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Kristen Arnett on Taxidermy, Memory, and "Mostly Dead Things"
"What's considered high art? What's lowbrow? What are those things? That's something that, as a person who like, lives at 7-Eleven, I'm extremely interested in."
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Tobias Carroll | Longreads | June 2019 | 18 minutes (4,707 words)
The writings of Kristen Arnett are a beatific study in contrasts. In her fiction — namely, the 2017 collection Felt in the Jaw and her new novel Mostly Dead Things — she grapples with unruly bodies, complex emotions, and relationships both familial and romantic that have gone awry. Arnett is among a cadre of contemporary authors, such as Karen Russell and Eleanor Kriseman, who remind readers of what a stunning backdrop Florida can provide for works of fiction. And she is quite possible the only writer to ever hold a book release event in a 7-Eleven.
Jessa-Lynn Morton, the protagonist of Mostly Dead Things, has not had an easy life when the novel opens. She's dealing with the aftermath of her father's suicide, and is endeavoring to keep the family taxidermy business in operation while also contending with her mother's artistic ambitions and a burgeoning relationship with Lucinda, a gallerist whose perspective on taxidermy is very different from Jessa's more quotidian understanding of it.
Arnett's fiction perfectly captures unruly family dynamics, the way that the same person can take on very different roles in the eyes of those closest to them, and the subtle ways in which class and economics can reshape a community over time. I spoke with Arnett about her fiction, the role of Florida in her work, and the messy line between fine art and the lowbrow.
Tobias Carroll: You published an essay in Hazlitt at the end of last year talking about taxidermy, and obviously taxidermy plays a huge role in this book. So where did your interest in taxidermy initially come from?
Kristen Arnett: I think a big part of it is that in the South, there's a lot of taxidermy everywhere already. In Florida specifically, I grew up around taxidermy. I knew people that did it. It was in all the houses I went to. In my house, we had taxidermy. My friends' houses I went to, taxidermy was there. If you go to a Bass Pro Shop — in the South they're just friggin' everywhere — there are whole rooms dedicated to taxidermy. So it was something where I feel like it was already very embedded in my life, or in Florida culture, and it was one of those things that's just around, that my eyes passed over, so I didn't really think about it all that much, just with the understanding that it was part of my Florida experience.
I was thinking about the short story I was trying to write, and I wanted there to be this tactile physical activity between the characters. I was thinking to myself about the physical body and how we come into contact with it, and what it means to open a body and things like that. I started thinking a little bit about taxidermy, and the more I thought about taxidermy, the more I thought, this is a thing that's just surrounded me all the time. I've been around taxidermy my whole life, I just never even thought about it because it's so embedded.
In the process of trying to write this short story, I realized, this is much larger than this short story I'm putting together. I immersed myself because I am a research person, you know, as a librarian. So I started really going hardcore into it, looking at books and looking at online tutorials, and finding web forums, and chat rooms. There's all kinds of conferences you can go to. There's a million YouTube videos you can watch about actually seeing animal taxidermy done.
Do you feel that there is a connection between the meticulousness of taxidermy and having that similar attention to detail and structure that comes from being a librarian?
I'm always very fascinated by any kind of activity or thing, which is many things that have structure and a set of rules, like defined parameters. Even writing feels like that sometimes to me. Writing's a monster, it goes where it wants. But as a librarian, certainly, a lot of the time I'm working within these restrictions about how I search, how I look for things, the process, the procedure — the best practices, if you will, of looking at trying to find answers and research for people. When you're looking at taxidermy, there's definitely that same kind of rule-following.
There are best practices for taxidermy and how you open something. The very rigid order of operations that's involved with taxidermy felt very homey to me for a lot of reasons, because I am a person that's very interested the physicality of things. But I'm also a person that's also very interested in what are the best practices to put forth to have the best end product, the best result. You can think about them a lot like that, because they're both things that require a lot of specific rules and following the rules, but then there's also the broader questions in them, right? So librarianship is like following these rules, but then it's also, "How do I expand on this? How do I open it up to figure out the question behind it?"
I think taxidermy is a lot of, okay, here's where to start from, but then how do I work with this thing to make it my own? To work with this thing to make it into its own shape that it's supposed to be?
How we choose to remember people in our lives, or how we choose to remember our interactions with them, is not necessarily based in factual behavior. It's more about how we want them to be preserved in our mind.
And I feel like to some extent, that's the central conflict between the narrator and her mother within the novel, too. Were you consciously evoking the question of rules to be followed, or not, within that conflict?
I was, because I do think that that's also like a personality kind of thing. Like, maybe the different ways that we're raised, for sure, but then also how we see our parents sometimes or what our minds allow them to be, or the space we allow them to have. I was interested in exploring how Jessa's relationship with her father gets to just be this one thing because you know, he dies, and there isn't anything that she immediately has to confront with that. She just keeps preserving him as this specific type of memory.
But with her mother, there's the idea that she's this thing outside of a mother, she's not following the rules that have been set for how you should behave, and you're not following the idea I have of how you should be. And that's upsetting to a person who can only live in a way that's extremely structured, because if it goes outside of the structure it feels like chaos, or it feels uncontrollable. And somebody with control issues would have huge problems with that.
Yeah. I mean, it also seems notable that — or it seemed notable at least to me — that like two of the major characters in the book, Jessa's father and Brynn, are both basically defined by their absence rather than their presence.
Well, I was thinking a lot about the idea of intimacy and the idea of love, and how much of the time that can function as [a way] in which our memory functions. Like how we choose to remember people in our lives, or how we choose to remember our interactions with them, is not necessarily based in factual behavior. It's more about how we want them to be preserved in our mind.
And I think because of the two biggest defining forces in Jessa's life, it made sense to me that a person who would have control issues would think, I get to define my relationship with these people by that lack, right? They're not here, I get to be the one to say how those relationships shaped me and what they get to mean. Whereas a lot of time you can say, but that's not actually how intimacy or memory truly function. We can try and have control over those things, but actually having control of another person or what their life meant in conjunction with yours is not actually feasible.
It also seems like the way you've set up Lucinda's situation in the book, where she's sharing space with someone who she seems to have emotionally moved past, seems to be in pretty sharp contract to that, too.
I was also thinking a lot about preservation of things that we want to maintain, or these ideas about how we see ourselves; [and how] when it goes outside of that, it's disorienting.
I always had a note next to me while I was working that said to make the present as interesting as the past. I didn't mean that in terms of writing, I meant that literally in terms of how we think about things. When we're in the middle of something, it seems so much less significant than the things that have already happened, than the memory of something, because we get to be the ones to shape memories. It made me think about what that means in conjunction with current relationships, like the day-to-day aspect of the present moving forward.
What does that mean for Jessa having a relationship with this new person? How is she able to put that in perspective? Is she even able to put it in perspective if she's constantly just rolling around in the comfortable feeling of nostalgia?
It's so much more comfortable to think about those things that were or could have been, or the memory of them, versus the actual hard, active labor of the day-to-day work with a person that you want to pursue something with. Those things are definitely very interesting to me, so I was constantly thinking about what it means to favor the past over the present, or what it looks like.
In terms of having the sections set in the past not necessarily be in linear order, did you know you were going to do that from the outset, or did that take some time as you were revising the book?
That was the one thing I knew I wanted to do. Aside from knowing what the title was, because I'm a person that titles first, and knowing I wanted to write about this family and taxidermy and Florida, the only thing I knew I wanted to do was for it to be this structure that every other alternating chapter would be the past, and I knew that I wanted the past to be jumping around in time.
I didn't want those to feel like they were in any order. I didn't want them to feel linear in any way because — what does it mean to encounter the past? Encountering the past usually means seeing an object and having that memory just swim up on you.
I also love the idea of, since all that Jessa interacts with or feels comfortable with are these taxidermy pieces, the idea that they would be thematically linked to moments in her life where she was working with the kind of animal, but how they linked up with the people that she was remembering these memories of. So that was the one thing I knew I wanted to do.
I didn't have any other idea other than writing forward into these people's lives, that I knew I wanted to do those chapters, and I wanted them to feel like little inset movie reels, maybe. That's why I did the italicized text in there. I wanted them to feel almost like little home movies. I wanted them to feel like choosing to sit down and flip through a scrapbook at any given moment.
When we're in the middle of something, it seems so much less significant than the things that have already happened, than the memory of something, because we get to be the ones to shape memories.
Mostly Dead Things has a very memorable and complex family dynamic, and in some of your short fiction — I'm thinking especially of the story "The Locusts" — there's also this very intense interconnected family dynamic that feels very true to life. What are the challenges for you in terms of creating not just characters who are realistic, but also having the bonds between them also feel as messy as families in the real world?
It is something that I'm continually interested in. I feel like there are themes that crop up in my work a lot because it's stuff I just continue to be interested in. I'm very interested in the lives of queer women. I'm very interested in Florida as a setting and space, and I'm very, very interested in domestic dynamics. You know, how queer relationships work in a space, but also how families interact with each other, which are also messy and queer a lot of the time. And the messy places are always the most interesting to me.
If family is anything, it's just messy a lot of the time, so it's the most interesting to me to sit in those spaces and think about people who love each other — or want to love each other, or try really hard to love each other — [and think about] how that actually works out with people. Because we're so complex and the idea of family is so strange, and can be really strained — the idea that you feel like you know someone, especially growing up around a large family — there's so much to work with in there. The inferiority of what it is you feel versus the people you grew up with, and how you impose how they have to behave, or what you expect from family.
