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JUNE 6, 1944. D-DAY. SEVENTY YEARS AGO. Under the deadly fire of bombs and guns, the Allied Armies retook to the beaches of Normandy. Our Longest Day, historians labeled that day of heroic sacrifice. I haven't seen much about D-Day in the news in recent years. I looked for it, but it hasn't been there in real depth. Occasionally a photo, a remembered story, or a map. That's all. I was 13 years old in 1944. I followed the war intensely in those days, watched every newsreel, read every issue of Life Magazine. Bobby Longtine was our first neighborhood casualty, in the Pacific theater of operations. I will never forget when I saw the Gold Star hung in his parent's window.
We had our heroes as well as our casualties. Dick Bong, America's leading ace, who shot down 40 Jap planes, was from Poplar, Wisconsin, a few miles from Superior, my hometown. I remember our excitement when he married Marge Vattendahl, the sister of one of my good East High classmates, and how he thrilled us all when he brought his P-38, named "Marge," to Superior and flew it Chinese style — one wing low — down our main street. He received the Medal of Honor from General MacArthur. He was sent "home for good" in January 1945 to promote the sale of war bonds and so we would end the war with a live hero; but he died test-flying one of the new fangled Lockheed jets on August 6, 1945, the day we bombed Hiroshima. To this day I cherish a picture of Dick Bong and his P-38, and his autographed dollar bill, birthday gifts from my sister, Cathy. When I was a kid, I made a balsa model of his P-38, covered with tissue paper, complete with a picture of Marge. I was active in Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Barry Goldwater had been one of Bong's flight instructors.
We were proud Americans one and all. We believed the war was the war to end all wars. And after the war, our Marshall Plan pretty much became the savior of the world, putting a lot of destitute nations on the mend.
But the war wasn't the war to end all wars. Memories are short. I was at the University of Wisconsin when the Korean War got in full swing in 1950. Several of my high school buddies got trapped on the Chosin Reservoir when the Chinese intervened. They brought home tough stories. I was lucky, my two-year stint in service started as the war wound down.
In 1971, during the Vietnam War, anthropologists Louis Leakey and Robert Ardrey lectured at the Leakey Foundation about Aggression and Violence in Man. During their discussions Ardrey said:
"After our experience in Vietnam I would hope Americans would learn that [a war] of intrusion is not a rewarding way of life."
There were some pretty active Vietnam protests back then, and there was Peter, Paul and Mary and their soulful Where Have All the Flowers Gone.
But we didn't learn. Wars of "intrusion" continue, recently in the Baltic, Iraq and Afghanistan, and take up a hefty portion of our national budget, kill our young men and women and cause a lot of unemotional killing of others we have been propagandized to call "collateral damage" — the death of others, not enemies, but not members of our tribe. Today's wars of intrusion draw fewer protesters because our soldiers are not conscripts and because we are not asked to sacrifice back home as we were in WWII. We simply add to our perpetual borrowing to pay for our wars.
If we travel around our globe in this our 21st Century, if we aren't an arms manufacturer or gun dealer, any close look at human aggression can be pretty discouraging.
Was Raymond Dart (who discovered Australopithecus africanus in 1924) right in the 1950s when he developed the theory in his The Predatory Transition from Ape to Man that interpersonal aggression was the driving force behind human evolution?
Is there No End to War as Walter Laqueur wrote? Has man always fought, as Steven LeBlanc concludes in Constant Battles? Was Konrad Lorenz right about man's instincts for aggression against his fellow man in On Aggression? Was Geoffrey Perret right about us in Country Made by War?
In contrast, was Rousseau's romantic view right? Do we come from a stock of "Noble Savages," an ancient peaceful species who lived a life worthy of emulation? Or, is Rousseau's idea akin to Plato's "feel-good" "Noble Lie?"
As I pondered these thoughts, I returned to Ardrey's and Leakey's 1971 Leakey Foundation lectures. Ardrey reasoned our killer instinct evolved over a million or more years, from our early experiences as a hunter, and has been a necessary trait for survival.
Louis Leakey disagreed, attributing our aggression to our societal development, beginning as small communities of cave dwellers, where we gained control over fire, and speech and socialization evolved over the last 40,000 or so years. Leakey said, "(W)ith the arrival of real speech, although it has done a great many beautiful things, at the same time it has done certain awfully bad things, because it gave us time and leisure to invent ideas and some of those ideas, I am afraid, were the causes of our aggression."
Among Ardrey's and Leakey's agreed-upon-conclusions was that humans are aggressively "territorial." Individually and functioning in group or societies, humans aggressively value, conquer, and defend territory. Territory is a prime source of conflict, both in human and chimp communities.
As he wound up his lecture, Ardrey concluded,
"Evolution makes difficult to learn that which is not survival value. … It is easy to learn to kill to hunt. And now we have to unlearn to kill and it is difficult."
Leakey responded, "(E)ither we will be destroyed … or we are going to save the world for our future generations."
Ardrey's conclusion — "we have to unlearn to kill" to survive — stopped me. What about when the conflicts are over deeply-held values and beliefs, and the perceived rights that come with them? What about the potential for calamitous conflicts we face today because of growing food and water shortages brought about by our abuse of our Earth's resources? Do we solve our sharing of our Earth's precious but limited resources by war? By land grabs? By Darwinian economics? By negotiation and sharing?
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Albert Schweitzer wrote some eight decades ago in Out of My Life and Thought:
"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own."
It would be more than naive to hope that all of us will simply, and quickly, follow Schweitzer's path or take the Darwin within us off autopilot to favor Ardrey's advice when it comes to confrontations or actions involving our deeply-held beliefs and values, or our perceptions of our sacred rights regarding territory or the Earth's cherished offerings we consider exclusively ours.
But we have a problem. We live by our stories. Over the centuries, our ancient stories have lost their spiritual meaning as guiding metaphors and are held in the hearts and minds of too many as rigid, undeniable facts, though their "truths," once the only truths we had, are out of touch with what we now know. Joseph Campbell's wrote in Transformations of Myth Through Time:
"But there is a difference between the science of 2,000 B.C. and the science of A.D. 2,000. And we're in trouble on it because we have a sacred text that was composed somewhere else by another people a long time ago and has nothing to do with the experience of our lives. And so there's a fundamental disengagement."
