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Ladurée Macarons (w/ photos)
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- Silverlurker
Los Angeles has a burgeoning macaron scene with two shops opening up in the past year; Jin Patissiere in Venice and Boule Patissiere in West Hollywood.
I've tried both and I have my opinions but I've been told that I should use as my litmus test the macarons from Ladurée in Paris. Yesterday a friend returned to L.A. with a box of Ladurée macarons. (link to photos below).
Their salted butter caramel is wonderful and that particular ganache, in terms of consistency, is unlike any other I have tried. The raspberry, rose and standard chocolate macarons seem to me consistently similar with none really jumping out.
My question is what flavors does Ladurée do best? Are there other international vendors known for certain flavors? Thanks!
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Thank you so much for sharing these photos! The confections look absolutely divine; the palette of colors was stunning. It was apparent how much TLC goes into each macaron. Even the box was so tres chic! You have a very good friend there...
Sorry that I can't answer any of your questions, as I've just started getting acquainted (and quickly falling in love) w/ this little cookie. Did your friend happen to tell you how many Euros for all of this?
re: Carb Lover
Hi carb lover, thanks for your comments.
I'd also like to know the cost but I feel too uncomfortable asking him and Ladurée does not offer online shopping with prices.
Meantime, I hope that you report back on your macaron findings!
re: Silverlurker
Beautiful photos!
I was in Laduree in Paris last month. The large macarons (about 3 inches across) were 3 euro each and the small ones (about the size of a silver dollar) were 6 for 6 euro. I don't remember if there was a discount if you bought multiples of the large ones.
We bought an assortment of small ones and the chocolate and caramel were my favorite as well.
re: Silverlurker
Hi there, I was at Laduree near Madeleine yesterday with a friend, and he got a box as a hostess gift. It was "Taille 1", which held 20-24 petits macarons, and it was 35 Euros. If that gives you any idea as to price. Remember that this was Laduree, and they were in a box. If you buy the petits macarons just in a bag, they are cheaper, as then it's based on weight, not number.
I think Laduree is known mainly for their macarons, but Pierre Herme is known for desserts in general, and in terms of his petits macarons, for his crazy flavours that he releases each season.
I find that if you're looking for crazy flavours, then you go to Gerard Mulot. He has flavours like balsamic and pear, orange and cinnamon, etc., and his mint flavoured macaron will leave your mouth cool for a few minutes at least.
re: Carb Lover
I've read it's something like 10 macarons for E13.
I've also just discovered this amazing... how does one define it? Pastry? Biscuit? Sweetmeat? Surreally enough, a pistachio macaroon in Barcelona.
Do you think the recipe is substantially changed with each flavour, or do they have one superb recipe and just alter the flavourings? I suspect the former, just because it is so far outside of my sphere of culinary ability and patience.
I think EPI used to give Herme's chocolate macaroon recipe, but it must have expired because it's not there anymore...
re: kate
Barring a visit any time soon I would like to see a photo of this pistachio macaron from Barcelona... Yum. Do they bake other flavors too?
I know that one of our local macaron pastry chefs in L.A. (Michelle Myers) has indicated that Boule's macarons are made with almond flour and meringue instead of almond paste.
re: Silverlurker
Yes, they had other flavours; chocolate, vanilla, coffee and something with raspberry jam in the middle. The pistachio, however, was far and away the best. The others were too crunchy, whereas the pistachio one was crunchy, tacky, chewy - everything a good macaron should be. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture.Only the memory of paradise. Sigh...
Nigella Lawson gives a recipe for pistachio macaroons in her baking book, although I've never tried them.
The pastry shop was one or two blocks down (same side of the street) from Mercato Boqueria on La Rambla. Happy hunting....
re: kate
Thanks to you and others for pricing info. Sounds very reasonable for a nibble from the juncture of where a rainbow meets a sugar cloud! I searched online for a Laduree macaron recipe and came up empty. I did, however, find this linked article from 2001 which writes up a taste comparison of chocolate macarons from 5 different patisseries in Paris. Interestingly, Grande Epicérie de Paris in the 7th arrondissement edged out Laduree for this particular flavor!
re: Carb Lover
Yes, my automatic response was: "I want that pot of gold! I want that recipe!!!". Even though I know it will never be as good as eating one in his Paris shop.
