SELENA, THE ROCK, ICE CUBE AMONG 2017 WALK OF FAME HONOREES

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxLvdewENfE1yJZo4Sv6fWqZgeLTQBxBF9afNl5lNQCZKBEoC5xggHopIY0LKtmdhHi6iK1apvZaEvvUVgj6JpqA5iDWQfXR82Uj-3qtLkHnUjeknFVxwvfD7-7c8ISwU8n1ltsAyVuk/s1600/selena-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="selena-geektrends" border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxLvdewENfE1yJZo4Sv6fWqZgeLTQBxBF9afNl5lNQCZKBEoC5xggHopIY0LKtmdhHi6iK1apvZaEvvUVgj6JpqA5iDWQfXR82Uj-3qtLkHnUjeknFVxwvfD7-7c8ISwU8n1ltsAyVuk/s640/selena-geektrends.jpg" title="selena-geektrends" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />Hollywood, CA - 2017 Hollywood Walk of class of Fame announced Tuesday and as singer late Selena Quintanilla, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Tyra Banks, Chris Pratt, Amy Adams, Ice Cube, John Legend, and the name including the driver Los Gustavo Dudamel Angeles Philharmonic.<br /><br />Quintanilla, "Tejano music queen," was one of two winners posthumously. The other was film composer Jerry Goldsmith.<br /><br />Quintanilla shot and killed by Yolanda Saldívar in 1995. He was only 23 years old.<br /><br />Honorees selected to receive stars on the Walk of Fame Veterans Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, was taken over by hundreds of nominations by Walk.<br /><br />Walk of Fame honors in their respective categories were the following selections:<br /><br />Theater / performance: Criss Angel, Jeff Dunham and Gustavo Dudamel.<br /><br />Motion Picture: Amy Adams, Jason Bateman, Goldie Hawn, Dwayne Johnson, Chris Pratt, Brett Ratner, Ryan Reynolds, George A. Romero, Mark Ruffalo and Rita Wilson.<br /><br />Radio: Elvis Duran.<br /><br />Registration: Clarence Avant, Jerry Goldsmith, Hall and Oates, Ice Cube, John Legend, NSYNC, the new version and Selena Quintanilla.<br /><br />TV: Tyra Banks, Andre Braugher, Ken Corday, Lee Daniels, Hugh Laurie, Eva Longoria, Wolfgang Puck, Keri Russell, ham Saban, George Segal, Sarah Silverman and Jeffrey Tambor.</div>

SELENA, THE ROCK, ICE CUBE AMONG 2017 WALK OF FAME HONOREES

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Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: 40 dead and more than 225 hurt

