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The Eagle Shooting Heroes

The Eagle Shooting Heroes (Chinese: 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就) is a 1993 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau. It is a parody of Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and a classic example of the mo lei tau comedy.

Production
The film was said to be caused by the over-budgeting of Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time. In order to cover up the cost of the yet unfinished film, the director decided to use many members of the cast to perform different roles and shoot a "quick-and-dirty" film for show during the Chinese New Year, a period for Hong Kong film industry to harvest cash.

Cast
 Leslie Cheung as Huang Yaoshi
 Tony Leung Ka-fai as Duan Zhixing
 Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Ouyang Feng
 Jacky Cheung as Hong Qigong
 Kenny Bee as Wang Chongyang
 Brigitte Lin as Third Princess
 Joey Wong as Suqiu, Huang Yaoshi's lover
 Maggie Cheung as Imperial Master
 Carina Lau as Zhou Botong
 Veronica Yip as Ouyang Feng's cousin
 Szema Wah Lung as Persian King
 Paw Hee-ching as one of Third Princess' guards

Music
In addition to a score by James Wong and Mark Lui, the film contains a song set to the overture from Gioacchino Rossini's Guillaume Tell, as well as uncredited excerpts from "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from Georges Bizet's Carmen and Danse des petits cygnes from Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

References

External links
 
 

1993 films
1993 martial arts films
Hong Kong action comedy films
Hong Kong slapstick comedy films
Hong Kong martial arts comedy films
Films based on works by Jin Yong
1990s Cantonese-language films
Wuxia films
Works based on The Legend of the Condor Heroes
Films directed by Jeffrey Lau
Films set in 12th-century Song dynasty
1990s parody films
1993 action comedy films
Chinese New Year films
1990s Hong Kong films
Pelorus-class cruiser

The Pelorus-class cruiser was a "third-class" protected cruiser designed by Sir William White (Director of Naval Construction 1885 – 1902) for the Royal Navy, based on the earlier Pearl-class cruisers. Eleven ships were ordered to this design in 1893 under the Spencer Programme, and were laid down 1896–1900. The first, , was commissioned in 1896.

Development and design

The Pelorus class ships displaced 2,135 tons and had a top speed of . Most served in minor roles on overseas or colonial patrol work, not with the main battlefleets. They carried a complement of 224 and were armed with eight QF 4-inch (25 pounder) guns, eight 3 pounder guns, three machine guns, and two 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes.

They had reciprocating triple expansion steam engines and were equipped with different types of boiler which were trialled in these cruisers. Some had Normand water-tube boilers which could give  for limited periods of time with forced draught and  under natural draught.

Ships in the class

Service
In an era of naval innovation, the class was almost outdated before they were launched. They were fitted with a variety of different boilers as a trial but most were not particularly satisfactory; so HMS Pandora was scrapped in 1913, HMS Perseus and HMS Prometheus in 1914. They had all been condemned in 1904 but had been reprieved. The remainder were to be scrapped in 1915, but were kept in service through the First World War. HMS Pegasus was sunk in combat in 1914, the rest - except for HMS Pioneer - were scrapped between 1919 and 1922. HMS Pactolus and HMS Pomone had Blechynden boilers which were particularly unreliable, they were removed from active service several years before others in the class.

Rear Admiral Cresswell, the 1st Naval Member of the Australian Naval Board described Psyche and Pyramus in 1914 as "the unspeakably useless P. class."

References

External links

Pelorus Class Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk
Pelorous Class Third Class Protected Cruisers worldwar1.co.uk

Cruiser classes
 
Ship classes of the Royal Navy
Zee Cine Award for Best Lyricist

The Zee Cine Award Best Lyricist is chosen by the jury and the winner is announced at the actual ceremony.

The award is given in the current year but the winner is awarded for his/her work in the previous year.

Multiple wins

Awards 
The winners are listed below:-

See also
 Zee Cine Awards
 Bollywood
 Cinema of India

Zee Cine Awards
Firelord (novel)

Firelord is a historical fantasy novel by Parke Godwin, first published in 1980. The novel is a retelling of the King Arthur legend.

Firelord sequence 
Beloved Exile (1984) is the second book in the Firelord trilogy. It and Firelord were later published as one book in Germany (Feuerkönig; Die Erbin von Camelot).

Short stories 
"Uallannach - Invitation to Camelot" was written by Parke Godwin in 1988. It was later published by editor Mike Ashley in Chronicles of the Round Table (1997).

Synopsis 
The novel begins with a mortally wounded Arthur dictating his memoir to a friar at a monastery after the Battle of Camlann. In flashback the reader is led through his formative years, his first meeting with Merlin, his rise to fame in the service of the British High King Ambrosius Aurelianus, his military campaigns against the Saxons, and his eventual downfall.

Despite some fantasy elements, Godwin aims to tell the story of King Arthur from a historically accurate perspective, based on his own research, including archeological trips to various parts of England. He returns the Arthurian characters to the time period and place in which they might actually have lived - 5th-century post-Roman Wales and Cornwall. He uses historically appropriate Latin and Brythonic names for the characters, such as Artos and Artorius for Arthur, Gwenhwyfar for Guinevere, and (the conjectural) Ancellius for Lancelot.