Because much of what we assumed to be factually accurate in the ancient stories we have chosen to live by is not, it has to be unlearned. Unlearning is the first step in our spiritual re-engagement with our Earth and with each other. The second stage: creating new stories to guide us, filling the voids of the unlearned stories with spiritual metaphors in art, literature, and song, rooted in the science and mystery and deep spiritual wonders of our Earth, as we grow in our understanding. New lessons about human singularity — our Earth's diverse, but One World community. Stories that minimize our tribalism.
New stories that build our reverence for life, bringing us "into a spiritual relation with the world." For then we will, as Schweitzer has written, "become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."
Then, we will have Honored Our Longest Day.
5 Comments on "Honoring Our Longest Day"
Great reading, thanks!
Thank you, Dick. That is beautiful. I had not seen the Schweitzer quote before. I agree wholeheartedly with it and hope I am living it.
Wonderful thoughts and ideas. Thanks.
Thanks for this note. I love your wisdom and delight reading your blogs
Great thoughts. Paul and I have been talking a lot about D Day. He was in the army for 27 years. My parents were married 70 years ago and we will celebrate. Hoping for an emphasis on the arts not military warfare.


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Flying Sphinx isn't much more than a wrapper over Sphinx (and if you're using Ruby and ActiveRecord, Thinking Sphinx), which automates the connection to a managed Sphinx server for both searching and indexing. So for the most part, there's not too much different to a normal Sphinx workflow.
If you're not familiar with Sphinx, then it's highly recommended you read through the Sphinx documentation and have it set up and working in your local development environment.
Flying Sphinx is available in both US and European regions.
Flying Sphinx currently has client libraries for Ruby/Rails, Python and Node.js. If you wish to use a different language, you'll need to talk to the Flying Sphinx API directly.
If you are using Ruby and Thinking Sphinx, then it's highly recommended you read through the documentation for that library if you're not already familiar with it:
- An Introduction to Sphinx
- How to install Sphinx locally
- How to install Thinking Sphinx — Use at least 2.1.0 (for Rails 3) or 1.5.0 (Rails 2.3.6 or better)
- And a quick overview of how to use Thinking Sphinx
First up, let Heroku know you want to use the Flying Sphinx add-on:
heroku addons:add flying_sphinx:wooden
You can find a list of plans on Heroku's website.
Ruby and ActiveRecord/Rails 3
You'll need the Flying Sphinx gem as part of your Rails application. If you're using Bundler, it's as simple as adding it to your Gemfile and bundling as per normal:
gem 'thinking-sphinx', '3.1.0'
gem 'flying-sphinx', '1.2.0'
If you're using MRI 1.8, you'll also need the openssl-nonblock gem:
gem 'openssl-nonblock', '0.2.1'
Ruby and ActiveRecord/Rails 2
A few things to note here:
- Only Rails 2.3.6 or later is supported.
- Instead of the command line tool mentioned throughout the documentation, use the legacy rake tasks instead (
fs:rebuild), just like you would with Thinking Sphinx.
- The openssl-nonblock gem is required if you're using MRI 1.8.
And if you're not using Bundler, add the gem to both your
config/environment.rb file:
config.gem 'thinking-sphinx',
:version => '1.5.0'
config.gem 'flying-sphinx',
:version => '1.2.0'
config.gem 'openssl-nonblock'
… and your .gems file:
thinking-sphinx --version 1.5.0
flying-sphinx --version 1.2.0
openssl-nonblock --version 0.2.1
Lastly, if you're using Rails 2 you need to add this line to the end of your
require 'flying_sphinx/tasks'
In my examples here, you'll note that I'm always referencing the Flying Sphinx gem after the Thinking Sphinx gem. I recommend you do the same, otherwise you may end up with some dependency confusion.
You must use Thinking Sphinx 2.1.0 or later (for Rails 3), or 1.5.0 or later (for Rails 2.3). Older versions of Thinking Sphinx will not work with Flying Sphinx.
flyingsphinx package is available via pip:
$ pip install flyingsphinx
flying-sphinx package is available via npm:
$ npm install flying-sphinx
Advanced Heroku Database Configurations with Ruby
Thinking Sphinx (and thus, Flying Sphinx) uses the connection attributes at the time the index is defined. Unless you're doing something particularly creative, this occurs when the model is loaded, and is referencing the default database credentials (inserted into config/database.yml from DATABASE_URL).
If you want to do something not quite so standard, please contact Flying Sphinx support to talk through what approaches could work better for your setup.
Amazon RDS
If you'd like to use Flying Sphinx with Amazon RDS (via Heroku's add-on for that service), then there's one more step you'll need to take care of: giving Flying Sphinx permission to access your MySQL database.
As part of the Amazon RDS setup, you will have given Heroku permission to access your database, and so just repeat that step once more - this time, using the owner id 092495821309 and group name Scalarium-Default-Server.
Unless you're using Ruby (see below), you'll need to write a Sphinx configuration by hand, and then upload it to Flying Sphinx. That last step can be done easily enough using the command line tool:
$ heroku run flying-sphinx configure /path/to/sphinx.conf
If you want to run this command on your own machine instead, please note that you'll need the
FLYING_SPHINX_IDENTIFIER and
FLYING_SPHINX_API_KEY environment variables set with the values your Heroku application has set.
Additional Configuration Files
If you're using additional configuration files for wordforms, stopwords, or exceptions, please refer to the extended documentation for either Python or Node.js.
Configuration with RailsThe
flying-sphinx gem can generate configuration via Thinking Sphinx - so, don't provide a file path:
$ heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx configure
Additional configuration files are handled by the gem automatically.
Configuration with other Ruby frameworksWhile the flying-sphinx executable will load a Rails app when required, it can't predict the correct loading approach for non-Rails apps. You'll need to use the rake task instead, which both configures and indexes your data:
$ heroku run rake fs:index
Like the executable, any additional configuration files are handled by the gem automatically.
