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Chapter 34 - The Open Gate
PRAYERS for world peace were held in Kosei-kai's Fumon Hall on October 23, 1970, only two days after the close of the peace conference in Kyoto. Ninety-four foreign representatives to the conference, joined by thirty-three Japanese representatives, attended the prayer services as guests.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the hall was darkened completely. Then a bell, like a clear note of courage and hope, sounded in the darkness. A red spotlight gradually shed warm light on the leaves of the bodhi tree in the center of the stage; and then a mystical blue light revealed the focus of devotion, a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha. To the sounds of music by the Kosei Band and Chorus, a line of glowing lights formed across the stage and up the aisles of the auditorium. The lights were candles held in the hands of young girls of the Kosei-kai Young Adults' Group. Some burning strong and bright, some flickering and pale, all of them moved steadily toward the figure of Shakyamuni. Reaching the stage, they first formed a circle of light; then they became a great glowing lotus. Standing among the lights, I thought that, though the power of each individual is small, by combining strengths, we can make a garden of this world, just as the girls with their candles, each only a small flame in itself, were able to come together to form a dazzling lotus of light.
The enthusiasm with which the members of Rissho Kosei-kai joined in the prayers for world peace seemed to make a fresh and profound impression on the foreign guests. The members of our organization, for their parts, were eager to hear reports on the Kyoto conference from the foreign representatives. The first to make such a report was Archbishop Angelo Fernandes of India. In his remarks, he said that people of religious faith cannot stand by silent and do nothing about the poverty, injustice, and inequality that are already too prevalent in the world. He said that the first thing we must do is inform as many people as possible of the wretchedness that exists. Then we must provide assistance to the poor and oppressed. This aid must not be merely material: it must include spiritual support that will help the poverty-stricken and downtrodden to stand on their own. It made me very happy to hear how closely the words of Archbishop Fernandes agreed with my own thoughts and with the major aims of Kosei-kai. Our mission is the opening of the hearts of all people and the planting in them of the desire to search for religious truth by following Shakyamuni Buddha's spirit of equality and great wisdom. And I have long insisted that, by means of individual religious practices and disciplines, each of us must strive to become a moving force in bringing peace to the world.
Other speakers on the platform at the services for world peace included Dr. Dana McLean Greeley, of the United States. Dr. Greeley, who had served as one of the chairmen at the peace meeting in Kyoto, said that those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. He added the belief that, if the will of seekers of peace is strong, peace for the whole world can be achieved. He concluded by saying that all of us must strive together for the attainment of our goal. The next speaker was Metropolitan Galitsky Philaret, patriarch of Moscow, who commented on the distribution of the world's wealth as the cause of poverty. He said that the wealth of the world belongs to all peoples and that we ought to apply human wisdom to its development and more equitable distribution. But he insisted that the first thing to be done in the cause of global peace is the cessation of military preparations by all nations.
The building in which these speeches were made is called Fumon ("open gate") Hall. The spirit that built it and that it symbolizes by its very existence is the will to realize peace, equality, and justice on all levels of human society. In other words, the spirit of the open gate is the determination to guide all peoples to a way of life based on the Truth.
Kosei-kai's Great Sacred Hall is a place for discussions and hoza counseling sessions, during which the members of the organization can deepen their religious faith, come into contact with others who share that faith, and refine and develop both faith and the individual personality. In other words the Great Sacred Hall is a place primarily for the members of the organization. But as early as 1966, a proposal was made for the construction of another building, where the faith developed and strengthened within the membership can be directed outward to society in general. Agreement on the need for such a building was unanimous; and in the following year, ground-breaking ceremonies took place.
Buddhism is not for a specific group of people. It is for all humanity. We undertook the construction of this new hall in the hope of speeding up the process of bringing the true teachings to all the world and, in this way, of allowing all people to bathe in the compassion of the Buddha.
It was decided that the new building should be in the form of a double circle and that it should face the Great Sacred Hall. At first, there were people who argued that the building ought to be named Niwano Hall, but I opposed the suggestion. I felt that the use of the name of a single human being in connection with a building devoted to the development of all phases of culture and to the true Buddhist spirit would be presumptuous. I suggested that the building be known as Fumon Hall, or the Hall of the Open Gate. This name is a reference to the twenty-fifth chapter of the Lotus Sutra, "The All-Sidedness of the Bodhisattva Regarder of the Cries of the World," in which are described the ways in which this bodhisattva shows compassion for sentient beings and the myriad forms that he assumes to preach the Law.
In scale and equipment, Fumon Hall is one of the largest and most modern buildings in the Orient. It is outfitted with a revolving stage and with the latest acoustical and motion-picture equipment. The form of the building - two circles joined in one - is derived from the Three Seals of the Laws: "All things are impermanent"; "All things are devoid of self"; and "Nirvana is quiescence."
The twenty-eight columns on the exterior of the building symbolize the twenty-eight chapters of the Lotus Sutra. The statue of Kannon, the Bodhisattva Regarder of the Cries of the World, enshrined in the lobby on the second floor was created by Shinkan Nishikido, the artist who produced the statue of Shakyamuni in the auditorium of the Great Sacred Hall. The figure in Fumon Hall symbolizes the thirty-three forms that Kannon may assume in saving sentient beings from confusion and suffering.