Morgan le Fay, called Morgana, is a sympathetic character in Firelord. She is presented as a fiery leader of the wild Prydn people who live north of Hadrian's Wall. However, Guinevere is the principal female character. At the center of the novel, Godwin's Arthur is torn between his desire for the simple joy of love and family (represented by Morgana le Fay) and his ambition to fulfill his destiny to become Emperor of Britain (represented by Guinevere).

Awards 
The World Fantasy Award nominee Firelord (1980). The novel was later published as a book in Germany (Feuerkönig - Die Camelot-Chronik). The Balrog Award and Locus Poll Award nominee Firelord as well.

References

Editions
Firelord, Avon Books,

External links
 Firelord

1980 fantasy novels
Modern Arthurian fiction
American fantasy novels
American historical novels
Novels set in sub-Roman Britain
Novels set in the 5th century
Works by Parke Godwin
Bantam Books books
Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director

The Zee Cine Award Best Music Director is chosen by the jury and the winner is announced at the actual ceremony. A. R. Rahman has won most awards in this category (6 times).

Multiple wins

Awards

See also 

 Zee Cine Awards
 Bollywood
 Cinema of India

References

Zee Cine Awards
Telephono

Telephono is the debut studio album by the indie rock band Spoon. It was released on April 23, 1996, by Matador, then re-released in a two-disc package with the Soft Effects EP in 2006 by Merge Records.

"Idiot Driver" had previously appeared in an "alternate mix" form on the Peek-A-Boo Records November 1995 compilation album Bicycle Rodeo.

Reception

The album was produced by John Croslin, who had been one of the leaders of Austin's the Reivers, recording in Croslin's garage studio on a budget of $3,000. It drew mainly positive critical attention, and in particular many comparisons to the Pixies.  The album sold only a few thousand copies.

Track listing

Personnel
Britt Daniel - guitar, vocals
Andy Maguire - bass, backing vocals
Jim Eno - drums

Charts

References

1996 debut albums
Spoon (band) albums
Matador Records albums
Theodore Salisbury Woolsey

Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (October 22, 1852 – April 24, 1929) was a United States legal scholar, born at New Haven, Connecticut, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey.  He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School (1876). In 1872 he was an initiate into The Skull and Bones Society.  After traveling in Europe he was instructor in public law at Yale, and for 33 years (1878-1911) professor of international law.  He was one of the founders of the Yale Review and a frequent contributor to it.  He wrote several essays which were collected under the title America's Foreign policy (1898), and he edited Woolsey's International Law and Pomeroy's International Law.

He was a member of the General Society of Colonial Wars.

Woolsey married Bostonian Annie Gardner Salisbury in 1877 and they had two sons. (One of these sons, Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr., was a forestry expert.) He retired in 1911 and died of pneumonia.

References

Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
American essayists
1852 births
1929 deaths
Woolsey, Theodore
Cornell family
Deaths from pneumonia in the United States
General Society of Colonial Wars
Woolsey family
American legal scholars
Members of Skull and Bones
Harold Hunter



Harold Atkins Hunter (April 2, 1974 – February 17, 2006) was an American professional skateboarder and actor. He played the role of Harold in Larry Clark's 1995 film Kids.

Career
Hunter was born in New York City and grew up in a housing project in the East Village with his two brothers. He became associated with a skate crew that hung out near Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park and was first sponsored by local skate shop called Skate NYC.

Hunter first came to public attention in 1989 in a Thrasher magazine photo essay photographed by Charlie Samuels about the New York City skateboard scene.  A goofy-footed skateboarder, Hunter was sponsored most notably by Zoo York. Later on he started Rock Star Bearings Co.

In 1995, Hunter appeared as Harold in Larry Clark's Kids, a film about teenagers in the East Village. He also appeared in the critically acclaimed TV series Kung Faux performing various voice-overs, and on an episode of the TV series Miami Ink. In the episode, he received a tattoo from Chris Garver that commemorated his New York roots and his connections from his youth with the World Trade Center. The tattoo was on his upper arm and depicted the towers with a skateboarder jumping in front of them, with the words "New York City" above and "Sk-8 or Die" below. This tattoo is revisited in another episode of Miami Ink that focuses on Chris Garver's tattoos.

Death
On February 17, 2006, Hunter was found dead from a cocaine-induced heart attack in his Lower East Side apartment. The Harold Hunter Foundation was founded in his memory to support city kids interested in skateboarding. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.

Filmography 
 New Jersey Drive (1995)
 Kids (1995)
 Mind Games (1996)
 Hand on the Pump (1998)
 Frezno Smooth (1999)
 Save the Last Dance (2001)
 Kung Faux (2003)
 Man Under Wire (2005)

References

External links 
 Harold Hunter Foundation website
 
 Threeayedee Art Gallery created by Roya Butler in memory of Harold Hunter

1974 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American male actors
American male film actors
American skateboarders
Cocaine-related deaths in New York (state)
Male actors from New York City
African-American male actors
People from the East Village, Manhattan
African-American skateboarders
Sportspeople from New York City
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Drug-related deaths in New York City
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American sportspeople
2-6-6T

In the Whyte notation for describing steam locomotive wheel arrangement, a 2-6-6 is a locomotive with a two-wheeled leading truck, six driving wheels, and a six-wheeled trailing truck.  All the locomotives produced of this arrangement have been tank locomotives, and the vast majority in the United States.  It was a popular arrangement for the larger Mason Bogies, as well as some of the largest suburban tank locomotives.

