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The Bible tells Gods 'mysterious plan' for us
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R1: Acceptance
All the same reasons why every other claimed deity figure of human history is fake.
No evidence shows otherwise.
Dreams are not evidence.
Wishful thinking is not evidence.
Logical fallacies are not evidence.
Personal revelation is not evidence.
Illogical conclusions are not evidence.
Disproved statements are not evidence.
Unsubstantiated claims are not evidence.
Hallucinations/delusions are not evidence.
Information that is ambiguous is not evidence.
The Universe doesn't care what you believe in.
Data that requires a certain belief is not evidence.
Information that cannot be verified is not evidence.
Information that cannot be falsified is not evidence.
Experiments with inconclusive results are not evidence.
Information that is only knowable by a privileged few is not evidence.
Experiments that are not and cannot be duplicated by others are not evidence.
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." Isaac Asimov
Just 21 things that are 100% wrong in the bible:
1. There is not one bit of physical evidence for a global flood - no geological evidence, no mass extinction a few thousand years ago, no evidence that all life was wiped out and gradually repopulated from a single location.
2. You don't get striped goats by having your goats copulate in front of striped sticks.
3. Stars can"t hover over a spot on earth and accurately guide people to that place.
4. Earthquakes do not happen when an angry god shakes the earth.
5. The cure for leprosy is not rubbing birds" blood all over a person.
6. You can't cure snakebite by gazing at a brass snake on a pole.
7. All species of life did not come into existence in a single week.
8. Rain does not happen when windows are opened in heaven.
9. It is not possible to stop the sun as it travels across the sky.
10. The earth is not a few thousand years old.
11. Rabbits do not chew their own cud.
12. There are no four-legged fouls.
13. People can't float to the sky.
14. Rabbits do not have hoofs.
15. Stars cannot fall to earth.
16. The Earth is not a circle.
17. Pi does not equal 3.
18. The earth is not flat.
19. Donkeys can't talk.
20. Bats are not birds.
21. Snakes can't talk.
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It could be code, metaphor, based on something older, allegory or a practical joke of the ages for all we know.
It doesn't matter. What matters is it is STILL affecting and controlling people today.
It's about the will of a person, entity or being, overriding and sadistically imprisoning the will of all others. Considering its or their will greater than the will of everything else and psychopathically imprisoning and controlling everyone using various ponzi schemes and basically organized crime.
Not only that it lays plans for genocide, murder, vampirism, body mutilation of young children, cruelty, enslaving other races, fascism, delusions of grandeur, racism, murderous envy/jealousy, use of terror, the abuse of women, and even a planetary apocalypse. And people AGREE to it, which is the stupidest part of the entire abomination.
The ironic thing is, that this "god" creates all this pain, bloodshed, and chaos only to promise a savior figure, like a carrot on a stick that never comes, or worse, is supposed to come after worldwide destruction (which seems to be the goal to achieve).
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Bill Nighy's career fear
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Bill Nighy wishes he'd have known he'd eventually find acting success and even now he worries his career will "fall apart"
Bill Nighy always worries his career will "fall apart".
The 67-year-old actor - who has a daughter, Mary, 32, with former partner Diana Quick - found fame relatively late in life thanks to his role in 2003 movie 'Love, Actually' and he wishes he'd known such success would come eventually when he was younger as it would have saved him a lot of stress.
He said: "I always had low expectations. When I was in theatre, I never expected to work in television. I certainly never expected to be in a film.
"But then this film led to a degree of... I'm having difficulty saying the word 'fame'.
"Had I known things were going to look up in the way they did, I would've arranged to be more cheerful in the early years.
"When you've got a family and you're worrying about the mortgage, it would have been nice to know you could relax.
"But even now, I'm not entirely relaxed because you always think this whole thing could just fall apart."
The 'Their Finest' star believes there is still a huge gender gap in society but is thankful his filmmaker daughter is going into the industry now as things are slowly changing and "will improve".
He told Red magazine: "Everything is more difficult for a woman. Well, not everything, but lots of areas remain half-open to women, if not closed.
"My daughter is a director and I think, actually, it's not a bad time for her to start because things will improve.
"It's ludicrous that we're even having this conversation. What difference does it make what genitalia you have? It's insane."
Bill will always feel blessed to have a daughter.
He said: "[Mary] never believed that I wanted a girl because she'd read that men always want sons.