Ceremonies to mark the completion of Fumon Hall had taken place on April 28, 1970. On that same day, roughly seven centuries earlier, at Asahigamori on Mount Kiyosumi, in Chiba Prefecture, Nichiren had chanted the Daimoku - Namu Myoho Renge-kyo - for the first time. The day is, therefore, historic and memorable. To commemorate it and the completion of Fumon Hall, twenty thousand Kosei-kai members from all over Japan gathered to attend ceremonies intended to mark the birth of what we call a "great palace of culture."
The prayers for world peace and the reports of foreign representatives to the Kyoto conference took place in Fumon Hall and in the Great Sacred Hall six months after the new building was finished. As I listened to the tumult of applause from twenty-five thousand people on that day, I thought, "How wonderful if Nichiren and Myoko Sensei are observing this occasion now!" With the memory of Myoko Sensei warm in my heart, I delivered the final message of the day. "The Kyoto conference had great significance because it was a chance for us to come together, discuss the issues at hand, and reach mutual understanding on them. But at present, we are at the stage where the program for peace has just been drawn up. The road ahead is long and will probably be rough. Nonetheless, all people of religious faith must join hands and walk toward our goal of peace."
To bring the ceremony to a close, the chorus sang a song entitled "The Road Lies Ahead." During the music, the foreign representatives to the conference all came to the stage and shook hands with members of the Kosei-kai Young Adults' Group. The applause virtually rocked the auditorium; and the sight of many people from many lands, all wearing different kinds of clothes but all devoted to one aim, was deeply impressive. I felt life and hope glowing brightly in all faces. Everyone seemed to be experiencing a flame of friendship and trust that is impossible to describe in words.
Later we received letters of thanks for the prayer service from many of the foreign representatives who had already returned to their homelands. Mr. William P. Thompson, a Presbyterian in the United States, wrote to say that the vitality and passionate religious faith of Kosei-kai had made a deep impression on him and that he had reconfirmed his vow to work together with us for the sake of peace. Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet, and social worker, said that the activities of Kosei-kai youth suggest the possibility of a Buddhist renaissance and that he lacked words to express his respect for our work. I was, of course, overjoyed to see that people were understanding Kosei-kai's membership, its ideals, and its activities as they deserve to be understood.
At the executive committee meeting for the second World Conference on Religion and Peace, which took place in April, 1971, all the people who attended the prayers for world peace were unanimous in their praise for the activities of Kosei-kai. They made the following kinds of comments.
"It was wonderful to see young people, children, and old people all working together in the hope of peace. It was especially beautiful to see many women whose eyes glowed with sincerity in the hope of peace. This is something very valuable. The meeting in Fumon Hall filled me with an awareness of the power of religion. This has all come about because of your strength as a leader."
"Your fervent but quiet passion for peace has bound the members of Kosei-kai together. In the immense energy of your organization, I was able to see religion living today. None of us will forget how deeply moved we were by that day."
"Everyday activities are necessary in religion. Your activities as a leader in the everyday affairs of religion bore fruit at that meeting. Religious activities are founded on everyday affairs, and in the case of Kosei-kai the foundation is firm. This proves that your leadership is reliable and strong. I have the greatest respect for this."
I listened to these remarks in silence. Though there may have been an amount of formal courtesy in what they said, these people from other lands were speaking the truth. The spiritual exchange that had taken place in Fumon Hall had refreshed the hearts of the representatives from abroad. What they said about me was unimportant. I travel throughout Japan and in many other lands on the work of the peace conference because I find the basis for such action in the Lotus Sutra. My efforts are in consonance with the wishes of the four million members of Kosei-kai. In short, though we are distinct in body, Rissho Kosei-kai and I are one in mind. And it was the recognition of this unity by the foreign committee members of the peace conference that made me happy.
Today in Japan there are people who misunderstand Kosei-kai and who are very cold to the idea of the conference for world peace. There are others who try to throw cold water on Kosei-kai efforts to help create a brighter society. But the remarks of these visitors from other lands showed that disinterested observers understand our aims as long as we are sincere. I resolved then and there to continue working in one mind with the members of Kosei-kai.
In May, 1975, almost five thousand representatives from seventy-three nations gathered in Fumon Hall for the ninth meeting of the World Petroleum Congress. The theme of the meetings was "Petroleum for the Welfare of Mankind." Like the Olympic games, these conferences are held every four years. On this occasion, the conference began on May 11. In addition to the representatives from overseas, more than two thousand Japanese representatives attended the conference, which was of a mammoth scale and required tremendous backstage preparation. One of the main headaches of the planners was the selection of a hall. A number of buildings were considered, but for reasons of size or inadequacy of equipment, none of them proved suitable. The only choice left was Kosei-kai's Fumon Hall. One Tokyo newspaper commented on the difficulties involved in finding a hall. The article went on to say that, because the meetings were to be held in the auditorium of a religious organization, agreement would have to be obtained from the various Islamic countries. As is known, the Islamic peoples are strict about other religions; and since much of the world's petroleum is from the Middle East, Islamic representatives at the conference would inevitably be numerous. The agreement was forthcoming, and the newspaper remarked that this revealed the authority of a newly risen religious organization.
Some of the people who spoke during the congress were F. D. Rossini, of the United States, president of the World Petroleum Congress; Manoutchehr Eghbal, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company; Valentin Shashin, Soviet minister of the oil industry; and Rogers C. B. Morton, secretary of commerce of the United States. On opening day, I sat in the seats reserved for special guests because I was the head of the organization providing housing for the conference. The crown prince and crown princess of Japan, who attended the meeting that day, sat in the same part of the auditorium. When I greeted them, the crown prince complimented Kosei-kai on the splendid building and expressed sympathy for the labor that preparations for the conference must have entailed.