The locomotive was mostly used in the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad. It also saw usage in New York and Chicago.

Equivalent classifications
Other equivalent classifications are:
UIC classification: 1C3 (also known as German classification and Italian classification)
French classification: 133
Turkish classification: 37
Swiss classification: 3/7

References 

6,2-6-6T
6,2-6-6T
BBC Gardeners' World

BBC Gardeners' World is a monthly British gardening magazine owned by Immediate Media Company, containing tips for gardening from past and current presenters of the television series Gardeners' World.

History and profile
BBC Gardeners' World was established in 1991. The magazine is part of Immediate Media Company and is published on a monthly basis. It often has offers on plants, free supplements and giveaways.  Copies are sold at newsagents and by subscription.

The circulation of BBC Gardeners' World was 237,650 copies for the first half of 2013. Its circulation dropped to 219,222 copies for the first half of 2014.

Contributors
Contributors have included:

 Monty Don
 Carol Klein

Show

A trade show and floral exhibition, Gardeners' World Live, promoted by the magazine, is held every June at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham. Presenters from the show usually make guest appearances.

See also 
List of horticultural magazines

References

External links
 BBC Gardeners' World magazine website

1991 establishments in the United Kingdom
Gardeners' World
Horticultural magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1991
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
USAR

USAR or U.S.A.R. may refer to:

 United Speed Alliance Racing (now Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series), a car racing series in the United States
 United States Army Rangers, the elite light infantry of the United States Army
 United States Army Reserve, the reserve component forces of the United States Army
 University School of Automation & Robotics, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India
 Urban search and rescue, rescue operations inside structures or other confined spaces
 USA Rugby, the governing body of rugby union in the United States
Zenda, Wisconsin

Zenda is an unincorporated community in the Town of Linn, Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located south of Geneva Lake and just north of the Illinois border. Its ZIP code is 53195.

History
In 1955, a meteorite (the Zenda meteorite) was found in Zenda by farmer Allyn Palmer. His oldest son later sold the meteorite to his high school science club for a few dollars.

Amtrak's Lake Country Limited stopped here in 2000–2001.

Economy
The headquarters of Melges Performance Sailboats is located in Zenda.

Notable people
Buddy Melges, Olympic gold medalist in sailing and co-skipper of 1992 America's Cup winner America³, lived in Zenda.
 Harry Melges III, world champion sailor, and son of Buddy Melges, lives in Zenda.

References

Unincorporated communities in Walworth County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
List of Southeast Asian people by net worth

Forbes magazine annually lists the world's wealthiest individuals – "The World's Richest People". What follows is the list of billionaires (in U.S. dollars) in Southeast Asia, issued for 2023.

2023 
Top ten richest identified to a Southeast Asian country, according to Forbes magazine. Family members of royals or politicians are not included.

Number of billionaires by country
As of 2023, limited to countries in Southeast Asia.

See also
 List of wealthiest families
 Lists of people by nationality
 The World's Billionaires

References 

Economy of Southeast Asia-related lists
Lists of people by wealth
Electroelution

Electroelution is a method used to extract a nucleic acid or a protein sample from an electrophoresis gel by applying a negative current in the plane of the smallest dimension of the gel, drawing the macromolecule to the surface for extraction and subsequent analysis. Electroblotting is based upon the same principle.

DNA extraction
Using this method, DNA fragments can be recovered from a particular region of agarose or polyacrylamide gels. The gel piece containing the fragment is excised (cut out from the whole gel) and placed in a dialysis bag with buffer. Electrophoresis causes the DNA to migrate out of the gel into the dialysis bag buffer. The DNA fragments are recovered from this buffer and purified, using phenol–chloroform extraction followed by ethanol precipitation. This method is simple, rapid and yields high (75%) recovery of DNA fragments from gel pieces.

References

Genetics experiments
Junior football

Junior football may refer to:

 Association football played at the junior level, such as under the auspices of the Scottish Junior Football Association
 Association football played in the Scottish Junior Football League (1892-1947)
 Canadian football played at the junior level in Canada, such as in the Canadian Junior Football League
 Gaelic football played at junior national level, such as the All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
 Gaelic football played at junior local level, such as the East Kerry Junior Football Championship

See also
 Senior football (disambiguation)
 Junior (footballer)
Battle of Salamis (disambiguation)

The Battle of Salamis was a decisive naval battle between the Greek city-states and Persia in 480 BC at Salamis island off Athens, that stopped the second Persian invasion of Greece.

The term may also refer to one of several battles fought at or near the city of Salamis, Cyprus:
 Battle of Salamis (497 BC), a simultaneous land and sea battle during the Ionian Revolt
 Battle of Salamis (450 BC), a simultaneous land and sea battle of the Greco-Persian Wars in Cyprus 
 Battle of Salamis (306 BC), naval battle in Cyprus between the fleets of Ptolemy I of Egypt and Demetrius Poliorcetes
UFC 57

UFC 57: Liddell vs. Couture 3 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on February 4, 2006. It was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, and broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States. 

Headlining the card was an anticipated rubber match between top UFC stars and former coaches of The Ultimate Fighter Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture, widely touted and marketed as MMA's first major trilogy.

It was the UFC's largest grossing gate to date, $3.3 million, in addition to an estimate of over 400,000 pay-per-view buys. The disclosed fighter payroll for the event was $667,000.

