title: Murder at Teesri Manzil 302

text: Murder at Teesri Manzil 302 is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language murder mystery film directed by Navneet Baj Saini, starring Irrfan Khan, Ranvir Shorey, Deepal Shaw and Lucky Ali. The film was stuck in development hell after its completion in the year 2009. Termed as one among Khan's unreleased films, finally premiered on ZEE5 on 31 December 2021, but with poor reviews. It marks a posthumous appearance for Khan following his death on 29 April 2020.


title: Murder at Teesri Manzil 302

text: A wealthy businessman's wife mysteriously disappears, and a team of investigating officers embark on a search for her. Will they be able to decipher what's going on?


title: Murder at Teesri Manzil 302

text: The film was in production from 2008, finally was completed in 2009 but was in the cans for years until it was premiered through ZEE5. The film, thus became the posthumous official release of the late actor Irrfan Khan who died on 29 April 2020.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation () or ERT () is the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster of Greece.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: Following a government decision, the original company was abolished on 11 June 2013, with its 2,656 employees protesting against the closure and continuing broadcasting via a satellite transmission using European Broadcasting Union equipment. The EBU also began providing Internet streaming of the ERT broadcast.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: On 12 June 2013, the Greek government proposed a successor organization, New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (), shortened to NERIT (), which launched in August 2013 as "Public Television" (). As protests against the decision of the government (Coalition of New Democracy, PASOK, DIMAR) continued, on 15 June Prime Minister Samaras proposed returning ERT to service immediately, by having an emergency committee rehire selected employees. This offer was rejected by the ERT employees and Samaras' coalition partners.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: On 17 June 2013, following an appeal by ERT's employees to the Council of State (Greece's highest administrative court), the Council suspended the government's decision to interrupt broadcasting and shut down ERT's frequencies and ordered the Finance Minister and the minister responsible for media, signing the decision, to take "all necessary organisational measures for the continuation of transmission of broadcasting services and operation of internet websites by a public broadcaster for the period until the establishment and operation of a new operator that will serve the public's interest". In his ruling, the Council's President found that the government's decision violated Law 1730/1987 which requires "the contribution by a public broadcaster to informing, educating and entertaining the Greek people and the diaspora". The Council's appellate division upheld the original Temporary Injunction three days later.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: Until 24 October 2013, ERT's employees were able to offer the television programmes of NET (also simulcast in HD as ERT-HD) and ET3, and the radio programmes of ERA Athens-Thessaloniki and Third Programme through conventional means (analogue and digital TV, FM, medium and shortwave radio broadcasts) as well as over the Internet. At approximately 18:11 EEST, ERT lost their satellite capacity on the Astra 23.5°E satellite after successful lobbying by the Greek government to the capacity provider SES S.A. That halted most conventional TV and radio broadcasts that received the feed from the satellite, but did not affect the regional ERA affiliates that produced their programming locally, nor a large part of Athens which is served by a DVB-T transmitter located within the ERT HQ in Ayia Paraskevi. Web streaming wasn't affected at all.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: , more than nine months after the decision to close down ERT, the striking workers still ran 17 radio stations (15 regional, two national) and a single TV channel (ET3), from the regional radio studios, and the ET3 Television Building in Thessaloniki. FM and AM transmissions continued throughout Greece with some interruptions and shortwave transmissions continued with a weaker transmission power. All radio stations were also available as webstreams. The TV channel was sporadically transmitted in conventional means (analogue transmitters in Thessaloniki), and was always available as a webstream.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: In April 2015, the Hellenic Parliament approved the draft of re-opening ERT S.A. and also voted and approved the draft of re-opening this broadcaster.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: ERT began broadcasting in 1938 as the Radio Broadcasting Service or YRE (), initially limited to radio services from Athens, with the Athens Radio Station based in the Zappeion. During the Axis occupation of Greece, the service was renamed as the Limited Hellenic Radio Company or AERE (). After Liberation, in 1945 the service was reorganized as the National Radio Foundation or EIR (), still based at Zappeion. The radio services were expanded to three national radio services as well as international radio services for emigrant Greeks. EIR was one of 23 founding broadcasting organizations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: Test television broadcasts began in 1965 and full TV service began in 1966. In 1970, the company was renamed National Radio and Television Foundation or EIRT (). In 1966, the Hellenic Armed Forces began their own TV station, the Armed Forces Television or TED (), renamed in 1970 as the Armed Forces Information Service or YENED (). Television was prominently used as a propaganda medium by the Greek junta. YENED its name and military orientation until the early 1980s, when it was renamed ERT2 by the then PASOK government. On 1 September 1987, a third station was added – ET3, based in Thessaloniki, with mostly regional programming focused on Macedonia and the rest of Northern Greece.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: During the first 20 years of TV services in Greece, ERT broadcasting was limited, starting at around 5pm to between midnight and 2am. Since 1997 the three ERT TV channels are known as ET1, NET and ET3, and broadcast round the clock. ET1 is an entertainment channel whereas NET is focused on news services. ET3 is still focused on Northern Greece issues, although it broadcasts nationwide.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: ERT was a major national sponsor and the official broadcaster of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. It has been broadcasting the Olympic Games in Greece since the Mexico City Games of 1968. It also broadcasts IAAF games while it is shown on privately owned channels mainly in the United States. Today it broadcasts documentaries, some from the private sector, and a few animated shows. With the introduction of independent privately owned channels in Greece in the late 1980s, programme quality changed to a more commercial variety, in order to survive the fierce competition for ratings. This was a major shift in the network's principles that was dominated by wider variety, alleged "higher quality" programmes including documentaries and World Cinema.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: On 19 August 2011 the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation announced a planned restructuring of the company; ERT's main channels became NET and ET3, while ET1 was incorporated into the program of NET and ET3. Additionally the digital channels Cine+ and Sport+ ceased broadcasting, and their programming were again incorporated into that of the company's two major domestic channels. ERT World also saw changes in its programming to reflect the needs of the Greek diaspora as identified by a survey conducted by ERT. The Minister of State also said that the company would become "public" but no longer "state-owned".


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: At 17:45 EEST (UTC+3) on 11 June 2013, the Greek spokesperson, Simos Kedikoglou, announced ERT would close by the end of the day. ERT shutdown caused the loss of 2,500 employees.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: ERT was dissolved by a Common Ministerial Decision that was enacted by virtue of Article 14B of Law 3429/2005 (regarding the dissolution, merger and restructuring of public companies) as amended by an urgent government Legislative Ordinace (FEK 139/11.06.2013, Issue A'). Despite running a budget surplus on income from a license fee outside the state budget, in a televised statement, Simos Kedikoglou, the minister responsible for media and the government's spokesperson, said that the ERT was a "haven of waste" that cost more and had fewer viewers than private stations.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: Later in the evening, some of ERT workers managed to continue the broadcasting via Ustream. Police forced their way into at least one of the transmitting stations, and all ERT transmitters were closed down around Greece, as was eventually the worldwide ERT World feed. Using satellite offices and other spaces that had not been closed down, ERT journalists continued to broadcast to the Internet. The nearest ERT Transmitters to Athens closed at approximately 23:17 local time. 20 seconds later, channel 902TV (the communist party channel) retransmits the ERT signal, although a few minutes later, the Greek government called Digea, the digital television service, to close the signal [902's] due to rebroadcasting the signal without permission, and so 902 was closed for a period of time. This action was deemed unacceptable by most Greek citizens due to the Greek Government shutting down ERT without consulting the National Council of Radio and Television, the official body of Radio and Television in Greece.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: On 12 June at noon local time, the AS and IP range of ERT, the official domain names "ert.gr", "ert3.gr", and "voiceofgreece.gr" were cancelled in the Greek Internet registry, meaning that live broadcasts on the Internet (ERT LIVE) have stopped, as well as the publication of all news articles. Emails sent to the broadcasters are no longer delivered. Other Internet assets registered by ERT are at risk of being closed (because their owner and contact address are no longer valid), notably the official Facebook page and Twitter account. ERT LIVE is relayed by other sites, such as the University of Greece.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: The European Broadcasting Union was quick to criticise the closure, issuing a statement the same evening where they expressed "profound dismay on behalf of Europe’s entire public service media" and urged the prime minister to reverse the decision. The EBU made the ERT stream available on satellite to its members, declaring as well that "to be in the EBU, you must be a broadcaster, and so we will continue keeping ERT on the EBU council" as said by the director, Ingrid Delterne.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: Alexis Tsipras, the leftwing opposition leader, who would later become Prime Minister, expressed dismay in regards of ERT's shutdown and described it as "illegal".


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: On 12 June 2013 a Greek government spokesperson, Simos Kedikoglou, announced the formation of a new public service broadcaster, New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television. The company's services were expected to launch on 29 August 2013. The service provider employed between 1,000 and 1,200 and was funded by advertising and tax contributions.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: Prior to its launch on television, a temporary state television broadcaster known as Dimosia Tileorasi (English: Public Television) launched on 10 July 2013 on the frequencies of ERT, launching as Elliniki Dimosia Tileorasi (English: Greek Public Television). It was closed on 4 May 2014, in order for it to be replaced by NERIT.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: In 2015, the government, under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, restored ERT as Greece's public broadcaster and NERIT ceased broadcasting on 11 June 2015, at 6:00 EEST.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: ERT broadcast radio programmes under the name of Hellenic Radio, since 1988. Under this name, ERT broadcasts four national radio services:


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: The music ensembles' broadcast is called Protos Orofos (First Floor) and aires on the Third Programme every Saturday at 14:30.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: ERT is mainly funded by a license fee, which is also paid with the electricity bill (along with other applicable taxes) which represents the vast majority of resources in the public group. The fee was 4.74 euros per month in 2013, equal to 56.88 euros annually, but was reduced to 3 euros per month upon the launch of ERT. It is not connected with actual ownership of a TV set.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: There are modest grants from the government for contributing to educational public missions. However, since 2008, some commercial resources from advertisers (even though the channels have lost significant parts of audiences) and the economic crisis in Greece has severely impacted the profitability of advertising and of commercial cooperation for the joint production of programs, as well as the collection of license fees on electricity bills.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: The opening bars of "Tsopanakos Imouna" () is ERT’s corporate theme music, as well as their interval signal on radio.


title: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

text: ERT is the holder of the biggest audiovisual archive in Greece, which includes also significant moments of modern Greek history.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: The Force Protection Ocelot is a British armoured vehicle that replaced the United Kingdom's Snatch Land Rover with British forces. It received the service name Foxhound, in line with the canine names given to other wheeled armored vehicles in current British use such as Mastiff, Wolfhound, and Ridgeback, which are all variants of the Cougar.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: The goal in replacing the Snatch Land Rover was to improve protection of personnel against improvised explosive devices (IEDs).


