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Talk:12 Hits from Hell

Download
Since it was never released, would it be legal to post download links here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nishaddatta (talk • contribs) 20:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
 * No it wouldn't as it is all copy written material. This is an "encyclopedia", not a site to share links.--Hndsmepete 22:41, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

If the album has never officially been released, how does the album have a Parental Advisory sticker? Especially since the Parental Advisory sticker was introduced in the 90's. truthbealiar
 * Promotional copies were made & distributed, and preliminary LP covers were made & sent to the band members, which is how they found out about it and requested it be cancelled. Distribution copies were then destroyed. So there was cover art, because Caroline was ready to release it (in fact the artwork is one of the alleged things that Danzig objected to). The cover image here came from the official Misfits website (click on the image to see the source link), so I assume it's legit. 12 Hits from Hell was supposed to be released in 2001, so it makes perfect sense that it would have an advisory sticker (2001 being, of course, after the '90s). --IllaZilla (talk) 17:25, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Cancellation
Additional information beyond the reasons for cancelling the release of the album stated in the article, however of unknown accuracy and validity, can be found here: http://www.angelfire.com/darkside/misfits12hits/faq.htm

Critical Opinion
Re: this quote... "Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic gave 12 Hits from Hell three stars out of five, saying "This isn't an essential item and will probably appeal mostly to the legions of Misfits fanatics, who will no doubt savor these long-unreleased recordings. Many of these songs are available elsewhere."

Jason Birchmeier is obviously a stupid cunt, and who gives a flying fuck what Allmusic has to say? Why do they get to put their worthless opinion in every fucking Wikipedia music entry. Fuck those guys. It's a misuse of this forum, and where they have nothing to add (as here) their bullshit should be removed.

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CRG (kart manufacturer)

CRG is a kart chassis manufacturer. Notable members include Alex Zanardi, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.

CRG was founded in the late 1970s by three Italian racers (Carlo Vanaria, Roberto Vanaria and Giancarlo Tinini), and were originally known as Kali Karts. In the beginning, the company was viewed as unfavorable, with Zanardi being told by his original team, DAP, that if he didn't stop complaining they would "send him to Kali". By the mid 1980s, Kali had recovered from its inauspicious beginnings and was winning world championships with drivers including Mike Wilson.

Kali changed its name to CRG in the early 1990s. They soon competed in more world championships with drivers including Danilo Rossi and Alessandro Manetti. CRG also goes under the name of Tinini Group, which was created in 2017, which is now visible on all sticker kits. CRG has also relations with Dino Chiesa (Chiesa Corse); the notable Italian chassis mechanic assisted multiple world champions as well as many other drivers through CRG.

CRG began building engines in the mid-1990s, but they were never widely used outside of the factory teams. In 2001, they were replaced by the Maxter brand which produces 100 cc and 125 cc gearbox engines. They also have been involved in the Maxter engine range. They were also the main supplier for brands including Maranello, Vanspeed, Zanardi, Dino, and DR Kart. In recent years, the team has partnered with TM racing.

In the past 30 years, CRG has been one of the most successful brands and has been chosen by several current motorsport champions. For this reason, CRG Racing team is considered the “Champions Factory”. Drivers such asMichael Schumacher, Max Verstappen, Alex Zanardi, Ralf Schumacher, Giancarlo Fisichella, and others have competed for the brand.

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Edmé Boursault

Edmé Boursault (October 1638 – 15 September 1701) was a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer, born at Mussy l'Evéque, now Mussy-sur-Seine (Aube).

Biography
On Boursault's first arrival in Paris in 1651 his language was limited to Burgundian, but within a year he had produced his first comedy, Le Mort vivant (Living Death).

This and some other pieces of small merit secured for him distinguished patronage in the society ridiculed by Molière in the Ecole des femmes. Boursault was persuaded that the Lysidas of that play was a caricature of himself, and attacked Molière in Le Portrait du peintre ou la contre-critique de l'Ecole des femmes (1663). Molière retaliated in L'Impromptu de Versailles, and Boileau attacked Boursault in Satires 7 and 9. Boursault replied to Boileau in his Satire des satires (1669), but was afterwards reconciled to him, when Boileau on his side erased his name from his satires.

Boursault obtained a considerable pension as editor of a rhyming gazette, which was, however, suppressed for ridiculing a Capuchin friar, and the editor was only saved from the Bastille by the interposition of Condé. In 1671 he produced a work of edification in Ad usum Delphini: la veritable étude des souverains, which so pleased the court that its author was about to be made assistant tutor to Louis, Grand Dauphin when it was found that he was ignorant of Greek and Latin. The post then went to Pierre Huet, but perhaps in compensation, Boursault was made collector of taxes at Montluçon about 1672, an appointment that he retained until 1688.

Among his best-known plays are Le Mercure galant, the title of which was changed to La Comédie sans titre ("Play without a title", 1683) when the publisher of a literary review of the same name objected (see "Mercure de France"); La Princesse de Clêves (1676), an unsuccessful play which, when refurbished with fresh names by its author, succeeded as Germanicus; Esope à la ville (1690); and Esope à la cour (1701). His lack of dramatic instinct could hardly be better indicated than by the scheme of his Esope, which allows the fabulist to come on the stage in each scene and recite a fable.

Boursault died in Paris on 15 September 1701. His Œuvres choisies were published in 1811, and a sketch of him can be found in Saint-René Taillandier's Etudes littéraires (1881).