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptJbQYO5WNw1Nh73MPa9IdE_KxQgiwQV3SGAwfvpTPbcIhOc9JZWU-ejMwUHxOKGmRv3vu2SNL03IBofqzkexa3r1assimriZanDXiG7OpVxhAbQ1AV4Lzi08ePATvSG_CNb1G-xcvQc/s1600/istambul-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="istambul-geektrends" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptJbQYO5WNw1Nh73MPa9IdE_KxQgiwQV3SGAwfvpTPbcIhOc9JZWU-ejMwUHxOKGmRv3vu2SNL03IBofqzkexa3r1assimriZanDXiG7OpVxhAbQ1AV4Lzi08ePATvSG_CNb1G-xcvQc/s400/istambul-geektrends.jpg" title="istambul-geektrends" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 41 people, at least 13 of them foreigners, and injured more than 230, officials say.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police fired back.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PM Binali Yildirim said early signs pointed to so-called Islamic State but no-one has so far admitted the attack.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack should serve as a turning point in the global fight against militant groups.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The bombs that exploded in Istanbul today could have gone off at any airport in any city around the world," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The US called the attack "heinous", saying America remained "steadfast in our support for Turkey".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called the attacks "cowardly and brutal".</div><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Dressed in black'</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Istanbul's governor confirmed 41 people had died and 239 were injured in the attack. At least 13 of those killed were of foreign or dual nationality. Some 109 of those hurt have now been discharged from hospital.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One Iranian and one Ukrainian were confirmed dead.</div><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></h2><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis:</h2><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The lack of any immediate claim for this attack by so-called Islamic State is not surprising. IS rarely, if ever, claims responsibility for attacks against the Turkish state yet it is quick to advertise its assassinations of Syrian activists inside Turkey.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All the signs point towards IS being the culprits. This is what British counter-terrorism officials term "a marauding terrorist firearms attack", following a pattern first seen in the Mumbai attacks of 2008.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Istanbul targets were international air travellers and ground staff at an iconic location, the third busiest airport in Europe.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IS is targeting Turkey because it sees its government as being un-Islamic and too close to its Western allies in Nato. IS is also feeling the pressure as the Turkish authorities move to close down its networks inside Turkey.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkey's other main foe, Kurdish separatists, have carried out many attacks over the years but their primary targets have tended to be Turkish policemen and soldiers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Roos, who was due to fly home to South Africa, told Reuters he saw one of the attackers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He was wearing all black. His face was not masked. We ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another. By that time he had stopped shooting.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He turned around and started coming towards us. He was holding his gun inside his jacket. He looked around anxiously to see if anyone was going to stop him and then went down the escalator. We heard some more gunfire and then another explosion, and then it was over."</div><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#Pray for Turkey</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px -24.6406px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="image-and-copyright-container" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></figure><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Taxis were used to rush casualties to hospital after the attack. Desperate relatives of those missing later gathered outside a local hospital where many victims were taken.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4b5yL4kFmC7Ggt6hj170HaYmasedv2TS7jkXi6qfMDqnSmJ03yFP6EuNGg785dUQ0SuQjVmlNM_tVTOV8QPDAYJ_M0AUS7cbJqPjL7hsQ4wTTZ2ggIgydZYNYbNMmxbTzZtxceK_rRU/s1600/istambul-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="geektrends" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4b5yL4kFmC7Ggt6hj170HaYmasedv2TS7jkXi6qfMDqnSmJ03yFP6EuNGg785dUQ0SuQjVmlNM_tVTOV8QPDAYJ_M0AUS7cbJqPjL7hsQ4wTTZ2ggIgydZYNYbNMmxbTzZtxceK_rRU/s400/istambul-geektrends.jpg" title="geektrends" width="400" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flights in and out of the airport were suspended after the attack. They have now resumed, but information boards showed about one-third had been cancelled, with many delays.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Charles Michel, the prime minister of Belgium whose capital city was <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35869985" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">targeted by bombers in March</a>, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/CharlesMichel/status/747883000138993664" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tweeted </a>from the EU summit in Brussels: "Our thoughts are with the victims of the attacks at Istanbul's airport. We condemn these atrocious acts of violence."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Major recent attacks</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2016</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 June, Istanbul:</strong> Car bomb kills seven police officers and four civilians. Claimed by Kurdish militant group TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19 March, Istanbul:</strong> Suicide bomb kills four people in shopping street. IS blamed</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 March, Ankara:</strong> Car bomb kills 35. Claimed by TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 February, Ankara:</strong> 29 killed in attack on military buses. Claimed by TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 January, Istanbul:</strong> 12 Germans killed by Syrian bomber in tourist area</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2015</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23 December, Istanbul:</strong> Bomb kills cleaner at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport. Claimed by TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 October, Ankara:</strong> More than 100 killed at peace rally outside railway station. Blamed on IS</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20 July, Suruc, near Syrian border:</strong> 34 people killed in bombing in Kurdish town. IS blamed</div></div><div><br /></div></div>

Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: 40 dead and more than 225 hurt

A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 41 people, at least 13 of them foreigners, and injured more than 230, off...