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: Designed by Force Protection Europe and the automotive engineering company Ricardo, the Ocelot is intended for use as a light protected patrol vehicle (LPPV) with specialised protection against roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). It can weigh up to when loaded. This is smaller than most Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicles, but larger than the Humvee replacement vehicles being developed through the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: Powered by a Steyr M16-Monoblock diesel engine (6-cylinder, 160 kW), connected to a ZF 6HP28X 6-speed automatic transmission, it reaches a speed of in 19.75 seconds, and has a maximum speed of . Its wheels function independently, so the vehicle's other wheels should continue to work if one is blown off. It is claimed that the engine can be removed and replaced in 30 minutes.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: The design is modular, and all of the components can be removed easily. The protective pod where up to six people can sit is interchangeable to allow easy modification according to the vehicle's role. For example, it can perform as an ambulance, supply vehicle, or jeep. Parts can also be easily replaced for minimum service time. It can travel through terrain that would not be accessible to other civilian vehicles, such as jungle, deep mud, or ruts. Its cabin is made of advanced composite materials. It is claimed that such composite materials can provide protection like metal armor with a composite spall liner, but at a lighter weight, saving fuel. Critical parts such as the crew compartment, engine, fuel tank and transmission are contained within the V-shaped armored 'spine' that deflects potential blast away from the pod, thus protecting the occupants and key components.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: The Ocelot will be the first British military vehicle to meet the MoD's recent Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) requirements. The GVA requirements are intended to create a single, standard digital electronic and electrical architecture for UK vehicles.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: Force Protection Industries in America and Europe has developed several mine-resistant vehicles with V-shaped hulls since 2000, including the Buffalo and the Cougar (specific variants of which were bought by the British military as the Mastiff, Ridgeback, and Wolfhound, and by the Iraqi military as the Badger). These have demonstrated improved protection of soldiers exposed to blast threats. Both the Buffalo and the Cougar are large and heavy. Force Protection developed the Ocelot to meet the need for a smaller, lighter, more versatile vehicle that could still provide protection against blasts.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: The Ocelot was first shown in September 2009 by Force Protection Europe at the Defence Systems and Equipment International exhibition in London. Two units were purchased by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) in April 2010 for further testing.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: On 22 September 2010, the MoD announced that the Ocelot would replace the Snatch Land Rover, the previous LPPV, which has received criticism for its lack of protection against roadside bombs. The MoD has renamed the vehicle Foxhound in line with the "dog" names given to other wheeled armoured vehicles in British use, such as "Mastiff" and "Ridgeback". The original order was for 300 vehicles at a cost of £270m, with another 25 ordered in 2012 at a cost of £30m.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: On 17 June 2012, it was announced by the MoD that the Foxhound had been delivered to Afghanistan and was undergoing final tests and evaluation before being deployed on operations.


title: Ocelot (vehicle)

text: On 18 January 2015, Defense News reported that General Dynamics was offering Ocelot to Canada as a replacement for its special forces Humvees.


title: Kene Holliday

text: Kenneth Earl Holliday (born June 25, 1949) is an American actor of stage, film, and television. He is known for his role as Ben Matlock's original private investigator, Tyler Hudson, on "Matlock", and as Sgt. Curtis Baker on "Carter Country" from 1977 until 1979. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film "Great World of Sound".


title: Kene Holliday

text: Holliday, a product of the Copiague area of Long Island, New York, was raised in a Christian home, born into a Baptist family. At age 12, he lost his father. With the encouragement of his mother, he participated in track at Copiague High School where he was part of the Fantastic Four Relay Team and was the star of his football team. He was nicknamed as "Mr. Hotshot" and was known as a "scoring machine" on and off the football field. He graduated in 1967 and attended University of Maryland on a full scholarship. As he recalled, times were turbulent. and the football team was preparing to go on strike against the NCAA over a change in coaches.


title: Kene Holliday

text: He was "jazzed" by a class he took related to the history of theater and acting became his new passion. In 1969, as an undergraduate he played Yank in "The Hairy Ape" by Eugene O'Neill. He was the first black person to perform in a leading role on the college's "main stage."


title: Kene Holliday

text: After graduation from college his first work was with the Inaugural Theater Group at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. There, he conducted workshops as a founding member of the D.C. Black Repertory Company. In 1975, he was fired from his job because of his continued problems with drugs and alcohol. His chemical abuse continued for the next 14 years. However, despite those problems he starred in the role of Carlyle in David Rabe's Vietnam War–era play "Streamers" at the Lincoln Theatre.


title: Kene Holliday

text: That play led him to Los Angeles in 1976 where he guest-starred on several shows such as "Kojak"; "What's Happening!!"; "The Incredible Hulk"; "Quincy, M.E."; "Lou Grant"; "Soap" and its spin-off series, "Benson"; "The Jeffersons"; "The Fall Guy"; "Hart to Hart" and "Doogie Howser, M.D." He guest starred on many other shows. His first "featuring" television series was "Carter Country" where he co-starred with Victor French as Sgt. Curtis Baker from 1977 until 1979. He also was featured in "" and starred in a series of pilots which failed to make it to the air as regular series. Kene provided the voice of the character Roadblock in the 1980s cartoon series, "" and 1987's "." In 1985, he appeared in the TV film "Badge of the Assassin."


title: Kene Holliday

text: In early 1986, while providing the voice of Roadblock, he received a phone call from producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove. He was their first choice to play Matlock's private investigator Tyler Hudson on the "Matlock" series opposite TV veteran Andy Griffith. Holliday said in a 2012 interview with Blake Radio that when he was 11 years old he occasionally watched "The Andy Griffith Show"; he had recognized all the characters from his mentor's show and won the "Matlock" role. He was eventually fired from the series due to ongoing concerns around his substance abuse.


title: Kene Holliday

text: He has numerous television and movie appearances to his credit, including roles in "" (1987), CBS’s made-for-television movie "" (2000), "Hope & Faith" (2004), and "" (2005).


title: Kene Holliday

text: He published a book of poetry in 1998 entitled "The Book of K-III: The Contemporary Poetics of Kene Holliday".


title: Kene Holliday

text: Holliday became a traveling evangelist, and he and his wife spent the next decade preaching in gospel musicals.


title: Kene Holliday

text: In 2002, Holliday became the round-the-clock caregiver for his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and subsequently became a member of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.


title: Kene Holliday

text: While taking care of his mother, he accepted the lead role in the movie "Great World of Sound" in 2007.


title: Kind (company)

text: Kind LLC, stylized as KIND, is a snack food company based in New York City. It was founded in 2004 by Daniel Lubetzky. Since 2020, it has been a subsidiary of Mars.


title: Kind (company)

text: Daniel Lubetzky founded Kind in 2004. The company reached $1 million dollars of sales in the first year.


title: Kind (company)

text: In 2008, private equity firm VMG Partners invested in Kind. The investment enabled the company to scale its sampling efforts to get more people to try Kind bars. When VMG got involved, Kind bars were only sold in 20,000 locations and Lubetzky's sampling budget was $800. By 2009, that budget was $800,000 and offering free samples became a large part of the Kind marketing plan. In 2014, Lubetzky bought all of VMG's shares.


title: Kind (company)

text: Today, Kind Bars are sold at more than 150,000 stores in the US. In 2014, they sold over 458 million bars and granola pouches, almost doubling 2013's sales. The company now has nearly five hundred employees.


title: Kind (company)

text: In 2017 Mars brand purchased a minority stake in Kind. The deal valuated the company at over $4 billion. In 2017 sales reached $718.9 million.


title: Kind (company)

text: In February 2020, Kind launched an expansion into frozen bars, refrigerated nut-butter bars, and chocolate clusters.


title: Kind (company)

text: Through the KIND Movement, Kind aims to create a thriving community of people who choose kindness and make kindness a state of mind. In the spirit of this movement, in 2009, Kind launched Do the Kind Thing, an evolving platform that empowers people to turn KIND acts into support for causes. The Kind Movement includes Kind acts, #kindawesome cards, and Kind Causes. To date, Kind has performed, facilitated and celebrated over 1 million Kind acts and has been recognized by "Time" magazine as a "New Way to Make a Difference".


title: Kind (company)

text: In November 2020, Mars, Inc. announced that it would increase its minority position (acquired in 2017) to full ownership, in a deal worth $5 billion.


title: Kind (company)

text: Kind currently offers eight lines: Kind Fruit & Nut, Kind Plus, Kind Nuts & Spices, Kind Healthy Grains Bars, Kind Healthy Grains Clusters, Strong & Kind, Kind Breakfast, Pressed by Kind, and Kind Frozen.


