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In Japan, various mushrooms and tree fungi have a long history of medicinal use. Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) is a proprietary compound made from the mycelia (vegetative portion) of various mushrooms in the general family of basidiomycete. The exact composition of the mushrooms, as well as the method used to prepare them, are considered a trade secret. AHCC has been developed in Japan for use in treatment of cancer. For related treatments, see the articles on Maitake , Shiitaki , and Reishi .
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AHCC is primarily advocated as an aid to cancer treatment , said to improve survival in people undergoing treatment for liver cancer and other forms of cancer. However, current evidence that it works is far too preliminary to be taken as meaningful, consisting as it does only of animal studies and a few entirely inadequate human trials. 1-4 Only double-blind studies can actually prove a treatment effective, and none have yet been performed on AHCC. (For information on why this type of study is essential, see Why Does This Database Depend on Double-Blind Studies? )
Other proposed uses of AHCC have even weaker supporting evidence. These include decreasing chemotherapy side effects , 5reducing cancer risk , 6treating inflammatory bowel disease , 7 and generally enhancing immune function . 8-13
While use of AHCC has not been associated with any severe adverse effects, this substance has not undergone thorough safety testing. Safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or people with severe liver or kidney disease has not been established.
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Sweet and Sour Pork Tenderloin Medallions – Half the Fat, All the Inauthenticity
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Great video, as always!
Any worry about cooking acidic products in your cast iron pan and ruining the seasoning?
- February 24, 2011 at 3:49 AM
- February 24, 2011 at 4:20 AM
- Steve said...
When I worked at an asian restaurant, our sweet and sour had mostly orange juice concentrate and pineapple juice. I can't remember for the life of me what else we had in there.
- February 24, 2011 at 6:31 AM
Chef John you can never give us too many faux faux Asain recipes. I know I will make this a thousand times. I still make Spicy Orange Chicken and Caramel Chicken quite frequently. Am interested to hear your response about acid in cast iron... I had never considered this before.
- February 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- MissSarahOlivia said...
This looks great! I can't wait to try this! I just love your blog chef john!
- February 24, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Can you sub tofu for this if you are vegetarian?
- February 24, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- Chef John said...
Sure! Why not?
- February 24, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Hey Chef John,
Love your recipes. Do you have any thoughts on using pork chops instead of pork tenderloins? I recently bought a bunch of pork chops and was thinking this might be a nice way to prepare some of them.
- February 24, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Hey Chef John! For sweet and sour chicken, should I use this recipe or that (Panda) wing recipe?
So I just made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies..they came out good:) What surprises me is that your website doesn't have many cookie recipes?..
Hoping for more:)...
- February 24, 2011 at 6:32 PM
Im Asian Malaysian and I approve of this recipe. I would suggest using tempeh instead of tofu as vegetarian substitute though.
- February 24, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- Sammie said...
I love asian food- fake or otherwise. And I love that you used the term "death nuggets".
- February 25, 2011 at 1:04 AM
- rancholyn said...
Thanks for a healthy alternative...looks yummy! Trying it this weekend,,,,,
- February 25, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- Chef John said...
this would work great for chicken I think, or for pork chops too!
- February 25, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Lizen said...
Can I make this with boneless, skinless chicken breasts?
- February 26, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- Chef John said...
Of course!
- February 26, 2011 at 7:37 PM
I cut the pork tenderloin in about one-inch cubes, and stir fried until just beginning to brown. It's definitely a keeper recipe!
- February 26, 2011 at 8:33 PM
- rancholyn said...
Made this for dinner tonight and was a big hit...delicious, light and most flavorful...Chef John...your rock!!! Thank-you..
- February 26, 2011 at 11:17 PM
- Sue Lynn said...
Made this tonight, and we all LOVED it, including 12- and 14-year-old sons. Used large can of crushed pineapple instead. Served with brown rice and freshly cooked spinach. Huge hit!
- February 27, 2011 at 8:32 PM
- Sue Lynn said...
This recipe is a huge keeper. Everyone loved it, including 12- and 14-year-old sons. So easy--we will definitely make it again.
- February 27, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- Andy said...
Hi John -- love your blog! This recipe, like all of your recipes, looks great. I just have one quick question about it. My girlfriend isn't a big fan of cooked fruits. Is there something (perhaps a veggie) that you'd suggest I can a substitute for the cooked pineapple? Many thanks!
- February 28, 2011 at 9:51 AM
This sauce is fantastic. Put a little extra sambal in... and we swooned.... Next time I'll double the sauce so we can have lots to put on rice, etc. This would work with so many foods.
- February 28, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Chef John said...
The pineapple and juice are important to the flavor. Can't she just not eat the chunks. You don't even have to plate them. Zucchini would be okay.
- February 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Another good reason for a selfmade Chinese meal is that you can be sure, that there is no glutamate in your meal. (And I mean Chinese Take-Out Food, not real Chinese cuisine, that needs no glutamate)
- March 1, 2011 at 4:51 PM
I just made this dish for dinner and WOW. Why would I ever order Take-out again?! TRY THIS DISH! Thanks again, Chef John!
- March 11, 2011 at 7:18 PM
Chef John,
Can't wait to try this recipe! It looks fabulous. One question, because my husband and I are having a disagreement...when you flatten the cut pieces, do you "stand" them on end and flatten from the end grain, or just cut them and flatten from the "top" of the tenderloin?
I think I'm going to win this one! :-)
Thank you!!
- March 13, 2011 at 10:45 AM
- Chef John said...
yes, stand them cut side up and pound. Sometimes the last piece near the tail isn't possible, so you can just pound flat.
- March 13, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- skillphiliac said...
@André: Monosodium glutamate (Mandarin: 味精 literally: essence of flavor) is omnipresent in China. While not necessary everywhere to be found, chances are quite high it will be added someway or another.
Also, in my opinion and apparently in the opinion the matter of authenticity stands to debate, while there may be one single precursor of a certain dish, assuming it has and always was prepared a specific way would be a bit vague. The thing that would cause Chinese to raise an eyebrow would probably be the fact that the meat isn't sliced up in small, chopstick-compatible chunks.
- April 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- skillphiliac said...
Might I add: Amazing, as always. This is basically the most fun a person can have... browsing through your library of "so delicious" recipes.
- April 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM
This was so good! My whole family (including my sometimes picky eater children) like it! I doubled the pineapple and added some onion, yellow and orange peppers. the tenderloin really makes this great! thanks
- May 15, 2011 at 6:46 PM
I made this tonight and it turned out great. I can only handle a little bit of heat but I did tell my husband that he could put some red pepper flakes on after it. He said it came out perfect. This def will be included in our menu from now on.