The conference covered a wide field of subjects, including procurement, refining, and transport of petroleum, as well as other technological matters. Because of the crisis in oil supply that had arisen in 1973, the whole financial world was watching the proceedings.
Secretary Morton of the United States impressed me with the need for international cooperation in fields other than religion when he said that producer and consumer nations alike must work together to safeguard the world's petroleum supply.
The World Petroleum Congress meetings proved to me and others that Fumon Hall, built to carry Shakyamuni Buddha's spirit of equality and great wisdom to society in all cultural fields, had gotten off to a good start.
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Updated Analysis of the Eldorado Uranium Miners' Cohort: Part I of the Saskatchewan Uranium Miners' Cohort Study (RSP-0205)
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Radon and radon decay products (RDP) also referred to as "radon progeny" emit types of radiation that are hazardous to people's health. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) protects the health of uranium workers by regulating radon and RDP in Canada's nuclear facilities by strictly controlling and monitoring exposures to workers and concentrations of radon and RDP in air.
Radon is an odourless, colourless radioactive gas that occurs naturally in the environment as a result of the radioactive decay of uranium in soils and rocks. Radon decays through a series of very short-lived elements (polonium-218, lead-214, bismuth-214 and polonium-214) called radon decay products. RDP are not gases, but solid electrically charged particulates that will become suspended in the air, most attaching to dust particles or the surface of solid materials; some may remain unattached. Both attached and unattached fractions may be inhaled. If deposited in the lungs these decay products emit alpha radiation, possibly damaging the living cells lining the lung.
Learn more about Radon.
- This study looks at the relationship between lung cancer (deaths and new cancer cases) in relation to radon progeny exposures in a group of 17,660 Eldorado uranium workers who started working at the Beaverlodge and Port Radium mine sites and the Port Hope radium and uranium facility between 1932 and 1980 and followed up through 1999.
- It is an update of the original Eldorado study group or "cohort" that looked at mortality at the Beaverlodge (Howe et al, 1986) (Howe and Stager, 1996) and Port Radium (Howe et al, 1987) mine sites and Port Hope radium and uranium facility.
- This study concludes that:
- Overall, uranium mining and processing workers were as healthy as the general Canadian male population.
- Lung cancer was the only disease that consistently showed significantly higher death and cancer incidence rates among uranium mine workers.
- Overall, the excess risk of lung cancer death and cancer incidence increased linearly with increasing radon progeny exposure.
- There was no statistically significant evidence of a relationship between RDP exposure and any other disease (other than lung cancer).
- Purpose of the study
- Background
- Methods
- Main results and conclusions
- Next steps
- Detailed study conclusions
Purpose of the Study
- Understand the relationship between RDP exposure and the risk of lung cancer or any other disease.
- Compare cancer incidence and mortality rates of the updated cohort with the general Canadian population
- Analyze lung cancer incidence and mortality rates associated with RDP exposure in the updated cohort
- Analyze cancer incidence and mortality rates for diseases other than lung cancer associated with RDP exposure and gamma ray exposure
- In 1993, a Joint Federal-Provincial Panel on Uranium Mining Developments examining proposed uranium mines in Northern Saskatchewan recommended that ongoing health studies of past, present and future uranium miners should be conducted.
- The panel felt it necessary to study whether working in the uranium industry affects health, especially the association between lung cancer and RDP exposure.
- As a result of the above recommendation, the Saskatchewan Uranium Miner's Cohort (SUMC) study group was formed and included members of provincial and federal governments (including the CNSC), industry and worker representatives.
- The SUMC conducted two studies to fulfill its task: Part I is this current study (updating the original Eldorado cohort of uranium workers) and Part II is a feasibility study looking at the health of modern day (post 1975) uranium miners.
- The original Eldorado study found an excess of lung cancer deaths among Beaverlodge and Port Radium miners. This was due to the high levels of RDP exposures in these mines. Male workers in the Port Radium mine received the highest levels of RDP exposures, approximately 900 mSv throughout their career.
- The original study also found that there was no unusual mortality among the Port Hope radium and uranium workers. This was most likely due to the very low RDP exposures received at this site.
- This study updates the original Eldorado study of 17,660 uranium workers who started working between 1932 and 1980.
- Employees' job histories and radiation exposures were collected up until 1999. As expected, early operations resulted in higher radiation exposures (mean cumulative exposures) as compared to more modern times.
- The update adds a further 19 years of mortality data (totaling 50 years) and 31 years of cancer incidence (new cancer cases) data not considered in the original study.
Main Results and Conclusions
- Overall, uranium mining and processing employees were as healthy as the general Canadian male population.
- Lung cancer was the only disease that consistently showed significantly higher death and cancer incidence rates among uranium mine workers.
- Overall, the excess risk of lung cancer death and cancer incidence increased linearly with increasing RDP exposure.
- There was no statistically significant evidence of a relationship between RDP exposure and any other disease (other than lung cancer).
Read more on the study conclusions.
Next Steps
- Seventy five percent (75%) of the uranium workers in the Eldorado cohort were still alive at the end of 1999 and many workers were still 65 years of age or younger. This is important since these workers could still be working at a modern mine today and could provide the opportunity for future studies.
- Future mortality and cancer incidence follow-up and analysis of the Eldorado uranium workers and joint analysis with other uranium miner studies should shed more light on the health effects of low RDP exposure as experienced by current uranium workers as well as help to understand and address the health risks associated with residential radon.
Return to main Health Studies webpage.
