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When it comes to winning Academy Awards, it seems the less an actor looks like their usual self, the better their chance of going home with a statue. Throw in some heavy make up and prosthetics and the odds tip even more in their favour.
Of course, not all on-screen transformations lead to awards. We're not sure that Sacha Baron Cohen's latest series Who Is America?, airing now on CraveTV, is going to clean up at the Emmys, but we do know the we're impressed nonetheless with the British comedian's ability to transform on screen. Sometimes we forget that he's actually really good looking.
12 actors who have totally transformed for their roles
CHARLIZE THERON - MONSTERModel turned actor Charlize Theron has altered her body more than once on the big screen. Recently, she gained 40 pounds to play an exhausted mom (so, a mom) in Tully. Before that, Theron won an Oscar for playing Aileen Wuornos, packing on 30 pounds and wearing heavy make up and facial prosthetics to transform into the real-life serial killer.Media 8 Entertainment/Getty
CHRISTIAN BALE – THE MACHINISTOverweight, underweight, and in shape. If there's a body type, Christian Bale has checked it off the list for a film. The English actor gained 42 pounds for American Hustle and ended up herniating a disc in his back due to slouching over to play Irving Rosenfeld. For the Dark Knight trilogy, Bale gained muscle mass for his role as Batman. But no transformation was more shocking than Bale's emaciated Trent Reznik in The Machinist, a character the actor got down to 120 pounds to play.Filmax/Getty
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY – DALLAS BUYERS CLUBMatthew McConaughey said 'alright, alright, alright' to cheeseburgers while putting on 50 pounds for his role in Gold, and 'no, no, no' (not as catchy) to all food to shed 40 pounds for Dallas Buyers Club. Don't feel too bad for the actor. McConaughey took home the statue for Best Actor at the 2014 Academy Awards for Dallas Buyers Club.Truth Entertainment/Getty
MICHAEL KEATON - BEETLEJUICEThree decades later and we're still having trouble remembering that the handsome Batman was also the terrifying Beetlejuice, but that's the power of a really great make-up department.Warner Bros./Getty
ROONEY MARA – THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOOActor Rooney Mara showed the power of a bad haircut for her role as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. With fake facial piercings and jagged black hair, Mara hardly looked like the girl next door character she played in The Social Network and Nightmare on Elm Street.MGM/Getty
50 CENT – THINGS FALL APARTRapper and actor 50 Cent was barely recognizable for his role as cancer patient Mario Van Peebles in the film Things Fall Apart. Not only did the musician go from 214 pounds to 160 pounds for the film, he also had all his arm tattoos removed. Extreme weight loss or ink removal – we wonder which was more painful.Cheetah Vision/Getty
TILDA SWINTON - TRAINWRECKWe got all the way to the end of our first screening of Amy Schumer's 2015 film Trainwreck and thought, wasn't Tilda Swinton supposed to be in this movie? Then we realized she was.Universal Pictures/Getty
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – LINCOLNWe choose Lincoln as Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis' most transformative role, but we could have also said There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York, The Last Of The Mohicans…really, any movie Day-Lewis has ever appeared in.Dreamworks/Getty
ANNE HATHAWAY – LES MISERABLEAnne Hathaway took the title of her 2012 film literally on the set of Les Miserables. Avoiding craft services, Hathaway dropped 25 pounds and shaved her head to play Fantine, winning an Oscar for her hard work.Working Title Films/Getty
BEN KINGSLEY - GANDHISir Ben Kingsley, born Krishna Pandit Bhanji, lost 20 pounds to play historical figure Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 historical drama, which won the Oscar for Best Picture and earned Kingsley the Oscar for Best Actor.Getty
ROBERT DENIRO – RAGING BULLMany actors have packed on pounds or dropped weight for roles, but few have had to do both for one film. Enter Robert DeNiro, the OG of on-screen transformations. For his iconic role as boxer Jake LaMotta, DeNiro had to be in top physical shape for part of the film before gaining 60 pounds to play LaMotta later in life. The yo-yo diet helped earn DeNiro a Best Actor Oscar and a spot in film history.Chartoff-Winkler/Getty
TYLER PERRY - MADEADirector, writer, and actor Tyler Perry has put on the famous mumu to play Madea in more than 10 films, with Tyler Perry's a Madea Family Funeral set to arrive in 2019. Is he a master at transforming into the no-nonsense, hard-hitting Madea? Um, helluuuur! Yes.TIK Films/Getty


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DVD duplication refers to the process of developing one or many DVDs out of an existing recordable DVD. It is an act by which optical media is recreated through the procedure of copying. Widespread piracy which prevailed in the audio video market has been removed to a great extent, through the birth of legalized DVD or CD duplication business.
Benefits of DVD duplication
DVD duplication assists one to copy his favorite motion picture or tunes, and distribute them among close family members and good friends. It is a more affordable and hassle-free method of keeping the memories related to a wedding, birthday or any other special celebration, and likewise giving them to buddies and loved ones. DVD duplication is usually done in small quantities. If one remains in business of producing music and video items, and likewise is desirous of reaching out to customers fast, DVD duplication is the response.
What is the procedure associated with DVD duplication?
In this process, normally small quantities of DVDs are produced. First of all, the burners are loaded with the DVD media. The details is extracted from the original or master source digitally, and is moved to a blank disc. The data offered is cross confirmed, and the disc either accepts the copied variation or declines it.
DVD duplication or replication?
DVD duplication service involves saving of time and loan. However, the process is best done taking the aid of professionals, who do an excellent task of making duplicates. One can set about doing the entire process in the house all by oneself, if the quantity needed is less. However he must go to a professional or professional if the needed amount is more. When the number of DVDs required remains in bulk, it is best to choose duplication of DVDs. The procedure involved is quicker, and is done purely through automated innovation. By this the expense per unit turns out to be less. Replication of DVDs is a sophisticated procedure which turns out large numbers of replicas at a swift rate. Duplication is a simpler procedure not requiring intricate treatments. There is no truth in the stating that DVDs, which are duplicated, are not as trusted as the reproduced ones. Today, with the advancement of science and innovation, and the growth of an organized sector of selling and dvd duplicator production duplicated DVDs, high quality DVD duplicates are produced. However, at end of the day, whether one goes for duplication or replication of DVDs depends upon individual will and particular requirements.
Finally, dvd duplicator it is smart to pick a popular duplication company that utilizes the latest equipments, and the end product goes through stringent quality checks.

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Nazeih Botros
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Title: Smart wireless system for monitoring and analyzing the health of the fetus
Nazeih Botros is the Coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is also a Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Oklahoma in 1985. His research focuses on smart devises, modeling and simulation of biological mechanisms, pattern recognition and digital signal analysis. Dr. Botros is a senior member of IEEE and a member of several biomedical engineering advisory committees. He has authored a book in hardware simulation. He has numerous publications in conferences and Journals.