- August 4, 2011 at 10:21 PM
Chef John.....you've been an inspiration. I'm a registered nurse and cooking had been my stress relief. Love to try out new stuff and was so happy to run into your website just a month ago and had not stopped following your recipes. I like to modify some of them but this pork recipe is a keeper, just perfect, did not give up looking for the sambal chili till i found one.. everyone should have one in the kitchen.
- October 30, 2011 at 7:09 PM
LOL This is quite weird to me here, I'm living in Asia and we never use Tenderlion... And the sauce is always sticky and VERY sour/VERY sweet.
Although i tried this and it gave a different taste, it is nothing like the original Sweet and Sour pork! Still, good job in making it your own twist Chef John! Cheers!
- May 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Just did this with some nice boneless chops. Yummy!
Will use a bit less garlic next time, but I'm glad I have leftovers for lunch tomorrow.
I might try this sauce on some baked wings. Sounds like a marriage made in heaven.
- August 7, 2012 at 6:59 PM
- AmberRose said...
I made this tonight for dinner and it was excellent! I was extremely heavy handed with the chili paste and it was such a nice contrast with the pineapple chucks. The "Chinese Food" in my neighborhood is so bad and I have been very deprived, now I get to Chinese-ish food again! Thanks, for this great recipe!
- November 6, 2012 at 10:57 PM
- David McCutcheon said...
Even though there is a lot of excitement about your new clam recipe, which I will try some day, this sweet and sour pork recipe is fantastic! Thanks again for all your work!
- January 24, 2016 at 10:00 PM
- Lionel Frankenstein said...
My fiancé and I have been looking for a new creative way to use pork chops and this was it!! We made this together last night and it was absolutely perfect! Just the right amount of sweet and spice and everything nice. We followed the exact receipt. Thank you chef John! Keep the videos coming!
- November 13, 2017 at 6:23 PM
- Have Apron....Will Bake said...
This was the best sweet and sour pork I have made (to date). Not to go all Goldilocks, but so many recipes are either too sweet or too tart, or too breaded and fried! This though...perfection. And such an easy quick recipe to throw together on a week night.
I decided to cut the pork into bite size pieces and added carrots, red peppers and green peppers. Made it into a bowl meal for us. Netflix and Sweet and sour pork for the win!
Thanks so much for this recipe!
- March 18, 2019 at 6:32 PM
- Estoy_Listo said...
Quick, easy, and good. I added sweet bell peppers, yellow and red. Who knew you could turn an 8 ounce can of pineapple into something this good?
- May 26, 2019 at 11:12 AM


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Finding himself a war president, Lincoln turned to the senior general in the United States Army for military advice. Winfield Scott was a Virginian by birth, but he had been an Army general since 1814, longer than most Americans had been alive, and his loyalty to the Union was never in doubt. He hoped to demonstrate to the Southern states that they were dependent on the Union as a whole for their future success and survival, and to do that he envisioned a three-part plan was subsequently (and derisively) called the Anaconda Plan.
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Meanwhile, the Union Navy was building the force that would be necessary to execute President Lincoln's declared blockade of the Southern coast. The Navy underwent an expansion to more than 600 warships from about only 90, and the blockade, porous at first, grew increasingly effective. Though about 75 percent of the blockade runners who tried to get through the blockade did so successfully, far fewer of them tried once the blockade was in place, so that the total amount of trade in and out of the Southern states declined precipitously to as little as 15 percent of its prewar levels. The blockade had relatively little impact on the major battles ashore, for the South did manage to import sufficient arms and power to keep its soldiers supplied, but it had a long-term corrosive effect on the overall Confederate economy and contributed to both shortages and inflation.
To sustain the blockade, the North needed coaling and support stations along the South Atlantic coast. In November 1861, Flag Officer Samuel F. Du Pont's fleet of steam-powered warships successfully seized Port Royal, S.C., thus demonstrating how modern steam-powered warships could overcome hastily erected shore defenses as well as giving the Union its first taste of victory. In consequence, the Confederacy decided to abandon any serious effort to defend its coast except at half a dozen ports: Galveston, Tex.; New Orleans; Mobile, Ala.; Savannah, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; and Wilmington, N.C.
Unable to break the blockade by force, the Confederacy countered with a handful of mostly English-built commerce raiders, including the C.S.S. Alabama commanded by Rear Adm. Raphael Semmes. Collectively, these raiders captured or destroyed 284 Northern merchant ships during the war, which sent maritime insurance rates soaring and led many Northern merchants to re-flag their vessels to avoid being targeted. Though the United States Navy eventually caught up with most of these raiders — including a sea duel off the coast of France in which the U.S.S. Kearsarge sank the Alabama — the rebel raiders were a constant aggravation to the Union.
The Navy also played a role in more western battles: on the Tennessee, Cumberland and Mississippi Rivers. On Feb. 6, 1862, a four-ship squadron of ironclad gunboats commanded by Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote, attacked and overwhelmed Confederate Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. Ten days later, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. These relatively small actions had large strategic consequences as they gave Union forces control of both the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, which provided avenues of approach that the Union used to penetrate deep into the Confederate heartland, and which also cut the Confederate's east-west rail communications.
Confederate forces in Tennessee fell back all the way into northern Mississippi. In April, a combined Army-Navy team secured the fall of the Confederate bastion of Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River, and that same month, Flag Officer David G. Farragut ran past the forts guarding the approach to New Orleans and captured that city, the largest in the Confederacy.
One of the reasons Farragut found so little opposition at New Orleans was that the Confederates were consolidating their forces in the West for a counterstrike at the Grant forces. After seizing the river forts on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, General Grant had moved upstream (southward) on the Tennessee River to Pittsburg Landing near a small country church called Shiloh. There, on April 6, 1862, Confederate forces under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston caught him by surprise, and in a furious dawn assault nearly drove his army into the river. The next morning Grant counterattacked and won back all the ground he had lost. Shiloh was the first battle that foreshadowed just how bloody the Civil War was likely to be as nearly 24,000 men fell killed, wounded and captured in the two days of fighting, seven times the losses at Bull Run-Manassas.
