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Read "The Climb", "Into Thin Air" and "Left for Dead". Don't know who was at fault for the tragedy...very sad. Incredible reading.

 * I have read The Climb (most while in Nepal no less), and Into Thin Air. Krakauer blames Boukreev to some extent for descending to the South Col well ahead of the clients. However, Boukreev stated in his book that he had consulted with Fisher before doing so and it was agreed that it was best if he did so in order to prepare for the climbers as they reached the South Col. I think Fisher exhausted himself before he made the summit attempt and probably should not have gone (notwithstanding what eventually happened). Indeed a tragic story for everyone involved. Most everyone who suffered that day made the summit well past the safe turnaround. Many times climbers can be fortunate with the afternoon weather and take the additional risk of reaching the summit late but luck was not with them that day. RedWolf 07:28, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

Anatoli was born in Kazakhstan (then USSR), not in Russia. There are many pictures of him on the web with him holding up the Kazakhstan flag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.56.82.112 (talk) 04:20, 3 October 2007 (UTC) Actually, as a quick check shows, Chelyabinsk has never been anywhere but in Russia.

Totally Disputed
Granted, this must be a very touchy subject, with the Salon debates, DeWalt's The Climb, and Krakauer's 1999 afterword against DeWalt, amongst other bits in the sheer glut of facts. But this article is clearly very biased, not even referencing some of the disputed claims. Some points that need to be addressed:

 * 1) I thought that Dale Kruse gotten HACE during the accilimization time and that Fischer ordered Boukreev to climb with them; Boukreev refused and as a result there was nobody there when Kruse collapsed at Camp II. (described in Into Thin Air)
 * 2) Boukreev's cynical view of guiding, his personality: how if the client could not climb Everest he/she should not be on it.
 * 3) Decision to descend. Oh god, the implications with this thing.  Second conversation, predetermined plan?
 * 4) Adams switching sides around? Krakauer reports Adams as a mild man, who says, "Wow.  I say you got some explaining to do."  Dewitt has Adams as a real critic (can't remember the quote now).  Whatever the case, he's the only other surviving witness (besides Krakauer himself) who saw Boukreev's and Fischer's last conversation.

It's all in Into Thin Air and The Climb and the Salon debates, which includes one piece and two Dewitt/Krakauer debates. Lots of this info needs to be included and neturally described, which is why I put the TotallyDisputed template up, since neither are present (the page before I edited it solely had Boukreev/Dewitt version). Even my edits haven't quite fully done justice. Hbdragon88 02:39, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It is not to put blame on a dead person. But the general negative POV on Boukreev was that he (as a very experienced and extremely strong climber) only was able (and willing) to climb for his own, additionally get paid for this, and did NOT (really) work (every time) for the team members (which is essential as they pay for summiting WITH help). When he might have asked Scott Fischer, his boss, high on Everest for allowance to go down quickly, nearly everybody knew that Scott Fischer was a weak and quite ill person at that moment, probably not willing to dispute: again a mistake beneath others. Yes, Boukreev then, later, saved lives down on south col. OK. But in front of this he might have saved some more lives higher on the mountain in assisting his boss and the team members instead of rushing on top alone and then rushing down alone. IMHO. (excuse for my bad english.) BTW Weston DeWalt, writer for Boukreev, is a bloody asshole, having earned money by a lousy and really bad book. Me being a saloon debateer too (but a man with deep respect for responsible behaviour. Boukreev - in his extreme wish to perform as a climber was NO good responsible team member. AND Fischer was a bad boss trying to ignore this fact.) Or we agree in this: trying to summit on Everest is a NON RESPONSIBLE behaviour in any respect, as there may riskily occur heaviest weather conds in extreme short times which can cause deads after best thinkable preparation to survive. 217.187.204.239 21:31, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Why is guiding on Everest even a thing? Guides should be used to show the way, not to babysit.  Any negligence short of the client saying "no" and the guide saying "yes" is entirely on the client in this situation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.170.233 (talk) 16:26, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposed changes
This is the second time I have encountered questionable information on Wikipedia. I'm hesitant to just charge right in and change it, since I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the process, so I'll post about it and wait a bit for discussion before acting. The problematic section is the following paragraph which was added by Hbdragon88:

 * "Boukreev descended to Camp IV for energy reasons; because he was climbing without bottled oxgyen, he needed to descend quickly. His decision to descend ahead of the climbers has been a major point of conflict; many primere mountain climbers criticzed Boukreev for not fulfilling his duty as a guide to breateh bottled oxygen and assist the clients as they headed down. Even the facts are in dispute; Gary Weston DeWalt claims that Fischer devised such a plan for Boukreev to descend ahead of time; Boukreev in other interviews has said there was no plan. The heated debate reached a climax in Salon, where Krakauer and DeWalt debated about Boukreev's decisio to descend. [1]"

An addition to numerous mispellings and odd punctuation, the facts here are distorted. At least it is heavily biased towards Krakauer's version of events. The reason Boukreev descended quickly is disputed. "Premiere" mountaineers have both criticized and applauded Boukreev's actions that day. Boukreev's "duty" as understood by he and his employer is also in dispute, as is whether he fulfilled it. DeWalt does not merely "claim" Boukreev and Fischer had a plan, but cites a witness (Jane Bromet) who has publicly stated that Fischer spoke of this to her. The claim that Boukreev stated there was no plan in "other interviews" is not sourced. I suspect that the source is Jon Krakauer's statement: "Indeed, in the summer of 1996, Boukreev himself explicitly stated during a videotaped interview for ABC News that there was no plan." (from the linked footnote). If this is so then "interviews" should not be plural. Also, I would like to see a transcript of this interview before relying on Krakauer's interpretation as fact.

I think that the best solution to the problems with this paragraph would be to revert to the original text which read simply: "Boukreev descended to Camp IV, after consulting with Fischer, ahead of the climbers to prepare tea and food upon their return.", and change this to: "Boukreev descended to Camp IV ahead of the other climbers for reasons which are disputed." An additional section could be added, summarizing the points in contention.

I (and most mountaineers I know) find DeWalt's version of events to be far more credible than Krakauer's. Though the latter is a much more compelling writer, he has demonstrated a shocking lack of credibility in his original telling of events (regarding Andy Harris), and his arguments have holes you can drive a truck through. I do recommend that anyone interested in the event read both books and the debates posted online, then make up their own mind on it.

Any advice for the proper procedure to make this change? Should I have just made the edits and explained it here?

WodenAlfodr 02:07, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I never pretended to be knowledgable about mountain climbing at all nor have read The Climb, which is why I brought up the issue here in regards on how to "toe the line" than trying to make it fit into the Krakauer or DeWalt vision. That being said, I like the "reasons are disputed" part with an explanation.

 * There's not much that I know of; I only recently found the Salon debate and read the 1999 afterward to Into Thin Air. Again, this is why I bring it here because I am not too knowledgable on the issue.

 * I for one found that Krakauer's 1999 afterward punched holes in DeWalt's arguments, such as the fact that Bromet herself said that DeWalt had worded her quote to make it appear like there ws a plan, or the fact that the conversation took place in March or thereabouts. I'd like to also know about the holes that Krakauer's arguments have.  Note that the Outside article was done quickly, nad Krakauer says that he couldn't reach Martin Adams until after it went to press (which is totally disputed by DeWalt in the parts of Climb that I did read).