"But, if I could choose, I would absolutely fill the house with women. Why wouldn't you?"


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The Memories could be called lots of things: weed-addled, retro, catchy, silly, funny, tuneful. Add "prolific" to that list, as they've got yet another tape on the way. The five-song Ripple EP explores the band's gentler, folkier side. Take a listen to "Knock on That Door" and hear the softer side of the Memories. Ripple comes out tomorrow on Gnar Tapes.
Can Reddit do for artists what MySpace did for them a few years ago? Local producer and electronic musician Wyatt Pearson—who goes under the name Electric Mantis—had this track posted on the front page of Reddit and it's already received 200,000 plays. The massive sounding track is a cotton candy-sweet bit of electro-groove that sounds ready to take over the world. This could fill the Paradiso Festival at the Gorge next summer, for example. Expect to hear a lot more from Electric Mantis.
Last week the Oregonian posted the latest track from TxE's upcoming project, TxE vs. Portland, the new project in which they take recordings from Portland rock and pop bands, adding their own rhymes and transforming the tracks into something entirely their own. Here, we get a taste of Monarques' original track for "Cold Cold Heart," from their 2009 EP, before producer G_Force takes the piano riff and singer Josh Spacek's opening hook into places unknown. TxE will perform a release show for TxE vs. Portland at Mississippi Studios on Sunday, December 29.
Here's the first track from the debut release from Heartburst. The Auto Pilot EP is due out on December 2; it's the project of a local 20-year-old musician named Nate Merchant, who's worked with Con Bro Chill. His songs as Heartburst are big and sugary, but noticeably more romantic and heartfelt. "Superman" is a brash pop song located somewhere in the space between Fun. and Passion Pit, with a catchy hook and a solid twist in the bridge.
DJ Tan't took some of John Bonham's isolated drum tracks from Led Zeppelin's In through the Out Door sessions—done in ABBA's Polar Studios in 1978—and added his own original synth melodies on top. The result is The Bonham Diaries, which Tan't releases it digitally as a free download tomorrow. Take a listen to the album opener, "Day One," which repurposes the very familiar drumbeat from "Fool in the Rain." The result sounds very little like Zeppelin, an admirable feat considering how dominant Bonham's drum style is.
Jennie Wayne is one half of John Heart Jackie, and her new solo album The Great Remembering is a lovely, heartfelt collection of delicate folk. Take a listen to "Come on Home," a simple but effective tune given backing by members of Blind Pilot. Wayne recorded the album during off-and-on sessions over the past two years, but it's complete and ready for the world, so she'll play a record release show at the Secret Society on Sunday, December 8.
BlackSleep makes very peculiar hiphop, as demonstrated on their newly released debut, Tales from the Cryptozoo. This track, "Fearful Symmetry," isn't interested in getting asses on the floor but rather zoning out with the possible aid of pharmaceuticals, adopting a noir-black sheen and a horror-movie thriller vibe. The rest of Tales from the Cryptozoo (available on Bandcamp) is equally unsettling. The band opens for Sir Mix-a-Lot (do they have a song about butts?) at the Analog Cafe on Thursday, December 5.


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Blockchains are a new data structure that creates trusted, distributed digital ledgers for assets and other data. It's an immutable record of digital events shared peer to peer. Blockchains can only be updated by consensus of a majority of the participants in the system and, once entered, information is very hard to erase, according to a new infographic by Frost & Sullivan.
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Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Dohyo no Oni Tachi
Japanese: 土俵の鬼たち
Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: May 21, 1994
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Studio Deen
Source: Unknown
Genres: Drama, Historical, Sports
Duration: 1 hr. 35 min.