After the shock and disappointment of Bull Run-Manassas, Union forces in the East reorganized. General McDowell was supplanted by a confident young general named George B. McClellan, who commanded not only the Army of the Potomac, but also all Union armies, supplanting General Scott in that role in November. After spending the winter drilling and training his forces, General McClellan sought to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond in the spring of 1862 by means of a large amphibious movement to Fort Monroe at the tip of the peninsula formed by the York and James Rivers, hence its designation as the Peninsular Campaign.
His plan was nearly undone by a single warship. The C.S.S. Virginia, built atop the partly burned hull of the U.S.S. Merrimack — which had been abandoned when the North evacuated Norfolk — was the South's first and most famous ironclad. It sortied into Hampton Roads near Fort Monroe on March 8, 1862, and sank two wooden Union warships. That night the Union's own ironclad, U.S.S. Monitor, arrived in Hampton Roads, and the next day (March 9) it fought the Merrimack-Virginia to a standstill, allowing the Union landings at Fort Monroe to continue.
General McClellan was a cautious commander who was reluctant to press ahead until he had all the elements of his vast army in position. He was annoyed that President Lincoln decided to keep Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell's corps in Washington after the president learned just how weak General McClellan's move to the Virginia Peninsula left the defenses of the national capital. It was the first important dispute between the president and his field general, but not the last.
Though the Confederate forces opposing General McClellan on the Peninsula were at first very weak, the general's continuing delay gave them a chance to gather reinforcements so that by late May, the Confederate Army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston outside Richmond was nearly as strong as his own. General Johnston attacked a segment of the McClellan army at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31, 1862, but though the Confederates pushed the North's forces back a mile or so, the attack failed to achieve the decisive success the South needed to reverse the momentum.
One important result, however, was that General Johnston himself was badly wounded, and to replace him, Jefferson Davis chose Gen. Robert E. Lee.
General Lee called upon reinforcements from the Stonewall Jackson forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson, now a general, had been running Union forces ragged, keeping a force three times the size of his own pinned down there. General Jackson moved his men by rail to join General Lee outside Richmond for a counterattack against General McClellan. In what became known as the Seven Days Battles (June 25 to July 1, 1862), the Lee forces struck again and again at the McClellan army. None of the Lee-led attacks can fairly be labeled a victory, but they affected General McClellan's attitude and behavior.
Believing that he was badly outnumbered (he wasn't), General McClellan withdrew his army to an enclave around Harrison's Landing on the banks of the James River, where it could be protected by the heavy guns of the Navy warships.
The battles were costly: the Lee army had more than 20,000 casualties; the McClellan army had about 15,000 casualties.
But General McClellan's will was shattered. He called for reinforcements, and then more reinforcements, until President Lincoln told him he had better bring the army back to Washington.
Meanwhile, the Union had managed to field another army near Washington (the Army of Virginia) under Maj. Gen. John Pope, who had been credited with the victory at Island No. 10 in the West. Once it was clear that General McClellan was withdrawing from the peninsula, General Lee first sent General Jackson, and then Gen. James Longstreet, to face this new threat. In the Second Battle of Bull Run-Manassas (Aug. 30, 1862), the Jackson and Longstreet forces won a clear victory over the Pope troops and gained the initiative in the campaign. To maintain the momentum, General Lee decided to take his now-unified army across the Potomac into Maryland where he hoped to attract new recruits and relieve his beloved Virginia of the burden of sustaining the armies.
In a twist of fate, a soldier from the North found a copy of General Lee's orders (Order No. 191) in a field near Frederick, Md., and as a result, General McClellan learned not only where Lee was, but also where he was going. Infused with (for him) unusual alacrity, General McClellan started off in pursuit, fighting his way past delaying battles in the gaps of South Mountain until he arrived on the banks of Antietam Creek in western Maryland overlooking the Lee army, which was occupying the small town of Sharpsburg. General Lee knew that General McClellan was coming, but he remained in place to reunify his scattered forces and secure the surrender of the North's arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Learning that Harpers Ferry had fallen, and that his army would soon be united, General Lee decided to remain in Sharpsburg and accept the McClellan forces' attack. It was a bold and risky decision, but even though he would be badly outnumbered, General Lee was confident in the fighting prowess of his soldiers.
The day of the Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) on Sept. 17, 1862, was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War, and remains the single bloodiest day in American military history. More than 22,000 men fell that day, 3,654 of them killed outright.
General McClellan had overwhelming numerical superiority, but he threw that advantage away by sending his divisions into the fight one at a time, and late in the day when he might have applied the coup de grâce by sending in Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps, he kept it as a reserve in case of a disaster. Most scholars believe that the commitment of the Porter Corps would have brought about a decisive victory and possibly shortened the war. Instead, General Lee was able to hang on until nightfall, and after a quiet day on Sept. 18, he "escaped" across the Potomac back into Virginia.
Emancipation Proclamation (Preliminary)
One important consequence of this battle, however, was that it provided President Lincoln with the impetus to issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. He had planned to issue it sooner, but had been convinced by Secretary of State William H. Seward that he should wait until a Union victory so that it would not appear to be an act of desperation. Calling it a war measure, President Lincoln declared on Sept. 22 that any areas that remained in rebellion as of Jan. 1, 1863, would forfeit the right to hold slaves — slaves in those areas, he declared, would become free. Of course, President Lincoln would not be able to enforce his declaration unless the North won the war, but if the North did win, slavery would now almost certainly expire. One important element of the January Proclamation was that it authorized the enlistment of black soldiers.
This has led to some discussion among historians about President Lincoln's central motive: Did he fight the war to free the slaves, or free the slaves to fight the war? There is no reason the answer cannot be that he did both, but it is clear that by late 1862, the momentum of war had provided President Lincoln with an opportunity to strike at slavery more boldly that he had imagined would be possible when he took office.
Meanwhile, President Lincoln was running out of patience with General McClellan. After Antietam, "the Little Napoleon" relapsed into his habit of moving slowly and calling for reinforcements. In October 1862, the president dismissed him and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. That officer, knowing that the president expected results, led the North's army to the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg hoping to get around the Lee forces' right flank. He might have done so had the pontoon bridging equipment he had requested arrived in time. But it did not, and that gave General Lee the time he needed to get his men into position. The ensuing Battle of Fredericksburg (Dec. 13, 1862) was a disaster for the North, as wave after wave of blue-clad soldiers stormed up Marye's Heights behind Fredericksburg trying to break through the Confederate line. By the end of the day, some 12,000 soldiers from the North were dead or wounded on that hillside, while Confederate losses totaled "only" about 5,000.