Results

Reported payout

Chuck Liddell: $250,000 

Randy Couture: $225,000 

Renato "Babalu" Sobral: $32,000 

Frank Mir: $26,000 

Paul Buentello: $22,000 

Joe Riggs: $20,000 

Mike Van Arsdale: $16,000 

Keith Jardine: $10,000 

Nick Diaz: $10,000 

Alessio Sakara: $10,000 

Brandon Vera: $10,000

Marcio Cruz: $8,000

Elvis Sinosic: $6,000

Jeff Monson: $6,000

Mike Whitehead: $5,000

Justin Eilers: $5,000

Branden Lee Hinkle: $4,000 

Gilbert Aldana: $2,000

Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $667,000

See also
 List of UFC champions
 List of UFC events
 2006 in UFC

References

External links
"Liddell’s KO Outshone Only by Couture’s Retirement" by Josh Gross, Sherdog, February 5, 2006, retrieved February 19, 2006
Mixed martial arts show results, Mandalay Bay, February 4, 2006 (PDF), Nevada State Athletic Commission, retrieved February 23, 2006
Top MMA Gates, Nevada State Athletic Commission, retrieved February 19, 2006
UFC PPV Buys Explode in 2006
UFC Fighter Salaries for 2006 (includes fighter salaries for UFC 57)

Ultimate Fighting Championship events
2006 in mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts in Las Vegas
2006 in sports in Nevada
List of Chinese by net worth

The following are partial lists of the Forbes list of Chinese billionaires (converted into USD) and is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine in 2022. In 2022 China had 607 billionaires which put the country second in the world, after the United States (735).

Current richest Chinese billionaire is Zhong Shanshan, ranked as the eighth wealthiest man in the world as of March 11, 2022.

2022 Chinese billionaires top 100 list 
The hundred entrepreneurs billionaires are listed as follows, including their China rank (S#) and world rank (W#), citizenship, age, net worth, and source of wealth:

See also
 Forbes list of billionaires
 Hurun Report
 List of countries by the number of billionaires
 List of wealthiest families

References

External links
 China Rich List 
 Hurun Rich List – China's richest people (2020) by the Hurun Report

 
People by net worth
New worth
Chinese
Net worth
Theodore Sedgwick (writer)

Theodore Sedgwick III (January 27, 1811 – December 9, 1859) was an American attorney and author on legal topics.

He was born in Albany, New York, the son of Theodore Sedgwick II (1780–1839) and Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick (1788–1867). He was a grandson of Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813).

He graduated from Columbia College in 1829. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in May, 1833.

Sedgwick spent 15 months in Europe, primarily as a member of Edward Livingston's legation when Livingston served as U.S. Minister to France. On his return home in May 1835, he joined his uncle Robert Sedgwick's law practice in New York. He took over the practice when Robert was debilitated by a stroke in 1838, and remained active until 1850.

Ill health forced Sedgwick to retire in 1850. He spent the next several years traveling in Europe, including visits to Italy, Switzerland, France, and England. In 1852, he became president of the Crystal Palace Association, organizing the construction of the building for the New York World's Fair.

In 1857, Sedgwick declined President James Buchanan's offers to become Minister to the Netherlands and assistant secretary of state. In 1858, he became United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Sedgwick died in Stockbridge on December 9, 1859. He was buried at Stockbridge Cemetery.

His writings include his edition of the political writings of William Leggett (two volumes, 1840); Treatise on the Measure of Damages (1847; eighth edition, 1891); Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of Statutory and Constitutional Law (1857; second edition, 1874); and Thoughts on the Proposed Annexation of Texas (1844, originally published 1843 as letters to the New York Evening Post), which declared the annexation of Texas unconstitutional.

References

External links
 
 Theodore SEDGWICK III / Sarah Morgan ASHBURNER
 

1811 births
1859 deaths
American legal writers
American people of English descent
Columbia College (New York) alumni
United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York
Writers from Albany, New York
Sedgwick family
PicMaster

PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor. One can not only find the standard image editing functions (draw with pen, remove red eye, add text, etc.) but also extended functions such as displaying anaglyph images, morphing and an integrated webcam support.

An anaglyph image can be constructed by shooting two slightly displaced pictures with a digital camera. An illusion of a three-dimensional picture is created by using the software and a pair of 3D glasses. Objects seem to emerge from the computer monitor.

The morphing function can transform photos from one person to another. To do so, the persons must be photographed in similar postures and their shapes need to be cut out with the help of the software. After doing so, points of support are set on noticeable spots (eyes, nose, mouth, etc.). Finally, the software calculates the intermediate images and creates a video of the transformation.

PicMaster supports multiple possibilities for capturing images from a camera. The image can be placed into the Internet by uploading them on a server with the FTP protocol. Alternatively, the software can turn the computer into a web server using the HTTP protocol. The system can also be run as an alarm system which sends an E-mail containing the image as soon as a movement is detected.

The software already includes 300 filter effects which can be described by using mathematical formulas. The integrated formula editor and parser allows a quick creation of image effects (e.g. r=r+20 increases the red portion of the image). Photoshop Plugins can be included as well. More Plugins are available in the Internet.

A large image containing many small images (frames) can be created with the mosaic function. From a set of frames, the software can choose the one that fits best the spot in the large image. When viewed from a distance, the frames convert to the large image.

