Look up DC, D.C., Dc, dC, or d.C. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

DC, D.C., or dc may refer to:

Places[link]

• Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia) - the capital of the United States of America

Organizations[link]

• DC Comics, a comic book publisher
• DC Inside, a South Korean internet forum
• DC Recordings, a record label
• DC Shoes, a footwear company
• Deccan Chronicle, a newspaper
• Democrazia Cristiana, the leading Italian party in the second half of the 20th century
• Christian Democrat Party of Chile
• Deccan Chargers, an Indian cricket franchise
• Delaware County Christian School, a private school in Pennsylvania, United States
• Dottrinari, or the Preti della Dottrina Cristiana, a Catholic organization
• Douglas Aircraft Company
• Dulwich College, an English secondary school
• Dutch Crossing, an academic journal on interdisciplinary Low Countries Studies
• DC, abbreviation for several Christian democratic parties throughout the world
• Democratic Congress, a political party in Lesotho

Science and technology[link]

• DC, the author abbreviation used in citing plant names published by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
• Dynamic contrast, a technology related to LCD screens
• DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme for digital television
• DCxx, product code for all Dyson vacuum cleaners
• Axiom of dependent choice, a concept in mathematics
• Direct Current, electric current flowing in one direction.

Electricity[link]

• Direct current, the unidirectional flow of electric charge
• DC offset, the mean amplitude of a waveform
• DC bias, the mean value of a waveform in regard to a periodic function in the frequency domain
• decicoulomb, one-tenth coulomb, a unit of electric charge

Computers[link]

• dc (computer program), a desktop calculator
• Device Context, a programming object within the Microsoft Windows API
• Direct Connect (file sharing), a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
• Distributed computing
• Domain controller, a Microsoft Windows server that responds to security authentication requests
• Data center
• Dublin Core, a metadata standard
• Domain Component, an attribute for DNS names in LDAP
• DC-frames or DC-pictures, type of frames/pictures in MPEG encoding
• Dining cryptographers problem

Video games[link]

• Dreamcast, a video game console
• Da Capo (visual novel)
• Dark Cloud, a video game series
• Desert Combat, a mod of Battlefield 1942
• Dream Chronicles, a casual video game and series
• DC, Dark Crystal, items for the MMORPG Lineage II
• Drift City, a racing game

Medicine and biology[link]

• Dendritic cell, a type of immune cell
• Doctor of Chiropractic
• Dilation and Curettage

Television, film, and music[link]

• Da capo, a musical term
• D.C. (TV series)
• Dashboard Confessional, an American rock band
• Destiny's Child, a musical group
• Detective Conan, a manga also known as Case Closed
• Dick Clark Productions
• Director's cut
• Discovery Channel
• Disney Channel
• The Dixie Chicks, a country music group
• Drum Connection, a German musical group

People[link]

• David Cameron (born 1966), British Prime Minister
• A. P. de Candolle (1778–1841), botanist abbreviated as DC in botanical nomenclature
• Dave Chappelle (born 1973), African-American comedian
• David Coulthard (born 1971), British racing driver
• D. C. Fontana (born 1939), screenwriter
• Dane Cook, American comedian whose self-given nickname is DC
• Dan Carter, New Zealand Rugby player, often nicknamed 'DC'
• David Cook (singer), winner of the seventh season of American Idol
• Donald L. Cox (1936–2011), Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party

Business and finance[link]

• Defined contribution, a type of pension plan
• Distribution center
• Debit card
• Directors' Centre, DC or TheDC - UK consultancy run by Robert Craven

Transportation[link]

• Golden Air, an airline, DC in IATA code
• NZR DC class, the most common class of locomotive on New Zealand's railway network

Government, police, law and courts[link]

• Detective Constable, rank in the British police
• Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, London Metropolitan Police Service senior rank
• Dossier criminal
• Development control in the United Kingdom, the process of regulating land use and new building in the UK
• District Court

Other uses[link]