EPI had it once, according to a very useful blog (see below), but it looks like it expired, as it's no longer there.
However, I did manage to find it in the article linked below.
Also go to the blog; she gives helpful tips that are in Herme's cookbook, but not in the recipe. And there are great pictures...
I've put the recipe in my "need some time and a clear head to get these babies right" folder.
Now I'm dreaming of a trip to Paris....
re: Carb Lover
Well done, carb lover! Excellent research. I am so excited. Going off to read now.
I'm drooling!! Thanks so much for posting those gorgeous photos. I'd love to bring some home for friends, too, but was concerned with how long they stayed fresh. We'll be flying from Paris to L.A. and staying there 2 days to rest with family before returning home to Arizona. Any advice on keeping the macarons fresh for our friends?
Fauchon's sells them at their store in New York, but I can't advise as to specific flavors as I liked them all & tried the fruit pate's at Laduree's instead of the macaroons - guess I've got to go back!
Fauchon's might sell them mail-order, I know I asked & can't remember if it was the macaroons or the marzipan that they didn't sell.
re: Caitlin McGrath
I believe it was a quite stale blackcurrent violet. I stupidly saved it for last and the flavor had dwindled -- even from the ganache. Next time it'll be the whole box in one sitting.
Silverlurker, just came across this thread. In answer to your question, I believe that Ladurée is best known for their pistache & their rose flavors.
In answer to another poster's question, macarons don't travel very well nor do they stay fresh very long. A friend just brought some back to me from Stohrer's (rue Montorgueil in the 2nd) - they were wonderful but I could tell they were just a smidgen stale. Fresh macarons are matchless.
I understand the Hermés' macaron is considered by some to be superior to Ladurée (although he was pastry chef to Ladurée & to Fauchon in the past). They debate this hotly on Fodor's website. Here's a link to one thread:
My personal favorite from Ladurée is the pistache. To buy just one of the small macarons 2 years ago cost 1.25 each. And my kids called them baby hamburgers - LOL!
re: beatchick
I was in Paris in August and just managed to squeeze by a quick trip to Laduree on my way to the airport (there is NO way I was getting on a pane without my macarons fix)- their raspberry is great (with a lovely jammy center), and so are the rose and coconut, and of course the pistachio. I've heard Gerrard Mulot is THE macarons king, but sadly I didn't get a chance to test this out- I found a Paul store at his rue de Seine address-- has he moved or am I a total idiot when it comes to directions??
re: Merriam
Gerald Mulot is on the corner of r de Seine and r des Quatre Vents, between blvd St. Germain and St. Sulpice. Paul is on the corner of r de Seine and r de Buci, closer to the Seine.
re: Merriam
Gregory Renard, rue Saint Dominique, makes my favourite macaroons in Paris -- see pictures (and a review in French for now) at http://julotlespinceaux.blogspot.com/...
re: souphie
Souphie, I've been meaning to thank you for your recommendation to Gregory Renard. I read the blog and took a ridiculously long detour during an already ridiculously long walk back to my apartment (during the November strike) and found the chocolate fleur de sel and pistachio macarons completely worth the effort. I do love Laduree macarons, but I have to agree with you that Gregory Renard's are even better.


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Selinsgrove, Pa.—Four Susquehanna University communications projects have earned Accolades Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), including top honors in two award categories. CASE is the largest association for advancement professionals at higher education institutions and independent schools.
The Accolades Awards program includes 40 different categories, including alumni relations, communications, design, development, grant writing, magazines, marketing, news writing, photography, portals, publications and Web.
In the CASE District II regional competition, the largest of CASE's eight districts, projects produced by University Communications won in the following categories: the gold award for Web Site Institutional Home Page, part of the university's comprehensive site redesign that debuted in August 2009; a gold award for Best Article for the story, "From the Brink: Danielle Keener MacGuire Takes Back the Night," written by Gerald S. Cohen, associate vice president for communications, for the Spring 2009 issue of Currents magazine; a silver award for Recruitment Search Publications/Miscellaneous Fliers and Brochures, for the Susquehanna University Desktop Wisdom "flip-book"; and a bronze award for Student Recruitment Packages, for the university's main recruitment pieces, including the viewbook, a save-the-date postcard and rack cards describing school majors.
