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1. Where can I find data from NHANES 2005-2006?
NHANES 2005-2006 data page
2. Where can I find the data files and list of data items that are available from NHANES 2005-2006?
3. Why are there so many data files?
The data files have been separated to reduce the amount of time to download data and documentation from the Internet, along with the greater ease in producing, editing, and validating data files. This does require that you merge files together for analysis. Please refer to the following SAS code example to learn how to merge files together:
4. On the NHANES 2005-2006 data page I see links for data. How do I access the data from these links?
The Doc files are webpages, so you should be able to view these directly in your browser. A webpage can be saved using the "File/Save As..." menu and specifying a location on your local computer or network to store the file. Or you can right-click the file name directly on the webpage and select "Save Target As..." from the popup box, then specify a location to save the file on your computer.
Clicking on the Data link will open a dialog box from which you can specify a location to store the file (using the "Save" button) or open it directly with SAS (using the "Open" button.)
5. Next to the name of each questionnaire section, laboratory component, or exam component on the NHANES 2005-2006 data page there are links that appear as follows: Doc and Data. What are these links for?
These links allow you to view the documentation, including the codebook with the frequency distribution for each item in a particular data file. This can be used to verify the sample size for any particular data item. The documentation are webpages so you should be able to view these directly in your browser.
A link to Procedures is also being provided on the data page. For exam sections this will link to the examination procedures manual for that section, and for questionnaire sections this will link to the questionnaire instrument. Procedure manuals and laboratory methods files for laboratory sections are also available.
6. What format are the data files in? Can they be used with SAS, SPSS, or STATA?
The files are in SAS transport file format. They can be used with any package that supports this file format. For statistical/analytical packages that do not support SAS transport file format, you need to convert the file to a different format using an appropriate software package. Please note that NHANES 2005-2006 is a complex probability sample and proper analysis of the data usually requires statistical software that specifically incorporates sample design complications such as weighting and clustering.
7. What are the different data formats?
Since 1999, data files are released as SAS Transport files in .xpt format. This includes 1999+ survey data, as well as newly released or updated data files from NHANES III, II, and I. The SAS Transport files can be opened directly as a temporary work file or permanent libraries can be created using SAS. Please see the Continuous NHANES Web Tutorials for instructions. Also, the files can be opened with the free SAS Universal Viewer and converted to other formats for use with other software packages. Please see Question 17 for more information on this option.
NHANES III data released or updated after 1999 are available as SAS Transport (.xpt) files and can be used like the continuous survey files. NHANES III data released before 1999 was released as .dat files, which are formatted ASCII data files (text files). Running the associated SAS code creates a SAS dataset. Additionally, the text files can be used with other software packages. Please see your software package's instructions for working with text files (.dat or .txt).
NHANES II and I data files released or updated after 1999 are also available as SAS Transport (.xpt files) and can be used like the continuous NHANES data files. NHANES II and I data files released before 1999 are formatted text files (.txt) wrapped in a self-extracting executable file (.exe). Running the associated SAS code creates a SAS dataset from the text file. Please see the NHANES II Web Tutorial or NHANES I Web Tutorial (both coming soon) for instructions on how to do this. Additionally, the text files can be used with other software packages. Please see your software package's instructions for working with text files (.txt).
8. When will other data be available from NHANES 2005-2006?
As other data is processed and ready for public release it will be released on the NHANES website. Certain data will only be available at the NCHS Research Data Center. The RDC data consists of adolescent data (people less than 20 years old) such as: youth conduct disorder, sexual behavior, drug use, alcohol use, and CDISC. Please refer to the NHANES What's New page for further details.
9. Do I need to use SAS software to view NHANES data?
No. You can view NHANES data with the SAS Universal Viewer—a free download from SAS Institute. Currently, most NHANES is available in the SAS transport format (.xpt), which can be used in several statistical software programs, including SUDAAN and SPSS. Users desiring alternate data formats can use the SAS Viewer to convert the transport file into a comma-delimited text file (.csv) for use in additional software programs, such as Microsoft Excel.
Learn more about SAS Universal Viewer.
10. Where can I find the analytic guidelines (weighting, variance estimation, sample design)?
The analytic guidelines provide information on the sample design and on recommended methodologies for analyzing the data. In particular, the guidelines provide information on how the sample persons were selected, how the various survey weights were calculated, what particular survey weight should be used to provide survey estimates, how to compute sampling variances for those estimates, and recommended sample sizes for analysis.
11. Will data and weights be available on public use files for single years such as 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2002?
12. Will data and weights be available on public use files in combined datasets for three year and six year periods such as 1999-2001, 2002-2004, 1999-2004, or 2001-2006?
No. The continuous NHANES will be grouped for two year periods for public release (i.e. 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, etc.). Combining two or more two-year periods is possible (i.e. 1999-2002, etc.). The two-year sample weights should be used for NHANES 1999-2000, NHANES 2001-2002, NHANES 2003-2004, and NHANES 2005-2006 analyses, respectively. The four-year sample weights should be used for combined analyses of NHANES 1999-2000 & NHANES 2001-2002 data.