Drama

 * Le Mort Vivant (English:The Living Dead Man, 1662). A three-act comedy.
 * Portrait of the Painter, or Criticisms of the School for Women Criticized (French: Le Portrait du Peintre ou La Contre-critique de L’École des femmes, September 1663). Part of an ongoing literary quarrel over The School for Wives (1662) by Molière. The original play had caricatured "male-dominated exploitative marital relationships", and became a target of criticism. Criticisms ranged from accusing the playwright of impiety, to nitpicking over the perceived lack of realism in certain scenes. Molière had answered his critics with a second play, The School for Women Criticized (French: La Critique de L’École des femmes, June 1663). Boursault wrote his play in answer to this second play. In The School for Women Criticized, Molière poked fun at his critics by having their arguments expressed on stage by comical fools. While the character defending the original play, a mouthpiece for the writer, is a straight man with serious and thoughtful replies. In his Portrait, Boursault imitates the structure of Molière's play but subjects the characters to a role reversal. In other words, the critics of Molière are featured as serious and his defenders as fools. There is some question on the motivations of Boursault in getting involved in the quarrel. The character Lysidas, with which he took offense, may not have represented Boursault himself but his mentor Thomas Corneille. The play in its extant published form may differ considerably from its original staged version. The vulgar Chanson de la Coquille (Song of the Shell), which targeted Madeleine Béjart for her age and sexual history, seems to have been first used in the stage version of the Portrait and then re-used by Jean Donneau de Visé. Boursault probably included other malicious and personal attacks on  Molière and his associates in the stage version, which were edited out in time for publication. The modern scholar can only guess at their nature by Molière's haste to respond. Molière answered with a third play of his own, The Versailles Impromptu (French: L'Impromptu de Versailles, October 1663), which reportedly took him only eight days to write. It went on stage two weeks (or less) after the Portrait. This play takes place in the theatrical world, featuring actors playing actors on stage. Among jests aimed at various targets, Molière mocks Boursault for his obscurity. The characters have trouble even remembering the name of someone called "Brossaut".  Molière further taunts the upstart as "a publicity-seeking hack".
 * Les Cadenats, ou le Jaloux Endormi (English: The locks, or the jealous one asleep, 1663). A one-act comedy. A theatrical work involving a "girdle of chastity" (chastity belt). Eric Dingwall considered it "in places both dull and tedious".
 * Les Nicandres, ou Les Menteurs qui ne mentent point (English: The Nicandres, or The Liars who do not lie, 1664). A comedy. A play about two identical twin brothers, who also use the same name: "Nicandre" (Nicander). There are constant confusions over their identities, and "ludicrous mistakes and misunderstandings" result from the fact that their own mistresses and valets can not tell them apart. The plot and its humor are similar, though not identical, to Menaechmi by Plautus. John Colin Dunlop lists it among several French imitations of the ancient play, noting that the earliest among them was a 1630s version by Jean Rotrou.
 * The Flying Doctor (French:Le médecin volant, 1664). This work went on stage in October 1664, and received its first publication in 1665. Boursault claimed to have translated this work from an Italian original. Molière also staged, but did not publish, an identical-named play in 1664. A number of scholars have theorized that Boursault was directly influenced by Molière's version. Comparisons of the two plays have revealed near-identical plots, but also substantial differences. These range from the names and occupations of various characters to different takes on certain scenes. A number of phrases used in both plays seem to point to a common source for both works. Some scenes seem more developed in Boursault's version, possibly because of his attempt to closely follow the Italian original. His personal touches are evident in other ways. His characters speak in verse, and the dialogue at times includes allusions to the works of French dramatists. For example, to Polyeucte (1643) by Pierre Corneille, La Belle plaideuse (1655) by François le Métel de Boisrobert, and possibly Les Précieuses ridicules (1659) by Molière. While both identical-named plays feature an impostor doctor, Boursault also adds a real one as an object or satire and ridicule. There is some confusion over the reception of the work. There are references to Le médecin volant receiving a Dutch translation in 1666, entering the repertory of provincial theaters in 1668, and being regularly staged by the Comédie-Française from 1685 to 1687. But the primary sources rarely make the distinction between the two plays, so whether it was Molière's or Boursault's version who had enduring success is uncertain.
 * Les Yeux de Philis changés en astres (English:Metamorphosis of Phyllis' eyes into stars, 1665). A pastoral drama, in three-acts. It was first staged by the Troupe royale in the Hôtel de Bourgogne. It was based on the 1639 poem of the same name by Germain Habert. The original poem was rather short at c. 600 lines, depicting the love story of Daphnis and Phyllis. Boursault initially planned to dramatize all its verses, and to add short scenes connecting the major ones to each other. Realizing that the play lacked in action, Boursault added more characters and subplots. He retained the basic three characters of the original: Daphnis, Phyllis, and Helios/Sol (French:Soleil for Sun). He then created a secondary couple in the persons of Lisis, brother to Phyllis, and Carite, sister to Daphnis. A major departure from the original was the intervention of the gods. The action takes place in the island of Delos and the Sun is identified with Apollo. He too loves Phillis and his love is rejected. He first asks his sister Artemis/Diana to intervene on his behalf, to little effect. But the new couple has to drink from a certain spring for their nuptials, and Hermes/Mercury assists Apollo by poisoning it. Daphnis is fatally poisoned and Phyllis weeps. Eros/Cupid and Hymen then jointly plead to Zeus/Jupiter for justice. He is sufficiently moved to carry off Phillis to the heavens, where she and Daphnis can re-unite. The eyes of the young woman turn into the twin stars of Gemini. Boursault reported that he chose to limit the play to three acts, because in his observation four-act and five-act plays tend to fatigue the audience. The entire plot takes place in less than 24 hours, leaving little room for further intrigue or character study. "The verse is polished and correct, but conventional and monotonous". Certain scenes call for spectacular effects, such as the heavens opening and gods appearing to dictate their wishes, sounds of thunder, and the earth itself trembling. Others scenes rely on music and singing. Boursault likely counted on these scenes to be the highlights of the work.
 * The Satire of Satires (French: La satire des satires, 1668/1669). A one-act play, written in response to criticisms by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. In his Satire VII, Boileau had included Boursault in a list of bad poets. A list which included several obscure figures and possible made-up names. (For example, "Titreville" is mentioned only in Satire VII and Satire IX. There is no other source on his existence.) Since Boileau had briefly targeted Boursault in his satires, Boursault evidently wanted to respond in kind. Boileau managed to prevent the staging of this play by an act of parlement. Years later, the two writers befriended each other. In response, Boileau edited the text of his satire to instead target Jacques Pradon. This altered version survived in subsequent editions of his work. The incident sheds some light on the legal limitations of theatrical satire at the time. The decision of parlement (dated to 22 October 1668) objected to the use of the proper name of Boileau, proclaiming that the practice was "defamatory of the honor" of the suppliant and therefore illegal. Larry Norman also points that direct satire was a controversial literary topic at the time. François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac criticized Old Comedy, mainly represented by Aristophanes, for mixing his narrative with public affairs. Boileau himself would later comment on the vices of Old Comedy which turned Socrates to a laughingstock for the "vile masses" of Athens. This sympathy for Socrates might have been connected to his own treatment at the pen of Boursault.
 * Germanicus (1673). A tragedy, based on Ancient Rome. The titular character is Germanicus, nephew of Tiberius. The other featured characters include (1)Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius, (2)Agrippina the Elder, daughter to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and granddaughter of Augustus, (3)Livilla, sister of Germanicus, (4) Pison, a Roman chevalier (member of the Roman equestrian order). Possibly named after the Piso family, (5)Flavia, a confidant to Agripinna, (6)Albinus, a confidant to Germanicus, and (7)Flavian, a confidant to Pison. While successful at the time of its release, the tragedy went on to gain a reputation as an "indifferent work". Its main claim to fame has to do with indirectly causing a quarrel between two other writers. While congratulating Boursault for his play, Pierre Corneille commented that it only needed the signature of Jean Racine "to be deemed a great work". The comparison between Boursault and Racine pleased the former and infuriated the latter. Resulting in a verbal fight between Corneille and Racine. The two opponents were not on speaking terms afterwards.
 * La Princesse de Clèves (English: The Princess of Clèves, December 1678). It was written for the Guénégaud Theatre, and proved a flop. Only two performances were staged. It was obviously based on the novel of the same name (1678) by Madame de La Fayette. The play is a lost work, and there are some doubts on its existence. The main source about it seems to be a 1697 letter from the correspondence of an aging Boursault. He claimed to have reused part of its material for Germanicus. But there are records of Germanicus being staged in 1673, five years before the original novel appeared. There are also marked differences between the theme and plot of the two works.
 * Le Mercure galant or La Comédie sans titre ("Play without a title") (1683). A theatrical comedy, and a comedy of manners. Monsieur de Boishuisant is an admirer of the eponymous periodical Mercure galant. Protagonist Oronte aspires to marry the daughter of the Monsieur and happens to be a friend of the editor. He gets permission to act as editor for a day to impress his prospective father-in-law. The play takes place in the offices of the periodical, and includes 13 vignettes where typical members of Parisian society present various requests to Oronte. Jean Donneau de Visé, the real-life founder of the periodical, attempted to stop production of the play. His efforts resulted in a change in title, though the play was not actually an attack on the periodical. Its depiction on stage serves as a testament to its popularity, and influence. Boursault reserves his satire for the well-born poetasters, who used their influence to get their works published alongside the better material of Le Mercure galant. The loosely connected scenes make this a work of social satire. There was little originality in the types depicted, which like a revue took its inspiration from contemporary figures and incidents. The people asking the support of the editor include an upwardly mobile bourgeois. He seeks to acquire a noble title, which would allow him to marry a young marquise. Another petitioner is a tax collector who has embezzled tax money, and wants the periodical to champion the cause of clearing his name. An old seaman wants to sell his life story to the periodical, certain that it will sell well among former veterans. He is a veteran of the Battle of Augusta (1676) and claims to be personally responsible for the death of enemy admiral Michiel de Ruyter. His actual claim to fame is that he provided the match which fired the cannon responsible for the deed.
 * Marie Stuart (Mary Stuart, 1683). A tragedy. Based on the life of the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots. An unsuccessful work, though profitable for the writer. Boursault dedicated the work to François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan. The Duc was sufficiently pleased to pay him a sum of 100 louis. This play was an entry to a long string of epic poems and dramas on the subject, mostly produced in France and Spain. Previous writers which had covered this popular subject were Antoine de Montchrestien (his version was written in 1596, and published in 1601), Tommaso Campanella (1598), Lope de Vega (1627), Charles Regnault (1639), Juan Bautista Diamante (1660), and Manuel de Gallegos (1660). Subsequent ones would include Vittorio Alfieri (1788), Friedrich Schiller (1800), and Gaetano Donizetti (1834).
 * Les Fables d'Ésope, comédie or Ésope à la Ville (English: Aesop's Fables or Aesop in the City, 1690). A moralistic play, where Aesop responds to any question and difficulty by reciting a relevant fable. The "superhuman wisdom and virtue" of the character were derided by later critics, who tended to find the traits wearisome. The initial production was not without its problems. The theatrical company which staged the play insisted on excluding a certain scene of the second act, while Boursault insisted on its inclusion. He only prevailed on the argument by convincing a valet de chambre to intervene on his behalf. On the opening performance, the initial audience reception was hostile. The play consisted of the main character narrating familiar tales, against their expectations. Jean Baptist Raisin, the lead actor, then interrupted the performance to explain why it was necessary. He explained that Aesop reciting his fables preserved the very essence of his character. His speech was met with applause and requests for the performance to continue. The play became a profitable hit. It was translated and revised for the English stage by John Vanbrugh, debuting under the title Aesop: a Comedy (January, 1697). Vanbrugh abandoned the stylish rhyming couplets of Boursault, revising them to a "racier prose-with-songs". His Aesop was more naturalistic than his French counterpart, and spoke in a vernacular form of English. This version of Boursault's work was regularly performed at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to 1720. The work served at familiarizing Aesop to a wide English audience. Already in 1698, it inspired various pamphlets with titles such as Aesop at Epsom, Old Aesop at White-Hall, etc. In content they ranged from political commentary to scandal sheets.
 * La Feste de la Seine (English: The feast of the Seine, 1690). A one-act divertissement, set to music.
 * Phaeton (1691). A comedy. Based on Classical mythology, the main character is Phaëton, son of Helios/Sol (French:Soleil for Sun) and Clymene. The other featured characters include (1)Cephise (French for Cephissus), daughter of Merops, King of Egypt, (2) Clymene, mother of Phaëton and wife of Merops, (3) Epaphus, son of Zeus/Jupiter and Isis/Io, (4) Proteus, demigod and guardian to the herds of Poseidon/Neptune, (5)Theone, daughter of Proteus, (6)Nicaea, confidant to Theone, (7) Helios/Sol/La Soleil/The Sun, (8) Momus, (9) the first Hour of the day, (10) The Hour at which the Ladies go to the Temple, (11) a personified Moment, (12) Gaia/Terra (French:La Terre for Earth), (13) Zeus/Jupiter, and (14)the guards of Clymene. The main setting is Memphis.
 * Fashionable Words (French: Les Mots à la mode, 1694). A comedy spoofing the fashion fads of the time and their associated terminology. Scenes are devoted to listing the many names for variants of the fontange hairstyle. The long list includes names such as "bourgogne" (Burgundy), "jardiniere" (gardener), "souris" (mouse), "effrontée" (shameless), and "crève-cœur" (heartbreaker).
 * Meleager (French: Méléagre, 1694). A tragedy, unperformed. Based on the legendary hunt for the Calydonian Boar. The play takes place in Calydon, a city in Aetolia. The main characters are (1) Meleager, son of Oeneus and Althaea, and his lover (2) Atalanta, daughter of Iasus.
 * Ésope à la Cour (English: Aesop at the Court, 1701). Sequel to the previous work, first performed shortly after the death of the writer. A number of characters and situations point to its social context at the dawn of the 18th-century. Croesus appoints Aesop as his Minister of State, and the newly appointed man delivers a speech condemning the vices of the royal court: dishonesty, hypocrisy, deception, flattery, love of gambling, and dissipation. The target is evidently not the court of Croesus, but that of Louis XIV. Another scene has Aesop debating religion with Iphicrates, a retired general who doubts the very existence of God. Iphicrates is a representative of freethought, though Aesop reminds him that free-thinkers still send for priests when at death's door. Another target for criticism was relatively new for French comedy, "M. Griffet" the fermier (tax farmer). Jean de La Bruyère had already targeted these tax contractors at his works. But Boursault's take on the subject serves as a precursor to Turcaret (1709) by Alain-René Lesage.