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Cohen added that the competition for these awards is very stiff. "Thirteen institutions competed in the institutional Web site category, including such institutions as Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, American University, Binghamton University and others," he said. No silver prize was awarded in this category. American and Binghamton tied for bronze.
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Advocates hope that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Initiative will lead to deeper learning by students – that the standards will result in students learning not only academic content, but how to think critically, work collaboratively, communicate effectively and more. And they recognize that for this to happen, classroom instruction has to change.
Many assume that new assessments aligned to the Common Core will serve as a key lever in its implementation, driving changes in instructional practice. But is that a reasonable assumption? Do large-scale assessment systems influence instruction?
While common sense and popular opinion hold that yes, they do, the research base on the issue is surprisingly thin. But in summarizing the little there is, New Assessments, Better Instruction?, a RAND literature review commissioned by the Hewlett Foundation, confirms what we already knew – testing does indeed influence instructional practice, particularly when high-stakes are attached to it.
The review (which included available research on high-stakes testing and performance assessment in U.S. public education, assessment in international settings, formative assessment, military and occupational testing, and processional certification and licensure testing) found that testing is associated with a variety of changes in educators' practices. These changes occurred in three broad categories:
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- Teachers' interactions with students, including individualizing instruction to meet the needs of all students or focusing resources on students most likely to impact overall results – the "bubble" students. As a side note, one consistent theme throughout the literature is a gap between identifying student needs and changing instructional practices to address them – in other words, assessment data helps teachers target instruction, but does not impact how that instruction is delivered.
Of course, there was wide variability in the research – as one of the authors, Laura Hamilton, pointed out in a recent briefing, almost every study reviewed found huge variability in how teachers responded to assessments, which much of the variation unexplainable.
Still, overall, the review shows that assessment impacts instruction. And it points out that these changes are not inherently good or bad. If a testing program covers a broad range of skills and knowledge or a performance assessment leads to an expanded repertoire student-centered teaching strategies, the effect can be positive. The context of the assessment – both in terms of its role in an accountability system and the local environment in which it is given – matters. To that end, the report offers recommendations to create conditions that increase the likelihood of a positive impact, including:
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- Test scores should "matter" to ensure stakeholders take the assessment seriously, but important consequences should not follow directly from test scores alone to avoid a "teaching to the test" mentality that focuses on superficial items at the expense of deeper learning.
- If there are externally mandated, annual high-stakes summative tests, they should be part of an integrated assessment system that includes formative components that can be used for instructional guidance.
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- Assessment should be one component of a broader systemic reform effort (including standards, curriculum, professional development, community engagement and more).
The overall implications for Common Core implementation that I took from this report: New assessments will impact classroom instruction, and the policy decisions at the federal, state and local level that create the conditions under which those assessments operate will determine whether the changes are positive or negative. Given the current political climate, it is anyone's guess as to how it turns out.
Moving forward, Common Core advocates face a big challenge. While we can expect CCSS assessments to influence instruction, we need to continue to remind the public – and ourselves – that the assessments are not the Common Core. Particularly given the controversy surrounding them, with concerns on the role they will play in high-stakes decisions for students (such as advancement to the next grade) and teachers (such as evaluation) currently unresolved, as well as uncertainty around the technological readiness of schools and districts to execute them as intended, the assessments could experience significant challenges and pushback in implementation. If so, and if the assessments are equated with the Common Core, support for the standards could plummet.
Note: While in this post "assessment" and "testing" are used almost interchangeably, I recognize that "assessment" is a much broader term that can include a number of other strategies for determining whether learning has occurred.
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Rising freshmen Jacob Goswick and Jared Hicks represented Kerr-Vance Saturday in the state wrestling games at Charlotte's Hough High School.
Goswick claimed the gold in the 152-pound class, recording two pins.
Spartan coach Rick Frampton said Hicks' matches were close although he didn't medal in the 128-pound division.
