POSTED BY Buzz ON Nov 02, 2012 AT 15:24 IST ,  Edited At: Nov 02, 2012 15:24 IST

On October 30, put up a video on Youtube with a simple message:

This is my four year old daughter, Abigael, after hearing one too many mentions of the election.

 

The video went viral with over three million views.

NPR was moved enough to issue a formal apology to Abigael:

On behalf of NPR and all other news outlets, we apologize to Abigael and all the many others who probably feel like her. We must confess, the campaign's gone on long enough for us, too. Let's just keep telling ourselves: ‘Only a few more days, only a few more days, only a few more days.’

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POSTED BY Buzz ON Nov 02, 2012 AT 15:24 IST, Edited At: Nov 02, 2012 15:24 IST
POSTED BY Buzz ON Sep 10, 2012 AT 20:35 IST ,  Edited At: Sep 10, 2012 20:35 IST


The Korea Herald reports:

Although many mothers decide to differentiate their identical children with different clothes or different hairstyles, the mother of these boys from Shenzhen city in China’s Guangdong province decided to shave numbers onto their heads. As the children are starting school this week, their mom shaved their heads so their teachers can tell them apart.

Now that they can easily be distinguished, it doesn’t matter that the quadruplets’ parents have decided to dress all of them in exactly the same outfits -- complete with matching backpacks.

The mother has admitted that even their father had a hard time distinguishing each boy before their new haircuts, sometimes feeling confused when dealing with them.

However, one has to wonder how people will tell apart Jiang Yunlong, Jiang Yunxiao, Jiang Yunhan and Jiang Yunlin when they grow older.

(Via Ambassador Vishnu Prakash, ambassador of India to South Korea, on Twitter)

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POSTED BY Buzz ON Sep 10, 2012 AT 20:35 IST, Edited At: Sep 10, 2012 20:35 IST
POSTED BY Buzz ON Jun 22, 2012 AT 19:30 IST ,  Edited At: Jun 22, 2012 19:30 IST

A shocking Youtube video of a 68-year-old school bus monitor New York who was bullied by a group of middle school students has received more than $475,000 in online donations.

More about the case:

Karen Klein, 68, is seen in a 10-minute viral video attempting to ignore the verbal attacks by students on a bus operated by the Greece Central School District, near Rochester, N.Y. Children on the bus hurl repeated insults and threats at the grandmother, calling her fat and at one point suggesting that her children commit suicide. 

But donations have since poured in for the grandmother in hopes that she'll take a "vacation of a lifetime," according to fundraising site indiegogo.com. As of early Thursday, a total of $156,979 [As of Friday, the time of posting this, a total of $482,310] had been received for Klein and the video had been viewed on YouTube more than 1.5 million times.

Klein's daughter, Michelle, said her mother has worked in the school system for more than 20 years as a bus driver and now a bus monitor. Klein, meanwhile, has said she wants to return to her job, but on a different bus route and with an apology from the students, MyFoxBoston.com reports.

Klein did not report the bullying, but school officials notified Town of Greece police when they learned of it. Police have questioned the students involved, but none have been charged.

The school district, meanwhile, is investigating the incident. At least two other videos showing Klein being taunted by students aboard a bus are known to have been posted online.

"We have discovered other similar videos on YouTube and are working to identify all of the students involved," according to a statement posted on the district's website.

The outpouring of support for Klein follows a recent surge in awareness of bullying that has brought the issue from the classroom to the stage and screen to the White House.

In April, the documentary film "Bully" examined the problem by following five kids over the course of a school year. Months later, after 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer of suburban Buffalo killed himself in September after complaining about being bullied about his sexuality, pop singer Lady Gaga decried the loss of another life to bullying, tweeting to millions of followers that she'd take her concerns to President Barack Obama.

Also this year, the White House held a conference on bullying prevention, estimating that it affects 13 million students, or about a third of those attending school. Obama said he hoped to "dispel the myth that bullying is just a harmless rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up. It's not 

Commentary above by BN Breaker on Youtube

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POSTED BY Buzz ON Jun 22, 2012 AT 19:30 IST, Edited At: Jun 22, 2012 19:30 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep ON Aug 08, 2009 AT 00:35 IST ,  Edited At: Aug 08, 2009 00:39 IST

There are several youtube videos of this ritual practiced in Solapur region of Maharashtra in which infants are apparently tossed from a height of 50 feet onto a thin bedsheet held by devotees just above the ground in the belief that it brings them good health and luck. Recent TV coverage forced women and child development minister Krishna Tirath to promise action against such superstition and customs.  National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) says they have issued a notice to the Sholapur district magistrate as well as Maharashtra government.