Rating: None
Score: 5.671 (scored by 15 users)
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TCA 2013 Nominees:
Choice Summer Movie: Action
"Man of Steel"
"Fast & Furious 6"
"Pacific Rim"
"White House Down"
"World War Z"
Choice Summer Movie: Comedy
"Despicable Me 2"
"Grown Ups 2"
"Monsters University"
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Henry Cavill, "Man of Steel"
Johnny Depp, "The Lone Ranger"
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Chris Pine, "Star Trek Into Darkness"
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Amy Adams, "Man of Steel"
Sandra Bullock, "The Heat"
Melissa McCarthy, "The Heat"
Michelle Rodriguez, "Fast & Furious 6"
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Don Cheadle and Robert Downey Jr, "Iron Man 3"
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"Pretty Little Liars"
"The Fosters"
"Under The Dome"
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Jake T. Austin, "The Fosters"
Jean Luc Bilodeau, "Baby Daddy"
Avan Jogia, "Twisted"
Tyler Posey, "Teen Wolf"
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Maddie Hasson, "Twisted"
Chelsea Kane, "Baby Daddy"
Katie Leclerc, "Switched At Birth"
Maia Mitchell, "The Fosters"
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Taylor Swift, "Red Tour 2013"
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Sarah Perry
Serpent's Tail 27/5/16 Hardback
The Christmas book of the year I think, this gem was in all of the bookshop windows and I was lucky enough to be given a copy. It is a beautiful gift edition with gold embossing everywhere. But as beautiful as the book was the writing inside it. Historical fiction, which perfectly captured the climate of medical and anthropological history at the time. Women's emancipation is also in sight, in the age of Mary Anning and George Elliot and Cora Seagrave, the fictional widow in the story. On a hunt for the mythical Essex serpent she makes friends with the people of Aldwinter.
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Han Kang
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Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
Vintage 24/4/01 Paperback
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Michael Iafrate and Fr. Edwin Gariguez are waiting for the lights to turn on.
As activists for clean energy, they believe the time is now to forge a new path to sustainability. Though their work stems from different backgrounds and perspectives in the global struggle for renewable energy, their vision remains the same.
"We need to stop coal," Gariguez said. "This is something that isn't for the development of the people, but for the development of corporations. It puts the health of the people at risk and has negative impacts and effects for society."
On Thursday, the Center For World Catholicism and Intercultural Technology hosted a panel, Catholicism and Coal, featuring Iafrate and Gariguez at the Lincoln Park Student Center. In the lofty room, they spoke of hope and desperation for a cleaner tomorrow.
Through a reception, independent presentations and a Q and A session with the audience, the two discussed the ins-and-outs of the coal industry and what it means to be a product of it.
"The future is largely up to us, we are making it, and we have to make it something else," Iafrate said. "We must be brave and bold with the decisions and policies we make."
A PhD student at the University of Toronto, Iafrate's work has been largely dedicated to theology and its intersection with renewable energy, specifically for his home West Virginia – a state that was at one point largely dependent on coal jobs.
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Deeply intertwined, many churches were funded by the coal industry, which made it difficult for them to stand up for the oppression that miners faced. He discussed the historical sites of conflict, and how churches should react — and act — to coal and the danger the labor havocked on its workers.
Gariguez brought stories from his time in the Philippines to campus.
"It is in this spirit that I stand before you today, as we are challenged to come together as church to protect the planet and to provide a sustainable future," he said.
"This is serious and alarming — this is destructive. Because of the power demand, there is a big opening for coal-powered plants and for coal mining to come in. Instead of preventing this and regulating, the Filipino government is inviting coal companies to mine and to put coal powered plants in the Philippines because they see something good for development," Gariguez said.
Gariguez's discussion of international mining concerns shed light on the different approaches to environmentalism for both the developing and developed worlds.
Ethan Thotes, a freshman in finance, came to the event not knowing what to expect and left more educated on a struggle unknown to most.
"It's interesting hearing the developed and still developing views on how to deal with environmental issues and how the church has different roles in both nations," Thotes said. "We realize that there are contradictions within the church on how to deal with environmentalism."
A product of a conservative and liberal household, Thotes straddles the line of two sides. With both miners and extreme environmentalists in his family, he came to the event with an open mind on the issues at large.
"Miners think the environment is important, but that their job and the role they play is sacred. They view it as a prideful thing, it's not so much as dangerous and looked down upon in society," Thotes said.
For Kinga Rzezinowsku, a freshman studying secondary education, the talk empowered her to do more and take action in environmentalism.
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Both speakers addressed the concerns they have over President Donald Trump and the new administration's stance on climate change after all evidence of climate change was removed from the White House's website, following Trump's inauguration.
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George Whitesides, chief executive officer of Virgin Galactic was present at the historic flight. He added: "Now, our challenge going forward will be to complete our experimental program, obtain our FAA license and safely bring the system into service at Spaceport America, New Mexico."
Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, was also an on-site eye witness during the first successful solo flight.
"This was one of the most exciting days in the whole history of Virgin," Branson explained. "For the first time since we seriously began the project in 2004, I watched the world's first manned commercial spaceship landing on the runway at Mojave Air and Space Port and it was a great moment. Now, the sky is no longer the limit and we will begin the process of pushing beyond to the final frontier of space itself over the next year."