The year 1862 ended on a sanguinary note in the West, too. In the fall, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg (who had replaced General Beauregard) used the South's rail system to transfer his army from Mississippi to Tennessee, then started north into Kentucky. His "invasion" was turned back at the Battle of Perryville (Oct. 8, 1862), and General Bragg withdrew to middle Tennessee. He was assailed there by a new North commander, William S. Rosecrans, in the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro) on the last day of 1862.
General Bragg anticipated the Rosecrans forces' attack by countering with one of his own, and the South nearly won a victory. But the North line stabilized, and after trying a second time to break through on Jan. 2, 1863, General Bragg decided to retreat.
In the spring of 1863, President Lincoln appointed another new commander for the Army of the Potomac: Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker was sure that he would succeed where his predecessors had failed. Over the winter, General Hooker reorganized his army, improved morale and prepared a campaign for the spring. In April, he pinned the Lee forces down behind Fredericksburg while he sent the bulk of his army on a lengthy flanking march upriver.
Once his forces were in place, General Hooker would have General Lee in a difficult position with enemy forces across the river to his front and in the wilderness area on his flank and rear. General Hooker expected General Lee to retreat, and most generals under similar circumstances would have done so. But General Lee saw an opportunity and he divided his own forces — twice — to send General Jackson on a flanking march of his own to roll up the North's right. The Jackson attack was devastating, but in the process of pushing that attack past nightfall, General Jackson was shot and mortally wounded by his own men in the confusion of the fighting.
The Confederate victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville (May 2-3, 1863), again gave General Lee the initiative, and again he chose to invade the North. General Hooker quarreled with President Lincoln about how to respond to this push, and he was replaced by Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, who took the Army north through Maryland and into Pennsylvania. The two armies met in the Battle of Gettysburg. where they fought a three-day battle (July 1-3, 1863) and the total casualties on both sides probably exceeded 50,000 men.
On the third day, General Lee hurled some 12,500 men at the center of the Union position in an attack that has gone down in history as "Pickett's Charge," though Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett's Division formed only about a third of the assaulting force. After failing to achieve a breakthrough, General Lee withdrew back over the mountains and south to Virginia.
Near this moment, General Grant teamed with Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter to outflank the Confederate defenses at Vicksburg, Ms., the principal Confederate bastion on the Mississippi River. After running past the rebel batteries on April 16, the Porter gunboats ferried the Grant soldiers across the river south of Vicksburg so that Grant could approach the city from the east. After a brief and unsuccessful stand at Champion Hill (May 16, 1863) the Confederate Army under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton fell back into prepared defenses around the city.
The rebel theater commander, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, urged General Pemberton to bring his army out of the city lest it be trapped there, join with his own small army and confront the Grant forces in the open. But General Pemberton knew that President Davis expected him to hold the city at all costs, and he decided to stay in the city. General Johnston believed he did not have a strong enough force to break the Grant siege. The Pemberton-led men endured 47 days with dwindling supplies until finally, on July 4 (the same day that General Lee began his retreat to Virginia), General Pemberton surrendered both the city and his 30,000-man army.
The victories by the North at Gettysburg and Vicksburg did not end the war, but they marked a new phase in the war, one in which the North's forces seized and held the initiative. In hindsight, the summer of 1863 seemed to Southerners to have been the South's high-water mark.
The disappointment of Gettysburg, and the disaster at Vicksburg, encouraged General Lee to allow General Longstreet to take two divisions from Virginia to reinforce the Western theater. General Longstreet's men played a role in the Confederate victory at Chickamauga (Sept. 19-20, 1863) in northern Georgia, but the Confederates were unable to reap the strategic benefits of their tactical victory mainly because of quarreling between two of their generals, Longstreet and Bragg. Together they conducted a halfhearted siege of the North's forces in Chattanooga before General Longstreet, with President Davis's approval, went off to conduct a siege of his own at Knoxville.
Meanwhile, General Grant's capture of Vicksburg marked for him even greater responsibilities, and in the fall of 1863 he took command of the besieged North army in Chattanooga. To break the siege and drive General Bragg's army away from the city, the Grant forces first opened a supply line, then sent General Hooker (now in command of a Corps) against Lookout Mountain on Nov. 24, 1863. The capture of Lookout Mountain effectively lifted the siege, but General Bragg remained stubbornly in place on Missionary Ridge.
General Grant sent his favorite subordinate, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, against one end of the Confederate line on that ridge. When that attack stalled (thanks to the defensive prowess of Confederate Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne), General Grant directed the Army of the Cumberland, led by Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, to make a demonstration against the center of the Bragg line to relieve the pressure on the Sherman forces. General Thomas's men exceeded their orders and charged up Missionary Ridge on their own, putting the rebel army to flight (Nov. 25, 1863). After this, General Bragg's dispirited army retreated southward into Georgia, and soon thereafter, General Grant came to Washington to take command of all Union armies.
In the spring of 1864, General Grant developed an overall plan that embraced a concept President Lincoln had been urging for years: the application of force at several places at the same time. By now, there were only two substantial field armies left in the Confederacy: General Lee's bloodied but still dangerous Army of Northern Virginia, and the Army of Tennessee, now commanded by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston after General Bragg's sub-par performance at Chattanooga.
To defeat these forces, General Grant joined General Meade's Army of the Potomac in Virginia and went after the Lee forces, while General Sherman, in command of three armies in Georgia, went after the Johnston troops. By coordinating their attacks, they would prevent the Confederates from sending reinforcements from one army to the other. At the same time, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler with the Army of the James would assault Richmond from the east (as the McClellan forces had done in 1862), Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel would march southward up the Shenandoah Valley, and Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks would attack Mobile on the Confederate Gulf Coast.
The Butler, Sigel and Banks movements all proved disappointing. General Butler got himself trapped in a bend of the James River south of Richmond; General Sigel was defeated by a scratch force at New Market (May 15, 1864), and General Banks got sidetracked into a lengthy and ultimately fruitless campaign up the Red River in Louisiana.
Consequently, the 1864 campaign depended entirely on the thrusts by General Grant in Virginia and General Sherman in Georgia. In the end, they were enough.
The two campaigns were very different in character. The fighting in Virginia, during what is known as the Overland Campaign, was a slugfest as each side hammered at the other in a series of battles from the Wilderness (May 4-7, 1864) and Spotsylvania (May 8-20, 1864) to Cold Harbor (June 3, 1864). During this 40-day period, the opposing forces suffered appalling casualties that totaled nearly 100,000 men: 60,000 from the North and 40,000 Confederates.