Sphinx Versions (Ruby Only)
You can choose which version of Sphinx you'd like to use through the
version setting in your
config/sphinx.yml file. The currently supported versions are: 2.2.3, 2.1.8, 2.1.1, 2.1.0-dev, 2.0.9, 2.0.8, 2.0.6, 2.0.5, 2.0.4 and 1.10-beta. It's highly recommended to go with the latest version.
If you do not specify a version you'll see this warning (but everything will work fine), and it'll default to 2.0.4:
Sphinx cannot be found on your system. You may need to configure the
following settings in your config/sphinx.yml file:
* bin_path
* searchd_binary_name
* indexer_binary_name
For more information, read the documentation:
The reason for this is that Heroku doesn't know what version of Sphinx you're using - but we can tell Thinking Sphinx (and Flying Sphinx), and that hides this message. Add (or edit) your
config/sphinx.yml file to include the
version setting for your production environment:
version: '2.0.6'
Processing Sphinx Indices
To tell Flying Sphinx to process your Sphinx indices, it's just a single call to the command line:
$ heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx index
If you just want to process specific indices, add them as additional arguments:
$ heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx index articles users
Omit the
bundle exec if you're not using Ruby.
Indexing is something you'll want to do at a regular interval. Heroku's Scheduler Add-on will do the trick nicely - just use
flying-sphinx index as the task.
Controlling the Daemon
Starting and stopping the Sphinx daemon is done through the command line with two simple commands:
$ heroku bundle exec run flying-sphinx start
$ heroku bundle exec run flying-sphinx stop
Omit the
bundle exec if you're not using Ruby.
You can also use the
restart command to stop and then start the daemon, and the
rebuild command to stop Sphinx, process the indices, and start Sphinx up again:
$ heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx restart
$ heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx rebuild
(Again, omit the
bundle exec if you're not using Ruby.)
Once you've got some indexed data and have started the daemon, you can then send search queries to Sphinx. The Sphinx server and port are available through the environment variables
FLYING_SPHINX_HOST and
FLYING_SPHINX_PORT. Use them through whichever Sphinx client you prefer in your language.
If you're using Ruby and Thinking Sphinx, then the
flying-sphinx gem manages all of that for you in the background, so just run your search calls as you normally would.
Delta Indexing (Ruby Only)
The only semi-realtime indexing approach that's currently viable in combination with Heroku is a variation upon the Delayed Deltas. You'll need to use Delayed Job or Resque, and that means having at least one Heroku worker running. Yes, that means spending a bit more money per month, but them's the breaks I'm afraid.
Make sure you're using ts-delayed-delta 2.0.0 or newer. If you're using Thinking Sphinx v1 or v2, the delta setup in your
define_index block should look something like this:
define_index do
# Fields, Attributes, etc...
set_property :delta => :delayed
If you're using Thinking Sphinx v3, then deltas are set at the top of the index definition:
ThinkingSphinx::Index.define :article, :with => :active_record, :delta => ThinkingSphinx::Deltas::DelayedDelta do
# Fields, Attributes, etc
If you're using Resque instead of Delayed Job, then you'll need the
ts-resque-delta gem, and set
:delta to
FlyingSphinx::ResqueDelta (this is currently only supported with Thinking Sphinx v1/v2).
Don't forget to add a column called
delta to your model as well — just like with the standard delta approaches.
Once you've got this deployed, then rebuild your Sphinx setup:
$ heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx rebuild
And from that point, the rest is taken care of, provided you have a worker managing your Delayed Job or Resque queue.
Limitations (Ruby Only)
The only known limitation across the standard Thinking Sphinx features is that you can't currently use facets built upon string or text columns. This is because Sphinx doesn't understand string attributes (and each facet is an attribute), so Thinking Sphinx actually stores the corresponding CRC32 value for each string.
However, PostgreSQL doesn't have a native CRC32 function, so Thinking Sphinx usually adds one. This limitation also applies if you're using any SQL snippets that reference the CRC32 function. We're currently investigating some ways of working around this, and the documentation will be updated accordingly.
However, if you're using Amazon RDS, then this won't be a problem at all.
Upgrading and Downgrading
You can upgrade and downgrade plans just by informing Heroku you want to use a different plan:
$ heroku addons:upgrade flying_sphinx:granite
$ heroku addons:downgrade flying_sphinx:ceramic
Flying Sphinx will migrate your data between plans and update your app accordingly - depending on how much data you have, this could take several minutes. The owner of the app will be emailed once the plan change is complete.

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The name 'Godzilla' is said to be a blend of two Japanese words: gorira 'gorilla' and kujira 'whale'. The word alludes to the size, power and aquatic origin of Godzilla.
Godzilla is seen by some as the personification of the horror of nuclear weapons. According to the legend of the cinematic behemoth, he was created by a nuclear blast. His sheer size, power and destruction evoke the fury of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the Godzilla series continued, the great beast was developed as a character, and has become something of an anti-hero.
Godzilla is one of the defining aspects of Japanese popular culture for many people worldwide. Though his popularity has waned slightly over the years, he is still one of the most renowned monsters in the world. To this day, Godzilla remains an important facet of Japanese films, embodying the 'giant monster' subset of the tokusatsu genre.
In Japanese films, Godzilla is depicted as a gigantic dinosaur with rough, bumpy, charcoal grey scales, a powerful tail, and bone coloured dorsal fins shaped like maple leaves.
Look closely enough and you can see that
Godzilla's design echos that of millions of
years. He has a body like Tyrannosaurus
Rex, the long arms like an Iguanodon and
the dorsal fins like a Stegosaurus. (Visit
my monsters page to read about these
prehistoric creatures).
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The 'Vogue' singer encourages her fans to donate to Hurricane Sandy relief by showing off her naked butt and saying, 'If you are going to look at the crack of my ass, you better raise some cash.'