Spaceport runway dedication
Meanwhile, work is ongoing in readying Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport now under construction in New Mexico.
Another major event in the development of personal spaceflight is slated for Oct. 22, when Spaceport America's runway will be dedicated. The event will signal the completion of the nearly two-mile long by two hundred-foot wide spaceport runway from which the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo launch system will operate. The state-of-the-art launch facility is under construction near Truth or Consequences, N.M., and is expected to become fully operational in 2011.
Officials at Spaceport America have been working closely with leading aerospace firms such as Virgin Galactic, Armadillo Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Moog-FTS, and UP Aerospace to develop commercial spaceflight at the new facility.


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One of the chairmen for the annual Home and Garden Tour last Saturday and Sunday asked us to write a strong editorial demanding good weather for the event which depends wholly upon good weather.
At the same time, after over three weeks of drought, other folks suggested we give a bouquet of poison ivy to the weatherman who had promised showers and never delivered. Word must have gotten around that we were ready to spring into action because we were drenched at midweek and by Saturday there were mostly sunny skies. The garden clubbers were happy and so were all those whose lawns were drying up.
FOLKS FROM THE school administration, however, forgot to put in their bid for good weather so they could hold their commencement outdoors at the Meadow Brook Festival pavilion. As a result, they weren't as fortunate.
You will recall that it had rained all day last Wednesday. Grads were to be at the pavilion at 7 o'clock to start the ceremony at 7:30. Things just didn't work out that way. By 7 p.m., cars were stacked up from the Meadow Brook entrance eastward along Walton for two miles. Adams Road was jammed up for a half mile.
Once the grads, their parents and relatives arrived at the parking lot, it was a dash across fields through wet grass and spots of mud. The stirring "Pomp and Circumstance" processional finally got underway at 8 a.m. Some musicians were still arriving. Backstage, the director of the Meadow Brook Festival, Jim Hicks, had a sheepish look on his face as he informed Supt. Douglas Lund and school board members that not once in the 3-year history of the Festival has it been rained out.
Since the pavilion is covered, the audience was in the dry. And most agreed that it was a while lot more comfortable than the torrid gymnasium where baccalaureate was held three nights before.
ONE OF THE MORE distracting features of every commencement are those who take home movies of the event, using blinding floodlights. I've often wondered if they offer to help pay the electric bill for the evening. I held my breath last week when one home movie cameramen stood at the side of the pavilion in a large puddle of water and plugged her floodlights into an outlet. It could have been her parting shot.
Being a home movie buff myself, I would propose that school authorities throw a couple of permanent spotlights on the stage giving enough light to eliminate the need for the camera person to import their own lights. On the program, a footnote could advise the photographer the proper F-stop setting for their cameras.
THE SPEAKER for the evening was George E. Gullen, Jr., a resident of our community and for the past decade was a vice president of American Motors until he took on a vice-presidency of Wayne State University. He is also president of the National YMCA Board. The Gullens have started their own little private YMCA by having eight children.
Mr. Gullen began his address by taking note of the downpour and advising the grads that the event could be called a "high water mark in your career."
One of his favorite stories concerns a phone call he once received. His phone number was only phone digit away from a Rochester record store. "Once I answered the phone and a sweet young voice on the other end asked, "Do you have Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue?"
"No," Mr. Gullen advised. "I'm an old geezer with eight children and three grandchildren."
"Is that a record?" she queried.
"It's not a record," Mr. Gullen replied, "but it's a good enough for me."