In Georgia, by contrast, both generals maneuvered cautiously, often avoiding battle. Only once did General Sherman start an all-out offensive against General Johnston — at Kennesaw Mountain (June 27, 1864) — with such poor results that he never did it again. The Johnston forces never attacked the Sherman troops at all. As a result, while the casualties in Virginia were staggering, those in Georgia were relatively modest (at least modest by the new standard of Civil War battles).
But the outcome of the two campaigns was much the same: General Lee was forced back inside the Richmond defenses; General Johnston was backed up to the outskirts of Atlanta. President Davis thought that General Johnston could have done more, and on July 17, 1864, the Confederate president dismissed his commander, replacing him with Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood.
Determined to restore the kind of mobility and maneuver that had characterized the war back in 1862, General Hood began a series of attacks against General Sherman's superior forces at Peachtree Creek (July 20, 1864) and at Atlanta (July 22) in the hope of dealing the Sherman forces such a blow that they would be compelled to fall back northward. The Hood attacks won some short-term tactical advantages, but they also weakened his own army so that by September it was barely half the size of the army he had inherited. And once General Sherman had cut the Hood railroad lines in and out of Atlanta, General Hood had to evacuate the city anyway on Sept. 1.
That is when General Hood conjured up a truly desperate scheme: He planned to ignore General Sherman in Atlanta and "invade" Tennessee. After following him briefly, General Sherman let him go, sending General Thomas and Lt. Gen. John M. Schofield to take care of the Hood forces while General Sherman got ready for a march across Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah. The Hood army was roughly handled in the Battle of Franklin (Nov. 30, 1864) where he unleashed a foolish frontal assault that gained nothing but more casualties, and it was routed and almost completely destroyed by the Thomas Army of the Cumberland in the Battle of Nashville (Dec. 15, 1864).
Meanwhile, General Sherman moved across Georgia at will during his March to the Sea (Nov. 15 to Dec. 20, 1864), living partly off the land, and demonstrating the government's absolute ability to dominate the countryside.
General Sherman arrived in Savannah the week before Christmas, presenting President Lincoln with the city as "a Christmas present." He then turned north and marched across South Carolina with the same dominant and devastating mastery as he had in Georgia. At Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, much of the city went up in flames, and scholars still argue about whether the destruction was deliberate or accidental. For his part, General Sherman was unapologetic, arguing that any and all destruction that resulted from the war belonged at the doorstep of those who had started it. Joseph Johnston, restored to command in this crisis of the Confederacy, fought one more battle against Sherman at Bentonville, N.C., on March 25, but he could do no more than slow down General Sherman's inexorable advance.
While the Sherman forces moved north through the Carolinas, General Grant was stretching and testing the Lee entrenchments around Richmond and Petersburg. On April 1, 1865, the Grant men achieved a breakthrough at Five Forks, and General Lee knew he had to evacuate the city. His hope, a faint one, was somehow to link up with the Johnston small army in North Carolina and make one more stand. But he was cut off near Appomattox Court House and compelled to surrender on April 9. For his part, General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman near Durham Station, N.C., on April 26, and the war came to an end.
Confederate forces in Texas surrendered in May, and the last surrender came when Capt. James I. Waddell turned the Confederate raider C.S.S. Shenandoah over to the British on Nov. 6, 1865. Meanwhile, in an event that shocked both sides, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington on April 14, an event that had profound consequences for the postwar years.
Dr. Craig L. Symonds is Professor Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy, from which he retired in 2005. The first person ever to win both the Naval Academy's "Excellence in Teaching" award (1988) and its "Excellence in Research" award (1998), he also served as history department chair from 1988 to 1992, and received the Department of the Navy's Superior Civilian Service medal three times. He served as professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., (1971-74) and at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England (1994-95). Symonds is the author of twelve books, including prize-winning biographies of Joseph E. Johnston (1992), Patrick Cleburne (1997), and Franklin Buchanan (1999), as well as The American Heritage History of the Battle of Gettysburg (2001). Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History (2005), won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize for Naval History. His 2008 book, Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War, won the Barondess Prize, the Laney Prize, the Lyman Prize, and the Lincoln Prize for 2009. He also won the Nevins-Freeman Prize in 2009 and is co-author, with Harold Holzer, of "The New York Times Complete Civil War" book (2010). He and his wife, Marylou, live in Annapolis, Md. They have one son and one grandson.


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The Brikverse
By Tzan 11/30/11
In the beginning
The Great Maker was bored.
There was nothing on TV and it was raining outside.
The playroom was void and darkness was upon the beige carpet.
The Great Maker moved across the face of the beige carpet toward the light switch.
And said "Let there be light", and he flipped the switch.
There was chaos in The Great Bin of Everything.
So the Great Maker separated the red from the green and the green from the blue.
The Maker called the green, grass and the blue, water.
One hour had passed. He had a juice box.
The Great Maker then looked upon the playroom which was still void and lifeless.
The Great Maker had accomplished nothing and he despaired.
So in a fit of rage he cast the contents of The Great Bin into the void of the playroom.
The brix were imbued with this rage and began smashing one upon another.
The Great Mosh Pit of Creation swirled in the void.
Some of these brix formed stars, others planets and moons, The Brikverse was forming.
Brix smashed into brix, and into moons and into planets.
The smashing heated the planets, which formed a pure white ABS molten core.
The edges of the core cooled, forming colored pellets, the pellets formed plates at the surface.
A second hour had passed. He had a second juice box.
Upon the planets, the grass separated the water and the sunlight illuminated the dark places.
From the waters emerged life, a crude creature made from rainbow 2x2 brix.
The Great Maker called them Blokbots.
Over the span of uncountable minutes, the blokbots sorted themselves into single colors.
Red, green and blue blokbots shuffled across the world and constructed blok homes.
And they lived in peace and harmony and The Great Maker saw that it was awesome.
The Great Maker swiftly grew bored with harmony and created a yellow blokbot.
One yellow blokbot begat a great begatting of yellow blokbots, the yellows dominated the world.
The yellows separated the red from the green and the green from the blue blokbots.
A third hour had passed. He had a third juice box and a quick trip to the bathroom.
And so it came to pass that Yellow blokbot confronted Blue about the color of his briks.
Yellow blokbot raised a 2x2 brik on high and smashed Blue blokbot into pellets.
Thus began the first BrikWar, and The Great Maker saw that it was hilarious.