Madonna had her own way to ask fans to make donation for Hurricane Sandy relief. The "Like a Virgin" hitmaker exposed her butt to urge the audience to spare some money for superstorm Sandy victims when performing on Monday night, November 12 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
"We... have to call attention to the fact that New York has been devastated by a hurricane and I think that people really underestimate the damage that has been done. The homes, the jobs, the livelihoods that have been lost," the "Hung Up" songstress told the crowd. "There are many wonderful people, some of them here tonight, who have started amazing initiatives and have been giving help to people who have nowhere to live, who have no food and nowhere to sleep."
"I went down to Rockaway Beach yesterday with my children, and we saw what was going on there, we saw the destruction," the "American Pie" singer went on telling her fans in the concert. "It was really sad, but we also saw amazing acts of humanity. People sharing with other people, people working hard, cleaning houses, handing out food, blankets, giving love."
The 54-year-old singer then took off her top and exposed her butt to her fans, saying that she would help the victims with her own way. "[I am] showing [my] naked ass for Hurricane Sandy victims," she yelled.
The title character depicter in "Evita" then performed a slowed-down version of "Like a Virgin" and persuaded the audience to throw money at the stage. "If you are going to look at the crack of my ass, you better raise some cash!" she shouted at the audience, who followed her instruction.
The mother of four paid a visit in the Rockaways on Sunday, November 11 to check the destructed area as the result of massive storm Sandy attack at the end of October. She wore a stylish gorilla-faced hat and was accompanied by some bodyguards.
"It's amazing how not a big deal this was. She had one bodyguard, and only a few people around," volunteer Mark Winkel, who gave his hands on Beach 96th St, expressed his admiration. "It was pretty cool seeing her there."


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One more day of tests! Then, second year will be officially 2/3 completed which means only 121 days 12 hrs and 29 minutes and 14 seconds til the looming Step 1. Step 1- it seems like the biggest test of my career. But then again, I felt that way for the SAT, MCAT, my weekly spelling tests in elementary, this set of tests I should be studying for right now, and basically every test I've ever taken… which means there will probably be another "biggest" test to come: Step 2?
On another note, I am excited to say I had the opportunity to present a poster and oral presentation at the WSMRF conference in Carmel, CA. There were over 20 students from my class at the conference and some of our mentors even came up like Dr. Blood. We had a great time learning from each other's posters, attending presentations, and hanging out. It was a mini-vacation!
And, we have another mini-vacation after this test set. Our officers planned a retreat for our class at Camp Cedar Falls. I can't wait to frolic in the snow with my classmates. Maybe we will build a snowman!
Disclaimer: I didn't actually calculate the countdown to Step 1, but it's around there. 🙂
Nikoleta Brankov presenting her poster to fellow student Casey Harms.
Michael Giang in front of captive pulmonologists.
Anthony Yeo with mentor Dr. Blood.
Olaf from Frozen. Maybe we will build a snowman at our Camp Cedar Falls retreat!


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TERRY O'NEILL, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN (04 Jan 2013): Eric Cantor led the House in stopping provisions that would have allowed, for example, tribal authorities to have jurisdiction over non-tribal members that commit rape on the reservation. Most of those perpetrators are white men and Eric Cantor, basically what he said and what his office said was, we just can't trust those Indians to have jurisdiction over white rapists. That was his attitude. Unbelievable!

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PEOPLE rocketed down to Porlock on Saturday for an event of astronomical proportions.
The 80-plus visitors to the village hall were left starry-eyed as they handled real meteorites, enjoyed presentations from astronomers and learned more about the solar system inside a planetarium.
The event was organised by Exmoor National Park to mark the International Year of Astronomy and to bolster the park's bid to achieve Dark Sky Reserve status.
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Mexico is becoming an international contender when it comes to Mexican Cuisine. It is one of the most diverse and accessible types of cuisine in the world- yet the flavors can be so complex.
It is also listed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO, along with Mariachi music. Few other countries have its cuisine listed as an intangible heritage; the only other food related items listed are Viennese Coffee and the Mediterranean Diet. The fact that Mexican cuisine is so diverse and varied, and that it prevails from a mixture from Spanish and indigenous traditions, makes it incredibly unique.
For decades in America the most popular ethnic food had been Italian, but it has now been quickly overtaken by Mexican food. In 2012, sales at Mexican-style restaurants in the United States increased by 9.3 percent, compared to an average 5.8 increase among other limitedservice restaurants. Interestingly enough, in 2012 salsa was America's most purchased condiment, overtaking ketchup sales; tortillas were sold more than both burger and hotdog buns, tortilla chips were more popular that potato chips. In recent years, Taco Bell has been more successful than Pizza Hut and KFC. While most wouldn't consider Taco Bell an authentic take on Mexican food, the fact that the U.S.'s preferences are changing will likely impact the food industry and food marketing in the years to come.
Another fascinating aspect of Mexican Cuisine is how diverse it is from state to state, and region to region. Much has been heard about the Baja-Med cuisine that can be found here in Tijuana, but even non-plated food is becoming an international sensation. Tostilocos, a popular snack, usually prepared by street vendors and other informal stands, was originally created here in Tijuana and has spread North to southern states in the US. With the ability to share and find recipes on the internet, and the increased ability to find the right ingredients, recipes are able to cross borders and become international trends faster than ever.
Mexico boasts a good number of culinary schools, and many Mexican chefs study abroad and come back to add foreign elements to Mexican food, creating interesting combinations. The fact that a country's cuisine is not only something that delights locals, but that also attracts tourism is of great importance. Tijuana has seen an influx of tourism in recent years, largely due to its efforts to highlight its gastronomic districts, and by promoting local gastronomy events such as the Cesar Salad Fair, the Baja Med Fair, and the almost weekly craft beer or wine festivals. The fact that the city is less than two hours away from a premier wine region makes it internationally competitive with other regions in the world, giving us the ability to pair good food with good wine. The craft beer scene in Tijuana and San Diego has also flourished over the past few years.
Apart from the UNESCO's designation, there are also nationally recognized and protected food and beverage items, which have a special "designation of origin" protection. This means that if it is produced anywhere outside of the designated region, it cannot be called by the same name. Like Champagne is sparkling wine if it is produced in any region other than Champagne, France.