To obtain a copy of the report (in English only), please contact: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
280 Slater Street
P.O. Box 1046, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5S9
Tel.: 613-995-5894 or 1-800-668-5284 (in Canada only)
Facsimile: 613-995-5086
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Detailed Study Conclusions
Conclusion 1: Overall, uranium mining and processing employees were as healthy as the general Canadian male population.
Supporting evidence:
- The reduction in risk for cancers, other than lung cancer, likely represents a healthy worker effect.
- Miners have a physically strenuous job and thus may be expected to be more physically active then the general population.
- The cohort had similar lower mortality for non-cancer causes such as heart disease presumably for similar reasons.
- High mortality rates for the mine site employees (Beaverlodge and Port Radium) included alcohol-related deaths and external causes such as homicides, suicides and accidents. Lifestyle factors and the remote northern environment could have contributed to these deaths.
Conclusion 2: Lung cancer was the only disease that consistently showed significantly higher death and cancer incidence rates among uranium mine workers.
Supporting evidence:
- Port Radium and Beaverlodge workers had significantly higher lung cancer death and incidence rates compared to the Canadian male population.
- The excess lung cancer death and incidence rates seen in Port Radium and Beaverlodge can be largely attributed to the high RDP exposure found in historic mines.
- Port Hope workers had lung cancer death rates and lung cancer incidence rates similar to the Canadian male population.
- Lung cancer is the only known health effect related to RDP exposure.
- Poor ventilation and lack of radiation protection programs led to very high RDP exposures during early mining operations among uranium miners.
Conclusion 3: Overall, the excess risk of lung cancer death and incidence increased linearly with increasing RDP exposure.
Supporting Evidence:
- Workers' RDP exposure was calculated to determine its effect on lung cancer incidence and mortality.
- The risk estimates for lung cancer and RDP exposure were not statistically significant for Port Hope workers
- Three important modifying factors affected the risk of lung cancer. The risk of lung cancer decreased with increasing time since the exposure, increasing age and decreasing exposure rate.
- Similar to the mortality data, the risk of lung cancer incidence increases with increasing RDP exposure; this relationship is also statistically significant.
Conclusion 4: There was no statistically significant evidence of a relationship between RDP exposure and any other disease (other than lung cancer).
Supporting Evidence:
- The findings of the updated Eldorado study are supported by other research. "Lung cancer is by far the most important long-term health consequence of exposure to RDP experienced by underground miners. In fact, there is little, if any, evidence of any other serious long-term health effect arising from such exposure" (Darby et al, 1995).
- Gamma ray doses, which were also studied, provided no statistically significant evidence of a relationship with any cancer or cause of death.
- It is known, that high doses of gamma rays can increase the risk of a number of cancers (UNSCEAR, 2000), with leukaemia being one of the most likely. However, in the present study, the average gamma ray dose of the Eldorado workers was fairly low, and health effects are not expected at these low doses. It is important to note though, that this study lacks statistical power to detect an effect of exposure to gamma rays because exposures are so low.
Additional Information
- No data was available on smoking behaviour or other risk factors for cancer among the cohort. Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer in Canada. It is responsible for 30% of all cancer deaths and is related to more than 85% of lung cancer cases in Canada. Exposure to radon and RDP is the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers and further increases your risk of developing lung cancer if you smoke. Thus, it is important to consider the potential impact of smoking on risk estimates when interpreting studies such as this.
- This update shows similar results to the original Eldorado study and provides further evidence that the only known health effect of from RDP exposure is lung cancer.
- The total radiation doses received by today's uranium mine workers are very low (averaging 0.5 mSv/year), well below the regulatory limits. It is important to note that current uranium mines have extensive radiation protection programs, strict dose limits, and ALARA programs, all of which result in very low doses as compared to historic mine operations.
- These findings are consistent with the results of other uranium miner studies and a combined analysis of the data from 11 underground miner studies (BEIR VI Report). They are also consistent with the conclusions of a recent report (UNSCEAR, 2009) that provides a comprehensive review and summary of all radon-related research.
To obtain a copy of the report (in English only), please contact:
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
280 Slater Street
P.O. Box 1046, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5S9
Tel.: 613-995-5894 or 1-800-668-5284 (in Canada only)
Facsimile: 613-995-5086
E-mail: email@example.com
Related Links
- Radon and Health (INFO-0813)
- United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) report, Press Release (source: UNSCEAR)
- Mortality (1950-1999) and Cancer Incidence (1969-1999) In the Cohort of Eldorado Uranium Workers, Article
- Opportunity North, Article (PDF)
- Epidemiological evidence and Radiation Protection, Article (Uranium 2010 "The Future is U" PAPER 5501)
- Feasibility Study: Saskatchewan Uranium Miners Cohort Study (RSP-0178), Abstract
- Radon Progeny and Lung Cancer: A Mortality Study of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners 1950-2001 (RSP-0193)
- Mortality from lung cancer in Ontario uranium miners, Abstract
- National Academy of Sciences BEIR VI, Study
- Radon – A Guide for Canadian Homeowners (source: Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
- Canadian Cancer Society
- The Lung Association
- Report of the Radon Working Group on a New Radon Guideline for Canada (source: CBC Web site)
- The International Radon Project, an initiative of the World Health Organization
- More questions about radon in uranium mines and processing facilities? Contact us
- More questions about radon in your home? Contact Health Canada

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Company: GourmetGiftBaskets.com
2013 Inc. 5000 Rank: 2956
Headquarters: Kingston, NH
Year Founded: 2002
2012 Revenue: $18.6 million
3-Year Growth: 115%
When Ryan Abood looked at the books for his parents' New Hampshire flower shop, one number popped out. Without a bit of advertising, sales of gift baskets had grown 400 percent. For a year and a half, he worked a hundred hours a week to make his spinoff, GourmetGiftBaskets.com, into the third-largest player in his niche. Then, one day, he woke up to find that Google, the source of 80 percent of the company's revenue, had banished his site from its search results. His company ended up the better for it.
