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Andrew (Rymarenko) of Rockland
Archbishop Andrew (Russian: Архиепископ Андрей, secular name Adrian Adrianovich Rymarenko, Russian: Адриан Адрианович Рымаренко; 15 (27) March 1893, Romny, Poltava Governorate - July 12, 1978, Spring Valley, New York) was bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, bishop of Rockland, vicar of Eastern-American diocese.
Adrian Rymarenko was born on March 15/28, 1893 and raised in a wealthy and pious family in the town of Romny, Poltava province. As he recollects,
I grew up in a pious family… I was surrounded by that Orthodox way of life which for generations had been created by Holy Russia. In our family, life proceeded according to the church calendar, according to the yearly church cycle. Feast days were as it were the signposts of life. At home there were constant Divine services, and not only molebens, but all-night vigils also.
… When I remember those years there inevitably rises before me an unforgettable picture: early morning, it's still dark. I have only just woken up and I see in front of the icons, half-illumined by a lampada, my mother. She prays for a long time. But a still stronger impression was made on me by the early-morning Divine services, to which our mother often took us and to which we went no matter what the weather, autumn or winter! After these Divine services one always felt a kind of extraordinary inspiration, a kind of quiet joy."
He recalls that this way of life was not only characteristic of his family but of all society around him. Following the Revolution of 1905 all this changed. He says that peoples' joy was now replaced with "disillusionment and desolation." During this time he attended the St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute and studied engineering where those all-pervading feelings of despair started to affect him. During this time he found his soul to cry out: "I cannot." He says,
"I felt that I could not live as people around me were living. I felt that I was lacking that life, the Orthodox way of life, which had surrounded me in my childhood and youth, that lightness of heart which I felt. I had the impression that I had been deprived of the air which I had breathed."
From this moment on he started to seek out ways to revive this in his life.
This new life was given to him in the person of Archpriest John Egorov who was the leader of a student group. He spent five years under the tutelage of this Archpriest and found opened up to him the "elemental reality of the life of Christ's Church by which Holy Russia lived." Of this "elemental reality" which was imparted to him, he says,
"I understood that the Divine services are not merely a ritual, but in them are revealed the dogmas of the faith. They are the foundations of man's reception of Divinity. Then, the examination and study of the works of the Fathers of the Church and the Patrisitic writings revealed to me the paths of life. When I had gone through the whole course taught by Fr. John, I had literall come back to life. I sensed the elemental power of Orthodoxy, I sensed the breath of life which it gave. I understood in what this life consisted."
After this time he went to Optina where he met the Elder, Anatolius the Younger in 1921. At this time Eugenia Grigorievna was now in his life and she had gone to Optina before him to resolve questions about their marriage and his priesthood. Fr. Anatolius blessed both of these decisions and later in the summer Adrian came to ask more questions about the same subjects.
Matushka Eugenia Rymarenko was the daughter of prominent landowners in the province of Poltava. She studied in St. Petersburg and later transferred to Moscow. She had slowly moved away from the Church but after the death of her parents and her experiences connected with the Revolution she returned to the city of Romny, in the province of Poltava. There she met her future husband who had given her several religious books and inspired her to go to Optina. In recalling her first visit to Optina Monastery, she said:
"Why I went to Fr. Anatoly at that time, I do not know. I had almost no understanding of eldership. I had only read Lodyzensky's Trilogy: Higher Consciousness, Light Invisible and Dark Forces and Sergei Nilus' book On the Bank of God's River. Actually I wanted to visit the elder in order to get a look at him and hear from him some prediction of the future… Instead of a prediction of the future, I experienced joyful moments of repentance, and an unusual, peaceful state of mind and submission to the will of God. I was so won over by Batyushka that later, it was enough just to think of him in order to acquire a peaceful, bright state of mind."
He describes his first meeting with the Elder thusly:
"I arrived at Optina on the day of SS. Peter and Paul at 6 o'clock in the morning, and stayed at the guest-house with the wonderful Monk Theodulus. He told Fr. Eustignius, Fr. Anatolius' cell-attendant, that I had come. Batyushka immediately sent for me and blessed me to come to him after the Liturgy. Vladyka Micah celebrated the Liturgy. The service in the church of the Entrance was triumphant, and after the service I immediately went to Batyushka. There was a whole crowd of people around Batyushka's house. They were mainly nuns. I was immediately let through and went to the Elder… He was friendly and affectionate. In one moment I completely forgot about what I had only just seen: through his questions the whole of my life was handed over to him. The conversation was mainly about my inner life. We talked about my pastorship. Feeling my unworthiness, I asked the Elder to forbid me to think of the priesthood, to which he, just like Elder Nectarius later, said to me: 'Accept the priesthood without fail, otherwise you will suffer.' When Batyushka asked me about my life, he suddenly said to me: 'Go to the holy things in the holy corner.' There he began to read the prayers of confession, and I thought that I would do confession, but Batyushka summarized everything that I had said, I confirmed my sinfulness, and he read the prayer of absolution. This was for me an unexpected prayer, I felt that I was reborn."