I very much wanted to write about family in that way for sure. I like thinking about things that are uncomfortable. I like thinking about the ways that we hurt each other, and sometimes I think families do that the most. The people that raise you — whoever that might be, whatever that family dynamic looks like — the people that know you the best or feel like they know you the best can maybe hurt you the most. Or you can hurt them the most.
So I think there's just a very broad space to interrogate and investigate. Like what it means to be a mother. What it means to be a daughter. What it means to have cousins or what it means to really be cruel to someone, but at the same time know that you love them. Those dynamics are eternally interesting to me, so I find myself gravitating back to them again and again. If one day they're not interesting to me anymore then I'll write about something else, but that hasn't happened yet.
In Mostly Dead Things, the taxidermy business is established as more working class, as almost part of a barter economy where you might get some food out of the process beyond just doing work for someone. And with the advent of the gallery and a more fine art-focused use of taxidermy, taxidermy is shown as potentially lucrative but in a very different way, and perhaps for a different class of people. Is that something that you've sort of seen yourself? It was very interesting having that in the background of all of this.
I thought about it twofold because it did feel significant to me. The first part of it is, I think that there's the idea of thinking about taxidermy and thinking about art; taxidermy is traditionally this very gendered, traditionally masculine kind of activity, right Especially in the South or in very gendered, structured, specific households, a masculine-identifying person can actually do hands-on crafting work and have it still remain masculine, not feel like it's been feminized in this way. Which was interesting to me as somebody who's very interested in how gender functions and the roles that are established, especially in households where it's so rigid. So looking at all these conferences and the way that 99% are just men going to these things, being like, "I made art" — being able to do it but not feeling as though they have been emasculated — that was interesting to me.
But then the other half of that is because specifically, I feel like I'm writing about central Florida, Orlando, the greater Orlando area. Like there's this — I'm not going to say gentrification of space because that's not accurate terminology. I'm a third generation Floridian, the third generation from Orlando, watching how this space has developed and what that means with new people coming in. We're a tourist industry spot for sure, but it's also about the memory of place, or like how restaurants function or family-owned businesses versus what's coming in, and how do spaces continue to exist. Do they have to morph into this kind of new thing in order to remain? And there's this way that, in Orlando specifically, if you're not willing to do that, you are literally bulldozed over and something is built there, and then there's not even a memory. So there's this idea of morphology of how a business that used to work in this working class way turns into this new space; or does it live, or does it die? What's the requirement for how it would have to change in order to stay?
So that was something I was definitely thinking about a lot when it comes to a family-owned business, even if it's taxidermy; this idea of, what does it have to do to remain relevant or to stay.
Thinking about what you said about art, I'm now remembering a point where I was in college, and one of my roommates showed up at our dorm and grabbed one of our other roommates and I and told us that we had to see this bizarre art that was next to where he worked. And it was one of Damien Hirst's mid-90s works involving animal bodies — but thinking about it, that's not too far removed from the idea of taxidermy as art.
I think the intersections of those are fascinating, right? What's considered high art? What's lowbrow? What are those things? That's something that, as a person who like, lives at 7-Eleven, I'm extremely interested in. What do we consider to be tacky? What's considered acceptable? Where are the lines drawn? What gets to be art and what does not get to be art? I think that that's extremely interesting. Because most of the time I think the stuff that I want to look at is the stuff that's the 7-Eleven stuff, or the stuff that's doing this very weird work. I'm most interested in that.
Taxidermy [is] like a memory, like a preservation of something, or how you wish that that memory would look.
This is a very tangential thing, but do think that's sort of exemplified by like the weirdness of, say, Gritty becoming this huge pop culture phenomenon and being on the cover of Artforum?
Look at Twitter. People have this craving right now for the absurd. Or there's things that are — I don't even want to say ugly or pretty, because I think those are really binary terms. But I think that people are interested in this idea of, what gets to fit? Who gets to say what is this thing that's art? Who gets to say something's lowbrow? It's more interesting to think about how something super bizarre or something weird gets to fit into the culture: "Okay, now this gets to be art," or, "Now this is something we're going to analyze and make broader." I think people have a craving for that.
Maybe I shouldn't speak for everybody else, but I know I'm the most interested in how something that's stupid and kind of funny — how can we examine it or look at it, or have a broader conversation about it? They don't need to be this very flat, dimensionless thing. I keep talking about 7-Eleven because I talk about it every day of my life, but that's a community space.
As a librarian, I think about libraries as community space. The 7-Eleven in my neighborhood is a community space that serves a function, and it's bigger than this idea of what a convenience store would be. It's serving multiple purposes and trying to find that bigger conversation around stuff that's traditionally seen as tacky or low-brow, but what is this actually doing? How much bigger is it? What does it serve? It is fascinating. I think people want to have more conversations like that, which is awesome.
I grew up not far from the Jersey Shore, so this is also resonating in a big way with me because of various aspects of that part of the world. Though it's interesting, because I don't feel like there was as much taxidermy around where I grew up, but I can also remember driving a few hours west to Cabella's in Pennsylvania, where there's just literally a mountain-sized diorama of taxidermied animals. I was not used to that, but I also think that might be due to New Jersey not having guns be quite as easy to buy as some other states.
I was just up in Pennsylvania. I went to Scranton, and I was having a conversation with people there about hunting or about taxidermy, and a couple different people I was talking with while I was there said, "Oh let me show you some stuff." And they brought up pictures on their phone. This guy showed me a picture of his rumpus room that has a bearskin rug, and every deer mounted on the wall, and it was just like full-on mounted animals like [all] around, and then like a widescreen TV. I just thought, this is extremely interesting. Because it's this sense of, this is the room, here's the décor I decorated with, but it's these specific hunted animals. I am extremely interested in this. I just kept asking everybody, "Does anybody else have pictures? Go ahead and show me. I'm very interested."
Did your feelings on taxidermy change at all over the course of writing the book?
They did. I developed a much deeper appreciation for how difficult it is to actually do a good job with making an animal look alive, and kind of reanimating them. It's hard, and it's deeply physical labor. I was interested in the opening of this, the positioning, the making of something. The idea of taxidermy being like a memory, like a preservation of something, or how you wish that that memory would look.
I came into it with that; but I went out of it with the sense that taxidermy is deeply physical, hard labor. People who excel at taxidermy — it is a specific, hard, difficult, beautiful craft. It takes hours and hours and hours. And to make something like that and make it look alive again, it's literally like Frankensteining something and making it look like you're bringing something back to life. So I think I came out of it thinking, this is not something that just anybody can do. You have to be the kind of person that can literally have your hands in the guts of something. Which is not for everybody.
I also came out of it realizing that it is hard work to make something look alive again that has died. It is hard work to actually strip the flesh of muscle. It is hard work to reconstruct bone. It's difficult labor, and the people that do that work are very talented and have a skill. It's very much a skilled kind of craft. So I came out with a much deeper appreciation of what it takes to make those things, I think.
In Felt in the Jaw you have a lot of stories that delve into human bodies. With the novel you have this whole component of going very in-depth with the bodies of different animals and how best to prepare them, and reanimate them. Are there other aspects of writing about bodies that you're hoping to cover in future works?
I'm always so interested in the physicality of things, or the tactile stuff. I'm a very hands-on person, I would say. And that's how I see the world a little, with this hands-on approach or this tactile approach. I think all the time about my interactions with pets because I have a lot of animals in my house. Even living in Florida, with all the wildlife I'm encountering — things that are alive, and have movement, and have physical presence in my space.
Also, just the idea of having a female body and what it means to navigate in that and the changes of it, and what happens as I age, or just the different things of it — the body is constantly changing, so it's constantly interesting to me.
The next project I have, I'm thinking more about the interiority of the body. Maybe the idea is, I'm still very much interested in the body, but I'm more interested in the spirit of the thing, or maybe that's what I'm trying to interrogate a little more because I feel like it's less familiar ground for me. I think my writing always is spurred on by a question or something bigger that I don't know enough about or something that's been bothering me. So maybe I'm looking a little bit more into how the spirit animates the physical body, if that makes sense.
You've written about growing up in a fairly religious family, so does that interest in the spirit come out of that experience, or is it more of a reaction to it?
I grew up in an extremely evangelical household. My family all still lives very locally, and they're very Southern Baptist. I mean, I grew up going to church four or five times a week.
In writing stuff I think I avoided that for a while because I felt like that was what I was constantly being asked to consider growing up. The idea of the spirit, the idea of the unseen, right? Like the Holy Ghost, like the idea of a presence overseeing everything you do. That's how I grew up, and so I think when I was writing a lot of things, I really tried to veer away from thinking about it, because that's not something I wanted to explore.
I feel like that's been something that's been forced on me a lot; especially growing up female in an Evangelical household, you're specifically not supposed to think about your own body. You're not supposed to think about the actual manifestation of the flesh.
So I was more interested in that and I think now I'm looping back into, what does this mean in terms of me? Less about how was I forced to think about things and more like how I want to think about the spirit in terms of the body. So it's becoming this bigger, different question, but I think I'm getting to get back into it now because I've allowed myself to have enough space that I didn't have [before]. I didn't want to think about that until I was ready to think about it, and maybe I'm still not ready.
I'm more interested in thinking about it now that I've had a good amount of space from the idea and [I'm not] being forced to only think about that. Now I get to think about it on my own terms, and what it means in conjunction with my queerness or the physicality of things. I get to think about it however I would like to, whereas I don't think I had the distance from it before to do that.
Posted by Tobias Carroll	on June 5, 2019
Categories: Books, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Tags: Books, families, fiction, Florida, Kristen Arnett, novels