Six-year sample weights for NHANES 1999-2004 should be calculated by researchers as follows: With the first two dataset weights (NHANES 1999-2002) already averaged as a four-year sample weight, then the six year weight would be WT99-04 = (2/3) x WT99-02 + (1/3) x WT03-04, where WT99-02 is the variable WTMEC4YR from the NHANES 2001-2002 demographic file dataset, and WT03-04 is the variable WTMEC2YR from the NHANES 2003-2004 demographic file dataset. Eight-year sample weights for NHANES 1999-2006 should be calculated similarly to calculating the six-year sample weight. WT99-06 = (1/2) x WT99-02 + (1/4) x WT03-04 + (1/4) x WT05-06, where WT05-06 is the variable WTMEC2YR from the NHANES 2005-2006 demographic file dataset.
Six-year sample weights for 2001-2006 can be combining by using the 2-year weights found in the demographic files. For example, WT01-06 = (1/3) x WT01-02 + (1/3) x WT03-04 + (1/3) x WT05-06.
Please refer to the NHANES Analytic Guidelines provided with the data release files to determine the appropriate methodology for analyses of combined years of data.
13. What is the sample size for a particular data item, questionnaire section, examination component, or laboratory analyte?
For any particular questionnaire section, examination component or laboratory data file you will only find records for survey participants that were eligible. For example, suppose 6,000 people were eligible for an examination in the MEC and only 5,000 were eligible for the muscular strength component due to age restrictions. Of the 5,000 suppose only 4,500 participated in the examination; the other 500 either refused or did not have enough time to participate in the exam. The data file would have 5,000 records with 500 records having missing data. For further details refer to the "frequency" counts document for each of the data files.
14. Where can I find a description of the codebook contents?
15. How do I determine the skip patterns for a questionnaire section?
The first step is to review all of the documentation for the questionnaires. To review skip patterns look at the complete questionnaire instrument. Please note that not all questionnaire items are released due to small sample sizes and confidentiality/sensitivity issues, but all skip pattern integrity was maintained and validated.
16. How are missing values, "blank but applicable", "don't know" and other values coded?
There are codes for refused (7-fill: that is 7, or 77, or 777, ..., depending on the number of digits required for a particular data value), don't know (9-fill), and missing values (a blank field) which means the person was not asked the question or given the test. There is no longer a specific code for those cases where the variable response is "blank but applicable"; for such cases the values are designated as missing values. For laboratory data there are special considerations. When a laboratory value was less than the lower limit of detection (LOD), a "fill" value based on the LOD was used instead of the sample value as the sample value was deemed "not detectable." An indicator variable taking value (0 or 1) is used to identify which values are real and which values are fill values.
17. I have questions about using the data, protocols, etc - where can I get help?
First, and most important, refer to the questionnaire, exam component, or laboratory descriptions. If you need help beyond this you can pose your question to the NHANES listserv - please note however that the NHANES program staff do not routinely provide technical responses to questions posted to the listserv.
18. Why isn't the adolescent data on alcohol use, smoking, sexual behavior, reproductive health and drug use available as a public release file?
These files have not been released on the NHANES website due to confidentiality concerns. Adolescent data files containing this sensitive information will be made available at the NCHS Research Data Center.
19. Are there variables which can identify whether survey participants are family members and/or live in the same household?
In continuous NHANES 1999+, there is no way to identify whether one or more survey participants are related. However, it is possible to identify whether they may live in the same household, but that information is only available through the Research Data Center. Analysts should bear in mind that sharing a household can mean a rental arrangement or other non-family circumstance.
20. Can I identify what region of the country or what state or county a survey participant resides within?
Geographic identifiers are available but only through the Research Data Center (RDC), in order to protect the confidentiality of our participants. A list of NHANES Geocode variables is available through the RDC website.
21. I am interested in one or more questions which appear in the survey questionnaire but I cannot find the question in a codebook or data file available on your Internet site. What happened to it?
It sometimes means that the data is not yet ready to be publicly released. Other times, the staff have determined that a question poses a risk of disclosure to our survey participants. Under these circumstances the data are made available only through the Research Data Center. Documentation for some of these datasets is available on the Limited Access Data page. Please send an email to email@example.com to inquire about the status of a particular question.


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I've decided to move the blog from the free WordPress.com hosting service to a paid host called Bluehost. This blog has been a WordPress.com blog for nearly three years now, after my old self-hosted blog (which I had started in 2004 as "Rural Rambles") expired in a tumult of bit entropy.
Having a WordPress blog on a separate host gives me a certain amount of freedom. I can edit any theme, and photos can be larger. I also will be able to directly embed audio and video in posts, an ability available to WordPress.com users only by paying for a site upgrade.
Naturally this entails more blog-management work for me, but I enjoy such geeky chores. For a while, at least, I'll post links to new posts here, but not images. Here are the first two posts on the new blog:
As you can see, the new theme needs a bit of tweaking, but these are early days.
Bev and I have been driving from Arizona to New England these past few days. We stopped and camped near the Buffalo River in NW Arkansas, a beautiful area I haven't visited in many years. A few trilliums were beginning to emerge in the beech/oak/pine woodlands there. Here's a pristine example:


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A Cottage Grove man has been convicted of first-degree premeditated murder.
Stephen Carl Allwine drugged and shot his wife, Amy Allwine, before attempting to stage her 2016 death as a suicide, prosecutors said.