title: Kind (company)

text: In 2010, they launched smaller portioned, 100 calorie-range Kind minis. In 2011, they launched a line of Kind Healthy Grains Clusters granola, made from a blend of five grains. In 2012, Kind brought in Kind Nuts & Spices, made with whole nuts flavored with spices that contain 5g of sugar or less per bar. In 2013, Kind launched a line of Kind Healthy Grains granola bars. In 2014, Kind launched its first savory snack line, Strong & Kind, which has 10 grams of soy-and-whey free protein. Kind Breakfast was launched in 2016.


title: Kind (company)

text: In 2016, Kind announced an extension to their nuts and spices and fruit and nut lines, to now include Dark Chocolate Almond & Mint.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: "Safe and Sound" is a song by American indie pop duo Capital Cities, written and produced by band members Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian. The song was released as a single on January 6, 2011, and first appeared on their debut EP "Capital Cities" (2011), later serving as the lead single from their debut studio album, "In a Tidal Wave of Mystery" (2013). "Safe and Sound" became the duo's breakout hit, peaking at number eight on the United States "Billboard" Hot 100 and achieving commercial success in several other territories. Three music videos were produced for the single, with the third video, directed by Grady Hall and set in the Los Angeles Theatre, later being nominated for Best Music Video at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. It is the theme song for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: "Safe and Sound" is a synth-pop, dance-pop and alternative rock song, and was written and produced by Capital Cities members Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian. It features a prominent trumpet line, which was only incorporated into its production after eight previous takes of the song.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: The first music video for "Safe and Sound" was self-produced and edited by the band and uploaded to their official YouTube account on February 24, 2011. It features alternating historical film clips of dancing and war from the last century generally arranged in chronological order. Another video, directed by Jimmy Ahlander, was released on October 21, depicting the duo being led through a junkyard by a monk.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: The third and most well-known video for the song was directed by Grady Hall and released on April 25, 2013. The video is set in the Los Angeles Theatre and depicts Capital Cities performing on stage as dancers of all types (1940s swing dancers, 1970s roller disco skaters, 1990s hip-hop dancers, etc.) emerge from pictures on the wall and film clips from different time periods in the theater's history come to life and compete in dance-offs. It received a nomination in the Best Music Video category at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: On November 7, 2013, the song was performed by Team Adam (consisted of Tessanne Chin, James Wolpert, Will Champlin, Grey and Preston Pohl) from the fifth season of the series, "The Voice".


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: Zendaya, Kina Grannis, Kurt Hugo Schneider and Max Schneider (not related) released a cover of the song on March 31, 2014, used for a Coca-Cola commercial. Actual Coca-Cola bottles served as instruments in the version.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: Air New Zealand have used the song in their in-flight safety video for 2014, while the Barcelona's Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) has used it in its dance video to raise awareness and support for research into diseases such as cancer and metastasis, Alzheimer's and diabetes.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: McDonald's has used the song in 2020 in McDonald's Australia promotion for the return of the McRib® & El Maco® as part of the that year’s summer menu.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: Beginning in July 2021, the song was used in an advertising campaign for ADT Home Security titled “It’s Safe To Say”, which featured Drew and Jonathan Scott from the HGTV series “Property Brothers”.


title: Safe and Sound (Capital Cities song)

text: "Safe and Sound" first gained commercial success in Germany following its use in a Vodafone commercial, later topping the German Media Control singles chart. A sleeper hit, it peaked at number eight on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in September 2013, over two-and-a-half years after its initial release. It has sold over two million copies in the United States as of January 2014. It also reached #2 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. In the United Kingdom, the single was added to the BBC Radio 2 playlist on August 31, 2013; following its official single release in the country the following month, it peaked at number 42 on the UK Singles Chart.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: St Edward's School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in Oxford, England. It is known informally as 'Teddies'.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: Approximately sixty pupils live in each of its thirteen houses. The school is a member of the Rugby Group, the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, and the Oxfordshire Independent and State School Partnership. Termly fees in 2021/2022 are £13,489 for boarding and £10,794 for day pupils. The school is also affiliated to the Church of England.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The school teaches the GCSE, A Level and International Baccalaureate (IB) qualifications. The sixth form is split evenly between pupils studying A Levels and the IB Diploma.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The school was founded in 1863 by Thomas Chamberlain, student of Christ Church, Oxford and vicar of St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford. The original school building was Mackworth Hall, which then stood on New Inn Hall Street in central Oxford.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: In 1873, after a storm damaged the school buildings and in anticipation of growing numbers, A. B. Simeon, first warden, moved the school to Summertown. At the time, the site was on the boundary of Oxford and surrounded by farmland, and Simeon bought a large plot for the school. The school remains on the site today, with the Quadrangle and playing fields on opposite sides of Woodstock Road.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: Simeon created an independent school with monastic-style buildings around a quadrangle. The original buildings were designed by William Wilkinson. The north range was built in 1873 and 1886, the gatehouse in 1879, and the east range, including Big School and the library, in 1881. Wilkinson's most significant building at St Edward's is the chapel, built in 1876.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: In the Second World War, air raid shelters were dug into the grass of the Quad. The school was presented with a stained glass window by the RAF at the end of the war in recognition of "the superb contribution to the war effort made by former pupils of the School".


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: These included, among many others, Guy Gibson of 617 Squadron, who led 'The Dambusters', flying ace Douglas Bader, and Adrian Warburton, famous for his role in the defence of Malta. Pacifist inclinations during the 1970s and 1980s caused the window to be relocated, before it was put back on display in the Old Library. The window has since been moved again and can now be seen on display in the warden's dining room. The school also has a scholarship fund to assist pupils whose parents are in the armed forces.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The school opened a new music centre in January 2017, the Ogston Music School. It expands the musical repertoire of the school, with 20 practice rooms, seven ensemble rooms, the large Weston Recital Room, a rock room, the Fenton Recording Studio, and the Ferguson Sixth Form Music Library.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: In 2016, the school announced a new building project to complete the school's main Quad. The new development, designed by architect Nick Hardy (TSH Architects) and completed in 2020, includes a purpose-built Library, a university-style academic centre, and a new hall, with a capacity for 1,000 people.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: July 2007 marked the official opening of The North Wall Arts Centre. The centre was built on the site of the old school swimming pool, which was the oldest swimming pool in the country.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The North Wall Arts Centre is run by co-artistic directors Ria Parry and John Hoggarth, and is a producing theatre.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The North Wall Arts Centre won several major architectural awards for its design, including a RIBA award.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The Martyrs Pavilion, designed by architect John Pawson, was opened in 2009 and won the 2010 Oxford Preservation Trust award in the New Buildings category.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: There are 13 boarding houses lived in by approximately 60–70 boys or girls. Each house is run by housemaster or housemistress who is a member of the teaching staff at the school and lives in accommodation within the house with their family. Each house also has a set of house tutors who supervise prep (homework) during the week and also tutor members of the house. Each house also has a matron who looks after pupils' medical (and often social) needs.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The sports on offer for girls include hockey, netball, tennis and rowing, while the main sports offered for the boys include rugby, hockey, cricket, rowing and football. The School has over of playing fields in North Oxford.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: In rowing the St Edward's School Boat Club has won The Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta on four occasions. The only British schools to have won the event more than this are Eton College and St Paul's School, London. In 1984 the 1st VIII became the first ever crew to achieve the 'Triple', winning all three School events that year: The School's Head of the River; The Queen Mother Cup at the National Schools Regatta and The Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. In 2013 the boys 1st VIII boat rowed in the fastest Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup final ever seen at Henley, chasing the holders Abingdon School down to within half a length. Both crews beat the existing course record, having dispatched other leading international schools on the way to the final. In 2014, the boys 1st VIII were again the losing finalists. Having won Henley events seven times, (including three years as winners of the now discontinued Special Race for Schools) and been the losing finalist seven times, St Edward's School is the one of the most successful boys' rowing schools. The school regularly provides rowers for Great Britain junior crews before going on to compete in the annual Oxbridge boat race or at Ivy League Universities.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: St Edward's has seen several successful spells in hockey, which have included making the National Finals for both boys' and girls' hockey. The girls' hockey has been particularly strong and teams are frequently County Champions. In 2013/14 the school had both boys and girls in Regional, National and Great Britain squads. In 2010 the boys' hockey 1st XI won the inaugural Charlie Barker Trophy, a competition between local rival schools including Radley College, Eton College, Marlborough College, Abingdon School and Cheltenham College and finished the season unbeaten. Most recently, in 2018 the girls' U16 and U14 sides won their County tournaments with the 1st XI also progressing to the Regional tournament.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The 1st XV enjoyed a successful season in 2017, winning 10 matches and losing two, finishing 13th in The Daily Mail Trophy. 2017 was a good year for St Edward's further down the age-groups too, with the Junior Colts A (U15) and Junior Colts B XVs both recording seasons of 10 wins from 11 matches. In 2018, the 1st XV were crowned County Champions for Oxfordshire after beating Cokethorpe School in the final. There are some six former or present pupils in their respective age group's England development squads/teams including James Forrester.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The 2013 cricket season was one of the most successful in the School's history for the 1st XI. It included victories over Radley College, Harrow, Uppingham School and Cheltenham College. In 2017, the 1st XI began the season with a historic win over Oxford MCCU in University Parks, going on to achieve 18 victories in the season - the second highest ever - the team was also crowned South Central T20 Champions. Former pupil AJ Woodland was announced as the Wisden School's Cricketer of the Year for 2016 and other accolades for current pupils included selection for England U17s, an England U19s Invitational XI, and a variety of representational and county sides.


title: St Edward's School, Oxford

text: The school has many inter-house sporting events including the Steeplechase, and inter-house rowing, rugby, hockey, netball, squash, swimming and football, among others. The Steeplechase is the school's annual cross country race and is held once a year with the seniors running a race across Port Meadow the floodplain of the River Thames.


The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education () is a statutory and autonomous body established under the "Maharashtra Secondary Boards Act" 1965 (amended in 1977). Most important task of the board, among few others, is to conduct the SSC for 10th class and HSC for 12th class examinations. It is the most popular education board in terms of enrollment in high school in India only after the Central Board of Secondary Education.