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Wow! What a weekend! After an incredible four days in Seattle, Derek and I on our way back home and there's so much to share!
First of all, I need to send lots of love and thanks to Brooks Running for an incredible running-focused weekend. Brooks Running is an amazing company that eats, sleeps, and breathes their slogan "Run Happy." From the products, to the people, to their goal of constantly improving and elevating the entire running experience – they are the definition of "Run Happy." I'm honored to be one of their blogger ambassadors and am truly blessed to have been able to work with the company for the last three years.
I can't send enough love and praise to my Brooks Running peeps. I was a fan of the brand before I started working with them and I will stay a fan long after. Group Hug!
Since I have so much to share about the weekend, I'm going to break the many adventures up into a handful of posts, so please bear with me as I get it all out there.
For now, let's rewind back to the beginning of the trip, when Derek and I landed in Seattle on Thursday afternoon.
Seattle has been on Derek's bucket list for a while now, so when I was invited to Seattle, Derek didn't hesitate to volunteer to join me. We planned to arrive a day early, stay a day later, and make a weekend of it. Derek also rented a car so he could continue to explore while I was at the pre-planned Brooks activities.
I've been to Seattle a handful of times over the last couple of years, but have never really had a chance to explore outside of the city. When we booked the trip with the extra night, my only request was that we went outside the city and stay somewhere fun. A friend suggested staying in Woodinville, which is essentially Seattle's wine country with over 100 tasting rooms in a 3-mile radius – sign me up.
Once we picked a city, Derek got on Google maps and literally clicked on the first bed & breakfast that popped up in the Woodinville vicinity. The price was right, the photos on the website were great, and a quick glance on Trip Advisor confirmed this was the place for us (probably one of the few places I've seen with nearly all 5 star ratings) we immediately booked it.
We fell in love with Eason Estates Bed & Breakfast as soon as we pulled into the parking lot. It was exactly what we were envisioning – charming garden, beautifully updated early 20th century home, a well stocked pantry and fridge with snacks and drinks after our long day of travel, and the kind couple who runs it.
The owners had purchased the "main house" in the early 80s, before the surrounding area had really developed and took off. Their house was built in 1915, while the house next door could be traced back to 1906. When the house next door was put up for sale a few years ago, they were fearful a developer would come along and demolish it. To save it, they purchased it themselves and had this crazy dream of eventually turning it into a bed & breakfast.
After thirty years of teaching, the couple retired from the local school district and opened Eason Estates Bed & Breakfast in 2008.
The couple was very sweet. They immediately made Derek and I feel like family. I think that's the best part about staying at a Bed & Breakfast – you feel like you're visiting friends or family instead of some generic hotel.
After Derek and I dropped off our bags, we were given great directions on where to go and what to see. Basically, we just had to go a mile or so down the road and we'd run smack dab into the middle of wine country. We had big plans of tasting room hopping, but by the time we were finally on our way it was after 3:00pm PST and we'd been up since 3:30am EST. We were hungry and tired, but still happy to be there.
We ended up at Village Wines first since we knew they served food and we needed to get something in our stomachs if we were going to drink. We sat at the bar and immediately ordered a recommended Mark Ryan red blend from the local winery.
The red was really fruity and delicious. It was a perfect complement to the beautiful summer day.
We also ordered the meat & cheese plate and truffle fries to nibble on.
The combination of meat, cheese, and fries was just what we needed after a long day of travel.
Unfortunately when we asked our server where should we try next, he sadly informed us all the local tasting rooms closed at 5. Rats. It was about a quarter til at that point and we'd missed our window. We asked for other recommendations and he suggested checking out Red Hook Brewery – you didn't have to tell us twice.
As expected, Red Hook Brewery was pretty incredible. We had hoped to squeeze in a tour, but the tours had stopped at 5:00. Luckily the bar didn't close until 10.
I ordered the KCCO Black Lager, which was dark and smooth, yet light and refreshing. It looks like a porter, but drank like a lager.
Derek was happy to see a generous selection of "gluten removed" beers and ordered the Omission IPA.
Have you ever had a gluten free beer? Yeah, they're kind of awful. They're usually a lager and very, very bland. But the Omission IPA? It wasn't half bad. It was nice and hoppy like a good IPA should be and had a bit of a bite to it. We both really liked it.
The secret to Omissions's delicious gluten free beers is they're technically not gluten free. They're really "gluten removed," which means they brew the beer as normal and then remove the gluten after it's been brewed. I'm not 100% sure how that works, but it definitely has me intrigued. More info on the gluten removing process can be found here.
We had planned to splurge on a fancy steak dinner, but we were so full from our appetizers and drinks that neither of us were feeling it. We were also exhausted and could barely keep our eyes open. However, we did want something sweet and dessert sounded good.
Our final stop of the evening was Barking Frog for coffee and dessert.
I immediately ordered the cappuccino (which barely helped in keeping my eyes open).
It was creative, I'll give them that, but other than that it was just okay. Not enough flavors and reminded me too much of melted custard.
Derek ordered Spiced Chocolate Cremeux (xocopili cream/flourless chocolate cake/lime sorrel granita/coconut foam/crispy pearls).
His was interesting. There was layer of chocolate mousse, a lime granita, and coconut cream on top. The flavor combination wasn't what bothered me – I thought the chocolate and lime worked really well together – it was the juxtaposition of the icee lime and cream chocolate and coconut. The iciness just didn't work against the creamy textures.
After dessert we headed back to the bed & breakfast and were asleep before 8:30pm. I'm pretty sure it was still light out. We were wiped!
And then we were up wide awake at 4:30am. Stupid body clock.
Coffee was delivered to our door at 7:30am. Fancy, schmancy.
The night before the owners had asked what time we wanted coffee in our rooms and what time we wanted breakfast. I knew we'd be up early so I requested coffee at 7:30 and breakfast at 8:00. I guess I didn't realize how super early we'd actually be up. Ha.
We ended up taking our coffee outside and tossing the ball with the pups. There were two adorable cocker spaniels on property that could play a mean game of fetch. It was an amazing morning to sit outside. I can't get enough of that cool breeze.
Breakfast was served in the common space promptly at 8:00am. We were joined by another Florida couple who had flown in the night before. They were on their way to sail with friends off of the Vancouver Islands.
Breakfast was served in two courses. The first was a bowl of yogurt with fresh fruit and almond slivers. The raspberries were picked fresh from the backyard that morning.
The second course was french toast (I'm not sure what the crunchy stuff was, but it was good) and bacon.
Everything was delicious. We enjoyed the meal and the company. It was also nice to speak a little more with the owners about the history of Eason Estates. It's so inspiring how they're living their dream.
After breakfast we packed up our bags and headed out. We were sent on our way with snacks and bottles of water for the road.
Again, I can't recommend Eason Estates or the Woodinville area enough. My only regret was that we couldn't stay longer. We'll have to return in the future and next time stay at least two nights.
Have you ever stayed in a bed & breakfast before? Which was your favorite?
Bed and Breakfasts are really the way to go! So much more fun than a boring hotel, especially for new places!
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wow, that looks like an awesome start to a getaway! minus the 4:30 wake up, of course. haha.
It is so funny seeing people going to Woodinville for vacation. I grew up there and there was only one big winery and it was not all that long ago. You remind me I need to take advantage of what I have 10 minutes from home and take a vacation in our little wine country! Thanks for also letting me know there is a B&B there. Who knew.
I love Omission IPA! I think checking out breweries and wineries is a must when vacationing. Your trip looks so fun- Scott and I have Seattle on our bucket list, we both have never been!
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What a cute bed and breakfast! Looks awesome! I really want to go to Seattle sometime. It looks like such a wonderful town!
I think I've only stayed at a true B&B once and I was not a fan. The walls were paper thin and I felt like you could hear every noise in the house. I was really looking forward to breakfast and then it was literally 1 egg and 1 piece of bacon… I could've eaten 3 portions of what they served. Womp!
Red Hook looks like it was awesome! Going to breweries (and factories) is one of my favorite things to do when I travel. They also have another brewery here in New Hampshire that I would love to check out. I can't wait to read more about your trip!
I think B&Bs are a very British thing. That's ALL we stay in!
I work in the brewing industry and agree about there not being a whole lot of good "gluten free" beers out there! Interesting fact is, Omission actually uses a filtering agent that a very large number of brewers use as part of their process as well. This filtering agent is used to clarify beer and it just so happens to bind with and remove gluten as a side benefit. Therefore most fully filtered beers are actually very low in gluten! The tricky part is that if you want to make a label claim that you are "gluten reduced" you become very strictly regulated to hit a certain spec every time.
Glad you enjoyed your trip both with blogging buddies and your hubby!
What a fun time at the B&B! I've never stayed at one before but would love to try one sometime!
If you like a good brew, next time you should come a little further north to Vancouver Island. We've got a number of microbreweries well worth a pint or two. Plus, the Clipper from Seattle to Victoria can be a beautiful ride.
Still, looks like you had a fantastic time in Seattle and Woodinville.
My aunt used to run a B&B and we'd stay there when we'd got to visit. It was fun until I got old enough to run jobs while we were staying there!
The B&B is adorable! What a great find.
I just recently tried Omission beer at a beer festival and was pleasantly surprised too. It actually had a lot of flavor and some weight to it.