Her death followed the failure of an elaborate, months-long plot Stephen Allwine hatched to have his wife killed.
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Jurors agreed, issuing a guilty verdict Jan. 31 after nearly eight hours of deliberation, the Pioneer Press reports.
Sentencing is scheduled Feb. 2.
Prosecutors said evidence against Stephen Allwine pointed to multiple failed murder-for-hire attempts he commissioned under the name "DogDayGod" on the Dark Web, a hidden section of the internet often associated with criminal activity.
Authorities responded to a 911 call from Stephen Allwine Nov. 13, 2016, and found Amy Allwine dead in her Cottage Grove home. She had been shot in the head.
A 9 mm handgun was found leaning against her arm, but a medical examiner said the lack of blood spatter and gunpowder on her hands were inconsistent with a suicide.
Evidence also revealed Stephen Allwine had at least extramarital affairs.
Prosecutors said his reputation at a local church prevented him from divorcing his wife, so he chose to have her killed.
In a two-month investigation leading up to his January 2017 arrest, authorities discovered posts from user "DogDayGod" on a Dark Web page soliciting Amy Allwine's death.
At least two attempts on her life were discussed, neither of which occurred.
The same user inquired about purchasing the drug scopolamine months later.
Medical examiners found large quantities of the drug in Amy Allwine's body. She never had a scopolamine prescription.
Investigators later found a bitcoin code on Stephen Allwine's phone that matched a code user DogDayGod posted to a Dark Web page.
Stephen Allwine now faces life in prison, a mandatory sentence for first-degree murder cases.


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In Volkswagen speak, "R" designates only the most capable version of a given platform. Over the years, we've seen two generations of R32 and, more recently, the revered Golf R. However, VW's large sedans have never been anointed with such R-ness. And while a Passat R might not exactly sound like something we'd spend money on, the CC isn't exactly a Passat...
We were first introduced to the CC when it debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in January '08. It was initially dubbed the Passat CC, but was mercifully shortened to "CC" (which stands for Comfort Coupe).
Although clearly built on a Passat chassis, it's slightly larger and has coupe styling with more dynamic performance. And when looking at the CC you can't help but be reminded of the Mercedes CLS, which isn't a bad thing...
When driving the CC it's a competent but slightly uninspiring experience. So VW's handsome sedan has always begged for more performance.
Enter Peter Zahurak from Denver, Colorado. A long-time VAG enthusiast, whose previous project - a 400whp Mk1 Audi TT - never quite came to fruition. So when the CC was announced, he was determined to have another go, and enlisted the team at 3ZERO3 Motorsports in Wheat Ridge, CO for help with the build.
"I wanted to execute something that was in-line with the original vehicle but that would be a complete makeover," Peter explained. "3ZERO3 have built some great concepts, so we met to discuss the plan. I don't care about stance or AWD, but wanted something that was fast, sexy and drivable. So we fleshed out what we'd call the CC-R concept and I fell in love with the idea. And achieving the 'R' status was what motivated all aspects of the project."
The goal was to create a CC-R with a hardware list the VW engineers would be proud of. It would be fast and agile, without compromising the car's reliability or civility, just as Peter requested.
The first modifications involved an HPA Motorsports K04 turbo kit along with an FMIC, downpipe, ECU and DSG tuning software. This was enhanced with a cat-back exhaust from Milltek that used twin tips and was the first of its kind in the US. The team also sourced a gorgeous stage 2 carbon fiber intake from Carbonio.
With more than 350hp expected, HPA also provided its six-piston front brake kit. Finished in a bright blue and including 355mm slotted two-piece rotors, these almost do as much for the aesthetics as they do for the braking...
Suspension was also carefully selected, with Bilstein PSS10 coilovers getting the nod. These units are remarkable for their ability to retain factory levels of ride comfort while allowing the vehicle to be lowered. It has ten settings for damper adjustment, allowing Peter to dial-in the ride quality he wanted.
The last items selected were the wheels because the owner was struggling with the decision. Initially, he was looking for something that conveyed more luxury than sporting intentions, but ultimately trusted in the advice of the 3ZERO3 team.
"I had my mind set on some nasty 20" dished wheels, but when I was ready to pull the trigger, Max Gerson (service advisor) at 3ZERO3 almost slapped the credit card out of my hand. In the end I was forced to drink the Kool-Aid and order some wheels I wasn't totally convinced of at the time. Actually, we had to order two sets because we weren't happy with the fitment of the first set. But at the end of the day, I love the 20" BBS CH-R we chose. The finish and spoke detail perfectly match the theme of the car," Peter told us.
Inside, it was the owner's decision to wrap the trim in white carbon fiber vinyl from 3M. He also added HPA-inspired blue stripes to the shifter surround and passenger-side trim for a sporting splash of color.
On the driver's side, a digital boost gauge was ordered from P3 Cars to monitor the new turbo set up. This was another great addition because it's neatly integrated and is even able to read fault codes if necessary.
Exterior upgrades were similarly subtle and OEM+. They included a VW trunk spoiler, European-spec turn signals and three R badges, which were painted blue to match the brakes.
The car went from bone stock to fully built in about one month, all while the odometer was reading less than 10,000 miles. Yet Peter was adamant his CC-R would be built early in the car's life so he had all the time to enjoy it.
