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As I look at 2020, I have very conflicting feelings. On one hand, the year was horribly tragic for many people who lost loved ones and businesses. My heart goes out to the nearly two million people worldwide who have lost their lives to COVID and their grieving families, and to the tens of millions in this country now suffering from economic hardship.

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I see a lot of tiramisu recipes that soak savoiardi in pure undiluted espresso coffee.

Usually the recipe asks for a cup or more of espresso. As a person who regularly makes and drinks espresso, this seems way too much. It's both too much to prepare (8 shots!), and will make for an overpowering coffee flavor in the tiramisu.

I can understand if the recipes are adapted. Especially if the recipe asks for "espresso or strong brewed coffee", while no strong brewed coffee is a by-volume equivalent of espresso.

But, wouldn't original tiramisu recipes use espresso, but in some reasonable amount? Or, is authentic tiramisu really so intensely flavored with coffee?

  • @FuzzyChef Welcome to Stack Exchange! You must be new here. Please read the help section about commenting and read the text presented to you when starting a new comment. – pipe Dec 21 '20 at 17:10
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    @pipe it is perfectly acceptable to send a new user a friendly message! Yes, comments are designed to be temporary, but welcome messages are a long-standing tradition on many SE sites. – Stephie Dec 21 '20 at 19:23
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    Pipe: ah, you might wanna look at my points on this SE, and then edit your comment. – FuzzyChef Dec 22 '20 at 0:36
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    Based on how we make tiramisu at home: we use around 2 moka for 3 people (rougly 6 espressi lunghi) to soak the oro-saiwa (dry biscuits we use instead of savoiardi) for 500g of mascarpone. – DDS Dec 22 '20 at 9:53
  • @DDS Purist here - the substitution of all the key ingredients is fine - except the biscuits!!! – Strawberry Dec 22 '20 at 10:20

As a suppliment, I'll address your questions regarding "authenticity":

Tiramisu is not a traditional dish; it's a modern restaurant dish dating back only to the 1960's (but see other answer, it may go back to the 30s). It's generally agreed that it was created at the restaurant Le Beccherie in 1969 (although based on a long tradition of Italian cream cakes), so it's fairly easy to find their original recipe. This is it from a publication in 1981:

12 egg yolks

1 lb 2 oz (½ kg) sugar

2 lb 4 oz (1 kg) mascarpone cheese

60 ladyfinger (savoiardi) cookies

Espresso coffee, as necessary

Cocoa powder, as necessary

As you can see, no quantity for the espresso is given; likely the restaurant did not keep track of how much was used, particularly since they probably used "leftover" coffee from service. Interestingly, there is no alcohol in this version. Anna Maria Volpi, who is rather obsessed with the dish, uses 1.5 cups of espresso.

All of the advice in @dbmag9's excellent answer, therefore, applies.

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    Your quote can't really be the original if it has primarily American units with the proper units just in parentheses. – Nobody Dec 20 '20 at 22:44
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    You're welcome to argue with Anna Maria Volpi if you're bored and hate life. – FuzzyChef Dec 21 '20 at 2:05
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    @Nobody the site itself is fully in english. It seems like the intended audience is an international one, so it might be understandable to have measurements translated also to american units (the weight in Kg is also used for all non-american sane people). There might be some small ratios lost in translation, but i would judge it unlikely. – bracco23 Dec 21 '20 at 10:13
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    I am not sure an Italian restaurant would be likely to have leftover coffee available for this. Espresso is usually made on the moment, cup by cup. – Federico Poloni Dec 21 '20 at 11:12
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    it can't be the original if it's not in Italian. However the metric numbers are identical facebook.com/ArchivioGiuseppeMaffioli/photos/a.222226964568655/… The other ones are just translated – thelawnet Dec 21 '20 at 14:09

A typical tiramisu will serve a good number of people, so each serving is unlikely to have more than about a shot's worth of espresso. There's a limit to what the savoiardi will absorb so you'd struggle to get more coffee than that into a portion. Further, the flavour is diluted by the flavour already present in the savoiardi as well as the alcohol, mascarpone, cocoa on top and other ingredients. I wouldn't worry about the coffee flavour overpowering the rest. Obviously if you've made it before and felt the coffee was too strong then reduce the quantity.

Note that in Italy, caffè will by default refer to espresso, or at home to the product of a Moka pot or equivalent. Filter or drip coffees are not a native part of Italian coffee culture (hence the americano, imitating filter coffee by diluting espresso). You could search for older recipes in Italian (although according to Wikipedia, tiramisu is not an especially old dessert) but they will probably just say caffè.

Remember that tira mi sù means 'pick me up', alluding to the fact that the dessert contains enough coffee to wake you up a little at the end of a meal.

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    I was really confused the first time my Italian girlfriend told me tira mi sù, while sitting on the floor, extending her arm towards me. – Eric Duminil Dec 20 '20 at 20:18
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    Interesting that "pick me up" has the same double meaning in both English and Italian. – Acccumulation Dec 21 '20 at 5:37
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    As Italian I confirm that whenever you found "caffè" in a recipe we are referring to espresso. If it's not espresso it will be indicated as "caffè americano" (american coffee) or similar. – Zucch Dec 21 '20 at 8:34
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    @Acccumulation Given the dessert is not very old, perhaps the phrase it's named from went from one language to the other? (1960s/1970s, so well after WWII when a lot of Americans were in Italy) – Joe M Dec 21 '20 at 18:04
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    @Acccumulation I’m honestly not that surprised. A lot of simpler and more logical idioms actually tend to be remarkably consistent across a wide variety of languages within a language family (flying livestock, for example, are a common part of idioms speaking about impossibility of events in a number of Indo-European languages, though the choice of livestock varies a bit). – Austin Hemmelgarn Dec 22 '20 at 2:25

There are in fact multiple versions of tiramisu, all of which are authentic. Some contain espresso and mascarpone, others cream, marsala but no mascarpone.