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Q: Hyper-V P2V Virtual Machine Bus driver Did my first P2V experiment with SCVMM R2 - Vista 32 (Dell Precision 490) to Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008.  I'm having issues with "integration Services" and "virtual machine bus" driver.
When I install Integration Services it claims to install successfully, but clicking the mouse on the screen still says I need to install Integration Services.
When I try to install a virtual machine bus driver I get "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be currupted or missing. (Code 39)"
The VM doesn't see the virtual network card, and I'm assuming this is related to the virtual machine bus.
How can I fix this?

A: Code 39 in Device Manager generally means that there's some function that the driver is trying to invoke which doesn't exist in the NT kernel.  (Unless the images is in fact corrupt, which probably isn't the case here.)  In this situation, that probably implies that VMBus is trying to use something that is missing.  This could happen if your guest OS doesn't have all the service packs installed.  If I remember correctly, Vista needed at least one patch to be supported.
In order to install the patches, you can either mount your VHD file and use the Vista offline patching mechanism or you can install a "legacy network adapter" in the VM and download the patches from Windows Update.

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Евгений Иванович Кухаренко (; 31 августа 1937, Штеровка, Луганская область, УССР — 10 июня 1994, Киев, Украина) — советский и украинский хирург общего профиля, кандидат медицинских наук, заслуженный врач УССР, главный хирург и заведующий хирургическим отделением  Четвёртого главного управления  при Министерстве здравоохранения Украины (1975—1993).

Признан лучшим диагностом Киева 80-90х годов. Мастерски выполнял абдоминальные операции наивысшей сложности.

Несмотря на всеобщее уважение, признание среди коллег, пациентов и своего учителя Шалимова А.А.,  Евгений Иванович отказывался от продвижения  по службе, так как не видел себя в роли лишь организатора и руководителя . Он  находил свое призвание в практической медицине (лечении больных, работе руками в опреционной)  и поэтому оставался заведующим отделения до конца жизни, которая оборвалась на 56 году в связи с тяжёлой болезнью.

Коллеги-соратники:  С.К.Терновой, В.С.Земсков, С.А.Шалимов, В.Ф.Саенко, И.И.Сухарев,  В.Н. Полупан и др.

Биография

Родился 31 августа 1937 в посёлке Штеровка Луганской области УССР. Средний из трех детей (старший брат Станислав, младший Валерий). Окончил Штеровскую среднюю школу с медалью (1945—1954).

Вместе с лучшим другом,  с которым договорились учиться вместе, подал документы в Харьковский авиационный институт. Хотел стать конструктором самолетов. Но так как друг не прошел по здоровью, Евгений Иванович забрал документы из ХАИ и поступил в Харьковский государственный медицинский институт (ХГМИ), куда приняли обоих.

В 1961 году закончил Харьковский медицинский институт с красным дипломом. Получил квалификацию врача-хирурга общего профиля.

По собственному желанию отработал 3 года в казахстанской глубинке вопреки приглашению продолжить обучение в аспирантуре по хирургии в ХГМИ. Вернувшись в Харьков устроился на работу в больницу № 20 где поработал 1 год. После чего, решив углублять свои знания в хирургии, устроился в Харьковский НИИ общей и неотложной хирургии, возглавляеый в то время профессором, доктором медицинских наук А. А. Шалимовым. Как соискатель учёной степени кандидата медицинских наук написал за 2 года и защитил в 1970 году диссертацию.

Получил звание доцента, работая на кафедре торако-абдоминальной хирургии ХМАПО(г. Харьков).

В 1973 году — награждён нагрудным знаком «Отличник здравоохранения».

С 1975 года — главный хирург и заведующий хирургическим отделением клинической больницы «Феофания» Четвертого главного управления при МОЗ УССР. (Направлен на работу в город Киев согласно приказу Министерства здравоохранения УССР по рекомендации своего руководителя, Шалимова А.А.)

1980 год — получил почетное звание «Заслуженный врач УССР».

С 1983 года — член Всесоюзного научного общества хирургов СССР.

В 1986 году награждён орденом Дружбы народов (за научный вклад в развитие медицини союзных республик);

В 1986 году так же награжден медалью «Ветеран труда УССР».

1992 год - награжден медалью ликвидатора последствий аварии на ЧАЭС.

Научные публикации

 Диагностика малых раков желудка (Методические рекомендации) /  П.И. Пасечник, А.М. Крейдич, Е.И. Кухаренко, И.В. Даценко, Г.А. Яцюта. Ответственный за издание член-корр. АН УССР, проф.  К.С.Терновой// Четвертое главное управление МОЗ УССР. - К.:  Радомышль райтипрография, 1980;
Диагностика основных локализаций злокачественных опухолей  (Методические рекомендации) / О.И. Дущенко (рак тела матки, яичников), Р.И. Егорова (рак кожи), кандидат меднаук   Е.И. Кухаренко (рак пищевода), Г.М. Майструк (рак почек и лоханок), В.С. Москаленко (рак желчного пузыря и ж. путей), Г.П. Моцная (рак шейки матки), Е.А. Нежельская (рак гортани), Ф.И. Пионтковский (рак прямой кишки), кандидат меднаук Л.Г. Плужников (рак предст.железы, мочевого пузыря, яичек), кандидат меднаук А.Е. Руденко (опухоли головного и спинного мозга), А.Г. Олофинская (рак молочной железы), доктор меднаук Н.Ф. Скопиченко (рак легкого, желудка, поджел. железы, толстой кишки, первичн. рак печени). Ответственные за издание профессор  К.С.Терновой и д.м.н. Н.Ф. Скопиченко // Четвертое главное управление МОЗ УССР. - К.:  Радомышль райтипрография, 1976. - 60 с;
 Тонкокишечная эзофагопластика при рубцевых сужениях и после резекции пищевода по поводу рака / Е.И. Кухаренко, В.П. Далавурак, А.А, Сергиенко, А.Г. Винниченко //  Хирургия органов пищеварения. "Здоровье", Киев - №4. - 1975. - С. 26-29;
Кухаренко Е.И. О причинах расстройств кровообращения в тонкокишечных трансплантатах при пластике пищевода / Е.И. Кухаренко // Клиническая хирургия. 1970. - №4. - С. 35-40;
Консервативное лечение больных с облитерирующим атеросклерозом артерий нижних конечностей в стадии декомпенсации // В.С. Москаленко, Е.И. Кухаренко // Тезисы докладов научно-практической кеонференции. Профилактика, диагностика и лечение неотложных состояний. 2-3 июля 1977. - К.: "Здоровье", С. 158-160;
 Новый способ повышения жизнеспособности тощей кишки, мобилизируемой для эзофагопластики по способу Ру-Герцена / Е.И. Кухаренко, А.Г. Винниченко //  Сборник научных работ по рационализации и изобретениям в терапевтической и  хирургической практике. - Харьков: 1970. - Випуск 1. - С. 26-31;
 Оценка тонкого и правой половины толстого кишечника, как пластического материала приминительно к эзофагопластике / Е.И. Кухаренко, А.Г. Винниченко, // Сборник научных работ молодых ученых института. - Харьков: 1970. - С.116-119;
Кухаренко Е. И. Сравнительная оценка основных способов пластики искусственного пищевода тонким и толстым кишечником. Автореф. дисс. канд мед. наук. Харьков, 1970;
Клинико-рентгенологическое изучение морфологии и функции искусственного пищевода / А. Винниченко, Г. Григорян, В. Далавурак, Е. Кухаренко // Сборник научных работ по клинической патофизиологии и биохимии. Украинский институт усовершенствования врачей. - Харьков: 1970. - С. 179-182;
 Тезисы докладов республиканской конференции. К вопросу о декомпрессии желудка после эзофагопластики / Е.И. Кухаренко, В.С. Москаленко, Г.А. Яцута // Восстановителлная хирургия органов пищеварительного тракта.  Киев, 19-20 января 1978 г. - С. 59-60;
 Хирургическая тактика при полипозе желудка и толстой кишки / Е.И. Кухаренко, Г.А. Яцута // Материалы второй научно-практичной конференции. Четвертое гравное управление при МОЗ  Грузинской ССР.  - Боржоми-Ликани: 1979, С.104-106;
 Достижения в хирургическом лечении злокачественных опухолей пищевода на Украинне за годы Советской власти / Е.И. Кухаренко, А.А. Шалимов, А.Г. Винниченко // Клиническая хирургия. 1967. № 12 - С. 1-6;
 Тезисы докладов республиканской конференции.  К вопросу диагностики острых оклюзий сосудов нижних конечностей / Е.И. Кухаренко, В.С. Москаленко, Г. Г. Бабич // Острая патология магистральных сосудов, Ивано-Франковск, 28-29 сентября 1978 г.  - К.: 1978. - С.  69 - 70;
 Рациональная терапия гнойных ран / Е.И. Кухаренко, В.С. Москаленко // Профилактика гнойной инфекции в хирургии. МОЗ УССР. - Хмельницкий: 1977. - С. 71-72;
 Некоторые особенности инфузионной терапии больных после эзофагопластики / Е.И. Кухаренко, А.Г. Винниченко, Ю.И. Винников / Общая и неотложная хирургия. Предоперационная подготовка, послеоперационный период // "Здоровье", Киев - №4. - 1973. - С. 153-155;
 О ведении послеоперационного периода у больных после пластики пищевода / А. Винниченко, Е. Кухаренко, А. Дикий  // Сборник научных работ по клинической патофизиологии и биохимии. Украинский институт усовершенствования врачей. - Харьков: 1970. - С. 30-33.
О задачах диспансерного наблюдения при холецистите // Е.И. Кухаренко, В.М. Балануца, В.С. Москаленко, В.В. Сухоносов, А.И. Иваненко // Тезисы докладов научно-практической кеонференции. Профилактика, диагностика и лечение неотложных состояний. 2-3 июля 1977. - К.: "Здоровье", С. 149-151;
 Кухаренко Е.И. О профилактике некзоров тощей кишки, функционирующей в качестве искусственного пищевода / Е.И. Кухаренко //  Актуальные вопросы общей и неотложной хирургии. - К.: 1970. - №1. - С. 182-183.
Intr-abdominal hernias simulating nonorganic retroperitoneal tumors /Kukharenko EI, Koren'kov PP, Pasechnik PI./ Klin Khir. 1980 Feb;(2):38.
Serotonin metabolism in ulcer disease. / Gubskiĭ VI, Dalavurak VP, Eloev VA, Kukharenko EI./ Vrach Delo. 1976 Mar;(3):78-81.