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Cushing, who is the leader of the Texans defense, tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during Week 5 of the 2012 season. He was entering his last year of his rookie contract, so Houston needed to tie the 26-year-old up before it was too late.
According to the Houston Chronicle, All-Star wide receiver Andre Johnson restructured his contract to free up $5.5 million dollars in cap space for Cushing's new deal.
In four years, the middle linebacker has 49 games to his résumé. In those games Cushing has amassed 10.5 sacks, six forced fumbles, seven interceptions, and 239 tackles.
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Aliases for DKC1 Gene
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This gene functions in two distinct complexes. It plays an active role in telomerase stabilization and maintenance, as well as recognition of snoRNAs containing H/ACA sequences which provides stability during biogenesis and assembly into H/ACA small nucleolar RNA ribonucleoproteins (snoRNPs). This gene is highly conserved and widely expressed, and may play additional roles in nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling, DNA damage response, and cell adhesion. Mutations have been associated with X-linked dyskeratosis congenita. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2014]
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DKC1 (Dyskeratosis Congenita 1, Dyskerin) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with DKC1 include dyskeratosis congenita, x-linked and dyskeratosis congenita. Among its related pathways are Apoptotic Pathways in Synovial Fibroblasts and Cell Cycle, Mitotic. GO annotations related to this gene include RNA binding and telomerase activity.
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Isoform 1: Required for ribosome biogenesis and telomere maintenance. Probable catalytic subunit of H/ACA small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein (H/ACA snoRNP) complex, which catalyzes pseudouridylation of rRNA. This involves the isomerization of uridine such that the ribose is subsequently attached to C5, instead of the normal N1. Each rRNA can contain up to 100 pseudouridine (psi) residues, which may serve to stabilize the conformation of rRNAs. Also required for correct processing or intranuclear trafficking of TERC, the RNA component of the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) holoenzyme
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Stands to reason that if you're going to make teams play extra games, you'd make the 8 lowest seeds play each other. So why aren't the 16 seeds all playing extra games instead of screwing with 12 seeds (a line on the bracket that's been about even money to advance)?
Professional results are not possible with the use of amateur methods.
kinda screws the 5/6 seeds as well. they have less time to prepare for an opponent than the past (4/5 days). 8/9 is a bad spot to be since you see a #1 if you win (thanks for playing), now 5/6 has a drawback, too. i guess 7 seed is the mid-range seed to fly these days.
I guess they didn't want to completely screw all the auto-bid teams, plus like you said the expansion of the tournament added 3 more at-large bids, so they must have figured that these last few at-large teams should kind of have to play their way into the "real" rounds.
64 was an absolutely perfect number of teams because it was a representative number of teams and everybody had to play 6 games. That play-in or "Opening Round" game they've had these past few years was stupid and this new "First round" isn't much better.
Agreed, they had it right to begin with. I don't think these extra games add anything to the tourney, except, extra teams. I realize there are some teams/fans who will be elated to have this opportunity, but to most of us purists, it's just watering down the soup.
Kanzazz basketball -- screwing up office tournament brackets since 1939.
i think we would all appreciate a watery soup with cu in it...
I know I'm in the minority, but if we have to have the play-in-games (which I hate), I prefer it be "at large" teams. One of the best parts of the tourney is watching the automatic bid little guys get to play in the big dance. Now, for the last few years, one team has had the reward for their awesome season (or run in the conference tournament) ruined with a trip to Dayton.
Of course, if CU has to play a play-in-game, I reserve all rights to change my opinion and rail about how the play-in's should only involve 16 seeds.
I think they should go the opposite way on play-in games, and have it be the last eight in for all four 12-seeds. These will be far more entertaining games than the 16-seed play-in game that we have had the last few years.
Reward the good teams. Those bottom 8 of all 68 should just be happy to get the invite. A 12 seed is a legit Sweet 16/Elite 8 threat.
I think regular season conference play should matter. You say reward the good teams, but I say reward the teams that are the best in their respective conference. If you win your conference, you get in. If you win a big conference, you get to play a bad team. If you have to rely on a late at-large bid, then you have to do a little extra, but you still have a shot at making some noise.