Novels

 * Lettres de respect, d'obligation et d'amour (English:Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love, 1669). An early epistolary novel.
 * Artémise et Poliante (English: Artemisia and Polyanthus, 1670).
 * Le Marquis de Chavigny (English:''The marquis de Chavigny, 1670).
 * Ne pas croire ce qu'on voit (English: We should only believe what we see, 1670) One of several contemporary works based on "Spanish plots", in this case deriving from the works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
 * Le Prince de Condé (English: The prince de Condé, 1675).
 * Lettres à Babet (English: Letters to Babet, 1683). An epistolary novel.
 * "Sept Lettres amoureuses d'une dame à un cavalier" in Lettres nouvelles (1697). An epistolary novel translated by Eliza Haywood as Letters from a Lady of Quality to a Chevalier (1720)
 * Treize Lettres amoureuses d'une dame à un cavalier (1709).

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Anthony Horowitz

Anthony John Horowitz (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the US), and The Diamond Brothers series.

Horowitz's works for adults include the play Mindgame (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk (2011) and Moriarty (2014); two novels featuring his own detective Susan Ryeland, Magpie Murders (2016) and Moonflower Murders (2020); and five novels featuring a fictionalised version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne: The Word Is Murder (2017), The Sentence Is Death (2018), A Line to Kill (2021), The Twist of a Knife (2022), and Close to Death (2024).

The estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilising unpublished material by Fleming, starting with Trigger Mortis in 2015, followed by Forever and a Day in 2018, and a third and final novel With a Mind to Kill in May 2022.

Horowitz has also written for television, contributing scripts to ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot and adapting six early episodes of Midsomer Murders from the novels of Caroline Graham, including the first three episodes. He was the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War, Collision and Injustice, and the BBC series Crime Traveller and New Blood.

Early life
Horowitz was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a Jewish family, and in his early years lived an upper middle class lifestyle. An overweight and unhappy child, Horowitz enjoyed reading books from his father's library. As a child, Horowitz used to go to Instow, where his nanny took him boating on the River Torridge. He also had a stuffed monkey named Benjamin (which was later eaten by his dog).

Horowitz started writing at the age of eight or nine and he instantly knew he would be a professional writer. This was because he was an underachiever in school and was not physically fit, and found his escape in books and telling stories. In a 2006 interview Horowitz stated "I was quite certain, from my earliest memory, that I would be a professional writer and nothing but."

At age 13 he went to Rugby School, a public school in Rugby, Warwickshire. He graduated from the University of York with a lower second class degree in English literature and art history in 1977, where he was in Vanbrugh College.

Horowitz's mother introduced him to Frankenstein and Dracula. She gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. Horowitz said in an interview that it reminds him to get to the end of each story since he will soon look like the skull.

Horowitz's father was associated with some of the politicians in the "circle" of prime minister Harold Wilson, including Eric Miller. Facing bankruptcy, he moved his assets into Swiss numbered bank accounts. He died from cancer when Horowitz was 22, and the family was never able to track down the missing money despite years of trying. This left the family bankrupt, requiring the sale of the large family home.

Early literary work (1979–1991)
Anthony Horowitz's first book, The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower, was a humorous adventure for children that was published in 1979 and later reissued as Enter Frederick K Bower in 1985. In 1981 his second novel, Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet was published and he moved to Paris to write his third book.

In 1983, the first novel in the Pentagram series was released. Entitled The Devil's Door-Bell, the story saw thirteen-year-old Martin Hopkins trying to adjust to a new life with a foster mother on a Yorkshire farm, but it quickly becomes a nightmare when he ends up having to battle an ancient evil that threatens the whole world. Only three of the four remaining novels in the series were ever released: The Night of the Scorpion (1984), The Silver Citadel (1986) and Day of the Dragon (1986).

In 1985, he released Myths and Legends, a collection of retold tales from around the world. He was also involved in writing scripts for the cult 1980s television series Robin of Sherwood and the spin-off novel.

In 1988, Groosham Grange was published. Its central character is a thirteen-year-old "witch", David Eliot, gifted as the seventh son of a seventh son. This book went on to win the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award. Some similarities were made between this book and J K Rowling's newer Harry Potter series, but Horowitz did not choose to take action because of this.

Despite this, the most major release of Horowitz's early career was The Falcon's Malteser (1986). This book was the first in the successful Diamond Brothers series, and was followed in 1987 by Public Enemy Number Two, and by South by South East in 1991.

Early children's fiction success (1992–1999)
Horowitz wrote many stand-alone novels in the 1990s. His 1994 novel Granny, a comedy thriller about an evil grandmother, was Horowitz's first book in three years, and it was the first of three books for an audience similar to that of Groosham Grange. The second of these was The Switch, a body swap story, first published in 1996. The third was 1997's The Devil and His Boy, which is set in the Elizabethan era and explores the rumour of Elizabeth I's secret son.

In 1999, The Unholy Grail was published as a sequel to Groosham Grange. It was later renamed Return to Groosham Grange in 2003, possibly to help young readers understand the connection between the two books. In 2021, Horowitz revealed to a fan on Twitter that he had plans to write a third book, but was dissuaded after the success of the Harry Potter series. In the same year, Horowitz publishing a collection of several short horror stories aimed for children and young adults, entitled Horowitz Horror (1999). This was an opportunity for Horowitz to further explore a darker side of his writing.

Some time before the new millennium, Horowitz attempted to reach out to an adult audience with a novel called Poisoned Pen. The novel is based around Martin Holland, who is a childhood friend of a 21st century incarnation of William Shakespeare. In the novel, William Shakespeare is reimagined as a Hollywood screenwriter who is murdered in a set of circumstances that Martin Holland finds rather odd, despite attempts from a Los Angeles detective to dissuade him. The novel follows Martin's attempts to solve the ever-growing mystery through a series of rather unusual circumstances and a number of people who seem rather glad that Shakespeare was murdered. The novel has never been published in the UK or even in English, but copies in Spanish and Dutch have been released (retitled as El asesinato de Shakespeare and William S. respectively). As of June 2021, despite Horowitz's recent successes in adult literature, there are no plans to get the novel republished.

Mainstream children's fiction success (2000–2010)
Horowitz began his most famous and successful series in the new millennium with the Alex Rider novels. These books are about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy, a member of the British Secret Service branch MI6. As of 2021, there are eleven books where Alex Rider is the protagonist, and another connected to the Alex Rider series: Stormbreaker (2000), Point Blanc (2001), Skeleton Key (2002), Eagle Strike (2003), Scorpia (2004) Ark Angel (2005), Snakehead (2007), Crocodile Tears (2009), Scorpia Rising (2011), plus Russian Roulette (2013). Horowitz had stated that Scorpia Rising was to be the last book in the Alex Rider series prior to writing Russian Roulette about the life of Yassen Gregorovich, but he has returned to the series with Never Say Die (2017), Nightshade (2020) and Nightshade Revenge (2023).

In 2003, Horowitz also wrote three novellas featuring the Diamond Brothers: The Blurred Man, The French Confection and I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, which were republished together as Three of Diamonds in 2004. The author information page in early editions of Scorpia and the introduction to Three of Diamonds claimed that Horowitz had travelled to Australia to research a new Diamond Brothers book, entitled Radius of the Lost Shark. This claim was further backed up when a new Diamond Brothers novella entitled The Greek who Stole Christmas! was released in 2007, where it is hinted at the end that Radius of the Lost Shark may turn out to be the eighth entry in the series. However, the next novel in the series was instead called Where Seagulls Dare, and is unrelated to the Australian-based adventure that was previously announced. Horowitz published the first six chapters unedited on his website throughout 2020, and the full, edited novel was published in 2022, with all profits going to support the NHS.

Horowitz also published two sequels to his short horror story collection; More Horowitz Horror (2000) and More Bloody Horowitz (2009). Many of the stories in Horowitz Horror and More Horowitz Horror were later repackaged in twos or threes as the Pocket Horowitz series, while More Bloody Horowitz was later reissued as Scared to Death. One of the short stories in More Bloody Horowitz is notable for serving as Horowitz's opportunity to get even with fellow author Darren O'Shaughnessy, more commonly known as Darren Shan. In 2008, the pair had gotten into a joke dispute over O'Shaughnessy's use of Horowitz's name for an objectionable character (Antoine Horwitzer) in Wolf Island. In retaliation, Horowitz chose to plot a gruesome literary revenge in the short story The Man Who Killed Darren Shan.

In 2004, Horowitz again attempted to branch out to an adult audience with The Killing Joke, a comedy about a man who tries to track a joke to its source with disastrous consequences. The book was not very successful, and in August 2005, Horowitz returned to young adult fiction by releasing a book called Raven's Gate which began a second successful series entitled The Power of Five (The Gatekeepers in the United States). Based heavily on one of his earlier novels entitled The Devil's Door-Bell, each of the first four entries of The Power of Five subsequently ended up being a rewritten and expanded version of their respective counterpart from the Pentagram series. The second book in the series, Evil Star (based on The Night of the Scorpion), was released in April 2006. The third in the series is called Nightrise (based on The Silver Citadel), and was released on 2 April 2007. The fourth book Necropolis (based on Day of the Dragon) was released in October 2008. The fifth and final book, the only one not based on an earlier Pentagram novel, was released in October 2012 and is called Oblivion. Horowitz describes this series as "Alex Rider with devils and witches".

In October 2008, Anthony Horowitz's play Mindgame opened Off Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City. Mindgame starred Keith Carradine, Lee Godart, and Kathleen McNenny. The production was the New York stage directorial debut for Ken Russell.

In March 2009 he was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.

Continued success (2011–present)
On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled The House of Silk. It was both published  in November 2011 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. A follow-up novel, Moriarty, was published in 2014.

In October 2014, the estate of Ian Fleming commissioned Horowitz to write a James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis, which was released in 2015. It was followed by a second novel, Forever and A Day, which came out on 31 May 2018. A third novel entitled With a Mind to Kill was released on May 17, 2022. Horowitz is the only author in recent years to have been invited by Ian Fleming Publications to write successive, official James Bond novels.

In 2016, Horowitz's adult novel Magpie Murders was published. Having previously spoken about the book in 2005, it was initially described as being about "a whodunit writer who is murdered while he's writing his latest whodunit". Horowitz finally expected to finish it in late 2015, and it was finally published in October 2016. A follow-up novel, Moonflower Murders, was released in 2020. A third and final novel in the series is expected to be released as well, with Horowitz expressing hope that he'll start writing it sometime in 2023.