В 90-х годах начал работу над докторской диссертацией, посвящённой клиническим и генетическим исследованиям онкологической патологии пищеварительной системы. (При поддержке д.б.н, академіка, Гершензона С.М.)

Хобби и жизненные ценности

Кумир в профессии — Сергей Сергеевич Юдин.

Хобби: рыбалка, шахматы, резьба по дереву, тяжёлая атлетика (штанга).

Кроме медицины, увлекался палеоантропологией, эволюционной биологией. Написал книгу "О происхождении человека".

Убеждения: Евгений Иванович склонялся к идеям гуманизма и космополитизма.

Считал неприемлемым для себя охоту на животных и их убийство как более слабых.

Примечания

Хирурги СССР

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Report Today 2/17/17
Posted on February 17th, 2017 - 7:02 pm | Tags: #fishthetruth, Rush river report, Sage 390-4 X, Simms Guide
by Andy Roth in Trout Stream Reports, Wisconsin (Western)
Could not stand it. It was too nice out. I packed up my gear and headed to the Rush River. Arrived around 10AM and put in a long hike. Today I wanted to find deep to medium deep slow water. I also wanted to see what my old favorite runs and pools looked like since I had not seen them since last year. Normally the exploration of all of my old haunts takes place in March but if mid February will allow, I'll take it. When I arrived, after 25 minute of hiking, heads were up. Midges were on the water. After watching for a while I rigged and casted. The fish cooperated on both midge pupa(zebra) and dry(stillborn) patterns. Water temps were at 41 degrees. The fish tended to be stacked in this particular water, slow and medium depth. I found no fish in fast plunges and rocky high gradient water. When I returned to the truck, I realized where they all were. The Bridge Pool! There were a couple thousand in there and of course they spooked when I stood over them. It was amazing. My guess is that the majority of the trout in this stretch of water are still podded up in this deep water and are mostly safe from all predation. The location of these fish would have made it near impossible to take them on rod and reel.
The first outing for my new fly rod. Might be the sweetest yet for both long dry casting and deep nymphing and high sticking for our waters. Time will tell, but this will probably turn out to be my favorite. More later. Looks like the flows held today. Get out there and fish tomorrow, might be 12″of snow right around the corner.
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Elderly driver launches SUV into 7-Eleven store
See why it was lucky that no one was injured in this odd crash …
Portland Fire & Rescue firefighters from Engine 11 tape off the accident scene, after this SUV plowed into a 7-Eleven Store at S.E. 82nd and Flavel.
The patron of a convenience store scared the daylights out of shoppers and bystanders on Thursday, September 8, when he plowed his SUV into the front of the 7-Eleven convenience store on SE 82nd Avenue at SE Flavel Street, at about 10:15 a.m.
"He started up his car, and put it to gear, and just stepped on the gas," recounted eyewitness Roberta Mallory, who said she works nearby and had just come by for a cup of coffee.
The manager of the store takes a photo to document the damage caused by the errant SUV.
"It all happened so fast – the way he hit the gas, if he'd been in reverse I think he would've shot out into 82nd Avenue and maybe hurt somebody," Mallory exclaimed. "I'm still startled, and kind of shaking, from watching this happen right in front of me."
Portland Fire & Rescue Engine 11 firefighter-paramedics helped the driver out of the silver Subaru Forester PZEV and took him to sit in a waiting ambulance, before stringing caution tape around the scene.
Portland Police Bureau East Precinct officer Mark DeLong takes notes for his accident report.
Portland Police Bureau East Precinct officer Mark DeLong said, "An elderly person was shopping at this 7-Eleven Store. Witnesses say he got into his car, and drove into the store."
The driver told medical personnel he generally has his wife drive him, although not this time – and he wanted to shop here, on his way to a medical appointment.
"It doesn't appear as if the driver was injured," DeLong said, "Nor were there any customer injuries inside the store."
It is not clear if the driver had had a medical issue which caused the incident, or if he had just become confused and stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
Observing how far the Subaru traveled into the store, police commented it was fortunate that no customers were standing in that spot at the time.
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Q: Fast logistic function I am looking for a way to implement a fast logistic function. The classic definition of logistic function is:
y(x) = 1 / (1 + (1/e^x)) where ^ is exponentiation.
or equally: y(x) = (e^x) / (e^x + 1)
However, my special logistic function has a base E instead of e, so:
y(x) = E^x / (E^x + 1)

E and x in my case are 32-bit integer, fixed point in base 2 of 16.16 type. E is so near as possible to the real constant e.
What is the fastest algorithm for such function ? I would prefer no lookup tables. Something like bit-manipulations should be perfect.

UPDATE:

Intuitively, I feel that there exists a very fast and simple method, based on Euler's formula:
e^(i*x) = cos(x) + i*sin(x)
where i is the imaginary unit.

A: Keep overflow and underflow in mind.  The code exp(x)/(1 + exp(x)) will overflow for large positive values of x even though the result should be approximately 1.  You can avoid this by using 1/(1 + exp(-x)). This will underflow to 0 for large negative values of x, but that may be OK depending on your context since the exact result is nearly zero in that case.
If your code is being called for large positive or negative values of x, you could save a little time by returning 0 or 1 for values that are going to be represented as 0 or 1 anyway and avoid calling exp.   So your code could be something like
if (x > positive cutoff) return 1;
if (x < negative cutoff) return 0;
return 1 / (1 + exp(-x))

Whether that's actually more efficient depends on your specific environment and how often you get arguments past the cutoff values.

A: I'm going to talk about floats, not ints, because that is where the technology seems to be.
The standard way of computing functions like this is to use some special case logic so that you only have to represent the function within some range [a, b], approximate this by a rational function - one polynomial divided by another, and then patch up whatever you had to do to reduce the range. The source of exp(x) at http://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/e_exp.c seems to follow this pattern.
This gives you an approximation of exp(x) of the form a(x)/b(x). You actually want 1/(1+exp(-x)). You should be able to rearrange the implementation of a(x)/b(x) so as to get it to do b(-x)/(a(-x)+b(-x)), so that you have just one divide instruction, inside the rearranged exp(x), instead of one divide instruction inside it and one outside it.
This will save you something, depending on how much more expensive divide is on your machine - it might be noticeable if your inner loop really is 90% calls to the logistic function. The pattern of range reduction plus rational approximation is so firmly entrenched that I doubt that you will do much better without sacrificing a good deal of accuracy, although if you are resorting to integers you may be prepared to do that.
I dare say you could transfer this into the fixed point world if you worked hard enough. I'm afraid I'd be inclined to go back to linear interpolation between values in a table instead, that is, assuming that I couldn't find a way to get the logistic function out of the inner loop.

A: Powers do not easily convert to bit shifts, because
E^x = 2^log2(E^x) = 2^(x*log2(E))

and this will give you a fractional number of bits to shift.  You could calculate x*log2(E) and then decompose the power into a sum of separate bit shifts, but this is unlikely be as fast as a lookup table followed by a couple of iterations of Newton's method.  Then again, this depends on how expensive your fixed-point arithmetic operations are.

