Jak
Jak may refer to:
- Janus kinase 1 (JAK1)
- Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)
- Janus kinase 3 (JAK3)
Jak and Todd
Jak Hurley and Todd Nolan are two fictional comic strip characters from the UK comic The Dandy who rose to popularity as the comic's main strip after its re-launch in 2004. Originally known as simply Jak, both characters received equal billing after the popularity of Todd from readership.
Character history
Early strips (1997–2004)
Jak's first incarnation was drawn by Jimmy Hansen starting from issue 2924, dated 6 December 1997. The strip played mostly on his relationship with his father (though not to the same extent as Molly and Beryl the Peril from that time). The second incarnation in the early 2000s (decade) was drawn by David Sutherland, who drew Jak's dad with black hair and a beard, and introduced a cat called Spike. Both strips portrayed Jak as younger than his modern-day counterpart and Todd was absent.
Dandy re-launches (2004–2010)
Finally, Jak was reincarnated with the Dandy from issue 3282, dated 16 October 2004, coinciding with the relaunch of the comic that same week. This time it was drawn by Wayne Thompson, and the cast had changed again, introducing Jak's friend Todd and sister Mandy—and Jak got the surname Hurley. Unusually, this time Jak was promoted as a brand new character, even though he had only disappeared from the comic earlier that year. He replaced Desperate Dan on the cover and was brought in in an attempt to boost the comic to modern-day youth. He continued to be the cover star for two years until 2007 marked the second radical Dandy launch in a decade.
Jak and Daxter
Jak and Daxter is a video game franchise created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and owned by Sony Computer Entertainment. The series was developed by Naughty Dog with a number of installments being outsourced to Ready at Dawn and High Impact Games. The first entry was one of the earliest titles released on the PlayStation 2, and is regarded as a defining franchise for the console.
The games are considered story-based platformers that feature a mixture of action, racing and puzzle solving. The series is set in a fictional universe that incorporates science fantasy elements, and centers on the titular characters as they try to uncover the secrets of their world, and unravel the mysteries left behind by an ancient race of Precursors.
The first three games in the series were re-released on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita as part of a remastered collection that includes support for the PlayStation Network and the PlayStation Suite. The remastered collection was handled by Mass Media Inc. with Naughty Dog assisting with the conversion of the games. The series has also produced various forms of extended media and merchandise, and has sold over 12 million copies worldwide.
NIE
NIE or Nie or Nieh (before pinyin) may mean:
- Nie Er, Chinese composer
- Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Marshal
- Nie Ch'i-Kuei or Nieh Ch'i-Kuei (聶緝槼), Provincial Judge of Shanghai under Empress Dowager Cixi. Nieh was a son-in-law of Zeng Guofan (曾国藩)
- Nie Shicheng (Chinese: 聂士成), a Chinese general who served the Imperial government during the Boxer Rebellion
- Nie Dan (known as Daniel Nie ), a winner of 2000 Sam Ragan Awards, a leading Chinese-American artist
Nie (surname)
Nie (simplified Chinese: 聂; traditional Chinese: 聶; pinyin: Niè) is a Chinese surname. Nie is the 126th surname in the Hundred Family Surnames. It is spelled Nip in Cantonese.
Notable people named Nie
Notes
NIE (weekly magazine)
NIE (Polish for "No") is a Polish weekly magazine published in Warsaw.
History and profile
The magazine was first published in October 1990.Jerzy Urban is both the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine.
Its political line is left. The magazine is very critical of right wing political vies and religion, especially Catholicism. In the 1990s it supported the leader of the Democratic Left Alliance, Aleksander Kwasniewski. It publishes lot of satirical texts with cartoons and pictures.
NIE has a circulation of 600,000 copies in 1991. In 1995 its circulation was over 700,000 copies.
In 1990 when Solidarity and the church were planning to push a strict new anti-abortion law through parliament, the magazine published a quarter-page, full-color photograph of a nude couple about to make love to warn its readers that "they risked going to jail or being forced into unwanted marriages if they did what the couple in the picture was about to do." The church leaders and President Lech Walesa harshly criticized it and in March 1991 the prosecutor's office charged Urban with "publishing an image of pornographic character."