In the USA, there are Over 4 million births annually with 25% of pregnancy ends in miscarriage. Fetal death can happen in high risk pregnancy and 50% of the low risk pregnancy. The cost of a single miscarriage is about $4000, this cost includes hospital care before and after the fetal death. Fetal death can be minimized by frequent and effective monitoring of the wellbeing of the fetus. One of the major indicators of the well being of the fetal and the health of the pregnancy is the pattern of the fetal movement inside the mother abdomen. Fetal neuro-muscular activity is one of the basic physiologic functions of the developing organism and is necessary for normal neural, muscular and skeletal development of the fetus. Feto-placental unit dysfunction or severe impairment of nutrient supply by the maternal circulation are thus expected, and do, lead to decreased fetal neuromuscular activity. Recognizing the dependence of the fetal movement on the health of the pregnancy it is recommended that induction of labor should be carried out for decreased fetal activity. At present time fetal movement is recorded and assessed by using in-hospital techniques such as Doppler ultrasound. The purpose of this research is to develop a prototype of a portable compact smart system that monitors, records, and analyzes fetal movement on semi continuous real-time. The system has a compact sensor compound strapped around the mother abdomen and transmits wirelessly its recording to a computer (can be in the hospital) that the physician has an access to it whenever he/she desires. The computer is programmed with a pattern recognition algorithm that analyses the recorded signal. This monitoring of the fetal movement pattern will allow the physician to intervene at the right time to prevent, if possible, any miscarriages. The system has the following distinguishable characteristics that make it unique in the market. 1. The system uses pressure sensors rather than ultrasound. Continuous exposure of the fetal to ultrasound waves may have negative side effects on the fetal. Pressure sensors do not emit any waves, they just sense the pressure change on the abdomen when the fetal moves and hits the wall of the abdomen. 2. The sensor compound is compact; the mother can comfortably wear it while she is doing her daily routine. 3. The system works remotely, this means that the patient may not be in the hospital to use, she can be at home or work.


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The Pack Jump is a glitch in Banjo-Tooie. It allows Banjo to jump in the air while using the Pack Whack. This double-jump gives Banjo a total height that exceeds his Failed Flip, as well as allowing him to jump large distances, climb near-vertical slopes, and even nab items in alcoves above water that would normally force Kazooie to use the Turbo Trainers to get them.
Usually, the move is performed by pressing to jump and to use the Pack Whack, followed by again while Banjo is swinging the pack.
A variant of the trick involves repeatedly using the move against a sloped surface, allowing Banjo to climb steep slopes. There are two ways to do this. The first method is to alternate between and quickly, allowing speed, but may wear down the player's hand. The second method is to press and wait for Banjo to completely (or almost) finish the move, then press to jump and repeat.
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Announcing the 2019 Class of Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator
Today I'm excited to announce the 10 companies joining the inaugural class of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in Los Angeles. Over the next three months these companies will rapidly accelerate their businesses by working closely with Techstars, Starburst, our network of expert mentors, and our formal sponsors from industry and government: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC, Israel Aerospace Industries North America, and the U.S. Air Force, with support from The Aerospace Corporation. Our Demo Day is on Wednesday, October 16, 2019.
From the very beginning, we set out to find world-class entrepreneurs solving big commercial problems with applications for space. The quality of the applicants this year was exceptionally high, and the selected companies represent a diversity of ideas, geographies, and industries. Our companies are tackling challenges in areas such as in-space propulsion and servicing, Earth observation, generative design, nuclear power, launch, solar cells, and autonomous vehicles and targeting industries including agriculture, automotive, mining, energy, and more.
Without further ado, I present the 10 companies joining the 2019 Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator.
Hybird develops robotic solutions to digitise and inspect industrial assets for safer, faster, and cheaper maintenance
Hydrosat turns space imagery into vital products for agriculture and related industries
Leo Aerospace
Dedicated Launch Service for Microsatellites
Morpheus Space
Fusion between cutting edge electric propulsion & AI: Agile Constellations
Novo Space
High performance electronics for the space industry
Orbit Fab
An on-orbit fuel supply company
Pixxel builds and operates cutting-edge imaging satellites
Regher Solar
Solar cells to power the space economy
SciArt Software
SciArt provides software tools for Generative Design when it matters most
Zeno Power Systems
Next generation radioisotope power system
The Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator: What We're Looking For (TLDR: Not Just Space Companies)
Last month Techstars and Starburst announced the launch of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC, and Israel Aerospace Industries North America (IAI North America). This program is the first of its kind, bringing together industrial, military, and civil space leaders to support entrepreneurs disrupting the space industry.
Venture funding for space tech companies is at a high point and still rising, federal funding and interest in space is strong, and thanks to rapid commercial innovation in launch capabilities, it's never been easier for an entrepreneur to get their technology into orbit.
While this is the first space-focused accelerator program for Techstars, this isn't our first time investing in space-oriented companies, such as Techstars portfolio companies like Slingshot Aerospace (Techstars LA), Kepler Communications (Techstars Seattle), and Skywatch (Techstars NYC).
If you're an entrepreneur building a space tech company, we want to hear from you! Classic "NewSpace" categories we're interested in include: SmallSats, Geospatial analytics, Robotics, Avionics, Communications, Earth Observation, In-Space Propulsion, Navigation, Perception, Systems on Chip Computing, Antennas, and Photonics.
Just as technologies developed for the space industry have found their way into other uses (velcro, GPS, freeze drying, LASIK, dustbusters), the space industry is similarly looking to adapt and partner with commercial technologies. We're interested in relevant technologies developed for industries as diverse as automotive, agriculture, mining, energy, and industrial manufacturing. We're especially excited to invest in companies with novel applications in artificial intelligence.
Examples of broader enabling technologies we're looking to invest in include: AI, design and collaboration tools, autonomous systems, LIDAR, terrestrial navigation, drones/UAS, advanced manufacturing, edge computing and big data processing, sensors, and power systems (including energy generation, storage, and management).
Does the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator sound like a good fit for your company? If so, we want to hear from you!
Applications are open now and are due on April 7, 2019.
Want to learn more?
- Join us on March 21 for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) to learn more about what you can expect during the first year of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator.
- Request one-on-one time with me by scheduling in-person or virtual office hours.
- Come to a Meet and Greet event on April 9 at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. If you'll be in town, we'd love to see you there!