While HPA doesn't really advertise the gains from its K04 turbo kit, 3ZERO3 Motorsports had built several similarly equipped TSI cars. They were confidently expecting at least 300whp, as they strapped it to the dyno one warm afternoon in June to see what the CC-R had.
Unfortunately, high summer temps inside the facility limited boost, and while the P3 gauge didn't see more than 14.8psi, the car made an impressive 309hp and 317 lb-ft at the wheels.
Using a 15% calculation for drivetrain loss from the DSG transmission, the tuner estimated power at the crank was close to 355hp and 360 lb-ft.
What was most impressive about this K04 kit was that it relied on the stock fueling. That meant, if Peter could behave himself and stay out of the boost, the CC-R could still return 30mpg in mixed driving. You have to admit that 350hp and 30mpg is pretty remarkable!
Driving impressions didn't disappoint, either. Once on the throttle, the Carbonio intake made some great induction sounds on part throttle - hissing and sucking as air was drawn through the carbon fiber pipe.
We took it easy for the first few miles to earn Peter's trust and, operating on part throttle, the car behaved almost as stock. Perhaps there was a whisker more lag from the larger K04 turbocharger, but these units spool so quickly it was never a point of contention.
As we found some open road and transitioned to WOT, the boost came on smoothly but the traction control light was flashing as the front tires clawed for traction.
The exhaust tone was throaty, yet restrained. But our favorite noise was the DSG-induced ignition cut between shifts.
As we came around a slow corner, we manually downshifted into second at 25mph, then stood on the throttle. The CC-R delivered tenacious acceleration and we can attest that its 355hp was present and accounted for.
After a few upshifts and gurgles from the DSG, we looked down and discovered we were going criminally fast. Fortunately, the HPA brakes shed the speed and returned us to legality.
The HPA DSG software seemed to improve the shift logic in auto mode, but the coolest feature of stage 2 tune was the launch control. Following Peter's instructions, we disabled the traction control, left foot on the brakes, then went WOT. Once the throttle was pinned for a second time, we released the brakes and the car rocketed off the line. With the windows down, the cabin was filled with tire smoke and the sound of grown men giggling. Launch control is wildly entertaining.
Of course, the lack of AWD makes this a flawed masterpiece, although the factory Scirocco R is also FWD... And Peter's CC-R represents a daily driver with a reliable 350hp that makes no compromise for reliability or economy, yet can shred tires at every stop sign.
And despite those rubber-band 30-series tires, the VW remained surprisingly compliant. We expected the tires to rub on the fenders, but it never happened. The suspension also coped with city potholes and broken pavement, with the Passat chassis clearly adept at accommodating larger wheel and tire combinations than earlier versions. And with the Bilstein struts adjusted to level six all round, we were expecting a slightly harsh and choppy ride, but it was far from the case.
So we can attest to the flexibility and prowess of this R-themed VW sedan that again makes us question why VW has never created its own performance version of this cool coupe.
2012 Volkswagen CC
Engine 2.0L four-cylinder TSI 16v with HPA Motorsports K04 turbo kit, exhaust downpipe, front-mount intercooler and software, Carbonio stage 2 intake, Milltek cat-back exhaust system with twin tailpipes
Drivetrain six-speed DSG transmission with HPA Motorsports stage 2 DSG software and street density dogbone mount
Brakes HPA Motorsports six-piston calipers, 355mm two-piece slotted rotors f, stock r
Suspension Bilstein PSS10 coilovers
Wheels & Tires 20x9" BBS CH-R wheels in matte anthracite, 225/30 R20 Falken FK-452 tires
Exterior VW trunk spoiler, Euro-spec turn signals, R badges painted blue
Interior P3 Cars boost gauge, 3M white carbon fiber vinyl
Thanks Desiree, Jason and Max at 3ZERO3 Motorsports (3zero3motorsports.com), Keir at HPA Motorsports (hpamotorsports.com), Robert at BBS (bbs-usa.com)


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|Instrument: SMMR : Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
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The primary purpose of the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) experiment was (1) to provide all-weather measurements of ocean surface temperature and wind speed, and (2) to obtain integrated liquid water column content and atmospheric water vapor column content for path length and attenuation corrections to the ALT and SASS observations. Microwave brightness temperatures were observed with a 10-channel (five-frequency dual polarized) scanning radiometer operating at 0.8-, 1.4-, 1.7-, 2.8-, and 4.6-cm wavelengths (37, 21, 18, 10.7, and 6.6 GHz). The antenna was a parabolic reflector offset from nadir by 0.73 rad. Motion of the antenna reflector provided observations from within a conical volume along the ground track of the spacecraft. The SMMR had a swath width of about 600 km and the spatial resolution ranged from about 22 km at 37 GHz to about 100 km at 6.6 GHz. The absolute accuracy of sea surface temperature obtained was 2 K deg with a relative accuracy of 0.5 K deg. The accuracy of the wind speed measurements was 2 m/s for winds ranging from 7 to about 50 m/s. The same experiment was flown on Nimbus 7. A more detailed description can be found in E. Njoku, et al., "The Seasat Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR): instrument description and performance," IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., v. OE-5, pp. 100-115, 1980. The instrument operated continuously in orbit from July 6, 1978 for a period of 95 days, until the spacecraft failed on October 10, 1978. Data are available from SDSD.