The Board came into existence on 1 January 1966 to regulate certain matters pertaining to secondary education in the state of Maharashtra, as "Maharashtra State Secondary Education Boards". The act was amended in 1976, and the name of the Board changed to its present name, "Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education".


title: Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

text: The board is responsible for formation, and implementation of the rules and regulations in accordance to the guidelines set by the state as well as central boards. It is also in charge, autonomously, of, and implementation of the syllabus/curriculum of all the grades, textbooks, exam schedule, and type. The board is also responsible for creation of textbooks, scoring of the centralised tests, and conducting examinations fairly and providing unbiased justice in the event of dispute.


text: The Board conducts examination twice a year and the number of students appearing for the main examination is around 1,400,000 for Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and 1,700,000 for Secondary School Certificate (SSC) every year.


text: The exams are usually held in the months of March, July, and October every year; and results are given out usually in June, and January respectively. March marks the end of educational year, and June marks beginning of the new educational year in the state of Maharashtra.


text: There are nine divisional boards with the state to represent the state board. Their duties include, but not limited to:


text: There are nine divisional boards located at Amravati, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Konkan, Latur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, and Pune.


title: Solanin

text: The manga was adapted into a live-action film directed by Takahiro Miki and starring Aoi Miyazaki as Meiko. It was released in Japan in April 2010. In the same year the band Asian Kung-Fu Generation released the single "Solanin", with lyrics written by Inio Asano, author of the manga. The song was featured in the movie version. The band also provided the ending theme to the movie.


title: Solanin

text: In October 2017, eleven years after the manga's original publication, a new epilogue chapter was published by Shogakukan as part of a new Japanese edition.


title: Solanin

text: Meiko and Taneda graduated from university two years ago. Having no real goals or direction, they step into society, clueless. Meiko works as an Office Lady to pay the rent for her apartment, while Taneda works as an illustrator in a press company, earning just enough to take some of Meiko's burden. While Taneda often meets up with his bandmates from their University days to jam, he still feels something is missing. His bandmates know what it is: they need to step out, promote themselves and let their songs be heard by a larger crowd; which has been their dream since their first meeting in their university's "Pop Music Club".


title: Solanin

text: Unhappy with the rhythm of their "normal" graduate lives, things change when two important decisions are made: Meiko decides to quit her job, and Taneda decides to devote time to write his first proper song for the band. Having broken free of their old routines, they now find themselves uncertain of where their new life will take them. Slowly, Meiko and Taneda come to embrace their unpredictable future together but an unexpected tragedy occurs, changing their lives and the lives of their friends forever.


title: Solanin

text: "Solanin" is written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialized in Shogakukan's "Weekly Young Sunday" from 2005 to 2006. Shogakukan published the manga's two "tankōbon" between December 5, 2005, and May 2, 2006. A combined edition featuring colored illustrations and a new epilogue chapter was later released by Shogakukan on October 30, 2017. The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media, which released the manga as a single volume on October 21, 2008. The manga is licensed in France by Kana, in Poland by Hanami, and in Taiwan by Taiwan Tohan, which released the manga's two "tankōbon" volumes between June 23, 2005, and September 24, 2006.


title: Solanin

text: The manga was made into a live-action film directed by Takahiro Miki and starring Aoi Miyazaki as the female protagonist. It was released in Japan on April 3, 2010. In the same year the band Asian Kung-Fu Generation released the single "Solanin", with lyrics written by Inio Asano, author of the manga. The song was featured in the movie version. The band also provided the ending theme to the movie.


title: Solanin

text: "Solanin" was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Japan. It was nominated for the 2009 Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material. About.com's Deb Aoki lists "Solanin" as the best new one-shot manga of 2008 along with "Disappearance Diary".


title: Solanin

text: Pop Culture Shock's Katherine Dacey criticises the manga's backgrounds, saying they look "like dioramas or collages". Deb Aoki from About.com commends the manga for capturing "the angst and uncertainty of a young adult's life with humor and heart." Mania.com's Greg Hackmann commends the author for his attention to detail, "especially when it comes to the manga's many cramped urban settings". Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County's Lawerence T. comments on the manga "accepting what life has to offer".


title: David Alpay

text: David Alpay (born 6 October 1980) is a Canadian actor, musician and producer, known for playing Mark Smeaton in the Showtime series "The Tudors" and Jade in the Epix series "From".


title: David Alpay

text: Alpay was born in Toronto, Ontario, and prior to his first film role, he was studying at the University of Toronto.


title: David Alpay

text: Alpay played the character "Danny" in the political comedy "Man of the Year", starring Robin Williams.


title: Ray Teal

text: Ray Elgin Teal (January 12, 1902 – April 2, 1976) was an American actor. His most famous role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on the television series "Bonanza" (1959–1972), which was only one of dozens of sheriffs on television and in movies that he played during his long and prolific career stretching from 1937 to 1970. He appeared in pictures such as "Western Jamboree" (1938) with Gene Autry, "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) with Fredric March and Myrna Loy, "The Black Arrow" (1948), Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole" (1951) and "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961) with Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster.


title: Ray Teal

text: Teal was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A saxophone player, he worked his way through the University of California, Los Angeles as a bandleader before becoming an actor.


title: Ray Teal

text: His longest-running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee, a law-abiding sheriff. He was one of the most senior members of the crew having a permanent role, He had also played a sheriff in the Billy Wilder film "Ace in the Hole" (1951). Teal co-starred in numerous TV westerns throughout his career: he appeared five times on "Cheyenne", four times on "The Lone Ranger", on "The Alaskans", three times in different roles on another long-running western series, "Wagon Train", on NBC's "Tales of Wells Fargo," on the ABC western series "Broken Arrow", five times on the ABC western comedy "Maverick," sometimes playing a villain, on the CBS western series "The Texan," the NBC western series "The Californians", twice on "Colt .45," once on "" and as "Sheriff Clay" for a single 1960 episode of the NBC western series "Riverboat", and four times on a western series about the rodeo titled "Wide Country".


title: Ray Teal

text: After more than 15 years performing in films and in early television, Teal secured a recurring role as a police officer in the 1953–1955 ABC sitcom with a variety-show theme, "Where's Raymond?", later renamed "The Ray Bolger Show".


title: Ray Teal

text: In 1955, Teal appeared as McCanles, a ruthless cattle baron in the episode "Julesburg" of the ABC/Warner Bros. Western series, "Cheyenne". Altogether, Teal appeared five times on "Cheyenne". He later appeared in a guest-starring role in another ABC/WB Western series, "The Alaskans". From 1957 to 1962, Teal was cast three times in different roles on the Western series, "Wagon Train". He also appeared in a number of episodes of "Bat Masterson", an episode of "The Rifleman" and later in "Green Acres".


title: Ray Teal

text: In 1957, Teal played a lawman, Captain McNelly, in the episode "Sam Bass" of NBC's "Tales of Wells Fargo". Teal was cast as Fenster in "The Bounty Hunters" (1957) on the ABC Western series, "Broken Arrow".


title: Ray Teal

text: In 1958, Teal guest-starred "No Tears for the Dead" on the CBS Western series, "The Texan." He appeared too in the CBS sitcom, "Dennis the Menace", starring Jay North. Also in 1958, Teal was cast as Yotts Meyer in the episode "Hangtown" of the NBC Western series, "The Californians".


title: Ray Teal

text: On the Warner Bros. series "Maverick" starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, Teal played a crooked sheriff in the episode "The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick" (1958) and also starred as villains in the episodes "Stage West" (1957) based on a story by Louis L'amour and "Two Beggars on Horseback" (1958).


title: Ray Teal

text: In 1960 Teal was cast as Sheriff Roy Coffee in "Bonanza", a role he played until 1972, appearing in 98 episodes, occasionally as the lead character. He also portrayed judge/dentist/shoe repairman H.G. Cogswell in "Bat Masterson" starring Gene Barry.


title: Ray Teal

text: Teal appeared twice in another ABC/WB Western, "Colt .45", playing Mike O'Tara in the series finale, "The Trespassers" (1960),


title: Ray Teal

text: In 1962, Teal portrayed Mr. Todd in the episode entitled "The Tall Shadow" of the NBC modern Western drama, "Empire". That same year, he was cast as Sam Thorpe in the episode "Step Forward" of the NBC police drama "87th Precinct". He portrayed in 1962 the character Alvin Greaves in "Unwanted: Dead or Alive" of the syndicated adventure series "The Everglades." In 1962 and 1963, he was cast four times, three as the character Frank Higgins, on the Western series about the rodeo, "Wide Country".


title: Ray Teal

text: In 1963, Teal appeared as murder victim Joe Downing in the CBS courtroom drama series "Perry Mason" episode, "The Case of the Shifty Shoebox".


title: Ray Teal

text: Teal was a bit-part player in Western films for several years before landing a minor role in "Northwest Passage" (1940). Another of his roles was as Little John in "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest" (1946). Notable film roles include playing one of the judges in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961) with Spencer Tracy and an indulgent bar owner to Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in "The Wild One" (1953). This was the second of three times that Teal appeared with Brando, having done so already as a drunk in Brando's debut in "The Men" (1950) and later in Brando's only directorial effort, "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961), as a bartender.


title: Ray Teal

text: Teal appeared in three episodes of the 1955–1957 anthology series, "Crossroads", a study of clergymen from different denominations.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton Lyndal Hill (born September 1, 1927) is a fictional character in the Fox animated series "King of the Hill" voiced by Toby Huss. He is the father of Hank Hill, Good Hank Hill (or "G.H."), Junichiro (his illegitimate half-Japanese son), and, according to him, at least 270 possible others. He is also a World War II veteran, who had his shins "blowed off by a Japanman's machine gun" in combat and later had his feet attached to his knees. This made him a foot shorter than his relatives and caused a characteristic waddle. According to Hank, Cotton was 6'4" with his shins and was 5'0" without them. Despite his disability, he eventually reached the rank of Colonel in the Texas State Defense Forces and was addressed as such by his friends. Cotton Hill dies in the 12th season of "King of the Hill" at age 71 after suffering severe burns from slipping on a flat top grill.


title: Cotton Hill

text: If Cotton's story is to be believed, he was born around 1927, making him about 70 in the first season of the show. In a third-season episode Hank says Cotton is 70, and in the Season 4 episode "Cotton Comes Marching Home", he states himself to be 71. Little is known about Cotton's childhood other than that he started out with a gun at an early age according to Hank in the episode "How to Fire A Rifle Without Really Trying", that he attended Fort Birk when he was very young and spent much of his childhood there as he revealed in "An Officer and A Gentle Boy", that he apparently joined the army when he was only 14 years old as revealed in "Shins of the Father", and that Cotton's mother apparently died giving birth to him, as he exaggerates in "Death Picks Cotton". Almost nothing is known about Cotton's father, except that he may have been German, as Peggy tells Bobby in the episode "Tears of an Inflatable Clown" and the only time Cotton ever himself refers to his father during the entire series is when he shouts at Hank: "You ain't my daddy, I'm your daddy!". Cotton also has an unnamed brother (Dusty's father).