The software offers several helpful functions for scanning pictures. Multiple pictures can be put on a scanner and by pressing a button they will be automatically:

 separated into frames
 straightened
 removed from the background border
 saved without any dialog (scan & save)
 photocopied (scan & print)

All working steps can be recorded in a macro and replayed later in order to reduce the amount of work. The actions are saved in a simple text file that can be run on multiple pictures at a later time. This makes it possible to shrink all pictures in a folder without the need to process each one individually.

Other functions include:
 Creation of slideshows with transition effects and voice comments. (as a runnable CD, screen saver, website, background switcher)
 Image viewer (thumbnail preview)
 Digital camera (copy pictures, renumber files, correct pixel errors)
 Creation of photographic albums
 Taking screenshots
 Video filters

External links 
 

Raster graphics editors
Hazy Moon Zen Center

The Hazy Moon Zen Center is a Soto Zen center in Los Angeles, California.

History
Hazy Moon Zen Center was founded in 1996 by William Nyogen Yeo Roshi through the honorary founder Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Nyogen Roshi practiced 27 years with Maezumi Roshi and was the last of the successors in the Maezumi Roshi Lineage.

As an active Zen temple, the Hazy Moon offers daily zazen practice that allows the public to practice with the temple monks, and Dharma talks are given by Nyogen Roshi on a weekly basis. As with most Zen temples, intensive retreats (sesshin) and regular classes that aid practitioners in strengthening their Zen practice are offered throughout the year.

See also
Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

External links
Hazy Moon Zen Center
Hazy Moon Zen Center videos

Buddhist temples in Los Angeles
Zen centers in California
1996 establishments in California
Randy Pfund

Randall C. Pfund (born December 29, 1951) is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) head coach and executive.  He was an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers under Pat Riley and Mike Dunleavy, and was the team's head coach during the 1992–93 and 1993–94 seasons, although he was let go near the end of his second season, being replaced for the remainder of the year by Magic Johnson. 

He was the general manager for the Miami Heat from 1995 until September 29, 2008. However, he served mostly in an advisory role to Riley, who as team president (and also head coach from 1995 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2008) had the final say in basketball matters.

Pfund played college basketball at Wheaton College, where he amassed a cumulative scoring averaged double figures, averaging nearly 25 points per game in his senior season.

His father, Lee Pfund, pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945 and was his college coach at Wheaton.

References

External links
 BasketballReference: Randy Pfund

1951 births
Living people
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Illinois
Basketball players from Illinois
High school basketball coaches in the United States
Los Angeles Lakers assistant coaches
Los Angeles Lakers head coaches
Miami Heat executives
National Basketball Association general managers
Sportspeople from Miami Beach, Florida
Sportspeople from Oak Park, Illinois
Sportspeople from Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton Thunder men's basketball players
Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition

Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition is an arcade compilation released exclusively for Microsoft Windows on February 15, 2006 in North America, and on March 17, 2006 in PAL regions. It is a compilation of Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and Midway Arcade Treasures 3, which had both been previously released on consoles only. Unlike the previous two volumes, it includes the original Mortal Kombat. In the two months after its release, two official patches were released for the collection, one to fix missing music for half of the games that was accidentally left out of the shipped version, and a second one to correct a button function oversight that prevented Random Select and Smoke battle easter eggs in Mortal Kombat II (these were bugs that plagued the console versions of Midway Arcade Treasures 2). A few pieces of additional artwork for Wizard of Wor and Primal Rage were made available as supplements on the Midway website. Like the previous release, the Deluxe Edition's Primal Rage content suffered from emulation issues.

Games

Reception
Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition received mixed to slightly positive reviews with an average score 70.71% on GameRankings. Major criticisms include the installation procedure as not user-friendly (mostly due to the inclusion of the mandatory additional installation of a third party DRM software package for the purpose of copy protection), misleading information about the set being a "Deluxe" set, when in actuality, the Deluxe Edition set is really a repackaged bundle that consists of volumes 2 and 3 of Midway Arcade Treasures in one set, missing audio on most games, for the control setup being a "hassle", "blurry" graphics and emulation issues with Primal Rage.

See also
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection

References

External links
Midway Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition media and information archive at Total Mortal Kombat

2006 video games
Midway video game compilations
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Digital Eclipse games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Midway Studios San Diego games

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Sembawang Bus Interchange

Sembawang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Sembawang, Singapore. Opened on 20 November 2005, it provides hassle-free transfer to the nearby Sembawang MRT station.

This is one of the interchanges in a residential estate to not have any feeder services.

History
Before the opening of Sembawang Bus Interchange, various bus services terminated at scattered parts of Sembawang town. These include Admiralty Road West Bus Terminal for Service 980, Sembawang Road End Bus Terminal (near Sembawang Park) for Service 167 and the pair of bus stops outside Sembawang MRT station for Service 981.

When the bus interchange opened, these bus services, along with Service 859, which operated from Yishun Bus Interchange, were amended to terminate at the newly opened bus interchange. A replacement bus service, Service 882, was created to replace the lost link between Sembawang and Sembawang Park along Sembawang Road End via Wellington Circle and Montreal Link. Services to the former Admiralty Road West Bus Terminal from Sembawang were covered by Service 856, which passes by both places along its route between Yishun Bus Interchange and Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange, and bus Service 981, which passes by both place on its route to Senoko Industrial Estate. There are only two new bus services in Sembawang after that, which is service 117 to Punggol and 883 to Yishun.