'Tiramisu' dates at least to the 1940s as a name, and to the 1930s as a recipe (much earlier considering related desserts)

Following documentary proof presented to the Italian government, the Protected Origin to the Friuli Venezia Giulia region was granted in 2017.

This has two forms:

  1. tiramisu carnico - with mascarpone, attributed to Norma Pielli Hotel Roma Tolmezzo , and existing in the 1950s or earlier - recipe includes '300ml bitter and strong coffee' but no alcohol https://www.udinetoday.it/cucina/disciplinare-ricetta-tiramisu-signora-norma-pielli-tolmezzo.html
  2. Coppa Vetturino Tirime su/tiramisu bisiacca - without mascarpone (instead cream) or espresso, and with marsala, by Mario Cosolo from Al Vetturino restaurant - recipe https://www.oggi.it/cucina/ricetta/tiramisu-della-tradizione-prima-coppa-vetturino-1935-1938-poi-tirimesu-1946-1950/

There are also:

  1. Tiramisu Veneto from Le Beccherie, Treviso, made with mascarpone, coffee to taste and without alcohol https://www.informacibo.it/la-ricetta-originale-del-tiramisu-di-treviso/
  2. Coppa Imperiale - from Ristorante Al Fogher, which is similar to the above and claims to predate it, but included a liqeur (possibly Grand Marnier) recipe https://www.hotelalfogher.it/restaurant.htm
  • Ooooh, interesting! Do you know better sources for either of those earlier Tiramisu recipes? The first article doesn't have any kind of attribution, and the second doesn't mention a year of invention. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that someone had come up with it before 1969; the ingredients are all pretty common for Italian desserts. – FuzzyChef Dec 22 '20 at 0:42
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    The second recipe is taken directly from "Tiramisù by Clara and Gigi Padovani " which is the most dedicated treatise on this matter. tiramisuday.com/en/book – thelawnet Dec 22 '20 at 2:20

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Among other things, it is also actively used for cosmetic purposes, because the substances contained in it have a favorable effect on the condition of nails, hair and skin.

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Harmful jelly can only be if it is made from low-quality products. Therefore, if you are making jelly from mixtures sold in stores, before buying, carefully familiarize yourself with the composition of the product. Also, the benefit and harm of jelly depends directly on the amount in which it is consumed. For example, fruit jelly – useful, tasty, low-calorie, but all such a sweet enough delicacy, which means that you do not need to eat it daily.

What conclusions can be drawn from all the above? Jelly is certainly a very useful product, if the technology of its preparation is observed, if all components are natural and, of course, if this dish is not used in excessive quantities.

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Everyone has an opinion. And we all tend to believe our opinion is the correct one. And when it matters, we’re likely to try to persuade others to our point of view. We strengthen our case when we show our work and reason together.

Back in math class, it wasn’t enough to simply give an answer to a problem. Even if it was the correct answer, we still had to show our work. Part of the lesson was learning how we arrived at our particular answers.

And this is still helpful when we’re trying to persuade others to our point of view.

It’s not particularly convincing to merely state the facts of our opinion. It’s still just an opinion of no more value than the next.

But we open the door for a true dialogue when we show our work and explain why we believe what we believe.

We’re not trying to force our beliefs onto others. But we are trying to provide convincing reasons for them to make a similar conclusion.

And, in the end, it’s not us they believe per se. Rather, they believe for themselves based on the truth and evidence presented.

We’re more likely to find common ground when we both remain open-minded and humble enough to truly listen and reason with one another.

Conversations are shutdown when our minds are already made up and we refuse to show our work.

It’s not that we don’t hold firm to what we believe. But we don’t have to fear questioning our beliefs either. Truth can withstand any amount of questioning.

It’s okay to have many opinions. But show your work and learn to reason together. This paves the way for deeper understanding and harmony.

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Mark is a past Chair of the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Group (SAM) of the American Association of Geographers. He serves as a U.S. Editor for the journal Transportation (Springer) and serves on the editorial boards of Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems (Elsevier), Travel Behaviour and Society (Elsevier), Journal of Transport Geography (Elsevier) ,and the Journal of Transportation and Land Use. HHe is immediate past chair and a member of Transportation Research Board (TRB) standing committee ADD20 – Social and Economic Factors of Transportation. He also serves as a member of TRB standing committee ADD30 – Transportation and Land Development and committee ABR30 – Emergency Evacuations. He was among the inaugural group of Associate Editors selected to work with Transportation Research Record.

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California is the world’s No. 1 agricultural producer and nine of the nation’s top 10 agricultural producing counties are in California, according to the latest USDA Census of Agriculture, which was released in late April. Every five years the census presents an overview of the nation’s agriculture. It is the result of research by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) from 2007-2012. “It will help farmers, ranchers, local officials, agribusinesses and others make decisions for the future,” said Vic Tolomeo, director of the service’s Sacramento-based Pacific Region. While Fresno County was again the nation’s leader with nearly $5 billion in ag sales in 2012 the Central Valley counties of Stanislaus and San Joaquin combined for ag sales of more than $6 billion. Read More

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BlackBerry PlayBook SDK

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Since the announcement of the BlackBerry PlayBook many folks have been waiting to get a deeper look into what, exactly can be done with the device. App developers especially. Now, the BlackBerry PlayBook SDK for Adobe AIR app creation has been released and alongside it are the downloads for the simulators (Windows and Mac versions) for both. Of course, Research In Motion have marked both as beta's so you'll have to keep that in mind when exploring. We'll hopefully see plenty of updates for it over time but, for now this is the start of something good. Now, be honest. How many of you all are gonna download the simulator just to see what's up?