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Something like bit-manipulations should be perfect

Take a look at: http://www.schraudolph.org/pubs/Schraudolph99.pdf


Net neutrality is still an important topic here in the US and if you've been following the news around it, then you probably heard about the Save the Internet Act getting halfway to law, passing the House of Representatives in a 232-190 vote.
Net neutrality is a hot button topic in many of our circles since it affects each of us who use the internet in the U.S. It carries such significance with a lot of voters that several politicians have made it part of their platforms since the original FCC rules were repealed. Yesterday, however, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the Democrats will introduce a bill this week that aims to bring back net neutrality.


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Q: Where is .meteor directory in the project in Ubuntu? I need to add some packages in the package file inside the .meteor folder.
This did work on Windows, but I recently switched to linux. The project now has folders client and server along with package.json file. Is there an alternate to it?
The package.json file doesn't seem to be the one I'm looking for since I didn't see any of the packages listed.

A: Probably directory is there but you don't see it in listing.
Files (and directories) starting with . (.git, .meteor etc) are considered as hidden and by default are not displayed in listing (read more: Linux directory starting with dot)
You can still do actions with them (eg. cd .meteor). To show them in listing do as Kyll mentioned in his comment.

A: . files are in Linux are hidden files.
So using ls -la command you can see those hidden file in Linux.
You can also use sublime text that will also show your hidden files.


After months of effort and dedication we are proud to announce the release of V.1.7.3 Beta. This version is a great achievement for us as we rewrote +-12000 lines of code that was related to the astpp-wraper.cgi file, which we have now completely removed. Most of the issues faced during installations and configurations were caused through the astpp-wraper.cgi file. We also restructured the entire code base into a "modular structure" and clean out all unnecessary scripts that were causing load. We improved database structure by adding ID fields in tables with a focus to migrate completely to a relationship database. Applied security patches to MYSQL DB and GUI Modules.
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Q: How can I manipulate DOM in a closure to write values in a table? I want to upload multiple files via input.
These files are csv and contain GPS coordinates and the name of the file contains date and time. So i think, that i need a closure to make the information available. But how can i use the values outside the function?
I tried to create a tablehead @ first outside the closure. In the closure, which is in a loop, i want to create a table-row for the Parameters, but i'm getting only one row.
The second idea was to get the innerhtml of an output-element and add the new Parameters every round. This works but isnt a good solution, because i have to split the string again.
The code I have so far is as follows:
function dateiAusgewaehlt(evt) {

document.getElementById("list").innerHTML = "";

//============================ init tablehead===================================================================

var tabellenkopf = ['Jahr', 'Monat', 'Tag', 'Stunde', 'Minute', 'Sekunde', 'Latitude', 'Longitude'];
var table = document.createElement("table");
output = document.getElementById("list");
output.appendChild(table);
var thead = document.createElement("thead");
table.appendChild(thead);
var tr = document.createElement("tr");
thead.appendChild(tr);

for (var i=0;i<tabellenkopf.length;i++)
{
    var th = document.createElement("th");
    tr.appendChild(th);
    th.id = "th"+i;
}

for (var i=0;i<tabellenkopf.length;i++)
{
    var thtext = document.createTextNode(tabellenkopf[i]);
    document.getElementById("th"+i).appendChild(thtext);
    thtext.id = "thtext"+i;
}
var tbody = document.createElement("tbody");
table.appendChild(tbody);

//==========================================================================

var files = evt.target.files;   //Speicherung der Fileliste
var year;
var month;
var day;
var hour;
var minute;
var second;

for (var i = 0, len = files.length; i < len; i++) {
    var file = files[i];
    var reader = new FileReader();
    var dateiname;
    var zeit;
    var sectmp;
    var teilstring;
    var inhalt;

    var reader = new FileReader();

    reader.onload = (function(f) {
        return function(e) {

            dateiname = encodeURI(f.name);
            dateiname = dateiname.split("%20");
            zeit = dateiname[2];
            zeit = zeit.split("_");
            year = zeit[0];
            month = zeit[1];
            day = zeit[2];
            hour = zeit[3];
            minute = zeit[4];
            sectmp = zeit[5];
            sectmp = sectmp.split(".");
            second = sectmp[0];

            inhalt = e.target.result;
            teilstring = inhalt.split(",");
            latitude = teilstring[29].substring(0,2) + "." + teilstring[29].substring(2,teilstring[29].length);
            longitude = teilstring[32].substring(0,2) + "." + teilstring[32].substring(2,teilstring[32].length);

//===================that is not working==============
        var tr = document.createElement("tr");
        tbody.appendChild(tr);
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        tr.appendChild(td0);
        var td0text = document.createTextNode(year);
        td0.appendChild(td0text);

//===============that is working========
        document.getElementById("list").innerHTML = document.getElementById
        ("list").innerHTML + "<br />"+ year +"."+ month +"."+ day +" "
        + hour +":"+ minute +":"+ second + " Position: " + " LAT: " +
        latitude + " LONG: " + longitude;
        };

    })(file);
    reader.readAsText(file);
    }

};

document.getElementById('files').addEventListener('change', dateiAusgewaehlt, false);


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West does not mention another scaling law that works in the opposite direction. That is the law of genetic drift, mentioned earlier as a crucial factor in the evolution of small populations. If a small population is inbreeding, the rate of drift of the average measure of any human capability scales with the inverse square root of the population. Big fluctuations of the average happen in isolated villages far more often than in cities.
On the average, people in villages are not more capable than people in cities. But if ten million people are divided into a thousand genetically isolated villages, there is a good chance that one lucky village will have a population with outstandingly high average capability, and there is a good chance that an inbreeding population with high average capability produces an occasional bunch of geniuses in a short time.
A substantial fraction of the population of Europe and the Middle East in the time between 1000 BC and 1800 AD lived in genetically isolated villages, so that genetic drift may have been the most important factor making intellectual revolutions possible. Places where intellectual revolutions happened include, among many others, Jerusalem around 800 BC (the invention of monotheistic religion), Athens around 500 BC (the invention of drama and philosophy and the beginnings of science), Venice around 1300 AD (the invention of modern commerce), Florence around 1600 (the invention of modern science), and Manchester around 1750 (the invention of modern industry).
These places were all villages, with populations of a few tens of thousands, divided into tribes and social classes with even smaller populations. In each case, a small starburst of geniuses emerged from a small inbred population within a few centuries, and changed our ways of thinking irreversibly. These eruptions have many historical causes. Cultural and political accidents may provide unusual opportunities for young geniuses to exploit.
But the appearance of a starburst must be to some extent a consequence of genetic drift. The examples that I mentioned all belong to Western cultures. No doubt similar starbursts of genius occurred in other cultures, but I am ignorant of the details of their history.
West's neglect of villages as agents of change raises an important question. How likely is it that significant numbers of humans will choose to remain in genetically isolated communities in centuries to come? We cannot confidently answer this question. The answer depends on unpredictable patterns of economic development, on international politics, and on even more unpredictable human desires.
But we can foresee two possible technological developments that would result in permanent genetic isolation of human communities. One possibility is that groups of parents will be able to give birth to genetically modified children, hoping to give them advantages in the game of life. The children might be healthier or longer-lived or more intellectually gifted than other children, and they might no longer interbreed with natural-born children.
The other possibility is that groups of people will emigrate from planet Earth and build societies far away in the depths of space.
a salutary effect of genetic fragmentation
Freeman Dyson, from The New York Review of Books (May 2018)


I want to say upfront that I haven't been sent a review copy of the cookbook I'm about to mention (darn - I'd love to review it). It's just that the authors have developed a bread baking style that fits perfectly with the theme of this blog. Following their method couldn't be easier, and I've been playing with their recipes since their first cookbook, "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" was published. I used their technique, but made the recipes healthier by using whole grains, less salt, etc. Now they've come up with a new book called, "Healthy Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day," and of course I watched their video, and made bread. I haven't actually seen the new book yet, but I know it has recipes using whole grains, fruits and veggies, plus a chapter on gluten-free baking. It's not a vegan cookbook, but probably easy for a vegan cook to adapt the recipes.
The bread pictured above was made from the basic recipe. I didn't have any unbleached flour on hand so I subbed semolina flour. For the topping I used a mix of sesame seeds, caraway seeds, dill seeds and crushed red pepper. The bread was delicious with the kind of springy texture I love, and it looked very pretty.
The dough - a rather wet dough - is mixed and stored in a container in the refrigerator, and taken out in blobs whenever a bread is needed.
Tonight I wanted to make a bread with the speculoos spice mix I got from Mihl's blog. (Are you reading this, Mihl?) I grabbed a blob of dough and rolled it into a rectangle. I mixed one tablespoon of speculoos spice mix, one tablespoon of cocoa, three tablespoons of evaporated cane juice and about 1/2 cup of raisins, and spread it onto the dough. The dough was then rolled up and the edges sealed. You can see from the photo I didn't do a very even job - perhaps I was rushing - but the taste is delicious.
The authors will be in Seattle Monday night to do a reading and book signing and I hope to be there. I doubt they'll be talking about speculoos!
That is one pretty loaf of bread.
Thanks. I really wanted more of a spiral effect but the dough was a little too sticky and hard to roll up! Next time I'll add more flour.
Thanks! I don't know why I never thought of adding mixed seeds before. It really makes the bread look nice and tastes good, too.
Thanks. I have to stock up on seeds.
Your loaf is fantastic! The speculoos spice mix sounds incredible as well!
If your dough is too sticky to roll, just sprinke it with more flour as you work and the counter so that it won't stick to that either. You can add flour, just don't knead it into the dough.
Thanks. I loved the seeds, too, and the bite of the crushed red pepper.
Thanks! I usually do add some flour when shaping the loaf but I was trying to add as little as possible, and didn't add enough. I was using parchment paper and didn't expect the dough to stick as much as it did.