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton was zealously proud of his military service record and his status as a war hero, although he tended to exaggerate his exploits. He often claims to anyone who will listen that he killed "fitty [50] men" during the war. He consistently reminded everyone within earshot about how he lost his shins during World War II:


title: Cotton Hill

text: "I was 14, just a little older than Bobby. But I knew Uncle Sam needed me, so I lied and signed up. We had beat the Nazzys in Italy, and they shipped me to the Pacific theater. A Tojo torpedo sent our troop ship to the bottom. I could only save three of my buddies: Fatty, Stinky, and Brooklyn. They were kind of like you fellas [to Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer], only one of them was from Brooklyn. Out of the sun came a Tojo Zero and put fitty bullets in my back. The blood attracted sharks. I had to give 'em Fatty. Then things took a turn for the worse. I made it to an island, but it was full of Tojos! They were spitting on the U.S. flag! So I rushed 'em, but it was a trap. They opened fire and blew my shins off. Last thing I remember, I beat 'em all to death with a big piece of Fatty. I woke up in a field hospital, and they were sewing my feet to my knees."


title: Cotton Hill

text: He refers to the Japanese as "Tojos," a slur not unlike Jap and deriving from war-time Japanese Prime Minister and General Hideki Tojo. He would also refer to the Nazis as "Nazzys".


title: Cotton Hill

text: Based upon Cotton's uniform in the episode "Returning Japanese", he was awarded the following military decorations: Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, and American Campaign Medal. Cotton left Japan wearing the rank of Private in his own flashback while reminiscing to Hank how he had met Michiko. He was referred to as a colonel repeatedly during the series, reflecting his rank in the Texas State Guard after the war. In the episode "When Cotton Comes Marching Home", his Silver Star is displayed in a case at the VFW. In the 12th episode of season 11, he is wearing the third class of the Legion of Honor, the highest award given by the French government, who gave it to a select handful of American troops for their service in World War II.


title: Cotton Hill

text: He has a number of war trophies that can be seen in various episodes, including a Prussian Pickelhaube which he sometimes used to cut Hank's hair in an even bowl cut during Hank's youth, and a Nazi canoe which he claimed was "Hitler's canoe", though given his propensity to exaggerate his war stories, the actual origin of the canoe is uncertain.


title: Cotton Hill

text: The pride he has in his military service often colors his opinions of others; he has often expressed disdain for Hank's lack of service, and enjoys making fun of his son for being excluded due to his narrow urethra. Cotton also has a tendency to exaggerate his service in the war. For example, in the episode "Cotton's Plot" he stated he killed Nazis ("Nazzys") in Munich on April 30 and Japanese ("Tojos") on May 2 in Okinawa.


title: Cotton Hill

text: He also has expressed dislike for veterans of the Vietnam War, as he blames them to some degree for losing it - though he eventually accords them a measure of respect for trying their best.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Aside from some confirmation from his war buddies, it is unknown if Cotton actually ever served in Europe, considering the 77th served in the Pacific Theater and the majority of his war flashbacks are shown to take place in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. However, documentation obtained by Peggy in "Cotton's Plot" did back his claim of fighting in the Sardinia campaign, which was mainly an air force campaign rather a battle on the ground.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton was ordered to retake an airfield on the Solomon Islands. His unit was pinned down by a Japanese machine gun nest high up in a hill, so he sneaked into a fifty-five gallon barrel of sake. He held his breath until the Japanese got good and drunk, and then he jumped out and spit it all out into his Zippo (lighter). He "hibachi'd" the whole squad. ("Cotton's Plot")


title: Cotton Hill

text: In the episode "Yankee Hanky", Cotton references that he and Stinky were on Guadalcanal, and it rained for 17 days.


title: Cotton Hill

text: On January 30, 1944, Cotton's unit attacked Anzio. They had "caught the Krauts with their pants down and their schnitzel exposed." They had taken the beach by noon, and the town by nightfall.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton said that he climbed the cliffs of Normandy with a fifty-pound ice cream maker on his back. ("Cotton's Plot")


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton said that he led a platoon of men through the jungles of Sai Pan. ("When Cotton Comes Marching Home")


title: Cotton Hill

text: In 1944, in Guam, Cotton crawled through a minefield to retrieve General MacArthur's corn cob pipe. ("Cotton's Plot")


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton spent two weeks under a pile of bodies on Iwo Jima. ("Revenge of the Lutefisk") He and Topsy show a bayonet technique Topsy used to gut a kamikaze. ("Unfortunate Son")


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton claimed to have fought in Munich on April 30, 1945, and probably longer, but later realized he didn't. ("Cotton's Plot")


title: Cotton Hill

text: On May 2, 1945, on Okinawa, Cotton invented a bayonet technique that is still used by the army today. ("Cotton's Plot")


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton was captured at an unknown time by the Japanese, and put in a bamboo rat cage. He had to eat rats, but let the last one live so he could eat its droppings. He called it "Jungle Rice", and said it "tasted fine". By September, he was skinny enough to slip through the bars, and strangled the guard with a string made of braided rat tails, and ran to safety. ("Cotton's Plot") He had also learned to stop his heartbeat, so the Japanese would stop torturing him for a moment, probably at the P.O.W. camp ("Death Picks Cotton"), and claimed that he only cried when the Japanese tore off his fingernails. ("Returning Japanese")


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton severed the windpipe of a German corporal with a two-foot strand of dental floss he kept in his boot. ("The Final Shinsuit") He survived on a life raft by trapping rain water in his upturned eyelid. ("Cotton's Plot")


title: Cotton Hill

text: Before leaving Japan, Cotton had an affair with a Japanese nurse, Michiko, which resulted in the birth of his eldest son (and Hank's older half-brother), Junichiro (voiced by David Carradine); he left suddenly despite trying to stay, and knew nothing of his child until years later (a flashback clip shows him being clubbed and dragged onto the troopship leaving Japan). Michiko is one of the few women he treats respectfully at any time and the only woman he treats respectfully all the time.


title: Cotton Hill

text: After the war, Cotton supervised the installation of asbestos in eleven bowling alleys and every public school in Heimlich County. Cotton eventually traveled back to Japan to reconcile with his long-lost lover, and soon learned of his illegitimate son. Junichiro initially rejected Cotton's attempt to make peace, and formally renounced his Hill family heritage. This enraged Cotton, who re-declared war on Japan and planned to spit in the face of Emperor Akihito out of spite. ("Returning Japanese") When Cotton saw that Hank and Junichiro had mended fences and even become friends, and Junichiro said that he was not ashamed to be a Hill any more, Cotton ditched his plan and accepted the Emperor's kind words. He also made peace with Junichiro's mother, who tore a picture taken of them as young adults after World War II in half—and gave the half with her picture to Cotton, while keeping his picture for herself.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton claimed he divorced from Hank's mother, Tilly, because he "outgrew" her after she lost her large rear end, though it had been stated earlier in the show - such as in the season 1 episode "Shins of a Father" - that Tilly divorced him after years of verbal abuse. His second wife was a hospital volunteer, Deirdre "Didi" Hill, who is implied to be the same age as Hank as Hank claims that the two went to kindergarten together (according to episode 1-08, "Shins of the Father"). At age 71, Cotton fathered a third son from his second wife Didi, whom he named Good-Hank "G.H." Hill to differentiate from, and possibly spite, Hank (who was temporarily called "B.H. - Bad Hank").


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton's relationship with Hank was strained; while Hank seemed to have a deep reverence (and fear) of his father, he stood up to Cotton on several occasions. Cotton also became depressed (and enraged) by the fact that he and Hank did not have a good relationship, once going homicidally insane when Hank said that he hates him. In spite of all this, however, Cotton never hesitated to refer to Hank as "My Boy," and on several occasions tried to help him (such as when Kahn and Minh were befouling his house). Throughout the series, Cotton has also shown several times that he may actually care for Hank, such as calling him a good son in "Returning Japanese", saving him from being shot in the episode "Yankee Hankee", and leaving and trusting Hank with his last requests and personal possessions in "Serving Me Right for giving George S. Patton the Bathroom Key". It is likely Cotton treats Hank horribly simply because he hates various aspects of Hank's life, such as his job as a propane salesman, his place of birth (New York), his personality, how he chooses to raise Bobby, his marriage to Peggy, how he is different from his cousin Dusty, how Hank thwarted his plan to assassinate Fidel Castro (Tilly had gone into labor just as Cotton was about to kill the communist leader), and - most importantly - how Hank did not follow in his father's footsteps and become a war hero.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton had an antagonistic relationship with Peggy, whom he addressed as "Hank's wife" among other epithets. On rare occasions though, Cotton evinced a grudging respect for Peggy, as in "To Spank With Love" and "Cotton's Plot."