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New SDK From RIM Allows Developers to Create Adobe AIR Applications for BlackBerry PlayBook

- SDK integrates new extensions for Adobe AIR that have been highly optimized for the BlackBerry Tablet OS

- Developers can immediately begin building uncompromised applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet

- Early feedback from developers highlights ease of development and high performance

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 25, 2010) - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today launched the new BlackBerry(R) Tablet OS SDK for Adobe(R) AIR(R) at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. The new Software Developer Kit (SDK) enables developers to quickly and easily create AIR applications for the BlackBerry(R) PlayBook(TM) tablet using Adobe's powerful, familiar and industry-leading development tools. With the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR, developers can leverage the uniquely powerful capabilities of the BlackBerry Tablet OS, as well as access all of the richness of Adobe AIR, to deliver incredibly engaging and high-performing AIR applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook.

"The BlackBerry PlayBook, with its dual-core processor and multi-processing OS, is a multi-tasking powerhouse that is also the world's first tablet to be built from the metal up to run Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR applications in a fully integrated, fully optimized fashion," said David Yach, Chief Technology Officer, Software, Research In Motion. "The new SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook unleashes a wealth of opportunity for the Adobe and BlackBerry development communities to easily create value-added applications and experiences for customers and we are extremely excited by the positive feedback received from developers in early trials."

The BlackBerry PlayBook with BlackBerry Tablet OS supports Adobe AIR 2.5 and Adobe Flash(R) Player 10.1 at its core. This integrated support and the BlackBerry PlayBook's exceptional processing power (including a 1 GHz dual-core processor, true symmetric multiprocessing and multi-threaded rendering) give developers the ability to deliver incredibly rich content and applications with highly-responsive and fluid touch screen experiences.

"The close collaboration between RIM and the Adobe AIR team has achieved an implementation which we expect to be the first to include high performance optimizations for tablet devices," said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Creative and Interactive Business Solutions at Adobe. "This, combined with great tooling integration and full Flash Player 10.1 support, makes the BlackBerry PlayBook an outstanding platform for more than three million Flash developers."

Building the Best Flash/AIR Applications for Tablet Computing

RIM has designed the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR to allow developers to leverage the uniquely powerful capabilities of the BlackBerry PlayBook and Adobe AIR 2.5 to build industry-leading applications that provide a distinctly compelling experience for BlackBerry PlayBook users. The new SDK provides developers with support for:

-- Hardware-accelerated playback of video and graphics-intensive content,
both in the browser and within AIR applications, enabling a smooth, high
fidelity viewing experience on the BlackBerry PlayBook, even with up to
1080p HD content

-- Web View to enable AIR apps to display HTML and Flash content and to
leverage the BlackBerry PlayBook's WebKit browser

-- UI components that have been built specifically for the touch screen
experience on a tablet device, including support for multi-touch and

-- Powerful APIs to advanced features such as the front and rear facing
cameras, accelerometer, geo-location, in-app payments and more

-- Application notifications, which allow developers to bring events
generated by AIR applications immediately to the user's attention, even
if the application is running in the background

-- Seamless communication between AIR apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook,
allowing the creation of "Super App" experiences

-- Extending Adobe AIR applications to use native C++ extensions, providing
developers with the ability to write part of their application in the
BlackBerry Tablet OS's native code (subject to availability of the
upcoming BlackBerry Tablet OS native SDK)

-- Porting existing Adobe AIR applications quickly and easily to the
BlackBerry PlayBook

What Developers are Saying about Building Flash/AIR Apps for BlackBerry PlayBook

Several BlackBerry(R) Alliance members are already working with the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR as part of an early access program.

"eUnity enables health care professionals to access and manipulate full quality medical images from a Flash-enabled web browser," said Steve Rankin, President and CEO of Client Outlook. "Bringing our application to the tablet form factor for the first time was incredibly fast and easy using the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR. In fact we had eUnity running on the BlackBerry PlayBook in less than 2 hours! We are excited about the opportunity to access our innovative server technology through the power of Flash to provide our healthcare clientele with the ability to dynamically interact with diagnostic images that render amazingly fast, on an ultra portable device."

"With help from Adobe's development tools we've been able to create an exceptional eReading application that will be pre-loaded on the BlackBerry PlayBook," said Dan Leibu, CTO of Kobo. "The SDK enabled us to achieve the right level of performance for the delivery of rich reading content and a world-class reading experience."

"Mobile and social technologies are the future of enterprise computing," said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer, "The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR will enable us to seamlessly deliver real-time collaboration with Chatter Mobile to business users around the world on the BlackBerry PlayBook."

"SAP customers want to free their SAP(R) applications from the confines of the desktop and truly mobilize their workforces," said Nicholas Brown, senior vice president, Mobility Market Development, SAP AG. "Analytic dashboards are a clear use case in which everyone from the C-level executive to line-of-business manager to sales rep can analyze and access information in real time. The BlackBerry PlayBook SDK for Adobe AIR made it incredibly easy for us to build applications using Flash development tools - it took our developers just a couple of days to convert an existing SAP application into an AIR application for BlackBerry PlayBook. It looks impressive and most importantly is incredible easy to use on the new tablet."

"The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR, allowed us to create a highly engaging experience utilizing existing coding knowledge, which makes creating PlayBook applications extremely fast," said Brett Cortese, CEO, Universal Mind, Inc. "We simply dropped the SDK into Flash Builder and the controls were available and the ball was rolling."

Getting Started

Adobe AIR developers can start building their applications for BlackBerry PlayBook today and will be able to submit their AIR applications for BlackBerry PlayBook to BlackBerry App World(TM) later this year. The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR and the BlackBerry PlayBook simulator are both currently available in beta and can be downloaded for free from

Developers at Adobe MAX interested in learning about development opportunities for BlackBerry PlayBook can stop by RIM's booth #107. Attendees can also join in on a series of RIM-hosted sessions at the show focused on how to start developing AIR applications and web content for the BlackBerry Tablet OS.

