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  Meet Suresh Kumar, a 32 year old man in Kavundampalayam region in the city who can fix problematic mixies in minutes and easily solve issues of fridges, grinder, washing machine, gas stove, ceiling fan, etc. quickly.  You may ask "what is extraordinary in this?". There is one element that makes Suresh Kumar distinct; he is totally blind. Suresh lost his eyesight when he was affected with brain fever at the age of 6. He studied up to 5th std. in government-run school for the blind but discontinued his studies after that. By the efforts of his sister Revathi, Suresh received skill-training to fix electric products from a local repair shop. Suresh credits electrician Krishnamoorthy for training him. Initially people had hesitated to seek Suresh's services but upon seeing his talent, they have continued preferring his service center. Suresh says that he wishes to train blind people in fixing so that they too can live independently (never have to think about begging) and wor...

  Mental illness is on the rise and it's not hard to see why. And unfortunately, a lot of people won't know where to turn for help. A mentally ill person doesn't deserve to hear these words when they are struggling: • "Everyone struggles"  • "You're not the only one" • "It's just a phase" • "Get over yourself" • "It's all in your head"  They deserve to hear words like: • "Are you ok?" • "Can I help you in anyway?" • "Would you like to talk about it?" • "I am here for you"  Too ma ny people follow the trend of 'copy and paste' when it comes to mental health posts. It goes beyond, "speak up if you are tired; talk to someone".  When people really start to struggle and go through a dark time, no one wants to be there for them. Yet everyone is fast to put a knife in their back or drag them down even lower. "Like and Share" or "Copy and Paste...

 Lauren Anne Dickason was charged with murdering her daughters Liane, aged six, and twins Maya and Karla, aged two. Dickason, who is on trial in the High Court in Christchurch, New Zealand, has admitted to killing her children but denies it was murder. Her defence claims she is not guilty by reason of insanity. “I did the twins first… The first one was being really, really, really horrible to me lately,” the mum explained, referring to Karla. “She has been biting me and hitting me and scratching me and throwing tantrums 24 hours a day – and I just don’t know how to manage that. That is why I did her first.” She explained that the children were jumping on couches and not listening to her. So she went to the garage, spotted some cable ties and thought, “That could possibly work”. In the interview, Dickason admitted she “had been thinking about it for sure,” and put the three sisters in a room before using the cable ties on them. That attempt was unsuccessful, however, so she suffocat...

 The bone flute is the world's oldest musical instrument. Its pieces were discovered in an Egyptian cave. It is a 40,000 year artifact according to archaeologists.  With five finger holes and a V-shaped mouthpiece, this flute is made from the naturally hollow wing bone of a griffon vulture. This flute is about 0.3 inch wide and was originally about 13 inches long. The mammoth-ivory flutes would have been very challenging to make. Using only stone tools, the flute maker would have had to split a section of curved ivory along its natural grain. The two halves would then have been hollowed out, carved, and fitted together with an airtight seal. The flute bone was discovered in 1995 by Ivan Turk. It is believed that a Neanderthal made the bone because of its sophisticated nature. It is usually adapted to a right handed musician.

I was surprised to find out that there were words I have been saying my whole life that were actually acronyms. Acronyms are everywhere and most of us use them all the time but not everyone knows what they stand for. We have combined in this article some of the most common acronyms and we have sorted them from the easiest to the most difficult. You will find the ones at the top quite easy to guess but as you make your way to the bottom I doubt you will know what they stand for. 1. Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity. 2. LED. Light emitting diode. 3. GPS Global positioning system 4. USB Universal Serial Bus 5. SMS Short Message Service 6. PDF Portable document format 7. GB Gigabyte 8. WWW World wide Web 9. SIM Subscriber Identity Module 10. ATM Automated teller machine. 11. FAQ Frequently asked questions. 12. IQ Intelligent quotient 13. SOS Save our soul Save our ship 14. OCD Obsessive compulsive disorder 15. CVS Consumer value stores 16. LASER Light amplification by stimulated emis...