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Remember when John Ashcroft put a drape over the bared breast of the "Spirit of Justice" statue at the Justice Department? The Republicans are now busy trying to cover their own political private parts after flashing a core part of their agenda – their war on women — at an inopportune time.
It's a motley conservative crew that makes up the Misogynistic Army of the Right. There are those who both fear women and believe them inferior to men. Pining for patriarchy, they seek to subdue and oppress women. There are others carrying water for a health insurance industry eager to save money wherever it can. And others just play for any advantage over Democrats.
Birth control gives women more power over their bodies and their lives, making it harder to keep them in their place. Equal health care costs money. Insurance reimbursement rates (in both private and public sector plans) are intended to drive down utilization. Women are generally more responsible about their health than men, so there's pressure to reimburse physicians less for treating women than men. Then there's the anti-Washington, anti-Obama faction that simply condemns anything Democrats are for.
Conservatives have had great success at tuning their racist dog whistles. They've learned how to use code to appeal to racial bigots ("welfare Cadillacs," "Willie Horton," "Derek Bell," "voter I.D."). The conservative chorus is often out of tune when it comes to singing about the subjugation of women.
Regrettably, Democrats have failed to take advantage of the dissonance. Roe v. Wade marked a moment similar to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Oddly, after securing those victories, Democrats began running away from them. In their pursuit of the so-called "swing voters," Democrats tried to avoid "polarizing" issues, that is, the important ones.
Republicans have been able to hide their antagonism toward women behind the abortion issue, an issue that scares many Democrats and their consultants. I'm not certain why. In Texas, for instance, one hears constantly that pro-choice candidates won't do well with Catholic Hispanic voters, but I've never seen the issue have any influence on election outcomes.
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Last year, a Republican state representative in Texas, Wayne Christian, confessed that he was engaged in a war on birth control. My colleagues and I clipped the interview and posted it to YouTube, where it has received a good number of hits at one source or another.
I tried to convince many Democratic insiders that Republicans were more vulnerable than ever on the issues of women's health. I didn't get very far. Of course, I was making the argument at a time when the economy dominated voters' attention.
Still, state and national polls over the months show that women voters are increasingly uneasy with Republicans. Many women who voted Republican in 2010 seem to be moving back to Democrats.
If Democrats are to take advantage of this momentum, they are going to have to keep talking – shouting – about the issues surrounding women's health care. Typically, we think that our arguments are so powerful that if we just make them once or twice the reasoning world will accept our views automatically. We can move on to other things.
It doesn't work that way. The Right is going to keep up its attack on women. There are many Republicans who wish they wouldn't. They can see they are losing the argument with women voters. But their right wing won't stop. And if Democrats don't overwhelm them with progressive voices, sooner or later the right wing arguments will so dominate the media sphere that their views will begin to seem like common sense.


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Bucher and the Pueblo
A new presidential administration has just taken office. And, as was the case when a different administration arrived 40 years ago, the political and military leaders inherited wars in progress. Back then the United States was dealing with the Cold War generally and the Vietnam War specifically.
One particularly flagrant Cold War incident occurred in January 1968, when North Korean gunboats captured the 900-ton U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo (AGER-2) in international waters. The skipper of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, was wounded by gunfire. He surrendered the ship without the crew firing a shot and without disabling the engines. His decision was to protect his crew against the casualties that might have resulted from resistance.
North Korea held the crew in prison until December 1968, the month before President Lyndon Johnson left office. Dealing with the aftermath fell to the incoming administration, that of Richard Nixon. And it fell to the leadership of the Navy to deal with the thorny problems raised by the incident. Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations, wanted to see Commander Bucher punished as a lesson to the Navy's commanding officers—don't give up the ship, especially without a fight.
The officer who headed the East Asia politico-military shop on Moorer's staff was Captain William J. Crowe Jr. Twenty years later, as a four-star admiral, he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Because the incident fell in his geographical bailiwick, in 1968 he attended a series of meetings chaired by Admiral Bernard Clarey, the vice chief of operations. The meetings produced contentious debate among half a dozen different fiefdoms, both inside and outside the Navy, that wanted to be in charge. Crowe sat through the meetings as a bemused bystander while the squabbling went on. But finally Clarey tabbed Crowe to write the repatriation plan because he seemed to be the only person in the room who had no vested interest in the issue.
Admiral Crowe's 1993 published memoir, The Line of Fire, and his oral history—the latter recently released by the Naval Historical Foundation in Washington—provide an insider's account of the crew's return. Moorer assigned Crowe the lead role in an "I want it right away" investigation of what happened to the Pueblo men during their bleak months in North Korea. Johnson and Moorer were particularly interested in finding out whether the men of the Pueblo were tortured while in prison.
Once the crewmen were released and reached San Diego, Crowe and his team questioned them and learned of multiple incidents of torture. Crowe and his assistants wrote the report of their investigation on a red-eye flight back to Washington. The report went to President Johnson, who had threatened action but took none. He had only a few weeks left in office and was not in position to start another war in addition to the one in Vietnam.