In 1921, Fr. Adrian began his pastoral duties in his native Romny at the Church of Alexander Nevsky. One of his parishioners describes this time of being surrounded by social unrest and the closing of churches. He says that Fr. Adrian served with feeling and that his sermons ignited the hearts of their listeners. Even though churches and monasteries were being closed this church was being filled with people. In no other church was there found such a spiritual life and devotion.
In 1926 the church in Romney was closed and Fr. Adrian was sent to Kiev where he was "under surveillance". He says that at the beginning of this time there was very difficult but then he became close to a group of "pastor-ascetics" whom he described as his instructors and friends. In them he found the same preservation of that which he had longed for from back in his childhood. "All of them gave up their lives for what was already in my heart." And they literally did. "With these clergy there went to prison, exile and death thousands of their flocks, who wanted to live in God and with God. On my shoulders lay the heavy responsibility of continuing the work of the martyred ascetics…".
After the repose of Elder Anatoly of Optina Matushka Eugenia and Fr. Adrian became the spiritual daughter of Elder Nectarius of Optina. They came often to visit and stay for weeks with the Elder. The Elder would often tell Matushka, "[Fr. Adrian] is full of Orthodoxy… I rejoice that [Fr. Adrian] is fully Orthodox," and often spoke of him "with such affection." Matushka had more time to stay due to Fr. Adrian's responsibilities in the parish. She would often read to the Elder as well as write correspondence for him and copy various passages from books.
During his time in Kiev, Fr Adrian says that God had mercy on him and spared him from prison but this was only at the present time. In 1929 he was imprisoned for a short term then released and continued his priestly duties, though much more cautiously due to being closely monitored by the government.
As the Revolution in Russia progressed and Optina was slowly being liquidated Fr. Nectarius was evicted from the monastery and came to live in a home in the village of Holmische in Briansky Province with a widower and his two boys. Here Matushka and Fr. Adrian would visit often until the Elder's repose. For this Matushka would not be there but the Elder told her that Fr. Adrian would be and he was. Fr. Adrian left at two o'clock in the morning and, after much difficulty, arrived at four in the afternoon on April 29, 1928 on the day of the Elder's repose. After his arrival, Fr. Adrian was present to read the Psalter for the Elder while he lay on his bed. As others were helping in assisting to turn the Elder in his bed icons of the Great-martyr Panteleimon and Saint Seraphim were brought from the reception room. One young lady said to the Elder,
"Batyushka, bless Father Adrian with this." With difficulty Batyushka reached out his hand, took the icon and put it on Father Adrian's head. Then Father Adrian asked Batyushka to bless his whole family with the icon of Saint Seraphim. Shortly thereafter the Elder became unconscious. In her recollections of Elder Nectarius, Matushka Eugenia says that when the Elder's condition changed, "Father Adrian saw that Batiuhka indeed was dying. He read the Canon for the Departure of the Soul; Batyushka was still alive. Falling on his knees, Father Adrian pressed himself to him, to his back under his mantle. Batyushka was still breathing for a little while, but his breaths became fewer and fewer. Seeing that Batyushka was dying, Father Adrian rose from his knees and covered him with the epitrachalion. After a few minutes Batyushka passed away. It was 8:30 on the evening of April 29, 1928."
While serving the flock in Kiev the Soviets were soon to invade and Fr. Adrian and those who were close to him fled to Germany where he was made Rector of the Resurrection Cathedral in Berlin. Here they faced constant bombings but nonetheless the Divine services were held every day in the cathedral. From here the small group was evacuated to the south of Germany in Würtemberg. Here, as in Berlin, a small group of people would gather, under Fr. Adrian's guidance and a church was built and they immediately began to perform the Divine services, in each place building the Orthodox way of life which was surrounded by the confusion of a foreign land. About these communities that would grow up in Kiev, in Berlin and now in Würtemberg Fr. Adrian says,
"Many at first looked on us as naïve people who did not live in accordance with the times. But we lived, we lived in God. Little by little attitudes towards us changed. Pilgrimages began. People who had come to the depths of despair acquired amongst us peace of soul and a quiet joy, and went away enlightened and in peace."
The next move was now to be to America. In 1949, Fr Adrian came with a small group of Russia immigrants and settled one hour north of New York City in Nyack in Rockland County. In the Fall of the same year, Archbishop Vitaly of Jordanville and Archbishop Nikon asked that Fr. Adrian establish a women's monastery to gather together nuns that had been scattered throughout the Diaspora and to establish the Orthodox way of life in this remote area. Fr. Adrian says that not only nuns but a significant number of the thousand displaced persons from Europe, came to settle around the monastery and became a large Orthodox family. Regarding this new settlement, Fr Adrian said,
"It is not yet enough to establish a monastic life; one must preserve it. For there is always the danger that life can be converted into a hothouse, a greenhouse, where it will be supported by artificial warmth, and as soon as the source of warmth ceases to operate, life will perish.
Therefore there must be a constant source of life. Just as the earth and its vital juices constantly nourish vegetation, so our life also must be ceaselessly nourished by that elemental power which the Church of Christ gives, which is incarnated in the Orthodox way of life, in the Divine services, in fasting, in prayer, in vigils, in all that which embodies our Holy Russia. This is the elemental power which places in the mouth of the man who is leaving his earthly existence the last words, 'Into Thy hands I commend my spirit', and gives him the possibility to depart into eternal existence with the name of Christ."