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- AnonymousAugust 4, 2013 at 9:07 PM
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- AnonymousAugust 9, 2013 at 10:56 AM
It was a very hot day,me and my brother were walking home from school.And right there the biggest dog I have ever seen!.what do you do in that situation do you run or get help no you panic,my brother calmed me down I thought it was over but no it only began ,my heart was beating incredibly fast,it chased us for three blocks i was so scared but 'it was kinda fun.When I got home I saw my mom .I told her the whole story ,and suddenly she said she saw me I was so confused.by Moipelo Mothoagae in(5 blue)ReplyDelete
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- Didintle Mothusi 5 BlueAugust 15, 2013 at 8:28 PM
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- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM
One day I was sitting in bed when I heard noises coming from downstairs I went downstairs to what it was then I saw a burglar trying to get in ,my heart was beating incredibly fast I then ran to go call my dad we then both run downstairs but the burglar is already in the house he says that we must go fetch every valuable thing that is upstairs. I go and take everything when I come back Down he takes them and tells us to sit down he then took rope and tied us up then left us.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM
One day I was sitting in bed when I heard noises coming from downstairs I went downstairs to what it was then I saw a burglar trying to get in ,my heart was beating incredibly fast I then ran to go call my dad we then both run downstairs but the burglar is already in the house he says that we must go fetch every valuable thing that is upstairs. I go and take everything when I come back Down he takes them and tells us to sit down he then took rope and tied us up then left us.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2013 at 7:03 PM
ONCE UPON A TIME I WAS EATING A BANANA WITH CHOCOLATE COVERED ALL OVER IT AND GOSH IT WAS DELISIOUS.WHEN I WAS DONE EATING MY CHOCOLATE COVERED BANANA I GOT UPSET BECAUSE MY SHOE LASES WERE NOT TIED AND I DIDNT WANT TO GO ALL THE WAY DOWN THERE JUST TO TIE MY SHOE LASES ESPECIALY AFTER EATING A CHOCOLATE COVERED BANANA.SOME PEOPLE SAY ITS CALLED LAZYNESS BUT I PREFER IT AS TO TIRED TO DO STUFF.WHEN I WAS DONE DECIDING WETHER TO TIE THEM OR NOT I STARTED WALKING TO THE NEXT SUBJECT I TRIPED OVER MY SHOE LASES THAT I REFUSED TO TIE AND MY OTHER CHOCOLATE IN MY LEFT HAND GOT COVERED IN GRASS.SO IT IS NOW CALLED GRASS COVERED CHOCOLATE!ReplyDelete
- Calem the chettyMarch 25, 2014 at 5:10 PM
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- AnonymousAugust 25, 2014 at 6:45 PM
One day I went up to space to stick a flag of South Africa and I saw a alien that was siting on a rock with a empty lunch box. so I had arrived and he asked me do I have lunch and I said yes I do. He asked if I could share so I said yes. His head was green and his hands was blue. He asked me if he could came down to Earth and see how it looked, so I gave him a ride down. I told him after that he could not be here for long cause I go to school. He said he can not be here for a long time. So 2 weeks after I took him back to his back. after all he final had a friend to play with.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 9, 2014 at 8:36 AM
Once apon a time I was walk than I saw barney I was scared I went home and saw barney again so when I went to school I forgot to say hello to barney than I said shacks he is gone I saw him again, I got angry I went to him and said dude get away from my life go go away barney went away and he said you will love me soon I woke up and it was a weird dream then I really saw barney at my tableReplyDelete
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Harry Purut, CEO of the Wood-Ridge, New Jersey-based Gourmet Inflight Catering, is well aware of that. The 61-year-old Wyckoff resident has been working hard for the past 16 years to satisfy the culinary whims and drink requests of the 1 percent whose private carriers fly out of the airports in the metropolitan area, including Teterboro, Newark, JFK and LaGuardia. His catering company, which sits next door to Martini Grill, the Italian-American restaurant his chef brother-in-law, Aret Cakir, owns and for which he is a partner, is open seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Cakir is also chef of the catering company, which has a staff of 14.
"We never close," Purut said. "We're like an airline."
Purut's clients are not the passengers, but their companies or managers who hire him to feed their well-heeled travelers. He is in charge of supplying them top-notch snacks, top-end meals and top-shelf liquor. Sometimes an astoundingly large and expensive amount of liquor. Purut recalls one flyer for whom he fetched 16 bottles of Patron Platinum Tequila ($250 per bottle), six bottles of Cristal Champagne ($150 per bottle) and six bottles of Johnny Walker Blue ($200 per bottle). The liquor was to be enjoyed on a flight to Atlantic City.
"We have five-star clientele," said the gray-haired and mustachioed Purut, who was born in Istanbul. "We're not providing regular airline food."
|Harry Purut, who heads the company Gourmet Inflight Catering, stands in the kitchen of his business in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. The Record/TNS
Among the dishes Gourmet Inflight is providing: grilled filet mignon with roasted rosemary potatoes, rack of lamb encrusted with herb-flecked Parmesan and thinly sliced marinated ostrich over caramelized onions. Flying breakfast time? There's challah French toast with Vermont maple syrup, a selection of smoked fish with black German bread or paper-thin French crepes stuffed with fresh fruit. Just a light nosh? How about Beluga caviar with creme fraiche?