In 2017, Horowitz began a new series of detective novels which includes himself as a novelist enlisted by an out-of-work detective called Hawthorne to write books about the way Hawthorne solves crimes. The fictional Horowitz accompanies Hawthorne as he investigates murders committed in London and other locations. So far, starting with The Word is Murder, five of these books have appeared, with three others commissioned.

In 2011, Horowitz tweeted that he had plans to write a new trilogy for the same demographic as his Alex Rider and Power of Five books, but that it's still "a secret". During 2012 and 2013, Horowitz tweeted out some more information regarding the series, where he stated that it will be "a completely new genre" from anything else he'd done so far, and that it will have a contemporary setting in modern-day London with a 15-year-old protagonist. He also revealed that it's tentatively entitled The Machine. However, Horowitz revealed in 2021 that he has yet to begin writing this series and that he has no immediate plans to do so.

Film
Horowitz wrote the screenplay for Just Ask for Diamond, a 1989 film adaptation of his Diamond Brothers novel The Falcon's Malteser that had an all-star cast which included Bill Paterson, Jimmy Nail, Roy Kinnear, Susannah York, Michael Robbins and Patricia Hodge, and featured Colin Dale and Dursley McLinden as Nick and Tim Diamond respectively.

Horowitz is the writer of a feature film screenplay, The Gathering, which was released in 2003 and starred Christina Ricci.

He wrote the screenplay for Alex Rider's first major motion picture, Stormbreaker.

Television
Horowitz began writing for television in the 1980s, contributing to the children's anthology series Dramarama, and also writing five episodes of the third season for the popular fantasy series Robin of Sherwood. He also novelised three of Carpenter's episodes as a children's book under the title Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man (1986).

In addition, he created Crossbow (1987), a half-hour action adventure series loosely based on William Tell. This era in Horowitz's career also saw the release of Adventurer (1987), a thriller about a convict stuck on a prisoner ship with his sworn enemy based on the Richard Carpenter series, and Starting Out (1990), a collection of screenplays by the author himself, published.

His association with murder mysteries began with the adaptation of several Hercule Poirot stories for ITV's popular Agatha Christie's Poirot series during the 1990s. Often his work has a comic edge, such as with the comic murder anthology Murder Most Horrid (BBC Two, 1991) and the comedy-drama The Last Englishman (1995), starring Jim Broadbent.

In 1991, The Diamond Brothers, a six-part television series written and directed by Horowitz himself, was broadcast on ITV. The series is based on the book South by South East, which Horowitz claimed he wrote after he had written the television series, effectively making South by South East a novelisation of the television series rather than the novel acting as the primary source of inspiration. Both McLinden and Dale reprised their respective film roles, which makes the television series act as a sequel to Just Ask for Diamond.

From 1997, he wrote the majority of the episodes in the early series of Midsomer Murders. In 2001, he created a drama anthology series of his own for the BBC, Murder in Mind, an occasional series which deals with a different set of characters and a different murder every one-hour episode.

He also created two short-lived science-fiction shows, Crime Traveller (1997) for BBC One and The Vanishing Man (pilot 1996, series 1998) for ITV. While Crime Traveller received favourable viewing figures it was not renewed for a second season, which Horowitz accounts to temporary personnel transitioning within the BBC.

In 2002, Horowitz created the series Foyle's War, a historically-themed detective series set during and after the Second World War. The series became the longest-running among Horowitz's television projects, with a total of 28 episodes broadcast over eight series between 2002 and 2015.

Horowitz devised the 2009 ITV crime drama Collision and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael A. Walker.

Horowitz adapted his novel Magpie Murders into a television miniseries, which aired on BritBox and later BBC One in the UK and on the PBS series Masterpiece Mystery! in the US.

Filming commenced on the Canary Islands in the spring of 2024 on his television series Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue.

Personal life
Horowitz lives in Central London (Clerkenwell) with his wife Jill Green; they eloped to be married in Hong Kong on 15 April 1988. Green produced Foyle's War, the series Horowitz wrote for ITV, and other television shows he has written. They have two sons.

Horowitz credits his family with much of his success in writing, as he says they help him with ideas and research. He is a patron of family support charity Home-Start in Suffolk and child protection charity Kidscape.

Politically, Horowitz has described himself to be "vaguely conservative". Ahead of the 2010 United Kingdom general election, Horowitz stated he would vote for the Conservative Party in response to the policies of the governing Labour Party, but "with little enthusiasm." In 2017, Horowitz expressed criticism of the notion of cultural appropriation after a publisher had allegedly tried to dissuade him from creating a black character as a central figure in one of his novels, and supported fellow author Lionel Shriver's critiques on the same issue. He also criticised the social phenomenon of cancel culture and "mobbing" of figures for expressing diverse opinions, stating "There is a rigidity in the way we have begun to think and speak. If we step outside certain lines on certain issues, we find not just people disagreeing, but disagreeing to the extent of death threats. When somebody says something untoward in the press, and I am not saying this about myself, people don't just say that was a stupid thing to say. They say, Lose your job. They want you to never ever have an income again."

Honours and awards
Horowitz was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours, both for services to literature.

Alex Rider series

 * 1) Stormbreaker (2000)
 * 2) Point Blanc (2001; US title: Point Blank)
 * 3) Skeleton Key (2002)
 * 4) Eagle Strike (2003)
 * 5) Scorpia (2004)
 * 6) Ark Angel (2005)
 * 7) Snakehead (2007)
 * 8) Crocodile Tears (2009)
 * 9) Scorpia Rising (2011)
 * 10) Russian Roulette (2013)
 * 11) Never Say Die (2017)
 * 12) Nightshade (2020)
 * 13) Nightshade Revenge (2023)

Short story collections

 * 1) Alex Rider: Secret Weapon (2019)
 * 2) Alex Rider: Undercover (2020)

Related works

 * 1) Alex Rider: The Gadgets (2005)
 * 2) Alex Rider: Mission Files (2008)

The Power of Five (The Gatekeepers) series

 * 1) Raven's Gate (2005)
 * 2) Evil Star (2006)
 * 3) Nightrise (2007)
 * 4) Necropolis (2008)
 * 5) Oblivion (2012)

Diamond Brothers series

 * 1) The Falcon's Malteser (1986)
 * 2) Public Enemy Number Two (1987)
 * 3) South By South East (1991)
 * 4) The Blurred Man (2003)
 * 5) I Know What You Did Last Wednesday (2003)
 * 6) The French Confection (2003)
 * 7) The Greek Who Stole Christmas (2007)
 * 8) Where Seagulls Dare (2022)
 * 9) The Radius of the Lost Shark (announced)

Short stories

 * 1) The Double Eagle Has Landed (2011; published in Guys Read: Thriller)

Horowitz Horror series

 * 1) Horowitz Horror (1999)
 * 2) More Horowitz Horror (2001)
 * 3) More Bloody Horowitz (2009; retitled as Bloody Horowitz in the United States)

Legends series

 * 1) Beasts and Monsters (2010)
 * 2) Battles and Quests (2010)
 * 3) Death and the Underworld (2011)
 * 4) Heroes and Villains (2011)
 * 5) The Wrath of the Gods (2012)
 * 6) Tricks and Transformations (2012)

Groosham Grange series

 * 1) Groosham Grange (1988)
 * 2) The Unholy Grail (1999; later reissued as Return to Groosham Grange)

Pentagram series

 * 1) The Devil's Door-Bell (1983)
 * 2) The Night of the Scorpion (1985)
 * 3) The Silver Citadel (1986)
 * 4) Day of the Dragon (1989)

Standalone children's novels

 * 1) The Sinister Secret of Frederick K. Bower (1979; reissued in 1985 as Enter Frederick K. Bower)
 * 2) Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet (1981)
 * 3) Granny (1994)
 * 4) The Switch (1996)
 * 5) The Devil and His Boy (1998)

Other children's novels

 * 1) Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man (1986; with Richard Carpenter)
 * 2) Adventurer (1987)
 * 3) New Adventures of William Tell (1989)
 * 4) Starting Out (1990)

Children's collections

 * 1) Myths and Legends (1985)
 * 2) The Kingfisher Book of Myths and Legends (2003)
 * 3) Three of Diamonds (2004)
 * 4) Four of Diamonds (2008)
 * 5) The Complete Horowitz Horror (2008)
 * 6) Midnight Feast (2011; with Meg Cabot, Eoin Colfer, Garth Nix, Louise Rennison and Darren Shan)
 * 7) RED (2012; with Cecelia Ahern, Rachel Cusk, Emma Donoghue, Max Hastings, Victoria Hislop, Hanif Kureishi, Andrew Motion and Will Self)
 * 8) Groosham Grange: Two Books in One! (2011)

Anthologies (edited)

 * 1) The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994; reissued as Death Walks Tonight in 1995)

The Power of Five graphic novels

 * 1) The Power of Five 1: Raven's Gate (2010)
 * 2) The Power of Five 2: Evil Star (2014)
 * 3) The Power of Five 3: Nightrise (2014)

Alex Rider graphic novels

 * 1) Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
 * 2) Alex Rider: Point Blanc
 * 3) Alex Rider: Skeleton Key
 * 4) Alex Rider: Eagle Strike
 * 5) Alex Rider: Scorpia
 * 6) Alex Rider: Ark Angel

Edge: Horowitz Graphic Horror

 * 1) The Phone Goes Dead (2010)
 * 2) Scared (2010)
 * 3) Killer Camera (2010)
 * 4) The Hitchhiker (2010)

Sherlock Holmes novels

 * 1) The House of Silk (2011)
 * 2) Moriarty (2014)

Short stories

 * 1) The Three Monarchs (2014; eBook)
 * 2) The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards (2020; published in three parts in the Daily Mail, December 21–23)

James Bond novels

 * 1) Trigger Mortis (2015)
 * 2) Forever and a Day (2018)
 * 3) With a Mind to Kill (2022)

Susan Ryeland series

 * 1) Magpie Murders (2016)
 * 2) Moonflower Murders (2020)

Hawthorne and Horowitz series

 * 1) The Word Is Murder (2017)
 * 2) The Sentence Is Death (2019)
 * 3) A Line to Kill (2021)
 * 4) The Twist of a Knife (2022)
 * 5) Close to Death (2024)

Standalone adult novels

 * Poisoned Pen (2002; never published in the UK but released as El asesinato de Shakespeare in Spanish and William S. in Dutch)
 * The Killing Joke (2004)

Novellas

 * Vermeer to Eternity (2015; Kindle single)

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KTVK

KTVK (channel 3) is an independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KPHO-TV (channel 5) and low-power station KPHE-LD (channel 44), a grouping known as "Arizona's Family". The three stations share studios on North Seventh Avenue in Uptown Phoenix; KTVK's transmitter is located on South Mountain on the city's south side. The station's signal is relayed across northern Arizona on a network of translator stations.