Bocanora (a traditional beverage in Sonora made from a prickly pear cactus or tuna); Tequila from the Jalisco region and other nearby states Nayarit, Michoacan, Guanajuato, and Tamaulipas;
Mezcal an alcoholic beverage made from agave in Guerrero, Oaxaca, Durango, San Luis Potosi, and Zacatecas; Veracruz and Chiapas coffee which are unique because of the high humidity level; Papantla Vainilla from Veracruz and Puebla; Habanero Chile from the Yucatan peninsula; and Mango from Chiapas are all boast designated origin protection. This also provides important protection for Mexican producers in the international realm as most international treaties adhere to these protections.
Certain Mexican niche foods like insects (ants, grasshoppers and grubs, mostly) have been celebrated food trends in recent years. Once considered crude and archaic; a vestige of rural pre-Hispanic traditions, they are now considered something of a delicacy. This rise in popularity is not only being seen in the US, Mexican regional chefs are once again beginning to embrace traditional flavors, and adding a new spin to old recipes.


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The British government has announced that it will back local efforts to alleviate the plight of at least two million people who live on the islands.
The inhabitants of chars are some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in Bangladesh, where 80% of the population lives in extreme poverty.
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If a source close to Lionhead Studios has it right, then you'll have to find a real little boy to squash snails with instead of Milo and Kate's digital little kid. The Kinect research and development project headed up by visionary designer Peter Molyneux has purportedly been scrapped, according to a Eurogamer report, and as a sad result, 19 contractors have possibly been let go from the Guildford, UK-based studio.
The same source believes that the tech birthed from the Milo project won't go to waste. Instead, it will be used in an unannounced "Fable-themed Kinect game," the source has said.
Milo and Kate (or Project Milo, if you'd like) first appeared at E3 2009. Doubts that the project would ever become a real game followed the presentation, because, frankly, the child-interaction project seemingly didn't have the framework of an actual game. Microsoft and Lionhead launched something of a mini-PR campaign rather recently this June, confirming that the title (or project, or demo, or whatever) was still in development, though was not in fact guaranteed to become a real game.
Milo later made a splash at TEDGlobal in July in its first public appearance since E3 2009. Molyneux wooed the audience with a similar multi-environment demo that teased the fact that Milo's AI had some sort of ability to learn and adapt based on the player's interactions with him. Crushing snails, for example, would make Milo feel sad, but I suppose he'd get used to it if we made him do it enough. Unfortunate as it is, it appears as if we won't get the chance to see just how far we could push him down that dark, dark road.


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What the Steelers have done during the free-agent signing period -- or, better put, what they haven't done -- is more proof that the team prefers to replenish its roster the old-fashioned way.
To that end, director of football operations Kevin Colbert and coach Mike Tomlin will meet today with team scouts in what will be the first of what figure to be many discussions about what strategy the Steelers will take into the NFL Draft.
Last week, while Colbert and Tomlin were at the NFL owners' meetings in Phoenix, college scouting coordinator Ron Hughes and others in player personnel started putting together a list of players that the Steelers would have interest in as second-day draft picks or undrafted free agents.
Today's meeting will focus on the first day of the draft -- the first three rounds will be held April 28 and rounds four through seven will be conducted April 29 -- and will be the unofficial start of a process in which the Steelers identify 15 players they would take with their first-round pick.
"I know there's 15 good players, and we'll get one of them for sure," Colbert said.
The one position the Steelers have ruled out addressing with their first-round pick (15th overall) is quarterback, and Tomlin said they won't take a player just because he would fill a pressing need.
"You've got to be very careful drafting based on need," Tomlin said. "That's when you make mistakes. You like to think that you give yourself enough flexibility with the moves that you made because of acquiring people (in) free agency that you can draft the best (player) available."
It is highly debatable whether the Steelers have indeed given themselves that kind of flexibility.
Their only significant signing has been offensive lineman Sean Mahan, and they have not added a player that would either challenge for the starting job left open by outside linebacker Joey Porter's release or provide depth at the position.
"There always will be needs," Tomlin said, "but not so glaring that you feel like you need to take certain positions in certain spots."
Many of the mock drafts have the Steelers taking a pass-rushing outside linebacker, which is not surprising given their need for an edge pass rusher and Tomlin's background as a defensive coach.
That's not to say the Steelers won't take an offensive player with their first pick for the fourth consecutive year.
They wouldn't hurt themselves by getting younger along the offensive line, and wide receiver is perhaps the deepest position in the draft.
The Steelers traded up in the first round last year to take Ohio State wide receiver Santonio Holmes, but they still may want to upgrade the position.
The direction the Steelers go in the draft will be determined in the coming weeks, as the evaluation process that started nearly a year ago shifts into overdrive.
Along with discussions about various prospects over the next couple of weeks, the Steelers will bring ones in which they have serious interest for an interview.
"We have a general idea right now," Colbert said on what the Steelers will do in the draft, "but until we get into the nuts and bolts of the meetings and finalize it we really don't have that list yet because we're still gathering information."
The Steelers, he said, are not just focused on the kind of players they will get in the first three rounds.
The success of a draft is frequently determined by the kind of picks teams make on the second day.
The Steelers didn't fare well in this area last year, as only two of their six second-day picks made the team and only one (offensive tackle Willie Colon) saw any game action.
"We're optimistic that we can get players that can help us into the second day," Colbert said.
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I just watched a show on the food network about cookies. They showed a Wilton's cookie class where they were making stained glass cookies by putting hard candy inside a cutout on the cookie. That looked so cool. I want to try it. It looked like a special kind of hard candy? What is it? Where can you find, or would something else work in it's place? Thanks!
i've used Life Savers and Jolly Ranchers - nothing special!!
Just put them in a thick ziplock bag, and beat them with a rolling pin or something until they are broken up
Do each colour seperately so that you can mix them up as you need to
And make sure you put some parchment or a silpat on your baking sheet before you put them in the oven. I forgot that part once....oops!
My daughter is a chef and she said she always uses Jolly ranchers...I saw the same show and asked her the same question...they were so pretty.
I used life saver candies but I don't think I used enough.......the candies didn't seem to fill up the cut out section of the cookie.