Techstars and Starburst Announce Space-Focused Accelerator Program With U.S. Government And Corporate Consortium
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC, and Israel Aerospace Industries North America (IAI North America) Unite to Disrupt Space Industry
LOS ANGELES and BOULDER, Colo.– Techstars and Starburst announced today their joint effort to help entrepreneurs succeed in aerospace. The Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator, a new Los Angeles-based program, will focus on the next generation of space technology companies and related frontier technologies. Matt Kozlov will be the managing director of the program. Matt previously led the Cedars Sinai Accelerator Powered by Techstars in Los Angeles and has invested in over 30 companies. Van Espahbodi, co-founder and managing director of Starburst, will be advising Kozlov and the broader program, applying his experience of accelerating over 300 aerospace startups.
Building on Techstars success running more than 150 accelerator programs around the world with both government entities and Fortune 500 corporations, coupled with Starburst aerospace industry experience and expertise, this new mentorship-driven accelerator has formal sponsorship from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC, Israel Aerospace Industries North America (IAI North America), and the U.S. Air Force, with support from The Aerospace Corporation.
With recent technological breakthroughs such as reusable rockets, 3D printing, advanced materials, and miniaturization of satellites ("smallsats"), as well as the introduction and adoption of new business models, the opportunities for entrepreneurs and corporations are unprecedented. New business models will be a focus for the accelerator, and the consortium will be looking to work with startups that have a use case for new space and related technologies in fields such as energy, communications, robotics, and autonomy. Breakthroughs in these industries contribute to why Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently estimated the space economy will be worth more than $3 Trillion by 2045.
"The space industry is massively exciting but also quite complex," said Matt Kozlov, managing director of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator. "We are bringing together vital industry leaders, both public and private, who will help entrepreneurs navigate the industry and provide unprecedented commercial support and mentorship. We will help founders achieve two years of commercial traction in three months. Given the pedigree of our sponsors, I expect this program will very quickly become a vital resource for entrepreneurs building frontier tech."
"The list of incredible companies just keeps growing," said Van Espahbodi, co-founder and managing director of Starburst. "The broader aerospace industry has finally embraced the notion of 'open innovation' by partnering with entrepreneurs to co-develop products, with a compelling business plan to match. Starburst is excited to advise the program to ensure early-stage businesses have the appropriate tools to compete in this emerging marketplace."
Applications for Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator open today. The program, Techstars third accelerator program in California, will kick off in July 2019. Startup companies in commercial space or that are developing related technologies are encouraged to apply. Startup companies looking to connect with program staff prior to applying or to get feedback on their companies are welcome to request Office Hours with Techstars staff.
About Techstars
Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars founders connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporations to grow their companies. Techstars operates three divisions: Techstars Startup Programs, Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Programs, and Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships. Techstars accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,700 companies with a market cap of $18 Billion. www.techstars.com
About Starburst
Starburst is an innovation catalyst in the Aerospace industry. It is the first global Aerospace Accelerator, matching corporates with startups while providing strategic growth consulting for startups and corporations alike. With offices in Los Angeles, Paris, Montreal, Munich, San Francisco and Singapore, the team has built an ecosystem of key players across the Aerospace industry including over 4000+ related startups. Every year Starburst hosts numerous international and national events bringing together Aerospace innovators and puts innovation in the spotlight at international air shows.
StartupWeekend Space: Bremen officially announces its prizes
Bremen, 1 April 2015
StartupWeekend Space: Bremen, a European event conceived to generate lean space startup concepts through interdisciplinary collaboration has today officially announced the prizes to be awarded to the top three teams.
Held at Bremen's Innovation and Technology Center (BITZ) on April 10th-12th, 2015. The first, second and third place winners will be rewarded with prizes that can significantly help them advance their presented business concepts.
The winning team will receive 12 months of coaching from Claudia Kessler, CEO of HE-Space, in business proposal writing and business formation. Following the 12 months, the winning team will be coached by Chad Anderson, Managing Director of Space Angels Network, in preparation to present their business plan to investors within their network.
Managing Director of the Space Angels Network, Chad Anderson, acknowledges the importance of the StartupWeekend Space event for Europe by demonstrating his commitment to support the winning team and the event.
"For the past three years Space Angels Network has supported Space Startup Weekends in San Francisco, Shanghai, and Bremen. These events provide an important venue for demonstrating how accessible space has become for entrepreneurs and startups, and it is impressive to see what teams are able to come up with in just a weekend. We're proud to support the first SWS event in Europe and facilitate the path from conception to growth and funding."
Both Claudia Kessler and Chad Anderson will be on site at StartupWeekend Space: Bremen. Chad Anderson will also join the jury to decide with other members, on the top three teams to win these prizes.
Other notable guests who will be present in person or via live video, include the Bremen minister of economic affair, labour and ports Martin Günthner, the European Space Agency (ESA) head of technology transfer programme office, Frank Maximilian Salzgeber, the founder and CEO of Mansat Christopher Stott, the co-founder and CTO of Planet Labs Chris Boshuizen and the founder and CEO of Zero2Infinity José Mariano López-Urdiales.
The team to reach the second place will win one day of presentation and on-camera training with Hill Media in Bremen. This will serve as preparation for the upcoming opportunity to pitch their business concept at the Startupbootcamp Smart Transportation & Energy accelerator speed summit and to join the Berlin based accelerator program for one week.
Managing Director of Startupbootcamp Smart Transportation & Energy accelerator, Tanja Kufner is confident that space entrepreneurship is Europe's future industry to watch out for.
"We at Startupbootcamp, are proud to support the objectives of StartupWeekend Space, through our accelerator program. NewSpace is already reality in the USA. It is only a question of time before we will see more space startups here in Europe."
ESA in cooperation with the International Astronautical Federation also contribute a third prize to StartupWeekend Space: Bremen enabling two team members to attend the Global Space Innovation Conference (GLIC 2015) in Munich where they will have the opportunity network with ESA Business Incubation Center (BIC) staff and participants.
Frank Maximilian Salzgeber proposes the ESA BIC network across Europe as the natural next stepping stone for StartupWeekend Space entrepreneurs.
"StartupWeekend Space is an innovative way to generate new business concepts. The ESA BIC network could be a possible next step to help turn these business ideas into real companies that create jobs and wealth for Europe. ESA is committed to supporting space entrepreneurship in Europe."
With less than ten days to go before the event, all 80 tickets have already been sold out. The registered participants come from 13 countries in Europe and represent 18 nationalities including Germany, Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and the USA. With this kind of cultural diversity, the business concepts proposed by the participants are expected to be especially innovative.
For more information about the event, please access our webpage at http://startupweekendspace.co/. You can also follow us on social media using the hashtags #BeSpacial and #SWSpace.