If however a passenger wants something other than what's on the company's extensive menu, Purut will try -- real hard -- to please. He spends lots of time, he said, shopping for food, often searching for specific -- and sometimes difficult to find -- products a client just can't fly without. For one, he recalled, it was mini veal sausages. "In this area it's not mini and the sausages are made with pork." Still, he managed to find a Fair Lawn butcher to make mini veal sausages for him. "Money is not the issue," he said. For another, it was black pudding (English blood sausage). "I found it in a New Milford Irish deli," he said, For still another: organic Gatorade. "I never heard of organic Gatorade," he said. Neither it turns out did any store owners in the area. "I had it shipped from Phoenix."
Sometimes the demands are not food-related. Jennifer Lopez wanted a dark Santa Fe fleece throw and a crystal-cut ashtray, Purut said. "Do you know how hard it is finding this stuff?" He managed to find the throw in Lord & Taylor and the ashtray in Bloomingdale's.
"It's challenging work, never boring," Purut declared. It is work he took on after Martini Grill customers, who happen to work in nearby Teterboro, asked him if he'd start an inflight catering firm. They offered to give the restaurant "all their business" if he would.
Though hesitant at first, the two men decided to go for it when the tanning salon next door to the restaurant moved out and they had the space to build another kitchen. "It's a niche business," Purut said -- one that they knew nothing about.
So they hired people who worked for the competition -- and learned from them. "We had to learn about different containers -- those for hot food and cold food -- size of plane ovens and microwaves, how to cook food that will need to be reheated, etc."
Today, they have 250 customers.
Flight attendant Maryann Minaesian can't be more pleased with Purut. "I never have to worry, 'Did he get it right?'" she said. "He is so professional and his food is fabulous. Plus he's a nice person."
Have the eating habits of the rich and famous changed over time? Yes, Purut says. Like most everyone else, they are eating less carbs -- "Instead of rice, we make mashed sweet potatoes, instead of potatoes, pureed cauliflower -- less fried food -- "We used to saute vegetables, now we mostly steam or roast" -- and there's more demand for gluten-free dishes.
One customer didn't care about gluten or carbs. He had one demand: English tea sandwiches. Purut supplied them. A few days later, the vendor told him, he said, "The guy never talks. He never says a word. But he liked the tea sandwiches so much that he actually spoke to tell me how pleased he was." The guy was Keith Richards.
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By Esther Davidowitz
The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey)


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Japan in Winter Jan 10—22, 2015
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The Japan in Winter tour is described as a "crane and sea eagle spectacle," a billing it more than lives up to. The tour has been designed by Japanese birding tour leader, Kaz Shinoda, and traverses the three main—and distinctively different—islands of Honshu, Kyushu, and Hokkaido, with about a third of the tour devoted to each island. From south to north that's a span of over 1,600 miles, from the mild weather and green tea plantations of Kyushu to the snowy rim of the Sea of Okhotsk on Hokkaido, the main island of Honshu in between.
On our 2015 tour we enjoyed great views of five species of cranes. At Arasaki on the island of Kyushu, we took in one of the grandest crane spectacles in the world: more than 13,000 White-naped and Hooded cranes congregating in fields and paddies. Tall, silvery White-naped Cranes with bold red faces standing head and shoulders above petite, elegant Hooded Cranes with charcoal bodies, white necks, and red forecrowns. Tucked among their thousands were a handful of Eurasian/Common Cranes and Sandhill Cranes. At sunset, the entire aggregation flew by, a few hundred at a time with the setting sun behind them, to a nighttime roost nearby. A magnificent sight.
Red-crowned Cranes— Photo: Kaz Shinoda
We had to wait until the final three days of the tour for our fifth species of crane, the Red-crowned Crane, sometimes called Japanese Crane and the crane that is a cultural icon in Japan. Our first views of Red-crowned Cranes were at sunrise, as a flock of hundreds stood in the icy shallows of a river, the rose-colored sunrise streaming through the bare trees along the stream. Later that day we watched hundreds of Red-crowned Cranes at close range, pairs bugling in unison and performing courtship dances, leaping from the ground with wings arched above them. Unforgettable.