When we were making our gingerbread catherdral we made our stained glass windows out of livesavers candy that was crushed up into almost a fine powder. When you are filling the cutout with it though, you need to be careful not to do too many colors or layers because it will all just blend together and get a dark brownish color. But they are a blast, good luck!
I'll have to add Jolly ranchers and life savers to my grocery list now! It's amazing how a simple technique could look so impressive yet be so easy!
If you did this, would you still decorate the rest of the cookie, or would it be better to keep it simple like with some colored sugar or something?
Emeril just did these on FoodTV.... I know they are pretty but do they taste good? He also did a yummy looking Italian Fig Cookie.
These are among the favorites of the Christmas cookies that I make. I use life savers. Be sure to remove any candy crumbs from on top of the cookie dough or your cookies will be dotted (no one will care, though ... .they are still good!)
Found out the hard way that you have to let them cool until the candy is hard before you take them off of the cookie sheet. Duh!! And yes, some sort of covering on the cookie sheet .... parchment, alum. foil, something.
Just did this last weekend - and I was only about 50% sure it would work, but it did. I found that the round cinnamon and butterscotch were a good match for gingerbread flavor-wise, and they both look great with the darker color of the gingerbread.
Surprisingly, the candies don't have to be all that crushed up at all - in fact, if they're crushed up too well, it's easy to drop some on the outside cookie and not notice until it's melted and shiny... and too late!
Doyou use the cookie you are usings baking directions? Same temp?
Yup. Mine was 350 for abt 10 minutes, and it really did work. I stood there to watch because I really didn't think it would get hot enough to melt the candy.
Also, I pulverized the leftover candy into powder and mixed it in the last bit of cookie dough, and that came out pretty nifty looking, too.
I used life savers and put the candy in approx. 5 minutes before the cookies where done.
I didn't crush them to good but they came out just fine.
I used the same oven temp as for regular cookies.
and yes do not forget to cover your cookie sheet.
good luck trying!
So, I shouldn't put the candy in right away with the cookie? Do you fill the hole up with candy level with the unbaked cookie? Can I freeze them once done or would the candy crack? OK. I think I have exhausted questions. Are you just using your favorite rolled cookie? Thanks for your patience guys!! Seriously....
oh my ...first saw (and then made) these way back on original Julia Child French Chef series in the late 60s...
fun to make.
YOu must have been a child baking prodigy!! LOL! I was probably baking then too... Shhh!
I used the NFSC from kitchengifts.com but i think it it the same as the one cakecentral has.
I baked for 5 minutes and then put the candy in a little less than the hight of the cookie because while baking it sort of cooks and bubbles and you don't want to overflow.
About freezing: i have no clue never tried.
So funny during my two year stay in the states WGBH replayed al the Julia Child episodes and we had so much fun watching and also learned a lot!
You must know that we never heard of her before so especially the talking made us laugh!
So, I shouldn't put the candy in right away with the cookie? Do you fill the hole up with candy level with the unbaked cookie? Can I freeze them once done or would the candy crack? OK. I think I have exhausted questions. Are you just using your favorite rolled cookie? Thanks for your patience guys!! Seriously....
Yes, put the candy in right away. I dont' fill it up perfectly level because it could overflow onto the cookie, yet if you dont' put enough in there, it will be too thin and not hold.
Can't help with the freezing question .... I've never done it, so I will leave that one for others and their expertise for you.
Don't let us make these sound too hard. They're fun, easy and really pretty!
Absolutely put it in with the cookie. That way it melts completely, and also gets thin enough that the bubbles aren't trapped in the candy.
I'll freeze one this weekend and let you know what happens to the candy. I'm thinking it should be fine, but we'll sacrifice a test subject to find out.
Thank you so much! I just love this forum. Gives a newbie a sense of security.... I so appreciate all the support! Will wait to hear re the freezing. I just don't know how far in advance I want to do my baking and how long I should keep some without freezing.
I made these a long time ago when I was little...recipe said to use foil on the bottom. I imagine that Reynold's release would be perfect for this...
These stained glass cookies sound so beautiful, but I'm not sure where to begin. Could someone provide a step-by-step recipe? Would you use a sugar cookie for this? I don't use eggs in baking, so if you'd have such a recipe, that would be a bonus!
Thanks in advance!
LOL...just went to open my old Betty Crocker cookbook... and it opened right to the page where I have my original handwritten recipe for these...and funnier yet...it was the recipe right on top of the stack of papers I've shoved in.
Stained Glass Cookies
1 cup margarine
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup honey
2 eggs
2 Tsp vanilla
5 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt.
hard candies, crushed
cream together: margarine, shortening, sugar, honey, eggs, vanilla
add flour, soda, salt
CHILL overnight
Preheat oven 350
roll dough into ropes and use to make shapes w/ open spaces.
fill spaces w/ crushed hard candies
Bake 7-8 min.
Let cool 5 min before removing.
I think you can use any rolled cookie...sugar, gingerbread, etc. Just make a cutout in it and fill it (not all the way up but a good bit) with crushed candy like lifesavers, jolly ranchers, etc. Hard clear colored candy. Read the thread.... One baker said she did them at 350 for about 10 minutes. Candy will get bubbly and melt. Need to be sure to have something non-stick under them. I will use my silpat mats. I will cool on the mat.... Not sure if they can be frozen once made. Someone is supposed to get back to me on that. They are experimenting with one.
I've done this with LifeSavers Creamsavers, and it worked without crushing. The neat thing about it was that the swirled design of the candy made an interesting pattern in the cookie.
I found it did work best to play around with best times for melting. With some candies, if you put it in right away, it overheats and gets too hard/carmelizes (turns brown) before the cookie is done. With the CreamSavers, the goal was to melt it enough to flatten and fill the hole nicely, but not have it start bubbling, which ruined the design.
I found baking parchment to be the perfect sheet liner. Leaving the baked cookies on the baking sheets until the candy is set is critical.
So is not testing whether the candy is set too soon--with a bare fingertip. OUCH!
Thank you! I'll let you know how it goes!