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWMrp0CXDweDBD1roweaWHlhh268Skuho3AxcXtXshUpmlv6eBqoZpawA_te9NmCp3I95E3uZdXlbWI02dZITPD_tbZiNMFY9-grtd63nJcisRKHaO20QMHthsOk38xSNnPrpgj1lXdhU/s1600/whathappen-geektrands.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWMrp0CXDweDBD1roweaWHlhh268Skuho3AxcXtXshUpmlv6eBqoZpawA_te9NmCp3I95E3uZdXlbWI02dZITPD_tbZiNMFY9-grtd63nJcisRKHaO20QMHthsOk38xSNnPrpgj1lXdhU/s320/whathappen-geektrands.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="d5ee" name="d5ee" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Ohh My god This is what happening with our world, i can't believe.Why is the world changing? the 8 reasons that lead me to believe it.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="d5ee" name="d5ee" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="2c71" name="2c71" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">1- No one can stand the employment model any longer</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="f2fa" name="f2fa" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">We are reaching our limits. People working with big corporations can’t stand their jobs. The lack of purpose knocks on your door as if it came from inside you like a yell of despair.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="12da" name="12da" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">People want out. They want to drop everything. Take a look on how many people are willing to risk entrepreneurship, people leaving on sabbaticals, people with work-related depression, people in burnout.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="f102" name="f102" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">2- The entrepreneurship model is also changing</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="675c" name="675c" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Over the past few years, with the explosion of startups, thousands of entrepreneurs turned their garages in offices to bring their billion dollar ideas to life. The vortex of entrepreneurship was to find an investor and get funded. To be funded was like winning the World Cup, or the Super Bowl.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="b498" name="b498" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">But what happens after you get funded?</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="4eb2" name="4eb2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">You get back to being an employee. You may have brought in people not sharing your dream, not in agreement with your purpose and soon it’s all about the money. The financial end becomes the main driver of your business.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="ae2a" name="ae2a" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">People are suffering with it. Excellent startups began to tumble because the money seeking model is endless.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="ae20" name="ae20" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">A new way to endeavor is needed. Good people are doing it already.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="7a6a" name="7a6a" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">3- The rise of collaboration</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="d6db" name="d6db" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Many people have figured out that it doesn’t make any sense to go on by yourself. Many people have awakened from the “each man for himself” mad mentality.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="c0ea" name="c0ea" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Stop, take a step back and think. Isn’t it absurd that we, 7 billion of us living in the same planet, have grown further apart from each other? What sense does it make to turn your back on the thousands, maybe millions, of people living around you in the same city? Every time it crosses my mind, I feel blue.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="f2bf" name="f2bf" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Fortunately, things are changing. Sharing, collaborative economy concepts are being implemented, and it points towards a new direction. The direction of collaborating, of sharing, of helping, of togetherness.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="bd24" name="bd24" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">This is beautiful to watch. It touches me.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="f918" name="f918" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">4- We are finally figuring out what the internet is</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="bfc8" name="bfc8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The internet is an incredibly spectacular thing and only now, after so many years, we are understanding its power. With the internet the world is opened, the barriers fall, the separation ends, the togetherness starts, the collaboration explodes, the helping emerges.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="391e" name="391e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Some nations saw true revolutions that used the internet as the primary catalyst, such as the Arab Spring. Here in Brazil we are just starting to make a better use out of this amazing tool.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="e3f2" name="e3f2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Internet is taking down mass control. The big media groups controlling news by how it suits best what they want the message to be and what they want us to read are no longer the sole owners of information. You go after what you want. You bond to whomever you want. You explore whatever you may want to.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="426e" name="426e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">With the advent of the internet, the small is no longer speechless, there is a voice. The anonymous become acknowledged. The world comes together. And then the system may fall.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="d8cf" name="d8cf" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">5- The fall of exaggerated consumerism</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="d537" name="d537" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">For too long, we’ve been manipulated to consume as much as we possibly can. To buy every new product launched, the newest car, the latest iPhone, the top brands, lots of clothes, shoes, lots and lots and lots of pretty much anything we could our hands on.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="c8d1" name="c8d1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Going against the crowd, many people have understood that this of way off. Lowsumerism, slow life and slow food are a few excerpts of actions being taken as we speak, pointing out by contradiction how absurdly we have come to organize ourselves.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="bace" name="bace" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Fewer people are using cars, fewer people are overspending, and more people are swapping clothes, buying used goods, sharing assets, cars, apartments, offices.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="cfc3" name="cfc3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">We don’t need all of that they told us we needed. And this consciousness of new consumerism can take down any company living of the exaggerated end of it.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="3e42" name="3e42" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">6- Healthy and organic eating</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="afab" name="afab" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">We were so crazy we even accepted eating anything! It only needed to taste good, and everything would be alright.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="7fb0" name="7fb0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">We were so disconnected that companies started to poison our food and we didn’t say anything!