The yellow blokbots created a Great Boxxy Civilization, that spanned the entire Brikverse.
Blokbot waged brikwar on blokbot, upon all the planets and the moons and the suns.
War... War never changes, until it does.
In The Great Dead Pile, off to the side, began a stirring of new life out of the blokbot corpses.
Broken blokbot parts were remolded and assembled in new ways, disturbing ways.
The first Protofig shuffled out of The Dead Pile and they tidied up the war ravaged planet.
A fourth hour had passed. He had a fourth juice box.
Small in number the Protofigs stayed on one planet to avoid the attention of the blokbots.
The Maker imbued them with a sense of order in contrast to the blockbot chaos.
The protofigs built great structures that surpassed the blokbot's architectural tekniques.
Using the science of genetic engineering they began to make improvements on the fig form.
At Hospital 555 the protofigs conducted horrifying experiments to add arms and legs.
The Great Maker looked on with glee, anxious to play with the results.
And so one day, a fig survived the surgery, it had arms and hands and legs and a head.
The Great Maker named it Minifig, and saw that it was awesome.
Driven insane by the experiments the minifig escaped and became the first Deadly Spaceman.
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Glastonbury veteran Baaba Maal has become Oxfam's newest Global Ambassador. The Senegalise singer will be joining Oxfam's other high profile Ambassadors to campaign, fundraise and generate publicity for Oxfam around the world.
And Baaba Maal wasted no time in speaking out with Oxfam on the food crisis which is affecting West and Central Africa. He said: 'I am truly honoured to be taking up the role of Oxfam Global Ambassador having seen the work that Oxfam is doing in West and Central Africa to try to avert the crisis in the region. And I will continue to add my voice to their call for an urgent response to the food crisis in the region. Nobody should die from hunger in the 21st century.'
Eighteen million people are threatened by the food crisis in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, 850,000 of whom live in Baaba Maal's home country of Senegal.
Earlier this month Baaba Maal visited Matam in Northern Senegal with Oxfam where the effects of drought have hit hard. He said: 'Three months ago I travelled to Mauritania with Oxfam and was shocked by how bad things were. But I have just returned from a neighboring region of Senegal and found that already things are so much worse. As well as the acute lack of food we saw children struggling to find water to drink. Everywhere is dry, wells have dried up and dead animals are littered everywhere.'
The food crisis which has been brought about by low rainfall, poor harvests, a lack of pasture and rising food prices, is only set to escalate. The UN estimates that already 6 million people are already living in severe food insecurity across the region, and that one million children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition.
Claire Lewis, Oxfam Global Ambassador Programme Manager said: 'We are so fortunate to have Baaba Maal as an Oxfam Global Ambassador speaking out on this crisis. He is hugely respected as an artist, both in Africa and across the world, and we hope that his words will help to galvanise governments into action. Funds are urgently needed now to prevent the situation in West and Central Africa turning into a catastrophe.'


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You may know Keith Colburn as the Captain of the crabbing boat "Wizard" on the Emmy winning Discovery Channel show "Deadliest Catch", but you may not know that Keith is a Washington native, and a huge Seahawks fan. Keith was sent some questions asked directly from the fans at Seahawks.NET, Facebook and Twitter and he was kind enough to answer some of those questions just before flying out to Dutch Harbor, Alaska to begin the Opilio crab season
Jeff O, Vernal UT - You obviously have a close relationship with your family, so do you see your kids following in your footsteps on the Bering Sea, and more importantly, are they Seahawks fans like you?
Capt Keith - I have a 15 year old son who is a huge sports fan. He loves the Beast {Marshawn Lynch}, and follows the local teams. But as might be the case with lots of teens these days he seems to like individual players from all around the league. I think the quick turnover of players, and free agency has had an effect. Which is totally different from my generation. You don't see to many Edgar Martinez types anymore that stay and become part of the fabric of a community, and ride through the highs, and lows of a franchise. As for following in my footsteps. Only if he can't keep his grades up!
Greg via Twitter - Which will happen first: A Seahawk Championship or you quit chewing tobacco for good?
Capt Keith - This is a tough question because I really feel a huge disappointment that I have not quit. Not taking advantage of being a role model, and setting a good example for others has been constantly nagging at me. Not to mention the real threat to my health. The upside is that I have had a lot of support from my family, and others that saw the episodes on TV and have quit. Right now I'm trying to tackle another problem. My weight. After exploding my ACL a year ago, and then working through the crab season I didn't take care of myself. I'm happy to say the surgically repaired ACL is coming back, and I recently lost 30 lbs. It should be pretty obvious when people watch the show next season from King Crab to Opies. Not to mention it throws a curveball to my favorite folks (the editors of Deadliest Catch) this season. "Snicker"
Fan via Facebook - Is being a Seahawks or Mariners fan one of the requirements to work on your boat? If no, why the hell not?
Capt Keith - It doesn't matter which team a crewman follows. If he's passionate about his team that's awesome. I'm most concerned that he can be a team player on the Wizard team and that means being a fan of hard work.
Nancy via email - How do you stay connected to the team and season during your time at sea?
Capt Keith - We do have satellite communications today and we're able to access the internet, but it's really expensive. The days of trying to tune into KNBR in SF at 04:00 to get the scores on the Single Sideband radio are a thing of the past. It gives us a better opportunity to stay connected, but we still give up most of the NFL, NHL, and NBA seasons.
JSeahawk, Oregon - How is being a boat captain similar to being an NFL head coach?
Capt Keith - It's similar in a lot of ways. In the NFL every week counts, and you can't take a day off or lose your concentration. You're managing a diverse group of guys, and trying to get the most out of them to succeed. You need to learn from your mistakes, and not spend too much time celebrating your successes. You have to adapt your strategy to fit the game or situation, and be able to make snap decisions. In order to win you have to have quality personnel, and get the most out of your crew. You need to know how to take over, and lead, but also allow the crew to take on responsibility. You need to have perseverance, dedication, and respect for your opponent (Mother Nature). Most of all you need to have thick skin, guts, and a hardnosed attitude or you'll get ripped to shreds!
JSeahawk, Oregon - Which Seahawk would make the best greenhorn on your boat?
Capt Keith - I have hung out with a number of current Seahawks, and don't want to slight anyone so I better punt. Besides some of these guys can bench press a crab pot, and If I've learned anything from crabbing it's don't piss off a guy that can break you like a twig.
Pstark3 - What's your take on the QB situation for the Hawks? What would you do/want done?