The first webcast of a five week series hosted by RIM and Adobe experts will start on November 4, 2010 and will provide developers the opportunity to learn more about creating Adobe AIR applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Developers interested in signing up for the webcast series can visit


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The Days Of Creation Wheel is a good way to share the story of God creating the world. Each wedge tells the story of what God did on that day of creation. This would make a great take home reminder of the lesson.

Days Of Creation Wheel

  1. Print the templates on cardstock. (Template)
  2. Color and cut them out.
  3. Make a small hole into the middle of the circles and stick a metal brad through it. Open and bend the legs.


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Of course, as we all know, nightmares are a disconcerting part of every childhood.

But something about them I came to find strangely comforting in the later years of my life.

There was a comforting familiarity in the darkness that accompanied me into my adulthood, the one consistent thing in my world after the voices and screaming began.

I had been hospitalized and institutionalized before, but this time was different.

They came to me asking me to fill out a form, mostly questions about my artistic abilities.

“We’ve read some of your stuff,” the man in the suit who’d introduced himself as ‘Dr. M,’ explained.

“You seem to have experience with astral projection,” he said. “We’re doing a survey of one-thousand men and one-thousand women around the United States and Canada to gauge the prevalence of psychic abilities among lucid dreamers, and the potential connection between the two.”

I’d detailed some recurring nightmares I’d had, regarding a tree that came to life during a storm and ate my mom over and over again. I’d explained some of the experiences with my mom’s various failed and abusive relationships, and one that culminated in him calling the cops on her… and me walking out of my house that morning just in time to witness her being tazed and screaming in agony.

If that experience had happened a few years earlier, or even one or two, I would’ve lost all touch with reality.

Who knows what I would’ve seen… but it wouldn’t have been a cop.

I almost grabbed the gun I knew was hidden behind the shower and…

What came next, I didn’t even want to think about.

Yet, here I was…

I’d awakened in an exact replica of the apartment I lived in during the late 1990’s. I couldn’t have told them about this, there was no way I appeared on the questionnaire.

On the coffee table situated in front of the TV set was a note.

It read, and I quote:

“Here you stand, with your mind. All of your thoughts and fears have been documented and your actions in response to such will be recorded. It is through these tests we will find the origin of all evil, or – at least – what human civilization has come to understand as such.”

It was signed,

“Dr. M.”

I made my way down the hallway. Unlike the usual wallpaper and interior design, there were yellow and black lines and alloy was what it was constructed from, as if it were part of some research facility.

But, I wasn’t even awake!

This couldn’t be possible… but before I could complete my thoughts, I noticed a flashing light at the end of the corridor.

It was coming from my old bedroom.

None of this was possible.

It couldn’t be.

“Your memories are implanted,” the disembodied voice of Dr. M. explained.

“Everything about your previous life is an archived pre-destination, upon which you will arrive at.”

None of this was real? Then what was real?

As if he’d read my mind, Dr. M. replied, “look inside and find out.”

I did as he requested.

Following the flashing light, I entered the bedroom.

Inside was a light emanating from the crib I’d once called home.

I poked my head into the crib, and felt my consciousness immediately sucked into a miniature replica of the apartment complexes. I was smaller, and in the body I inhabited prior to adulthood.

Physically, I was closer to four or five, yet retained my adulthood consciousness.

“We have unlocked the technological ability to replicate childhood memories onto adult experiences via dreams,” Dr. M. stated.

I wasn’t sure up from down, it seemed like the dreamworld ignored the laws of physics.

I shrank the building I was inside of with a grappling hook I’d found beneath my crib, down small enough to crawl onto the roof to get to the attic which had been sealed off since childhood.

Inside I discovered a journal belonging to my father, which inside read,”

“My name is Mason, and you – my son – will have become involved in my experiments if you are reading this. The Shadow Government has already informed the governments of the world – and this information will become available to the public on July 2nd, 2021. Scientists collaborating with the pentagon have located the analogue to the ‘god particle,’ also known as ‘Higgs-boson’. This ‘Higgs-negatron’ was believed to be the elementary constituent particle comprising the causality system responsible for the ‘Higgs field collapse,’ which manifested in neuroscience and mental health as ‘psychokinesis’.”

I knew, after all of my research – after an entire two years working at ‘Peninsula,’ mental health services working with neurodivergent individuals… my work, my independence… would come to fruition.

Making my way down a hallway, my heart clawed its way into my esophagus as a large dark form darted across the T-intersection, impossibly fast. I no longer recognized the building I was in as the apartments, it more represented a school or laboratory of sorts.

There was no sign of the spectre as I made my way down the seemingly-endless hallways of my old school. I recognized the layout, and knew instantly I was heading in the direction of the playground. The bullies reigned supreme in this place.

Was this destined to be an even worse experience?

I remembered Trevor slamming his lunch tray down on the tabletop and standing.

“Move,” he screamed.

I looked up at him with dreary eyes.

“No,” I reiterated, even more firmly.

What I’d give to trade the enemies I had now with the enemies I had then.

As I progressed deeper into the facility, the simple overturned vending machines and askew doors hanging from their hinges were replaced with streaks of dried blood and gore.

“He’s here,” said a voice in my head.

“Who,” I screamed in reply.

“You know who.”

It wasn’t my father, like I’d anticipated. “This is your test.”

No, this form was tall and thin.

Contorted, twitching.

I remembered my stuttering.

My dissatisfaction with my physical build.

Being taller than average had always unnerved me.

And I’d always felt I was too thin for my height.

The creature twitched as I edged toward the exit to the large room.

I froze, my eyes darting for anything in the room or hallway I could use as a weapon.

“We’ve tried sedating him into a comatose state,” said Dr. S, entering the laboratory. “We’ve tried restraining him, tried sensory-deprivation therapy… nothing seems to work.”