 * I also find DeWalt's premise to be ridiculous. Fischer pays an experience mountain guide $US 25,000 to do the work of a Sherpa?  That money is for him to stay there and help the client! (logically)  And the only proof that Fischer had a plan was Bromet, and Krakauer pointed out that the "plan" dated back to March of that year, two months before the journey. Hbdragon88 23:19, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I performed the agreed on reversion, however, I have not had the opportunity to review the source material yet, so I did not perform the summarization of the points in contention. Instead I simply retained your link to the Salon debate. I still think that a summarization would be beneficial, because the beginnings of this debate lie within the books Into Thin Air and The Climb. It is a difficult topic to do justice to.

Regarding the points you raise above, again, I haven't reviewed the material recently, but here is what I recall: Voden 12:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Bromet's issue with DeWalts use of her quote had to do with when she said it, not the substance of her words.
 * The main problems I have with Krakauer's story revolve around the use of oxygen. IIRC Anatoli spent a couple of hours at the top, was the only person to brave the storm that night rescuing several people, and then headed back up the next day to find Fischer. Anatoli believed that if he had used oxygen, and stayed with the clients he would have run out of oxygen and been severely debilitated, and would likely have perished with the others.  I see no compelling evidence to falsify this statement, and Krakauer's own experience with his oxygen would seem to support it.
 * Krakauer's description of the disagreement over the status of oxygen bottles on the South Col, has a suspect air about it that is reminiscent of his egregious mistake in the original article (also about Andy). He assigns considerable blame to Andy for Rob's death, and seems to do so much too lightly.  Boukreev's account of this event is more plausible, and consistent with his overall discussion of the use of oxygen, a topic that he expounds on at length in The Climb.
 * Hmmm....I don't believe this is going to go much anywhere if neither of us have the sure knowledge, if we have this hesitency in not knowing how about to fix up this article. You are correct in that both Boukreev and DeWalt argue that Boukreev's lack of oxgyen usage helped clients.  However, as Krakauer pointed out - he couldn't help anyone directly.  Look at Martin Adams - Boukreev said, "I am going down with Adams."  Adams falls behind, Boukreev races ahead of him, and it is Mike Groom who finds a severly hypoxic Adams.  Krakauer also points out that Ed Viesturs, the man who did the IMAX film and is the 12th to climb the all of the eight-thousnader peaks, said that it was completely irresponsible to guide without oxygen.  Bascially, Krakauer said that one cannot think without oxygen, and so reponsible guides will use it to direclty assist their clients.
 * The afterward clearly states that Bromet believed that DeWalt had nixed her quote enough to make it sound like a plan when there really wasn't.
 * The South Col...not too sure what the debate is here. He had Mike Groom there, who presumably verified everything Krakauer wrote down.  Krakauer nearly collapsed due to a lack of oxygen; Mike Groom gave him his bottle of O's, and they checked the South Col and verified that there was indeed oxygen in all of those bottles.  I know for a fact that Boukreev's book says that "Krakauer collapsed," which some have dismissed as unprofessional and a cheap shot.
 * Krakauer mostly sticks it to the mountain guides (Hall and Fischer), really, more than anything else. He says that they were irresponsible in not turing people around after the 2pm turnaround time, and especially so in Rob Hanson's case.
 * Personally, I think we need an expert on this topic. Badly.  Who knows everything about both accounts and can write a neutral article. - Hbdragon88 05:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

NPOV Proposal
I'd suggest that while Wiki talks about providing an objective 'truth' based on 'published' sources we have arrived at the point where the limited ability of any of the participants to see and understand everything that was going on, and the stress and strong feelings generated on the night of the storm, and particularly in the few days that followed, have made it impossible for any them to 'tell the whole story', or for us any of us to assemble a 'full picture' from each of their separately published works. One might note - as an aside - that if the participants had limited their comments to their own experience we might have been able to assemble a fairly coherent 'whole story' from their fragments, but the controversy that quickly swirled around the whole affair enjoined nearly everyone to make some observations outside their direct experience, and while these might be valuable observations it makes it harder for us looking back to discern 'what was known' and 'what was understood'. I might add before leaving this point, a quote from Peter Hillary about what it is like to be in a storm on a high mountain - to help explain to the earthbound (most of us) why events within such a (relatively) short timeframe could generate so many 'perspectives'.

''What would it have been like up there? Imagine yourself in a large commercial freezer; its minus 40 degrees, there’s a 747 engine at one end of the freezer, blasting freezing air at you at 300, perhaps 400 kilometres per hour. Tilt the entire freezer on to a 50 degree angle, so that you are clawing with your ice-axes and the crampons on your boots to secure purchase. Bear in mind that at over 8,000 metres there is less than one third the amount of oxygen in the air as at sea level and your lungs are heaving with a wild rate of hyperventilation that is only sufficient to enable you to move at a snail’s pace; your circulation is impaired by the acclimatisation process and the cold is eating into your toes and fingertips. Now turn off the light.''

And while the storm on Everest was not as strong as the one on K2 (that killed Alison Hargreaves and 5 others), in the case of Everest we are talking about a larger number of people spread out over a large area.

My key point - however - is that this story does not belong in the article on Anatoli Boukreev. Essentially it is a story about 'the mountain' and to attach it to Anatoli on the basis that he was just one 'participant' is illogical. If we justify its location here on the basis of the difference of opinion between Anatoli and Krakauer we miss the point - the 'fact' that there was disagreement belongs in this article (and in Jon Krakauer's), but the substance of those opinions, and the events that they attach to is a much bigger story than Anatoli's or Jon's alone, and warrants an article in it's own right, or as a chapter in the article on Everest itself (my preference). In that larger context I'd argue that there would be an opportunity to (in the Wiki tradition) present the various viewpoints (and reference them), and then enumerate (and this to my mind is what is important..) 'what is known - what is agreed' for the benefit of the reader.

This article - Anatoli's - is meant to be about the entirety of Anatoli's life, and I believe we should work to restore that 'focus'. Anatoli's climbing achievements were considerable. Incidentally I'd suggest the same approach to Scott Fischer's article, and Rob Hall's - comments about the circumstances of their deaths are appropriate, but a man's achievements 'in life' (if they are notable) deserve proper attention (and Anotoli, Scott and Rob achieved many notable things in their lives). Because there is likely to be some 'sensitivity' about this I won't do any more beyond 'adding' some details about Anatoli to the entry, and leave the question of reducing the 'story' of May 1996 to another day. I'd be proposing though, something along the lines of.. Anatoli was a guide in the Mountain Madness group, the group summited late in the day, Scott Fischer died, the rest survived, Anatoli was credited with rescuing 3 and was awarded the David A Sowles award for bravery by the US Alpine Club. Tban 00:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * For some time I've been intending to rewrite this in a more neutral tone. Reading your comments, I think it would be better to write an article on the '96 climbing season and then merge the info from the climber and Mt Everest articles. Then this and the other climber articles can be rewritten per your last paragraph, with a link to the new '96 article. At least then all the controversial stuff is in one place. Kevin 01:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like the beginning of some concensus. I have started the process I flagged, and promoted the 'climbing achievements' section to the forefront of the Boukreev article.Tban 07:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Gday Kevin, it gets interesting... The events of May 1996 on Everest deserve an article (clearly) on the basis that Wiki would be expected (by readers) to have 'something to say on it' and indeed people might be coming to Wiki to look for a NPOV on what must seem like a very confused/confusing story. It seems that it would be appropriate to mention the events of May 1996 'briefly' in the main Everest article, and then point to a standalone 'Everest 1996 Disaster' article (although there will probably be some discussion about what to call it - there is an argument that 'disaster' doesn't quite fit the bill).