Just my opinion.
i liked it better before the pod system, where every top seed would get sent to play a 25 win Mississippi Valley State team in cold gym in Ogden. neutralize the advantages, play basketball. institutional favoritism is all about the money, not sports. Except Duke and Carolina, the proto-pods, they'd play as either a flexible "East" or "South" team in Charlotte or Atlanta.
Since this thread is all about me...
I was in Ogden in 1994 to see Jason Kidd lose to UW-Milwaukee and Syracuse crush Hawaii.......
Weber State's Gym wasnt that cold..... That is racist.
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Aliases for POU3F3 Gene
Aliases for POU3F3 Gene
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- Entrez Gene: 5455
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- UniProtKB: P20264
Summaries for POU3F3 Gene
This gene encodes a POU-domain containing protein that functions as a transcription factor. The encoded protein recognizes an octamer sequence in the DNA of target genes. This protein may play a role in development of the nervous system. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2015]
GeneCards Summary for POU3F3 Gene
POU3F3 (POU Class 3 Homeobox 3) is a Protein Coding gene. GO annotations related to this gene include sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity and HMG box domain binding. An important paralog of this gene is POU6F1.
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Transcription factor that acts synergistically with SOX11 and SOX4. Plays a role in neuronal development. Is implicated in an enhancer activity at the embryonic met-mesencephalic junction; the enhancer element contains the octamer motif (5-ATTTGCAT-3) (By similarity).


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Here is a clip from this week's episode of The Sarah Silverman Program titled "Patriot Act."
Here is a clip from this week's episode of The Sarah Silverman Program titled "Patriot Act."
Too Funny! And, now I feel like I know Laura in a "TMI" kind of way
That's great- I wish I had Comedy Central just for your show…
brian and steve really lower the standards of the show
I LOVE , yeah just love Brian and Steve,
and SARAH ofcrs!
i completely agree, they should be removed from the show (period)
Anyone know who wrote this "Patriot Act" episode?
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Isn't she so adorable when riding that kid-bike, and even more when jump-riding the big ball while her hair flips up and down.
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Mrs. Lula Turman Rucker, age 102 of Hulmes Chapel Road, Elberton, GA passed away Thursday August 14, 2014 at Elbert Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services will be 2:30p.m. Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at the St Paul C.M.E. Church with Pastor Ronald Burton, officiation. Interment will follow in the Hulmes Chapel Cemetery, Elberton, GA. The family is at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Shelton, Hulmes Chapel Rd. Elberton, GA.
McKinney-Neal Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.


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If the Steubenville rape case broke your heart and made you mad, you may not want to read on.
Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year-old young woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, hanged herself in her bathroom last Thursday. On Sunday night, April 7, her family decided to take her off life support because she had injured herself so badly.
Her mother, Leah Parsons, has set up a Facebook page for her, where she explains:
This page is dedication to my wonderful Daughter who was smart, beautiful, and full of life with a deep compassion to animals. The Person Rehtaeh once was all changed one dreaded night in November 2011. She went with a friend to another's home. In that home she was raped by four young boys… one of those boys took a photo of her being raped and decided it would be fun to distribute the photo to everyone in Rehtaeh's school and community where it quickly went viral.
At Cole Harbour District High School Rehtaeh started getting bullied on social media and from her classmates. She moved from Cole Harbour to Halifax in an attempt to start over.
And when her mother contacted the police, here's what happened.
From The Chronicle Herald:
Parsons said she was unhappy with what she saw of the investigation.
"They didn't even interview the boys until much, much later. To me, I'd think you'd get the boys right away, separate them."
When it came to the photo or photos taken that night, "nothing was done about that because they couldn't prove who had pressed the photo button on the phone,"� she said.
She was told that the distribution of the photos is "not really a criminal issue, it's more of a community issue," she said.
"Even though she was 15 at the time, which is child pornography."
Isn't child pornography enough of a reason to continue the investigation?
Surely even more so, now that this young woman has taken her own life. However, The Vancouver Sun is reporting Nova Scotia's justice minister, Ross Landry, as saying he does not plan to order a review of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation that concluded there were no grounds to lay charges against the four boys who allegedly sexually assaulted Rehtaeh Parsons. Landry supposedly believes that the police have followed all the proper procedures, and there are no grounds for further action.