On November 11, 2008, I woke up at 6 o'clock and did a Google search on my phone, like I do every morning. We're usually one or two for just about every industry keyword. But we were nowhere to be found. I opened up my laptop. We weren't in the first thousand results. This was right before the holiday season, when we typically make 40 to 60 percent of our annual revenue. It was really, really devastating.
We weren't sure what had happened. Occasionally, Google will drop a site from the index -- just algorithmically forget about you for a few days. People said, "You either have some type of temporary exclusion, or you have a penalty."
I called the two companies we hired to improve our ranking. In the past, I'd done all our search-engine optimization myself. But as we grew, we started paying companies to reach out to relevant sites and ask them for links. Instead, one of the companies admitted it was paying for links. Google looks at that like buying an election.
Google has a form called the re-inclusion request. We call it the Google confessional. We said, "These are the links that were paid; these are the links that weren't paid. We've obviously violated your trust, and we're taking steps to remedy it."
That holiday season, we pay-per-clicked out the wang. We spent a lot of money. They penalize you organically, but they still let you buy ads. We leaned on our affiliate channel. Meanwhile, we were slashing inventory, letting people go, getting neat and trim. It ended up costing us $2 million in sales that winter and another couple million in 2009.
Before the penalty, we had zero social media presence. We sort of looked at it like, "It must be nice to have the time to do that." Now, as part of our whole strategy of never buying a link again, we blog about anything. We're up to 3,200 Facebook fans. We Twitter every day.
This March, we also hired a manager of comparison shopping, a social media manager, an affiliate marketing manager; and we have someone in-house to watch our link portfolio. If somebody might misinterpret a link as paid, we take it down. We're not messing around.
We didn't see the kind of ratings we had before the penalty until Google's Caffeine update, this June. That was our final pardon. Now we're back at the top.
Without the Google penalty, we wouldn't be anywhere near as far along as we are. You have two choices: You can roll over and die, or you can grow beyond it.
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Cake for breakfast? Why the heck not!
Is anyone else reminded of that old Bill Cosby stand up routine? The one where he is left alone in the morning with his children, and one of them asks for chocolate cake for breakfast.
Yeah, cake for breakfast. Just do it.
Prior to making this lovely New York style crumb cake, my favorite cake-ish treat for breakfast was Nutmeg Coffee Cake. Now I'm lost and unsure about it's status as favorite. I might just love this one more, just a little more. I'll always be very fond of my Nutmeg Coffee Cake. This crumb cake is really good though. So good, tender cake and a mountain of buttery crumbs good. Good, yum, good! I really am at a loss for better vocabulary today. So sorry.
New York Style Crumb Cake
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For the Crumb Topping:
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup dark brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon table salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick), melted and still warm
1 3/4 cups cake flour
For the cake:
1 1/4 cups cake flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon table salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter (3/4 stick), cut into 6 pieces, softened but still cool
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup buttermilk
Confectioners' sugar for dusting
To make the topping: Whisk sugars, cinnamon, salt, and butter in medium bowl to combine. Add flour and stir with rubber spatula or wooden spoon until mixture resembles thick, cohesive dough; set aside to cool to room temperature, 10 to 15 minutes.
To make the cake: Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease an 8 inch baking dish and line with parchment paper, leaving about a 2 inch overhang on the sides. In bowl of standing mixer fitted with paddle attachment, mix flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt on low speed to combine. With mixer running at low speed, add butter one piece at a time; continue beating until mixture resembles moist crumbs, with no visible butter chunks remaining, 1 to 2 minutes. Add egg, yolk, vanilla, and buttermilk; beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 1 minute, scraping once if necessary.
Transfer batter to baking pan; using rubber spatula, spread batter into even layer. Break apart crumb topping into large pea-sized pieces between your thumb, pointer, and middle fingers and spread in even layer over batter, beginning with edges and then working toward center. Bake until crumbs are golden and wooden skewer inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool on wire rack at least 30 minutes. Remove cake from pan by lifting parchment overhang. Dust with confectioners' sugar just before serving.
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8 comments:
- Kim McCallie said...
I love sweets for breakfast, too. It's actually when I crave them the most. This looks delicious - perfect for a brisk fall morning. Thanks for sharing on Sweet Indulgences Sunday.
- September 18, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- carolinaheartstrings said...
That looks delicious. I will have try both of your recipes and decide too. Yum. Come over and visit us. We have a terrific apple sausage casserole to share.
- September 20, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust said...
Delicious! I love crumb cake. Thanks for the recipe!
- September 21, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Erin said...
Oh yum! Yes, please! I'm all for cake for breakfast!!!
- September 21, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- Sarah E. said...
That looks amazing!! Stopping by from Sweet Indulgence Sunday :)
- September 21, 2011 at 6:02 PM
- Anita Stafford said...
This is a beautiful crumb cake and I'm OK with cake any time of the day!
- September 22, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- Elsa said...
Looks great! I love crumb cakes. I actually went to the nutmeg cake and pinned it to make later. I love nutmeg.