Size: 340 mm x 230 mm.
The world as known to the ancients. Bonne here has described the extent of the known world before the 'Age of Discovery'.
A good condition, tastefully coloured French map with a good margin for framing.


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The King and I - Hull Tickets at the Hull New Theatre, Hull
The King and I continues its reign across the UK with a stop in Kingston upon Hull.
Reprising their critically acclaimed performances in The King And I, West End's Annalene Beechey and Broadway's Darren Lee star in the multi award-winning Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King And I.
The greatest musical from the golden age of musicals – adored by the public and critics alike – with one of the finest scores ever written, including Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, and Shall We Dance, and featuring a company of over 50 world-class performers and a full-scale orchestra.
A celebration of the lavish heritage and the very best in romantic musical theatre from an unparalleled multi award-winning creative team.
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2hr 55min (inc. interval)
This is not the London Palladium run of The King and I, which is no longer on sale, but rather the Hull leg of The King and I world tour. Please ensure that you wish to attend The King and I at the Hull New Theatre in Kingston upon Hull, UK before booking your tickets as refunds will unfortunately not be made for this purpose. Thank you for your understanding and we hope you enjoy the show!
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Advocates push FDA to add folic acid to corn masa flour
The March of Dimes and other groups, including the Spina Bifida Association and the National Council of La Raza, are urging the FDA to order that folic acid be added to corn masa flour.
Alexia Severson
LAS CRUCES - When Lawren Robles, 33, of Las Cruces was 20 weeks pregnant with her son Brandon, she was told that he had anencephaly, a neural tube defect in which a baby is missing parts of the brain and skull.
"We were given an option to do early termination because it's a fatal condition; there's not really a chance of life," Robles said. "…We decided to carry him to term or as long as we could."
Brandon's heart stopped beating 30 minutes before he was born on July 26, 2014, Robles said.
Although Robles said she ate a lot of cereal and other foods containing folic acid, a crucial B vitamin that can help prevent major birth defects, she was told by doctors that her son's birth defect may have been linked to a folic acid deficiency.
"After I had Brandon, I found out (from a pediatrician) that if you are of a child birthing age, you should be taking folic acid regularly," Robles said. "That's not something that I had ever been told, so that was hard because, of course, when you've gone through something like that, you end up blaming yourself."
Robles said she also wasn't aware that foods made with corn masa flour, such as corn tortillas and corn chips, were not fortified with folic acid, also called B9. In 1998, the Food and Drug Administration mandated that enriched wheat and rice flours be fortified with folic acid, but corn masa flour was excluded from this rule.
"I never really took that into account and we live in New Mexico so, of course, we eat tortillas and corn chips," she said. "I was under the impression that I was being healthy and I wasn't intending on getting pregnant, so it wasn't something I was looking out for."
Hispanics and masa
Folic acid deficiency is especially high among Hispanic populations, where corn masa flour is a staple grain.
According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, only 21 percent of Hispanic women report consuming enough folic acid as compared to 41 percent of white women. Hispanic women also have a 30 percent to 40 percent higher risk of having babies with neural tube defects, or NTDs, according to the CDC.
The two most common NTDs are anencephaly and spina bifida, a condition that affects the spine. In the U.S., about 3,000 pregnancies are affected by NTDs each year, according to the CDC.
In New Mexico, from 2007 to 2011 (the most recent data available) there were 11 babies born with anencephalus per every 10,000 live births among whites and 13 babies born with anencephalus per every 10,000 live births among Hispanics. During that same period, there were 18 babies born with spina bifida (without anencephalus) per every 10,000 live births among whites and 36 babies born per every 10,000 live births among Hispancs, according to state birth defects surveillance program data.
The March of Dimes and other groups, including the Spina Bifida Association and the National Council of La Raza, are working to increase folic acid intake among the Hispanic population by urging the FDA to order that folic acid be added to corn masa flour.
"Hispanic women eating tortillas instead of bread — that is the issue," said Aussy Levi, state director of programs and government affairs for March of Dimes in New Mexico.
Getting an adequate amount of folic acid among women of child bearing age can lower incidence of NTDs by up to 70 percent, Levi said.
Pushing for change
In 2012, the March of Dimes co-sponsored a petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of folic acid in corn masa flour, according to the Federal Register. As part of its review, the FDA requested additional information and studies to help demonstrate the stability of folic acid in corn masa and foods prepared from it, according to a letter from the March of Dimes and co-petitioners.
A study testing the stability of folic acid in tortillas and corn chips made with corn masa flour, led by Michael Dunn, a food scientist at Brigham Young University, was filed in October.
"We are eagerly awaiting the study results review from the FDA, which was accepted at the end of 2015," Levi said. "Because various stages of this protocol requires the fortified (corn masa) flour to stand for certain periods of time, results are not anticipated until sometime in mid-year 2016. The March of Dimes is monitoring the progress of this study. Currently it's under review."
Why the delay?
One of the issues in adding folic acid to corn masa flour lies in the process used to prepare foods like corn tortillas and chips called nixtamalization, a process that makes the corn more pliable and adds texture and flavor.
During this process, whole corn kernels are softened by steeping them in an alkaline solution, usually of slaked lime. Following a long soak, the alkaline-steeped water is drained, and the corn kernels are washed before grinding into dough and drying, sieving, and regrinding to create corn masa flour, according to previous research by Dunn on adding micronutrients to fortified corn flours.
But the FDA has expressed concerns that this alkaline treatment could affect the stability of added folic acid.
Dunn has said that he cannot comment on the latest test results while they are under FDA review, but The Seattle Times reported in July 2015 that Dunn's early results showed there were no losses of folic acid in fortified corn masa flour after three months of storage.
The study by Dunn "is well received and there are many organizations backing up this issue," Levi said.
Benefits of folic acid
Since folic acid fortification of flour and cereals, rates of NTDs in the U.S. have decreased by 36 percent, preventing about 1,300 cases a year, according to CDC.
Mandating fortification in corn masa flour would help ensure that Hispanic women get enough folic acid even before they know they are pregnant, advocates said.
Folic acid is most crucial during the early stages, about three or four weeks, of pregnancy when the neural tubes form the skull, brain and spinal cord, said Laura Vanyo, RN, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at New Mexico State University.
"The bone and skin have to meet in the middle and cover up the brain and the spinal cord and that happens really early in the first month of pregnancy," Vanyo said. "Most people don't know that they're pregnant at that time since most pregnancies aren't planned."
According to CDC, a woman needs 400 micrograms of folic acid per day.
Vanyo said along with a nutritious diet, it's recommended that pregnant women get 600 micrograms per day and 500 micrograms if a woman is lactating.
Foods to seek out include leafy green vegetables, fruits, dried beans, peas and nuts, enriched breads, cereals and other grain products, beef liver, kidney, orange juice and tomato juice. Supplements containing folic acid are suggested for women of childbearing age, according to Mayo Clinic.
Folic acid, or folate also helps the body make healthy new cells and is an important vitamin for both men and women, Vanyo said.
"(Folic acid) helps form your red blood cells, so if you don't get that then you can develop a special kind of anemia, which is low (red) blood cells, so it is helpful for everybody," she said.
Alexia Severson may be reached at 575-541-5462, aseverson@lcsun-news.com or @AlexiaMSeverson on Twitter.
Sources of folic acid/folate
Enriched breads, rice and pasta
Dark, green leafy vegetables
Beef liver, kidney
Orange juice and tomato juice
A supplement with folic acid, such as a multivitamin
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Mayo Clinic