In 1968, Matushka Eugenia reposed in the Lord and in feburary 1968 fr Adrian was tontured monk and consencrased a bishop. As a bishop, Vladyka Andrew continued to live in Novo-Diveevo. He was the spiritual father of Metropolitan Philaret, and counseled many other members of the Church, both Russian and English-speaking.
In 1973, in day of his birth he was elevated to the dignity of Archbishop.
The last day in the life of Vladyka Andrew was the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The weather was hot. He received Communion reverently, as he did on all Sundays and feastdays. He was very weak, and lay down surrounded by the people most devoted to him, waiting for the long-awaited hour.


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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Lemon Shortbread Heart Cookies
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I promise not to overdo it, but I'd be forced to surrender my blogger badge if I failed to pay homage to Valentine's Day with at least a recipe or two. I love shortbread cookies and was delighted to find one that is shatteringly crisp and lemon scented. These are adult cookies that are perfect for a holiday tea. The cookies can, of course, be frosted, but a thin sprinkling of sugar works just as well. If you think the hearts are too hokey, a plain cookie cutter can be used. These cookies are very easy to make, but they can be tricky to roll and cut. Be sure to follow the directions in the recipe and keep the dough chilled. I carry it a bit further and actually cut the cookies on the pans used to bake them. I've found they better keep their shape if they are not moved once cut. I must also admit that I use really good butter to make these and other shortbread cookies. It's worth the cost to use the best product when there are so few ingredients in a recipe. Those of you who love lemon sweets and treats will really be pleased with these cookies and I promise to have something for those on the chocolate side of the fence before Cupid rears his curly head. Here's the recipe for the first of the Valentine's Day treats.
Lemon Shortbread Heart Cookies...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Bon Appetit Magazine
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 teaspoons (packed) finely grated lemon peel
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour
Generous pinch of coarse kosher salt
2 teaspoons (about) sugar
Additional powdered sugar (optional)
1) Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Using electric mixer, beat butter and 1/4 cup powdered sugar in medium bowl until smooth. Beat in lemon peel and vanilla. Add flour and coarse salt and beat just until blended. Transfer dough to large piece of plastic wrap and press into disk. Cover dough with another piece of plastic wrap and roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Place wrapped dough on another baking sheet and chill until firm, 20 to 30 minutes.
2) Position 1 rack in top third and 1 rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Transfer wrapped dough to work surface; remove top sheet of plastic. Using a 2 to 2-1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter dipped in flour, cut out cookies and place on 1 parchment-lined baking sheet, spacing 1 to 1-1/2 inches apart. Reroll dough scraps to 1/4-inch thickness and cut out additional cookies; place on second parchment-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle top of cookies lightly with sugar (about 2 teaspoons). Chill 10 minutes.
3) Bake cookies until light brown on bottom and just barely golden around edges, about 15 minutes. Transfer cookies to rack and cool completely. Sift powdered sugar lightly over top of cookies, if desired. These can be made 3 days ahead. Store in single layer in airtight container at room temperature. Yield: 12 to 16 cookies.
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35 comments :
- Audra @ Once a Mom Always a Cook said...
My daughter would love these! She is obsessed with anything that has lemon. These sound very refreshing :)
Thank you for sharing! - February 11, 2012 at 1:19 AM
- Alessandra said...
I like the idea of lemon shortbread, the lemon zest is perfect with butter :-).
Alessandra - February 11, 2012 at 2:11 AM
- Unknown said...
I'm still trying to decide what to make for Valentine's day. I might give these a go, they look really nice.
- February 11, 2012 at 2:44 AM
- James B said...
These sound delightful, and I think the idea of them having lemon added is great.
- February 11, 2012 at 2:50 AM
- Nisha said...
bookmarked , very beautiful cookies
- February 11, 2012 at 4:23 AM
- What's Baking?? said...
First of all, I love shortbread. The tangy lemony flavor in the shortbread is just out of this world. Happy Valentines Day, Mary.
- February 11, 2012 at 4:40 AM
- Lynn said...
I know I would love these cookies:@)
- February 11, 2012 at 5:23 AM
- Regina said...
Yummy. Miss coming here!
Happy weekend Mary. - February 11, 2012 at 5:36 AM
- Whats Cookin Italian Style Cuisine said...
HAve a great amd loving Valentines this are perfect Dear Mary!
- February 11, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Carol at Serendipity said...
These look wonderful and would be perfect with a cup of tea. I am saving this for a later date!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Carol - February 11, 2012 at 6:51 AM
- Sue/the view from great island said...
These are such a nice change from all the chocolate that is swirling around the Internet right now, and the heart shape is just the perfect subtle Valentine's touch.
- February 11, 2012 at 7:34 AM
- Martha said...
crisp butter cookie thats lemon scented? count me in!!
- February 11, 2012 at 7:54 AM
- Diane said...
I love both shortbread and lemon so this sounds like a great combination to me. Yum yum. Diane
- February 11, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- Tanna said...
Lemon and butter: a marriage made in heaven! blessings ~ tanna
- February 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM
- grubarazzi said...