StartupWeekend Space: Bremen is supported by the City of Bremen, Airbus Defence and Space, HE-Space, Design & Data, Space Angels Network, the European Space Agency, Startupbootcamp Smart Transportation & Energy, Hill Media, Center of Applied Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) as well as Up Global, a non-profit organization connecting a global community of entrepreneurs across all topics. The organization is headquartered in Seattle, US and is considered a hub for entrepreneurial space.
Sebastian Marcu
Co-Lead: Bremen
Tel: +49 176 1756 6909
Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hans-Georg Tschupke
WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH
Tel: +49 421 96 00 10
Mail: email@example.com
The future is better than you think!
Have you ever imagined going to a space hotel, and orbit the Earth every 90 minutes, instead of your next vacation on the beach? Why not take a trip to Mars as your next life-changing experience? Spring-break on the Moon?
This may look like science-fiction, but it's the possibility that the near future brings. Recently, Elon Musk and Richard Branson announced plans to independently launch constellations of satellites to provide internet to everyone on this planet. This means that 3 billion new minds will be online in the next decade.
"Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the once scarce the now abundant." P. Diamandis
The disruptive ideas that they can bring to the space sector are endless. So if YOU are not willing to disrupt the current slow-moving and risk-adverse space sector, someone else will. In the US a disruption movement has started, with SpaceX and the Google Lunar X Prize will bring a spacecraft back to the Moon or humanity all the way to Mars…
Where is Europe in this race? Yes, we landed on a comet, and that is phenomenal, but where are the disruptive private projects to create breakthroughs in space technology? It's time to make space technology abundant to everyone. Let's make the word Astronaut obsolete (just as it happened with "aeronaut"). The next decades are going to be the time when humanity moves irreversibly off the planet, to the stars. Stop watching the movie, and be an actor!
The best way to predict the future is to make it yourself. If you ever had the need of creating something meaningful, something exciting… and change the world with it, this is your chance. If you don't like your job, or think it is not leading where you want, stop complaining. You get what you incentivize. This is your chance to make it happen. Start a wave of change for a better future. Join the wave to #BeSpacial. The future is better than you think!
Introducing StartupWeekend Space: Bremen
As a kid, I was intrigued about what the future of space would bring. Science Fiction and popular media would bombard us with constant streams of stories about inexpensive and accessible spaceflight, moon bases and Mars cities, all just around the corner. The message was clear: Anyone could go to space. Two decades later, the prospect of a common person taking a "space bus" to Mars is just as far away in the future as it was then. I ask myself, when will that future finally come?
The traditional space sector is a slow moving beast with a notoriously risk-adverse mentality. This is understandable considering the costs. $100 billion for a space station. $100 million for a rocket launch. $50 million for a telecommunications satellite, Yikes!
A wave of change is however happening today. A "NewSpace" movement is taking shape across the world where entrepreneurs, doers and makers are creating space companies with lofty goals, shoestring budgets, and innovative, bordering ridiculous ideas. Launching cheap satellites using off-the-shelf technology? Planet Labs! 3D printing in space? Made in Space! Asteroid mining (and taking selfies in orbit)? Planetary Resources! These and many more are all founded within the last five years. The next five will guarantee you many more.
(Alberto Cuadra and Katie Park, Washington Post)
The success of these companies is attributed to people with various backgrounds getting together, combining ideas and expertise. Planet Labs was formed through discussions held by three guys at a United Nation conference. Made in Space was conceived at Singularity University during a 10 week intensive program bringing together interdisciplinary participants across the entire world. Planetary Resources employs a board of advisors as diverse as the movie director James Cameron and the former CTO of Microsoft David Vaskevitch. Interdisciplinary collaboration seems to be a prerequisite for success in the NewSpace era. Traditional stereotypes are being challenged. Space is going mainstream.
I am therefore happy to introduce StartupWeekend Space: Bremen, an extended weekend where you can be a rocket scientist. You will be supported by experts and entrepreneurs in the space sector, transforming your outrageous space ideas into actual businesses. Therefore I challenge you to join us in April and help shape the future of the most exciting, rewarding and fundamentally important industry possible!
As for the answer to the question at the beginning? The future will only come when YOU make it happen! Make it happen! #BeSpacial!
Bremen hosts 1st Startup Weekend Space in Europe
22nd January, 2015
You too can #BeSpacial! This is the slogan of Europe's first StartupWeekend Space event. Hosted at Bremen's Innovation and Technology Center (BITZ) on April 10th-12th, 2015, the event is designed to generate several lean space startup concepts through interdisciplinary collaboration within 60 hours. Especially people with non-space backgrounds are encouraged to participate. During the event participants will have access to several leaders in the global space community – including entrepreneurs, academics, policy experts, technical experts, and business managers – who will act as mentors.
Martin Günthner, Bremen's senator for economy, labour and ports believes that this event will greatly enrich the space industry in Europe's space capital.
"Companies such as OHB, Airbus Defence and Space, and institutions such as DLR, ZARM and DFKI, provide Bremen with a very rich space infrastructure unique in Europe. With Startup Weekend Space hosted here in Bremen, we would like to encourage the development of new business ideas through the interdisciplinary nature of this event."
The event begins on Friday morning with keynote speech and workshops providing participants insights into the opportunities and challenges in the modern space sector. They will learn key skills related to lean startups and team building, space law and policy, and non-financial and financial support for space startups. The evening will see 60-second open-mic pitches where participants will have the chance to present their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. The selected teams work through Saturday and Sunday to develop target markets, validate their ideas, build "pretotypes" and minimal viable products, and finalize their business concepts.
One mentor attending the Bremen event is Claudia Kessler, CEO of HE Space and founder of Women in Aerospace Europe.
"I have been working for over 20 years within the space industry. I am certain that my experience will be of good value to the participants of StartupWeekend Space. My personal goal is to encourage women to become leaders in the space industry. StartupWeekend Space offers the perfect environment for them to achieve that."
On Sunday evening each team will give a five-minute pitch to a panel of judges comprising of investors, established industry leaders, and experts, who will assess the quality of each startup proposal. Winning teams will receive prizes and, more importantly, the opportunity to convince investors to support their idea going forward.
StartupWeekend Space is organized by an international team of young professionals with the goal of demonstrating that the space sector can benefit significantly from the contribution of people with expertise outside of engineering and sciences.
Managing Director of Design & Data GmbH and Co-lead for Startup Weekend Space: Bremen, Sebastian Marcu summarizes his experience and motivation to create this event.
"Twelve years ago I joined the European Space Agency as a Young Graduate Trainee with neither a science nor an engineering background. Today I am running my own company providing services to the European space industry. It is a career path that I had never imagined for myself. My motivation to co-lead the StartupWeekend Space event builds on my experience and is a means to inspire other non-space graduates to leave their entrepreneurial footprint on this amazing industry."