Stepping aside from the question of the title for the moment though, it seems to me that to describe the events without having a detailed guide to the 'geography' of the route between the North Col and the Summit is to create more confusion. The main everest article doesn't quite go into enough detail. So there is a case for creating an 'child' article 'Everest North Col to Summit Route Detail' (or suchlike). So that's what I'm working on at the moment. It's actually quite complex - and made interesting by the fact that some climbers seem to interchange terms when describing the features along the way. A detailed geography also helps make sense of the Mallory/Irvine articles (who was where/when).

The format I'm aiming towards is an initial diagram (cross section) with several different 'layers' of information - (1) features - each relating to a text section lower down in the articl (2) vertical and horizontal distances between features (3) climbing time between features (4) location of events such as rescues/deaths/irving's ice axe etc (5) climbing route(s) around features. The very interesting thing is that the 'nearness' of the summit (and perhaps the stress on the climber) has resulted in the descriptions of this part of the route being frequently 'glossed over', hazy or simply contradictory. My timeframe to complete the first draft of this is about a week.. Tban 00:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree that the '96 disaster should get its own article and only be summarized in related articles. heqs 17:01, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes! I propose it be called 1996 Everest Disaster. I'm all over this, tell me when you start it so I can add it to my watchlist. --Liface 17:10, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems that people have been talking about it on various pages for at least a few months now, someone just has to get it started. ;) heqs 17:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Everest '96
(new section for ease of reading)

I am still working on this although I have had less time lately due to an intrusion of real life. I'm probably about a third of the way through. The format I was intending to use was:

Introduction

List of the climbers

A list of the climbers and expeditions involved.

Narrative of events

Written in prose form, broken up into suhheadings by date range i.e May 10-11 in one section, and I'm not sure of the others yet.

Oxygen supplies

Details of what was required, and what was actually available.

Fixing rope to the summit

According to Krakaeur this was a major cause of delay on summit day.

List of those who died

For easier reading than scanning through the narrative.

Controversy

A hopefully short section detailing the differences of opinion of those who were there.

References

If you get impatient send me a message on my talk page or an email to get a move on. I was keen to get the article mostly completed before posting so that the inevitable NPOV might be discouraged. I am in the process of emailing the climbers whos emails I can find to see if I can get some free use images from them, seeing as I'm not likely to be able to take my own pictures.

This article would fit well with descriptive articles on the 2 major climbing routes. Kevin 23:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

NPOV vs Disputed
The actual facts presented in the Everest '96 section aren't actually in contention. All accounts of the summit bid agree on the timetable, location of the team members, etc. I changed the tag to NPOV to reflect that there is still disagreement about how to interpret Boukreev's motivation. Let me know if you disagree. 129.186.205.84 20:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

anatoli epilogue
having read both books (into thin air and the climb) i got interested in and about anatoli boukreev. that's why i ended up here at wikipedia.

to my opinion it doesn't matter where the truth lies, anatoli was a very strong climber with an impressive state of accomplishments.

a mistake at high altitude, is often a deadly one. and as i have read both books , some things are for sure. why anatoli went up without oxygen while guiding, and going down without any customers , is questionable. even if there was a plan/agreement with fisher. everything around it is speculative.

it doesn't change the fact that we're talking about a great climber here, and although he has accomplished incredible things, the 1996 everest disaster will be the first thing he will be remembered by.

he rescued 3 people in a very hostile environment (one that should be listed at his merits). but the way he got there still raises questions.

thus the legacy of this climber. so my proposal would be.

put all versions of all writers/witnesses in. let history decide. there's no way to be sure what really happened. even surviving witnesses can't be all that sure because of hypoxia and exhaustion (even before the storm).

so i believe that some controversies about anatoli can't be solved. and we shouldn't want to. it's all part of the adventure so to speak. so place all accounts side by side, don't alter any of them. leave it.

steeb —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.170.182.84 (talk) 18:53, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Neutral Point of View Question Raised Again
I've read both the Climb and Into Thin Air. I'm not a climber, but I'm having a hard time swallowing Krakauer's line that Boukreev's descent ahead of his clients was a factor in the problems they encountered. A simple body count reveals that of the Mountain Madness team (Boukreev's), the six clients who attempted the summit that day, Martin Adams, Charlotte Fox, Lene Gammalgaard, Tim Madsen, Sandy Hill Pittman, and Klev Schoening, all reached the summit and survived without loss of fingers or toes. Scott Fischer, the leader of the expedition, was the only fatality.

Of the Adventure Consultant's team, (Krakauer's), Krakauer was the only client to both reach the summit and survive. Rob Hall, the leader of the expedition died of exposure, guide Andy Hall died, as did clients Doug Hansen and Yasuko Namba. Beck Weathers who failed to reach the summit was abandoned by his teammates, but managed (miraculously, in my opinion) to survive.

Boukreev was a highly trained and experienced climber. Krakauer is a journalist. Boukreev's opinion was that he would be better able to help if he himself was rested and equiped with what the clients needed: oxygen and hot tea to combat hypothermia. Krakauer seems to think that Boukreev should have just held hands with his clients.

It seems to me that the results are not neutral: Boukreev was right.

I would like the article on Boukreev to omit even a summary of the controversy, and just have it link to a separate article. Ljprice (talk) 22:33, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

I think there's a more convincing argument then the question of where Boukreev's help was most useful, up with clients or resting in camp 4 ready to head up and provide help when the storm broke. This ignores the nature of what Boukreev would have been helping the clients with, climbing Everest, not descending, initially at least. Given Boukreev's descent time every climber Boukreev crossed paths with should have turned around and joined him going down, the fact that none did speaks at the very least to the fact that Boukreev would have had to help clients get further into the death zone before he'd be in a position of actually 'saving' anyone. One might argue that too little was done to convince various climbers to turn around, which I agree Boukreev should have done, though we may never know what efforts he made to direct people in the right direction. Certainly I think this is an area where the team leaders should have, you know, LEAD and gotten the train going in the right direction and the lack of effective leadership limited what Boukreev could do to help clients stay safe. Further evidence to the fact that staying with the clients may not have been the best option is in the deaths of both Adventure Consultant guides high up on the mountain unable to help their clients, themselves and unable even to be helped. Finally having spent an hour and a half on or around the summit helping clients it's pretty clear that Boukreev was helping as long as the climbers were operating on a reasonable safe climb and descent schedule.

The two things that I think Boukreev could have done that would have clearly improved the situation would be firstly climbing with oxygen, even if not to stay up on the mountain longer it would have meant the climb taxed him less and put him in better shape to help stranded climbers after the storm. Secondly assuming leadership after Scott started to show signs of suffering mentally from the altitude and presumably getting his team to turn around by the proper time.