Management 
Since 3 October 2021, Sembawang Bus Interchange is managed by Tower Transit on a five year term.

Bus Contracting Model

Under the new bus contracting model, with the exception of Service 117 under Sengkang-Hougang Bus Package, the rest of the services are under Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package.

References

External links

 Interchange/Terminal (SMRT Buses)
 Sembawang Town Map & Services Guide

2005 establishments in Singapore
Bus stations in Singapore
Sembawang
Harry Mullan

Harry Mullan was an Irish boxing writer and journalist. He died on 21 May 1999 at the age of 53 after suffering from cancer for  four years. Born Patrick Henry Pearse Mullan in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, on 22 April 1946, Mullan was educated at St Patrick's College, Armagh and University College Dublin. He edited the British trade paper, Boxing News for 19 years, from 1977 until 1996. Only Gilbert Odd, Mullan's mentor, had a longer tenure. Mullan was an authoritative and principled writer, never afraid to highlight perceived injustice, and conveyed an innate understanding of the sport's political structure.

He wrote many books on boxing and was held in high regard in the United States, where he covered many bouts and was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2005. Mullan also contributed regularly to television and radio coverage of the sport. In the 1990s, Mullan worked as the boxing correspondent for  the Sunday Times and later for the Independent on Sunday.

He was buried in Glenullin, beside his father, according to his wish to come home to Ireland in death.  He has since been exhumed and reburied in England.

Bibliography
In addition to a vast output for daily and weekly newspapers, and editorship (1977–87) of Boxing News Annual and (1988–92) News of the World Boxing Annual, Mullan's books include:
The Illustrated History of Boxing (Hamlyn, 1987)
The Book of Boxing Quotations (Stanley Paul, 1988)
Heroes and Hard Men (Stanley Paul, 1989)
(with Barry McGuigan and Gerry Callan) Barry McGuigan: The Untold Story (Robson, 1991) - a biography suppressed by a libel action
Boxing: The Last 25 Years (W.H. Smith, 1991)
(with Peter Arnold) A Boxing Companion (W.H. Smith, 1992)
Fighting Words (Canterbury: Colebridge Associates, 1993) 
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Boxing (London: Carlton, 1996), subsequently updated in various editions by Bob Mee, 2007 ed. , 2010 ed. 
Ring Wars: Pictorial History of Boxing (Paragon, 1997)
Boxing: Inside the Game (Cambridge: Icon Books, 1998) 
Boxing: The Complete Illustrated Guide 
The World Encyclopedia of Boxing

References

1946 births
1999 deaths
Sports journalists from Northern Ireland
Boxing writers
International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees
Alumni of University College Dublin
People from Portstewart
People educated at St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh
Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland
Ampara

Ampara (, ) is the main town of Ampara District, governed by an Urban Council. 

It is located in the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, about  east of Colombo and approximately  south of Batticaloa.

History
This was a hunters' resting place during British colonial days (late 1890s and early 1900). During the development of the Gal Oya scheme from 1949 by the Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake, Ampara was transformed into a town. Initially it was the residence for the construction workers of Inginiyagala Dam. Later it became the main administrative town of the Gal Oya Valley.

References

 
Towns in Ampara District
Ampara DS Division
List of television stations in Puerto Rico

This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Full-Service stations
VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel while RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.

Defunct full-service stations
Channel 14: WPSJ - Ponce (1970s)
Channel 14: WMEI - Arecibo (2007-2017)
Channel 16: WMGZ - Mayagüez (1970s)
Channel 16: WTRA - Mayagüez (1986-1999?)
Channel 18: WTSJ - San Juan (10/1/1964-1970s)
Channel 30: WITA-TV - San Juan (late 1960s)
Channel 31: WSJU-TV - San Juan (1984-2018)
Channel 34: WFNN - Fajardo
Channel 36: WOTE  - Bayamón
Channel 42: WUIA-TV - San Germán
Channel 46: WCNT - Cidra
Channel 62: WFEC - San Juan