KTVK signed on in 1955 as the fourth and last commercial VHF station in Phoenix. Owned by a syndicate fronted by former U.S. Senator and newly-elected Governor Ernest McFarland, it took over as Phoenix's ABC affiliate. After spending its first three decades as an also-ran, it poached several employees from then-dominant KTSP-TV in 1985, beginning a surge that made it the market leader by 1990. It lost its ABC affiliation as part of a shuffle of networks in 1994 and 1995 but has since prospered as an independent. It was one of the last family-owned major-market TV stations, being owned in part or whole by the McFarland-Lewis family from its inception until 1999.

The Belo Corporation acquired KTVK in 1999 and also took over KASW (channel 61), which KTVK had been programming since it began broadcasting four years prior. After Belo merged with Gannett, owner of KPNX and The Arizona Republic, the station was briefly owned by former general manager Jack Sander but was sold to the Meredith Corporation, separating it from KASW and merging it with KPHO-TV. KPHO-TV moved into the newer, larger KTVK studios; the "Arizona's Family" brand associated with channel 3 was extended to cover both stations, which began sharing news resources. In 2023, Gray Television's Phoenix stations became the new television home of the Phoenix Suns of the NBA.

Early years
Channel 3 was the last commercial VHF allocation in Phoenix to be awarded. Prior to the 1948 freeze on new TV applications, there had been one application made, from radio station KTAR, one of the state's largest. In February 1953, however, after the freeze was lifted, a second applicant filed for the channel: the Arizona Television Company. That put the plans of KTAR—which already had television equipment on order—on hold. Originally owned by Buckeye rancher and car dealer Ralph Watkins as well as two other principals, a new stockholder was added to the company in May: former senator Ernest McFarland, who bought a 40 percent interest. Also seeking channel 3 was Herb Askins, a local businessman, but his Desert Advertising Co. dropped out late in the year, setting up a high-stakes showdown between Phoenix's NBC radio affiliate and the McFarland group in hearings in February 1954.

The staring contest, however, ended two months later. KTAR owner John J. Louis was unwilling to go through a hearing process to get a television sister for his radio station. Instead, in late April, he announced that KTAR would purchase Mesa-based NBC affiliate KTYL-TV channel 12, for $250,000, effectively awarding the channel 3 allocation to the Arizona Television Company. With no other applications to consider, a Federal Communications Commission hearing examiner recommended the company be granted a construction permit weeks later. The permit was duly granted on June 11.

The transmitter was built atop South Mountain, and a $500,000 studio building was constructed at 16th Street and Osborn Road. The station affiliated with ABC, filling a void that would have been created when existing ABC outlet KOOL-TV announced plans to change to CBS. By the time KTVK began broadcasting on February 28, 1955, McFarland had been elected Governor of Arizona. Channel 3 boasted the first color-equipped studios in Phoenix and the largest in the state.

Channel 3 lost money in its early years. Unlike its three competitors, it did not have a long-established radio sister on which to draw revenue. According to a 1990 interview, in the early 1960s, Walter Cronkite sought to buy a stake in the Arizona Television Company. He would have become KTVK's main anchor, with a salary of $25,000 a year. However, Arizona Television Company could not afford to meet Cronkite's salary demands.

McFarland bought out the remaining partners in the Arizona Television Company in 1977. Long before then, McFarland had intended for KTVK to be a locally-focused station. As Delbert Lewis, husband of McFarland's adopted daughter, Jewell, put it in a 1978 interview with The Arizona Republic, his father-in-law wanted channel 3 to be "a family corporation. All Arizonans. To keep it local." In an era when the television industry was already dominated by large station groups, Lewis said that his family took pride in the fact that major decisions were made in Phoenix, not in New York.

The socially laudatory aims of the McFarland-Lewis family initially did not translate into ratings success. Channel 3 spent most of its first 30 years stubbornly in third place. In January 1985, Arizona Republic television columnist Bud Wilkinson referred to the station as a "blot on [ABC]'s affiliate ledger" and claimed, citing a conversation with a top network executive, that the network had occasionally tried to move to another station and still was interested in the idea.

The rise
In March 1984, Delbert Lewis and Jewell McFarland Lewis were named the conservators of McFarland's estate, just three months before the former governor and senator died. In the preceding decade, Delbert Lewis had taken the reins of the station; he was named president of the Arizona Television Company in 1975 and assumed the role of general manager in 1980. McFarland ceded day-to-day control of the station to his relatives after undergoing brain surgery in 1977, shortly after buying out his partners. Upon McFarland's death, the Lewises inherited full control of KTVK. Eventually, Jewell and Delbert held a 60 percent controlling interest in the Arizona Television Company, with the remaining 40 percent divided between their four children. In 1986, Lewis made the most consequential hires in channel 3's history when he poached a dozen employees from long-dominant KTSP-TV. Included in the raid were KTSP's news director, Bill Miller, and his assistant news director, Phil Alvidrez. Miller became KTVK's station manager, while Alvidrez became KTVK's news director.

Under Miller and Alvidrez, the station relaunched its news department as NewsChannel 3 and began a climb to the top of the ratings. The station dismissed its existing weeknight news anchor team and rolled out a new lineup, led by new hire Cameron Harper and former weekend anchor Heidi Foglesong. Lewis bankrolled major investments in people, syndicated programming and equipment and dramatically boosted KTVK's promotional budget. He had no qualms about spending what he believed it would take to increase KTVK's profile; in 1990, he told The Republic that if Miller and others showed that they needed something, he would ensure that they would get it. As a "one-man board of directors", he was able to make decisions in mere minutes that took years at KTVK's corporate-owned competitors. For example, when Miller sought a new $500,000 satellite truck, Lewis greenlighted it in only 15 minutes. Improvement started slowly but was noticeable by 1988. Even those changes almost came too slowly for ABC; as late as 1989, ABC executives were in negotiations to move from KTVK to KTSP-TV.

The changes finally began to pay off by the November 1990 sweeps period. KTVK's 10 p.m. newscast surged to first place, and its early evening newscasts were posting the strongest numbers in their history. Channel 3 also was the most-watched station in the Valley in prime time, even as NBC won its 11th consecutive sweeps period nationally. A year later, it tied KTSP-TV in the early evening timeslot and took the lead in the morning. By February 1992, channel 3 had pulled ahead of channel 10 at 6 pm; it was the first time on record that channel 10 had lost that timeslot.

The growth of the company fueled additional media acquisitions. In the span of a year, the Arizona Television Company bought Phoenix Magazine and radio station KESZ (99.9 FM), as well as a production studio. Reorganizing as Media America Corp. (and later MAC America Communications), the group also handled programming responsibilities for the new KTWC (103.5 FM) when it signed on in 1994.

Going independent
On May 23, 1994, New World Communications and Fox announced a pact that would see KSAZ-TV leave its longtime affiliation with CBS to join Fox. The landmark deal also left CBS looking for new affiliates in several other markets, including Detroit, Cleveland, and Tampa, and set off a mad dash to secure network affiliations. KTVK was at a distinct disadvantage in the ensuing affiliate shuffle even though it was now one of the strongest ABC affiliates in the country. By this time, it had firmly established itself as the Valley's news leader, and its overall ratings were 20 points ahead of the runner-up. However, channel 3's ratings gains over the previous decade meant little in a dealmaking environment which favored station groups with presences in multiple cities, not KTVK—by this time, one of the last family-owned major-market stations in the country.

In this environment, Scripps-Howard Broadcasting found itself with substantial leverage. Scripps owned displaced Fox affiliate KNXV-TV, and more importantly owned two successful and longstanding ABC affiliates in Detroit and in Cleveland. Both stations were being heavily pursued by CBS, which was about to lose its longstanding New World-owned affiliates to Fox. KTVK was already in talks for a new affiliation agreement with ABC that would have more than doubled its hourly compensation rate, but it would still have been less than the network was offering to stations in markets much smaller than Phoenix. However, the offer was then taken off the table by the network at the advice of its lawyers; a call with ABC network president Bob Iger revealed that Scripps-Howard—a longtime partner of the network—had told ABC that they were threatening to flip the Detroit and Cleveland ABC affiliates to CBS unless ABC moved its Phoenix affiliation to KNXV-TV. Iger wanted to keep KTVK, but Tom Murphy, the CEO of Capital Cities/ABC, felt that he had to be able to offer the ABC affiliation in Phoenix to Scripps if necessary to avoid potential long-term damage to the ABC television network. Specifically, ABC officials feared losing as much as half a ratings point on ABC World News Tonight if Scripps made good on its threat to flip its Detroit and Cleveland stations to CBS.

Scripps-Howard would not relent from demanding the ABC affiliation for Phoenix and even refused $25 million from the network to "take Phoenix off the table". Ultimately, ABC gave in and awarded its affiliations in Phoenix, Tampa, and Baltimore to Scripps; in informing KTVK, Iger explained that they "had to" do so. The Lewises then sought to affiliate with CBS, which was about to be displaced from KSAZ. However, despite Tom Murphy's support and channel 3's stronger ratings, CBS ultimately chose a deal with group owner Meredith Corporation and its KPHO-TV. Meredith also provided CBS security in Kansas City, where the New World switches had dislodged the NBC affiliation, and an upgrade in the Flint, Michigan, market. Miller told The Republic that CBS gave its Phoenix affiliation to KPHO rather than face having to search for a new affiliate in Kansas City, though CBS officials denied this. According to Miller, KTVK would have been the obvious choice to take the CBS affiliation if CBS only had to consider "which two stations it wanted in Phoenix".

Over the second half of 1994, KTVK relinquished ABC programming to KNXV in stages. Good Morning America was the first ABC program to move to KNXV after KTVK displaced it with a new local morning newscast. KNXV then picked up World News Tonight and Nightline on December 12, the day after Fox programming moved to KSAZ. KTVK's nearly 40-year affiliation with ABC officially ended on January 9, 1995, when ABC's remaining non-news programming moved to KNXV.

