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs) and is brought to you by NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network).
Institutional Capacity Programs
NEN trains and certifies faculty to produce entrepreneurship educators & mentors who can design and run high-impact entrepreneurship programs on campus. As part of institution capacity building, institutional infrastructure like e-cells, campus companies, innovation centers and incubators are developed. It includes a Resource Bureau comprising experienced volunteers of more than 3000 entrepreneurs, professional experts, angels and venture capitalists. In addition, NEN facilitates an on-ground consulting practice and more importantly training the faculty through the NEN Faculty Development Courses to equip them with practice-oriented methods of teaching.
People Capacity
NEN offers a range of faculty development programs to build a result-oriented entrepreneurial eco-system on campus. Courses offered range from essentials like practice-teaching to advanced topics such as building organizations, raising capital, go to market, mentor development and high-impact infrastructure design.
NEN's Mentor Platform enables structured mentoring in a variety of formats (suite of offline and online programs) with experienced entrepreneurs, mentors and professionals. This includes skilled matching of wide variety of coaches, incubators, entrepreneurs, faculty in NEN network, mentors and other domain experts with the needs of entrepreneurs. A tracking system is also in place reporting on-ground successes.
Programme Capacity
NEN is building relevant entrepreneurship teaching content for India and other emerging markets. NEN Press actively sources high-quality entrepreneurship teaching content and reviews, edits & packages the material for entrepreneurship programme organizers and new entrepreneurs. These courses are designed and delivered by leading international and Indian faculty in entrepreneurship, including from IIT Kanpur, IIM Calcutta, Stanford's STVP, London Business School, NEN and Columbia University. NEN Press makes the material available through CDs and NEN Online. CDs of the newest entrepreneurship teaching tools and content is peer-reviewed and tailored to the Indian context.
It is an experiential learning program (in the form of enterprises) run by students within academic institutions. The program is aimed at providing students with knowledge of enterprise building gained from first-hand experience of ideating, planning, setting up and running a business. These students are mentored by faculty and entrepreneurs and are witness to the benefits such as:
- Knowledge, skills and practical experience in starting & running an enterprise
- Practicing setting up a venture with limited risks in a protected environment
- Increased confidence levels, facilitating independent ventures soon after graduation
- Highly effective & experiential pedagogy on campuses that support entrepreneurship
- Interaction with industry, integrated into classroom learning platforms, enhancing entrepreneurship knowledge of faculty members
- Probability of turning a college lab research into a practical application that benefits other businesses
- Better research mindset and a confidence booster to students
NEN E Leader programme offers leadership workshops, programmes, events and recognition to students heading campus-based entrepreneurship cells. NEN E Cell Workshops, held regularly for new batches of e-cell coordinators and their Faculty Advisors, help connect students from different institutes; introduce them to the ways to organize e-cells while managing events / activities more successfully; and help them understand and use NEN resources effectively.
Targeted at student community at large and student entrepreneurs in particular, NEN runs 'Entrepreneurship Week India', the country's largest & globally one of the biggest entrepreneurship awareness campaigns.
'Tata First Dot' is India's first National mentoring and recognition platform for student start-ups.
Infrastructure Capacity
NEN is networked to a wide variety of coaches, incubators, entrepreneurs, NEN faculty and other domain experts. It has access to 3000+ experts across varied domains. Institute programme organizers can draw on these experts and enlist the help of the NEN team in making the right match for their programmes.
NEN offers its member institutes a guidance to qualify, prepare & apply successfully for funding from government and non-government sources. The All India Council for Technical Education Entrepreneurship Development Cell (AICTE EDC) program, the Department of Science & Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (DST IEDC) and Incubator programs are examples of such funding sources. For instance, for an IEDC funding application, NEN will help institutes run Innovative Ideas Competition, have the ideas shortlisted by a panel of experts, run a technical entrepreneurship course for projects including industry interaction, patent search workshops and shortlist projects by an expert panel. NEN also enables the creation of effective and relevant project proposals per funder guidelines and the preparation of the final presentation, which is critical to get funding.
Faculty Advisory Board
Faculty Advisory Board (FAB) is an NEN "Knowledge Development" initiative. FAB comprises of some of the experienced & reputed educator and innovation-centric minds to help shape & refine NEN's strategy and build faculty resource & entrepreneurship programs for institutional development. The board members come from founding institutes as also from international institutions and each of them has a long and passionate relationship with NEN.
FAB members meet annually along with the leadership team at NEN to debate the development and outcome of current initiatives as also to strategize and share wisdom on upcoming needs and potential opportunities. This is also an opportunity for FAB members to commit their time and work closely with NEN on important focus areas like Directors' meets, case writing fellowships, incubator support structures & resources, start-up jobs, content design, clustering of institutes around specific programs etc.