LPTV stations

Defunct/Inactive LPTV stations
Channel 8: W08AB (CDM Internacional) - Guayama
Channel 14: W14BM - Rio Piedras
Channel 17 (RF channel 17): W17CZ-D - San Juan
Channel 17 (RF channel 17): W17DK-D (TV RED) - Salinas
Channel 20: WPRU-LP - (ABC) - Aguadilla
Channel 22: W22AB - (Telemundo) - Mayagüez
Channel 24: WSJX-LP - (LATV) - Aguadilla
Channel 26 (RF channel 26): W26DO-D - (PBS) - Mayagüez
Channel 30 (RF channel 30): W30CQ-D - Ponce
Channel 31 (RF channel 31): W31DE-D - Mayagüez
Channel 32: W32AA - (Telemundo) - Aguadilla
Channel 33: W33BE - (Religious) - Arecibo
Channel 36 (RF channel 31): W31DL-D - (Newsmax TV/Rev'n/SonLife/Retro TV) - Ponce
Channel 38: W38AB - (Ponce Television Corporation) - San Sebastián
Channel 39 (RF channel 39): W39DE-D - (Liberty Junior College TV) - Cayey
Channel 41 (RF channel 42): W42DZ-D - (TV RED) - Adjuntas
Channel 42: W42AA - (Telemundo) - Yauco
Channel 43: W43AA - (WAPA) - Utuado
Channel 43: W43AW - (Signal Broadcasting) - San Juan
Channel 44 (RF channel 44): W44CV-D - (TV RED) - Utuado
Channel 45 (RF channel 45): W45DI-D - (TV RED) - Juana Diaz
Channel 45 (RF channel 46): W46EO-D - (TV RED) - Culebra
Channel 46 (RF channel 46): W46ES-D - (TV RED) - Ponce
Channel 46: W46AZ - San Juan
Channel 47 (RF channel 47): W47DX-D - (TV RED) - Canovanas
Channel 47 (RF channel 48): W48DT-D - (TV RED) - Guayanilla
Channel 49: W49AC - (WAPA) - Adjuntas
Channel 50: W50AV - San Germán
Channel 56: W56AA - (WAPA) - Orocovis
Channel 56: W56BC - (Canal 13) - Fajardo
Channel 58: W58AA - (Ponce Television Corporation) -Caguas
Channel 59: W59BQ - Ponce
Channel 60: W60AA (Western Broadcasting Corporation) - San Germán
Channel 60: W60AW (Canal 13) - Arecibo 
Channel 65: W65BQ - Mayagüez
Channel 65: W65CJ - Guayama
Channel 66: W66AY - Mayagüez
Channel 67: W67BN - Mayagüez
Channel 69: W69BR - Mayagüez
Channel 72: W72AO - Maricao
Channel 82: W82AM - Maricao
Channel 83: W83AO - Jayuya

Translators

Stations leased for Construction Permit

 Channel 10 (RF channel 10): W10CZ-D - San Juan
 Channel 31 (RF channel 31): W31DK-D - Mayagüez
 Channel 36 (RF channel 36): W36DU-D - Mayagüez
 Channel 38 (RF channel 38): W38EN-D - San Juan
 Channel 51 (RF channel 51): W51EH-D - Ponce

See also

 List of Spanish-language television networks in the United States
 Media of Puerto Rico

Bibliography
  
 

 
Television stations
Puerto Rico
Bank of Hamilton

The Bank of Hamilton was established in 1872 by local businessmen in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada under the leadership of Donald McInnes, the bank's first President. Like the other Canadian chartered banks, it issued its own paper money. The bank issued notes from 1872 to 1922. The end dates are the final dates appearing on notes, which may have circulated for some time after.

Beginnings
The bank had a rough start, including near bankruptcy during the summer of 1879 when six banks in the area had to suspend activities due to financial difficulties. On August 1, 1879, the bank would run into further difficulties when its headquarters burned down; however, the bank would go on to thrive.

On July 29, 1896 the Bank of Hamilton's first Winnipeg branch opened. By December 1898, six more branches were opened in Manitoba. This marked the beginning of two decades of explosive growth in the West. In total, between 1898 and 1910, the Bank of Hamilton would go on to open 128 branches throughout Ontario and Western Canada. By 1928, this number had grown to 152 branches.

Like the other Canadian chartered banks, it issued its own paper money. The Bank of Canada was established through the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 and the banks relinquished their right to issue their own currency.

Expansion
By 1905 the bank was doing so well that it decided to expand its head office, adding on an additional 8 storeys. This is significant because the bank headquarters became Hamilton's first skyscraper on the corner of King and James Street.  This tall building attracted the attention of Harry H. Gardiner of Washington, known as the Human Fly.  He climbed the Bank of Hamilton building on November 11, 1918, to celebrate the end of World War I.

The Bank of Hamilton operated an ice hockey team in the Winnipeg Bankers' League, which included its local employees and was coached by branch manager H. J. Sterling.

Architecture  
The Bank of Hamilton in Winnipeg, Manitoba, built 1916 to 1918 is on the Registry of Historical Places of Canada.

Merger
The Bank of Hamilton merged with Canadian Bank of Commerce (later to become the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, or CIBC) on January 2, 1924. It was one of the last surviving banks in Canada that was not headquartered in Toronto or Montreal.

Thirty-five members of the Bank of Hamilton from branches across Canada died as a result of their World War I service.  Their names were listed on a bronze memorial plaque which is currently displayed at the former Bank of Montreal (1928) building in Hamilton, Ontario.

Photo gallery

See also

Canadian chartered bank notes

References

External links
 

Defunct banks of Canada
Bank of Hamilton
Bank of Hamilton Headquarters
History of Hamilton, Ontario
Banks established in 1872
Banks disestablished in 1924
1872 establishments in Ontario
1924 disestablishments in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1872
Yang Zhongjian

Yang Zhongjian, also Yang Chung-chien (; 1 June 1897 – 15 January 1979), courtesy name Keqiang (), also known as C.C. (Chung Chien) Young, was a Chinese paleontologist and zoologist. He was one of China's foremost vertebrate paleontologists. He has been called the "Father of Chinese Vertebrate Paleontology".

Biography

Yang was born in Hua County, Shaanxi, China. He graduated from the Department of Geology of Peking University in 1923, and in 1927 received his doctorate from the University of Munich in Germany. In 1928 he worked for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China and took charge of excavations at the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian.

He held professorial posts at the Geological Survey of China, Peking University, and Northwest University in Xi'an. Yang's scientific work was instrumental in the creation of China's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, which today houses one of the most important collections of fossil vertebrates in the world. He was director of both the IVPP and the Beijing Natural History Museum.