Dr. M, nodding to himself, turned back to the one-way mirror.

“It seems as though he is beyond our help,” the doctor added.

The laser projected into his head, which itself was fastened to the table with an improvised “skull-harness”. The laser was a projection of information into his subconscious attempting to separate his identity from his suicidal tendencies.

“It would appear as though our endeavor to isolate the suicide-inducing childhood memories are a failure. Patient attempts to continue self-destruction even in response to seeing harmful tendencies as an external stimuli. We will henceforth cease any and all rehabilitation attempts, and patient will be entered into the archives as a failure,” Dr. M. spoke into the recorder.

“This will be my final log as a scientist. Patient continues suicide attempts. All further rehabilitation is deemed a failure. Dr. M, signing off.”

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Do you have a question about criminal law offences?

An individual can be charged with stalking and/or intimidation

In New South Wales intimidation is an offence. If you threaten someone making them fearful of physical or mental injury you are guilty of committing a crime. If convicted you could face up to five years in prison.

Intimidation comes in many forms. You may behave in a threatening manner, or your spoken or written word could be intimidating.

Charges of intimidation frequently stem from emails, spoken threats, and online or verbal bullying. These things often happen when emotions are high. Sometimes people believe that they will get away with the intimidating behaviour because no-one will know that they were responsible.

Most people don’t know that they could face criminal charges stemming from the behaviour.

To prove a case of intimidation, the prosecutor will have to persuade the court that you intended to make the other person fear injury through your actions.

Many people when faced with prosecution will use the excuse that they would never actually have caused the other harm. The courts won’t accept this as an excuse. Intimidation requires only that you caused the other to fear injury. It matters not that you had no intention of actually carrying out the threat.

As many as 90% of people who face prosecution for intimidation are convicted of the crime.

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Kurma’s Tomato Rice with Herbs

Kurma’s Tomato Rice with Herbs

There are not too many margii cooks who do not own at least one of Kurma Dasa’s cookbooks, such as Cooking with Kurma or Great Vegetarian Dishes. He has been cooking almost 40 years and is a famous foodie since he is on Australian food TV for Cooking with Kurma. Since Kurma cooks in the manner of the Hare Krishnas, his vegetarian style of cooking follows the same ingredient rules as the marga sentient diet, so his books are easy to cook from. His style is labeled gourmet eclectic. The Hare Krishna guru’s name was A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, whose first temple was established in New York City in 1966. He was a fabulous cook and held weekly Sunday feasts. The dishes always included a rice dish of some sort along with other Indian style preparations. Prabhupada had originally adopted the name ‘Love Feast’ for these buffets, and he had told the devotees that such feasts for the public should become an important part of the Hare Krishna movement. “Vegetarian food offered to Krishna becomes spiritual and whoever eats the food – called prasadam – receives great spiritual benefit.” “This cooking is actually called bhakti-yoga, the yoga of love”. Giving people spiritual life in the form of delicious pure vegetarian food cooked with love is what bhakti-yoga is all about”.

This simple combination of basmati rice with herbs, tomato, with an Italian flavor can be served as a side dish or also be used as an alternative stuffing for whole baked bell peppers.

Serves 4 persons

1 cup basmati or other long-grain white rice

1 3/4 cups boiling water

1 teaspoon fine sea salt

1 teaspoon sweet paprika

1 tablespoon tomato paste (the brand that comes in a tube like toothpaste is great for small amounts)

2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves, chopped fine

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/2 teaspoon yellow asafoetida powder

A heaping 1 cup chopped firm Roma plum tomatoes (seeded and cut into 1.25 cm (1/2-inch) cubes)

2 to 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley

Wash, drain, and dry the rice.

Bring the water, salt, paprika, tomato paste, and basil slowly to a boil in a 2-litre/quart saucepan over moderate heat.

Heat the olive oil in a non-sticking 2-litre/quart saucepan over moderately low heat. Saute the asafoetida in the hot oil. Add the rice and stir fry for about 2 minutes or until the rice grains turn whitish.

Pour in the boiling water. Stir, raise the heat to high, and bring the water to a full boil. Immediately reduce the heat to low, cover with a tight-fitting lid, and gently simmer, without stirring, for 15 – 20 minutes or until all the water has been absorbed and the rice is tender and flaky.

Remove the rice from the heat and allow it to stand and steam for 5 minutes with the lid on. Finally, fold in the tomatoes and fresh parsley and serve immediately.


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Wyler reloaded

(Note: This post was part of the William Wyler Blogathon)

It's not as if Wyler intended it I suppose, but for what seemed like the longest period--from the thirties (Wuthering Heights, Jezebel) through the war years (Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives) right up to the threshold of the socially turbulent sixties (Ben-Hur) and late into it (Funny Girl) he was a force to be reckoned with. He was Hollywood, or at least that part of Hollywood that wanted prestige pictures (preferably the kind that also made money). He wasn't half as prolific as Ford--around 70 films in 46 years, compared to Ford's 140 plus in 49 years--and his reputation today isn't as formidable, but to misquote yet another Hollywood icon "what's there is cherce."

Or at the very least entertaining. Melodramas like The Letter (with that great opening shot of Bette Davis stepping out of her bungalow, gun blazing) and Jezebel (which as Confederate confections go I prefer to the more conventional Gone With the Wind) showcased Davis' inimitable brand of feminist perversity to wonderful effect; Wuthering Heights diminished the intense mysticism of Bronte's great novel (not to mention--this being a Samuel Goldwyn Production, where good taste is paramount--cleaning up much of the novel's blood and dirt and sadism) but did give us Laurence Olivier's huge hands rising up to give the pretty (and rather vacant) Merle Oberon two full palms across the cheeks.