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Belfast man William Neill, now a Professor of Urban Planning at Aberdeen University in Scotland, was one of the more quoted critics in recent weeks. Neill worries that the memory of the Titanic is not being "treated with enough respect." Neill acknowledges Belfast's shipbuilding history and it's "unique" place in the Titanic story, but is concerned that the city is trying to cash in with Titanic "infotainment" with its new Titanic center.
While Hill may have a point, other critics went completely off the deep end with their narky comments. One columnist even compared the Titanic's sinking with Auschwitz and 9/11, saying that in "2101, it's unlikely the people of New York will want MTV staging a concert at Ground Zero."
Let's get this out of the way: there is no comparison between the Titanic and Auschwitz or 9/11. None.
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The crux of the issue for the critics is that Belfast is trying to use its Titanic connection to earn some filthy lucre. For these people Titanic and her dead should be remembered mournfully without fanfare and certainly without the ringing of cash registers. I say 'hooey' to all that.
First of all, nobody can say Belfast was quick off the mark to market its Titanic connection. It's taken them 100 years. People have been making money off the tragic events of April 14-15, 1912 for decades, but only now is Belfast trying to join them. I wonder if these same people criticized James Cameron for his Titanic or even Walter Lord for A Night To Remember for the same reason? Those two and everyone else associated with those movies were, after all, cashing in on the same tragedy with their own "infotainment." In fact, those movies created the 'Titanic industry' we have today. I see no reason to fault Belfast for getting in on the act.
Also, what about the dead? Would they really be remembered more appropriately if there were no Titanic "infotainment?" We can compare the Titanic's dead to those of other shipping disasters from the same era. How many of the 1,012 dead are remembered from the 1914 Empress of Ireland disaster? How about the 1,021 who died when the General Slocum burned and sank in New York's East River? How many New Yorkers remember even one of those people? I daresay virtually none.
Yet all this week stories of the victims of the Titanic are being aired again. Why? Because of the fanfare and "infotainment." Without that only a few would care about Addergoole, Co. Mayo and even fewer would care about Patrick Dooley or Charles Melville Hays or even the musicians who played right up to the liner's last minute. If not for the 'infotainment' the stories of the lucky survivors would be just about forgotten now. There would be no Encyclopedia Titanica online. So spare me your tears because the choice is not between remembering with respect vs "infotainment," but between forgotten and infotainment.
Also, Belfast just deserves a break. The city is only now waking up from a long nightmare. Other than 'the Troubles' what do people know of Belfast? Nothing much really, but the Titanic is a cultural icon, the subject of successful movies, commemorated in many cities with monuments and museums. Yet Belfast's connection to the Titanic* is only rivaled by Southapmton's.
The Titanic is a tragedy, sure, but it is long in the past. There is virtually nobody alive today who remembers the Titanic or who lost a loved one on the Titanic. It was a tragedy on a par with other long forgotten maritime disasters of the era. It was far less a tragedy than the one that unfolded in Europe between 1914 and 1918. Indeed, the Titanic is less a tragedy than what Belfast endured during 'the Troubles.'
That the Titanic is remembered at all is thanks to the entertainment industry's capacity to turn a horrific but largely accidental event into a romantic tragedy. Belfast is - finally - connecting itself to the legend, the myth of the Titanic. It is not cashing in on anyone's grief.
* Let's just keep that whole rivets thing quiet, okay?
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johnr | Apr 17, 2012, 05:22 PM EDT
good for belfast
not sure what all he fuss is about, as i understand, the theme is more about the ship yard and the construction of the titanic and and other ships there?
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TheYank | Apr 10, 2012, 03:54 PM EDT
I'm going on Saturday. Will report back after that. I doubt it's tacky, but I'm too American to see anything wrong with "commercial." I actually hope it is and that people in Belfast make a decent sum out of this.
I'm somewhat concerned by the £97m price tag.
I'm somewhat concerned by the £97m price tag.
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RedBranch | Apr 10, 2012, 02:14 PM EDT
The exterior of the building is fantastic. The sound and light show this past Saturday was spectacular. Visit and judge for yourself if this is tacky or commercial, I've yet to hear one who said it was....
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National Security Letters, a controversial tool that lets investigators obtain records without a court order, has come under fire from civil libertarians, courts, and the government's own watchdogs. Now lawmakers have revived a proposal to rein in NSLs, the use of which has exploded under the PATRIOT Act.
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Um, what? I'm confused as to why these NSLs even exist. If law enforcement has a person of interest, then there must be a reason why. That is, that they have some evidence linking/pointing/etc. to that person of interest. So, um, just take that evidence to a judge and get a court order. Where's the problem? It seems like the regular old system we had would work just fine in these circumstances.
I'm inclined to agree. Why do we need these letters in the first place?
Don't Question Big Brother. You are with us or against us. Why do you want to help the terrorist?
That's what all the idiot supporters of Bush used to say. I hope these things go away soon. The FBI and others claimed they needed a fast secret way to look at people of interest in the early stage of an investigation right after 9/11. Congress rushed to give the Decider what ever he wanted then no matter how stupid. People of good faith have been trying to reduce or eliminate them ever since. |
that was part of the problem. the decider was the last fool on earth to be given any degree of power over anything except his own bath time. NSLs are clearly uncontstitutional and have been kept in their "secret" state for far too long. Most people have no idea of the full extent of the violation of human rights attached to these. And having found that most of them are violations of the law, pray tell; why have there been no prosecutions?