Early in 1969 a court of inquiry began, with Commander Bucher on the hot seat. In some ways his position was a sympathetic one. He had suffered at the hands of the North Koreans. Moreover, he had been sent on what turned out to be a hazardous mission, but his seniors in the chain of command had not foreseen the hazards nor devised any plan for protecting the ship. Bucher was a submarine officer who had been deemed unsuitable for a submarine command, but he was held to the standard for the front-runners who got the better jobs.
Bucher's civilian lawyer was a Naval Reserve captain named Miles Harvey. Crowe recalled that Harvey did a superb job in dealing with the admirals who made up the court. He got for Bucher the opportunity to tell the emotional story of his ordeal in open court. The public did indeed sympathize with him. Harvey thus outmaneuvered those in the Navy who thought Bucher should have battled harder, that he should have gone down with the ship rather than surrender.
It became apparent to Admiral Moorer and the new Secretary of the Navy, John Chafee, that the public would not abide punishment for Bucher. The president of the court, Vice Admiral Harold Bowen, was called to Washington to be advised on the climate of opinion. Nevertheless, the admirals on Bowen's panel recommended that Bucher be court-martialed.
The report then went to Admiral John Hyland, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, for his endorsement. Hyland, under whose command the Pueblo had operated, initially also called for Bucher to face court-martial. But Clarey, the VCNO, directed Crowe to get on the phone with Hyland and essentially to dictate what he should say in his revised endorsement. Hyland would have to recommend no further action be taken against the ship's skipper. In a decision announced in early May of 1969, Secretary Chafee said that Bucher had already suffered enough. The political aspects of the case had overruled the naval tradition of holding the skipper accountable.
Forty years later, North Korea still poses prickly foreign-policy challenges for the United States. And North Korea still has the Pueblo.


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History, as we know, is most often told by the victors. In Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Knopf, 2011), Harvard University history professor Maya Jasanoff, winner of the 2012 George Washington Book Prize, reverses the trend, tracing the stories of Americans loyal to the English crown and their forced exodus at the end of the American Revolution. "Losers seldom get to write thehistory, but the American loyalists have at last got their historian with Maya Jasanoff," says historian Joseph J. Ellis, while Sean Wilentz says that her "stunning reinterpretation … affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation." Jasanoff is also author of the critically acclaimed Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850.


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Author CHRIS WRIGHT
WITH TRAVEL, as with art, limitations can lead to greatness. The more restricted your choices, the more the world can open up for you. In looking for late-season ski resorts, for instance, you might discover extravagant, quirky or unexpected places that you'd otherwise have missed, or see some old favorites in a new light.
The slopes of Vail, Colo., are known for grooming that would put a New York socialite to shame, and this tendency toward neatness is reflected in the Sebastian Hotel, an elegant resort in the heart of Vail Village. Where many ski lodges are infused with what might be termed "Essence of Boot," the Sebastian has an air of the pristine about it. Beyond its Alpine-chic interior, the hotel operates a swish base camp complete with valet service, providing ready access to some of the most celebrated trails in the U.S. You may end up spending as much time in the hotel's library as you do hurtling down the slopes, but hey, they let you drink wine in there, which is a key advantage.
Colorado's penchant for swank ski lodges certainly isn't restricted to Vail: In Aspen, for example, you'll find the St. Regis, a place of burnished wood and glinting chandeliers. The hotel is at the tail end of a $40 million renovation, with its design influences including Ralph Lauren and Lenny Kravitz. The upscale yet intimate restaurant — whose menu showcases regional favorites prepared with international flair — ensures a feeling of warmth even as Aspen Mountain looms chillingly outside. The Buttermilk and Snowmass ski areas are within easy reach, as is Aspen Highlands, whose spring skiing is augmented with live music, horseback rides and other non-snowy attractions.
If some resorts aim for chic, the Grand Hotel Zermatterhof in Zermatt, Switzerland, has loftier ambitions. It opened in the 19th century and maintains an old-world majesty, with guests pulling up to an ornate portico in horse-drawn carriages, for instance, or supping in the stately dining room. If you can drag yourself away from the on-site grandeur, the nearby Matterhorn's glacial slopes can be reached via the Klein Matterhorn cable car, which is, at 12,500 feet above sea level, the highest of its kind in the world.
Equally impressive, but in an understated Japanese manner, is Hotel Jogakura in Honshu's Hakkoda mountain range. The Jogakura takes tranquility so seriously that it employs a team of specialists in aromatherapy, diet and yoga to help guests de-stress — which isn't a bad idea, given the locale. The Hakkodas boast some of the most challenging terrain on the planet, including an array of backcountry slopes that promise variety, adventure and danger. Luckily, the Jogakura has guides to ensure everyone gets back to the hotel in frostbite-free condition.
There's also wilderness aplenty at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Situated on the edge of a glacier-fed lake in the Canadian Rockies, this large and luxurious hotel stands amid a dramatically beautiful landscape. While the skiing isn't as white-knuckle as in the Hakkodas, the environment is every bit as untamed (in some parts there be grizzlies, who might be rubbing the sleep out of their eyes just about now). Even within the confines of the hotel, with its algae rubs and evening canapés, you need only turn to the nearest window and the exquisite desolation beyond to be reminded that the best things in life aren't always so hospitable.