Despite the loss of ABC programming, the Lewises and station management committed to build KTVK into one of the nation's top independents. The station spent some $100 million on new syndicated programming, including Mad About You and Frasier, as well as poaching the most popular shows in syndication at the time from KSAZ-TV—game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!—and programming them in the prime time hour between 7 and 8 pm. KTVK also broke ground on a new studio center to house its growing operations. The news department was expanded with 20 new staffers. Media America struck a local marketing agreement to operate the new KASW (channel 61) with The WB—which would air on KTVK until KASW launched in September 1995—and children's programming, and it launched the AZ News Channel, a cable offering on Cox Communications systems featuring breaking news and replays of KTVK newscasts that had been in the planning stages since 1993. Another large acquisition came in the form of sports rights to the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team, with channel 3 airing half of the team's games beginning in the 1998 season. The station remained Phoenix's news leader in most time slots, with the exception of 10 pm, when strong NBC programming gave KPNX the lead.

In the fall of 1998, KTVK briefly aired The Howard Stern Radio Show; both KTVK (which aired the program after its 10 p.m. news) and Lubbock, Texas, Fox affiliate KJTV-TV pulled the program from their schedules after two episodes.

Belo ownership
In what Del Lewis described as "the most difficult decision our family has ever made", MAC America sold KTVK and its other remaining assets to the Belo Corporation of Dallas, Texas, for $315 million in July 1999–a handsome return on McFarland's investment 44 years earlier. The Lewises cited the costs of conversion to digital television, economies of scale that station groups had in purchasing syndicated programming, and competition from cable and satellite TV in their decision to sell; the transaction capped two years of selling the rest of the company, including Phoenix Magazine, the production facility, and the radio stations, which had suffered from the needed investments in programming and news expansion at KTVK. Later that year, Belo announced that it would purchase KASW from Gregory Brooks, forming the first television duopoly in the Phoenix market just as they were being legalized. Bill Miller retired a year later.

In 2000, Belo and Cox expanded their existing partnership with a new Spanish-language channel, ¡Más! Arizona, that launched on October 16 of that year. KTVK lost the Diamondbacks after the 2007 season, when the team opted to move all of its regional telecasts to cable on regional sports network Fox Sports Arizona (now Bally Sports Arizona).

Helicopter crash

On July 27, 2007, KTVK's news helicopter "News Chopper 3" was involved in a mid-air collision when another news helicopter, belonging to KNXV-TV, struck it from behind. The collision occurred above Steele Indian School Park (near Third Street and Indian School Road), while both aircraft were covering a police pursuit in downtown Phoenix. All four people aboard both helicopters were killed, including KTVK pilot Scott Bowerbank and photographer Jim Cox. An investigation conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the accident was caused by both pilots' inability to see one another and avoid a collision with the other helicopter.

The helicopter collision resulted in the establishment of shared news helicopters in the Phoenix market; while KTVK initially shared a helicopter with KPHO-TV and KPNX, all four Phoenix news operations now share a single helicopter.

Sale to Meredith
On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company, the owner of KPNX and the Arizona Republic, acquired Belo. As FCC rules restrict one company from owning more than two television stations in the same market, Gannett announced that it would spin off KTVK and KASW to Sander Media, LLC, a company operated by former Belo executive Jack Sander. While Gannett intended to provide services to the stations through a shared services agreement, KTVK and KASW's operations would have remained largely separate from KPNX and the Republic. Despite objections to the Gannett-Belo merger by anti-consolidation groups (such as Free Press) and pay television providers (due to ownership conflicts involving television stations and newspapers both companies owned in other markets, the use of Sander as a third-party licensee to buy stations that would be operated by the owner of a same-market competitor, concerns over any future operational consolidation of the stations involved in the deal, and the Gannett and Sander stations colluding in retransmission consent negotiations), the FCC granted approval of the deal on December 20.

As the sale was completed on December 23, 2013, Sander/Gannett then sold KTVK to the Meredith Corporation, owner of CBS affiliate KPHO-TV. The license assets of KASW were sold to SagamoreHill Broadcasting, with Meredith to operate that station through a shared services agreement. However, as a voluntary condition of the transaction's approval, that station was instead sold off to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The sale was approved on June 16, 2014, and completed on June 19. On August 7, 2014, Meredith bought the KTVK studios, with the intent of housing the combined operation at KTVK's larger and newer facility.

The union of KTVK and KPHO-TV's news operations, marketed under the "Arizona's Family" banner long associated with KTVK, came with the loss of 14 jobs across both stations. KPHO general manager Ed Munson headed the combined operation until his 2018 retirement.

Sale to Gray Television
On May 3, 2021, Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division, including KTVK and KPHO, for $2.7 billion. In Arizona, Gray owned KOLD-TV in Tucson. The sale was completed on December 1.

Newscasts
From the beginning, KTVK placed a high premium on news. The McFarlands and Lewises saw themselves mostly as "newspeople, not TV people". Despite this, for most of its history, KTVK had been the third-rated local station for news and had "long been viewed as a loser" and "a joke" in the industry; the news programs had stints as Total News and later Eyewitness News. While the station briefly had momentum under news director Cecil Tuck in the early 1980s, it was unable to escape the ratings basement. The station frequently attempted to lure personalities from competing stations, with mixed results: Mary Jo West, the first female anchor in Phoenix at KOOL/KTSP, returned from a job at CBS News in 1983, but channel 3 was unsuccessful in hiring anchors from KPNX. West left in the summer of 1986.

The station managed to shed its third-place positioning and become the market leader after the hiring of Miller and Alvidrez in 1986. However, the loss of ABC affiliation led to major changes for KTVK's news department. Chief among them was the launch of a three-hour morning newscast, Good Morning Arizona; the program was initially hosted by Jodi Applegate, who would leave KTVK to host the weekend editions of The Today Show in 1996. By that time, Good Morning Arizona had beaten out all of its local and national competitors in the ratings. The station also transformed its 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts into the 90-minute Good Evening Arizona, and when KASW launched in 1995, KTVK produced a 9 p.m. newscast for the new station.

KTVK itself, however, was later to debut prime time news than many independent stations. In 1996, it instead relaunched its 10 p.m. newscast as Tonight Arizona, which later became NewShow and The News Show. This changed in 2008, when the station replaced 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. broadcasts with a 9 p.m. newscast and expanded Good Morning Arizona, bringing it to 52 hours a week of newscasts; a 10 p.m. broadcast was later reinstated in 2011.

KTVK was also involved with news production and simulcasts for the Tucson market when Belo owned and operated KMSB, Tucson's Fox affiliate. In 2003, KMSB began a 9 p.m. newscast, which originally was produced in Phoenix and used news reporting from KMSB-employed reporters and from Tucson NBC affiliate KVOA. Additionally, from 2003 to 2012, KMSB simulcast Good Morning Arizona.

Sports
Gray announced in January 2023 that it would launch the Arizona's Family Sports and Entertainment Network (AZFSEN) over KPHE-LD on March 1, 2023, and that it had acquired the rights to Phoenix Rising FC soccer; KPHE will air all 34 matches, with five simulcasts on KTVK and one on KPHO-TV.

On April 28, 2023, Gray announced that the rights to the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury would move from Bally Sports Arizona to KTVK and KPHE-LD beginning with the 2023 Phoenix Mercury season and 2023–24 Phoenix Suns season. The two stations together will carry all non-nationally televised games, with KTVK to carry at least 40 Suns games per season and 13 Mercury games per season; the contract also includes provision for a streaming platform known as Kiswe to carry Suns and Mercury games. The parent company of Bally Sports Arizona, Diamond Sports Group, responded by claiming that the Suns/Mercury deal represented a breach of contract by not allowing Diamond to exercise its contractual rights in violation of bankruptcy law. The CEO of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury, Josh Bartelstein, had previously cited a "goal of wide distribution" for the teams in the face of cord cutting affecting the availability of RSNs. While a bankruptcy judge blocked the Suns portion of the deal, the Mercury portion was allowed to proceed. On July 14, the Suns announced that the Gray deal would go ahead, as Diamond Sports Group declined to match the contract.

Non-news programming
KTVK also airs a limited amount of non-news local programming. One of the station's offerings, the local pet adoption encouragement program Pets on Parade with the Arizona Humane Society, is the longest-running local TV show in Arizona, having first been broadcast in December 1958. In 2010, the station launched the weekly political program Politics Unplugged.

Notable former on-air staff

 * Wally Bruner, former newscaster in the 1960s
 * Jineane Ford, former reporter, later of KPNX
 * Daryn Kagan, former anchor, later of CNN
 * Tony Kovaleski, former reporter, later of KNXV
 * Samantha Mohr, former meteorologist, later of The Weather Channel
 * Christi Paul, former anchor and consumer reporter, left in 2003 to work for CNN; currently a weekday news anchor at HLN and weekend anchor for CNN's New Day
 * Brandon Lee Rudat, anchor
 * Lauren Sánchez, former anchor and reporter
 * Ray Scott, 5 p.m. sportscaster and television play-by-play voice of ASU football in the 1980s

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed: {{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

On October 20, 2009, KTVK added This TV to its 3.2 digital subchannel. This TV was dropped on April 13, 2015, and replaced with a 24/7 loop of local news—the former Arizona NewsChannel. On the same day, sister station KPHO's former 24/7 weather service, moved to KTVK's 3.3 digital subchannel. It was dropped from KPHO in favor of Cozi TV. On August 1, 2017, the local news loop on 3.2 was replaced by the sci-fi network Comet.

KTVK joined the Phoenix ATSC 3.0 lineup on July 8, 2021, on the KFPH-CD multiplex. On that date, as part of rebalancing of its subchannels, the KASW subchannel of Ion Mystery was moved to the KTVK multiplex.

Analog-to-digital conversion
KTVK ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 24, using virtual channel 3.

As part of the SAFER Act, KTVK kept its analog signal on the air to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters. KTVK's "nightlight" service was originally intended to last 30 days but was instead discontinued two weeks after the analog-to-digital transition, on June 26.

