Terriberry extends Chan's formulae to calculating the third and fourth central moments, needed for example when estimating skewness and kurtosis:

Marquand initially created the character for the Saturday Evening Post, which was seeking stories with an Asian hero after the death of Charlie Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers.

** Michael Brecker for " Chan's Song "

Jackie Chan's right foot lands at a bad angle after jumping onto the hoverboat, causing a serious injury that would not heal for the remainder of filming.

' Most critics agreed that the plot and acting were lacking, but the action, stunts, and Chan's charm made up for it.

Plans for the movie were posted on Jackie Chan's website, but after some news of casting and production plans, no movie has been produced.

Whilst the ending theme for other seasons are the same as the opening, in the first season, the ending theme is " Chan's the Man " by Wheatus.

In Chan's biography, he elaborates on how students would be made to adopt the horse stance and other balancing poses, for long periods of time.

** Michael Brecker for " Chan's Song "

The film is notable for being Jackie Chan's film debut.

In their absence, Chan's government entered into negotiations with a group of chiefs from the Nasioi clan, headed by Theodore Miriung, a former lawyer for the Panguna Landowners Association.

The novel was adapted for film twice, as The Chinese Parrot in 1927 and as Charlie Chan's Courage in 1934 ( which is considered a lost film ).

It was adapted for film as Behind That Curtain in 1929 and elements were used for Charlie Chan's Chance ( now considered a lost film ) in 1932.

The director had wanted to use Chan's office as the set for C. N.

It is also one of two NES / Famicom games that had Jackie Chan as its lead character, the other being Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu ( which was also released for the TurboGrafx-16 ).

Chan's continual association with Hon and Ngai causes his girlfriend to have an abortion because she does not want their child to follow in Chan's footsteps in Infernal Affairs It is shown that she lied about the abortion and has hidden their daughter from Chan for six years.

She is best remembered for her supporting roles in many movies, especially Jackie Chan's Police Story 2.

Legislators from all parties demanded Chan's resignation for attempting to mislead the public, thus precipitating a crisis of confidence in the company, and putting the company into disrepute by her lies.

* 2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland: a 70-member delegation led by Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan left Taipei for Nanjing via Hong Kong, launching Lien Chan's 8-day Taiwan Strait peace tour, also the first official visit by the highest leader of Kuomintang to Mainland China in 60 years.

* 2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland: a 70-member delegation led by Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan left Taipei for Nanjing via Hong Kong, launching Lien Chan's 8-day Taiwan Strait peace tour, also the first official visit by the highest leader of Kuomintang to Mainland China in 60 years.

Chan's clowning may have helped extend the life of the kung fu wave for several years.

After over fifteen years of success in Hong Kong cinema and a couple of attempts to crack the U. S. market, Jackie Chan's 1995 film Rumble in the Bronx finally brought him recognition in the U. S. Since then, he has made several highly successful films for U. S. studios including Rush Hour ( 1998 ), Shanghai Noon ( 2000 ), and their respective sequels.

Though Jackie Chan's Rush Hour is often credited as popularizing the martial arts action film in the United States, Chuck Norris had been blending martial arts with cops and robbers since Good Guys Wear Black ( 1977 ) and A Force of One ( 1979 ).

One of Cheung's notable movie roles then is that of " May ", the girlfriend of police detective " Kevin " Chan Ka Kui in Jackie Chan's Police Story series ( however, she did not reprise the role in Police Story 4: First Strike or New Police Story ).

Her death at Chan's hands later prompts him to rebel against the Federation in Quess ' name, which is detailed in the novel Hathaway's Flash.

The scene where Chon Wang and Roy fall off of the minute hand on Big Ben is a reference to Jackie Chan's earlier film Project A where Jackie Falls off the minute hand of a smaller clock tower, itself a reference to Harold Lloyd's famous clock-tower stunt from the 1923 film Safety Last!

Chan's character, " Chon Wang " is meant to sound like John Wayne, and the antagonist, Nathan Van Cleef, is an homage to Lee Van Cleef, who played in the 1976 kung-fu western film The Stranger and the Gunfighter, among other roles in major westerns.

The 2008 run is Siew's second ticket, having been selected also as the vice-presidential candidate of Lien Chan's KMT ticket in 2000.

* Footage from the film ( none of which includes any nudity ) is seen in the movie The Cannonball Run, when Jackie Chan's character watches it in his high-tech car, almost leading to an accident.

However, because the running time depends linearly on the number of hull vertices, it is only faster than algorithms such as Graham scan when the number h of hull vertices is smaller than log n. Chan's algorithm, another convex hull algorithm, combines the logarithmic dependence of Graham scan with the output sensitivity of the gift wrapping algorithm, achieving an asymptotic running time that improves on both Graham scan and gift wrapping.

His final fight with Chan in Wheels on Meals is considered to be among the finest fights of Chan's career.

Project A (; also known as Pirate Patrol and Jackie Chan's Project A ) is a 1983 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film written and directed by Jackie Chan, and starring Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.

This film is even more akin to the Indiana Jones movies than Armour of God, in that it features Chan's character Condor (" Asian Hawk " in the US release ) battling against a former Nazi to retrieve gold from an abandoned base deep in the Sahara Desert.

" Film website dvd. net has given a favorable review, concluding that " Police Story is a decent action flick that features incredible martial arts action as well as Chan's signature death defying stunts.

The action moves from China to Kuala Lumpur, where Chan's girlfriend May is kidnapped.

Despite being billed as one of the stars, Jackie Chan's role in the film is relatively minor until the final half hour.

The major star of the film is Chan's longtime associate and former member of the Peking Opera School, Sammo Hung.

The Big Brawl, () also known as Battle Creek Brawl, is a 1980 martial arts film which marked Jackie Chan's first attempt to break into the American movie market.

The film is set primarily in Chicago, Illinois in the 1930s ( although it was shot in Texas ) and follows Chan's character, a Chinese American martial artist, as he single handedly takes on the Mafia.

In his autobiography " I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action ", there was one scene in the production in which Robert Clouse is not interested in Chan's idea which is to flip out of the car and had wanted him to just walk from the car to his father restaurant.

According to Jackie Chan's autobiography when Yuen was first asked by his master, upon his first day with him, to do a backflip, Yuen did a proper backflip on his very first try.

Yeung also tells Chan that he gained top honours when he was in the police academy due to Chan's " expulsion ".

" Jackie Chan's The Myth is enjoyable but second-rate Jackie Chan, an action film that's completely satisfying on every level except when compared to the star's own best work.