• DC, the number 600 in Roman numerals
• Delivery confirmation, the United States Postal Service trademarked term for tracking delivery status of certain classes of mail
• Dené–Caucasian, a speculative language family
• Developed country
• Diet Coke, a sugar-free soft drink

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Ken Block
Ken Block in 2008.
Nationality	American
Born	(1967-11-21) 21 November 1967 (age 44) Long Beach, California
2012 Rally America
Debut season	2005
Current team	Monster World Rally Team
Best finish	2nd Overall in Rally America in 2006 and 2008
Awards
2004[1] 2005[1] 2009	• One of the most influential people (#17) in Sports Business Journal • Ad Age's Marketing 50 • One of the Fast 50 in Fast Company Magazine • 40 Under 40 Awards, Sports Business Journal • Rally America's Rookie of the Year • Gymkhana 2 was 2009's #4 most viewed viral video

Ken Block (born November 21, 1967, in Long Beach, California)^[2] is a professional rally driver with the Monster World Rally Team. Block is also one of the co-founders and recently appointed Chief Brand Officer of DC Shoes.^[1] Block has also competed in many action sports events including skateboarding, snowboarding, and motocross.

Rallying[link]

2005[link]

In 2005, Ken Block began his national rallying career with the Vermont SportsCar team.^[3] Vermont SportsCar prepared a 2005 Subaru WRX STi for Block to compete. His first event of the rallying season was Sno*Drift, where he ended up finishing seventh overall and fifth in the Group N class.^[4] During the 2005 season, Block had five top five finishes and placed third overall in the Group N class and fourth overall in the Rally America National Championship.^[3] At the end of his first rallying year, Ken Block had won the Rally America Rookie of the Year award.^[5]

2006[link]

In 2006, Ken Block along with his DC rally teammate Travis Pastrana signed a new sponsorship deal with Subaru.^[3] Through this deal with Subaru, the teammates became known as "Subaru Rally Team USA."^[3] With the new rally season, Block also got a brand new Vermont SportsCar prepped 2006 Subaru WRX STi.^[3] He competed in the first ever X Games rally event at X Games XII.^[3] In the competition, Block ended up finishing third to take the bronze.^[3] He went on to compete in the 2006 Rally America National Championship, where he finished second overall.^[3]

2007[link]

In 2007, Ken Block competed in the X Games XIII rally event, where he placed second overall and won a silver medal.^[5] In the 2007 Rally America National Championship, Block finished third overall.^[5] During this season, Block also entered in a few rounds of the World Rally Championship; Rally Mexico and Rally New Zealand.^[4] In Rally New Zealand, Block recorded two top-five stage times in the Group N class.^[4] At the end of 2007, Block had achieved 19 podiums and 8 overall victories in rally events.^[1]

2008[link]

In 2008, Block was provided with a brand new rally prepped 2008 Subaru WRX STi to compete. Block decided to compete in the Rallye Baie-des Chaleurs of the Canadian Rally Championship to gain some experience with his new 2008 rally car and prepare for the World Rally Championships later this year.^[6] Block gained his first Canadian rally win at the event.^[6] This was only the second event for the new car.^[6] Block and his co-driver were unable to get any championship points at the event due to not having a Canadian competition license.^[6] Block competed in the Rally New York USA competition and finished in first place.^[7] In the X Games XIV rally competition, Block finished tied for third place with Dave Mirra.^[8] This occurrence was due to both competitors having issues with their car. Block, who made it to the semi-finals of the event, had a radiator problem after landing the car awkwardly on a jump. With both bronze place competitors in damaged cars unable to compete, the medals were awarded to both of them.^[8]

Block competed in the 2008 Rally America National championship, which concluded on October 17, 2008. In the event, he finished second overall with a strong victory in the last event. In the Lake Superior Performance Rally stage, Block finished over one minute ahead of his next closest competitor and secured the second overall position.^[9] Next up for Block this rally season is three World Rally Championship events.^[4]

2009[link]

Block appeared in a segment of motoring show Top Gear.^[10]

2010[link]