Translators
KTVK is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:
 * Bullhead City (Katherine Landing): K12OF-D
 * Bullhead City (Oatman–Goldroad Crest): K16EV-D
 * Camp Verde, etc.: K32ME-D
 * Cottonwood: K28OA-D
 * Flagstaff: K25MG-D
 * Globe–Miami: K14NA-D
 * Kingman: K23FV-D
 * Lake Havasu City: K29FD-D
 * Meadview (Patterson Slope): K25DH-D
 * Prescott: K11LC-D
 * Williams–Ash Fork: K15HY-D

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Claude Gillot

Claude Gillot (April 27, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.

Life
Gillot was born in Langres. He was a painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and designer for the theater. He had Watteau as an apprentice between 1703 and 1708.

Gillot's sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as Feast of Pan and Feast of Bacchus, opened the Academy of Painting at Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his art to the fashionable tastes of the day, and introduced the decorative fêtes champêtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils, though Gillot's examples usually lack the contemporary dress of Watteau's. His paintings often include characters from the commedia dell'arte, a taste he passed on to Watteau. Gillot was also closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes. He died in Paris, aged 49.

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Nainsook

Nainsook is a soft, fine, lightweight form of muslin. Muslin encompasses a broad range of fabrics of varying weight and fineness, but is always a plain weave, cotton fabric. The word 'nainsook' is first documented in 1790, and derives from the Hindi word nainsukh, which literally means "eye's delight".

Nainsook was often used to make babies' clothing or lingerie at least until the 1920s. Nainsook cotton was also often used to make bias tape in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Gaston Reiff

Gaston Étienne Ghislaine Reiff (24 February 1921 – 6 May 1992) was a Belgian runner. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics in the 5000 m event and won it in 1948, defeating Emil Zátopek in the final and becoming the first Belgian track and field athlete to win an Olympic title. He lost to Zátopek at the 1950 European Championships, placing third.

Reiff competed in boxing and football before changing to athletics. Besides his Olympic gold medal he set world records in the 2000 m, 3000 m and 2 miles and won 24 national titles; in 1951 he held Belgian records on distances ranging from 1000 m to 10000 m. A street in Braine-l'Alleud and the town's stadium are named after Reiff in his home town of Braine-l'Alleud.

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User:MAlvis

I am a US engineer, entrepreneur, former USAF instructor pilot in supersonic jet aircraft (1970-1974) and physician, specializing in preventive, non-invasive and invasive cardiology and internal medicine in San Antonio, an FAA senior flight examiner, have answered questions on HealhTap.com in the past and currently on Quora.com (more flexibility for more detailed answers without the disabling biass of many in the medical disease industry). I also have practical mechanical, electronic design, software and system engineering/building experience.

I came across Wikipedia in June of 2004, during a Google search looking for technical information on current commercial digital encoding algorithms for sound.

However, since ~2007, I rarely contribute because of excessive interference from a few who seem to have incorrect ideas/beliefs about medicine and keep deleting my work, justifying this by insisting that I provide academic/research references, most of which are not publicly available on the net. Thus, if you are interested in some of my more current charitable efforts, look me up on Google, Milton Alvis, or on the website HealthTap.com.

06/2004: Being favorably impressed with the technical information overview, organization and links about the sound encoding issue provided by others, I decided to look up atherosclerosis, commonly incorrectly depicted, a problem for a majority of humans, typically beginning in childhood, perhaps more a problem for people in first world countries with longer life expediencies, and one with which I have technical expertise. I found the Wikipedia definition of atherosclerosis to be rather basic and elected to perform rather extensive editing, so far only with text, to better elucidate the issues. Some images to illustrate some of the issues and a better organizational outline would likely be of considerable help to improved understanding by non-physicians. I have not done these, at least yet.

Since 06/2004, I have started a number of additional Wikipedia definitions and assisted with improving others. I only list those definitions which I personally feel OK about, as of the last time I reviewed them.

A few pages I have initiated since 2004 include: Andreas Gruentzig (the founder of angioplasty), atheroma, cardiac output, cardiolite, cerebral circulation, clinically silent, colesevelam, Drug-eluting stent, Electron Beam Tomography, exenatide, false negative, false positive, fatty streaks, gamma camera, Hounsfield scale (the basis for CAT scan images), IMT, IVUS, Jim Otvos, Lp-LpA2, NCEP, positron electron annihilation reaction (the physical basis of PET scanning), radiocontrast, radiodensity, radiolucent, stroke volume, therapeutic effect, Ultra Low Density Lipoprotein, vein graft disease, vulnerable plaque (the basis for most heart attacks and many strokes ), X-Ray tube and a few other definitions. Additional issues and links, one long known and repeatedly verified, importance of lipoprotein concentrations & particle size, which have had considerable and growing scientific evidence of validity for cardiovascular disease progression over the last few decades are presented in the "2008" addendum below.

Pages I have also worked on include: Acyl-CoA, ACSL1, aspirin, angiogram, angioplasty, ApoA-1 Milano, Apolipoprotein B, arteriole, artery, atherosclerosis, benzonatate, Biomarker discovery, blood pressure, blood vessel, C-reactive protein, capillary, cardiac output, cardiac stress test, cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures, cardiovascular disease, Cholesterol, Chronic CerebroSpinal Venous Insufficiency, coronary catheterization, Crestor, chylomicrons, clarithromycin, coronary artery bypass surgery, carotid Doppler machine, computed axial tomography, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, distilled water, efficacy, emulsion, endothelium, endothelium-derived relaxing factor, eteplirsen, freon, gamma camera, glyceryl trinitrate, glycosylated hemoglobin, heart sounds, high density lipoprotein, hydrochlorothiazide, hypercholesterolemia, impedance plethysmography, intermediate density lipoprotein, ischaemic heart disease, John Lenczowski, Kruppel-like factors, lipoprotein (69.91.2.137), low density lipoprotein, Multiple Sclerosis, myocardial infarction, Natural law, necrosis, paresthesia, PCSK9, phytosterol, pioglitazone, pramlintide, platelets, rosuvastatin, side-effect, Asterisk (PBX), Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, SPECT, stents, statins, sulfonylurea, Theaflavin-3-gallate, Tim Russert, tire, thiazolidinedione, thin client, tomogram, vascular smooth muscle, very low density lipoprotein and W. Edwards Deming.

2008: The most effective strategies for reducing atherosclerotic progression and cardiovascular event rates have been altering known, though not 100% fully understood, internal physiologic behaviors which drive the disease, i.e. accumulation of macrophage white blood cells into the inner walls of arteries with some of the cells dying, more macrophages entering and a host of subsequent processes, some of which, e.g. artery enlargement, compensate for and mask presence of the disease, up to a point. The two most consistently powerful factors, in both clincial trials and my own clinical experience, for slowing disease progression have been changing (a) fractionated lipoprotein patterns (including quantified particle concentrations and sizes), not cholesterol or cholesterol fractions per-se (The cholesterol carried by all the lipoproteins is identical, the difference is the protein not the cholesterol.) and (b) blood glucose levels, HbA1c, to abnormally healthy values, i.e. levels more typical of childhood (under age 5) before the atherosclerotic process typically begins.

Additional factors, usually helpful, are reducing systolic blood pressure (at least below 120 mmHg), low level but chronic white blood cell activation (commonly termed inflammatory processes and reflected by C-reactive protein at very low levels, i.e. the hs-CRP test, and many other clinical markers), visceral fat, stopping smoking, staying physically active, reducing lipoprotein little a, maintaining or increasing muscle mass, possibly reducing homocysteine etc.

At the same time, many other strategies, long promoted, such as taking extra doses of vitamins E and/or C, beta-carotene, etc. (antioxidants with the goal of reducing free radical induced cellular damage), in double-blinded prospective randomized human trials of these strategies have repeatedly turned out to show no protective effect and, in some trials, outcomes have been slightly worse than placebo. While the antioxidant issue is clearly relevant, the few seemingly simpler approaches tried to date, vitamins E and C high dose supplementation, have not worked out.

This is a link to a video [], examining autopsy specimens from a 58 year old sudden death heart attack victim, illustrates to issues and that pre-event, high grade lumen narrowing (the rational for "stress" testing) is neither a typical or reliable indicator for future heart attacks. These animations, [] and [], though a bit dramatized, illustrate the sequence of events.

Unfortunately, judging from my experience working with patients for years, most of the public has long been partially mislead by:

 * a belief that atherosclerosis starts in 40-year-olds (i.e. when symptoms become more common), rather than the reality, known for over 5 decades from autopsy observations, that it typically beings in childhood, before age ten, yet typically remains asymptomatic, untreated and ignored for decades

 * the long focus on lumen narrowing/blockage, technically termed stenosis, commonly termed the "plumbing view" on which bypass surgery and angioplasty are based and long promoted by most in the medical profession (based on angiograms and misunderstandings) rather than the reality that the problem is within the wall of arteries and largely undetected by angiography, much less stress tests, see atheroma & cardiac stress test,

 * the long focus on cholesterol as opposed to the correct issues of (a) lipoprotein particle structure, size and plasma concentration driving the progression vs. lack of progression of atherosclerosis combined with several others behaviors, such as (b) blood pressure (repeated wall stretching with each heart beat) (c) blood glucose regulation, etc, and

 * the oversimplified (and misleading, in my view) diet + exercise + cholesterol admonitions of the NIH and its NCEP subcommittee, given the chosen bias of the committee to focus on what are believed to be the least expensive, as opposed to the most effective, strategies (which are debated due to expense & differing interpretations of evidence) to reduce progressive disease burden for the masses, despite the typical ineffective implementation of these admonishments. (Careful review of the long reports of the committee does reveal discussion of the bigger picture.) Additionally, for over two decades the promoted dietary focus was low fat intake as opposed to the more relevant low internal body visceral fat stores and the role of carbohydrate intake and internal body cell-to- cell and inter-tissue signaling and management in driving arterial disease.