He supervised the collection of fossil remains of and research on dinosaurs in China from 1933 until the 1970s. He presided over some of the most important fossil discoveries in history, such as those of the prosauropods Lufengosaurus and Yunnanosaurus, the ornithopod Tsintaosaurus, and the gigantic sauropod Mamenchisaurus, as well as China's first stegosaur, Chialingosaurus.

Legacy

Yang's cremated remains are interred behind the museum at the Zhoukoudian site alongside those of his colleagues, Pei Wenzhong and Jia Lanpo.

In 2007, when Lü Junchang and colleagues described a second species of Yunnanosaurus, they named it Yunnanosaurus youngi in Yang's honour.

References

Further reading
 

1897 births
1979 deaths
20th-century Chinese zoologists
Chinese paleontologists
Academic staff of Beijing Normal University
Biologists from Shaanxi
Academic staff of Chongqing University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Members of Academia Sinica
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic staff of the Northwest University (China)
Paleontology in Shaanxi
National University of Peking alumni
Academic staff of Peking University
People from Weinan
Victims of the Cultural Revolution
Pyramids and Stars

Pyramids and Stars is the third album, and first live recording, released by the progressive rock group The Tangent. Recorded during the band's first mini-tour, this album is the only live record of the band's original core line-up.

Track listing

References

The Tangent albums
2005 live albums
Inside Out Music live albums
Language observatory

A language observatory is something which is built or implemented to observe and measure language activities in society.

The need for observatories
According to the UNESCO report "Atlas of the World Languages in Danger of Disappearing", between 6,000 and 7,000 languages are spoken throughout the world and, that many more have become extinct. Concerns regarding content online have been expressed. Another UNESCO document, "Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace" noted in its preamble that "linguistic diversity in the global information networks and universal access to information in cyberspace are at the core of contemporary debates and can be a determining factor in the development of a knowledge-based society", and recommended that UNESCO establish "a collaborative online observatory on existing policies, regulations, technical recommendations, and best practices relating to multilingualism and multilingual resources and applications, including innovations in language computerization."  In 2018, was created the UNESCO Chair Language Policies for Multilingualism as a research network to generate knowledge on the different contexts of multilingualism so to help the development of UNESCO policies, such as the Promotion of Multilingualism in Cyberspace, and the development of the UNESCO Atlas of the World Languages.

Language observatories in the world

Several language observatory activities and projects have already emerged in various parts of the world, such as Language Observatory, and UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society, which has a section focusing on Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism. One observatory which is dedicated to produce indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet, "The Observatory of linguistic and cultural diversity on the Internet " was active between 1998 and 2009 and regained activity in 2017, updating since then and yearly indicators for 329 languages and providing a data base access to those indicators .

References
Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet, edited with an introduction by UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal Canada, UNESCO, 2005. French version is also available.
The Language Observatory Project, Mikami, Y., Zavarsky Pavol, Mohd Zaidi Abd Rozan, Izumi Suzuki, Masayuki Takahashi, Tomohide Maki, Irwan Nizan Ayob, Massimo Santini, Paolo Boldi, Sebastiano Vigna, In Poster Proceedings of the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005). pp. 990–991,10–14 May 2005, Chiba, JAPAN. 
Twelve years of measuring linguistic diversity in the Internet: balance and perspectives, Pimienta D., Prado D., Blanco A., UNESCO Publications for the World Summit on the Information Society, 2009. French version is also available.
Resource: Indicators on the Presence of Languages in Internet, Pimienta D., Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages, 2022.  French, Spanish and Portuguese versions are also available.

Linguistic research
Endangered languages
Sociolinguistics
Sasanian family tree

This is a family tree of the Sasanian emperors, their ancestors, and Sasanian princes/princesses.

History
The Sasanian dynasty was named after Sasan, the eponymous ancestor of the dynasty. It was founded by Ardashir I in 224, who defeated the last Parthian (Arsacid) king, Artabanus IV ( Ardavan) and ended when the last Sasanian monarch, Yazdegerd III (632–651), lost a 19-year struggle to drive out the early Arab Caliphate, which was the first of the Islamic empires.

It is believed that the following dynasties and noble families have ancestors among the Sasanian rulers:

 The Dabuyid dynasty (642–760), descendants of Jamasp.
 The Paduspanids (665–1598) of Mazandaran, descendants of Jamasp.
 The Shahs of Shirwan (1100–1382), from Hormizd IV's line.
 The Banu Munajjim (9th–10th century), from Mihr Gushnasp, a Sasanian prince.
 The Kamkarian family (9th–10th century), a dehqan family descended from Yazdegerd III.
 The Mikalids (9th–11th century), a family descended from the Sogdian ruler Divashtich, who was, in turn, a descendant of Bahram V Gur.

Sasanian family tree 
The solid lines indicate parent-to-child lineage and the dotted lines indicate questionable blood relationships.

See also
List of shahanshahs of the Sasanian Empire
Bavandid family tree

Notes

References

External links 
 The Sasanid rulers of Persia (detailed genealogy)
 D Gershon Lewental, ‘The Death of Rostam: Literary Representations of Iranian Identity in Early Islam’, Iranian Studies 50.2 (March 2017), 223–45. DOI  10.1080/00210862.2016.1248813.

Family trees