My favorite, though, would have to be Ben-Hur--and only because I finally heard screenwriter Gore Vidal's anecdote (filmmaker Mario O'Hara, when informed of Vidal's story, was both startled and pleased; he said "I didn't know anything, but I could sense something was going on"). Watching on DVD I'd mostly skip through the long intervals of Ben-Hur rowing away in the galleys nursing plans of vengeance and go straight for the chariot race (which George Lucas shamelessly ripped off for his The Phantom Menace); nowadays I find myself watching all of Messala's (Stephen Boyd's, who was in on the scam) scenes--the way he'd clasp Ben-Hur's arm (Charlton Heston, who wasn't) in manly greeting, or the way he would insist on sharing a drink, or the way he'd gaze impassively at his childhood friend, broken and sobbing on his desk. Messala's final scene is suitably vivid: tied down tight as a deer carcass about to be gutted, Messala squeezes his words out like so many bloodied turds onto Ben-Hur's palm to deal (or not to deal) with as he pleases, then expires with a long, drawn-out sigh (the movie dies a little along with him).

Is Wyler a great filmmaker? I don't know. But his best-known movies were screened (and re-screened, often on TV (Ben-Hur was an Easter staple)) in the Philippines when many of our present filmmakers were growing up; some were not only watching, they'd been inspired to remake two or three of his movies.

In the case of Carlos Siguion-Reyna's Ikaw Pa Lang ang Minahal (You're the Only One I've Ever Loved, 1992) the filmmakers had probably wanted to do a Filipino version of Wyler's picture (Siguion-Reyna's previous production had been the 1991 Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (I'll Wait for You in Heaven), an unabashed transposition of Wyler's Wuthering Heights). Siguion-Reyna is no Wyler--no chariot races for him or any other Filipino filmmaker, not till budgets and filmmaking technology levels in the Philippines have at least trebled, I'd say--but like Wyler he does multiple takes, like Wyler he insists on a certain level of technical perfection (his films are beautifully lit shot and produced, his dialogue almost always recorded live), like Wyler he does classic melodramas and the occasional 'message' picture.

Unlike Wyler Siguion-Reyna's casting is often hit or miss--Richard Gomez, who played the Heathcliff character in Hihintayin, was woefully inadequate (didn't help that Michael de Mesa, who plays Hindley Earnshaw, has the dark passionate looks and sultry authority to be a great Heathcliff). By some queer stroke of fate what made Gomez a risible Heathcliff--the pretty-boy face, the blatant insincerity, the sense of inadequacy masked by superficial charm--makes him the perfect Morris Townsend.

As for his choice of actress to play Adela (the Catherine Sloper equivalent) Siguion-Reyna lucked out; he managed to snag Maricel Soriano (considered by O'Hara among others as one of the three finest Filipino actresses). Soriano can't boast of the same calibre work that de Havilland has but that's not entirely her fault; she's collaborated with many filmmakers but arguably only Ishmael Bernal has consistently managed to bring out her best. She's worked with Siguion-Reyna several more times but the output has been inconsistent--Abot Kamay ang Pangarap (Elena's Redemption, 1996) is one unhappy result. Which makes one ask--why is this film so different? What makes it so eerily not just right, but actually inspired?

My theory involves the source material--Siguion-Reyna early in his career confined himself to melodramas about the middle and the upper classes (Misis Mo, Misis Ko (Your Wife, My Wife, 1988, about bourgeois wife-swapping; the aforementioned Hihintayin Kita sa Langit; and Kailangan Kita (I Need You, 1993, a remake of the glossy 1988 thriller Masquerade)); James (like Siguion-Reyna) was born to a wealthy family and focused on stories about the middle to upper classes. When Siguion-Reyna strayed into stories about lower-class heroines, he struggled (the aforementioned Abot Kamay ang Pangarap; Inagaw Mo Ang Lahat sa Akin (Harvest Home, 1995), about incest in a provincial farm; Ligaya ang Itawag Mo sa Akin (Call Me Joy, 1997), about a prostitute in love (actually, a remake of Dumas' La Dame aux camélias)); James' story, about a sweet but dull woman dominated by her rich, brilliant father, was well within Siguion-Reyna's comfort zone.

More, the project seemed to bring out the film brat in Siguion-Reyna (he had obtained his Master's Degree on film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts). When Maximo Sevilla (an excellent Eddie Gutierrez in the most rudimentary old-age makeup as the Dr. Sloper figure) tells his daughter what he really thinks of her, she promptly freaks out; in a single prolonged shot Siguion-Reyna records her complete and utter destruction of her room, a scene that recalls Charles Foster Kane demolishing his wife's bedroom. When Sevilla is out of the way and Adela and David are finally reunited, the revelation about David is handled in a manner less subtle than Wyler's yet somehow more cinematic--in Wyler's version Catherine listens to Morris prattle on before she realizes (and later confides to her Aunt Lavinia) that the man is a preening social-climber; in Siguion-Reyna's, Adela watches from a second-floor balcony while David (seen from a high camera angle that implies the difference in their social statuses), acts out in dumbshow what he intends to do when he becomes master of Adela's mansion.

Wyler's film ends with Catherine and Morris on either side of a door, listening for but not responding to each other, shown through alternating interior/exterior shots; Siguion-Reyna, never one to shy away from a flashy visual coup, has Adela sit in a car's passenger seat while we see David through the rear windshield, running, yelling, being drowned in the dusty wake--as succinct a final summation as one might want, and using mis-en-scene instead of montage, at that! As mentioned I'm not ready to declare Siguion-Reyna Wyler's superior, but thanks to the former's intense sense of identification and the flashy yet precise visuals, I might go so far as to say that Siguion-Reyna's version should not be embarrassed to sit alongside Wyler's, and might actually have improved on a few details.