Ken Block testing Ford Fiesta for the 2010 Rally America season

Block driving a Ford Focus RS WRC at the 2010 Rallye de France

On January 6, 2010 the Monster World Rally Team announced Ken as their driver for selected rounds of the World Rally Championship, in which he will be campaigning the Monster/Ford Racing Focus RS WRC 08. His car will be prepared and run by the North of England based M-Sport, who also prepare the official Ford WRC cars. He will be simultaneously running in his sixth season of the Rally America Championship in an open class Ford Fiesta, as well as his fifth X-games. Ken will also be the first ever American driver to campaign for the World Rally Championship. On February 27, Block won the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood (Rally America) for the 5th consecutive time. This broke the record held by John Buffum.^[11] Ken is currently being trained by former Ford factory driver Markko Märtin. At the Spain rally, he won his first 2 points in World Rally Championship.

2011[link]

On March 23, Block and his co-driver Alex Gelsomino were taken to hospital, having rolled their Ford Fiesta RS WRC during the shakedown stage of the 2011 Rally de Portugal in Faro, Portugal.^[12] A representative of the Monster World Rally team later stated that both men were fine.^[13]

Complete Rally America results[link]

(key)

Complete WRC results[link]

* Season in progress.

PWRC results[link]

Other motorsport activities[link]

On October 15, 2009, it was reported that Block was close to a deal to join the World Rally Championship in a new Ford team. Long time co-driver Alex Gelsomino is also reportedly involved in the deal. Former Subaru WRC driver Chris Atkinson has been reported to be lined up as Block's team-mate in the all-new Monster Energy Drink Ford World Rally Team.^[14]

In 2005, Ken Block along with his DC Shoes associates participated in the Gumball 3000 Rally. For the event they sent out three modified 2004 Subaru WRX STi's sponsored by DC Shoes.^[15][16]

In 2006, Ken Block competed in the One Lap of America competition along with Brian Scotto. They were teamed up in a 2006 Subaru WRX STi and finished forty-fifth overall.^[17]

In 2006, for the Discovery Channel show Stunt Junkies, Ken Block jumped his Subaru WRX STi rally car 171 feet (52 m) and a max height of 25 feet (7.6 m).^[3] The whole episode was dedicated to Ken Block attempting this stunt.

In 2007, Ken Block joined the DC Shoes Snowboarding team at New Zealand's Snow Park.^[3] Block did massive jumps and assisted in snowboarding tricks while driving his rally car on the mountain alongside the snowboarders. The session made the cover of the December 2007 issue of Snowboarder Magazine and closed out the MTN.LAB 1.5 DVD.^[3]

In 2009, for the BBC show Top Gear, Ken took James May out for Gymkhana-style driving at Block's stunt course at Inyokern Airport, an operational California airport, also starring Ricky Carmichael, whom Ken describes as 'a good friend'.

In 2010, for the BBC show Top Gear, Ken took the feature car from the previous episode (a Reliant Robin) for a lap of the Top Gear test track. He rolled the car and was unable to complete a lap but was unhurt.

On January 6, 2010, the announcement is made as Ken joins up with Ford and begins his WRC career driving both a Ford Fiesta and Focus RS WRC.

On August 24, 2010, Block released the first of a three part Gymkhana 3 video release featuring his new Ford Fiesta.^[18]

Ken Block also holds the world record for the world's fastest snow cat, a modified Subaru STI called a Trax STI.^{[citation needed]}

On September 14, 2010, Block's third Gymkhana video, featuring a Ford Fiesta, was released on YouTube.^[19] The video got more than seven million views in its first week.

On August 16, 2011, the fourth Gymkhana video, The Hollywood Megamercial was released on YouTube, featuring Block driving around the Universal Studios backlot.^[20]

Involvement In Colin McRae: Dirt 2 and Dirt 3[link]

Ken Block is featured as a driver in Codemasters Colin McRae: Dirt 2, along with his Subaru Rally Team USA Impreza.
In Dirt 3 he is seen as a driver and Gymkhana teacher, his Monster World Rally Team vehicles are available in the game.

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Ken Block Interview
• Gymkhana racing improved by Ken Block, Video, ~4min
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