For a truly away-from-it-all experience, try Riksgränsen. A ski resort located in the northernmost part of Sweden, 75 miles or so inside the Arctic Circle, it's a place where even reindeer feel the chill. While the resort's hotel is modest, the surrounding area is glorious. By May, there's 24-hour sunlight, meaning you can hit the slopes for a midnight run. If that's not adventurous enough for you, there are authentic Swedish dishes on offer, some featuring animals that previously sported antlers.
If you've been blessed with the opportunity to ski in a T-shirt, you should do it for as long as you can. For truly devoted holidaymakers, there's the Snow Creek Resort in California's Sierra Nevadas, a 450-acre resort still under development (there's a five-star hotel in the works), with 850 properties available for rent or purchase. Looming over it all is aptly named Mammoth Mountain, whose 3,500 acres of trails range from stomach-churning gullies to putting-green straights. To get to Mammoth's peak, you can take a nice, relaxing gondola ride. As for getting back down, that will be a far more whooshy proposition — which is what you're here for, after all.


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Every week -- often with your help -- FOOD52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: The creamiest vegan chocolate sorbet you'll ever meet.
There's a reason people eat a small, easily moderated square of dark chocolate after meals. It's intense, satisfying, life-affirming. It's all you need. You're not going to accidentally scarf a whole bar of 83% single-origin fancy stuff. (Unless you're pregnant, or on deadline -- and that's okay.) Scatter it through a cookie or stir in hot cream to make a ganache, and we have a different end to the story.
But you hear chocolate sorbet -- no milk, no cream, no eggs -- and perhaps you imagine something severe. You wouldn't want a bowl of 83% squares, so what are you supposed to do with this?
If milk chocolate ice cream is your childhood best friend, dark chocolate sorbet is her cool, sort of mean older sister. You want to be her friend, but what if she's bitter and aggressive and too deep? What if she makes you want to run back to the simple comforts of your old milky-sweet pal (or regress further, to shakes and fudgesicles)?
I am happy to report that you needn't worry about any of that with this chocolate sorbet from David Lebovitz -- ice cream whisperer and patron saint of all things sweet. No, you needn't worry at all.
Yes, the chocolate flavor is deep and true, with low notes of cocoa powder mingling with the epic aria of bittersweet chocolate. But despite having no dairy or eggs (that's right, vegans!), it's impossibly creamy. How? Why? I can only imagine there's some nature-defying emulsification going on in there, a la a certain genius chocolate mousse.
It also remains perfectly scoopable -- it doesn't go hard or icy in the slightest, even after several days in the freezer. Lebovitz credits this remarkable consistency to the high proportion of bittersweet chocolate. This also means that it's quick-melting: it is a sorbet that thinks it's a gelato on line at the Vatican on a steamy August afternoon. Here, like there, you'd best eat quickly.
It should be noted that when I made it this recipe with standard-issue Dutch-processed cocoa and Baker's bittersweet chocolate, it was life-changing -- and you can only go up from there.
I've been known to spoon some up not just as an after work pick-me-up, but also first thing when I wake up, and as my last sweet bite before bed. I suppose I'm treating it like hot weather medicine (and it's working).
But you can also eat it in normal, guest-appropriate ways. Lebovitz himself points out, "This makes a great milkshake in the summer -- add a few shots of espresso for a delicious mocha shake." And our Assistant Editor Nozlee Samadzadeh -- who tipped me off to this recipe -- has served scoops of it at dinner parties with tiny buckwheat cookies.
Clearly, chocolate sorbet is still the cool older sister. But you just got invited to her party.
David Lebovitz's Chocolate Sorbet
From The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz (Ten Speed Press, 2007)
Makes about 1 quart (1 liter)
2 1/4 cups (555 ml) water1 cup (200 g) sugar3/4 cup (75 g) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powderPinch of salt6 ounces (170 g) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, finely chopped1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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A bit of an explanation first. I realized, upon reading this, that my mom is strange. You see, she has her own way of pronouncing some words–not a regional accent, just her. "Bicycle" is pronounced as if you just put "bi" in front of the word "cycle"; nobody does that. "Aren't" is pronounced with two syllables; nobody does that. And the phrase "once in a blue moon" has the accent on the word "blue", like "once in a BLUE moon". Again, nobody does that. But… the tag phrase to this verse came to me, unbidden, as such things do, and it was pronounced that way. So, no complaining about the meter; I already know.
As the calendar crawls toward the end of the year
And of course, as a brand new beginning draws near
I guess it's just human to look to the past
At the things we have done; at the lot we've been cast,
At the friends we have gained, and the friends we have lost,
At the things we might change, had we just known the cost.
I'll go quite a long time without thinking of you,
But, once in a blue moon, I do.
A year full of travel, of learning, of fun,
A year I'd have sworn had just only begun
Although it was tough, this was one of the best,
With the children all grown up and leaving the nest
They're better than me, I'll admit it with pride,
And I think I might burst, I'm so happy inside!
And my heart doesn't feel like the thing it once was
But, once in a blue moon, it does.
It isn't the same, but it never can be,
As time, and as life, moves too quickly for me,
The days—hell, the weeks—are a bit of a blur
And things are not ever the way that they were.
I guess I just mean that I want you to know
That I hope you are happy and well, even though
I may miss you much more than the law should allow,
Just once in a blue moon… like now.