Likely the same reason that no war-time crimes were prosecuted from the outgoing Bush administration. The public by and large is either too lazy or too unaware of the situation of the country to call for such actions and the government couldn't really care less so long as the masses keep their heads in the sand.
The old saying of "if it's not broken, don't fix it" has been moved to a matter of perspective rather than an absolute truth. |
Thanks for writing the article. I contacted my Representative, Jay Inslee about it, I'm hopeful that he'll support the NSLRA and we'll see a lessening of overall misuse.
A lot of the reforms in the act are really protections we should've had included before Patriot was passed. |


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As promised I thought I would update you all with my review on the latest release from WH.
I have also obtained Brian's thoughts on this book as well as he is a long time devotee to Warhammer Ancients and has probably had more games than I have had hot dinners.
First of all for Eye Candy inside its score a big fat zero. There isn't one single picture inside of any painted figures and If you collect books for this reason alone then I can say with certainty don't buy it.
It costs £28.00 plus postage and I don't know at this moment in time know of any other stockists other than WH themselves. Its written by Martin Gibbins another long time devotee to this game and is a hard backed book containing 208 "browny" pages as per the core book . The book itself is upto the usualy quality of WH as regards the bindings etc. The only pictures it contains are some sketch style drawings previously shown in the old rules book and supplements.
It contains 100 army lists for use the the core rules ranging from ancients upto medieval times including Wars of the Roses. The beauty of the book is that the army lists and points have been adjusted so you can play inter period games within reason. Brian firmly believesthat for same period games the lists that are supplied in the supplements are better used as they contain all the special rules pertaining to the supplement. For example my own Carthaginian Army loses the Oscan regiments in the new lists and therefore to use them I will have to use them as Vet Africans instead. However I will use them as Oscans against Brian's Roman Republican army as they are from the same supplement book.
For those who play WH Ancients and are prepared to adjust their lists then it is a good buy and for those like me who intend starting a new army towards the end othe year will be a useful tool in army composition.
Mine and Brians main gripe about the book is that it has arrived perhaps too late by about 2 years. This should have been released around 6 - 12 months after the core rules.
So there you are and I hope this impartial review will be of use to you.


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This variation on a classic quiche recipe combines smoked turkey breast with Swiss cheese, eggs and cream. Serve with fresh fruit and homemade sweet rolls for a hearty start to the day. The recipe comes from the former Engesser House Bed and Breakfast in St. Peter, Minnesota.
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When we try to have -- a work.
But choice for this election if you got a business back.
-- -- -- Private sector's doing fun.
That was President Obama sharing his economic views -- -- guess based on those statements it's no surprise that we are seeing the weekly jobless claims once again surge now.
This week's report shows a number of people filing for first time unemployment remained well over 360000.
-- President Obama has repeatedly labeled this the worst recession since the Great Depression he said that during the campaign.
Well self proclaimed successful policies are not helping because the AP is now reporting that Obama's recovery.
Is the weakest since you guessed it the Great Depression.
Joining me now from the Fox Business Network Sandra Smith and a Mac columnist -- -- -- these numbers tell -- Gallup on the three issues that matter most the American people creating jobs.
58% disapprove 37%.
Approve the economy 60% disapprove of Obama's handling only 36 approved.
Deficit 64.
Thirty approve those numbers if the economy becomes a number one issue how does he win with those numbers.
I would also add to that that -- use and how to poll out today that showed that 45%.
Of people trust Republicans more to deal with the economy 40% say Democrats that's not even -- -- It's across the country and I think it's because of over -- -- over regulation -- EPA gone wild this president's done.
Nothing in the way of energy independence despite these numbers he throws out there about drilling they're all inaccurate and people aren't blind they are out of work their families are out of work they know the prices of goods and services.
They know the consumer spending is suffering as they don't have any money in their pockets right now to spend money it's very real and tangible net gonna vote based on their on what's on what's happening in their lives I think.
All it does sleazy slimy smear campaign event but obviously the Obama President Obama himself -- the seal of approval because he's not stopping it.
The reason I don't think it works is because behind every one of those statistics.
25 million -- under employed him you know 49 million Americans in poverty 47 million food stamps one of six men and Americans in poverty.
This suffering.
I don't think they care about you know the the attacks -- come and.
-- every day.
And is amazing that the president's actually patting himself on the back saying his policies have worked there is didn't.
Five point two million Americans have been out of work six months or longer when you look back -- all -- economic recoveries in the US going back to the Great Depression.
We had never been at this point three years into the recovery.
Ever shine to sit -- it makes me think that the president doesn't have his ear to the ground when it comes to businesses.
Wal-Mart today worst performer in the Dow this chief financial officer came out did great earnings but they -- and they said guess what.
Our customer is having a harder and harder time stretching a dollar to the next paycheck consumers are hurting businesses are acknowledging it -- -- the president.
The detail I shop it Kmart Wal-Mart target.
I don't -- -- you know augment their role a couple of times in my life -- there -- still.
Take my kids great place to shop -- -- -- their prices are really reasonable and you go to the super Wal-Mart they got everything you could ever match including groceries one stop shopping.
If people are struggling in the in the had a Wal-Mart is saying that that means is has impacted every single level the economy and especially.
The middle class in this country.
Which Democrats say they have a monopoly on helping.
Also remember how much money was pumped into the economy over 800 billion dollars in.
Stimulus that was supposed to prevent this from happening so our deficit has ballooned our debt has ballooned and there's absolutely nothing to show -- -- at the end of the day.
