On 26 January 2006, de Jong signed a four and a half year contract at German Bundesliga club Hamburg. He moved there for about €1 million. He played for Hamburg for the first time two days later. In the match, Hamburg lost 2–1 to Nuremberg. In March 2006, de Jong scored the winning goal in Bayern Munich's first ever loss at the Allianz Arena. The week after, he got his first red card in a UEFA Cup match against Rapid Bucharest. He had to stop playing in April because he needed surgery on a knee problem. The injury also meant that he could not play for the Netherlands at the 2006 World Cup. However, after becoming fit again, he was put on standby.
On 21 January 2009, de Jong moved to Manchester City for around £18 million. He signed a four-and-a-half year contract. He played for the first time against Newcastle United on 28 January 2009. He played sixteen times in the Premier League.
De Jong was in the starting team against Arsenal on 12 September 2009. He was given Man of the Match by Sky Sports after Manchester City won 2-1 over Chelsea on 5 December 2009. By the end of the season, the fans liked him. He was one of Roberto Mancini's first picks as defensive midfielder as the team just missed out on the Champions League. De Jong scored his first goal for Manchester City when they won 2-1 against West Ham United on 1 May 2011.
On 31 August 2012, de Jong joined Italian Serie A club Milan. He signed a three-year contract.
On 31 March 2004, de Jong played his first game with the Netherlands in a friendly against France. He was not picked to play in UEFA Euro 2004. He missed the 2006 FIFA World Cup because his knee was injured.
He scored his first goal for the Netherlands against Iceland on 6 June 2009 in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match. This match made the Netherlands go through to the 2010 World Cup.
De Jong was part of the Dutch team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was one of the starting players for their first match in the competition. In this match, they won 2–0 against Denmark. He was not allowed to play in the semi final against Uruguay because he got his second yellow card in a match against Brazil. He played in the Final, where the Netherlands lost 1–0 to Spain.
De Jong is married to Winonah. He has two children. His father is Jerry de Jong.
He owns a car dealership which exists in Europe and the Middle East.
De Jong is addicted to the game Angry Birds. He plays it in the dressing room before games.
Puma SE sponsor de Jong. The deal began in January 2012.
Paulo Nagamura
Paulo Nagamura (born 2 March 1983) is a Brazilian football player. He plays for Tigres UANL.
Kevin Doyle
Kevin Doyle (born 18 September 1983) is an Irish football player. He plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Republic of Ireland national team.
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Jun Suzuki (born in 1989)
Jun Suzuki (born 22 April 1989) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Avispa Fukuoka.
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Krassimir Balakov
Krassimir Balakov (born 29 March 1966) is a former Bulgarian football player. He has played for Bulgaria national team.
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Martin Jiránek
Martin Jiránek (born 25 May 1979) is a Czech football player. He plays for Spartak Moscow.
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Fan Zhiyi
Fan Zhiyi (born 22 January 1970) is a former Chinese football player. He has played for China PR national team.
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Kew Jaliens
Kew Jaliens (born 15 September 1978) is a Dutch football player. He plays for AZ Alkmaar.
Jaliens was born in Rotterdam and is of Surinamese descent.
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Kang Hyun-Su
Kang Hyun-Su (born 16 July 1984) is a North Korean professional athlete. He is best known as an association football player.
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Kosuke Nakamachi
Kosuke Nakamachi (born 1 September 1985) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Avispa Fukuoka.
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Starstruck
Starstruck (also called StarStruck) is a 2011 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Sterling Knight, Danielle Campbell, Brandon Mychal Smith and Chelsea Staub. The movie was made in Los Angeles. It was released on Disney DVD on June 8, 2010 in the U.S.
Nematomorpha
The Nematomorpha (horsehair worms) are a phylum of parasitic cycloneuralian animals. They look similar to nematode worms and live in similar environments, which is why their names are similar. They are sometimes called Gordiacea.
They range in size from long and in extreme cases may be up to 2 meters long. They are in diameter. Horsehair worms can be discovered in damp areas such as watering troughs, streams, puddles, and cisterns.
About 326 species are known and an estimate suggests that there may be about 2000 species worldwide.
Fossilized worms have been reported from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber 100–110 million years ago.
The adult worms are free living and, in North America, are usually found only in the summer months in or near shallow water.
The larvae are parasitic on arthropods: beetles, cockroaches, grasshoppers and crickets. These are their final hosts, but since they do not live in water, the nematomorph life cycle has an extra stage.
A day or two after they come out of their hosts, the adult worms mate in the water, and then around mid-August or Mid-October, they lay their eggs in the water. It takes about a month for the larvae to develop inside the egg. Once the larvae hatch, they somehow get into gastropods (like snails and slugs), insects, or earthworms, which live in moist habitats. There they build a cyst, and grow. The animal they grow inside is called an interim (temporary) host, because a final host is still needed.
Next, developing nematomorph worms can be found in their final hosts (beetles, etc.). It is not clear how they get there, but probably the final host eats the interim host with the larvae inside them. After they appear in the final host, the nematomorphs begin to eat it from the inside.
The nematomorph may control the host, leading it towards water and even causing it to jump into the water. Then it breaks out of the beetle in or near the water and finds a knot of other worms. There it can mate.
Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale Formation in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. It is ~505 million years old (Middle Cambrian), one of the earliest soft-parts fossil beds.
The rock unit is a black shale, and crops out at a number of localities near the town of Field in the Yoho National Park.
The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork. He returned in 1910 with his sons, and established a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The fact that fossils were of soft-bodied forms, and the range of organisms new to science, led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924. At this point, aged 74, he had amassed over 65,000 specimens.
Describing the fossils is a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927, and continued into the 21st century. Walcott, led by scientific opinion at the time, attempted to categorise all fossils into living taxa. As a result, the fossils were regarded as little more than curiosities at the time. It was not until 1962 that a first-hand reinvestigation of the fossils was attempted, by Alberto Simonetta. This led scientists to recognise that Walcott had barely scratched the surface of information available in the Burgess Shale.