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton appears to have a good relationship with Bobby. He once conceded that Hank was a better father than himself, stating, "You made Bobby. All I made was you." Cotton shows that he is proud of Bobby and supports him. Once contemplating suicide, Cotton confides in Bobby and gives him a letter of recommendation for the army, irking Hank. Cotton often tries to pass on his misogynistic views to Bobby, even going so far as to try to buy him a hooker once, although Hank and Peggy are always able to reverse the damage. Cotton demonstrates his affection for Bobby in numerous instances. In "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying", he comes to watch Bobby and Hank shoot in a father-son shooting competition, stating, "I'm always here to support my Bobby." In "Revenge of the Lutefisk", Cotton even goes so far as to take the blame for Bobby after Bobby confesses he was the one who burned down the church (Claiming "I'm an old man, everyone already hates me!" whereas Bobby is just a child and has his whole life ahead of him.) and Didi reveals to Bobby that Cotton told her that if their unborn child turned out as good as Bobby, he wouldn't abandon it. Reflecting on Cotton's relationship with his grandson in "Death Picks Cotton," Hank states, "Even though he hates most things, he does love Bobby." It could be inferred that his love for Bobby is mixed also with a deep pride and respect for him, viewing him as actually tougher than Hank. Although Cotton respects Bobby more than anyone in the family, on his deathbed in "Death Picks Cotton", Cotton claims he does not love anyone, though this could be him just trying to sound tough.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton is a consistently misogynistic, chauvinistic, violent, abusive, and intolerant character. He talks down to women, berates his son, is prone to violent outbursts, and on more than one occasion has exhibited homicidal tendencies. His abrasive manner is consistently embarrassing for Hank and usually infuriating for Hank's wife, Peggy. Throughout his history on the series, Cotton never once addressed Peggy by name, but he instead called her "Hank's wife", which was used as a running gag, including on the very rare occasion he's trying to be nice to her (the only other names Cotton had ever addressed Peggy by was "Hillary" in the episode "Shins of the Father", as well as Manimal and Sasquatch; Peggy also didn't seem to care being called "Hank's Wife" beyond visible annoyance, and never once told Cotton not to call her that). He even attempts to pass on some of his sexist traits to Bobby at one point, teaching him that women should be made to cook and clean for their husbands all day long.


title: Cotton Hill

text: On rare occasions, Cotton shows a vulnerable side that he normally keeps hidden: he realizes that he was a terrible father and person, hates himself for growing old and becoming disabled, and readily admits that he would die to protect his grandson, Bobby ("Revenge of the Lutefisk"). He also appears to not be bigoted towards black people or Jews, as he is shown interacting with both groups and acting more well-mannered than he usually is (when he finds out his ex-wife's new boyfriend Gary is Jewish, he wishes him a Happy Hanukkah and says that one of his war buddies was also Jewish; presumably this is the "Brooklyn" man Cotton mentioned as having sacrificed himself during a shark attack so Cotton and others could escape alive, albeit horribly injured). When some annoying liberal roommates of Luanne's reflexively insult him by calling him a Nazi, Cotton and his buddy Topsy get visibly angry and attack the roommates, scaring them into leaving the area and giving Luanne back her home.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton also demonstrates a rough, demanding, and often abusive, but at times inspirational leadership. He admits to Hank that he always wanted to win in battle but accepted defeat when his men did their best. Through tough love and intense physical therapy, Cotton also helped Peggy walk again after a debilitating skydiving accident crippled her. Hank was initially wary of this, because he feared that Cotton was simply taking advantage of Peggy's brief disability in order to humiliate her.


title: Cotton Hill

text: It was never revealed throughout the series how Cotton became such a nasty and rude character, or if he ever was a different person. Cotton has also shown in multiple episodes that he suffers from mild to severe post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ("Returning Japanese" & "Death Picks Cotton"), which can explain the majority of his "violent outbursts". Whatever the reason is, Cotton never sought forgiveness for how he treated Hank, Peggy, Tilly, and many others throughout the series. In the episode "Hank gets Dusted" Hank says straight up to his cousin Dusty that Cotton is in fact a jack-ass.


title: Cotton Hill

text: In the season 12 episode "Death Picks Cotton," Cotton suffers severe injuries while at a Japanese restaurant in Arlen. Climbing onto a grill table, he chokes on a piece of shrimp (to which he is extremely allergic), then slips and falls on the hot surface. He is taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a hip fracture, severe burns on his arms, torn ligaments in his ankle/knee joints, and an infection of his esophagus due to swallowing the shrimp. X-rays reveal that he has four rusty bullets lodged in his back and one in his heart from old war wounds. In spite of his injuries and a heart attack suffered while in the hospital, Cotton survives long enough to torment both Hank and Peggy, even slowing his heartbeat down to feign death (a trick he learned while confined to a Japanese POW camp).


title: Cotton Hill

text: The last person to see him alive is Peggy, who tells him that despite Cotton's constant torture of his son, Hank has always loved him and that she hopes he will live forever in the friendless, spiteful existence he has made for himself as the unhappy, unpleasant person he is. Cotton replies "Oh, do ya, now?," laughs, and then dies. Peggy does not tell Hank of this exchange; instead, she lies that Cotton's last words were kind ones meant for Hank. In the final scene of the episode, Dale Gribble fulfills a request from Cotton to blow up a storage shed Hank has built. Hank initially plans to honor a separate wish, to have Cotton's head detached from his body and sent to the Emperor of Japan, but Peggy stops him by (falsely) claiming that Cotton withdrew the request just before his death. Neither Didi nor G.H. appear in "Death Picks Cotton," nor is his funeral shown. He was to have been buried at the Texas State Cemetery, a grave which he earned in recognition of his military service, as explained by the episode "Cotton's Plot", although he ended up being cremated instead.


title: Cotton Hill

text: In the season 13 episode "Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key," Hank receives from Didi a box containing Cotton's personal possessions and a list of embarrassing last requests. Cotton also left Hank a rude message on his tape recorder telling Hank that he wanted all the embarrassing requests completed by him. Peggy did not want Hank to fulfill Cotton's wishes, but Hank said that fulfilling Cotton's last requests was the best gift he had ever received from his father. Hank completed every single one of the humiliating requests, which Hank felt was Cotton's way of humiliating Hank one last time. The last request Cotton left was to have his cremated remains flushed down a bar toilet that General George S. Patton once used; such practice was also a tradition in Cotton's platoon, and all of Cotton's deceased war buddies were also flushed down the toilet. Hank and his friends respectively honored the request and flushed Cotton's remains down the toilet, resulting in the toilet being plugged and the bar owner demanding Hank pay for the damage. As a result of this, Peggy claims at the end of the episode that even though Cotton is dead, he will always find a way to disrupt their lives.


title: Cotton Hill

text: Cotton Hill, age 84, World War II veteran, died Sunday in a Texas VA hospital. Hill suffered from several injuries ranging from four rusty bullets lodged in his back (one in his heart) from his military service, a broken hip and torn ligaments in his ankle-knees, to an infection in his esophagus and severe burns caused by a freak shrimp accident that occurred earlier this week at Tokyaki's Japanese restaurant. Hill leaves behind sons Hank Hill and G.H. (short for "Good Hank"); daughter-in-law Peggy Hill; grandson Bobby Hill; ex-wife Tilly; second wife Didi; first love and former Japanese lover Michiko; an illegitimate Japanese son, Junichiro; and nephew Dusty Hill (of band ZZ Top).