The northern island of Hokkaido was also the winter home of legions of sea-eagles. As we drove the eastern coast of the island and then out the Notsuke Peninsula, massive Steller's Sea-Eagles with enormous orange bills and white shoulders decorated the landscape: atop utility poles, on the rocky buttress of the shoreline, standing on snow- and ice-covered ponds. Nearby too were White-tailed Sea-Eagles, large eagles the size of Bald Eagles, but still a head shorter than Steller's.
Hokkaido is also home to another enormous raptor, the world's largest owl—Blakiston's Fish-Owl. We had barely arrived at our inn in Yoroushi when one of the staff announced, "The owl is here!" Rushing off the bus, we headed toward a wall of windows that overlook a rushing stream behind the inn. We arrived just in time to find out the owl had just left. But our disappointment didn't last long. As we came back into the lobby with our bags a few minutes later, the owl—this time two owls!—had returned to hunt fish at the edge of the stream. Huge, tawny owls with floppy crests, a female (the larger of the sexes) can stand 28" tall and with their massive girth weigh nearly 10 pounds, two-and-a-half times the mass of a female Great Horned Owl. For at least 20 minutes we watched and photographed the owls before adjourning to our lovely rooms, warming Japanese onsen (hot bath), and a superb traditional Japanese dinner.
At Hokkaido's Lake Kussharo we walked a snowy path to the edge of the huge lake, where dozens of Whooper Swans swam in the shallows, enveloped in mist created by geothermal heating of the lake water. Suddenly our attention was called to birds in the trees nearby. First a large woodpecker, the size of a flicker, foraging at the base of a nearby tree. It was a White-backed Woodpecker, the first of the tour and a bird we had been hoping for. This was a male with red washed belly and all red crown. As the woodpecker flew to another tree, attention turned to a couple of Eurasian Treecreepers, also the first of the trip, much like a pale version of North America's Brown Creeper. The treecreepers were part of a loosely organized mixed flock, including Coal Tit, Great Tit, Varied Tit, and Eurasian Nuthatch—all lit up by the sun's reflection off the snow-covered ground. And now it was time to enter the Ainu-themed restaurant just beyond the trees, where we had a superb lunch in a large space decorated with colorful Ainu (Japan's original native people) art motifs.
While the cranes, sea-eagles, and Blakiston's Fish-Owl are the tour headliners, there is a great deal more to see on our Japan in Winter tour: 155 bird species more or less, grand scenery from the Japanese Alps to the rugged seacoast to the green interior, wonderful food, traveling in the comfort of small buses, and a variety of Western style and a couple of traditional Japanese inns. In 2015 we enjoyed 26 species of waterfowl, from Whooper Swans and both Taiga and Tundra bean-geese to superb views of some of the world's fanciest ducks: Mandarin Duck, Baikal Teal, Smew, and Falcated Duck. We watched endemic Japanese Wagtails forage along shallow, gravel-lined streams, alongside Long-billed Plovers, often with White and Gray wagtails nearby. In a forested park on Kyushu, we lucked into a rare Forest Wagtail—for the second straight year on the tour, and a bird Kaz originally discovered there in fall 2013. My personal favorites for the tour included such northern finches as Japanese Grosbeak, Eurasian Bullfinch, Hawfinch, and Long-tailed Rosefinch. We watched three Brown Dippers chase up and down a stream just before a pair of massive, zebra-striped Crested Kingfishers buzzed over our heads.
Beautiful Azure-winged Magpies and Eurasian Jays competed for the title of loveliest corvid of the trip, although Large-billed Crows had the most comical voices. A two-hour boat trip from the eastern tip of Hokkaido took us to nice views of Spectacled Guillemots (a regional specialty), Ancient Murrelets, and Least Auklets. On the island of Kyushu, we found wintering global rarities—Black-faced Spoonbills and Saunders's Gulls. There were dashing Red-flanked Bluetails and Daurian Redstarts along forest paths, some so confiding they landed almost at our feet. The chickadee clan was also well-represented: colorful, multihued Varied Tits, as well as Marsh, Willow, Japanese, and Coal tits. There were also Long-tailed Tits: imagine a Bushtit painted pink, white, and black. Kinglet-sized Chinese Penduline-Tits worked tall streamside reed beds. And throughout the trip a lineup of some of the northern world's finest buntings: Elegant, Meadow, Reed, Chestnut-eared, Gray, Rustic, and Black-faced.
I'm already eager for a return to Japan to see what our 2016 Japan in Winter tour will deliver.