Success Stories
NEN represents India's largest and most vibrant entrepreneurial community. The backbone of this community is formed by member academic institutes wherein lie myriad success stories across entrepreneurs, student start-ups/ campus companies and faculty/mentoring platforms.
There are plethora of such success stories. Our attempt is to give you a preview of few of these, across all 3 categories.
Faculty Success Stories Entrepreneur Success Stories Student Success Stories
Student Entrepreneurship
For one week, lakhs of people across the country come together to celebrate Entrepreneurship Week India (E Week India), by far the largest entrepreneurship activity in the country. Designed to build public awareness and support for entrepreneurship, E Week India focuses public attention on today's biggest entrepreneurship opportunities & encourages participants to reflect on their role as leaders and innovators.
E Week India is all about innovation & project driven events like competitions, expositions and educational movie screenings. Entrepreneurship skills are honed by leadership & motivation talks with successful entrepreneurs, panel discussions, business planning insights, skill-building workshops, business and tech bazaars, awareness campaigns & much more. By launching student ventures & campus companies and uniting E Cells across the country, NEN E Week connects lakhs of young students across more than 30 cities.
NEN E Week India 2014 – Highlights
- 1 week, 30 cities, 5000 events, 7 lakh participants
- E Week continues to be the largest awareness campaign in India to create public support for entrepreneurship
- 7 member Institutes in were in different stages of setting up Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) - a big leap for academic institutes
- Over 1071 graduating students & alumni started more than 630 companies
- These new companies created nearly 11,000 jobs
- Over 900 faculty got trained and in turn these faculty supported over 6340 entrepreneurs
- NEN strategic partnerships with global corporates and agencies such as ANDE, GIZ, SAP, IBM and TATA Sons, strengthening our capacity building initiatives in member institutes through mentor development, entrepreneur training & support, and student entrepreneur recognition and showcase
- E week @ School Award (Rs.50/- exercise) covered over 5000 schools with nearly 6 lakh students participating
- NEN-EDII Launchpad competition on Innovation saw more than 300 entries
- NEN E Week India 2014 is significant in terms of a shift from centralized NEN trust activation for a multi-regional format with 4 regional finals being held simultaneously in Jaipur, Indore, Calcutta and Coimbatore – signifying a maturity in the network to be self-sustainable and a paradigm shift from advocacy to impact platform
- NEN E Week India 2014 was the first year where winners were judged based on the whole year's activities rather than just a week's performance
View: NEN E Week India 2014 celebrations @ VIT, Jaipur For more details, visit: www.eweekindia.org
'TATA First Dot, powered by NEN' is India's first national mentoring and recognition platform for student start-ups. A unique initiative that promotes, mentors and showcases India's most dynamic and youngest entrepreneurs, TATA First Dot is run by the collaborative efforts of TATA Group and NEN Trust.The TATA Group's commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship and India's next generation of leaders is well known. 'TATA First Dot, powered by NEN' brings together this commitment and TATA's vast expertise across most industries, with NEN's leadership in entrepreneurship education and support for the youth leaders of the country. 'TATA First Dot, powered by NEN' program has five segments:
- Workshops
- National judges' choice competition
- People's choice competition
- Two-day National conference & awards ceremony
- Mentoring for top 30 finalists
The TATA First Dot workshops are designed to build knowledge of student & aspiring entrepreneurs through:
- Demystifying business models
- Learning to create a business plan
- Understanding business plan templates and choosing the right one
- Gaining insights into investor evaluation of a start-up
TATA First Dot workshop students are shortlisted as per a pre-defined criteria i.e. they should:
- Be running their own ventures or
- Be running campus companies or
- Have strong business ideas/plans & would like to start their ventures
For more details, visit: www.tatafirstdot.com
NEN E Leader Programmes and E Cell WorkshopsNEN E Leader programme offers leadership workshops, programmes, events and recognition to students heading campus-based entrepreneurship cells. NEN E Cell Workshops, held regularly for new batches of e-cell coordinators and their faculty advisors, help connect students from different institutes; introduce them to ways & means of organizing e-cells and providing guidance towards managing events / activities & NEN resources more successfully and effectively.
Resources for Community Members
NEN members can avail an array of resources tailored to support entrepreneurship right from starting of the venture to staying connected and leveraging the power of the entire NEN community – entrepreneurs, experts, faculty leaders, students and professionals.