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983) is a British comedic writer, author, video game journalist, humorist, podcaster, and video game developer. He is best known for his video game review series "Zero Punctuation", which he produces for "The Escapist". Before this, Croshaw gained attention in the Adventure Game Studio community for his video game production.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw has published five novels through Dark Horse Comics: "Mogworld", published August 2010, "Jam", (October 2012), "Will Save the Galaxy for Food" (February 2017), "Differently Morphous" (March 2019) and "Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash" (September 2019). A sixth novel, "Existentially Challenged" (December 2021), has been published as an audiobook.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Starting from "Differently Morphous," Croshaw's books were released as Audible exclusives first as audiobooks, with other formats releasing later on. Croshaw also contributed a short story to the "Machine of Death" (October 2010) compilation.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw has also been developing video games since 1998, his two commercial releases, "Hatfall" and "The" "Consuming Shadow", are published across Steam and Humble Bundle.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Outside of writing, Croshaw was one of the four founders of the Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge which opened in 2010. The Mana Bar closed on 24 May 2015.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: "Zero Punctuation" is a weekly video-review column by Croshaw produced for The Escapist. The series started when Croshaw uploaded two reviews for "Fable: The Lost Chapters" and "The Darkness" demo to YouTube, after which "The Escapist" contacted him to offer a contract. Reviews are released every Wednesday, with Tuesday previews running for a period of time on G4's now-defunct "X-Play". Croshaw is best known in this series for his generally scathing reviews of mainstream games, as well as often explicitly vulgar comparisons and rapid-fire speech.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Some of the few games that have actually received favorable reviews are "Portal", "Psychonauts", "Silent Hill2", "", "", and "". The Valve game "Portal" is the only game he has ever reviewed in a completely positive manner with Portal being rated as one of his favorite games of all time, others being "Silent Hill 2", "", "Shadow of the Colossus", "", and "Dark Souls".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Roughly 4 hours after each weekly "Zero Punctuation", Croshaw streams the reviewed game live for two hours with fellow Escapist members on Twitch and Youtube. The hosts showcase and discuss the game in question.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Every Tuesday fortnight, Croshaw hosts "Yahtzee's Dev Diary", a video series based on advice for video game design, writing and general creativity. During season one, he developed 12 games in 12 months and during season two, he was developing Starstruck Vagabond as well as sharing general thoughts on game design. The series is currently on hiatus.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw joins Jack Packard weekly in "Slightly Something Else", formerly "Slightly Civil War", a live podcast show based on video game related topics.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw join other Escapist members in a monthly video series called "Ask the Creators" where they answer audience submitted questions.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: A Dungeons & Dragons campaign as an animated video series starring Croshaw and fellow Escapist members, KC Nwosu, Jack Packard, Amy Campbell & Jesse Galena.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: A supplementary column to Zero Punctuation, released weekly on The Escapist from July 2009 to April 2017. Revived as video series in October 2021, Croshaw broadens his commentary to the general video game industry.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw became known in the Adventure Game Studio community for the "Rob Blanc" trilogy. He then created another AGS game, "The Trials of Odysseus Kent", which was released on 30 September 2002. "The Trials of Odysseus Kent" was mentioned by "PC Plus" magazine as "AGS Showcase" in the November 2003 issue. He also helped found the collaborative "Reality-on-the-Norm" series by creating the first game, "Lunchtime of the Damned". The series has gone on to have over 50 episodes since. In 2003, Croshaw created a total conversion mod for "Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition" called "Age of Evil". Some of his later works experimented with the AGS engine to produce games in other genres than the point-and-click adventure games that AGS was designed for, such as "Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment", and the "1213" series.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: "1213" and the "Chzo Mythos" games were both later released as special editions. These contain author's commentaries, extended endings, or even extended notes giving backstory. Croshaw allowed people to get these each time they donated over five U.S. dollars to his site, but as of July 2009 they were given out for free on his site, as he said he no longer relied on the donations as a means of support.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw writes his own games and their graphics and animation using Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint, though he does not compose his own music.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: A series of adventure games for Microsoft Windows 95 in the 1990s that were written in Visual Basic 3 and largely drawn in Microsoft Paint during Croshaw's high school years, inspired by his schoolmate Michael Dodson's "Red Dwarf" games, with the first being released on 1January 1998. They star his "signature character", from which his Internet alias is derived. In "Friday: Death to Arthur Yahtzee", a group of mutants whom Arthur once defeated are back and out to get him. In "Saturday: Arthur's Odyssey", Yahtzee has to face forces trying to mess with time, a quest that leads into " Yesterday: The D-Gate" where Arthur faces the villain Cathode (and helped by Anode). He reveals himself to be the one responsible for all Arthur's troubles in the previous games and is now determined to gain the power to control travel between dimensions. The game ends with Arthur destroying the entire Multiverse in his quest to stop him.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: These games were created before Croshaw had a career (or, indeed, his own website), and were hosted on the site of a friend of his; when that site went down, they were hosted to Croshaw's Fully Ramblomatic site. A text adventure game, "Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake", was also created (however it is not considered part of the actual trilogy).


