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Amazing Blind People.

  
1. The First Blind Athlete in the Olympics 
 
  
When Marla Runyan was 9 years old she developed Stargardt's Disease, 

a form of macular degeneration that left her legally blind, but that never stopped her. 

In 1987 she went on to study at San Diego State University, where she began 

competing in several sporting events, and her career took off until she won four 

gold medals at the 1992 Summer Paralympics, and at the 1996 Paralympics in 

Atlanta she took silver in the shot put and gold in the pentathlon. 
  
Her career as a world-class runner in able-bodied events began in 1999 at the 

Pan American Games, where she won the 1,500-meter race. The next year, she 

placed eighth in the 1,500-meter in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, making Runyan the first

 legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympics with the highest finish by an 

American woman in that event. 
  
By 2001 she won her first of three consecutive 5000 metre National Championships.

 She also released her autobiography "No Finish Line: My Life As I See It". In 2002 

she added the road 5K and 10K National Championships, and married her coach, 

Matt Lonergan. 
  
2. The Blind Surfer

 
  
Derek Rabelo isn't your average surfer. Far from it, 

since Derek was born with congenital glaucoma. However, that didn't 

stop the 20-year-old Brazilian from learning to surf when he 

was just three years old. 
  
"With God, everything is possible," he says, and religion does play a big 

role in his life: his church helped take him to Hawaii last winter, where the surf

 community took Rabelo under its wing. Relying on four out of five senses, 

Rabelo is the protagonist of the upcoming documentary "Beyond Sight."

 If Derek's example doesn't put trivial complaints like high tides or side shore

 winds into perspective, not a lot of other stories will. 
  
3. The Blind Painter

 
  
John Bramblitt lost his vision in 2001 when he was 30 years old due to

 complications from epilepsy. At first, John says he lost hope and was in a

 deep depression, but then he found an outlet: painting. Since John can't

 see colours, he has developed a process whereby he paints by touch.

 According to the artist, the colours feel different to him: white is thick and black is

 a little runny, so when he needs Gray, he mixes the two until the texture is right.

 His art has been sold in over twenty countries and he has appeared 

internationally in print, TV, and radio. His work has received much recognition, 

including the "Most Inspirational Video of 2008" from YouTube and three 

Presidential Service Awards for his innovative art workshops.

4. The Blind NASCAR driver

 
  
On January 29, 2011, Mark Anthony Riccobono took the wheel of a

 Ford Escape and drove solo around the Daytona International Speedway, 

something that's not unusual except for one thing: Riccobono is blind.
  
Two technologies make it possible: Drive Grip, that consists of two gloves 

that send vibrations over the knuckles to tell the driver how much to turn the 

wheel, and Speed Strip, a cushion down the back and legs of the driver 

which tell them how much to accelerate. 
  
With only 10 percent of normal vision at age 5, Riccobono continued to lose

 vision throughout his life. But now, as part of a program from the National Federation

 of the Blind, he's working to demonstrate that blind people can adjust to society 

and drive safely with the aid of new technology. "It's going to be a lot of work to

 convince them that we can actually pilot a vehicle that is much more complex 

and has much more risk. Now we have to convince society that this demonstration

 is not just a stunt. It's real. It's dynamic research

 that's doing great things," said Mark. 
  
5. The Blind Chef

 
  
Chefs rely heavily on their sense of taste and smell to cook – 

especially if they're blind, like the winner of the 2012 MasterChef TV Show, 

Christine Hà. In 2004 she was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica and 

gradually started losing her vision, and was almost completely blind by 2007. 
  
While she has never studied cooking, she has a large following on her 

food blog. She says, "I have to depend a lot more on the other 

senses to cook – taste, smell, how certain ingredients feel," adding that 

cooking without sight just involves "a lot of organization." 
  
In the 19 episodes of the competition third season of MasterChef, 

Christine Ha won seven times in both individual and team challenges, 

an additional three times in the top 3 group, but she also finished two times

 in the bottom 2/3 group. On September 10, 2012, Christine Ha was pronounced

 the winner of the competition, taking away $250,000, the title of MasterChef,

 the MasterChef trophy, and a cookbook deal. 
  
6. The Blind Photographer

 
  
Pete Eckert was trained in sculpture and industrial design. 

He had always been a visual person and planned to study architecture

 at Yale, but then he started to lose his sight because of a condition called 

retinitis pigmentosa. Amazingly enough, he embraced photography even

 more after becoming blind, shooting ethereal double exposures and 

vivid light paintings with his Mamiyaflex TLR. He visualizes the image

 he wants to create in his mind and uses his senses of sound, touch, and

 memory to make a photograph. "I am a visual person. I just can't see," he says. 
  
7. The Blind Architect

 
  
Christopher Downey is an architect, planner, and consultant who

 lost his sight in 2008 after a tumour wrapped around his optic nerve.

 How was it possible to keep working as an architect? He works with a blind 

computer scientist who has devised a way to print on line maps through a

 tactile printer. Today, he is dedicated to creating more helpful and 

enriching environments for the blind and visually impaired, and he also

 helps in crafting design processes that are more responsive to the

 needs of blind clients and end-users.

HAVE YOU THANKED YOUR CREATOR

FOR WHAT YOU ARE TODAY.

And Finally

I am getting some maintenance and building correction done to my home .

The Contractor is one whose left elbow was cut off in a building accident long ago.

BUT HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HARD-WORKING AND TRUTHFUL QUALITY CONTRACTOR
 IN CHENNAI TODAY.

OH YES LET'S THANK THE GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY FOR THE BETTER PHYSICAL AND
LIFE CIRCUMSTANCE HE HAS GRANTED MOST OF US

WITH THE BEST OF REGARDS

TONY CHACKO

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