You know, I agree completely. It seems appropriate that his accomplishments should stand on their own and not be folded into the controversy. The article on the 1996 disaster covers this controversy completely. I'm going to go ahead and edit the article accordingly, and if anyone thinks it belongs back in, well, we'll talk again. PR (talk) 04:03, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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According to Krakauer, Boukreev ascended 11, not 10, of the 14 eight-thousander peaks
On page 441 of Into Thin Air the author mentions that Boukreev ascended Gasherbrum II in Pakistan in July of 1997, which was his 11th 8,000 meter peak. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Druzyek (talk • contribs) 15:53, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Finished Above The Clouds:
Not that anyone probably cares since no one has been debating on this page for many years: the article is still way too heavily biased. It has no accounts from Above The Clouds and seems to favor Into Thin Air way too much. The person responsible for this tragedy is the weather and the mountain. There were sad chains of events that occured that ended badly but putting responsibility for everyone's lives squarely on Anatoli's shoulders is pretty crap. I think Jon Krakauer just wanted Anatoli to be the next Ivan Drogo-type villain in his book. In reality, Anatoli just suffered from a language barrier. I would love to see this article updated to be less focused on Into Thin Air, seeing as its about Anatoli and not whatever fake villain Krakauer made up for his book. 24.115.5.255 (talk) 09:39, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French writer.

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She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, on 7 April 1907. She was the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe Leduc, and André Debaralle, the son of a rich Protestant family in Valenciennes, who refused to legitimize her. In Valenciennes, Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her mother's hostility and excessive protectiveness. She developed tender friendships with her grandmother Fideline and her maternal aunt Laure. Her grandmother died when Leduc was a young child.

Her formal education began in 1913, but was interrupted by World War I. After the war, she went to a boarding school, the Collège de Douai, where she experienced lesbian affairs with her classmate "Isabelle P", which Leduc later adapted into the first part of her novel Ravages, and then the 1966 Thérèse et Isabelle. During her time at the Collège de Douai, she was introduced to what would become her first literary passions: the Russian classics, then Cocteau, Duhamel, Gide, Proust, and Rimbaud.

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Career and personal life
In 1926, Leduc moved to Paris, along with her mother and stepfather, and enrolled in the Lycée Racine. The same year, she failed her baccalaureate exam, and began working as a press cuttings clerk and secretary at Plon publishers, later becoming a writer of news pieces about their publications. She continued to live with Hertgès for nine years in the suburbs of Paris. Violette's mother Berthe encouraged her homosexual relations, believing this would protect Violette from illegitimate pregnancy.

In 1927, Violette met Jacques Mercier, seven years her senior, in a cinema. Despite her involvement with Hertgès, Mercier continuously pursued Violette. This love triangle is the basis of the plot of Ravages, wherein Violette is represented by the character Thérèse, Mercier by Marc, and Hertgès by Cécile. Violette's relationship with Hertgès ended in 1935. In 1939, Violette married Mercier. Their marriage was unsuccessful, and they separated. During their separation, Violette discovered that she was pregnant, and almost lost her life during an abortion.

In 1938, she met Maurice Sachs (future author of Le Sabbat), and in 1942, he took Violette to Normandy, where she wrote the manuscript of L'Asphyxie. During this time, Violette was also involved with trading on the black market, which allowed her to make a living. In 1944, Violette saw Simone de Beauvoir, and in 1945, Violette gave Beauvoir a copy of the manuscript of L'Asphyxie. This interaction formed the basis of a friendship and mentorship between her and Beauvoir that lasted for the rest of her life. Her first novel, L'Asphyxie (In the Prison of Her Skin), was published by Albert Camus for Éditions Gallimard, and earned her praise from Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet. Her friendship and love of Maurice Sachs is detailed in her autobiography, La Bâtarde.

In 1955, Violette published her novel Ravages with Gallimard, but the editor censored the first 150-page section of the book, which depicts Violette's sexual encounters and defloration with her female classmate; Isabelle P. Gallimard censored this section by labelling it obscene. The censored part was eventually published as a separate novella, Thérèse and Isabelle, in 1966. Another novel, Le Taxi, caused controversy because of its depiction of incest between a brother and a sister. Critic Edith J. Benkov compared this novel with the work of Marguerite Duras and Nathalie Sarraute.

Leduc's best-known book, the memoir La Bâtarde, was published in 1964. It nearly won the Prix Goncourt, and quickly became a best-seller. She went on to write eight more books, including La Folie en tête (Mad in Pursuit), the second part of her literary autobiography.

In 1968, Radley Metzger made a film of Leduc's novel Thérèse and Isabelle. It is a commercial feature about adolescent lesbian love, starring Essy Persson and Anna Gael.

Illness, death and legacy
Leduc developed breast cancer and died at the age of 65, after two operations. She was living at Faucon, Vaucluse, at the time of her death.

Violette is a 2013 French biographical drama film about Leduc. It was written and directed by Martin Provost and shown in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

List of works

 * L'Asphyxie, 1946 (In the Prison of Her Skin, trans. Derek Coltman, 1970).
 * L'affamée, 1948.
 * Ravages, 1955.
 * La vieille fille et le mort, 1958.
 * Trésors à prendre, suivi de Les Boutons dorés, 1960.
 * La Bâtarde, 1964 (La Bâtarde, trans. Derek Coltman, 1965).
 * La Femme au petit renard, 1965 (The Lady and the Little Fox Fur).
 * Thérèse et Isabelle, 1966 (Thérèse and Isabelle, trans. Sophie Lewis, The Feminist Press, 2015. )
 * La Folie en tête, 1970 (Mad in Pursuit, trans. Derek Coltman, 1971)
 * Le Taxi, 1971
 * La Chasse à l'amour, 1973.

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Talk:Belt (clothing)

~"Sash Shell" and "window sash" need to be somewhere else. --ChadMiller

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

NO CONSENSUS to move page, per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC) Belt (clothing) → Belt — I believe that the majority of people searching for a belt in an encyclopedia will be interested in the clothing item. Therefore, I propose that we move Belt to Belt (disambiguation) and Belt (clothing) to Belt Dave 23:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Survey

 * Add  # Support   or   # Oppose   on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~ .  Please remember that this survey is not a vote, and please provide an explanation for your recommendation.