</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="36c9" name="36c9" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">But then some people started waking up, enabling and strengthening <a href="http://www.foodguruz.in/category/healthy-food" target="_blank">healthy  food</a> and organic eating.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="a37f" name="a37f" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">This is only to get stronger.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="09a5" name="09a5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">But what has this got to do with economy and work? Just about everything, I’d say.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="2974" name="2974" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Food production is one of the basic fundamentals of our society. If we change our mindset, our eating habit and our way of consuming, corporations will have to respond and adapt to a new market.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="4411" name="4411" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The small farmer is getting back to being relevant to the whole chain of production. Even people are growing plants and seeds inside their homes as well.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="b213" name="b213" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">And that reshapes the whole economy.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="dd59" name="dd59" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">7 — The awakening of spirituality</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="e9a9" name="e9a9" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">How many friends do you have who practice yoga? What about meditation? Now think back, 10 years ago, how many people did you know by then who practiced these activities?</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="d1d8" name="d1d8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Spirituality, for too long, was for esoteric folks, those weird-like and mystic people.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="7f62" name="7f62" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">But fortunately, this is also changing. We’ve come to the edge of reason and rationality. We were able to realize that, with only our conscious mind, we can’t figure out everything that goes by here. There is something else going on and I’m sure you want to get hold of that as well.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="c1d7" name="c1d7" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">You want to understand how these things work. How life operates, what happens after death, what is this energy thing people talk about so much, what is quantum physics, how thoughts can be materialized and create our sense of reality, what is coincidence and synchronicity, why meditation works, how it’s possible to cure using nothing but bare hands, how those alternative therapies not approved by regular medicine can actually work.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="376d" name="376d" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Companies are providing meditation to their employees. Even schools are teaching the young how to meditate. Think about it.</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="718b" name="718b" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">8 — Unschooling trends</strong></div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="dd48" name="dd48" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Who created this teaching model? Who chose the classes you have to take? Who chose the lessons we learn in history classes? Why didn’t they teach us the truth about other ancient civilizations?</div><div class="graf--p graf-after--p" id="15bf" name="15bf" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin: 29px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Why should kids follow a certain set of rules? Why should they watch everything in silence? Why should they wear a uniform? What about taking a test to prove that you actually learned?</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnEqzgfirtWq4ntLWKbLuBYbaw2t8DtlWhjIPYHxrQkOOr4lGWJEySqiR8I-teXD4s2YcuZdRf5SlZ_dM7GzoybSG3rVZhe9mshPb9igEPFvUteBq__iyVGDRDfdSJgUNwrEo7Cnsh_Ik/s1600/nasa-geektrands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnEqzgfirtWq4ntLWKbLuBYbaw2t8DtlWhjIPYHxrQkOOr4lGWJEySqiR8I-teXD4s2YcuZdRf5SlZ_dM7GzoybSG3rVZhe9mshPb9igEPFvUteBq__iyVGDRDfdSJgUNwrEo7Cnsh_Ik/s320/nasa-geektrands.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The india 13 engineering students team was partcipate in NASA Competition.The most things is also a four girl is include in this 13 engineering it is proud to feel.</span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The team named 'Screwdrivers' from Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management, Mumbai, will compete against 40 other teams from countries like China, Scotland, Russia, USA, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Denmark, Egypt, Turkey, and Poland in NASA's 15th annual international Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) competition in Houston from Thursday.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">This competition is being organised by MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) and Screwdrivers is the only team from India and competing against 40 other teams from countries like China, Scotland, Russia, USA, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Denmark, Egypt, Turkey, and Poland.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Competing for a coveted prize as part of NASA's MATE international ROV competition, the team guided by Prof Sawankumar Naik, is all set to represent India at the NASA Johnson Space Canter's Neutral Buoyancy Lab from June 23 to 25.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"Although it is their third visit to the space centre, but this time, with over 40 participating teams from across the globe, the stakes are higher than ever," he told PTI.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Students are expected to build and design their own remotely operated vehicles from scratch.</span><br /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Chief technical officer, Vijayender Joshi said, "The tasks change each year but are always based on ocean engineering."</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">This year, NASA is going to start a mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa, since the moon also has water, the students would have to create a model, which will not only work underwater but also survive in space.</span><br /><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"The design is completely revamped from the model that went last year, we're told. And with various changes in design, the cost has come up to an approximately $1,000. Made over a span of five months, the robot, which the team calls 'spyder', has two parts -- one that can stay above water and another that can go under it," he adds.</span></span><br /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; content: "."; display: block; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Team Screwdrivers has previously been felicitated by late President A P J<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Abdul-Kalam" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #3ca2c8; cursor: pointer; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; opacity: 0.8; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Abdul Kalam</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">, ace nuclear scientist Dr Anil Kakodkar, record holding astronaut<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sunita-Williams" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #3ca2c8; cursor: pointer; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; opacity: 0.8; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Sunita Williams</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: proxima-regular1, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis for innovative design and cost-effective implementation.</span></div>