Startup Weekend Space is now looking for media and sponsorship partners to help spread the message and create the best possible experience for the participants. In total 80 people will receive a chance to participate at the event once the online registration opens on the 9th February 2015. The competition to get one of these rare tickets is set to be high.
For more information about the event, please access our web page at www.startupweekendspace.co. You can also follow us on social media using the hashtags #BeSpacial and #SWSpace.
StartupWeekend Space is supported by Up Global, a non-profit organization connecting a global community of entrepreneurs across all topics. The organization is headquartered in Seattle, US and is considered a hub for entrepreneurial space.
Sebastian Marcu
Co-Lead: Bremen
Tel: +49 176 1756 6909
Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hans-Georg Tschupke
WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH
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Week Two: Corporate Capital Propels Seattle's NewSpace Industry.
Over the course of five weeks, UP Global is highlighting the 5 key ingredients for 'Fostering A Thriving Startup Ecosystem' in cities: Bogotá, Seattle, London, Tehran, and Nairobi.
In concert with an established entrepreneurial community, Seattle has become a premier cluster for raising capital– particularly for private space industries. For more than a decade, the city has quietly hosted several of the world's most well-funded private space ventures and just today, Elon Musk announced plans for a Seattle office for Mars colonization.
Participants at Startup Weekend Space.
Seattle has nurtured such celebrated brands as Starbucks, Microsoft, and Amazon, but it owes its reputation as the 'Jet City' to an older, innovative local: Boeing. Boeing became a cornerstone for Seattle's economy through funding advances in human air travel, and through its continuing investments in human flight, the company remains close to the Seattle's current renaissance in jet technology.
"Seattle is a great place to start a space business," Eric Anderson, co-founder of Planetary Resources said at an August fundraiser. "There's a confluence of high-tech hardware and software communities, and a highly educated workforce [in Seattle]."
"I like to call Seattle, 'Silicon Valley light.'"
Planetary Resources, a company researching the technology necessary for mineral retrieval from space, is located east of Seattle, near Microsoft. Anderson also helped found Space Adventures in 1997, the first private-sector company to successfully brokerage space tourism. The company's first client, Dennis Tito, paid $20 million for six days in space.
Founded in 2010, Planetary Resources has attracted such billionaire investors as Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and Charles Simonyi (the only private citizen to travel recreationally into space, twice) to the idea of mining in space.
Anderson said that Seattle– like Silicon Valley– has a powerful combination of available capital and innovative culture. Anderson cited the relationship between Seattle's academic and aeronautics communities as a value partnership for the development of space exploration.
Blue Origin, Boeing, and Planetary Resources are all located within a ten-mile radius of the University of Washington, which offers top-tier programming in computer science and medicine, and accounts for thousands of educated residents in Seattle. The area is also home to such influential space investors as Simonyi, Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Bill Gates.
With close to $500 million in personal investment from Bezos, Blue Origin intends to design, manufacture, and sell rocket technology to other privatized space organizations over the coming decades.
During the "Space Race"– the famous Cold War subplot of spending and political control of outer space– the US government invested up to five cents from every tax dollar into the development of technologies related to space exploration and research.
Currently, less than half a cent of every tax dollar is used in this way.
Government divestment from space has inspired influential investors from Seattle (and around the world,) to apply their knack for business innovation towards operating privatized industries in the newly underserved markets of space.
"In 2012, for the first time, global government spending in space declined… However, the space industry as a whole expanded due to the exponential growth of emerging commercial space companies," Chad Anderson, European managing director at Space Angels Network, said. "The growth going forward is expected to continue to come from new commercial business models, entrepreneurs, and startups."
Based in Seattle, Space Angels Network is a global agency of 50 seed and early-stage investors focused entirely on private-sector space ventures. The organization is the global leader in angel investment for private space startups.
Billionaires Elon Musk (of SpaceX,) and Richard Branson (of Virgin Galactic,) have made well-publicized investments in space technology over the past decade, as well, and have substantiated the possibilities for individual investors in space's private-sector.
Fostering a Startup and Innovation Ecosystem found that whether businesses are just starting, or trying to scale, access to capital is critical for success. Experienced capital– through billionaire investors or through firms– can really make a difference for new companies. Policy makers can also take proactive measures to make it easier for startups to access the capital required to start and grow businesses.
Through available capital for Seattle's space companies, the city looks to solidify its status along Houston and Cape Canaveral as global centers for space innovation. Seattle earned its "Jet City" credo from a commitment to building airplanes, and contemporary investors hope to return the city to a leadership role in building jet technology for the future.
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One Giant Leap for Entrepreneurs: Silicon Valley Hosts Startup Weekend Space
In July, Startup Weekend Space met for the second time in two years, fielding ten teams dedicated to the development of space technologies, and broader conceptual understandings of space.
Hosted in San Jose on July 25-27, the weekend provided 54-hours of outer-worldly ideation around "NewSpace."
NewSpace is a simple way to refer to the complex network of innovations and people that power the emerging, privatized market for space technologies. In the wake of funding cuts for NASA and other government-subsidized space programs, American entrepreneurs have looked to each other for the brainpower and funding necessary to push onward and outward.
"Our vision is to enable a new era of citizen aerospace exploration through enabling [consumer space] technologies," James Parr, a team leader at Makernautics, said. "Makernautics is part of a bigger vision of citizen space exploration enabled by open technology platforms – we're calling this the 'Open Space Agency'."
Makernautics, a team formed during the weekend, intends to enable 3D printing for satellite, telescope, and rocket technologies, as well as the other components that make data collection possible in space.
"Through scaling citizen networks with open technology, our ultimate goal is to create a community of citizen space explorers that can help [government] space agencies and private enterprise achieve their aims," Parr said. "One of first proof-of-concept projects we're close to completing is the development of an asteroid hunting telescope. This is to help citizen scientists characterize Near Earth Objects, as part of NASA's Grand Challenge to find all of the asteroids that present a threat to human populations."
The weekend's winning team, BioCube, conceptualized a line of cube satellites that are intended to help biologists study organic materials in space.
"We are kicking our project into full force," Christine Fanchiang, team leader at BioCube, said. "We have been in the process of developing our business by meeting with a number of [biologists], business professionals, and founders from other start-up companies. We're looking at a number of other opportunities that could help accelerate our capabilities, including technology transfers, research grants, and additional startup accelerators."
Young, hopeful attendees buoyed the room with creativity, and a cross-section of technical veterans helped channel the collective ambitions of the weekend. Leadership for the event offered an unprecedented variety of space professionalism, including media, private sector, and government representatives familiar with "OldSpace," as well as new.