To make it easier for identifying & accessing resources best suited to a community member, we have categorized them based on your role in the community. Click on the resource link to enrich your entrepreneurship journey:
Over a decade, NEN has successfully created an eco-system that has seen entrepreneurs created, supported and launched. There has been a spurt in activity from first generation entrepreneurs and some innovative start-ups that have emerged as hot businesses today. These start-up ventures have attracted others to take the plunge & starting a new venture. Since 2003, NEN has accomplished the following:
- 325+ entrepreneurs launched
- 3,100 future entrepreneurs created
- 13,900 entrepreneurs supported
- Membership growth:
- 385 NEN member institutes
- 1,000 NEN faculty
- 70,000 NEN member students
This wholesome, high magnitude impact has been the result of sustained efforts year-on-year.
Every year
- 7 lakh participants engage in advocacy activities and National platforms
- 64,000 students from over 400 campuses actively participate in entrepreneurship
- 4,500 entrepreneurs, investors & professionals act as start-up resources
- 1,175 educators support entrepreneurs on campuses & communities
- 200 conferences, courses, workshops & webinars are conducted
In 2012-13
- 5,050 entrepreneurs supported
- 705 new entrepreneurs created
- 500 student start-ups formed
NEN E-Cells
Since 2009, over 400 campuses have had active E Cells, with 80-120 members on an average. Here, between 45,000 − 60,000 students engage in entrepreneurial activities each year representing a rapidly increasing number of NEN graduates who are starting ventures – from technology to communications & healthcare to education. NEN has responded by establishing new programs to directly support these young entrepreneurs. Programs include the NEN E Club which provides networking and skill development support to over 2,200 members in seven cities.
TATA First Dot, powered by NEN
This highly successful programme for 3 consecutive years has established 'Student Entrepreneurs' as a pinnacle of 'Youth Entrepreneurship' in India, created new role models and fostered a culture that encourages & supports student entrepreneurship. Today, 'TATA First Dot, powered by NEN' is seen as a definitive platform for student entrepreneurs in India with a high value proposition and a sticky community that is growing year-on-year. TATA First Dot (2012-13) saw a participation of over 400 student entrepreneurs, over 700 attendees in 15 workshops, 70,000+ direct hits on the website and a congregation of 800 students at the National conference.
For more details, visit: www.tatafirstdot.com
NEN E Week India
E Week's dramatic results in building support for entrepreneurs is encouraging ever increasing participation (of over 6,00,000) with active involvement of more than 30 organizations that support entrepreneurship – corporate entities, industry captains, experts, non-profits & faculty leaders who encourage, guide and inspire students to take action.
With more than 4,000 entrepreneurship activities led by 70,000 E Cell members from over 500 institutes across 30 cities, NEN E Week India is by far the biggest entrepreneurship activity in Asia.
Today, the E Week India Championship Awards given to NEN member academic institutes (E Week@School Award, Nilima Rovshen Creativity and Innovation Award and Most Effective Public Awareness Campaign Award) are most prestigious & sought after. These awards are igniting a competitive spirit towards a stronger, entrepreneurial India.
For more details, visit: www.eweekindia.org
Social Media Reach
NEN's Facebook page (73K+ Likes) and Twitter (2K+ Followers) offer an extensive network of entrepreneurs, educators, faculty, student and industry experts to NEN member institutes for promoting their initiatives and events.


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S.H.I.E.L.D. Dossiers - S01E10: The Bridge
- Written by ThanosCopter on Wednesday, December 11 2013 and posted in Features
For the last ten weeks, S.H.I.E.L.D. Dossiers has been a different sort of look back at Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., one that focuses on the teases and Marvel Easter Eggs found in each episode. If you've been following the column, you know that Easter Eggs and callbacks to the comics have been...scarce.
Going into the show, I knew that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be a different sort of beast from Arrow, the CW show jammed full of little nods to the comics in every single episode (this week's Arrow Annotations column will probably the longest one yet). Joss Whedon himself warned us not to expect many nods to the comics as he tried to build an audience that hadn't necessarily read the comics, or really had any knowledge of the Marvel Universe outside of the Marvel movies.
While I understand Whedon's decision, writing a weekly article about the show's connections to the comics is hard to do when there's often no connections to the comics whatsoever. This week's episode, for instance, didn't scratch the comic universe's surface at all. Seriously, there's not a single comic-related Easter egg to discuss.
That leaves S.H.I.E.L.D. Dossiers at a crossroads. I'd like to keep the column going. It's popular enough, and it's not like I don't enjoy the show. However, I really don't know if people want to listen to me give random thoughts about the show. I'm not a TV writer, and frankly, I'm not sure if I could craft a column enjoyable enough to read that solely focuses on the show. That doesn't mean I won't try though. So here's the first installment of S.H.I.E.L.D. Dossiers 1.5. I hope you enjoy.