These are gorgy!
- February 11, 2012 at 8:20 AM
- Ricette&Vignette said...
My favourite cookies, we call them frollini, they melt in your mouth and soo delicious! yours are fantastic!
- February 11, 2012 at 8:25 AM
- Velva said...
Beautiful! You have honored your food blog badge. A wonderful heart-shaped shortbread style cookie cannot be beat-Awesome.
Velva - February 11, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Guvi said...
I love lemons and I love shortbread, so this is a win-win combination! Happy Valentine's Day, Mary! Thank you!
- February 11, 2012 at 9:15 AM
- Judy@SavoringToday said...
Lover of everything lemon, these cookies appeal to me immensely! I have to be careful though, I eat too many.
- February 11, 2012 at 9:34 AM
- tender b. said...
I echo the above commenter. Give me lemon and I'll give it a thumbs up.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:18 AM
- Buttercup said...
These make their way to my heart. I love all things lemon.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- Retrogirl said...
hmmm. wondering if I can substitute a gluten free flour with similar results....beautiful cookies {I <3 hearts!!}
- February 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM
- Valérie said...
They are adorable! I agree that it's worth getting good ingredients when you know they'll stand out in the finished product. Have a good weekend!
- February 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM
- Baking Addict said...
How cute! They look really soft and buttery and delicious.
- February 11, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- David said...
Mary, My wife and I both love shortbread cookies. Thanks for the sweet and tasty recipe! Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
- February 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM
- Margaret Murphy Tripp said...
Oh, I just love these. I don't usually like frosted cookies and lemon flavored shortbread sounds heavenly! I may have to dig out my heart cookie cutter for these.
- February 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM
- Cindy@NorthofWiarton said...
My "Crabby Cabbie" would smoke these, Mary, as he loves pretty much anything with lemon in it. I am looking forward to your chocolate creation. Wonderful day to you & yours, Mary.
Cindy - February 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM
such beautiful cookies - and SO nice to have Lemon flavor rather than chocolate for a valentines for a change!
mary x - February 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM
- Claudia said...
You know - I'm more attracted to these than all the chocolate ones out there - and I love chocolate! I think it's the lemon - the brightness that makes me say - I need this in the middle of February.
- February 11, 2012 at 8:15 PM
- SKIP TO MALOU said...
I haven't thought about any Valentine post yet and upon reading your first two lines, it made me realized Valentine's day is in a few days... what better way to pay homage to the D day with heart cookies.
have a great weekend,
malou - February 11, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Joanne said...
These lemony cookies are so refreshing given all the chocolate that's out there lately!
- February 11, 2012 at 9:09 PM
- Dawn @ Words Of Deliciousness said...
These are the perfect cookie for Valentine's day!
- February 11, 2012 at 11:16 PM
- Jeannie said...
I love citrus flavored food so this would be right up my alley!
Such beautiful creation... - February 12, 2012 at 12:37 AM
- Teena said...
So pretty!! If you are willing to, you can share this recipe with my ongoing-''Valentine's Day Event''(till Feb 20th)
- February 12, 2012 at 2:15 AM
- Beverly said...
I love shortbread. I think I will plan to bake these with my sweet grandson. He is loving learning to cook and bake.
- February 15, 2012 at 11:41 AM


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RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP)—Hospitals have fretted for years over how to make sure doctors, nurses and staff keep their hands clean, but with only limited success. Now, some are turning to technology—beepers, buzzers, lights and tracking systems that remind workers to sanitize, and chart those who don't.
Health experts say poor hand cleanliness is a factor in hospital-borne infections that kill tens of thousands of Americans each year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta estimates that one of every 20 patients in U.S. hospitals gets a hospital-acquired infection each year.
"We've known for over 150 years that good hand hygiene prevents patients from getting infections," said Dr. John Jernigan, an epidemiologist for the CDC. "However, it's been a very chronic and difficult problem to get adherence levels up as high as we'd like them to be."
Hospitals have tried varying ways to promote better hygiene. Signs are posted in restrooms. Some even employ monitors who keep tabs and single out offenders.
Still, experts believe hospital workers wash up, at best, about 50% of the time. One St. Louis-area hospital believes it can approach 100% adherence.
Since last year, SSM St. Mary's Health Center in the St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights, Mo., has been the test site for a system developed by Biovigil Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mich. A flashing light on a badge turns green when hands are clean, red if they're not. It also tracks each hand-cleaning opportunity—the successes and the failures.
The failures have been few at the two units of St. Mary's where the system is being tested, the hospital said. One unit had 97 percent hand hygiene success, said Dr. Morey Gardner, the hospital's director of infection disease and prevention. The other had 99% success.
"The holy grail of infection prevention is in our grasp," Gardner said.
The Biovigil system is among many being tried at hospitals. A method developed by Arrowsight, based in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., uses video monitoring. It is being used in intensive care units at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.
Akron, Ohio-based GOJO Industries, maker of Purell hand sanitizer, has developed an electronic compliance monitoring system using wireless technology to track when soap and hand sanitizer dispensers are used. The SmartLink system gives the hospital data on high- and low-compliance areas. The company said it has installed the system at several hospitals around the country, but didn't say how many.
