FACTOID # 119: The United States has the world's highest number of McDonald’s restaurants per capita. Americans also die of obesity more often than any other nation, with more deaths than Mexico, Germany, Spain, Austria and Canada combined.
 
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Look up Jack, jack in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Jack may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

Jack may also be used for: also known as jacky boy Although it may appear at first glance to be derived from the French Jacques—which is cognate with the names James and Jacob—native speakers of English would almost certainly associate the name Jack with John, rarely with Jacob, and probably never with James. ... Jackscrews are integral to one of the simplest kinds of car jacks still used. ... In electronics, a jack is a socket. ... 2. ... The jack is a playing card with a picture of a young man on it. ... Mr. ... A jack-in-the-box is a childrens toy that outwardly consists of a box with a crank. ... The Jack human simulation system was developed at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation[1] at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s as an ergonomic assessment & virtual human prototyping system for NASA space shuttle development. ... Jack is a 1996 film starring Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, and Bill Cosby, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. ... Binomial name Mangifera caesia Jack ex Wall. ... Jack is the name given to several fictional androids in the Tekken fighting game series. ... Jack is a mere bakers boy; he worked most of his life as a lowlife in the kitchens with little known of his mother save she was labeled a foreign whore, and he had no father. ... A set of jacks Jacks (sometimes called jackstones, fivestones or onesies) is a playground game for children. ... Jacking is a dance technique that was popular in the late 1980s. ... The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a sound server or daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications. ... Jack FM logo Jack FM is the moniker and on-air brand of several radio stations in Canada, the United States and now the United Kingdom. ... The Blue Peter pets are the animals who regularly appear on the BBC childrens television series Blue Peter. ... Jack is a furry webcomic by David Hopkins, began in March of 2001. ... Some furry fans create and wear costumes of their characters, commonly known as fursuits Furry fandom is a fandom distinguished by its enjoyment of anthropomorphic, often humanoid, animal characters. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 For other uses, see Donkey (disambiguation). ...

In names and aliases: A jack plane is the general-purpose bench plane, used for general smoothing of the edges and sizing of wood. ... For the running coach, see Jack Daniels (coach). ... Binomial name Lam. ... This article is about maritime crew. ... Species  E. americanus –       grass and redfin pickerels  E. lucius – northern pike  E. masquinongy – muskellunge  E. niger – chain pickerel   – Amur pike Esox Linnaeus, 1758, is a genus of freshwater fish, the only member of the pike family (family Esocidae) of order Esociformes. ... Species  E. americanus –       grass and redfin pickerels  E. lucius – northern pike  E. masquinongy – muskellunge  E. niger – chain pickerel   – Amur pike Esox Linnaeus, 1758, is a genus of freshwater fish, the only member of the pike family (family Esocidae) of order Esociformes. ... Rockfish may refer to one of the following fishes: Striped bass, a member of the Moronidae (common name: temperate bass) family A member of the Sebastidae family of venomous fish of the Scorpaeniformes order The New Zealand rockfish (Acanthoclinus littoreus) Sebastes (Alaskan rockfish) estimated to live up to 157 years... A family of fishes which includes the Pompanos and Jacks Pilot fish - Naucrates ductor Categories: Fish stubs ... Binomial name Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum, 1792) The Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch, from the Russian кижуч kisutch) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family. ... A maritime flag is a flag designated for use on boats and other watercraft. ...

  • Jack the Ripper (19th century), alias given to an unidentified serial killer of Victorian England
  • Spring Heeled Jack (19th century), a legendary figure of Victorian England
  • Jack the Stripper (mid-20th century), nickname given to an unknown serial killer of London, England who stripped victims

Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ... For other uses, see Spring Heeled Jack (disambiguation). ... Jack the Stripper was the nickname given to an unknown serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the London Nude Murders (also known as the Hammersmith Murders or Hammersmith Nudes case), from 1964-1965. ...

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JACK | connecting a world of audio (385 words)
JACK is a low-latency audio server, written for POSIX conformant operating systems such as GNU/Linux and Apple's OS X. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves.
JACK was designed from the ground up for professional audio work, and its design focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation.
The original author of JACK is preparing to eat hats, crow and his own left foot as payment for all the times he said it could not be done.
Homepage of Jack (1370 words)
=) Jack is now split up into lots of tiny modules which load faster because of python's precompilation and are also easier to maintain for me. The config-file is now ~/.jack3rc and (optionally) /etc/jackrc for site-wide stuff.
The cursesmodule is now much easier to install thanks to the Python Distutils-SIG which you may have to install.
Jack compares WAV and MP3 filesizes when continuing from a previous run.
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