Havensworth Prison - We get our first real look at Edison Po, a Centipede operative and their link to the mysterious Clairvoyant. Po's an interesting character. He's certainly bought into the Centipede organization, and I don't think for an instance that he isn't 'evil'. However, there's a sympathetic edge to him too. He warns the prisoner about to sit at his table to move right before Centipede drops in through the ceiling, and it's hinted that he might not have had a choice about the steak knife murder that resulted in his incarceration. It looks like he'll be a recurring character, so I bet we'll see a bit more into his motivations in future episdoes.
Agent Katherine Shane - Skye continues to search for her parents, and is researching Agent Katherine Shane at the beginning of the episode. Like just about everything else in this show, Shane has no connection with the comics, although there's a hint that she might play a larger role in upcoming episodes. We know that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is casting two recurring roles, one of which is a weapons expert. Agent Shane is also a weapons' expert. Coincidence?
Centipede - It's pretty clear that Centipede is more than a dinky criminal organization. Not only did Coulson shut down two of their operations (in "Pilot" and "Girl in the Flower Dress"), but they also seem to be responsible for Akela Amador's kidnapping in "Eye Spy". The real question is who's running the organization. It isn't Raina, it isn't Po, so who could it be? Let's just hope they call themselves something besides Centipede...
Mike Peterson - Mike Peterson is once again at the center of this episode. I like how, despite following similar paths, how much Skye and Peterson contrast with each other. Peterson is trying desperately to atone for his actions in the pilot episode, and seems to have gained S.H.I.E.L.D.'s trust, but not Coulson's team. Meanwhile, Skye has the trust of (most) of the team, but doesn't seem to have progressed nearly as far as Peterson has through the S.H.I.E.L.D. program.
Of course, Peterson also betrays Coulson's team at the end of the episode, just like Skye did in "Girl in the Flower Dress".
Skye - Speaking of Skye, I still feel she's the weak link on the team. Everyone else has pretty defined roles. Ward and May are the muscle, Fitz and Simmons are the tech, but Skye...Skye is really neither. She's got tech abilities, but nothing that Fitz appears to be incapable of, and her Rising Tide resources have been rarely used over the last few weeks.
I'm guessing that Coulson feels bad about Skye's parents, and is using Skye as a way to get May to open up (since it's pretty obvious at this point that she's the agent who dropped Skye off at the orphanage all those years ago). Her secret past is intriguing, but I think it really hampers the plot of other episodes. May seems to agree with me, judging from how she yelled at her this episode.
University of Ohio - There is no University of Ohio, in Cleveland or anywhere else. I guess they didn't want to pay rights to Cleveland State, Ohio University or Ohio State University.
I liked Ward and Coulson's conversation on the way to the university, and we got another mention of Coulson's lady cellist friend. The Ward/May relationship was one of the more unpredictable twists in the show, thus far, and made for a nice bit of drama this episode. Ward has no idea how to handle May, and his attempts to play it cool just pissed her off more this episode, which led to her lashing out at Skye. Ward really is terrible with people, even if he's got a knack for chatting up coeds.
Also, Craig's response to his driving skills (in which he kept turning the wheel while the car was going straight) was pretty funny:
"@jonny_sage: @clarkgregg turning the wheel like that while driving straight is a good way to crash" Lots of chipmunks, dude.
— Clark Gregg (@clarkgregg) December 11, 2013
Brian Hayward - Brian Hayward (the Centipede goon who got his eye kill switch blown) was played by Paul Lacovara, a stunt man with a pretty impressive resume. He was Tom Hiddleston's stunt double in Thor and The Avengers, Tom Mison's stunt double on Sleepy Hollow, and Eric Bana's stunt double in Star Trek.
The Clairvoyant - Still no clue who the Clairvoyant is, but we at least know that he's a he. It also seems likely that he orchestrated the Bridge counterattack, which led to Peterson getting blown up, Coulson captured and Ward shot up. Po also seems to have a...unique relationship with the Clairvoyant, one that Raina is trying to exploit.
The Bridge - I was pretty happy with the way the episode ended, to be honest. While I was expecting a big reveal as to who was behind Centipede, I liked seeing the team taking one on the chin. Peterson got blown to smithereens (he probably survived), Ward got shot (we know he survived) and Coulson's about to find out exactly how he came back to life. Coulson's resurrection has been one of the central mysteries of the show, and I think it could open the door to an area of the Marvel Universe we haven't seen explored.
So do you think the show's gotten better since the pilot? Where do you want to see the show go to the future? Will S.H.I.E.L.D. Dossiers ever get to talk about an easter egg ever again? Answer all these questions below, and we'll see you in January....maybe.
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btw i am intrested in consultancy and wanted to know if accenture dint come this time.. ?
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