Anyway, having suffered through that, you deserve something better. I first heard the following song sung by it's writer, singer-songwriter Patrick Alger, in a singer-songwriter charity event that became the album "Shelter". I still hear it in his voice first, and all others are imitators (oddly enough, although he sang "Once in a very blue moon" for the concert, he sings a different song on the album, which I bought specifically for that song. Worth it anyway.) The song is far more associated, though, with Nanci Griffith, for whom it is a signature song. Enjoy:


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The evidence is piling up for including Vitamin K2 in your diet. Studies indicate that it can improve cardiovascular health by reducing arterial calcification and stave off osteoporosis by helping get calcium where it's needed in the body, in the bones.
It appears that Vitamin K2 (which is not much like it's cousin K1 at all) could help inhibit cancer cell growth in prostate and lung cancer and leukemia, providing a boost to traditional treatments for these diseases.
This little understood vitamin may even help people keep their rosy faces less wrinkled for longer.
But getting wondrous K2 into your diet (let's always look to food before supplements) may not easy if you are pursuing a humane and sustainable approach to food.
For instance, one of the "best" sources of K2 is goose liver pate, which would also top the list of most inhumanely obtained animal proteins. Do we even need to review how geese (and also ducks) are force fed for weeks to enlarge their livers, essentially sickening them, to obtain this sinfully bad cracker spread?
Luckily, there are many better sources of K2, also called menaquinone, with two component parts, MK-4 and MK-7 (and some debate which is better MK-4 or MK-7). Among the foods that provide K2 are simple butter and certain cheeses.
And the early research suggests that keeping sustainability in mind will serve you well in finding the best sources of Vitamin K2. Butter from the grain-fed, CAFO-production machine does not provide this vitamin. However, grass-fed butter does deliver K2, according to several sources, among them a man who will be familiar to natural/organic dairy-eating adherents, Dr. Weston A. Price.
Dr. Price, who praised the value of full-fat and unpasteurized dairy products, apparently experimented on butters to find which carried an element he identified as "Activator X" (which people believe was K2 – a story too long for here). He found that pastured butter contained this health-conferring ingredient, aka Vitamin K2, but commercial butter, not so much.
Cheeses are a different story; it's not the grass feeding but the bacteria used in making them that's key. Thus Gouda and Brie are high in K2, but not necessarily other cheeses, according to Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue, who wrote Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life.
Another great source of Vitamin K2, it turns out, is natto, often described as a foul-smelling, stringy soybean-derived food that Japanese people eat. So natto's not got the best PR story. It's not exactly upending the Western diet. Still, if you like fermented foods, which have the added benefit of keeping your gut bacteria in shape, natto provides both a direct source of K2 and a way to assist your gut bacteria ing converting Vitamin K1 into K2 (yes your good bugs can do that – what a relief it is).
So you may want to try natto; maybe even make some at home.
Hold your nose while its fermenting and you'll discover it's actually offers more than its PR advance team suggests. Natto's a protein food. It's affordable and lower on the food chain, which is great for vegetarians, vegans and anyone factoring in sustainability.
Natto, according to "The Healthy Home Economist" contains 1,103 mcg of K2 per 3.5 oz portion, making it the richest K2 food you can find, and hopefully, eat. (Goose liver pate contains about 1/3 as much.)
Not sure about Natto? It's back to Brie and Gouda cheese and also fermented vegetables, though the amount of K2 generated can vary greatly, according to Dr. Rheame-Bleue.
So here's the short list, with the amount of Vitamin K2 per 3.5 oz. serving:
Natto …………………………………….….1,103 mcg
Fermented vegetables………………………50 to 500 mcg (according to Dr. Rheame-Bleue much depends on the starter sauce).
Sauerkraut (also fermented veggie)……..4.8 mcg per 3.5 oz. serving (this is much lower than the doctor's range, and we're not sure why)
Gouda…………………………………………..75 mcg per 3.5 oz. serving
Brie……………………………………………..57 mcg per 3.5 oz. serving
Pastured egg yolks……………………………15 mcg per 3.5 oz. serving
Pastured butter……………………………….15 mcg per 3.5 oz.
Chicken liver, breast, legs…………………….12.6 to 8.5 per 3.5 oz.
In addition to chicken, assorted other meats, including some you wouldn't want to eat, like hot dogs, and some you might, like calf or chicken liver, contain significant, but smaller amounts of K2.
The studies looking at grass-fed meat vs. grain-fed animals haven't been done (and don't hold your breath) but one could reasonably guess that the same chemistry that raised K2 levels in pastured butter and eggs works here too.
Finally, if you supplement, don't get crazy. While neither K1 nor K2 has not been shown to carry any toxicity (such as one finds with excess Vitamin A consumption for example), the human body can only absorb so much. Also, while some people may be deficient in K2 because of a chronic health condition (liver disease, inflammatory bowel disorders or bariatric surgery), regular folks without special dietary issues may not be.
A final note: If natto proves to be, in your book, just nasty-o, remember, your own healthy digestive system can make K2, using K1, and that is easy to get on the menu. You'll find K1 in kale, spinach, mustard greens, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and other green leafies, proving once again that it's never wrong to eat your veggies. (Don't put Kale in every smoothie, though, you might overdose on Vitamin A!)
(Photo of natto at top: Kinchan 1, Wikimedia Commons)