PongSat Parts uniquely represented a NewSpace blend of scientific proliferation and consumer economics.
The team, formed prior to the weekend by entrepreneur Blaze Sanders, sells pre-built kits for lifting materials into space (~$75.) Sanders' experience with NewSpace technology includes the development of virtual reality systems, low-space skydiving equipment, and rocketry.
PongSat Parts hopes to make small satellites commonplace across global consumer markets, and caters to users of all technical proficiencies. Sanders used Startup Weekend: Space to refine his team's business plan and raise capital.
"As opposed to the traditional Startup Weekend event, Startup Weekend Space is less focused on the immediate business plans of a [participating] team," Reuben Metcalfe, the lead organizer for Startup Weekend Space, said. "The obstacles that space startups face are on a physically larger and more meticulously challenging scale than those facing most startups. We still demand that they build a business plan capable of kicking off on Monday…. It's just that much harder to do it all."
Metcalfe, an entrepreneur and self-described 'space geek', has been lead organizer for Startup Weekend: Space throughout its existence. Metcalfe is the founder of IDreamofSpace.com, a startup directed at making space travel accessible to broad consumer markets. Metcalfe has worked with NewSpace entrepreneurs for the past two years.
"The [return on investment] for time and money spent on space technologies is much longer, and teams are forced to consider ten or twenty years of economic and political change over a weekend," Metcalfe said. "But that doesn't mean they get a handicap from the judges."
Metcalfe hopes to host the next Startup Weekend Space event in November, in a location outside of the US.


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This handbook is an analysis that combines all available data on production, international trade, processing volumes and fresh market distribution in order to produce statistics on 75 horticultural categories. It adopts a modelling approach that centres on determining the fresh market value and volume for each category, that reconciles production with local and international distribution channel throughputs.
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HOLYOKE, Mass. – The Elms College baseball team split a dramatic double-header with Becker in New England Collegiate Conference action at Mackenzie Stadium in Holyoke, Mass., on Saturday.
The Blazers broke a scoreless tie with a seven-run sixth to pick up a 7-0 win in the opening game before falling 10-8 in extra-innings in a back-and-forth second game.
The Blazers (4-15, 1-4 NECC) and Hawks (6-15, 3-4 NECC) will wrap up the three-game series back at Mackenzie Stadium with a single-game on Sunday with Becker serving as the home team.
GAME 1 – Elms 7, Becker 0
Thomas Owens scattered seven hits without allowing a run and got an outburst of run support in the sixth to pick up the win.
With the game still scoreless entering the bottom of the sixth, the Elms offense got hot. Singles from Andy Vasquez, Alex Hoss, Thomas Slane, Josh Pasini, Keven Banas, and Vasquez again, and walks from Ben Ross, Nathan Ayala and Jaeden Rasmus provided more than enough run-support to compliment Owens' gem, as the Blazers jumped ahead 7-0 before shutting the Hawks down in the top of the seventh for the win.
Vasquez picked up two RBIs in the process while Slane, Ayala, Pasini, Banas and Rasmus each added one.
GAME 2 – Becker 10, Elms 8 (8 Innings)
The Blazers were on the wrong side of a late-rally in a 10-8 extra-inning loss.
Elms pulled ahead 3-0 in the bottom of the first before Becker stormed back to tie the game at 3-3 in the top of the second. A four-run fourth inning left the Blazers ahead 7-3 but once again, Becker tied the game in the next half inning, scoring four runs of its own in the top of the fifth.
The Hawks took an 8-7 lead in the top of the sixth before Elms tied it up once again with a run in the bottom of the sixth. The Blazers, however, weren't able to match a pair of Becker runs in the top of the eighth, falling 10-8.
Elms tallied 13 hits in the game and scored all eight runs off Becker starter Tanyon Ventres. Blazer starter Matt Plasse went 4.2 innings, giving up six earned runs and nine hits while striking out eight batters.
Slane was dominant at the plate for Elms, going 4-for-5 at the plate with three RBIs. Vasquez finished 2-for-3 in the second game with an RBI and Ross and Brandon Bennett each went 2-for-4.


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A true West Coast girl, Blaire Ritter brings nine years of restaurant, hospitality, beauty and lifestyle public relations and marketing communications experience to her role as account director at OneSeven Agency. As an executive in the company, she is responsible for overseeing account teams and managing client relationships, along with developing, administering and implementing innovative public relations, marketing communications and digital influencer programs. Ritter also spearheads the OneSeven Agency comprehensive internship program.
Her strong industry knowledge, work ethic, responsiveness to clients and media and creative story-telling skills allow her to deliver solid results for clients, including Emeril's New Orleans Fish House, Rogue eSports, Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, The Spa at Trump, DJT Restaurant, Evel Pie, Daily Kitchen, Lobster ME, PANDORA Jewelry, Professional Beauty Association, Cosmoprof North America, Beauty Collection, DePasquale the Spa, The Golden Tiki and Jaburritos. She has successfully secured placement for clients in publications including Beauty Launchpad, Modern Salon, Men's Journal, WWD, Orbitz, USA Today, Las Vegas Magazine, Vegas Seven, Vegas Magazine, Vegas Rated, FoodNetwork.com, LA Times, Redbook, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Livingly.com, FOX 5, and KTNV, amongst several others.
Ritter was born and raised in Los Angeles and moved to Spokane, Wash. to attend Gonzaga University. Upon graduating, she moved to Las Vegas to pursue a Masters in Journalism and Media Studies at UNLV. While there, Ritter taught journalism to incoming freshmen, was managing editor of the student newspaper, The Rebel Yell, and started working with a boutique PR firm, focusing on beauty and lifestyle brands.
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Welcome to the July 2018 edition of our SEO News Roundup, a segment at 99signals where we showcase some of the top news stories that are doing the rounds in the world of SEO.
This article will be updated as and when we stumble upon trending SEO news stories, so be sure to bookmark this page to revisit at a later date.
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Top SEO News Stories in July 2018
#1 Google Rolls out the "Speed Update" for All Users
Google's "speed update" is finally here. Starting July, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches. Until now, page speed was a ranking factor only for desktop searches.
Earlier this year, Google made an announcement that speed update would be rolled out in July and now the speed update is here, right on time.
This algorithm update will only "affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries," as per Google.
So for now, it will only impact websites which are noticeably slow on mobile devices.
Need some tips on how to increase your site speed? Check out our in-depth article on this topic by clicking here.
Source: Search Engine Journal
#2 Google's URL Inspection Tool is Now Available for All Users
A few days ago, Google announced on Twitter that the URL inspection tool would now be available to all users in Google Search Console.