As a parent and a teacher I am heartbroken for Retaeh and her family, but as a fellow human being and a journalist, I am appalled that I am yet again writing about the terrible consequences of cyberbullying.
Rehtaeh Parsons joins numerous other teens who have killed themselves under similar circumstances. Remember Amanda Todd and the video she posted? Or 15-year-old Jadin Bell, whose brief life was cut short by bullying? There are so many of them, and we must do something.
If you agree that the tragic story of Retaeh Parsons must not be covered up, please sign our petition, demanding that the Canadian police conduct a thorough investigation into her death.
And if you know anyone who needs help, please direct them to:
The National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK: a confidential, 24/7 free hotline.
Related Care2 Coverage
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I agree with Deborah S when she asks about the desire of some people to call for a boycott of tourism. Why boycott tourism in Canada over this tragic death, or do people not believe that this cannot occur elsewhere? Care2 did a story on a 15 year old Californian teen, Audrie Pott who suffered the same fate, she also took her own life, shall we now boycott the U.S.? The father of this American teen felt that the police force there did little to help his daughter. What about nations in Europe and all other nations where rape and social media has predominated?
Plainly, there are few nations on earth that would escape such a boycott. Often it is the officers involved in the investigations that can be unfeeling while a similar investigation in another location in the same nation would be very different. As Shawna S pointed out, this is not a Canadian issue, it happens worldwide including how many police forces ignore the plight of rape victims. If they don't ignore them, women are often treated badly with insensitivity by the legal/justice systems when they are the victims of a crime.
Thank you. This is a horrible tragedy. All I can do is ask that each one of us be kind, and teach kindness. Then perhaps less people will be victimized by this kind of terrible crime. Thank you.
I'm struggling to stay in this world, because everything just touches me so deeply. I'm not doing this for attention. I'm doing this to be an inspiration and to show that I can be strong. I did things to myself to make pain go away, because I'd rather hurt myself then someone else. Haters are haters but please don't hate, although im sure I'll get them. I hope I can show you guys that everyone has a story, and everyones future will be bright one day, you just gotta pull through. I'm still here aren't I ?
- AmandaTodd (2012)
Sad. RIP
Heartbreaking tragedy...
Heartbreaking tragedy...
This is so sad.
this is a sure call to potential rapists to say it is alright to rape and film it. Nova Scotia hang your head in shame.
My heart is aching for the trauma, humiliation, bullying and torture this young girl just, starting life was subjected to. Her attackers are getting away with the crime, compliments of the law but why? (They may think they have beat the law and justice system but somehow they will pay and also they have to live with themselves so here's hoping they never have true peace for what they inflicted on this innocent girl.)The laws need to be changed in order to cover such despicable crimes. This kind of ineptitude is a problem in just about every country because the powers that be sit on their hands and try to pull the wool over the common citizens eyes. Boycotting the good citizens of their lively hood is not the answer because they are being held to ransom by the law makers who are too lazy to rework the law into a fair and just outcome now & in future. Love and Peace.
I agree with Theresa R. and Jeanne R. Anyone involved in any way should be named, shamed and prosecuted, regardless of age. You can see hiding a kid's identity because of his/her immaturity at the time a crime was committed. But a crime like this cannot be considered one that can be excused or mitigated by immaturity. Any kids partaking in bullying of any kind should also be named and shamed and charged with manslaughter - at the very least.
There should be anti-bullying classes every year starting in kindergarten. Kids should not only be encouraged to tell an adult if they are being bullied, but to tell an adult if they know someone else is being bullied. Maybe even "gang up" on the bullies. ;-)
In all seriousness, that's what would happen where I lived. Low rise apt. bldgs. built for WW II vets. It was a unique set-up and great place to be a kid. Bullies simply weren't tolerated. Come to think of it, the only kids that I remember ever trying were new to the complex. They were put in their place quickly. If it wasn't someone's much older and bigger brother that got called to the rescue, it'd be a bunch of kids threatening to "knock the bully's block off" - boys AND girls. We were an equal opportunity lynch mob.
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That's good.
Good start.
@Karen and Ed O..."Why in god's name do the people at the DHS and ICE think it's okay to treat people…