The results are in from the experiment: the candy did, in fact, crack in the freezer, and that was after refrigerating to minimize the temperature shock. Drat.
Thank you BreeLaura.... I appreciate your experiment and letting me know. Now I will just prioritize their baking accordingly. So nice....
I love the way these cookies look, but I haven't had time to try them. I added lifesavers to my grocery list so maybe this week.


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First to Bloom, and the Rich Purple Color Is to Die For!
• Improved to Have Even More Flowers!
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Rich Purple Tones on Flowers More Numerous than Ever!
Upright spires are covered with an amazing abundance of large, richly colored blooms of lilac purple. The blooms surround the whole stem, not just one side, and they face outward, the better to show off the distinctive maroon spots circled in white that decorate their throats. One of the best plants to give your yard a vertical accent to contrast with all the rounded, mounding plants (lovely though they are!) that are popular today!
You'll Have More blooms and They'll Start Earlier
This new, improved version of the popular Dalmatian Foxgloves is extra vigorous! That translates to growing faster so it starts blooming faster, so you get to enjoy their flowers earlier that with any other Foxglove. It also means the stems are more numerous and hold an amazing abundance of blooms – even more than before it was 'improved'!
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Only 2 to 2½ feet tall and 1½ feet wide, with stout stems springing up from a neat mound of basal foliage, this Foxglove needs no staking! Its compact size also lets you grow it where older, bigger Foxgloves would never do, so you can enjoy it in the middle of your flowers, rather than relegating it to the back of the bed. Hummingbirds adore Foxgloves, so you will have them humming around your yard when you plant this beauty.
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Briana Leigh
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This is the first book in a series featuring an individual model.
Briana is a life model in San Diego and poses for art classes and photographers.
We spent a few months doing the shoots both in studio and on location around California.
The book is meant also to be a posing guide for models and photographers whether in studio or on location.
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I learned about public relations from college, but the skills I developed working at Subway Sandwich as a Sandwich Artist are what makes me a good church communicator. Learning the ins and outs of customer service in the sometimes gross, unforgiving environment of a fast food joint made me learn how to craft a message, how to be nice under pressure, the importance of flexibility and how to deal with a wide variety of people at different times in their lives.
As much as people would like to deny it, church is like a business. New people, particularly non-Christians, evaluate and judge churches as they would a new business. Businesses know what's important to their customers and emphasize understanding of their customers' total experience to get the results they need. That experience is defined by customer service. "Nine in ten Americans say customer service plays an important role in their decision to do business with a company," according to a PRSA article about the AmEx study. As church communicators, it's important that we keep this in our mind as we not only figure out how to keep newcomers coming back, but also in dealing with our volunteers.
People come in the sanctuary doors at various times in their life and walks with God. At Subway, we mainly got people on their way to school, coming home from a hard day's work, or taking a lunch break with a friend. On a regular basis, though, we also got people on their way home from a funeral, in the middle of a break-up, or people who are counting pennies to see what they can eat that day, mentally disabled, or even drunk. People are emotional and upset, and you are just there to do your job. But still you learn when to speak softly and non-intrusively, when to be loud and clear, when to be chatty, and when to have someone by a phone if they need to call the police.
Church communicators often miss this point. People are walking through our doors and we're focused only on telling them about whatever event or ministry we need to. We get stuck in the same mindset: we're only there to do our job.
As Kem Meyer points out in Less Clutter. Less Noise, it's important we prepare ourselves, our volunteers, and our greeters to properly handle the wide variety of "customers" that our churches have, in their many emotional states, so that they can walk away with a positive view of our churches.
The art of turning a negative into a positive is one the most important customer service skills to learn. Learning how to listen to these problems (whether someone picking apart the church, or their bad experience with someone on staff), then turn a negative into a positive can be the difference between someone walking out of church having a good experience versus a bad one. At Subway, I once got a sandwich thrown at my head because it had onions (for the record, I asked him specifically if he wanted onions, and he had said yes…not my fault that he was on the phone when I asked). At church, you won't get mustard in your hair, but the stakes are greater. Someone who walks out of a church feeling like they had a horrible experience may never walk back into a church again in their life.
The key to turning the negative into a positive is redirection. Misdirection is a magician's trick. We're not trying to trick anyone, but rather re-focusing someone on an answer to their problem, another option or on something that may interest them.
"We are out of turkey, but I personally recommend you try the chicken teriyaki with whatever you usually put with turkey. I personally have gotten addicted to the substitution. It's amazing."
"No, we are not strong in our missions, but we are doing a lot in the anti-human trafficking movement."
"You don't have a place to sit? I apologize, we've been swamped with the lunch rush. If you can please hang on for another minute, I will be happy to clear a table for you, after I am done making this gentleman's sandwich."
"I'm sorry you didn't like today's sermon, would you like a cd of one of our past sermons to get a better idea of what we are like overall?"
"You didn't like the southwest sauce? It can be a little strong. I suggest you try the honey mustard. It's creamy and yummy, but without the spice of the southwest sauce. Here, try a sample!"
"The sound was too loud? We're still working the kinks out. But our lead singer is amazing, huh? Would you like to meet her?"
Placing an importance on customer service not only turns bad experiences good, but as Kem Meyer says, "The number one way to get the word out about any organization is through the words and actions of the people in the organization. Every person in your church is like a walking billboard. How they act, work, talk, respond and treat people represents you and leaves a lasting impression on others."
I advocate engagement and outreach over public relations and media coverage. I came to my church because I felt a community in the people there. We had regulars coming back to Subway because we developed friendships with them, and knew everything from their favorite order to how many kids they had.
Customer service may seem like a corporate tool that is about sales. We need to redefine how we think of customer service: it's being a good host, being a good friend, and being a good Christian to the people that walk through the sanctuary doors.
"It doesn't matter if your music is great. Or, if you've got fantastic design skills. Or, if your pastor is the most intelligent person on the planet. If your customer service is average or bad, your church is replaceable." –Kem Meyer, Less Clutter. Less Noise.
1) How seriously does your church take customer service?
2) When is the last time you had an honest discussion with someone who was new about their experience?