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This desi OS is bigger than iOS:6 things to know

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUlqZ2KF55KSGLFg9RKlqI9gIzbYs0nazlrDV57iZNm_fvYiuz9gsMZPfhzIU1m3vi7mJjPZjRWdXE-fTV02FELC14eG5tIzrwE5AbKwSglEUuVplmEedfvFTWjLeQyenHbdlC7DYtODw/s1600/Indusos-geektrands.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUlqZ2KF55KSGLFg9RKlqI9gIzbYs0nazlrDV57iZNm_fvYiuz9gsMZPfhzIU1m3vi7mJjPZjRWdXE-fTV02FELC14eG5tIzrwE5AbKwSglEUuVplmEedfvFTWjLeQyenHbdlC7DYtODw/s320/Indusos-geektrands.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This desi OS is bigger then IOS, google android launch this is in india specifically.Google’s Android OS is undisputable numero uno in India’s smartphone market. But if you thought the second position belongs to Apple’s iOS or Microsoft’s Windows Phone, you got it wrong. The second spot is firmly occupied by indigenous smartphone operating system- Indus OS, created by a Mumbai-based startup with the same name (formerly known as Firstouch).</span><br /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The company claims to have got 3 million users onboard within just 9 months and has partnered with the government to introduce text-to-speech technology in regional languages. Indus takes pride in being the “world’s first regional operating system”.</span><br /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">According to data from Counterpoint Research with ET, Indus OS had a 5.6% share in the total smartphone market during January-March, ahead of Apple's iOS which was at No. 5 with 2.5% share and Microsoft's Windows which had a share of 0.3% — same as Samsung's Tizen OS - at No. 7.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Here are six things you must know about Indus OS.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1) Second biggest OS in india:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">                 </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Wondering if Indus OS is the second-largest smartphone OS in India, how come it is less known to the masses? This is because Indus OS is silently running on 13 popular Micromax smartphones including handsets in the Unite, Canvas and Bolt series for quite some time.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">2)Simply Android:</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Indus OS is based on Android. It is not a standalone operating system in itself and is just another Android skin. However, the main USP of Indus OS is the focus on regional language and a simple, intuitive interface.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">3)Indus Swipe:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Indus OS features a unique keyboard app which allows users to translate text real time. The feature called Indus Swipe, translates text to a desired native language with just a right swipe and transliterates when swiped left.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">4)Regional Language Keyboard:</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The OS has patented regional keyboards that support 12 languages -- Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Odia, Assamese, Punjabi, Kannada, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Marathi. The keyboard integrates all the languages simultaneously and allows users to type in regional languages using a English keyboard.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">5)Indus Messaging:</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Indus OS allows users to send free text messages to other Indus OS users. Also, it comes with a unique text-to-speech feature. With this, users can select text on websites while browsing and the interface will read aloud the selected text to the user. This means, people who are not comfortable in English can browse for information online and select this feature to understand the text in their native language.</span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">6)App Bazaar:</span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline; float: none; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Android UI comes with its own local app store called App Bazaar, allowing users to download apps in native languages, without requiring them to use email IDs or paying by credit cards. The OS' App Bazaar is claimed to be the world's first regional language app marketplace with over 25,000 apps. Offering apps and digital content in 12 different languages, it boasts of a monthly cumulative app download rate of 130%.</span> </span> </span> </span> </span> </span></div>

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Kassidy Cook at Rio Olympics

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGumAx3-Eaz7ViAEH0UIIeIXC6I1kUAxOZ4CA1XF7kZ7AxBpavoPRV-x99upY5zTlR1yScp_o7viv0GtXCGKM85u3cz_8jY5C0hJaGkyNjmpmuATPlVvQMGJWHMyfxwYXPDtUwh2XF11k/s1600/KassidyCook-geektrands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Kassidy Cook" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGumAx3-Eaz7ViAEH0UIIeIXC6I1kUAxOZ4CA1XF7kZ7AxBpavoPRV-x99upY5zTlR1yScp_o7viv0GtXCGKM85u3cz_8jY5C0hJaGkyNjmpmuATPlVvQMGJWHMyfxwYXPDtUwh2XF11k/s1600/KassidyCook-geektrands.jpg" title="Kassidy Cook" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Kassidy Cook qualified for her first Olympic Games in the women's individual 3m springboard by finishing first at the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials on Sunday in Indianapolis. Abby Johnston, who earned a silver medal in synchronized springboard at the 2012 Olympics, qualified an individual Rio berth by finishing second to Cook at Trials.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Lauren Reedy, Laura Ryan and 14-year-old Maria Coburn rounded out the top five at Trials.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The Trials competition concludes at 8 p.m. ET with the men's 10m platform final, where the top two finishers will qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. David Boudia, the reigning Olympic champion, has a 40-point lead over the field after the cumulative preliminary and semifinal rounds.</div><div class="embed" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cook watched the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony from her hospital bed – she injured her shoulder following the 2012 Trials and underwent surgery to repair her bionic shoulder, as she now calls it. She was a dive ahead of the field after completing her round 4 dive, a reverse two and a half worth 67.50 points. She finished out the competition with a forward two and a half with one and a half twists for a final score of 1003.65.</div><div class="embed" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="oembed" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;">Johnston, the 2012 Olympic synchronized springboard silver medalist, needed only 2.5s to clinch her spot in Rio on her fifth and final dive, a forward two and a half with one and a half twists. 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Kassidy Cook at Rio Olympics

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