Survey - in opposition to the move

 * 1) Oppose. It is not clear that this is the primary use given the number of meanings for the word belt.  Leaving the dab page where it is, makes it easy to find bad links and fix them. If these moves were made, finding bad links would be very difficult and there would be a large number of readers redirected to the wrong article.  That's just wrong. Vegaswikian 20:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose like the above user, I'm not convinced that the article of clothing is the overhwlming primary usage. My first thought when i hear the phrase is actually in the astronomical sense like Orion's belt. 205.157.110.11 00:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose as per the above reasons. Bssc81 08:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose. Nothing wrong as is; different people think of different def'ns.+mwtoews 10:27, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Oppose per above. Not necessarily the primary use. PC78 14:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Oppose, the finding of bad links mentioned by Vegaswikian is especially important in this and similar cases. Gene Nygaard 20:45, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

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Belt Direction
The belt direction section is backwards. Men thread counter-clockwise so the end points to the left. Can't find much of a citation, but go ahead and look at a large handful of pants models for any fashionable brand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.78.139.10 (talk) 15:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. But I also cannot find a good source for this, just a bunch of discussions on message boards. There seems to be some disagreement on the subject, with most people saying that it is counter-clockwise for men and clockwise for women (and the VAST majority of photos seem to agree with this). Too bad the person who added it didn't have a source. Since I don't have a source, I'm hesitant to take it out or change it, but perhaps that would be best. Gadogado (talk) 06:28, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it's really bad to leave it as is. It's going to create tons of confusion. Would it be better to remove the Belt Direction section entirely, or just "correct" it (even though a source may be hard to find). I'm tempted to take out the knight thing (as it sounds like BS) and switch the directions, but I'm not sure that my wiki-conscience will let me do that, as my only basis for doing so would be "original research" and/or opinion. But darn it, right now it's just wrong. And I do think that this article should have a section on belt direction, so it would be nice not to have to delete it. Any thoughts?Gadogado (talk) 06:17, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Picture
I think there should be a change of the top picture. This article is about belts, not the belt buckle —Preceding unsigned comment added by RealGoodNosh (talk • contribs) 22:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

And should this really be the place for a Billabong publicity ? (See Billabong belt buckle picture) Mekmtl —Preceding comment was added at 16:38, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Many Leather Belt Quality is inferior these days
I'd like to see information about the low quality of many belts being sold these days as leather and how to tell the difference to educate interested buyers. These are not full leather belts, but seem to be mainly made of some kind of cardboard with a thin leather top layer. These belts are advertised as leather but an untrained purchaser can not the difference. With use, these belts layers fall apart and the belt bends and eventually breaks around the holes the buckle latches into, after only 1 year of use or so. From what I've read, we consume more meat than leather so there shouldn't be a need for using such inferior belts for the most part. I assume the belts are made this way so you have to keep repurchasing them. I'd like to see some insider information on this subject. Is there a good reason for belts made like this? I know many want to reduce the amount of animals killed but it seems to me this may increase the use of leather since the belts to not last. It definately increases the land fills etc. I haven't seen any on the internet and don't know of anyone who knows more on this subject. Decades ago leather belts were solid leather and lasted many many years or even decades. Some manufacturers still make belts like this but it seems the majority do not.

Thank-you 67.176.91.109 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:59, 25 March 2010 (UTC).

Correct looping direction section
I've tagged this section as being in the wrong style - it reads like a chatty "how-to" and needing references. I don't even know if it's correct and it's difficult to have faith in bits like "While there is a large consensus" and "the truth is" without something to back them up, although I have no doubt about the editor's best intentions. Is it a useful addition to the article if referenced and edited, or would it be better without? Best wishes to all DBaK (talk) 12:16, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Belt loops

 * "In modern times, men started wearing belts in the 1920s, as trouser waists fell to a lower line. Before the 1920s, belts served mostly a decorative purpose, and were associated with the military. Moreover, prior to that trousers did not even have belt loops. The first recorded use of belt loops on trousers is 1922, when a jeans company added them. [1] Today it is common for men to wear a belt with their trousers."

 * Seems not to be correct, see this picture from 1900: File:1900 Boston NationalLeague 2349888289.jpg --тнояsтеn ⇔ 10:27, 5. Feb. 2014 (CET)
 * In Baseball already in the 1890s: File:1892 Cleveland Spiders.jpg, File:1896 Baltimore Orioles.jpg, File:Chicago Colts 1896.jpg, File:BostonBeaneaters1899.png, File:Claflin University Football 1899.jpg. --тнояsтеn ⇔ 10:32, 5. Feb. 2014 (CET)
 * Seems they have had belt loops for a long time: 1880s (1, 2, 3, 4) and even 1868 (File:1868 Reds.jpg). --тнояsтеn ⇔ 10:39, 5. Feb. 2014 (CET)
 * From the German Auskunft ... brought to you by  GEEZER nil nisi bene 10:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

The Thorsberg trousers (5th century CE) had belt loops and predate these examples by more than a thousand years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.162.213.127 (talk) 04:30, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Picture of police officer's duty belt should be moved to the 'Gallery' tab
In my opinion, the picture of the police officer's duty belt should be moved from the 'See also' section of the article to the 'Gallery' section of the article as in my opinion I feel that the 'Gallery' section is a more appropriate place for the photo compared to the 'See also' section. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 20:13, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

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Half-belt
The section under the heading "Half-belt" doesn't have a source, deals with a very obscure topic, is too specific for this article, and is barely intelligible. It should be deleted. Citizen127 (talk) 19:18, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

 * I absolutely agree, and since no-one has objected to your motion, I have gone boldly ahead and removed the section. Nikolaj1905 (talk) 14:31, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * An item got some space under the Martingale (clothing). Викидим (talk) 04:12, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Not only trousers and pants
I reverted @Johnnytest5's addition of "over trousers or pants" in the lead. Belts may also be worn over dresses, skirts and a number of other items of clothing, so the addition was misleading. Nikolaj1905 (talk) 11:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

It's not misleading, it's just brief. In the intro of an article it's not expected to have the complete information. It mentions the rest of the items down below. The addition was necessary as right now it doesn't say anything at all, and THAT is very very misleading. But if you want to add these items, add them. It'll be better than what it is now. Johnnytest5 (talk) 06:56, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

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Cover of the Lincoln Thompson album Experience.

Licensing
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Eritrean Airlines

Eritrean Airlines is the national airline of Eritrea. Based at Asmara International Airport, it is wholly owned by the government of Eritrea. Scheduled service had been discontinued since 2008, and the airline operated only a few hajj flights every year. The airline was restarted under new management in 2011. In 2011, Nasair, a privately owned company, merged with government-owned Eritrean Airlines, to form Nasair Eritrea. Eritrean Airlines has been banned from flying into the European Union (EU) since December 2012. , Eritrean Airlines had no scheduled service.

History
The airline was nominally established in May 1991, serving as the ground handling agent at Asmara International Airport and at Assab and Massawa. It also acted as sales agent for other major airlines flying to Eritrea. In May 2002, it was decided to expand into airline services. In April 2003, an ex-EgyptAir 14-year-old Boeing 767-300ER was leased from Boeing and used to start operations between Asmara and Amsterdam. It was the first aircraft the airline took possession of, and was named Queen Bee. The lease of the first Boeing 767 seems to have been replaced by an Airbus A320 in 2006 and then replaced again with a Boeing 757 in early 2007. It was again replaced with a DC-9 in late 2007, ending up with an MD-83.

In April 2003, Eritrean Airlines started regular services between Asmara and Frankfurt, Milan, Nairobi and Rome. In 2004, the airline added Amsterdam as another destination and in 2005, services began to Djibouti and Dubai. Meanwhile, the Nairobi route was dropped. By 2006, the flights to Amsterdam had been dropped while flights to Milan remained seasonal. On 21 September 2006, Eritrean Airlines entered an accord with the Government of Pakistan to start direct flights between Eritrea and Pakistan. Eritrean Airlines received permission from the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan to start two flights a week each for Karachi and Lahore. Eventually service was operated via Dubai four times per week on each route, with full fifth freedom passenger and cargo traffic rights on the Dubai - Pakistan sectors.