Then there's Mike De Leon, who no doubt has seen Wyler's films; who owes the Hollywood filmmaker little to nothing (Does he enjoy Wyler's work? Not sure--just think the two sensibilities are worlds apart, that Wyler's influence on De Leon is scant, if not nonexistent; for all that it's perfectly possible that De Leon tears up every time he watches the finale of Roman Holiday). I'd swear it's pure coincidence they've adapted the same John Fowles novel to the big screen, De Leon in '86, Wyler in '65. The difference is instructive, even striking: Wyler's is a straight adaptation, following Fowles' novel up to its grim end; De Leon transposes the novel into the '80s and adds a different ending.

Perhaps key to their approach is their choice of actor to play the protagonist. Stamp is a compelling frightening Clegg; De Leon's choice for the role, Joel Torre, considerably less so. That said, Wyler's reason for choosing Stamp is suspect--the actor has undeniable presence, what with his cool eyes and otherwordly demeanor (even playing a transvestite in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert he stood out, not because he was sexiest (That honor I felt went to Guy Pearce), but because he looked too classy; if you dressed him up in rags he'd still look like a Vogue model). I felt that Wyler wanted a generalized freak--Stamp looks and feels weird, therefore is weird, not to mention criminally insane.

Joel Torre gives an altogether different impression--he looks weak, has played weaklings before (he debuted onscreen as a passive upper-class brat in Peque Gallaga's Oro, Plata, Mata (Gold, Silver, Death, 1982)). Clegg has to be a weakling, or at least unimpressive; there has to be a reason for his shyness, his introverted nature, his inability to reach out to people. Wyler's done striking casting before this and after, but here he reveals a rather straightforward line of thinking in casting Stamp; De Leon casts as if he understands the psychology behind characters like Clegg, or at least behind writers like Fowles who create characters like Clegg.

Much of Fowles' literature is about suppressed sexuality, and the power in his narrative comes from continually deferred sexual release (read The Magus, or better yet The French Lieutenant's Woman, where the whole plot turns--you might say climaxes--on a man's single long-withheld ejaculation); his books in effect are read and remembered because they give the reader a serious case of blue balls. De Leon's work also deals with suppression, but from a slightly different angle--he operates on a terror of sex. Can't say the two are a perfect match but do come from the same left field; probably could sit down and talk on the subject for the rest of the day.

Helps further that De Leon is a master at creating claustrophobic spaces. Wyler's Clegg keeps his victim in an underground basement with stone walls, and it's an impressive set--too impressive actually; you feel as if Clegg had room enough to install a ping-pong table and fifty-inch flatscreen TV, maybe a wet bar in one corner. De Leon confines himself to featureless, windowless, anonymous rooms, and it's the very banality of the setting that makes his film so unsettling (Hitchcock proved something similar with Psycho--spotless and utterly familiar motel rooms are much more suitable (because they're so visually unsuitable) to murder than any Grand Guignol dungeon). Wyler manages to create fear and atmosphere (stone walls help, somewhat), but De Leon's little film (shot in video, incidentally) has you struggling to draw breath--it's as if they've cut the ventilation to those rooms.

Two films by two Filipino filmmakers, both ostensible remakes of beloved classics from a Hollywood master. A charge regularly made against the Philippine film industry is that it copycats too often, that it remakes Hollywood pictures with numbing regularity, and in fact with Siguion-Reyna the charge lands uncomfortably close; with Ikaw Pa Lang ang Minahal however he's dealing with more personal material and it elevates his storytelling, adds a depth to it that hasn't really been matched since.

With the latter pair of films the contrast is almost funny. Wyler towards the end was a Hollywood dinosaur cunning enough to still earn money (his penultimate film Funny Girl (1968) was a boxoffice hit in a genre that itself was dying), on occasion brave enough to try relatively more modern material (Fowles); De Leon is a predator prowling his territory. The result isn't only to my mind a superior adaptation, but one of the most interesting translations of Fowles around.

Anonymous said...

This is so great, Noel; thanks for contributing. Of course I haven't seen the Filipino versions of these films--can you point us toward any sites where we might be able to purchase them?

I haven't actually seen The Collector either, but I did read the novel, and I like the point you make about how it was almost too "easy" to cast Terrence Stamp as Clegg. Clegg in the novel was so anonymous--if I remember correctly, Fowles didn't even put his dialogue in quotation marks, whereas Miranda's words were in quotations marks--that it was impossible for me to see Stamp in the role. Maybe I'll get a different impression when I see the film.

Noel Vera said...

Yep, Stamp stood out like a sore thumb. Eerie performance, but not authentic. What's eerie about Bilanggo is that, well, you wonder about the director...

These two? Not on video, I'm afraid. Though you can be sure if they ever are, I'd post an announcement here faster'n Wyler can win an Academy Award.

Dan Harper said...

I'm not a Stamp "fan" but he was quite a force in the 60s - remember he was Alfie in the London and New York stage productions. As usual, critics thought he was splendid but strange.

A little anecdote Stamp shared about Wyler's directing. In the scene just after he's won the pools, Stamp returns to the office to gloat at his ex-co-workers. Wyler whispered in his ear before the camera started rolling "the taste of the stamps".

Noel Vera said...

He was again a helluva presence in Far From the Madding Crowd, and still was in Soderbegh's in my opine best work, The Limey.

Haw, Wyler does puns.

Dan Harper said...

I'd like to bring up something that has puzzled me for years, but that isn't particularly related to your post: whenever I watch a Filipino film or TV programme, I cannnot help but notice how much "whiter" the people on screen are from Filipinos I know.

I know all about the "whitening" beauty aids that sell like hotcakes all over Asia. "Eskinol" is the most popular in the Philippines - an astringent that also contains skin-bleaching agents.

I realize this is a can of worms too big to bring up in this small space, but I wanted to know your thoughts on the subject.

Noel Vera said...

Haw. But that's easy--how many white blondes with big breasts do you see in American TV or movies? Then how many are there in real life?