As of the year 2000, the NCEP committee's goals were reducing heart attack death rates of those with expected mortality rates greater than 3%/year, 30%/decade based on limited phenotypic characteristics which were presumed fairly easy for most physicians to assess and recognize. As of ~2002, the committee revised its goals to rates greater than 2%/year, 20%/decade, an improvement. However, scientific evidence has repeated demonstrated that the methodologies promoted do not work as well as hoped. Additionally, multiple surveys have demonstrated that most physicians, including most cardiologists, are not effective in helping people reach the NCEP promoted guidelines. Additionally, how many people, (including the famous and respected ABC newsman specializing in politics who died "unexpectedly" June 2008) would deliberately choose the NCEP odds as good enough, if they knew what they were choosing? The AHA published in 2003, that for ~65% of men and ~47% of women, heart attack was the first symptom of cardiovascular disease; what a devastating first symptom; stroke is even worse. In my experience, most people find being aware of the most effective strategies (currently known) and verifying the effectiveness of these strategies for their own health and benefit (e.g. tracking carotid IMT changes, promoting excellence of heart function (not just normality), assessable by unusually carefully performed and read high quality echocardiogram, etc., preferably before onset of symptoms, to be a better approach.

As of 2007, there are still only two laboratories in the world, Berkeley HeartLab (http://www.bhlinc.com) and Liposcience (http://www.liposcience.com), which actually perform lipoprotein analysis for clinicians and patients. In 2006, the Mayo Clinic recruited Liposcience to establish a substation facility at their facility. While I have no financial or management role in either lab company, I believe that the better of the two is Liposcience. Liposcience is an basic science academic research spin-off company founded by and as a result of the research work of Jim Otvos on a better way to measure the many different lipoproteins at lower cost and with better accuracy. Liposcience uses computer automated nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (with both gradient gel electrophoresis and shadowing electron microscopy as references) and report all data referenced to blood samples from Framingham Heart Study first generation children, the blood samples having been both saved and provided by the CDC. Liposcience only performs arterial disease and disease treatment related lab work. However, many labs, in addition to Liposcience, offer HbA1c to track glucose level, important well below levels currently considered Diabetes Mellitus, see Metabolic Syndrome.

An additional good web resource, with more accurate (yet still simplified) graphical illustrations than most presentations, for better understanding of how the atherosclerotic disease process creates a wide spectrum of evolving scenarios ranging from asymptomatic (though creating CHF over years) all the way to sudden-death heart blood supply problems is http://www.shapesociety.org. The graphics at this site also help visually explain why stress testing does not recognize/diagnose arterial disease and why heart artery bypass surgery and angioplasty/stent treatment approaches only partially treat some symptoms of arterial disease in the heart, and other, arterial systems of the body. Be aware that http://www.shapesociety.org promotes both CAT scans and carotid ultrasound for screening. Personally and professionally, I believe there are many well justified concerns and reservations about CAT scan radiation exposure and I rarely recommend them for screening in favor of better and safer ways to approach arterial disease self-protection. However both coronary and carotid ultrasound (they also promote carotid ultrasound) can be very useful, if carefully done and read with the patient seeing and understanding the images as part of a more sophisticated patient education and treatment strategy to avoid becoming symptomatic with advanced cardiovascular atherosclerotic disease consequences; see the pages on atheroma and vulnerable plaque.

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Jean Jouvenet

Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1 May 1644 – 5 April 1717) was a French painter, especially of religious subjects.

Biography
He was born into an artistic family in Rouen. His first training in art was from his father, Laurent Jouvenet; a generation earlier, his grandfather, Noel Jouvenet, may have taught Nicolas Poussin.

Jouvenet early showed a remarkable aptitude for his profession, and on arriving in Paris, attracted the attention of Le Brun, by whom he was employed at Versailles, notably in the Salon de Mars (1671–74), and under whose auspices, in 1675, he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which he was elected professor in 1681, and one of the four perpetual rectors in 1707. He also worked under Charles de La Fosse in the Invalides and Trianon. Jouvenet was later Director of the Académie from 1705 to 1708.

The great mass of works that he executed, chiefly in Paris, many of which, including his celebrated Miraculous Draught of Fishes (engraved by Jean Audran) are now in the Louvre, show his fertility in invention and execution, and also that he possessed in a high degree that general dignity of arrangement and style which distinguished the school of Le Brun. Anthony Blunt found in Jouvenet's manner reminiscences of Poussin, Le Sueur, and the late work of Raphael, but with a characteristic Baroque emotionalism that "is still far from the full Baroque ... His compositions are primarily planned as high reliefs, and the movements are in sharp diagonal straight lines rather than in curves." The naturalism of Jouvenet's style sets his work apart from most of the religious paintings of his time.

Jouvenet died on 5 April 1717, having been forced by paralysis during the last four years of his life to work with his left hand.

Rediscoveries

 * Darius and Alexandre, c. 1670, graphite on blue paper, study for the canvas offered to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris) by the King Louis XIV in 1674 (rediscovered in 2006 by Alain Béjard & Dimitri Joannidès, Alicem Institute, Luxemburg)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/People for deletion

This covers the following: I only put the notice on the first of these. (Perhaps the category should also get one?)
 * Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense: The next generation/People for deletion
 * People for deletion (redirect page)
 * WP:PFD (redirect page)
 * Template:Pfd
 * Category:People on people for deletion
 * Template:Past-pfd

 * I think I stumbled on someone's joke. Do we even want to keep these? (yes, I thought it was funny) --ssd 17:12, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * It's clearly meant as a joke and is even placed in BJAODN. Keep. Mike H 17:13, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree mostly, but what about the category, redirect pages, and templates? Surely we don't have to keep all that? --ssd 17:21, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * It was supposed to be a fully-functional joke, apparently. I am indifferent about keeping the other stuff. Mike H 17:23, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * I must have missed out on the joke; I'm new here. :-/  Keep the BJAODN article and remove the others.  --Ardonik 18:52, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't see how this is even remotely funny. Delete this from BJAODN, there's not a thing funny about it.  If it's funny to somebody, could you explain what makes it funny?  It's just stupid.  RickK
 * Keep BJAODN variant and delete others. FYI, I created this as a result of a discussion that spiralled out of control on IRC. It originated as a tag in the style of the faux tag that can be seen on my user page, and probably makes sense only to the IRC people, but I still find it funny. :P -- Grunt (talk) 20:55, 2004 Jul 17 (UTC)
 * Eh, it's okay. RickK is being really rude, like always. Mike H 20:57, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * I ASKED for somebody to explain what makes it funny. You, of course, are your usual obnoxious self.  RickK 20:07, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * If we delete People for deletion, does that mean we're for making more people? Geogre 01:02, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, creator says it "probably makes sense only to the IRC people". OK, keep the BJAODN article (it's not funny, but neither is 95% of the rest of BJAODN), but delete the rest. —Stormie 02:05, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete all but BJAODN. Personally I'd delete the BJAODN one, too--don't think it's funny--too much like "death threat, ha ha, just kidding, be a sport, can't you take a joke?" Anyone remember that old Stephen King story, "Word processor of the gods?" In which someone discovers that when they delete things on their word processor, the thing in the real world also gets deleted? Dpbsmith 16:26, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)


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Union of Jewish Students

The Union of Jewish Students of the United Kingdom and Ireland (UJS) represents Jewish students in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is a member of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) and the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) and an associate member of the National Union of Students, and is represented on the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The President for 2023/24 is Edward Isaacs.

Launch
The IUJF (Inter University Jewish Federation) was the creation in 1919 of the Manchester Jewish Association. They saw a growing pride in the Jewish Community and believed it was appropriate for Jewish students to have a national organisation to co-ordinate the activities of Jewish student Societies and represent Jewish students at a national level.

The first step was a conference in Manchester on 17 July 1919 at which four Jewish societies were represented: Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and Oxford. Although not represented initially, the London University Jewish Society subsequently took an active and eventually a leading role.

Early years
With the rise to power in Germany of the Nazi Party, many Jewish students had their studies disrupted and sought refuge in non-occupied Europe and elsewhere; the International Students Service was in the forefront of providing advice to these displaced students and financial assistance was made available from communal funds. The Federation was active in supporting these efforts; almost £2,000 was raised from University students in Britain.

By 1946, the following Universities had societies affiliated to the Federation, in addition to those already mentioned: Belfast, Birmingham, Cambridge, University College, Cardiff, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Reading, and Sheffield.

The two main activities of the Federation, from its inception, were an annual Summer School and an Annual Conference, held in the winter vacation.

Throughout its existence, the IUJF was involved with the Jewish community. It was represented on the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Zionist Federation and had an ongoing liaison with Jewish Youth Study Groups.

For the almost fifty years from its foundation until the creation of the Hillel Foundation, the IUJF had no office, no staff, no sabbatical officers and no assured budget other than money that students could raise themselves. The Federation was run from the rooms of the then Chairman or Secretary; all activities were organized by the students themselves on a voluntary basis; from time to time, small subventions were obtained from the general community.

Expansion
It was the partnership with which B’nai B’rith set up the Hillel Foundation which provided the IUJF with its first permanent office and its first professional assistance. This enabled the Federation and its successor, UJS, to increase its works.

The organization was renamed UJS in 1973.

Activities and values
As of 2021, UJS represents approximately 8,500 students, with 4,000-4,500 being members of its 69 affiliated Jewish Societies (J-Socs) on individual campuses. Expenditure in 2020/21 was under £1m. It states that its core values are: cross-communalism, peer-leadership, representation and engagement with Israel. Its communal partners and supporters include the Jewish Leadership Council, UJIA and the Community Security Trust.

It provides training and funding for individual J-Socs; campaigns on specific issues; offers members the opportunity to participate in networking events, master classes and a summer placement scheme; runs national events to bring together Jewish students, including the JUEFA Cup football tournament, the UJS training Summit, the UJS Conference, the UJS Student Awards, Shabbat UK and Jewniversity Challenge, and; works with universities to secure Jewish student accommodation and spaces for J-Soc activities as well as sourcing kosher food and students' other religious needs. It also organises a range of trips to Israel.

It has been active within the National Union of Students, including its Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism campaigns. It has supported the campaigns of Wes Streeting, Aaron Porter, and Shakira Martin for the role of NUS President in 2008, 2010, and 2017, respectively. UJS funds delegations of Students’ Union leaders to visit Israel.

In April 2019, the UJS called on Sheffield University to "take all actions necessary" against a lecturer who had signed a petition in support of suspended MP Chris Williamson. In October 2019, the Union of Jewish Students demanded that the University of Nottingham cancel a planned lecture by Williamson.

Past leadership
The UJS President is elected by Jewish students to represent their voices within the community, universities, colleges and wider society.

title: Union of Jewish Students