The airline announced in 2008 that it was commencing seasonal services to Bamako, for Hajj travellers. Flights to Djibouti were discontinued at the end of 2008 due to renewed tensions along the two countries' border, and flights to Frankfurt were cancelled in the summer of 2009.

In June 2011, a senior Eritrean Foreign Ministry official said that the United States government had applied pressure prohibiting companies from leasing aircraft to Eritrea. He stated that Washington was resorting to such illegal acts as part of its hostile attempts of stiffening anti-Eritrea sanctions, at a time when the Eritrean government was engaged in buying and leasing of passenger planes under new Pakistani management.

Eritrean Airlines resumed operations on 16 July 2011. It also introduced a new livery on the first A320 received, which was used for the inaugural service to Dubai and Lahore. A second A320 was added in October, and flights to Karachi were launched. The carrier also planned to restore domestic services once the currently stored Dornier fleet was made airworthy. Long-term fleet plans may include introduction of wide body aircraft like the Airbus A330, as well as new Boeing 737s to replace the A320.

EU ban
Since December 2012, Eritrean Airlines has been included in the European Commission list of airlines barred from flying into the EU.

Destinations
, Eritrean had scheduled service to four destinations: Cairo, Addis Ababa, Khartoum, and Jeddah. , no flights are scheduled on those routes.

Current fleet
The Eritrean Airlines fleet in July 2020 consisted of a Boeing 737-300. Eritrean is also said to have six Dornier aircraft, which are stored in Eritrea.

Former fleet
The airline previously operated the following equipment:
 * Airbus A319-100
 * Airbus A320-200
 * Boeing 737-300
 * Boeing 757-200
 * Boeing 767-200ER
 * Boeing 767-300ER
 * McDonnell Douglas MD-80

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We (disambiguation)

We is the nominative case of the first-person plural pronoun in the English language.

We or WE may also refer to:

Film and television

 * We (1982 film), a German film based on the 1921 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin
 * W.E., a 2011 film directed by Madonna
 * We (2018 film), a Belgian–Dutch drama film
 * We (2024 film), an upcoming Russian film based on the 1921 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin
 * We TV, an American pay television channel

Literature

 * We (novel), a 1921 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin
 * "WE" (1927 book), an autobiography of Charles Lindbergh

Performers

 * We (band), a Norwegian rock band

Songs

 * "We", a song by The Roches from their self-titled album
 * "We", a song by Joy Williams from Genesis (Joy Williams album)
 * "We", a song by Leo Ieiri from the eponymous album
 * "We" (song), a song by South Korean girl group Pledis Girlz

Albums

 * We, a 2011 album by Van Bod
 * We (Leo Ieiri album), a 2016 album by Leo Ieiri
 * We (EXID EP), a 2019 EP by EXID
 * We (Winner EP), a 2019 EP by Winner
 * We (Arcade Fire album), a 2022 album by Arcade Fire

Businesses

 * WE, an Egyptian mobile service brand owned by Telecom Egypt
 * WE (clothing), a Dutch clothing brand
 * WESC, a Swedish clothing brand often known as "We"
 * WeWork (NYSE: WE), an American commercial real estate company
 * Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1990) (reporting mark: WE), Ohio and Pennsylvania, US
 * Centurion Air Cargo (former IATA code: WE), a former US cargo airline
 * Thai Smile (former IATA code: WE), a former Thai regional airline
 * WE Charity, a youth charity

Language

 * We (kana), an obsolete Japanese character
 * Wè language, a language of Côte d'Ivoire
 * Royal we, the use of a plural pronoun by a single person referring to themselves

Other uses

 * Winning Eleven, an original name for Pro Evolution Soccer video game series
 * Wé, a town in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia
 * We, a unit for the electrical Watt
 * We-psicology, a theory of character development by Fritz Kunkel

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Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League

The Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League (RMLL) is a box lacrosse league based in Alberta with three teams in Saskatchewan and, as of 2018, one in Manitoba. It is sanctioned by the Alberta Lacrosse Association. RMLL organizes all senior and junior play in the province. The league is broken into several divisions: Senior B, Senior C, Junior A, Junior B, Tier II and Tier III. Junior Ladies and Senior Ladies divisions were added in 2004 and 2011, respectively.

The RMLL is experiencing rapid growth as the popularity of box lacrosse increases, spurred on by the expansion of the National Lacrosse League to Calgary in 2001 and Edmonton in 2005. In 2002, 18 teams played in the RMLL at all levels. That number grew to 37 in 2005, then 59 in 2006. An all-time high 64 teams competed in 2016.

National championships
The RMLL is guaranteed at least one berth in each of the following national championship tournaments. Championship teams from Alberta are listed:

Presidents Cup

 * 1975 - Edmonton Fullers
 * 1983 - Calgary Mountaineers
 * 2002 - Edmonton Outlaws
 * 2007 - Sherwood Park Outlaws
 * 2016 - St. Albert Miners
 * 2017 - St. Albert Miners
 * 2018 - St. Albert Miners

Minto Cup

 * none

Founders Cup

 * 1980 - Enoch Tomahawks
 * 1999 - Edmonton Miners
 * 2009 - Calgary Mountaineers
 * 2019 - Calgary Shamrocks
 * 2023 - Edmonton Warriors

The RMLL currently is not eligible for the Mann Cup Senior A championship. However, the Calgary Chinooks won the Mann Cup in 1914.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waah

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 09:03, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Waah
I just keep thinking of that beer commercial. "Wazaaah!" Uncle G 18:37, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC)

 * And how is what you were thinking about makes a page applicable to be deleted. The reason i've created this page is that when this game was mentioned in a discussion i've had i did what i normally do... ie looked for it on wiki, and it didn't exist, so then i've had to create a reference to it. Beta_M talk, |contrib ( Ë-Mail )

 * Delete Naah! --Lee Hunter 21:19, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * (no vote) I think it's wikipedia policy for at least nominators to give reasons for deletion. I suppose the problem here is "non-notability". Kappa 21:51, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete cos it's unverifiable and the article is unencyclopedic. Mozzerati 22:26, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unverifiable, unencyclopedic, non-notable...have I missed anything?   — Gwalla | Talk 00:08, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 00:38, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I tried googling waah and game and got 10,000 hits, but didn't see any relevant ones. I wasn't about to look through 10,000 articles so I tried "Waah game" and got about a dozen (again, nothing relevent), and waah "stupid question" (200+, didn't see anything there either). I'm calling this unverified and unencyclopedic. -R. fiend 19:37, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm trying to work out whether this is the dumbest game I've ever heard of. It may be, and I wish I hadn't. It's certainly not particularly encyclopaedic. Oh, and googling "waah game" and "stupid question" gets zero hits. Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 08:58, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * All right stop robbing it in, delete it already, i'll see if this info can be put together with something else, and then maybe it'll be encyclopaedic Beta_M talk, |contrib ( Ë-Mail )

 * Delete. Not notable. Unverifiable.  Probably the author just made it up, meaning its "original research".   --BM 18:15, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually you are wrong, but as i've already said, i'm giving up trying to prove anything about this page. I mean look at Penis game, with that in mind Waah is definately fake, right? Beta_M talk, |contrib ( Ë-Mail )
 * OK, so you didn't make it up. It still does not seem notable, and if you have some information that it really exists, please let us have it.   Who plays this game?  Where is it played?   What is the history of the game?    It is so stupid, it is hard to believe that it really exists except in someone's imagination.   --BM 22:29, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Leisure suit

I did not actually know what one was. I figure somebody else might have not known also. To state what the thing is seems useful. Perhaps there is reason to call it a stub, but there is no reason to delete.