That's what Republicans and that's -- Paul Ryan and that Romney need to be talking about.
That it's not just that he was sitting around doing nothing in this happened no this is your tax Payer money that has vanished and there's no results to show.
Also when you go back said that we just -- -- the sound but have you that you didn't build that comment and we actually just got the numbers -- to speaking to signs point that the numbers are there to back it up.
Romney just got to keep focusing on that and Obama he's gonna continue to try to distract.
We just heard from the small business owners in next.
If it fell for the second straight month -- his been dismal they don't feel good about what's going on right now both politically and neck and economically.
There's so much uncertainty out there and -- It is not just the small businesses the large corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars a cache record amounts cast.
But they're not hiring why -- don't -- what's happening at obamacare they know what's happening with taxes they had zero confidence right now it's gonna come down this election.
And this is a perfect time now for a Romney O'Brien take -- you have a guy who was -- CEO of a company's strong businessman don't have Paul Ryan who was a budget hawk willing to tackle entitlements.
Willing to tackle the serious issues with the economy and the deficit being key issues for Americans I could not be happier with this pairing right now -- I didn't say here's the good news if Wisconsin is any indication.
People are serious about doing the right thing now and and that means look it -- for kids and grandkids.
And hopefully that you think that's -- the election ends up being about.
It's gonna be about eight point 3% unemployment skyrocketing gas prices and ballooning -- now five trillion and then the scare tactics aren't gonna work as seniors now that it's all nonsense they know the what's going on with Medicare right now is not sustainable.
People want solutions and the only people willing to offer solutions right now ordinary Romney and Paul Ryan they're offering serious plans -- serious times and Obama's you know surrogate talking about nonsense and get -- and I don't wanna run on the.
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It has been suggested that the citizens of Maple Ridge would be delighted to have municipal garbage pickup.
I don't agree. For years we've all been encouraged to reduce, reuse, and recycle. I'm not convinced that a municipal garbage pickup wouldn't hinder our growing interest in recycling.
In our household we've managed, through recycling, to get our garbage down to so little that we need only visit the depot once every three months. This is a cost of approximately $30 to $40 dollars a year.
Why would I want to spend a great deal more to have it picked up at my door? The recycling program doesn't pick up everything, so I'd still have to visit the depot.
I believe any garbage pickup should be voluntary and not compulsory. Maybe Councillor Bob Masse [City survey promoted, Jan. 24, TIMES] is right: let's take a survey.
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It's been two years since Fr. Paul Lambert was ordained a Catholic priest.
Though the Long Island-native was raised Catholic, it wasn't until he attended college that he decided to enter the seminary.
"I had gone through all the classes as a kid, had been in youth group in middle school and high school, but it wasn't really until (my time at) Florida State (University) that I began thinking about what I was going to do with my life," said Lambert.
Lambert is the parochial vicar for St. Ann's Catholic Parish in Gulf Breeze. A vicar is equivalent to an associate pastor.
Though many people have the image of Catholic priests as white-haired men, Lambert is anything but that. The 30-year-old is energetic and enjoys doing things other things men his age enjoy, like playing video games and golf.
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text: November 2013Dear Community,It's not just turkey being served up this week – UAA is serving up outstanding basketball at the 26th annual Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout. Last night Seawolf women posted a come-from-behind 83-75 double-overtime win over UC Riverside. Tonight they meet Georgetown in the Championship game. Just one more amazing story at UAA! Men's competition begins tonight with Tulsa vs. Indiana State. Visiting squads from Denver, Green Bay, Harvard, Pepperdine, and Texas Christian complete the roster with Seawolf men. UAA athletes, coaches, and staff along with dedicated volunteers make this the big event of the season. I'll be there an d hope to see you at the games! Michael Friess who led Seawolf men's and women's to Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) team titles and national Top 10 finishes this fall has been voted the GNAC Men's Team and Women's Team Cross Country Coach of the Year for the fourth year in a row. He has received a total of 16 Coach of the Year awards overall. Seawolf athletics continues on a hot streak with cross country women finishing a program-best fourth place at the 2013 NCAA Div. II Championships, while the men's team finished seventh. Seawolf hockey is tied with Northern Michigan for No. 4 in the WCHA standings. UAA volleyball, ranked No. 7 in the NCAA Div. II West Region poll, will take its fourth playoff berth in five years. Phyllis Fast gave the keynote address at Yagheli Jan — the 2013 Alaska Native and Native American Heritage Month reception on the UAA campus. This month we also celebrate the publication of "Transforming the University: Alaska Native Studies in the 21st Century." The book is an important follow up from the first Alaska Native Studies conference held at UAA last spring. I am proud of the many ways UAA faculty, staff and students are supporting those in need in our Anchorage community, and communities throughout the world. Mark your calendars: The Topping Out Ceremony for UAA's new Engineering and Industry Building is Friday, Dec. 6. Come sign the beam and stay for refreshments in the Student Union. This year's Chancellor's Holiday Party is Tuesday, Dec. 17 from 3-5 p.m. Join me in Gorsuch Commons to celebrate the season and catch up with colleagues and friends. |


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3. Divide mozzarella between remaining radicchio and top with anchovies. If using bocconcini, wrap anchovies around cheese and place two per leaf. Roll and grill briefly until the cheese begins to melt and the leaf is charred.
4. Arrange one of each wrap on a platter and garnish with a balsamic or pesto vinaigrette. Or, arrange leaves on a platter and mound fillings around plate, allowing diners to roll their own.