Capt Keith - Early in the season one of the ESPN pundits said "The Seahawks are the worst team in the NFL" Someone should make that guy eat a jock strap. I think the team has come together over the last 2 seasons, and is finally starting to find an identity. Tarvaris played well in the second half of the season, and think it's his job to lose, but he needs to learn how to win close games. There are some blue chip QB's in this year's draft, and if the opportunity was there I would trade up to get one. I also believe if they did that they should groom him for a year or two before throwing him to the wolves.
Anyone want to make a long term wager? I'll take Jake Lockers stats in ten years over Tim Tebows.
Uffda, Ballard WA - Which is your favorite Smokeshop bartender ?
Capt Keith - I'm going to punt again. Those gals are tough as nails, and I'm not going to pick a favorite. Darlene has been serving drinks me for over 25 years, and it's great that a good old neighborhood fishermen's bar has survived all these years. Ballard Ave. has changed a lot and as soon as all the new faces realize that you get 3 drinks for the price of 1 compared to most of the Ave's new places I might find it hard to find a bar stool. Raise your glass to the Smoke Shop "Stay Gritty!".
Msfann - So, how about those Mariners? What do you think about the possibility of another Sonics team back in Seattle and maybe even NHL along with it.
Capt Keith - I like the direction the M's are taking. I had season tickets for 11 years, and have been fortunate to have seen some amazing baseball in 26 years. Hopefully they can find a way to pick up that big power left handed bat that Pinella always wanted.
BGHawk, BattleGround, WA - Hey Keith,..Why don't you fly the 12th man flag on your boat?
Capt Keith - Unfortunately The 12th man flag to my knowledge is Seahawks property. Showing Major sports logos are a big no no. If you saw an orange blur on my head during a delivery story last year during king crab it was a SF Giants hat, and the night they won the World Series. Usually they toss the footage, or blur it out because it costs to much, or they can't get permission to use it.
P.S. Boooo all you want but growing up with Mc Covey, and Mays, and watching over 50 years of futility come to an end was awesome.
Agcat, Reardan WA - Keith, we have all seen you tap on your Ichiro bobble head for luck, if I send you a Seahawk bobble head would you put him in the wheelhouse too?
Capt Keith - Send one up! No guarantees where I'll put it. The Ichiro bobble head has been on the boat longer than the cameras. I got to Safeco at 06:00-07:00 to get it, and was still behind over 4000 people. It's the first series they ever made with the M's. He's been banged up pretty good in his career on the Wizard. He's got Velcro, and zip ties to hold him in place now to avoid him getting launched in bad weather. You'll also notice they have his jersey and cap covered up now too.
Mark, Anchorage AK via Twitter - Which would you rather do? Get tackled full speed by Kam Chancellor or beat Bering Sea ice off the Wizard?
Capt Keith - Neither option sounds very appealing. I think I would take the hit. Then I could scratch it off the bucket list of crazy things to do in life. I've been taken out by waves, but that's a different kind of hit. The scary thing is you have no control, and you don't know where you're going to end up. You just hope you're still on the boat when the ride ends.
Marcus & Lynette, Portland OR - Marshawn Lynch has had a stellar year! Should the Seahawks re-sign Marshawn Lynch when he becomes a free agent this year? Or do you think he will end up becoming another Shawn Alexander?
Capt Keith - Hi Marcus and Lynette, hope the family had a great holiday break.
Marshawn should be a priority to resign. His tenacity was never a question, but this season he has matured into a a intelligent complete runner that has now added the weapon of field vision to his arsenal. He's young and hasn't had the workload that Alexander had. He's also working with an O line that is just starting to come together. Having a running game is always going to keep pressure off the QB, and the D honest. His breakout season didn't go unnoticed, and his price tag will be high.
SeahawkSailor, Bothell WA - Keith, who is your all-time favorite Seahawk, and why?
Capt Keith - Tough to choose a favorite but I would say Kenny Easley not only is he one of the greatest Seahawks ever, but one of the best safeties to have played the game. I also appreciate that he's active to this day still raising money for good causes in the Puget Sound.
krjeid, Omaha NE - I met you last June at the College World Series in Omaha, how many sporting events do you go to in your off-time? How hard is it now to enjoy a sporting event with "fans" like me interrupting your sports event to say "Hi, you're the captain of the Wizard aren't you? I love that show. Could I get a picture with you?"
Capt Keith - Howdy krieid! I do get approached during my daily life, but everyone is so supportive that it's actually cool. Meeting fans in all kinds of places only reinforces how popular the show is.
As for sporting events I do my best to see as many as possible. Even though I have missed a lot of amazing games through the years I have also been fortunate to see some great sporting events. 1984 LA Olympics, 1989 World Series, Marino v. Montana in the Superbowl. The Final 4 at the KingDome and last years College World Series to name a few. Memo to rabid fans. If there's a will there's a ticket with your name on it! Just about every major sports event I have been to I have showed up the day of the game, and scalped, begged or borrowed my way in. There's a good chance I'll be in Omaha this year (my son has a baseball tournament there again).
It looks like I'll be promoting the crab I caught this year on the Wizard at Kroger stores in Phoenix in the first week of March during the NASCAR race, in Indianapolis during the Indy 500, and also during this years Kentucky Derby. To say I'm excited about all three would be an understatement.
Lieutenant Dan - Keith, how much downtime do you get a year? Do you only fish reds and Opies, or do you summer fish too?
Capt Keith - This or a variation of this question is always one of the most frequently asked. We fish crab exclusively on the Wizard. Red, and Blue Kings, Bairdi, and Opies. The boat leaves in Sept. and usually gets back to Seattle in April. I have fished Cod, Salmon, Herring, and Halibut in the summer. Maintaining a commercial crab boat is a full time year round job, but between April, and July I get to pick my own hours. It gives me time off, but now with Catch and promotions my summer gets filled up with a different type of work. I'm not complaining I meet lots of great people, help in some incredible causes, and travel, but it can be stressful, and demanding. I'll take seeing kids light up, handshakes, and pictures with fans over chipping ice any day. It has it's own sense of reward, but it can't replace the feeling of being out to sea, and catching crab.
Everyone have a great 2012, stay safe, and wear your life jacket when you're out on the water. See ya this spring it's time to go catch some snow crab!
We'd like to send a HUGE thank you to Captain Keith Colburn for taking the time out of an already hectic schedule to answer these questions and interface directly with his fans. We'd also like to thank the folks over at Rezin Marketing, especially April and Peter, for their excellent help in coordinating this for us.