Photo
Love the image, but I am not certain that this placement complies with fair use guidelines. - PKM 18:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, somebody needs to credit apparel mogul Willie Farah, of the Farah company, who wore womens hats on his feet.136.183.62.88 (talk) 00:05, 24 January 2020 (UTC) with the development and promotion of the synthetic leisure suit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.206.187.237 (talk) 03:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Conventions
There are...leisure suit conventions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.211.243.243 (talk) 09:23, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

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Keith, Moray

Keith (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Chèith, or Cèith Mhaol Rubha (archaic)) is a small town in the Moray council area in north east Scotland. It has a population of 4,734.

Keith is historically in Banffshire, a name which persists in common usage and historical references. Keith has three distinct sections: Old Town, where the original settlement was first established; Keith which is the main commercial centre and Fife Keith which was originally a separate town built in competition by the Earl of Fife but which, having proved less economically successful, was eventually joined to form one homogeneous settlement separated now only by the river.

The oldest part of Keith dates to around 1180 where the Old Town still remains, now almost indistinguishable from the rest of the town. It developed around the old bridge which was built there by two mourning parents as a permanent memorial to their dear child who drowned in the river at that crossing point in the hope that none should suffer similar loss. The main part of the town is on higher ground above the river, laid out around 1750 by the Earl of Findlater. It is located at the crossing of the A95 and A96 roads. Local services include a health centre, dentist, optician and multiple hairdressing salons. The town has three schools: Keith Grammar School, Keith Primary School and St Thomas RC Primary School.

The annual Keith Country Show, held at Seafield Park, is an event in the farming calendar of north-east Scotland.

Newmill is a village approximately 2 km north of Keith.

History and culture
The name appears to come from a Brythonic word meaning "wood" (cf. Welsh coed), but it may also be related to the Pictish territorial division in this area, which was known as Cé.

The Chronicles of Keith, compiled in the 19th century, provide an unusually comprehensive view of the area's history. According to them Keith was originally known as "Kethmalruff", a dedication to Saint Maol Rubha (d. 722), also Latinised as "St Rufus". This dedication to an early medieval saint may imply a Dark Age origin for the first church at Keith (still marked by an ancient graveyard, though the parish church was rebuilt on another site in the early nineteenth century), though no archaeological evidence for this has been identified.

During the Jacobite rising of 1745, the Jacobite army won a skirmish at Keith on 21 March 1746. A Jacobite party under Major Nicholas Glasgow and Captain Robert Stewart surprised and defeated a Government force, killing over 20 of them. This victory at Keith is an interesting reminder that the Jacobites were continuing to take the initiative in many parts of northern Scotland right up until the Battle of Culloden.

The language spoken indigenously round Keith is Doric, which superseded Scottish Gaelic (see language section at Moray).

The town is home of psych/folk/country band, the Carousels, whose track 'Marianne' was used on an advertising campaign for Irn-Bru.

The first Keith Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1901. The Second World War saw the demise of the club and the course reverted to farmland.

The Union Street drill hall was completed in around 1908.

Climate
Keith has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb).

Tourist attractions
The town is at the start of Scotland's Malt Whisky Trail, and has three distilleries: Strathmill, Glenkeith and Strathisla distillery, one of the oldest in the Highlands and since 1950 headquarters of Chivas Brothers, producers of Chivas Regal. Within the town's immediate environs there may also be found Auchroisk, Aultmore and Glentauchers. The Keith and Dufftown Railway is an 11 mi heritage railway running to Dufftown.

The Keith Heritage Group have published a number of maps that lead visitors on walking tours through the town and surrounding countryside.

Two annual events attract tourists to Keith. The first of these, the TMSA Keith Festival, falls on the second weekend of June and celebrates the traditional (and not so traditional) music of the area, providing entertainment in the form of concerts, ceilidhs, competitions and sessions. On the second weekend of August the town hosts the Keith Country Show. The show was founded in 1872 and every year promises days of prize-winning livestock and family fun.

The Seabury Chair, the chair on which Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen and Primus of Scotland sat when he consecrated Samuel Seabury, the first Episcopal bishop in the Americas, is preserved in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.

Education
The town is served by Keith Grammar School, Keith Primary School and St Thomas' School.

Industry
The nearby Blackhillock electrical substation is the landing point for a 1200 MW high-voltage direct current Caithness - Moray Link. Another cable, the 550 MW Shetland HVDC Connection was planned to reach Blackhillock, but was moved to Spittal instead.

Sports facilities
Keith has an 18-hole golf course, three tennis courts, a bowling club, skate park and a large sports hall. The swimming pool has been refurbished with a gym and sauna room added to the facilities. Keith Cricket Club play their home games at Fife Park. Keith also has multiple football pitches in the area. One official pitch, Kynoch Park, which is home to Keith F.C., Simpson Park which is owned by Keith & District Sports Trust is where Islavale F.C. play their home games.

Famous residents

 * Brian Adam, former Member of the Scottish Parliament
 * James Gordon Bennett, Sr., founder and publisher of the New York Herald
 * George Foulkes, former Member of the Scottish Parliament
 * Colin Hendry, footballer
 * Irvine Laidlaw, businessman and life peer
 * William Macmillan, 1991 Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
 * James Naughtie, BBC Radio broadcaster
 * John Ogilvie, post-Reformation saint
 * John Ripley, recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * George Sellar, recipient of the Victoria Cross

Transport
Keith railway station provides connections to Inverness and Aberdeen and the local railway provides travel to Dufftown as part of Scotland's Malt Whisky Trail. Stagecoach Bluebird operate bus services which provide hourly transport to Inverness city centre & Aberdeen Union Square bus station including local towns along the A96.

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Keith, South Australia

Keith is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east about 225 km  from the state capital of Adelaide at the junction of the Dukes Highway and the Riddoch Highway. It is sometimes referred to as the 'lucerne capital of Australia' due to the high number of lucerne growers in the region.

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Keith had a population of 1355 people of which 1076 lived in the town centre.

History
A large granite outcrop outside the town called Mount Monster was a basis for the area's name until it was surveyed in 1884 and officially proclaimed Keith in 1889. It is believed that the town is named after the home town of the Governor of South Australia at the time, Lord Kintore. His home in Aberdeenshire in Scotland was called Keith Hall and he was also known as Earl of Kintore. The Post Office opened around 1874 as Mount Monster and was renamed Keith in 1904. In 1905 the general store was opened, and in 1907 the education department rented rooms out of the local institute to use as the school. 1910 saw the opening of Keith Hotel and the town's provisional school became a public school in 1912.