HyGreen Inc.'s Hand Hygiene Reminder System was developed by two University of Florida doctors. The Gainesville, Fla., company now features two systems used in seven hospitals, including Veterans Administration hospitals in Chicago, Wilmington, Del., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
One is similar to Biovigil's green badge method. In HyGreen's, a wall-mounted hand wash sensor detects alcohol on the hands. The badge includes an active reminding system. Unclean hands create a warning buzz. If the buzz sounds three times, the worker is noted for noncompliance.
HyGreen spokeswoman Elena Fraser said that because some hospitals are moving away from alcohol-based sanitizers, HyGreen offers a second system. A touch of the sanitizer dispenser clears the worker to interact with a patient. If the worker shows up at the patient bed without hand-cleaning, the series of warning buzzes begins.
Fraser said hospital infections have dropped 66% at units of Miami Children's Hospital where the badge system has been implemented.
Nurses using the Biovigil system at St. Mary's near St. Louis wear a badge with changeable colored lights. A doorway sensor identifies when the nurse enters a patient's room, and the badge color changes to yellow.
The nurse washes his or her hands and places them close to the badge. A sensor in the badge detects chemical vapors from the alcohol-based solution. If hands are clean, the badge illuminates a bright green hand symbol.
If the nurse fails to sanitize, the badge stays yellow and chirps every 10 seconds for 40 seconds, then flashes red. Once the flashing red starts, the nurse has another 30 seconds to wash up, otherwise the badge turns solid red, denoting non-compliance. Either way, each instance is tracked by a computer. The hospital can track each individual's compliance.
Registered Nurse Theresa Gratton has helped lead the effort toward hand cleanliness at St. Mary's. She heard about the Biovigil system in early 2012 and convinced the hospital to give it a try.
Gratton said patients are aware of the risk of infection and frequently inquire about whether caregivers have washed their hands. She said the badge relieves their anxiety.
Bill Rogers, a 65-year-old retiree recuperating at St. Mary's from back surgery and a heart scare, agreed.
"The first thing I noticed up here was the badges," Rogers said. "It is comforting for me to know their hands are clean as soon as the badge beeps and it goes from yellow to green."
St. Mary's is expanding the Biovigil system later this year to other units of the hospital and to employees other than nurses, though details are still being worked out, Gardner said. Eventually, the system may be expanded to SSM's seven other St. Louis-area hospitals, he said.
Biovigil's chief client officer, Brent Nibarger, said customers won't buy the system but will pay a subscription fee of about $12 a month per badge.
The CDC's Jernigan said the high-tech systems can only help.
"For a healthcare worker, keeping their hands clean is the single most important thing they can do to protect their patients," Jernigan said.
Source: The Associated Press


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- In this study the first principal component of variation is along an east-west axis, rather than north-south as in previous studies. This is due to the limited number of southern European populations, and the great number of populations along an east-west axis from Spain to Russia. As I have mentioned before, the results of a principal components analysis are dataset-dependent.
- The nice technique of this paper is to infer the ancestry of an unknown sample (which could be perhaps a forensic case or customer of an ancestry analysis test) using only summary statistics. Imagine that you have 1,000 individuals from different populations, and want to guess the ancestry of an unknown test case. You could go about doing a full STRUCTURE run using the 1,001 individuals, or you could exploit the information garnered from an analysis of the 1,000 individuals (a PCA analysis in this case) to test the 1,001th individual. This is much faster and convenient, since the full STRUCTURE run is very time consuming.
Some ethnic groups are clearly distinguishable from each other (e.g. Swedes vs. Spaniards); some groups are partitioned into fairly disjoint sets (Spain I vs. Catalans in Spain II); others mutually overlap (e.g., British and Irish); while others overlap asymetrically (e.g., some former Yugoslavs in the Greek cluster, but not vice versa).In this paper, the authors did a systematic study of the "ethnic distinctiveness" of their samples. In a first experiment, they used 80% of their data to identify the features of the various populations (e.g., Germans or Spaniards), and then tried to guess the origin of the remaining 20%:
It is clear that some nations appear to be distinct. For example, most test Spaniards (94.5%) are correctly guessed as Spaniards, with some (5.5%) guessed as French. Of course, this distinctiveness would be reduced if further populations (e.g. the Portuguese) were added to the analysis. More strongly, 99.1% of Norwegians are guessed correctly as Norwegians.
Other nations appear to be less distinct. For example, only 45.3% of Slovaks are guessed as Slovaks with most of the remaining ones guessed as Czechs (25%) or Hungarians (22%).
In some cases there is asymmetry of affiliation. For example, no Belgians are guessed as Germans but 10.2% of Germans are guessed as Belgians. Similarly 9.9% of Swedes are guessed as Norwegians, but only 1% of Norwegians are guessed as Swedes. While each case needs to be addressed individually, this observation is consistent with historical asymmetry in immigration patterns or ethnic identity formation. So, while e.g., the bulk of Germans (64.4%) are guessed correctly, sizeable minorities are guessed as Czechs, Belgians, or Scandinavians.
I would speculate that large central European countries have historically (both due to prestige or geographical position) absorbed more diverse populations from neighboring nations, while smaller peripheral countries have mostly acted as sources of population, reserving their own genetic distinctiveness.