The URL inspection tool lets you check a specific URL on your website to see the status of how Google search sees that URL. It will show the last crawl date, status of the last crawl, any crawling or indexing errors and the canonical URL for that page. It will show if the page was successfully indexed, any AMP errors, structured data errors and indexing issues.
Click here to access this tool in Google Search Console.
Source: Search Engine Land
#3 Google My Business Insights Adds Queries Used to Find Your Business
There are more changes coming soon to Google My Business (GMB). As per Search Engine Land, GMB is rolling out a new report in the Insights section of the console that is designed to show businesses how people are searching within Google Maps or Google Search to find your local listings.
Source: Search Engine Land
#4 AMP Stories Upgraded to Version 1.0
In February, Google launched AMP Stories, an Instagram-like visual storytelling format for the open web. AMP Stories are powered by Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology and enable the creation of visual content that is fast, open, and user-first.
Here's an example of an AMP Story:
Unlike Instagram or Snapchat stories which appear on social networks, AMP stories will solely exist on a publisher's website. This means they will show up in search results.
AMP Stories have now been upgraded to version 1.0 which will include new features such as monetization capabilities. The latest version of AMP stories is available from July 18 and publishers can upgrade any existing AMP stories to version 1.0 using this migration guide.
Source: Search Engine Journal
Hashtags are finally here on YouTube. This will help users discover other videos on the same topics.
Right now, the hashtags appear in blue text above the video's title. Users can click on a hashtag to do a YouTube search for other videos that contain the same hashtag. Hashtags can also be added directly within the video title. Users can also type a hashtag into the YouTube search bar to manually search for videos with that hashtag.
YouTube creators need to simply include hashtags in their video descriptions to leverage hashtags. However, only the first three hashtags will appear above the title.
Source: Search Engine Journal
We'll update more SEO news stories as and when they occur.
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Houlton man charged with killing couple in their home, setting it ablaze, held without bail
HOULTON, Maine (AP) � A Houlton man charged with killing a couple in their Oakfield home then setting their house on fire has been ordered held without bail.
WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/15v9HqS ) reports that Matthew Davis was in court via video conference on Wednesday to face two murder counts and other charges. He was not required to enter a plea and his court-appointed attorney did not address the charges.
Authorities say the 32-year-old Davis killed Michael Kitchen and Heidi Pratt, whose bodies were pulled from their burning home on Monday.
The 51-year-old Kitchen had been shot multiple times. The 49-year-old Pratt's cause of death remains under investigation.
Davis was arrested later in the day.
Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive for the slayings and the relationship between the suspect and the victims is unclear.
Information from: WABI-TV, http://www.wabi.tv


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Shigeru Miyamoto Explains the Original 'Star Fox' Sequel's Fate
After a 10-year hiatus, Nintendo's "Star Fox" is back with a new game for the Wii U due in time for the holidays. What took so long? Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's visionary game designer, talks about the fate of the original sequel, plans for a successor and whether Fox or Mario would win in a battle.


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Paolo Rizzatto was born in 1941 in Milan where he took his Master's degree in architecture at Milan Polytechnic. Paolo Rizzatto works as a freelancer within the fields of architecture and design and still develops his skills as a lamp designer. In 1978 he founded the company Luceplan with Riccardo Sarfatti.
Alberto Meda was born in Tremezzina in 1945. In 1969, he completed his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Milan Polytechnic. Later he became the technical manager of Kartell, in charge of the development of projects of furniture and plastic. In 1979 he started working as a freelance industrial designer for various companies.
Together, Meda and Rizzatto created the lamp Titania Pendant for Luceplan.


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Hamas' Global footprint
While Hamas is often discussed solely in the context of its rule over the Gaza strip, it retains a wider regional and even global presence.
Essay: The Qatar-Qaradawi nexus
The recent decision by several Arab States to designate a number of Qatari-hosted Islamists as terrorist entities has once again raised the issue of Qatari support for both violent and non-violent Islamists.
Behind the News – March 2019
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, together with the PA Cabinet's other ministers, collectively resigned. The resignations came two days after the Fatah Central Committee recommended the formation of a government made up of representatives of factions in the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and independent personalities, leaving out Hamas
Behind the News – December 2018
Over Nov. 13-14, Hamas and other terror groups fired at least 460 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip


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The first step is to obtain a copy of the NCCHC Standards that pertain to your correctional setting or program and to review your facility's compliance with them. Next, you will need to provide basic information to enable us to establish an accreditation portal for your facility.This portal is our primary means of gathering and sharing information related to accreditation.
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Once accredited, each year you'll submit a written report (Annual Maintenance Report) with updates on relevant information. Additional on-site visits will occur about every three years.
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Going beyond the classroom is Georgetown University's goal for their students to succeed. The Red House is the home of Designing the Future(s), a philanthropy-funded initiative out of Georgetown University's Office of the Provost. The initiative, headed by Vice Provost for Education Randy Bass, seeks to transform higher education for the 21st century by experimenting with new course designs, student formation in college, and issues of equity and inclusion.
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Designing for the Future(s) Program was in need of an update both visually and growth wise. Their previous website was stuck in a very basic Georgetown brand aesthetic and they wanted to have their own identity congruently with the University to highlight them as a department/program.
While they developed a logo identity with another designer we worked with Futures to establish complementary, typography, layout, color and style to make sure their was a specific tone the department. We found the WordPress theme and help establish a user interface based on wireframe and theme functions.
Building out the WordPress theme we brought the best customizable experience for them for the site to be 'evergreen'. Having the ability to filter, organize and categories their events, blog posts and information they can highlight was an important feature in order to bring the best dynamic site as possible.


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Some consumers fear about VPN companies using virtual servers. All these are servers, meaning that a single hardware server may run several virtual servers . These servers can be configured to appear to be than where they're genuinely found. That is an issue if you want to avoid specific regions, and if you are concerned about where your information is led. A TorGuard representative told me that the company does not use virtual servers, so you'll have no such trouble here. Torguard Ics
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In my testing, I installed TorGuard's applications on A Lenovo ThinkPad T460slaptop running Windows 10.
The TorGuard client installed quickly and easily, though It's not just a joy to behold. The program is minimal, appearing somewhat more like a app than something I'd expect on a desktop computer. You will find the cheeky donkeys from Hide My Ass, or not one of the bears featured in TunnelBear. It doesn't have a map interface, and it is a staple of VPN apps. Instead, it seems a great deal more like the Private online Access.
Rather than recommending servers for or displaying a map Particular actions, TorGuard just has a list of servers. That is fine, but it isn't very friendly to new users. Neither will be the options on the primary window of the app. The typical user is most likely not going to mess with these, but media pros will no doubt enjoy having these choices front and center. A link in the bottom of the program opens a window filled with options. This program doesn't just look like Personal Internet Access, it seems to target exactly the kind of confident power user.