Filipinos have this desire, largely unexamined, to be white, Caucasian, tall--everything they're often not. That's why "mestizas" as half-native, half-Caucasians are called, are so valued on TV and in films--because that's what the producers feel the audience wants to see.

Which is why Nora Aunor is such an extraordinary phenomenon. She's an actress who actually looks Filipino and captured their hearts like no other actress has (it's also why Nora's more fair-skinned rival Vilma Santos, while pretty good in her earlier roles, isn't as iconic an actress). Has not been as active recently, which is why the screen has gone back to white-skinned plumped-cheeked mestizas. Snore.

Anonymous said...

Hi, Noel! Just like to add: "Wuthering Heights" was not an MGM picture; it was an independent prestige production from Samuel Goldwyn distributed through United Artists. (MGM - and in effect, UA once again - would own the rights briefly.)

I did like his "The Best Years of Our Lives" very much. :)

Noel Vera said...

Thanks for the heads up, and am correcting. Who's this by the way?


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Luna joined the Arizona Coyotes in September 2019 as a service dog in-training through a partnership with the National Assistance Dogs Inc., a Phoenix foundation. (Photo courtesy of Arizona Coyotes)

GLENDALE – They named her Luna, which is Spanish for moon.

The name fits nicely with the Arizona Coyotes’ crescent moon logo from 1996, which is at center ice this season at Gila River Arena.

Luna is fond of taking naps in Jakob Chychrun’s locker. She wobble-skates on the ice. She has left a mark on the NHL team and soon will make an even bigger impact helping a veteran in need.

“The guys loved when she was around,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. “She was a great little dog. Big dog now. I love when dogs are around, so hopefully we get another one.”

More than 1.1 million veterans were diagnosed with at least one of five mental illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, substance abuse or anxiety, according to a 2016 study by the American Journal of Public Health.

Service dogs assist veterans in healing, and in the U.S., 19% of the dogs are trained to help veterans with PTSD.

The Coyotes have partnered with the National Assistance Dogs Inc., a Phoenix foundation that pairs dogs with veterans and first-responders who deal with mobility issues and/or post-traumatic challenges.

Andrew Armstrong, the founder of National Assistance Dogs, has his own service dog, Smitty, who knows more than 100 commands to help Armstrong open and close doors, turn lights on and off and carry items.

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“What Smitty did for me was a reason for me to wake up in the morning and stop the pills and stop drinking,” Armstrong said. “I wouldn’t admit that if I didn’t have it. My personal goal is paying it forward. I want people to have the same positive experience.”

In September 2019, the Coyotes welcomed Luna to their roster. The 14-week-old black Labrador puppy eventually became a fully-trained service dog and was partnered with a veteran in need.

Cole Cook, vice president of strategy and business intelligence for the Coyotes, and his girlfriend, Allie, were considering getting a puppy at the time and decided to foster Luna.

Luna often would visit the Coyotes’ offices a few times a week, stopping in at the locker room and sometimes stepping out on the ice, too. (Photo courtesy of Arizona Coyotes)

“The previous foundation director at the Coyotes kind of floated this idea around the office if somebody would be willing to foster a dog that would be a service dog and then eventually have it be transitioned to a veteran and nobody in the office was really too eager to do it,” Cook said. “We were considering getting a dog and thought this is a good opportunity to give back and also learn how to train a dog professionally.”

Carey Dillabo, head trainer for National Assistance Dog, said trainers do multiple personality-type surveys with the dogs to best match the canine with the human.

“The minute you start working with a specific dog, you can see that they’re just a good match,” Diablo said. “We’ll take that dog, most likely, and work with that person.”

Puppy raisers, including Cook and Allie, came in with Luna once a week to train with her and prepare her for graduation, which is when she is ready to be paired with a veteran. The training can take anywhere from two months to a year, and Dillabo stressed how important it is to send the dog out into the field at the right time.

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Before the pandemic hit, Luna would often come into the office with Cook. She would visit the locker room once a week, and her favorite nap spot was Coyotes defender Jakob Chychrun’s locker.

“She was on the ice for the first couple weeks we had her, running, sliding around, which is cool to see,” Cook said. “It just brings a sense of relief and joy to the office because having dogs around is nice.”

Being able to foster Luna has taught Cook valuable lessons.

“When you think about the dog in America, (it’s) such just a focal point of the American dream and it’s part of having a family, you get a dog, but they really are powerful animals to do so much more, and Luna’s experience has really taught us that,” Cook said.

Armstrong is proud of Luna and Cook, too.

“Cole’s done an amazing job, the Coyotes have done an amazing job with her,” he said. “Seeing her and where she’s come, especially, Luna’s goal is definitely taking an emotional toll. I mean it’s just awesome.”

Luna recently graduated to advanced training, which means she soon will be paired with a veteran. Despite the sadness of having to give Luna back, Cook knows she’ll do great things. He recently got a new family member as well.

“Being a part of this experience and just being able to give back to those in need through this experience has been great,” he said. “Funny enough we actually got a puppy about a month ago that is the same bloodline as Luna and they look like twins and are attached at the hip, so it’s going to be sad for the puppy.”

Dillabo and Armstrong both vouched for the importance of service dogs and the impact they can have on people.

“These dogs change people’s lives, and people are able to gain independence and get back into society,” Dillabo said. “It’s an amazing thing to watch, and we all have a huge heart for it.”

Sports Reporter, Phoenix

Maddyn Johnstone-Thomas expects to graduate in May 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in sports journalism with a minor in digital audiences and a certificate in sales and marketing. Johnstone-Thomas, who has interned with Sports360AZ and Arizona Sports 98.7, is working for Cronkite Sports this spring.

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You may remember a few weeks ago when Saturday Night Live (SNL) did a skit using an Eminem-style parody to explain Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs)? The hilarious video involved comedians Pete Davidson and Chris Redd rapping alternative lyrics over Eminem’s 2002 hit “Without Me.”

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