In a second experiment the authors guessed the origin of individuals, but excluding the country from which they actually originated.
Once again, it is clear that members of particular nations can mostly be mistaken for members of their closest neighbors. Almost all Spaniards are guessed as French; French mostly as Belgians but with sizable Spanish and UK minorities; UK as Belgians but with sizable French minorities; Norwegians mostly as Swedes but with some UK; Swedes mainly as Germans but many as Norwegians; most Poles as Russians, but some Slovaks or Czechs, and so on.
The importance of these results can't be underestimated. While it can be argued that some ethnic groups are spuriously distinctive only due to insufficient sampling of the geographical continuum, it is more difficult to do this for others. For example, it is now possible to identify particular ethnic groups, e.g., Norwegians, with great accuracy from DNA.
More markers and more populations will doubtlessly enhance our ability to distinguish European nations using DNA. But perfect accuracy is unlikely; in most European nations there are probably minorities which -for historical reasons- allied themselves with one country or political entity even though they were ultimately of different genetic background than the majority population of that entity.
Nonetheless, at a time when -due to a sort of mental hysteresis- proclamations that "races are social constructs" are still routinely made, the discovery that not only races, but even closely related ethnic groups (e.g. Norwegians and Swedes) can be distinguished with greater than 90% accuracy, serves to illustrate the scientific irrelevance of the ethnic nihilists and the affirmation that nations are, at least in part, genetic entities.
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An investigation into fine-scale European population structure was carried out using high-density genetic variation on nearly 6000 individuals originating from across Europe. The individuals were collected as control samples and were genotyped with more than 300 000 SNPs in genome-wide association studies using the Illumina Infinium platform. A major East–West gradient from Russian (Moscow) samples to Spanish samples was identified as the first principal component (PC) of the genetic diversity. The second PC identified a North–South gradient from Norway and Sweden to Romania and Spain. Variation of frequencies at markers in three separate genomic regions, surrounding LCT, HLA and HERC2, were strongly associated with this gradient. The next 18 PCs also accounted for a significant proportion of genetic diversity observed in the sample. We present a method to predict the ethnic origin of samples by comparing the sample genotypes with those from a reference set of samples of known origin. These predictions can be performed using just summary information on the known samples, and individual genotype data are not required. We discuss issues raised by these data and analyses for association studies including the matching of case-only cohorts to appropriate pre-collected control samples for genome-wide association studies.


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We'll begin this program with the aftermath of Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin. Public sector unions took on Republican Governor Scott Walker, and the governor won. Walker became the first U.S. governor to beat back a recall attempt. The unions had spent a lot time, money and political capital in Wisconsin.
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SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE: In Wisconsin, Republican Governor Scott Walker was on the ballot. So was Democrat Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee. The AFL-CIO wasn't on the ballot. But the day after the election, union leaders sounded just the way candidates do after a loss.
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GLINTON: Trumka wanted to remind everyone that this was an uphill battle, that many Wisconsin voters were opposed to recalling a sitting governor over a policy disagreement. He says he's preparing for more attacks on collective bargaining in other states.
GLINTON: It was, though, a bitter loss for the unions. They spent millions and went all-out to mobilize a heavy turnout. Walker's victory likely means his push to curb public sector unions' collective bargaining rights will stand, a change which Walker says was necessary to protect to the financial health of the state and local governments.
Lee Adler teaches at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
LEE ADLER: I think it means that for now, the Republican message about public sector unions - that they need to be roped in - holds sway.
GLINTON: David Stebenne, a labor historian at the Ohio State University, agrees. He says the most important outcome of the Wisconsin fight has been to change the conversation about public sector unions.
DAVID STEBENNE: We're arguably in a similar position to where we were with private sector workers in America that were unionized in the late '50s or early '60s, which is that we're beginning a period of retrenchment in public sector unionism as a way of reducing the costs of public employees, and that cost has become burdensome on a lot of state and local governments. The interesting question is: How far does this go?
GLINTON: Stebenne says private sector union membership steadily declined over the past few decades, partly due to changes in attitude and legislation, such as right-to-work laws. He says the current weak economic recovery is producing a wedge.
STEBENNE: In an economy where there are relatively few secure jobs and where benefits have eroded - especially health care, pensions - a lot of public employees now seem excessively compensated to ordinary Americans, and that has eroded the attractiveness of unions in the public sector.
GLINTON: But it's not clear that what happened in Wisconsin is a fatal blow to public sector unions. Steve Malanga is with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. He says Wisconsin is a special case, and he doesn't see this as a movement that will catch fire all across the country.
STEVE MALANGA: What's far more likely to happen, in my opinion, is that you might see one or two other states roll back, on a limited basis, some collective bargaining rights. What's more likely is you will see the benefits - and particularly retirement and pensions - being modified to make them more affordable, without, essentially, the whole edifice changing.
GLINTON: Everyone seems to agree that this fight will play out for some time. The next battle: the November presidential election.