3) What are some good resources you have found to help people (and your church) understand or learn about how be better at customer service?
4) Any creative ways you have come up with to teach your volunteers these skills?
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Well, it's a nice trailer, I guess, but is it too little, too late for the X-Men franchise? Or I am just depressive today?
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Why was the guy with the bad fingernails was drawing a smiley face in the dust?
Cause that was saber tooth, and he's major crazy.
Honestly, I'm inclined to skip this one, except they FINALLY got Gambit into the mix…
I think I'm just disinterested until they find a clever way to bring Scott and Jean back to life…heck I'd take the "sorry last movie was just a bad dream" excuse.
I'm interested. I think Jackman does a great Wolverine, and hey – Gambit!
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|On the first show of *Season 3*, we're heading off to beautiful *Curacao* where our favorite home-cook, and my good friend, +Sheedia Jansen will be treating us to some delicious Arepitas (Arepas). Nowadays, this simple Venezuelan dish can be found in most of the Caribbean islands' eateries. For Sheedia's *Arepitas recipe* go here: http://goo.gl/hCEhXj We will also be spicing things up a bit with classically trained pianist +Mario Ajero who will be providing some *mood music* while Sheedia cooks. Incidentally, Mario also offers a couple of *FREE* Google Helpouts on *Learning to Play Piano* and if you are interested in taking a class, you can signup here: http://goo.gl/W2DNji So join us on *Sunday 19th*, as we have fun, learn to make an awesome dish, listen to some great music and experience true Caribbean magic.
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|Have you ever wondered how the constellations of *Pisces and Cancer* made it into the sky? According to the ancient folklore of the *Nvong Nvong* tribe of *Cameroon, Africa*, this story unravels with friendship, betrayal and revenge when a fishing expedition goes awry. See what happens when you add *three generations of family, home cooking and spiritual songs* to the mix. Join @106407963814165910213 , her daughter, Arianna Ngnomire, and the family's matriarch, Therese Mpoumedjol on *Sunday 22nd at 3:00PM(EST)* as they fry *plantains* (staple Cameroonian food) and relate this intriguing story. Also joining us will be @114421888053699301272's @115067320991003485080 and @114138535638705065682 who will be telling us all about their Ghanan Moringa project which involves improving lives there with the many uses of this 'miracle' tropical plant. #hoa #foodstories #hangoutsonair #plantains
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|Internet instrumental supergroup, LegoLand Empire (LLE), will be debuting our new release, _*Solar Particles*_ during a G+ Hangout Listeners Party and you're invited to among the first ears to intersect with this new music. We're psyched! *Have your good headphones on for this one.* We'll be talking about the making of the record, the techniques that were employed during the recording and fielding questions from you! We have a couple of open seats, so if you would like to be in the Hangout On Air with us, give a shout here on this event and we'll invite as many as possible to join us. LLE is an experimental internet project that includes jazz/ fusion musicians from across the US that have collaborated to produce this, our second EP. Keyboard wizard +Neil Alexander bassist +Trip Wamsley and guitarist +Rob Michael navigate the compositions of +Allen Wentz. We're looking forward to speaking and sharing our new music with you. You will find the broadcast at http://www.youtube.com/user/AtmosMusic/live
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|::Updated location:: Capitol City Brewing Company - Arlington We WILL be in DC the weekend of June 7-9. We WILL be HIRL'ing. How many are planning to head to the city for an unforgettable June Friday night? On June 8th, I'm doing the Run or Dye run: http://www.runordye.com/locations/Washington-DC-2013 Registration will be under the team name: TBFitClub A password is required to sign up for the team; it is: runordye I don't have a huge DC base, so spread the word for this HIRL to anyone in the area, or those willing to drive/fly/bus/swim/TARDIS into town that weekend! See you in June!!! Since +Florida HIRL is a nonprofit entity, I am looking into what charitable functions might be going on for Sunday the 9th for anyone interested. I'll update that when I get more information.
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London, Sept. 19 (ANI): Grace Jones, who once vowed she'd never write a memoir, has changed her mind and is all set to tell her life story.
The 65-year-old singer has signed an agreement with Gallery Books to write a book scheduled to come out next year, the BBC reported.
The Jamaican-born model, actress and singer revealed that decided to pen down the memoire because if she didn't do it, someone else would do.
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A MAN who survived being shot outside his York home last year has now been jailed for his involvement in a violent family feud.
Peter James, who suffered stomach and arm pellet wounds in an incident in Murton Lane in February 2013, is beginning a three-year, nine month sentence after being convicted of conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
West Yorkshire Police said he he was one of seven men jailed for their involvement in a longrunning feud that sparked a series of violent incidents, including one at a Leeds car dealership in which balaclava-clad men armed with machetes and other weapons burst into the showroom in pursuit of three other men.
"The shocking scenes were the latest explosion of violence in an ongoing feud between the James and Pattison/Patterson families and their associates," said a force spokesman.
"In the background were two attempted murders – a shooting of a James family member in North Yorkshire in February 2013 and a machete attack on a member of the Patterson family in Cleckheaton in April 2013.
"A number of other 'tit for tat' incidents culminated in the violent scenes at the car dealership."
Detective Chief Inspector Lisa Atkinson, who led the investigation, said the offenders were organised criminals who were prepared to use premeditated violence to seek reprisals against their rivals in the long-running feud.
"Their actions not only put the lives of their intended targets at risk but could easily have resulted in innocent members of the public being hurt," she said.
"Their shocking behaviour unnecessarily created fear among ordinary people who witnessed it and it simply cannot be tolerated.
"These offenders have generally refused to assist the police and think they can take the law into their own hands to sort out their disputes. They think of themselves as untouchable but this case should clearly demonstrate that no-one is above the law."
Serious Crime Prevention Orders were granted against James and the other defendants, which will last for five years after their release and place strict conditions on them, including requirements to notify the police in detail about their ownership of vehicles or mobile phones.
The Press reported last December how North Yorkshire Police had dropped their investigation into the Murton Lane shooting because there was not enough evidence to pursue a prosecution, with three men who had previously been arrested in Doncaster released without further action.