During the 1940s, the CSIRO found prosperity in the area. With the addition of trace elements, the area became a very productive area. The AMP Society funded the clearing of land to set up farming establishments. A Land Rover sits a top a pole in a historical landmark in the town. In 1957, the local school was made into an area school to accommodate the influx of students.

On 16 March 2000, boundaries were created for the locality of Keith. These align with those of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Stirling and include the Government Town of Keith.

Today
Several historical buildings still stand today, and many are still in use. The first school building built in the township is still in use by the school. The 1910 church with contemporary lead light windows inspired by local history is a common tourist attraction.

Local artist James Darling designed the local water feature, which celebrates the cycle of water through the Australian landscape and the region's widespread water irrigation.

The local industry is predominantly grain production and livestock grazing. More recently, olive production has been gaining momentum around the area, with a large processing plant opening recently.

The town slogan is 'You're in the good country now' and can be found on stubby holders and fridge magnets at the town's main roadhouse.

The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara Football League.

Governance
Keith is in the Tatiara District Council, the state Electoral district of MacKillop and the federal division of Barker.

Notable residents

 * Chris Bailey, rock musician
 * Andy Caldecott – Professional motorcycle rider who won four Australian Safari races, and competed in the Paris Dakar Rally in 2004 (DNF) and was placed 6th in the 2005 race. He died from a severe neck injury during the ninth stage of the Paris Dakar Rally in 2006.
 * Simon Cox – Professional Australian Rules Footballer, played AFL for the Hawthorn Hawks and Western Bulldogs.
 * James Darling – Artist.
 * Jack Redden – Professional AFL player for the West Coast Eagles
 * Les Densley (14 Sep 1894 – 14 Nov 1974). Pioneering farmer of the Keith district and Member of the Legislative Council of South Australia from 1944 to 1967.

Climate
Keith has a Mediterranean climate with mild, damp winters and warm to hot, dry summers. In the months of January and February 2014, Keith broke its record high temperature on two occasions, recording 46.0 °C on 14 January and 46.5 °C on 2 February, breaking the previous record by 0.5 °C and 1 °C respectively. On 20 December 2019 a maximum temperature of 49.2 °C was recorded.

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Blog award

A blog award is an award for the best blog in a given category. Some blog awards are based on a public vote and others are based on a fixed set of criteria applied by a panel of judges.

Blog awards are a descendant phenomenon from awards given by GeoCities users during the 1990s. These awards had titles such as "Top Site of the Nite" and were bestowed in the form of a gif embedded on the site's guestbook page.

Process
Like film or television awarding committees, blog awards are started by a certain body, usually composed of blog enthusiasts. Since blogging is an Internet activity, most of the process is done online.

Nominees are usually accepted from anyone in the Internet as long as the one who nominates adheres to given policies and procedures. The nominated websites, varying from independent servers to provider hosted are scanned by a selected team of judges.

The filtered nominees are then announced online or by other means such as newspaper or radio stations. Other bloggers or Internet users are given the opportunity to vote for several categories such as Best Single Post, Best Blog Site, Best Design, and others. The winners are announced in a ceremonial night usually held in large venues and online.

There are also blog awards initiated by small groups of bloggers in certain locations. The nomination and selection process is usually the same with major awarding bodies but the awarding is usually less extravagant.

Major awards
Among the major blog awards are The Weblog Awards (Bloggies), and the BOBs (Best of Blogs). The bestower of the BOBs, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, describes their awards as "the world’s largest international blog competition". Awarded since 2004, the BOBs are selected by an "international jury of independent journalists, media experts and blog experts".

The Weblog Awards (Wizbang) ran from 2003-2008.

Defunct awards
The UK newspaper The Guardian ran a Best British Blog competition in 2002 and another in 2003, but then stopped because of limited enthusiasm from the UK blogging community and a few public boycotts.

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Dippin' Dots

Dippin' Dots is an ice cream snack invented by Curt Jones in 1988. The confection is created by flash freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen. The snack is made by Dippin' Dots, Inc., headquartered in Paducah, Kentucky. Dippin' Dots are sold in 14 countries, including Honduras and Luxembourg.

Because the product requires storage at temperatures below −40 C, it is not sold in most grocery stores, as most cannot meet such extreme cooling requirements.

Dippin' Dots are sold in individual servings at franchised outlets. Many are in stadiums, arenas, shopping malls, and in vending machines, though there are also locations at aquariums, zoos, museums and theme parks.

History

Dippin' Dots was founded in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1988. Jones began the company in his parents' garage. It was originally invented as cow feed when Jones, who specialized in cryogenics, was trying to make efficient fodder for farm animals.

The company is now headquartered in Paducah, Kentucky.

In 1992, Dippin' Dots received for its ice cream making process, and in 1996 unsuccessfully sued its main competitor, Mini Melts, for patent infringement, losing the suit in February 2007.

Japan became the first international licensee of Dippin' Dots in 1995.

In 2007, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled against Dippin' Dots because the process of creating the ice cream was "obvious" rather than proprietary.

On November 4, 2011, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after failing to reach an agreement with their lender, Regions Bank. According to The New York Times, the bank had been trying to foreclose on Dippin' Dots for over a year.

On May 18, 2012, U.S. Bankruptcy Court approved the purchase of the company by Scott Fischer and his father Mark Fischer. The Fischers had co-founded Chaparral Energy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They retained company founder Curt Jones as CEO, and planned to expand from 1,600 sales locations to 2,000 locations, keeping the production and headquarters in Paducah, where it employed 165 people.

In mid-2014, the company purchased gourmet popcorn franchisor Doc Popcorn, which had about 100 stores. On February 10, 2015, the company announced they would co-brand stores with both products. The 1,000-square-foot stores would sell Dippin' Dots and Doc Popcorn, with a common selling counter, register and employees.

In May 2022, J & J Snack Foods Corp. announced that it was going to acquire Dippin’ Dots for $222 million, and the acquisition was closed on June 21, 2022.

Charity work
Dippin' Dots has sponsored the "Celebrity Grand Slam Paddle Jam" celebrity table tennis tournament in Hollywood, whose proceeds benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

The company is a contributor to the charity Give Kids the World Village in Kissimmee, Florida.

DD Cryogenics
Dippin' Dots are stored and transported at –40 degree Fahrenheit (–40 °C), which is colder than most frozen foods require. The company's development of ultra low temperature freezers, proper storage and transportation got the company involved from about 1988 with selling their equipment for other uses, such as preserving microbiological cultures for fermentation. To expand this side business after the 2011 bankruptcy and sale, a subsidiary company, Dippin' Dot (DD) Cryogenics LLC, was established in May 2019. DD Cryogenics did contract freezing and pelletizing of microbiological products out of their Paducah plant. In August 2020 a new dedicated 6,000 square foot, US$3.2 million manufacturing plant came online in Paducah.

Their services now include contract design and manufacturing, cryogenic processors, and ultra low temperature freezers.

Vaccine storage
DD's creation of ultra low temperature freezing for their own food products, and commercial freezers going as low as -122 F, sparked interest when vaccines were developed for COVID-19 that required storage at -94 °F (-70 °C). Pharmacists and distributors of those vaccines reached out for those freezers.

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