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Homewood Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, At Least 4 Injured
By Bob Allen October 20, 2013 at 11:50 pm
Filed Under:Demetrius Broadnax, Fatal Shooting, Homewood, Jasmine Morris, Kelly Street, North Homewood Avenue, Shooting
(Photo Courtesy of Jasmine Morris' Family)
HOMEWOOD (KDKA) – Police are investigating after two people were shot and killed in Homewood early Sunday morning.
According to the medical examiner's office, the shooting happened inside a building near the intersection of Kelly Street and North Homewood Avenue around 3 a.m.
The victims have been identified as Jasmine Morris, 20, of Penn Hills, and Demetrius Broadnax, 27, of Wilkinsburg.
Officers were patrolling the area when they noticed several people running from a private club. Two women approached the officers and stated they had been shot.
While the officers were helping the women, the club's owner approached them and said there were two other people shot inside.
The officers then found Jasmine Morris, 21, of Penn Hills, and Demetrius Broadax, 27, of Wilkinsburg, on the ground and unresponsive. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Numerous shell casings were found at the scene as well.
"Her friends came to my house and said that Jasmine had been shot," Morris' mother, Lisa Briggs, said.
Briggs rushed to the scene when she heard about her daughter, who had only been in the club for about 15 minutes. At least four others suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds. So far, no motive was given for the shootings.
Two or three other people also went to local hospitals with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, which are believed to have been suffered at the same club.
"Six people's lives, six people's families have been affected by this one person's decisions to go in this club and take people's lives," Briggs said.
Morris had three children – two boys and a girl.
"They don't have their mother, 21-years old and pretty as a picture," Briggs said. "Why? But, he's going to answer to us why and even if we don't get the answer he will be caught no matter what, even if he doesn't say a word."
Police are currently looking to see if surveillance footage captured the incident inside the club.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Homicide Unit at (412)-323-7161.
If you'd like to donate to the family, you can at any PNC Bank, under the Jasmine Morris Memorial Fund, c/o Lisa Briggs.
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My encryption code is not working to sync to Dropbox. It's extremely long ad difficult to read. Can it be changed?
It can be changed on the primary computer but as I understand it the syncing setup with the secondary computers has to be recreated.
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My fellow archivist friend, David Stafford sent me an official looking letter the other day. Or maybe I should say that that colour of envelope is something I associate with officialness. It looks like the kind of legal envelope that used to sit on my father's desk. On careful inspection, I think it may once have been 'official' and is repurposed legal trashpo. Whatever, it has all sorts of messages of warning that of course I take no notice of: 'RAW SCIENCE enclosed no ART just pure raw science' has got to be a joke. But I'm intrigued.
David is divesting himself artily of some of the contents of his or his mother's house and I am the lucky rcipient of an at least 38 year old color slide!
And to be honest it is clear that even if this envelope does contain science, the purveyor has at least as much interest in words as invention and a keen ear for language: 'mix, beat, whip, flay, rotisserie, flense, stab, and poke your vegetables…' he also has a visual mind for making almost believeable contraptions!
So I can kind of imagine how David works. The way I see it, it's a bit like sending your titles off to the art show before you have made the piece and then having to make something to fit the title. Although I don't know which way around David works. Did he make a pattern, let it take on a life of its own and then write around it, or are the illustrations simply illustrations of a genius' mind after the writing is complete?
The thing is I think we are in the plastic layer now and for sure that coupled with the eel layer should stand us in good stead when that meteor arrives!
Thanks, Rebecca. A very fine parsing of my brain or what's left of it.
My favorite is still "flense." Call me Ishmael.


comparison shop for the best price online.
costs $60 more than I paid for it at Target.
it almost impossible to find the best deal.
To solve this problem there are "personal online shoppers"
prices and places where you can purchase the item.
buys would eliminate unbiased product comparisons.
their search results based on price and features.
search and a database of millions of products.
to show up in the results.
targeted advertising on the search results pages.
items that fall within the range.
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Ве́рхние Киги́ () — село, административный центр Кигинского района и Верхнекигинского сельсовета Республики Башкортостан.

Географическое положение
Село находится на северо-востоке Республики Башкортостан в 240 км от Уфы, в 42 км от ж/д станции Сулея Южно-Уральской железной дороги. Протекают реки Киги, Леуза, Карамалы, Карайлы. Через село проходят региональные автотрассы Бирск — Месягутово — Сатка, Малояз — Верхние Киги — Новобелокатай.

История
Основан в 1703 году. Самым ранним из всех поселений мишарей и тептярей была д. Верхние Киги при р. Киги. Согласно материалам начальника 3-го мишарского кантона хорунжего Азаматова за 1841 год, мишари деревни в числе 440 мужчин и 446 женщин в 1834 г. «собственной земли не имеют, а живут на башкирских землях и платят (башкирам) оброк». Что касается тептярей Верхних Кигов, то, по словам Троицкого земского исправника, выясняется следующее: "Земля окортомлена (то есть арендована) вообще с мещеряками 440 душами (то есть по VIII ревизии 1834 г.) на вечное владение у вотчинников башкир Тарнаклинской (Тырнаклинской) волости с платежом (оброка) по 25 коп. в год с каждого двора. 3 июня 1774 года возле села произошло крупнейшее ожесточённое сражение между повстанцами Емельяна Пугачёва и царскими войсками под командованием Михельсона.

В 1918 году Верхние Киги являлись деревней, административным центром Верхнекигинской волости, Златоустовского уезда.

Население

 Национальный состав
Согласно переписи 2002 года, преобладающие национальности — татары (72 %), башкиры (23 %).

Название

Много лет тому назад жил один бедняк, его звали «Кыйгыр». Он работал у одного бая, и в награду за труд бай ему подарил лошадь. И вот когда Кыйгыр хотел завести своё хозяйство, но его лошадь убегает и теряется. Потеряв надежду, что лошадь найдется Кыйгыр возвращается на работу к баю. Однажды на табун, который пас Кыйгы нападают волки. Кыйгыр, испугавшись убегает в лес. Он долго бродил по лесам, блуждая неожиданно вышел к табуну. Дикие лошади испугались человека и убежали. Среди них Кыйгыр увидел свою кобылу, которую уже не надеялся в сторону. Лошадь узнала своего хозяина и последовала за ним, уводя за собой все стадо. Возвращаясь домой, Кыйгыр встретил незнакомых людей. Это были башкиры, преследуемые карательным отрядом царя. Бежавшие познакомились с Кыйгыром и стали его друзьями отправились на берег реки, обосновали себе жилище. Затем построили еще дома, появилась целая деревня, которая получила свое название по имени первого жителя. Река, протекавшая рядом, получила название Урге Кыйгы. Так гласит легенда.

Культура

Театр
С 1934 года в селе функционирует Кигинский башкирский народный театр имени Г. Мингажева.

Библиотеки

 МБУК Кигинская районная межпоселенческая библиотека
 Библиотека

Кинотеатр
 Киги Cinema, был открыт в 2021 году.

Музей
В селе находится историко-краеведческий музей.

Достопримечательности

Памятники

 Памятник В. И. Ленину
 Односельчанам
 Зенитное орудие
 Боевая слава
 Памятник в честь павших героев в великой отечественной войне
 Памятник «Защитникам морских рубежей»
 Памятник «Труженикам труда и детям войны»
 Въездная стела «Верхние Киги»
 Памятник «Вечная память павшим героям Гражданской войны»
 Памятник Зэйтунэкай

Парки и аллеи

 Парк «Семейный»
 Парк «Победы»
 Молодёжная аллея

Экономика
Экономика сосредоточена исключительно на растениеводстве. Также в населенном пункте располагаются завод молочных продуктов, мясокомбинат и асфальтный завод.

Климат

Средства массовой информации
Газеты

Газета «Наши Киги»

Телевидение

 БСТ
 Россия 1
 Россия 24
 Россия К

 Радио
 66.86 МГц — Радио России
 67.25 МГц — Радио России (Юрюзань)
 103.6 МГц — Радио Континенталь (Юрюзань)
 105.8 МГц — Радио Юлдаш (Месягутово)
 107.7 МГц — Спутник FM;

Образование
Колледжи

 Филиал Государственного Бюджетного Дуванский Многопрофильный колледж С. Верхние Киги Республики Башкортостан
 Филиал ГБПОУ ДМК с. Верхние Киги

Школа
 МОБУ СОШ № 2
 Лицей с. Верхние Киги

Детские сады

 Детский сад № 4 Колосок
 Детский сад № 1 Солнышко
 Детский сад № 5 Шатлык

Автошкола

 ДОСААФ

Спортивные школы

 ДЮСШ
 Спортивная школа с. Верхние Киги

Школа искусств

 Школа искусств с. Верхние Киги.

Известные люди
 Баширов, Радик Минниханович (род. 1935) — инженер-механик, член-корреспондент АН РБ (1995), доктор технических наук (1982), профессор (1983), ректор Башкирского аграрного университета (1988—1999), заслуженный деятель науки Башкирской АССР (1976), заслуженный деятель науки РФ (1988).
 Кудаш, Сайфи Фаттахович (1894—1993) — татарский, башкирский поэт и писатель, народный поэт Башкирской АССР (1964), жил в селе в 1930—1931 гг.
 Сунгатуллина, Зиля Даяновна (род. 1949) — советская и российская театральная актриса и педагог.
 Ханиф Карим (1910—1983) — башкирский советский поэт и писатель, Заслуженный работник культуры Башкирской АССР (1970).
 Шагимарданов, Фазыл Валиахметович (1906—1968) — советский партийный и государственный деятель, Председатель Совета Народных Комиссаров Башкирской АССР (1937—1940).
 Рауль Закирьянович Файрузов — министр внутренних дел Республики Башкортостан (1995—1996), депутат Государственного Собрания-Курултая Республики Башкортостан (1995—1996), заслуженный юрист Республики Башкортостан, генерал-майор полиции.
 Валиев Тавкалюн Хамматович (1896—1959). Педагог, кавалер двух орденов Ленина. Около 50 лет был связан со школой. Работал директором Нижнекигинской, Душамбековской, Асылгужинской, Лаклинской школ. Заслуженный учитель школ РСФСР.
 Сафин Шамиль Махмутович (1956). Доктор медицинских наук. Окончил Башгосмединститут. Работает врачом-нейрохирургом в Республиканской больнице имени Куватова. Автор более 60 научных публикаций и двух монографий.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Верхние Киги | Генеалогия и архивы

Населённые пункты Кигинского района
Районные центры Башкортостана