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The Harlem Shake, now two weeks into its life as America's favorite (or most annoying) meme, has shown a surprising resilience in an age when most Internet jokes have a 24-hour shelf life. More than 4,000 videos featuring the words "Harlem Shake" were being posted per day to YouTube during the peak of the mania last week, and new versions continue to crop up. The primary element holding the videos together, which feature everything from dancing walruses to Power Rangers, is the song "Harlem Shake," a hip-hop instrumental that sports a now-infamous beat drop about 15 seconds in. While the videos are simple fun for the thousands of people that have participated in Harlem Shakes, they've become an easy moneymaker for the song's creator, Baauer, and YouTube itself.
Just a few years ago, copyright lawyers likely would have shut down the Harlem Shake craze before it could really get going—you might remember Viacom's 2007 lawsuit against Google for allowing copyright-violating videos to spread across YouTube. Now, though, most content creators are working with YouTube to identify copyright-violating material and monetize it instead of delete it.
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In some ways, the song "Harlem Shake" was distributed with virality in mind. When it debuted last May, Baauer offered it for free for the first month, a common tactic by his label to generate awareness of new music. Now people are excited to pay for it, as it's topping the iTunes charts and recently debuted at No. 3 in the UK singles charts.
Not everybody gets to make a Harlem Shake video with no pushback from the content owners, though. When rapper Azealia Banks rapped over the entirety of "Harlem Shake" and posted it on SoundCloud, Baauer's handlers had it removed, prompting a public spat between the two. "I can kind of see both sides of it," Joppers says of the Banks-Baauer beef. "But it is a different situation when an artist takes an existing work and writes a new work with it without giving credit or anything else."
Mostly, though, people have been given the go-ahead to do what they will with "Harlem Shake." The on-the-fly licensing of the song to manic dancers everywhere exemplifies a potential new revenue stream for musicians that embrace the virality of the Internet.
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TOKYO – If Chinese warships escalate from locking-on radars to actually pulling the trigger in the East China Sea, they'll have lots to shoot at – and it won't be just the Japanese.
With little fanfare, U.S. commanders have been pouring in thousands of new troops, deploying powerful new war machines and ramping up training with allies from across the region.
Most of this is due to the "rebalancing" of U.S. forces announced more than a year ago. But the buildup seems to be hitting full-stride just as the standoff between Japan and China reaches a dangerous new low.
Japanese authorities bitterly protested this week after they said a Chinese warship locked its weapons-guidance radar on a Japanese destroyer in late January. The incident occurred in international waters near a group of disputed islands. That followed the targeting of a Japanese naval helicopter in the same region two weeks earlier.
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"If this is directed from Beijing, then it does signal a deliberate escalation, which is worrisome," says Jeffrey Hornung, associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Honolulu. "But if this is some Chinese seaman acting alone, that is worrisome, too, because it signals a serious breakdown in command. It leaves us wondering, 'What will that person do next?'"
In truth, it would be hard to blame the Chinese if they were getting nervous.
The U.S. Marines have sent two additional infantry battalions – nearly 2,000 troops – to Okinawa in just the last six weeks. Another battalion is tentatively scheduled to arrive this summer. Altogether, more than 17,000 Marines are now based on Okinawa, the most in more than a decade.
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The Navy is joining the party, too, sending a newly upgraded guided-missile cruiser to replace a less-capable ship with the U.S. 7th Fleet, based near Tokyo. The USS Antietam formally took over from the USS Cowpens this week in what is called a "hull swap." The Antietam gives the Navy, which operates hand-in-glove with the JMSDF, a more sophisticated air defense capability, particularly against ballistic missiles.
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Meanwhile, at least three major joint exercises are underway in the neighborhood. Aircraft from the United States, Japan and Australia are training to operate together in wartime missions and humanitarian or disaster relief operations in the "Cope North" drills in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The exercise includes fighter planes, bombers, aerial tankers, transports and cargo planes. Aussies are taking part for the first time, and an observer team from South Korea – a U.S. ally that is embroiled in a unrelated islands dispute with Japan – agreed to send an observer team, also for the first time.
On Monday, several hundred Okinawa-based Marines based will start training on Guam for rapid-response missions throughout the region.
And farther west, more than 13,000 troops from the United States, Japan and five other countries will take part in the annual "Cobra Gold" exercises in Thailand, which also start Monday. It will include command post exercises, amphibious assault and jungle warfare training, small boat and helicopter raids, and non-combatant evacuation drills. South Korea will be a full participant for the first time.
Though long-planned, all three exercises are taking on added significance because of China's growing military power and assertive territorial demands.
The confrontation over the Senkaku Islands, which China claims and calls the Diaoyu, initially was limited to Japan Coast Guard vessels and China's quasi-government maritime surveillance craft. Japan began scrambling F-15 fighters in mid-December in response to incursions from Chinese maritime surveillance planes, but warships from both the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and JMSDF so far have steered clear of the islands.
In the January 30 incident, according to the Japanese, a PLAN frigate turned its targeting radar on the JS Yudachi, a multi-purpose destroyer armed with missiles, torpedoes and rapid-firing guns. Though Japan's Constitution nominally renounces war, Japan has one of the world's most capable navies — built largely around destroyers like the Yudachi.