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: The "Rob Blanc" trilogy is a series of adventure games for MS-DOS that follow the adventures of the fictional character Robert "Rob" Blanc, an unassuming English chip shop worker who is abducted by the High Ones, the two secret rulers of reality. He is told that he is to become the "Defender of the Universe" to provide a counterbalance to all the evil being done in the galaxy. In "Rob BlancI: Better Days of a Defender of the Universe", he is sent to an alien spaceship to find out what happened to the crew, and prove himself as a worthy defender of the universe. The second game, "Rob Blanc II: Planet of the Pasteurised Pestilence", features Rob returning to Earth while the High Ones construct his ship. While there, he notices a green-haired teenage male, Paul Grewald, following him, and inside an elevator, both of them find that they have been sent into outer space. Landing on an alien world, they find that the natives believe them to be the ones prophesied to cure a great plague which is enveloping the planet, and are thus forced to live up to the legend. The third and final game, "Rob Blanc III: The Temporal Terrorists", begins on Rob's spaceship where he and Paul, now his sidekick, are finally ready to start defending the universe. Their first mission soon comes: somebody is removing all the time from the universe, and Rob and Paul must find and assemble the parts of the Reaman Time Drive (RTD) to find out who is responsible for it. All the games follow the same point-and-click interface typical of the AGS engine they were built on, with most of the puzzles involving the finding of objects. The series' humour is inspired by "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and "Red Dwarf".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: After finishing the "Arthur Yahtzee" and "Rob Blanc" trilogies, Croshaw had stated that he was done with making adventure games. In 2002, however, Croshaw wrote and released "The Trials of Odysseus Kent", inspired by the "Monkey Island" series. The game follows Odysseus Kent, a mysterious drifter and treasure hunter who dresses like he's from the Regency era. Kent has come to a small village community in search of a bonanza called the Lost Treasure of Randolph McBoing. The game uses a traditional point-and-click interface places a higher emphasis on visual graphics rather than message boxes. The game was to be continued in a sequel entitled "The Rise and Fall of Odysseus Kent", however, Croshaw lost interest and the game remains unfinished.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Released in 2005, "Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment" features cynical science fiction humour similar to Sierra On-Line's "Space Quest", but mixes adventure elements with turn-based space combat, resource trading and space exploration gameplay mechanisms reminiscent of space simulator titles like "Star Control" and "". The game is both a parody of and a tribute to science fiction games and films. For instance, a major plot point is the deployment of Redshirts (an obvious homage to 's disposable red-shirted crew members), who are used as cannon fodder when the situation planet-side is deemed too dangerous for the ship's crew. The easily replaceable Redshirts invariably die, often in gruesome and darkly comic ways. Although not a part of the series proper, the game is set in the "Rob Blanc" science fiction universe, following the disappearance of the "Defender of the Universe" and the chaos that followed. The game was to be continued in a sequel, "Escape from the Dimension of Insidulous Cruellitude"; however, Croshaw lost interest, and the game remains uncompleted.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: "5 Days a Stranger", "7 Days a Skeptic", "Trilby's Notes", and "6Days a Sacrifice" are the four parts of a horror series that were released in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007 respectively. In "5Days a Stranger", the player controls the shady cat burglar Trilby, who stumbles across a demonic force that manifests itself as a masked killer in the tradition of Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, while finding himself one of a group of strangers thrown together in an abandoned mansion and being picked off one by one. "7Days a Skeptic" emulates the claustrophobic horror of "Alien" following a spaceship crew that finds a mysterious artefact floating in space, four hundred years after the events of "5Days a Stranger". "Trilby's Notes", set in a hotel which exists in both the real world and a horrific alternate dimension in the style of "Silent Hill", goes back to flesh out the origin of the cursed African idol from the other games. "6Days a Sacrifice" is the final episode of the John DeFoe tetralogy. It links all its three previous episodes and completes the story of Chzo and John DeFoe.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: While the first two games use the point-and-click interface typical of adventure games, "Trilby's Notes" requires the player to move with the keyboard and type commands with a text parser, similar to the early Sierra On-Line "King's Quest" series.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: A wrapped version for Linux was released in 2010 to icculus.org, later updated to use the open source version of AGS in 2015.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: "1213" is a trilogy of horror science-fiction games. The episodes tell the story of the suffering and eventual escape of an amnesiac victim of experimentation, code-named 1213, from his cell, freed by his unseen tormentor. On escaping, 1213 sees that the facility's other guinea pigs, all similarly named to himself, have also escaped and have been turned into zombies, slaughtering the employees. "1213" is notable for reproducing the traditional platformer experience using an engine originally designed to be used in the production of point-and-click adventure games. Simply animated, many elements of the game reflect the original "Prince of Persia" gameplay mechanics, though it incorporates aspects of gunplay found in "Another World" and "", the latter of which he has written a sixteen-chapter Let's Play of.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Set two years before "5 Days a Stranger", though unrelated to the John DeFoe storyline in the other "Chzo Mythos" games, "Trilby: The Art of Theft" is a mission-based platform game released in 2007. Like "1213", "Trilby: The Art of Theft" was made in AGS and features similar gameplay, though with less emphasis on combat and more on stealth. Unusual for a Croshaw game, "Trilby: The Art of Theft" is gameplay based rather than story based like the majority of his work. The game follows Trilby, years before any encounter with the supernatural, as a young gentleman thief whose identity is compromised after he is caught returning from a job. Trilby must loot various buildings in missions while avoiding guards, lasers and security cameras. To deal with being detected, Trilby is equipped with a utility umbrella that contains a taser to knockout aware guards, though if he is detected too many times the level ends.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: "Poacher" was released on 5 April 2012. It is a Metroidvania style non-linear platformer starring Derek Badger, a poacher who travels underground to save a gamekeeper from hordes of demonic rabbits, with the assistance of a spirit. Their actions inadvertently break a longstanding treaty between the spirits and their enemies, the Dark Ones. Eventually, he must resolve difficulties between the two factions to prevent war from breaking out. The game was his first to be made in , and was released to positive reception.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: "The Consuming Shadow" was announced in November 2013 on Croshaw's personal website where the beta version was made available for download. He updated the game continually until 26 June, when he uploaded the trailer of the final version. On 28 July 2015, two editions were made available to purchase on both through Humble Bundle and the Mac App Store, with a Steam version later being green lit. The special edition of the game included the e-book releases of Croshaw's novels "Mogworld" and "Jam".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: In February 2015, Croshaw announced a new game titled "Hatfall", based on his "Zero Punctuation" series, that he would design. The game was later released in July 2015 and is available on IOS, Android and PC. The game is advertised as "Zero Punctuation's official hat-putting-on simulator" and reflects the series' humour and minimalist design.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Starting in May 2019 as part of his "Dev Diary" series, Croshaw pledged to prototype a different game design each month for twelve months with a video diary released every fortnight.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: During the first season of his Dev Diary series, Yahtzee mentioned stalled progress on a game he had been working on, which he described to be similar to Stardew Valley, but set in space with the player character being a cargo ship captain. Audience reaction to the footage and concept was positive, and Yahtzee resumed work on the game in the second season of Dev Diary, which almost completely focused on this game's development. The name "Starstruck Vagabond" was announced in episode 3. The first build of the game was released for public testing after episode 12.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: In the year 2000, on December 20, Yahtzee started a webcomic known as "Yahtzee Takes on the World", which contained characters from his "Arthur Yahtzee" and "Rob Blanc" trilogies. The comic ended its run on September 22, 2002. In addition, he also produced several other webcomics; "The Adventures of Angular Mike", "Cowboy Comics!", and "Chris and Trilby" which is based on the characters Chris Quinn from "Age of Evil" and Trilby from "Chzo Mythos". Yahtzee has since openly disowned his comics, attributing it to a "dark time" in his life, although they are still hosted online to read.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw's website hosts two unpublished novels: "Articulate Jim: A Search for Something", a pirate-themed in part work; and "Fog Juice", his 2005 "National Novel Writing Month" entry. In addition, he has also written two unpublished tie-in short stories for "Chzo Mythos". All of his published novels have been released in audiobook format, narrated by Croshaw himself.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: On 23 October 2009, "The Escapist" announced Croshaw's first novel, "Mogworld", "the story of Jim, who, sixty years after dying in a magic-school mishap, is wrenched back to life by a renegade necromancer". Croshaw stated that the novel would be released on 19 August 2010 while the "Mogworld" profile on the Dark Horse Books website claims it was released on 8September. The title is a reference to the massively multiplayer online role-playing games genre name which Croshaw believes is unwieldy.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: In the year 2010, on October 26, 2010, the independently published short story anthology Machine of Death was published, containing a short story by Croshaw.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: On 26 December 2010, Croshaw revealed that he was working on a second novel. "It's about an apocalypse. WITH JAM IN IT." On 25 April 2012, Croshaw announced the novel, titled "Jam". It was published by Dark Horse Books and released on 23 October 2012. The concept for the novel can be seen in the Zero Punctuation review of the survival horror game "Dead Island" where he says that people would not be able to cope if civilization ends in any other way than a zombie apocalypse. He then mentions the idea of the entire world getting covered in "carnivorous jam". Croshaw has stated that "Jam" is tangentially related to "Mogworld" but is not a sequel.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: On 25 August 2016 Croshaw announced on his blog that a third novel would be released on 1February 2017. He had previously mentioned that he was working on a third novel, a science fiction comedy, on his Let's Drown Out video series. The novel, "Will Save the Galaxy for Food", is set in a universe in which the age of space exploration is cut short by the invention of teleportation technology with limitless range and focuses on a former space hero who finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy. A short excerpt from the novel was included in Croshaw's video game Hatfall, playing in the background of one of the minigames in a spoof of the Star Wars Opening Crawl.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: On 7 March 2018 Croshaw announced on his blog he'd released a fourth novel called "Differently Morphous". It was released as an Audible original first, with a print edition coming later in the year. The novel is about a group of individuals from the Ministry of Occultism needing to track down a magical serial killer while dealing with the public scrutiny of our modern politically correct society.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: On 21 September 2019, Croshaw announced on his blog that a direct sequel to "Will Save the Galaxy for Food" was slated for release on Audible.com on 26 September 2019. Croshaw specifically stated that he was leery of sequels and serials, because he remembered as a kid only finding books 2 and 4 of certain series, but he also mentioned that this lack of availability was a non-issue in the age of digital media. He also explains that "saving [himself] the trouble of coming up with new characters was nice." The novel tells the story of an out-of-work space hero going by the name Dashford Pierce, as a set of complications once again turn his life upside down.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: On 10 December 2021, Croshaw announced on his blog that a sequel to "Differently Morphous" was available. "Existentially Challenged" is initially only available as an Audible Original, with plans for a print edition from Dark Horse in the future.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: On 5 July 2011, Croshaw admitted in his "Extra Punctuation" column that at one point during its long development, he was given an offer by 3D Realms developer Brian Hook to write the script for "Duke Nukem Forever". This was a response to a fan's question, following Croshaw's official review of the game, regarding a fact brought up in a 23 June episode of the TWiT Video Game Show. In the episode, "Duke Nukem Forever" developer Jay Brushwood claimed that Hook pushed for Croshaw's involvement in the project and that his piece stood out as being the funniest among the samples sent in by other writers. However, lead designer George Broussard rejected Croshaw's script for being, according to Brushwood, "too out there" and untrue to the Duke Nukem character; Croshaw later added in his column that it didn't match the game's "tone".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: According to the "Extra Punctuation" article, his short audition script wrote Duke Nukem as an ironic character; seeing that it was the only way to successfully present the overly-macho character to the current market. Croshaw added that he never talked about the offer up to that point due to possible "unspoken" non-disclosure action and because he didn't think the whole story was worth mentioning to the public. He elaborated further when he and Gabriel Morton played "Duke Nukem Forever" on Let's Drown Out, calling Duke Nukem a "dinosaur" and pointing out that the character was "part of a culture that no longer existed".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: During his trip to E3 2019, Yahtzee revealed that he did minor writing work on "". He explained that he was hired early in development to "punch up the dialogue for the AI support character [Bagley]".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Since 13 April 2011, Croshaw has hosted podcasts on his personal website. The podcasts consist of unscripted banter between him and co-speaker Gabriel Morton regarding various subjects. The format is show and tell: Croshaw and Morton each bring three objects to discuss. The audio files were also posted on SoundCloud, but have since been deleted, until a fan brought them back on YouTube.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: In February 2012, Croshaw and Gabriel Morton began producing Let's Play videos of various older video games and uploading them to Croshaw's YouTube channel yahtzee19. While playing, the two discuss current news in gaming and films. As of July 2019, more than 90 games have been played in the series.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: The "Show and Tell Podcasts" have since ended with Croshaw and Morton hybridizing their Let's Play series with podcast topics. Titled "Let's Drown Out", Morton and Yahtzee play a "boring game" of one's choosing (alternating with each episode) and talk about current events in the video game world. The series was done weekly and posted on Croshaw's YouTube channel until being tentatively put on hiatus in December 2014, due to Croshaw and Morton feeling the format had grown stale. Since then, "Let's Drown Out" has been interspersed with their earlier format of Let's Play recordings of Adventure games, as well as a newer series of retrospective gameplay commentaries on Croshaw's own, earlier games, titled "The Ego Review". In the series, Croshaw and Morton discuss the games' writing and plot holes. Croshaw also talks about the feedback the games got. The format has been rearranged to allow the two to, in Croshaw's words, "play whatever the fuck we like and talk about whatever the fuck we like". Due to Yahtzee's move to the United States, his podcast series "Lets Drown Out" came to an end; with the final episode covering the Portal2 Co-op campaign.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: "Game Damage" was a planned game-themed television series pilot co-starring Croshaw with Matt Burgess and Guy "Yug" Blomberg from the website Australian Gamer. The pilot was released on YouTube on 15 December 2008. A website was set up to promote the series. The show was supposed to feature gaming news, comedy sketches, reviews of MMORPGs and three special reports, one of which involved Croshaw in a discussion of the adventure game genre. On 3October 2009, an updated pilot was uploaded to YouTube and the Game Damage website, showing new sketches and appearances at Supanova 2009.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: There was little to no published information about Game Damage afterwards. In 2011, Croshaw was asked if Game Damage was still being worked on, to which he simply replied "Nope."


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Croshaw was one of the four founders of The Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge. The bar was founded in Brisbane, with a second venue opened in Melbourne in 2011. The bar intended to continue to spread around Australia and potentially internationally, however, as of May 2015, all venues have closed their doors.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Extra Consideration was a discussion column featuring Croshaw & other members of The Escapist that ran briefly from February to September 2011.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: In addition to "Zero Punctuation", Croshaw has also starred in a series on "The Escapist" titled "Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular" alongside former "Escapist" personality Jim Sterling. The weekly series consisted of an original piece of video game themed poetry each from Croshaw and Sterling. Unlike his other shows, Croshaw presented himself on camera the entire time. The series aired weekly from 17 April 2013, to 28 May 2014.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Additionally, Croshaw and Sterling briefly starred in a competitive series titled "Uncivil War", where they play various games with obscure rules attached to decide the victor. The first season lasted from July to November in 2014, with Sterling being the winner. There were plans for a second season, but were cancelled after Sterling left "The Escapist".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: In July 2015, Croshaw started another video series for "The Escapist" called "Judging by the Cover", where Croshaw sarcastically reviews video games and movies simply by looking at their box art or cover. This series ended in October 2017, with Croshaw stating in a later documentary that he felt he "was repeating himself".


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: For E3 2019, Yahtzee traveled to the expo on behalf of "The Escapist" with the "Gameumentary" staff to document the entire show. The "Gameumentary" team also used their time with Croshaw to create a mini-documentary about Zero Punctuation.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: Born the younger of two brothers, Croshaw attended Eastlands Primary School after which he attended Abbots Farm Middle School and finally Lawrence Sheriff School. Here he made his first adventure game before dropping out of secondary school. At the age of 20, he moved to Australia to pursue new career opportunities. As of 2013, he did not often contact his brother, while his parents disapproved of his game-critic career, as they wanted him to enroll into higher education. In August 2016, Yahtzee moved to San Francisco.


title: Yahtzee Croshaw

text: As of July 2018, he is now married to his long-time girlfriend Kess. Croshaw became a father in January 2020 to a daughter.


title: National symbols of Canada

text: Over the course of centuries, a multitude of national symbols and material items have arisen as uniquely Canadian or possessing uniquely Canadian characteristics. These symbols and items represent the culture of Canada—protectionism of that culture, identity, values, nationalism, and the heritage of its inhabitants.