Links in separate emails from Manish Sharma and Meenakshi Rao.

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POSTED BY Sundeep ON May 13, 2009 AT 20:02 IST ,  Edited At: May 14, 2009 00:29 IST

The Daily Telegraph reports:

Doctors are trying to unravel the mystery of an Indian village boasting 250 sets of twins born to just 2,000 families. 

The phenomenon has seen almost six times as many twins born than the global average in the remote village of Kodinhi, in Kerala.

In 2008 alone 15 pairs of twins were born in the village out of 300 healthy deliveries and this year is expected to top that number.

More here

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POSTED BY Sundeep ON May 13, 2009 AT 20:02 IST, Edited At: May 14, 2009 00:29 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep ON Jan 30, 2007 AT 17:02 IST ,  Edited At: Jan 30, 2007 17:02 IST

Received in email. Essay, supposedly written by a schoolboy with all original spellings :

The original inhabitants of ancient India were called Adidases, who lived in two cities called Hariappa and Mujhe-na-Daro. These cities had the best drain system in the world and so there was no brain drain from them.

Ancient India was full of myths which have been handed down from son to father. A myth is a female moth. A collection of myths is called mythology,which means stories with female caricatures. One myth says that people in olden times worshipped monkeys because they were our incestors.

In olden times there were two big families in India. One was called the Pandava and the other was called the Karova. They fought amongst themselves in a battle called Mahabharat, after which India came to be known as MeraBharat Mahan.

In midevil times India was ruled by the Slave Dienasty. So named because they all died a nasty death. Then came the Tughlaqs who shifted their capital from Delhi because of its pollution. They were followed by the Mowglis.

The greatest Mowgli was Akbar because he extinguished himself on the battlefield of Panipat which is in Hurryana. But his son Jehangir was peace loving; he married one Hindu wife and kept 300 porcupines. Then came Shahajahan who had 14 sons. Family planning had not been invented at that time. He also built the Taj Mahal hotel for his wife who now sleeps there.

The king sent all his sons away to distant parts of India because they started quarrelling. Dara Seiko was sent to UP, Shaikh Bhakhtiyar was sent to J & K, while Orangezip came to Bombay to fight Shivaji. However,after that they changed its name to Mumbai because Shivaji's sena did not like it. They also do not like New Delhi, so they are calling it Door Darshan.

After the Mowglis came Vasco the Gama. He was an exploder who was circumcising India with a 100 foot clipper. Then came the British.They brought with them many inventions such as cricket, tramtarts and steamed railways. They were followed by the French who brought in French fries,pizzazz and laundry. But Robert Clive drove them out when he deafened Duplex who was out membered since the British had the queen on their side.

Eventually, the British came to overrule India because there was too much diversity in our unity. The British overruled India for a long period.They were great expotents and impotents. They started expoting salt from India and impoting cloth. This was not liked by Mahatma Gandhi who wanted to produce his own salt. This was called the Swedish moment. During this moment, many people burnt their lion cloths in the street and refused to wear anything else. The British became very angry at this and stopped the production of Indian testiles.

In 1920, Mahatma Gandhi was married to one wife. Soon after he became the father of the nation. In 1942 he started the Quiet India moment, so named because the British were quietly lootoing our country.

In 1947, India became free and its people became freely loving. This increased our population. Its government became a limited mockery, which means people are allowed to take the law in their own hands with the help of the police. Our constipation is the best in the world because it says that no man can be hanged twice for the same crime. It also says you cannot be put in prison if you have not paid your taxis.

Another important thing about our constipation is that it can be changed. This is not possible with the British constipation because it is not written on paper. The Indian parlemint consists of two houses which are called lower and higher. This is because one Mr Honest Abe said that two houses divided against itself cannot withstand.

So Pandit Nehru asked the British for freedom at midnight since the British were afraid of the dark. At midnight, on August 15, there was a tryst in parlemint in which many participated by wearing khaki and hosting the flag.

Recently in India, there have been a large number of scams and a plaque, it can be dangerous because many people died of this plaque in Surat.

Scams are all over India. One of these was in Bihar where holy cows were not given anything to eat by their elected leader. The other scam was in Bofor which is a small town in Switzerland. In this, a lot of Indian money was given to buy a gun which can shoot a coot.

Presently India has a coalishun government made up of many parties, left, right and centre. It has started to library the economy. This means that there is now no need for a licence as the economy will be driven by itself.

India is also trying to become an Asian tiger because its own tigers are being poached. Another important event this year was the Shark meeting at Malas Dive. At this place, shark leaders agreed to share their poverty, pollution and population.

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