You can catch Keith and the rest of the fleet on season 8 of Discovery Channel's emmy award-winning show "Deadliest Catch", airing later this year. You can also follow Keith on twitter at @crabwizard.
Follow Rezin Marketing on twitter @rezin_marketing or visit their website here: http://www.rezinmarketing.com/
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The VLC team has announced on its Kicstarter project page that it has accumulated over £40,000. This was the set target for further Windows 8 / RT and Windows Phone 8 development to take place, as well as consumers being able to download VLC from the Windows Store sooner. It's an achievement that illustrates the strong backing the free media player has.
But the fundraising hasn't halted however. The team will use all excess funds above and beyond the £40k to speed up the development process to bring the app to Windows Phone 8, since it's stated the extra capital will enable the team to parallelise the workload of the ports to Windows 8 / RT and Windows Phone 8.
As well as a huge thank you for the support displayed thus far by the community, the VLC team revealed some additional features that will be worked on full-time after the initial release is complete:
- Camera Input Support enables users to record anything connected cameras can see and stream it live
- DLNA client and server integration for playback of media stored on DLNA capable servers on your Windows RT tablet or Windows Phone. Stream everything VLC can play on your tablet or Windows 8 PC to your DLNA capable devices (Xbox, etc.)
- Integration with locally attached devices for media playback and synchronisation
- Smartglass support
The team has previously kept everyone who has been following the Kickstarter project up-to-date with some concept screenshots of how the finished product could look like. We were impressed by what the team had come up with and VLC is an extremely popular media player, one which we feel would do well on the Microsoft Store (as well as Windows Phone!).
So while a VLC app for Windows 8 / RT and Windows Phone 8 isn't going to be released tomorrow, it's great to relay the announcement that the project has reached its fundraising target and development will kick off in the new year. 2013 is going to be big, we can feel it in the bones.
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DENVER The Colorado House passed four gun-control bills Monday after a debate that has drawn attention from the White House.
Vice President Joe Biden called four Colorado House Democrats, including Durangos Mike McLachlan, on Friday to urge them to fight for the slate of bills.
He was encouraging me to vote yes on the bills and also to hang tight in whats been a very difficult battle, McLachlan said.
McLachlan voted for all four bills: a 15-round limit on ammunition magazines, background checks for private-party gun sales, fees for background checks and a ban on concealed weapons at colleges.
A pro-gun group ran a full-page ad in The Durango Herald to pressure McLachlan to vote no, and his office like many other House offices has been flooded with calls.
The votes will reverberate beyond McLachlans Southwest Colorado district. President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to call on Congress to vote on gun-control bills, and Biden Obamas point-man on the issue told McLachlan that hes looking to Colorado.
He said that Colorado has an opportunity to become a leader in the gun-safety area, and that people are watching. I agree with the vice president on that, McLachlan said.
In a Sunday interview on NBC, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said he thinks most senators will support a bill for universal background checks, similar to a bill the Colorado House passed Monday on a near party-line vote.
Opponents mostly Republicans complained about the White House lobbying.
This is the West. I really dont appreciate that we are being unduly influenced in this body by East Coast politicians telling us what to do, said Rep. Carole Murray, R-Castle Rock.
But the sponsor of the ammunition magazine limit, Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, said she started working on the issue after the movie theater massacre in her district last summer, long before Obama made gun issues a national priority.
This is not something thats based on some kind of White House, Washington influence, Fields said.
The debate took four hours Monday and 13 hours Friday, and it often turned emotional.
Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, was one of at least three lawmakers who choked up during the debate. He said he cared passionately about the U.S. Constitution.
The Second Amendment is not about hunting, the Second Amendment is not our defense against pheasants. The Second Amendment is our defense as citizens against tyranny, Holbert said.
Tyranny, he said, includes assault by criminals.
Rep. Don Coram, R-Montrose, said probably 95 percent of his constituents oppose the gun bills. His district includes Montezuma County.
He said lawbreakers will not stop buying large magazines, any more than laws prevent people from using heroin or cocaine.
We are doing nothing today to save childrens lives, Coram said.
A Front Range business named Magpul, which makes gun magazines, has threatened to leave the state if the bill passes. A Democratic amendment to exempt manufacturers did not placate company executives.
If you pass this, we will leave, and you will own it, company officials posted on their Facebook page Sunday.
Although McLachlan voted for the magazine limit, he said he would like it to be raised, perhaps to 30 rounds of ammunition. The bill still has to go to the Senate and may come back to the House later this year.
Thats the one that I am the most recalcitrant to continue to support, McLachlan said.
McLachlan said he talked to Magpul representatives, but they are inflexible.
Theyre taking a completely pro-NRA position, which is no limitations are allowed, so as a result of that, theyre not at the table, he said.
All four bills now go to the Senate.


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Stanczyk was reading his emails, when he noticed Ceil Wendt-Jensen has published a useful website on the various Polish / Michigan genealogy mailing lists.
As the Article title suggests this is another database of military personnel from World War I. This one is unlike the ones you'd find at genealodzy.pl . It is however, similar to these databases and even links to the same Fallen in World War I website. But as I said this website/database is different from those.
The aim of the Prussian Army project (link: http://www.genoroots.com/eng/databases.php) is to provide an easy way of searching through the Deutsche Verlustlisten. This is the Prussian Army's Personnel Losses during World War I .
The authors of the project: Aleksandra Kacprzak and Mariusz Zebrowski. They are still updating so check back from time to time. If you click on the "Prussian Army project" link above it will take you to its databases page. There under the 'Prussian Army' Heading you will see a link 'Search'. Click on 'search' link. You should see the following search form:
Fill in a name and click on the 'Search' button. That is it. Should you find an ancestor, you can email them for more info. There is a very modest charge for this follow-on service (the search is free, the detailed info is where the cost is). So if you find someone, then …
e-mail: email@example.com. When asking for further information, you must provide the ordinal number ('L.P.'), the first and last name and the rank of the person in question. The additional information costs 2 Euro per name (=$2.82 as of 10/27/2011), payable via PayPal (to email@example.com ). Stanczyk is not affiliated and has no conflict of interest in these entrepreneurial Poles. I did not find any of my ancestors, so I cannot tell you what details you may find. My ancestors were from the Russian-Poland partition (and hence would have been in the Russian army) — keep in mind this Prussian army (not Russian, not Austrian).
Good Luck! Please send me an email with a sample detail if you send for it. Thanks!