While I am willing to make a Good Deal of adjustments for layout, 1 factor of TorGuard's Windows program (and, in reality, all its apps, too) disturbs me. Will discover that VPN server has the smallest latency or is closest. TorGuard doesn't do this. It's a little thing, but changed.
TorGuard Provides a Kill Switch list, much like NordVPN does. TorGuard will automatically quit any applications on this record, if the VPN connection be disrupted. It's a safety measure. TorGuard's Kill Change is limited. I found that you can add programs that are running to the list. It uses the titles you find in the Task Manager, which affords you more control at the cost of usability. NordVPN lets you specify applications that aren't currently running to increase the record, which is handy.
Other VPN services include technical servers. NordVPN And ProtonVPN are two which provide servers specifically. TorGuard has a few: stealth servers intended to be almost impossible to be blocked by firewalls.
Many streaming services take a dim view of VPNs. That is That's not intended for your particular region, because you can use a VPN to spoof your place and access content. Even in case you reside in the US but are vacationing in the united kingdom, streaming video services might block your efforts to VPN back in your house country.
While attached to a New York VPN server, I had been Unable to view any content on Netflix. Of course, that might change at an instant's notice, which will be true even for VPNs that functioned with Netflix.
Note that section 4.3 of the Netflix terms of support Mentions that it uses technologies to verify your place, which you eligible for content in the region in which you created your account. It does not explicitly prohibit the use of a VPN but do not say we didn't warn you if your account becomes locked.
Beyond VPN
TorGuard offers a series of services And privacy. Along with its fundamental VPN service, TorGuard also sells Anonymous Torrent Proxy for $5.95 a month; Anonymous Mail for $6.95 per month; and the Privacy Bundle, which contains both Proxy and VPN support, for $11.95 per month.
If You're tempted for the Anonymous Proxy service Rather than the VPN service since it's more affordable, know the proxy was made to filter just visitors, whereas the VPN service protects. If you catching a torrent or are currently seeding torrents, the proxy makes sure nobody sees your actual IP address. However, your web browsing and other online activity is not included. It's a case of online anonymity versus the time. Torguard Ics
The TorGuard iPhone apphas a striking, Slick look. It's not going to win any design awards, but it's far, far better than either the Windows or Android apps. Nevertheless, we believe the iPhone app is so simple as to be somewhat confusing to use.
When we last reviewed TorGuard, we noted that it didn't Include our OpenVPN protocol that is preferred. Instead, the program uses IKEv2. We are also happy to find that its own iPhone VPN performed well on this platform in our speed tests , too.
We like that the TorGuard Android apphas a split Tunneling feature, as well as the majority of the features that you'll see in the Windows program. However, TorGuard drops the ball in style. We find the app feel it will be conducive to new users, and to be confusing. On setup which did not inspire optimism, it also generated an odd warning in our testing. While the TorGuard service is a good one, it is only outshone by better-designed Android VPN apps.
Sadly, the macOS TorGuard program doesn't have the Modicum of panache which found its way into the app that is iPhone. It's not bad; it fine. It's a grey window to receive your VPN started.
TorGuard did not impress me at the time with its speed test Scores on macOS. I look forward to taking another crack. That said, I am pleased to find that it includes OpenVPN. It is among the very best macOS VPNs.
The Difference Torguard Makes
TorGuard has a great deal going for it: a reasonable entry-level Price, also a large, geographically diverse collection of servers, and also an assortment of subscription add-ons to customize your security expertise. Especially noteworthy is how it aced our speed tests, and its focus on BitTorrent use –two points that are related. TorGuard also has an superb privacy policy, one that's sweet, short, and consumer-friendly. The exact same can not be stated for its program expertise, which has been sacrifice simplicity of use in favor of straightforwardness.
This VPN service does a lot , and it has a high For doing so, Score. It is neck-and-neck with Internet Access that is Private, not just in relation to what it provides but it provides it. Both are privacy-focused, both possess arcane possibilities, and has a UI. TorGuard, for its part, has the speed but Private online Access defeats on it on usability, which explains the reason why it requires an Editors' Choice award along with NordVPN and TunnelBear. However, TorGuard is an impressive service that's well worth considering, especially if speed is everything for you. Torguard Ics
Pricing Options
TorGuard provides four different subscription programs Dependent on the period of the subscription. You can subscribe for one month, three weeks, six months or one year. The longer your subscription period, the greater the discount. The monthly plan costs $9.99, the quarterly subscription costs $19.99, and the semi-annual subscription prices $29.99. If you elect for the yearly subscription, that costs $59.99, then you'll be paying just $4.99 a month (you'll be billed the entire amount at once). TorGuard also offers a biannual program for the most hardcore users at a price of $99.99 charged every 2 decades.
Besides all major credit cards, TorGuard also accepts BitCoin, PayPal, Alipay, and UnionPay.
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Suzana Zivkovic, Partner
Swedish and Serbian
Gender and equal opportunity expert, facilitator
BA in English language and literature, University of Nis, Serbia (2004), individual courses and trainings in e.g. Balkan studies, Anti-corruption methodology, facilitation methods and techniques, gender mainstreaming, gender-responsive budgeting.
Key qualifications
Suzana has been working with gender equality and gender mainstreaming in development cooperation since 2007. She provides trainings and consultancy in gender analysis and auditing as well as mainstreaming gender in programs and projects. She also develops training programs (curriculum and planning) for capacity building, with a specific focus on gender mainstreaming, participative and practical methodologies and experiential learning. She works on facilitating planning and decision making processes using a variety of facilitation methods and techniques. Over 16 years of experience in coordinating and implementing development projects in the region of south-east Serbia and the region, with a special focus on gender mainstreaming and results framework (LFA, RBM). Suzana also has experience in development cooperation working with agriculture and rural development. She provides training on integrity building and anti-corruption, as well as works with local and national institutions on facilitating the process of developing anti-corruption strategic and action plans. She has worked with government institutions, local authorities, national civil society organizations, formal and informal farmer groups but also the UNDP, UN Women, the World Bank (WB), Sida, Swedish Embassies, USAID, Roma Education Fund, CARE International, DANIDA, Mercy Corps.
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More than 14 years of experience in the field of international development, facilitation and organizational development, more than 10 years in gender equality and women's empowerment; five years of experience in developing anti-corruption strategies.
Country experience
Cambodia, Kosovo, Lao PDR, Moldova, Montenegro, Sweden, Ukraine, USA.
Serbian – mother tongue
Swedish – mother tongue
English – Full professional proficiency
French – Minimum professional proficiency
Spanish – Survival profiency