The two ships were about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of the Senkakus and were separated by less than two miles when the Chinese ship reportedly turned on its targeting radar. That generally sets off alarm signals on a targeted ship or aircraft, and can be used as an intimidation tactic. No shots were fired and the two ships separated with no further harm.
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If there's a more well known and unique-in-name local bicycle shop killer than your wife who says you can't buy any more cycling stuff this month with the savings, its got to be Nashbar.
Some also call it Trashbar.
In 1974, Arni Nashbar, a New Middletown Ohio advertising man, started a bicycle parts mail order company out of his home with $1,000. He did this possibly believing that a small company can make more money on items sold through a catalog than through retail. Since this was way back, we don't exactly know how it happened. Some people believe he bought out the business from an initial holding called Bike Warehouse, giving it his name - Nashbar LLP.
Whatever the story, ten years later, the company was grossing six million plus.
Arni's mail order business was thriving so much that in the late 80's, his bicycle mail order house had branched out, opening five stores - two in Ohio and one each near Detroit, Boston and Washington. The shops offered service, repair and discount services. Today, there appears to be one even in West Virginia.
Sometime in that age, they also began a used bikes advertising tabloid called Cycle Seller, repositioned brands,broke into the overseas markets and pretty soon called on programmers to open an e-commerce venture of the business, which is now famously your www.nashbar.com/.
Ran out of tires,tubes? Nashbar. Need cheap water bottles? Nashbar. How about a cheap bicycle, or tools, or lubes or whatever secrets you may need under your cycling tights to cope with 8 hours on the saddle?
Yes, Nashbar.
Any bicycling accessory your poor brain can think of will be available at Nashbar.
In the late 90's, the company invested in the U.S Postal Cycling Team as a sponsor, which inturn ended up giving Postal a 1.1 million dollars in business.
Nashbar expanded its offerings and distributed catalogues overseas. Private and even branded items easily sold here for 40% or more than what one could find through independant retailers. Nashbar buyers are often the serious bicyclists - racers, touring, and MTBers who could easily spend an average of 50-70 dollars per order.
Several times I myself have had a hard time believing the discounts in Nashbar prices. There is a blowout sale every day, every week, every month, one for Christmas, New Year and maybe even for Easter and Thanksgiving. The fashion in which they present this event to us make it seem as if its THE one grandiose event on your calender.
Its funny, but as if occasions aren't enough, their latest addition is a massive LEAP YEAR blowout, prices which are 30-90% off!! It seems to me as if the only number they haven't touched upon is "FREEE"!!!!
I'm sure you have asked yourself more than a dozen times : How in the world they could possibly do this - selling so cheap?!
It beats me. If you readers can help out, that'd be amazing.
Some things I can think of are :
They buy in bulk.
They nab manufacturers' closeouts, OEM's or slow-selling models of better brands and stamp their own brand names on imports.
To get around the exclusive dealer agreements of makers of more expensive bikes, the company deals directly with manufacturers in Taiwan and Japan - the same plants making many exclusive bikes - to produce its own line. ''We have a buying advantage from sheer volume,'' said John Rossi, Nashbar's director of retail development. ''As a result, we sell for what dealers buy for.'' He added: ''We have to overcome an initial objection to the name, but we point out to customers that the bikes have the features they are looking for.'' Since they opened, the outlets have increased sales volume by 20 percent. [Source]
They also have sweet return policy. You give back things you that didn't fit you, or you didn't want, and that later sells again for a much lower margin to someone else!
Nashbar is favorable to many because of their fast shipping and handling. I'm not sure how they do this, but I keep wondering whether they actually have stock that they ship or whether they have manufacturers ship directly to the customer.
Okay, anyway - back to the Nashbar story. After the Nashbar website was well established, Arni started lending programming and development expertise to other mail order houses, some of them being quite big. They became his customers.
Soon, Arni retired and let his son open Spike Nashbar, trying to get into the baseball and volleyball market. His son took his own decisions at a young age, and almost came to a brilliant decision to shut down the software end of the business, something that a lot of their customers were upset about.
His daughter, Molly Nashbar became a TV star, sort of like Cycling's gift to the world run by the likes of Paris Hilton. A reality show on Women's Entertainment (WE) showed how she moved out to L.A without telling her folks and poured money into parties and botox treatments at her will.
So finally we now have Nashbar, having multiple locations in the United States and a thriving website. People identify them easily with CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP. Another favorable fact that if the store isn't in your state or city, you don't have to pay a sales tax, something thats often on the bill in your local store, isn't it?
Interestingly, Quantcast statistics says Nashbar's website reaches 154,000 unique people/customers every month. The website appeals to a primarily male, somewhat wealthy, more educated audience. Most visitors are from the 60-100 K income bracket and most are also Caucasian or folks from overseas. The typical visitor reads VeloNews, visits campmor.com, and buys from pcmag.com.
That clearly isn't me, but I do read Velonews from time to time and I'm over educated.
Fast forward...a lot of things happened between then and now. Some believe Nashbar, Supergo and Performance are all operated by the same holding company. Others have it thinking that the holding company is Performance Inc itself. This stuff is difficult to do journalism on so I'll leave that in the air and have readers help me out here.
If one of you happen to be an independent bike shop owner or work in one, comment on how your shops are coping in such a competitive retail industry.


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